While in Hawaii I discovered my grandfather and started to learn everything her could teach me. I woke everyday up and drove to the hospital to talk with Charles again and learn more. I didn't take the girls with me because they were to tired and sleepy, I scanned them with my power before I left and was a little surprised to find Ashley sleeping in my mom's room. I modified the ball of power with what I had learned just in case she tried anything, I was more confident in some of the new powers I learned. When I found Charles again we had some small talk about the weather and then we would both connect our minds together and I would learn even more about what my power could do. We did this everyday while I was staying in Hawaii and during that time I could feel my body change, I had always been fit but after learning how the brains chemistry can alter my body's condition I started to gain much more muscle. On the last day of the week I was like a new person with a six pack, thick arms, and pecks of iron. Charles on the other hand seemed to weaken after every day I came to visit him, the last day he didn't even have the strength to hold his energy field around the hospital. Today I found him out back overlooking a cliff just looking out over the ocean, I walked up to him and we talked but before we connected.
"I know you have no real connection to our family and only came here for the power I could give you. You have every right to feel that way and I don't want to change your mind but after this week you have learned all but one thing I must teach. It is the last skill of our family but because there is no one left to learn I hope you can accept it."
We connected and I learned that the core of our family's power is the ability not to control people but to connect with the mental world that all people share. In this world all people could understand and communicate without words but only our family has been able to reach this place.
We disconnected and he collapsed back in his chair "Grandfather are you ok?"
"Yes, yes I'll be fine, I was using my power to keep myself healthy a while longer but teaching you has diverted my power leaving me weak. I doubt I'll have more than a month left."
"Actually, less than that old man." said a strange voice behind us.
We both turned around and Saw a tall skinny man walk out of the bushes behind us, he was wearing regular cloths but wasn't tan so defiantly didn't live in Hawaii. The more shocking thing was that he held a long thick chain that was attached to a woman who had an iron collar around her throat. The both had thick brunet hair and similar facial features so I could guess they were related, but while he was tall and skinny she was only 5 feet 2 inches tall with 34 C breast and 45-inch hips with a fit stomach. She was beautiful but the anger and blood lust coming from the man kept me from looking for too long.
"Hello again Zac, I see your family is still barbaric as ever." Charles said.
"Shut up old man, my family's power doesn't come from male or female alone and how we choose to use it is our business not yours."
"Don't make me teach you another lesson just to have your father save you again. Get out of here before I have to hear him yell at you again."
"My father is no longer with us. He died at the hands of the other family's leader, but he took her with him so after I kill you and your family I can take my time killing their last member."
"Come and try if you think you can."
I gave Charles a look, knowing he was too weak to try and hold this person off let alone both. I knew he was bluffing and if they tried it would be up to me to fight them off, I built dozens of layers in my mind to prepare. After connecting to Charles so many times I had learned the only other family in this was besides Ashley was a beast family. They had the power to shift into a half beast state that would increase their physical ability while also weakening their minds. The beast they shifted into differed between each person but being half beast made their minds harder to access, they were always a threat to us but at the same time had one major flaw. They needed a member of the opposite sex to activate their power and the power would be doubled if the person was related to them. The tall man hesitated for a moment but then pulled the chained women to him and stuffed his tongue into her mouth, that was all he needed to activate the power and his body began to swell.
I launched my power at the two of them to try and stop them but as I connected I felt his mind change and become a maze. The girl didn't change or resist and just fell to the ground as the man shifted into a half man half bull and started to charge at us. I was using every method I knew to figure out the maze his mind had become but I couldn't stop him from getting closer. Luckily, he was slow so when he got close enough I pushed Charles out of the way and he passed by the both of us only grazing me. It hurt and put us so our backs were to the edge of the cliff but it bought me time to open his mind, he turned around and charged again. This time I did figure out the way and took control of his mind, I was sure I had him but when I tried to stop him the section of his mind that controlled his legs was blank. His eyes rolled back and his body went stiff but his leg's continued to push forward, he must have given that part of his mind to his animal instincts so I couldn't control it. Just before he reached us Charles pushed me to the side, as I fell I turned to look at him and he had a smile on his face. Zac crashed into him and they both fell from the cliff, as they fell I felt Charles power reach out to me.
"It's all on you now. You, Ashley, and that girl up there are the only ones left of all the family's. I know you don't want to be a part of this but maybe it's for the best, Ashley has already made it clear that she wants to be with you and the girl doesn't look to be a threat. If you can please take care of them pass on our power to another generation I hope as the last of our family you can understand that the power you all have has a place in this world. I've already left you everything the family owned take it as an apology."
After that the connection broke and I knew they were both dead, I sat on the floor for a while as I absorbed what had just happened. He was my grandfather and even though we didn't know each other long he was family, it was the lease I could do to honor his last wish. I stood up and turned to the girl who was on the ground with tears in her eyes, I walked over to her and while I was connected to her I never tried to take over her mind. When I stopped in front of her she looked up to me and I realized she was only wrapped in a old sheet so while she was covered she was also nude.
"Would you want to come with me?" I asked and extended my hand.
She reached up and took my hand so I could lift her she never answered me so I turned to leave. After I walked a few steps I heard a chain following behind me, I never turned around and just walked into the hospital. The people there were all back to normal and gave me some strange looks as I walked by, I called a Uber and got in and waited for the girl to get in as well. Then we drove back to the Hilton in silence, the girl never said a word to me the whole time even as we walked down the hall and into the room. Once there I made some lunch for the both of us and we eat together, the girls weren't back from whatever they were doing until a few hours later. When they came into the room they were all in shock for a second as they looked at the girl.
"Steven who is this?" mom asked.
"Her name is Lela." Ashley answered, I was surprised that she knew.
"Where did she come from?" Kat asked.
"Why did you bring her here?" asked Jess.
"More importantly where is her brother?" Ashley asked with a hint of anger.
"It's a long story please everyone sit down and I'll explain."
I told them everything that happened and why I brought Lela back to the hotel with me.
