RHG: Inheritance Reclaimed

Chapter 12

Kick POV

6 years. If I had known she was still alive.. buried there..

Why didn't I search harder? She was right there! But her idiot older brother wasn't smart enough.. no. LOGICAL enough to think to look for her under the rubble?? I mean.. I did but.. 

AUGH! I can't remember!

For 2 years, she said.. she lay in a coma under all that debris. 

Which.. I immediately told her was impossible. 2 years under debris unconscious and without food? How could she have survived? And her wounds from the fire, whatever knocked her out.

I was hoping she would tell me she was joking. That she somehow escaped the house and fled.

And that's when she introduced me to her powers.

"She didn't tell me much." Sonya says after demonstrating her firing a pulsing blast from her palm. A wave of air that shoved me back and sent my heart in a rapid spin for a few moments. "But she told me she had to make me her "Chosen" to share enough of her power with me to keep me alive."

"This person.. creature you heard.." I tried to dislodge the shock from my voice. "She made you her... Chosen to share enough power with you... to keep your body alive? But what about food? How did you not starve to death?"

"I don't know the details, Kick. I was 10." I didn't expect to be sassed out by my long lost sister.

"Sorry. Go on?" I mumbled.

"Amore said she could sense someone nearby, and that she would find a way to get him over to find me." Sonya continues. "I couldn't hear Amore after that. I woke up a while later, and there was Ginn. He found me and took me to a place called Base 03, and got the man he works for to feed my body. He was a doctor I think.. a scientist."

"Why would there be a.. base and a scientist in the Lower streets?" I frowned. "Isn't that the portion of the City closed off from the public because it had a lot of rips or something?"

"I don't know exactly what they were doing." Sonya sighs. "Ginn didn't let me see anything. But sometimes he came back dripping in blood, the blood of someone else."

"I don't get it. Why would someone like him.. someone who kills people for that scientist guy.. save a little girl he found?" I wondered in suspicion. Did the scientist.. want her for some.. experimental reasons?

I felt a jolt of anger from her. I could actually feel the moment her heartbeat skyrocketed with a sound wave that made my skin feel weird and tingly.

"Whatever reasons he had, I owe him my life." Sonya stated firmly. "I don't care if you were my brother 6 years ago. He and Amore saved my life, they spent so much time and effort while you were RUNNING off somewhere, leaving your own little sister in a pile of rubble-"

"I looked for you!" I exclaimed. "I.. In my panic and grief.. I.. I didn't.."

Why had I let my emotions consume me back then? If I had been more rational... if I had searched more thoroughly..

Dammit.

She wouldn't be here. She wouldn't have been trapped in slumber for 2 years, she wouldn't have been raised by some crazy murderer who for some reason wore a pair of dumb black sunglasses. Seriously they don't even look good on him where the heck did he get those.

"Maybe if you cared enough to search for me properly you would have found that sister of yours you so claim to miss so much." She huffed. It hurt me to hear her voice begin to strain and break under her anger. "I'm glad I don't remember you." 

In all my 6 years of partaking in the tournaments, each kick, punch and attack I received from them combined, would hurt less than hearing her say that.

What hurts more is that I can't even say anything to object or convince her otherwise.

I failed her. I failed my father and mother, whose only expectation of me was to keep Zoey out of trouble.

And I had nearly let her die buried in the burning wreckage of our home.

"Am I interrupting?" Ginn enters the room, looking between a slightly flushed Sonya and my lowered head of shame.

"We just finished." Sonya muttered, pushing past me to run over to him. "How did it go?"

"We need to either find another way to power the machine, or I'll have to go with the more brutal and messy method." Ginn replied calmly, without a hint of disappointment or weight in his words. "Which would have a higher risk of failing.. so it'd best we keep looking around. We could just ask Jackson if he has any spare cores to power it. Though I highly doubt he'll spare any. Even for me."

"I could head back and ask him." Sonya offered.

"Even with your powers I rather not let you roam the Lower Streets alone." Ginn stopped her. "Besides, Jackson is a.. complex individual. I wouldn't want you alone with him any more than you have to."

They are speaking a language I'm foreign to, a world I have never known.

I realize I know nothing about her. No matter how much I manage to remember of our childhood together, she's traversed a whole different world from mine.

One full of constant danger.. lunatics and..

What can I do to include myself in her life again?

"Ginn." I cannot control the words spilling out of my mouth. "I'd like to join you."