Superheroing 101

Chapter 13: Eneas

The woman got up and pushed her lips into mine. I tried to move back but she held my head in place. She finally let me loose and I covered my mouth and jumped a few feet back.

"Sorry about that." The woman wiped her lip. "I needed to speak your language." She started growing little horns above her ears.

"What the hell." Irene asked. I was still in the corner quivering from the violation of my lips.

"You guys where so little when I last saw you." The lady got up.

"What do you mean?" Clone asked.

"Well for one I'm the one who gifted should your powers." She beamed.

"You put me in a coma for a week?"

"I'm glad you two are working together. Even when Airias tried to separate you two. She's been successful at breaking the bond of the other wielders."

"There's more of us?"

"3 more. There's Green, Yellow, Grey, Blue which is Zach, Purple which is Venus."

"You know our names?" I asked.

"I've been basically monitoring you since you were 13 and 12. I come from an isolated planet. Pretty far from here. My family passed down the job of the celestial stones. Then Airias and her army came to steal them. My defenses weren't enough so I spreaded them out through the galaxy."

"Who are you?"

"I'm called Eneas. I'm basically the one true wielder." She smiled.  "I could take the power back. But you guys seem well off. As well as together. I can basically tell you what your powers can do." She beamed.

"What are the lines for?" I asked.

Venus hit my stomach. "You don't just ask someone about their body."

"It's perfectly fine." Eneas laughed. "As I get older the lines start to disappear. When they are fully gone. My soul has already reached the afterlife."

"About the powers. Is there more I don't know about me?" Venus asked.

Eneas's ears turned purple as she held her hand to Venus's face. She started laughing. "Oh honey. You only chipped the surface. You have so much more potential."

She looked at me and glared. "You don't even know you have gravitational powers. You don't just float. You can defy the one thing that holds this universe together. If your power was in the wrong hands they could destroy us all."

"Gravity?"

"Yes! Venus! You don't have a limit to your clones it's all in your head. You could probably double the population of the earth. Maybe triple." Eneas smiled excitedly. "My father told me he always wanted to wield the stones. But he knows we are just the guardians. I love seeing the powers through your eyes and minds."

"You read minds?" Irene and I asked in awe.

"Yes yes! Right now Venus is thinking about if she should go back to save Alena and Richie."

We looked at Clone who was looking at the floor shaking. "As much as I wanted to know about my powers..... We should have taken Richie and Alena. Alena looked tortured."

"If you go back Airias will surely take you and find me. The only reason she needs me is because I'm the only person who can find the stones, take the stones out of their vessel, and place them in another." Eneas said coldly.

"What happens if the stones leave our bodies?" I muttered.

"Since it's embedded into your DNA. You will at minimum you will sleep for 3 weeks."

"Maximum?"

"Death, I think. Since you humans, your life span is normally around age 90 then it's minimum death for you." She smiled sweetly.

"If you came from outer space where is the ship she came here with?"

"I was unconscious when she landed. But I know where it is around."

"It's 1 am. You have time." Irene said.

"No. She will have her 'army' waiting for us.... I say we kidnap her make sure she can't summon her pet."

"You two could easily destroy him." Eneas smiled.

"How? The other wielders have been destroyed trying."

"They tried to do it solo. Teamwork makes the dream work as you people say."

"So how exactly do we work together?"

She put our hands together and closed our eyes. "Concentrate."

"On what?"

"I don't know? Just do as I say." She snapped. "Now open them."

We both were covered in a feint light bluish purple mix. "Now let go before you destroy the building."

We both let go of each other and exchanged glances.

"You felt it too right?" She asked hugging herself. I nodded. "You just felt part of the galaxy flowing through your bodies."

"Why only part?"

"Like I said. The powers isn't a solo thing. You have to work together to become stronger."