Ch 10 - Weapons

SHAY’S POV

When we’d been thoroughly educated on Area Alpha 101 and the weapons, we were taken back to the viewing room. There were a total of four weapons there, each with a different coloured light, shape, and design.

I was honestly curious about the weapons. To me, they just didn’t seem all that harmful. The minerals that were glowing, were enchanting, but I felt like I’d not only seen them before, but I also knew where they came from.

Random names and what I assume were locations, were flashing through my mind as I looked at the weapons. I wasn’t even paying attention to my father and Edgar, who were trying their hardest to get my attention.

“SHAY!” they both shouted, bringing me out of my trance.

“Huh? What?” I turned to them.

“What have you been saying?” my dad questioned

I raised an eyebrow. “I don’t know! What did you hear?”

“It sounded to me like you were naming the minerals from those weapons and where each one could be found,” Edgar said in suspicion.

I frowned in confusion. “Are you insinuating that I actually know where they come from?”

“Well, no,” he replied.

“Has anyone actually touched the weapons?” I asked.

“We lost three soldiers from that before we decided to pick them up with machines,” Edgar replied.

“I want to touch them,” I blurted out.

“WHAT?” both Edgar and my dad shouted.

“I want to touch them,” I repeated myself.

“We heard you the first time Shay. Why would you want to do that just after you get told what happened to people who touched them?” my dad asked in concern.

“I don’t know. Trust me?” I pleaded.

“I don’t know Shay. I’ve already lost one baby girl. I don’t think I’m ready to lose my other baby girl,” he shook his head.

“Well, there is a way to test if it’s safe for her or not,” Edgar jumped in. We turned to him expectantly.

“The minerals glow brighter when a ‘foreign’ species approaches them,” Edgar explained.

“So, if it doesn’t glow brighter, that makes me an alien?” I teased.

“Well, yes,” Edgar chuckled.

“If it glows brighter, you’re going nowhere near those weapons,” my dad warned.

“Ok daddy!” I beamed.

Edgar took us down the stairs to the place where the equipment had been laid out. Edgar used his card to open the door for me before I was let in. Everyone around looked terrified for me as I took my first step towards the equipment.

Nothing happened.

I took another step, and again nothing happened. This went on until I was standing directly in front of the weapons. These ‘weapons’ were smaller than hand guns by the way. I thought I should mention that terrifying fact.

I looked back to see shocked eyes looking my way. I looked to my dad, asking what to do, and he spoke into the intercom and told me to pick one of the weapons up. I picked up one that had a silver looking liquid and nothing happened. I fiddled with the weapon. I finally pushed one of the buttons before the coolest thing happened.

Instead of dying (which would’ve been tragic), the gooey liquid which was being referred to as ‘the minerals’, left the gun and instead travelled all over my body. I wasn’t sure what was going on, until I was completely covered by the thing. It had created a body suit for me.

“Shay?” I heard Edgar call me. I turned to him, but it looked like everyone was searching for something.

“I’m here,” I shouted back.

“Where?” my dad asked.

“You mean that you can’t see me?” I asked.

“NO,” was the resounding response. I fiddled with the weapon again until I felt the liquid thing return into the weapon.

Actually, this wasn’t a weapon – it was a body suit.

“Incredible! Pick up the second one,” Edgar instructed.

I picked up one that had a blue liquid in it. It wasn’t at all like the other one. Again I fiddled with it until I found a button. When I pressed the button, the liquid spread through me again, creating a hard body suit before the thing in my hand turned into a shield.

“This is technology in new heights!” my dad commented.

“Can you disarm it?” Edgar asked me. I nodded and pressed the button that retracted the liquid.

I didn’t need to be told to move onto the next piece. Everyone was watching on curiously as I picked up the one with black liquid. I was wary about it with it being a dark colour, but I found the button nonetheless. The liquid covered me up before the whole suit turned into spikes. I’m guessing you were a serious danger if you knocked into people in this suit.

“Amazing!” my dad commented.

Why did they have the intercom on the entire time?

I pushed the button and the suit dissembled into the liquid. I picked up the last piece with the orange liquid. This one actually didn’t have a button. Hell, it didn’t look like a weapon. It looked more like a system of some sort. I frowned as I fiddled with it, but nothing was going on. Suddenly, something pricked me, causing me to drop it.

“Ah!” I jumped and sucked on my now bleeding thumb.

My thumb was forgotten when the piece ‘stood up straight’ and made a holographic image of me before listing all the attributes that I have:

Name: Unknown

Origin: Unknown

Age: 18

Height: 5’4

Hair: Black

Eyes: Combination of orange, red and amber

Blood: Pure Royal

Position: Royal Princess/Rightful heir to the throne

Parents: King Aragon and Queen Valencia

Siblings: None

Location: Unknown

I stood frozen as I looked at the information before me. Royal Princess? King Aragon? Queen Valencia? Pure Royal blood? No siblings?

“Baby girl, what is it?” my dad’s voice interrupted me.

I turned to him. “You mean you don’t see this?”

“See what?” a whole lot of people asked.

“Wait, what do you guys see?” I asked first.

“You dropped the last thing and it’s still laying there,” my dad replied.

“So you don’t see it sitting upright and displaying holographic information about me?” I asked wide-eyed.

The strange looks I was getting from everyone were enough for me to know that I probably sounded like I was smoking my socks. I ignored them and turned back to the machine. I was going with my gut feeling by requesting the next thing.

“Search King Aragon,” I said lowly so as to not be heard by everyone else. The machine changed holographic screens before I was faced with the image of ‘my father’:

Name: Aragon Salvatore

Origin: Highlands of Agoa

Age: 1 346

Height: 6’7

Hair: Brown

Eyes: Combination of orange, red and amber

Blood: Pure Royal

Position: Royal King/Grand Alpha Male

Parents: King Gordon and Queen Matilda

Siblings: None

Location: Unknown

One thousand three hundred and forty six? And he’s my father?

This machine must be high for sure!

“Search Queen Valencia,” I said lowly once more, well aware of the fact that there were still eyes on me. Again the holographic screen changed to reveal the image of ‘my mother’:

Name: Valencia Salvatore

Origin: Lowlands of Grecia

Age: 1 298

Height: 5’6

Hair: Black

Eyes: Crystal blue

Blood: Traces of Beta blood

Position: Royal Queen/Grand Alpha Female

Parents: Timothy Hunter and Faith Hunter

Siblings: Hayes Hunter

Location: Unknown

“Put results together,” I said before the holographic screen of ‘my father’ joined that of ‘my mother’.

When they were together, I gasped. I looked just like them. I had my father’s eyes and facial structure, while I had my mother’s hair and body structure. I was more confused than ever. I’d grown up thinking that Hugh and Emily Montgomery were my parents, and yet the information was staring right back at me.

They were not my parents, and according to this thing, Kay never existed.

“Shay? Baby girl are you ok?” my father asked from the intercom. I snapped out of my thoughts.

“Uh yeah! Uhm, this thing does nothing,” I lied.

“We kind of figured that out,” Edgar replied. Only then did I notice that everyone else had gone back to doing their own jobs.

“Can I come out now?” I asked.

“Yeah sure,” they nodded.