Harmonizer's Evolution (Balancer's Soul cycle) (73 page)

On
ce the
two hours were up the Balancers clapped for
their teachers
because
they were given
many new things to work on.

As Connor and Sarah
left the stage a
sickening thought entered her mind. She
didn’t want it to be true, but couldn’t know if it wouldn’t happen.
They
needed to be prepared incase
that
eventuality should happen to occur.

As they
made
their
way to the
usual
table
she
composed
her
self, but Connor knew something was wrong and was patient enough not to ask right now.

They
made it to
her
babies again and
her
parents wante
d to know why they
’ve been keeping the aura secret for so long
. Sarah
explained how
they
made a promise with Veronica and they understood
, yet not initially
.
They were surprised at how dramatic it made everything look, but they were mostly thunderstruck at the size of
their daughter’s
dark blue aura. They had
her
thinking on somet
hing that hasn’t been done and she
intentionally wanted to see
her
children’s aura.

Both Darrel’s and Pearls aura was barely large enough to surround their bodies, but it did allow
her
to see the color. They both had a bluish brown with flakes of green moving around their skin, but Pearl had more green in her own unique aura. Connor caught
her
and he too looked to see what they looked like.

They
learned that Darrel wished he had long claws like Sorono so he could scratch his own back. Connor, Sorono and
Jack
had a little joke about him scratching himself, but boys will be boys, no matter their age.

Before
they
left
for the evening
,
Connor and Sorono had another hand to hand bout and the sound of lightning breaking the sound barrier actually came from them. Connor had a good fight that lasted five blurring minutes, but he lost again to his older sibling. Despite his loss he gained much experience and was gracious in his defeat.

It made Sarah
even more proud to be his lifelong mate.

After
putting
the kids to bed and took a shower,
they
were l
a
ying on
their
bed just holding each other in silence.
She
continually took in his smell and basked in the warmth of his body. He broke the silence of the dark room after
they
had both calmed. “Princess, earlier you seemed to have something on your mind that you didn’t like whatsoever. Can you tell me what it was about?”

I wa
s
n
’
t thinking about it till now…
She sighed and propped she elbows on the bed as she
tried looking at his face in the darkness.
Her
voice
came out
on the verge of breaking, but it somehow remained neutral. “Actually after seeing how weak the Balancers are compared to me, it had me thinking. What would happen to Darrel and Pearl if something tragic happened to us? What would happen if the same thing happened to everyone else? They would grow up in a world that won’t understand how to treat them because of their talents.
I don’t want to imagine leaving them behind, but
it…”

“could happen.” H
e finished her
statement because
her
voice almost
broke. He began rubbing her
lower back to ease
the
lingering
discomfort. “You’re completely right. We cannot leave them behind if we are going into a fight that we might not win. I don’t want to think about our children without us, but this fight has too many variables and the probability of our survival is unclear. The only thing that makes any sense is to make a living will. We cannot leave them to your parents or my sister or Mark because they could all die as well.
T
he only logical person would be…
”

“Jen
ny.” Sarah
said flatly
,
finishing his sentence. “She still has enough life left to raise them into late adolescence. We should also set up a trust for the both of them so that Jenny could take out however much she needed. How much should we leave for them…hypothetically?”

In a few seconds he said “We s
hould leave them at least twenty
million each.”
Sarah
didn’t balk at the number like most parents probably would. “
We both understand that they will grow slowly and once they come into their abilities their food bill is going to skyrocket.
They cannot produce the energy we do.
Once they finally look the age of a young adult Mom can sign over custody of their inheritance. Plus if they need to move because of certain unforeseen events, she can use the money to build a new life with them.”
Sarah’s
throat was as thick as Connor’s had slowly become. It felt like
her
heart was breaking a
t hearing him speak like this. They
were both
worried for the blank future their
children would face without
them
.

They
decided together to speak to Jenny in the morning and begin preparation for the eventuality should
they have a mortal death
.

