Chapter 5: Mini Tornado

Hello! Can't you see me? Hello, I'm here! I'm here!

Mauve's heart races in panic as she watches Nicholas and Sephie wave their hands around frantically looking for her.

It was almost like Mauve glitch away and vanished in an instant. One moment she was smiling to Sephie then her physical self disappeared into thin air. What made the situation extremely frustrating for Mauve is the fact that she can see and hear Both Nicholas and Sephie who are frantically searching every inch of the barn trying to look for her. 

But then Mauve thought, this is a great opportunity to escape. She stands up from her chair and walks towards the door. As she is about to pass through it, Mauve stops. I would still be invisible even if I go, What if I get stuck like this forever. I can’t leave, they are the only ones who can help me figure this out. Without Sephie I would still be floating right now. Mauve changes her mind, turns away from the door and starts to follow Sephie. Mauve grabs Sephie by her shoulder which makes Sephie frozen on the spot. She can actually feel Mauve’s hand. 

“Miss, is that you?” Sephie asks as she turns to her back. Mauve replies but all Sephie could feel was a rising energy level around her. Sephie knows it is Mauve but she doesn’t know how to communicate. This could be Mauve’s second ability, they did not expect it to be something like this. The more Mauve screams, the higher the energy level becomes which sends everything in the room floating once again. Sephie has to think fast or this could harm not just Mauve but other people that may pass their area since the energy that is present is more powerful that what they had experienced.

“Did you find her?” Nicholas asks as he strides towards Sephie.

“Yes, She is here Eliot. It's just our senses couldn't pick her up. She must be on another frequency.” Sephie explains.

“That must be it. If that’s the case then she would be the first one to do so.” Nicholas replies, fascinated by their discovery. 

Frequency? What frequency do they mean? Oh my God I don’t want to be stuck like this! Mauve starts to hyperventilate. She sits on the ground and hugs herself. It's been a while since she had this kind of panic attack but everytime she does, her parents will always be there calming her down until she finally restores her normal breathing and feels okay. Now, she feels alone more than ever. Nothing makes sense to her and all she could think about is her inevitable doom.

The rapid increase of Mauve’s unstable emotion made everything float and move in circular motion just like a tornado. Sephie and Nicholas run to the corner of the room and thightly hold on to each other as they keep balance avoiding being sucked into the strong force. Mauve is hysterically sobbing, unable to notice what she just made. 

“Miss! If you could hear me, Please calm down! Breathe in, breathe out. Breathe in, breathe out.”  Sephie screams as she looks around and scans trying to pinpoint where Mauve is. She lets go of Nicholas and runs towards the circulating force. She notices that there is a warm orange light in the middle of it. That must be Mauve, confused and unable to control her emotions. The longer the time passes, the darker the color gets and as it turns red, one of the glass windows shatters.

Sephie kneels on both knees and speaks towards the light. “Miss, listen to my voice. Breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out.” Mauve opens her eyes upon hearing Sephie’s calm voice.  She realizes what she has done and wipes her tears away. She follows Sephie’s rhythm until she finally loses her hyperventilation. Her mind has been clear of worries as she focuses on her breathing. 

“Yes that’s it Miss, now channel your energy to the palm of your hands. You can use your mind or hand motions to control your power.” Sephie sugests. Mauve takes a deep breath as she stands up feeling the energy vibrating from her palm. She raises her right arm and motions for everything to stop. The movement stops and as she motions everything to go back to their original place, one by one all of the things float gently back to their original places. She points her palm towards the shattered glass and does a circular gesture. Within seconds, the broken shards come back to place and pieces themselves perfectly mending each part. Just like that the window is restored like the way it was before. It is very fascinating to see Mauve’s skills as she finally understands how to control it. It feels so satisfying now that she can move things with her thoughts and motions. Still, she needs to work on her ability to focus and process her emotions well since it highly affects her abilities. 

“Yes that’s it. Now use the same technique to bring yourself back to our normal frequency.” Sephie advises now that Mauve has figured out how to use her ability. 

Mauve does as she’s told and it works. Mauve hugs Sephie out of pure joy. It took a second for Sephie to process what just happened as she froze at the moment. It’s the first time someone has been that close to her and she has no clue what to do. She just can’t push her majesty away. Instead she pats her back awkwardly. Mauve laughs at her and lets Sephie know how awkward she is. 

“You should hug me back like this.” Mauve goes in and hugs her one more time. Sephie hesitates but copies Mauve  to show courtesy.  

“Yes that’s it. Good job Sephie” Mauve gives her a bright smile which makes Sephie feel rewarded and genuinely happy. 

Nicholas comes towards them and approaches Mauve. 

“ Do you still need more time to think?” He asks mauve.

“Nah, I figured it all out now.” Mauve replies sounding as if she is pretty confident unlike her usual indecisive tone. After all that happened in a span of two days, she is convinced that what she can do is literally out of this world. At this point, she is willing to believe whatever they have to say. Her life of neurotic journaling has come to an end as she chooses to live a spontaneous adventure from now on. 

“So do you believe us now?” He continues to ask. 

“Yes, I do now.” Mauve gives him a reassuring answer. 

“Shall we go to Elite?” Nicholas asks. He observes her reaction and hopes that this time it would be easy to convince her to finally leave this dimension.

“Oh, before that I would like to ask for something first.” Mauve replies hinting that she is still not ready to drop everything she has going on with her life in an instant. There is still some stuff she needs to get done.

“What is it?” Nicholas replies as he feels worried that this might stall their mission which is heavily time sensitive especially now that a lot of unforeseeable circumstances has put the brakes on achieving their main goal. 

“I need to ask you a favor”.