Star Gods, стр. 56
Maliki looks questionably in my direction.
Levi fights my hold and attempts to ramp up his abilities and I yank them, hard.
He hisses through his teeth. “Fight me already!” he demands.
“What is it with guys and fighting?” Sage asks and Levi sneers at her.
“Others are going to want to hear what I have to say,” I state, and Assassins shift in their ranks. Good. “We,” I point to Sage, my brothers, Abby, Ally and Maliki. “We found out from a reliable source that our dad had been in and around our house recently, but none of us had known he was there. When we got Dad back and discovered he had been given another’s identity to use—Sage and I figured out the rest.”
“You made a fighting circle,” Levi interrupts nervously. “Fight me already!”
I ignore his demand. “The only way for you to come as this same Luminary Star God, is you had to meet him and know what he was capable of doing.”
“Neil!” Sage shouts.
The silver glow comes first, and I encase him inside a barrier before he materializes. “The only way you would’ve known what to say to me,” I continue as Neil appears. “Is Neil had to come initially as himself making it appear as if he was my dad. The two of you were working together all along.”
“You said they’d never know, Levi!” Levia yells. “Look what you’ve done! If you would’ve listened to me…”
Levi snarls and moves toward his sister.
I clamp down, stopping him in his tracks, lifting him off the floor using his own telekinesis; he panics. “You are bad for the morale of what every Star God stands for and do not deserve to have what you have been given, or to lead anyone.” I pull without touching him, taking possession of everything he has, of everything that made him a Star God, his staff clattering to the floor. Defeat, anger, rage and disappointment fill my mind as I drop Levi to his knees. He arches his back and yells a protest, staring at me with pure hatred.
“No!” Levia screams.
Something apportates toward my head and Sage extracts it into her hand. She moves it from side-to-side as she examines the hunting knife. “Thanks. But I didn’t get you anything.”
Levia curls an unlady-like lip in my sister’s direction.
I force Levia to me, holding her abilities firmly by a hand. “What’s it going to be, Levia? Do you want to be powerless like your brother?”
Tears stream from her widened eyes and down her face. “Please, don’t.”
“It’s your choice. You stop what you’re doing. You stop hurting people, or I take what’s yours. Choose now.”
“It wasn’t my idea,” she whines. “I was happy with the way things were.”
“Are you happy now?” Levi scoffs. “This is what I told you would happen, Levia, if we didn’t become the leaders of the Assassin race.”
“It happened anyway!” Levia snarls back.
I feel it, the thought in her mind, the one she tries to hide. “There’s something I probably should’ve told you, Levia. We’re linked.” She lifts startled eyes to me. “We have been since I took Levi’s telekinesis and his staff. If you and your brother would’ve left this alone, left Sage and me alone, we’d all be living our lives the way we had been.” Sage shifts from foot to foot beside me and I squeeze her shoulder. “Although, I’d never have been reunited with my sister, and for that I thank you.” I sigh. “I have no other choice now but to accept my fate. You’ll never be loyal, Levia, I can feel it.”
“I will!” she pleads, shaking her head. “I can be loyal. I can be whatever you want me to be as long as I keep my abilities.”
I pull, leaving a small thread of her precognition and removing the rest of what was hers. I allow them to go through me to Sage. Levia cries in defeat. “You will always see what is to come, Levia, as will my sister and I. You and your brother will finish your days locked up, unless you decide to follow us in loyalty and trustworthiness. Then, and only then, will you live your days in peace.”
I let go and she crumbles to the floor sobbing. With my mind, I release my circle, abilities returning to whom they belong. The Assassins who bordered the crowd shift, turn, face the crowd, and tap their staffs once. One leaves the group, I can feel his power emanating from him as he nears and comes to stand between Sage and me. He throws back his hood to reveal white hair, and eyes so violet they glow. The black of the clothing he wears quickly turns to the whitest of whites of the upper most Star God—the Luminesce.
“I believe it’s time for you to bow to your new leader, Levi,” Luminesce states.
Levi snarls and spits in response.
“Is this how you all feel?” Luminesce asks, addressing the crowd. “It’s time for you to make your preference. You may not get another chance.”
Several shove their way forward, knocking others to the floor, while still others use their abilities to reach the front. The readings I’m receiving are mixed and I’m not sure from whom it comes from. When they are only a few steps away from our group, they throw back their hoods and turn the blades of their staffs in Levi’s direction.
“Last chance,” Luminesce states. “Immunity goes off the table in ten, nine, eight…”
More join our side.
“Seven, six, five…”
“You’re all going to die!” Levi snarls.
I smile. “And how will you be doing that?”
His chest heaves and he lunges for his staff.
I open my hand and Levi’s staff flies into it. Instantly, a violet and black haze covers Sage and me, changing our attire to mainly black with white and violet stripes at the shoulders and