She
placed
her
head against his chest a
s tears of worry spilled down her
face. Connor
became too
still until he
eventually
moved his a
rm
and
placed a moist hand on her bare back and
then put together that he was crying as well.
Their
bond to each other were
both in twin
agony and
sorrow
as
they
clutched each other for support
.

They
both
slowly and silently
cried
them
selves to sleep.

P
ain and Pleasure

Hearing the clashing of steel
, roar of challenge and cries of pain
became a familiar and comforting sound
around here
. It
i
s
the
violent
sound of
hope for the human world.

Connor
currently
perched
himself
in the comforts of a
large oak
tree and watched
expectantly
as the crowded clearing bustled. It has been twenty three days since Clarein, Firon and Xaon ha
d
arrived and he
knew everyone
who could,
had
, shown up. Those that gathered,
all kne
w
of
the
impossible
numbers
they
face
d
.
The
oppo
sition is
eight hundred thousand strong, but
currently Connor’s
only counted close to one hundr
ed and nineteen thousand for their
side
, that were here
.
Oh and he
quickly found out that there were
many
more Immortal Guards tha
n
he first realized. He
thought there were only
about
sixty
, but actually there
were several thousand. The sixty
that
he’s
met are strictly the personal guard
s
for the Elders. Sorono explained that many of the Guard were off duty during the meeting. Their numbers were a massive surprise to
him
nonetheless.

He dropped his
head against the
trunk of the tree and closed his
eyes.
He
began automatically searching for some kind of solution
to the many
problem
s
the camp faced
while also
recollecting recent events.

After the torturous ni
ght when Sarah explained what they
needed to set up for the possibility that
they
wouldn’t return to the
ir children
,
they
sealed
their
minds so that neither Dar
rel nor Pearl could learn of the
plan.

Aft
er they
had arrived at the training field
the next day
Connor
gained the at
tention of Sorono and that of his
in-laws. Sara
h
felt it to be her duty to be
the one to explain that they
needed to go some
where without the children and Connor
read their mind
s
to reali
ze that they figured out what they
were up to
,
without being t
old directly. The others understood
and didn’t say anything to make
their
decision
s
any more difficult. They
were given a reprieve from the day’s events and Sorono said he would fill in for
Connor’s
duty in training the Balancers
. Before
he and his mate began the
difficult decisions
they
left the care of
the
children in the hands of Jillian and Jack.

Connor
knew that
his m
om didn’t have work that
day and she was confused at their
unexpected
arrival. She was thrilled to see
them
again, but that didn’t last.
They
were sitting in her living room
together
and
Jenny
listened very quietly as
they
explained what
they had discussed
last night.
His
mom was a stron
g woman, but hearing the words ‘
We might not make it through this.
’
made her begin to understand the seriousness of
their
position
s
.
Jenny
didn’t like hearing this as she began to cry and Sarah was the only one capable of
easing
her
suffering
as they hugged
each other
and cried together.
Somehow
Connor
was able to
manage to barricade
the
tears, but
his
swollen throat couldn’t and wouldn’t allow
him
to speak
further
.

Once th
ings eventually calmed down, Jenny
said she would
do whatever it took to keep the kids safe
,
secure
and out of danger
. Sarah told her to go clean herself up because
they
had some driving to do
that day
. While
Jenny
did her thing, Sarah called a high-end lawyer and set up an immediate
and priority
appointment
with
them
. Apparently she had dealings with this lawyer before because
the
secretary
instantaneously
made the appointment and shifted another
client
out of the way.

Jenny
rode with
them
in
his green
truck and it took o
ver an hour to finally reach the destination. Once they
made it
to
the lawyer’s
office
Connor
realized that he knew the secret of
their
family
to a point
, but only that they didn’t age. He was a middle aged man with a relatively bright personality and good looks. Apparently he
i
s a sixth gener
ation lawyer that
the Branderson
family used
regularly
when they were in this state
.
The
Branderson’s
were the ones who had gotten his great grandparents their big break.
He never gave any verbal or physical cues
as to revealing the fact that
t
hey
were different
, but he did look at
Connor
and Sarah curiously
.
He listened to what they
needed and went over to his computer and began printing off several documents.