Chapter 42

That evening Mia woke up with Amber shaking her. Mia looked at Amber still half assleep. "What is it Amber let me sleep please?" Mia begged. "I know you are tired Mia but you need to eat and we have to move your stuff. Clara is spying on you and we don't what you to sleep alone anymore," Amber said.

Mia sat up and asked, "you just noticed she was spying on us." Amber stopped in her tracks and asked, "you knew she was spying on you?" Mia shook her head and said, "I figured she would leave eventually if I don't lose control."

"It must be a boring job standing out there all day long," Devon said.

"Can you imagine if it were to rain or snow? Do you think she would still stand there?" Luna said. "How about we try it?" Mia said. "You have a great idea but I don't think we should try it but it's fun just imagining it," Amber said. "Come on if we move now we can have a slumber party tonight," Luna said.

"What is a slumber party?" Mia asked. Luna and Amber looked at one another and then at Mia and asked, "you don't know what a slumber party is?" Mia shook her head and said, "mom and dad never let me have any friends over."

"We have got to change that," Amber said. Mia looked worried at Bella and Luna said, "she is coming two you know?" It took some time but before dinner, Mia's stuff was moved into a five-bedroom apartment on one of the upper levels. No one was using it so Kevin and Mike told them they could use it. Mia took the room that had the windows tinted so that outsiders could not look into the room. She finished setting things up for her and Bella when there was a knock on the door.

"Mia are you okay?" Kevin asked.

"Yes I am okay, but what was Molly talking about?" Mia asked.

"It's what your mother wanted your father to talk to you about. Something I hoped we would never have to talk about again," Kevin said.

"I will understand if you don't want to talk about it," Mia said.

"No, Zara was right, it's time you know what really happened behind the incident that broke Clover into several smaller groups," Kevin said.

Mia noticed Mike sat on a chair in the centre of their new apartment. Come on we need to talk to everyone together," Kevin said.

Mia and everyone were sitting in the centre of the apartment when Mike stood up and spoke. "What we are about to tell you, you need to understand it's not easy for us to talk about. But it's not something we will forget no matter how much we want to forget about it," Mike said.

"That explains why dad never spoke about it?" Mia said.

"Your father had more than one reason not to speak about it, Mia. You see both your father and I are orphans. We lost our family because people wanted more and more power. Our father your grandfather was one of these people," Kevin said.

"When the incident happened that wiped out the whole family we were sent to Clover as orphans. My father had agreed to take Kevin and John in. Having three children with Mega elements is what convinced the authority to give it a shot," Mike said.

"When we got to the Clover base at first we didn't trust anyone. There are still people to this day that John does not trust, anyway, we soon settled into our new life going to school and learning to control our powers. But then one day a man from our father's past track us down and insisted Mike's father hand us over," Kevin said.

"Of course your grandfather refused and the man started causing trouble. Clover's elemental members started going missing and were found dead a few days later. Your grandfather took measures to keep everyone safe and started looking for the man on his own. With the authorities help the man was caught and jailed but it came at a price. Your grandfather died from his injuries," Mike said.

"Clover broke up into several smaller bases overnight. John and your mother decided to go out on their own. Years later we found you and well now you are on your own and your parents missing," Kevin said.

"This man that killed Clover's captain, Mike's father and Mia's grandfather. Do you think he is behind everything?" Red asked. "I don't know as far as we know he is still locked up but we have alerted the authorities and they are looking into the matter. But it will take some time for them to complete their investigation. The measures we put in place is only to make sure nothing bad happens," Mike said.

"Yes but what about Molly and the older members. They don't want me here do they?" Mia asked "That's only because what happened wasn't easy for anyone to forget and they don't want it to happen again," Mike said.

"Why do you think Zack is part of this organization?" Mia asked. "Yes about that Mia, the base does not know Zack and Clara is part of this new threat. We told them enough but not everything, so keep some of the information quiet for now. Also, we don't know why the organization let you go if they are not done with you. I suspect we will learn the truth sooner or later," Kevin said.

Everyone looked at one another and Red said, "right so from now on we do everything in a group."

Mia sat in her room looking out over the forest. She remembered every time she had a conversation with her parents but somehow what Mike and Kevin said was something she expected. "The safest place is with the team, we need the team," Mia remembered her mother say.

Mia walked over to the window and looked into the distance. She was in deep thought when the knock on her bedroom door interrupted her thoughts.

"Mia can I come in?" came Luna's voice. "Yes, Luna," Mia said. The door slowly opened and Mia could see Luna had a worried expression on her face. "Are you okay?" she asked.

"I don't know Luna, I thought I was but now I don't know. Zack, Clara everyone in the organization is behind something and I know it has something to do with the elementals that have been disappearing over the land. Mom said that we need the base but dad didn't believe her. I wish she was still here, to help me make sense of it all but all I can think of is that they have no more use for me and is only watching us make sure I don't have any more rare skills," Mia said.

"Right if they have your parents what use do they have for you?" Luna said. "Luna they already had me and let me go, if I was that important why did they let me go?" Mia asked.

Everyone looked at Mia and Red said, "don't worry Mia, we just have to make sure they don't learn anything new from you then. From now on if we leave the base. We do not use any of our powers unless it's a real emergency," Red said. "Agreed, it would be best that they don't learn anything new from us," Devon said.

Everyone agreed but Mia asked, "how are we going to stay in control?" Red and Devon looked at one another and said, "by training the basic's over and over again. That way they don't learn anything unless they use special equipment and for that, you need an open field," Devon said.

The group arrived at the dining hall but Mia immediately noticed she was now a hated member of the base. The group sat together but Molly came up to the group and said, "Mia you did not work today so you do not get to eat but you do get the privilege of watching everyone else eat," Molly said as she took Mia's food away.

Red was angry but Mia stopped him, "it's okay, I'll just make something later for myself. I did take the food from my old apartment with me. But if the test is so far away, am I going to be refused to eat the whole time?" Mia asked.

Mia watched as everyone ate until she noticed Mike and Kevin joining them. She got up and went to them, "I know you are busy but can we talk," Mia asked. The two men looked puzzled at one another but agreed to listen to Mia. They stood outside the dining hall where no one could hear them.

"It's about Molly," Mia said. "What did she do this time?" Mike asked. "Refused to let me take food but allowed me to watch everyone else eat. And I think everyone else blames me for the situation we are in," Mia said.

Kevin sat down on the couch and asked, "what are we going to do, we already spoke to everyone about it Mia." Mike looked at everyone in the dining hall and asked, "how is your team taking the news?"

"Red took charge, I think he's been through this before because he said if Clara is watching us for information then we don't give her anything. That means until Clara stopped watching the base we don't use our powers in the open and if we do it's only the basic. This way they don't learn anything new," Mai said.

"And everyone agreed to this plan?" Kevin asked surprised. "Yes, I don't have a problem, dad did train me to use my powers after all. I am worried about the test but hopefully, we can pass it without using our powers. So far everyone agreed to only use it in emergencies," Mia said.

"That's good, so now we have to deal with Molly," Mike said.