The fire burned closer. Mia clutched Rily’s hand as they ran through the smoke and ash coughing. Her skin stung for the embers that floted around them, the smell of the smoke choaking her and the heat burning her throat. Tears tried to form in her eyes but the dry air caused them to sting. “We can’t get out!” Rily cried, suddenly stopping pulling Mia to a halt amid the flames. She clutched at her sister’s arm choaking and sobbing. “Yes we can!” Mia said trying to pull her sister back into motion. "come on, we have to keep going!” “No! I can’t! We’re dead Mia, it’s too hot it’s killing us.” she colapsed to the ground in a fit of coughing. Mia turned trying to find of a way out, trying to make sense of this situation. Nothing, they wouldn’t survive this. How had this gone wrong so fast. Had it really only been two hours ago that her and her sister had been laughing and joking together. Mia regarded her sister. There was one sure way that they could get out of this. One way that would surly save them, but would change their lives forever. Mia gritted her teeth spinning, desperating trying to find another solution. Her whole life she had lied to her family ever since the day she had been chosen by her master. SInce that day she had sworn she would never tell a living being about her ablitities or about the league of heroes that worked day and night trying to keep the world safe. If she told her sister, if she saved them, they would have to leave. She would have to bring her sister and hide her either recruiting her by finding her a master of her own, or never allowing her any outside contact outside of the league’s hideout. She thought of her life, her friends, her family, her hopes for her career as a normal citizen living a half normal life. She looked down at Rily. Her sister shook on the ground, the smoke suffocating her. She set her jaw. She had no choice. Mia called upon her abilities and she burst alight with power. Her pain and exhasution vanished and strength flooded her body. All the dizziness she hadn’t even realized she was feeling washed away in a wave of clarity. Electric energy shot through her entire body causing her to want to move, jump, exploded into to motion. She gripped Rily tightly and lifted her onto her shoulder. She started running, her sister only half conscious. She extended a hand in front of her, a forcefield of energy appearing in front of her in the shape of a wedge. She slammed it into the wall in front of them and burst through to the other side. Cold night air exploded into exsistance around them. The building shook and, pushed beyond it’s limit, collapsed behind them sending out a shock wave that sent Mia stumbling away. Thankfully, the wall had been an exterior one and Mia took off with Rily still on her shoulder disappearing into the night. She didn’t stop until she found an alley a safe distance away from any prying eyes. She gentally set Rily down kneeling to check on her. Rily opened her eyes up grgoggily then they widened in surprise. “Mia?” She asked seeming uncertain. Mia without a word put both of her hands on her own chest and breathed out. When she pulled them away a ball of blue-green energy spun lazily in her hands. Rily pulled back a bit her eyes fixed on the ball of light. Gentally Mia pushed the ball towards Rily then watched as it entered her chest. A wave of light washed through Rily, the pure engery causing her hair float for a moment as if in a breeze. Her cuts vanished and her color returned. Her breathing became natural again. “What in the world?” Rily whispered. She stared at Mia eyes wide and fully alert. “Mia? Are, are you dead?” Mia chucked allowing her light and power to fade till she looked like her normal self again. “No, I’m not dead.” “Then what?” Rily looked over her arms and legs. “How?” She looked sharply at Mia. “What are you?” Rily smiled sadly. “I’m afaid that answer is long and complecated and at the moment it’s the least of our worries.” “What do you mean?” Rily asked as Mia stood and looked around as if to make sure there was still no one around. “Mia we were in the middle of a burning building about to die and you just,” She gestured in a wild pattern vaguely in Mia’s direction. “whatever you just did and broke through a wall with some kind of insane forcefield.” Mia raised an eyebrown. Well that was definately interesting. She had thought that her sister was practicaly unconsious when that had happened but apparantly she had been more alert than she had thought. “Look, Rily,” Mia said, sagging a bit and folding her arms looking to the side. “there are a lot of things you don’t know about me, that no one excpet a very select few knew about me and the fact that you know is let’s just say not ideal. Not ideal to the point that,” She paused looking to her sister then dropping her eyes, “to the point that we can’t go home.” “What!” Rily scrambled to her feet. “What do you mean we can’t go home?” “I mean,” Mia said stepping closer to her opening her hands toward her. “The group that I am with has one simple rule, ‘No one finds out’. No one, the protocal for this type of situation is, well is that you and I have to go and live with the leauge.” “What leauge?!” Rily was screaming throwing her hands in the air in frustraion and not a little panic. “What does any of this mean?! If this is some kind of sick joke Mia you need to stop right now.” She stared hard at Mia pleading, confused, scared. When the look in Mia’s eyes told her this wasn’t a joke she turned as if to run. Mia grabbed her. “Rily!” “Let go! I’m going home. Mom and Dad will know what to do. Let me go!” “Rily, we can’t go home!” Mia yelled fighting to hold on as Rily struggled to get free prying at her Mia’s hands. Mia flared a little of her power and her grip grew in strength. “We have to leave and tell no one or else…” Rily looked back at her and paused in her attepmts to free herslef and flee. “Or else what?” She asked, dread in her voice. Mia let go of her sister’s arm and set her lips in a hard line. “Or else they will kill us.”