Traitor by Abiran Raveenthiran (comprehension books TXT) 📕

We were still in the last memory where Avni was waving happily to her father. A group of big men walked close to her father from behind him. They had longer had and differently designed facial hair. They were intimidating people. They were probably a foot bigger than the average person. He could not see them and was too busy waving happily to Avni. Avni tried to warn him by pointing in that direction but he did not understand the clues. The men took wooden sticks and metal bars from behind their backs and began hitting her father. First they hit him on his head. Then he turned around and another guy hit him across the cheek. Blood came splattering out of his mouth. He fell on his knees and hands. Then another man kicked him in to the ground and he clenched up into a ball on the floor. I was looking through Avni’s eyes and she turned away so I could not see the rest. I could feel her emotions overwhelm me. I felt like crying for this man would I have not even met. Tears rolled down Avni’s cheeks as she screamed to let her father alone. I had never felt so sad in my life and I felt sadness creeping on me because of a man I never knew was getting beat. This happened for many weeks. He would come and they would beat him.
After a couple months I was taken to Light High Court which is the only court in our district. It is in the Light tribe area and makes unfair decisions that only help their tribe. There was a huge argument going on and at the time I did not understand it. There was an old many with a long white robe sitting and asking my father questions. He was making my father look dumb and retarded. He was asking stuff that my father had not realized. “How is Avni going to get a future staying with you? How will you help her studying when you yourself have the mental capacity of a first grader?” asked the lawyer.

We were in a memory in the courtroom now. There was a lot of commotion and huge argument arising about the custody of Avni. She was probably too young to understand the concept of custody and just wanted to be with her father. I could feel her confused feelings. It was near the end of the court session. The other lawyer was giving his last remarks about the case. I noticed Avni giving actions to her father. She was asking him about how he was and if he ate properly. The judge had also noticed it and was not listening to the lawyer. Avni’s father also replied with a series of hand movements showing that he was fine. The conversation continued and the lawyer noticed that no one was listening to him. He turned around to see what everyone was looking at to see Avni and her father’s conversation. They looked like children and did not care about what was going around them. The lawyer quietly turned around and sat down.
The lawyer had surrendered the case which meant my father had won the case. I went back to my father. I thought that things would go back to normal but I was wrong. I woke up the next day in Mrs. Green’s house. She said my father had left my there and left. I looked for him for months and years and could not find him. It was as if he had disappeared off the face of the earth. Some days I would escape and look for my dad at our old house but there was no one. That was when I decided I would become one of the Legendaries, to find my father.

I was taken back to the present where everyone opened their eyes. The light was blinding but eventually my eyes adjusted to the light. Everyone had tears in their eyes, except Neel. It was as if Neel already knew the story and looked normal. Avni had cried the most and tears were flowing from her eyes. I had not realized that there were pasts to everyone, not just me. I did feel a stronger connection between the team. I trusted everyone a bit more; especially Avni. I did not hold as many barriers in my mind from Avni because, at the moment, I trusted her the most. I still did not feel comfortable sharing my secrets yet. I did not trust anyone in the team that much yet.

“Good job Avni, especially for your first time in expressing your memories through telepathy.” said Neel. It was almost as if he already knew about Avni’s past. Neel was acting differently today. He seemed too calm about the whole situation. “I hope you know that that is not the whole story to you past.” Everyone was very confused. You could tell by their expressions.
“How would you know about my past?” said Avni.
“I know more than you think.” said Neel. I could not tell whether he was deliberately trying to sound mysterious or if it was just the heat of the moment. “This is what actually happened.”
Suddenly we were sucked into Neel’s mind. There were many clouded memories that we could not see. Neel was obviously very experienced, he was able to select which memories to block and which to allow with ease. We were shown a memory with Avni’s dad. He looked a lot younger. The way he walked and acted seemed different than from Avni’s memories. I could see a woman in the memory too. “Avni”

said Neel “That was your mother.”

I could feel an overwhelming mixture amount of emotions explode from Avni. I could feel her presence trying to really absorb how her mother looked. She was talking to him about something that I could not understand. There was a conversation about escaping and hiding something.
A person walked into their conversation. It was a large man wearing a white robe. He look somewhat like a priest except gave a bad vibe. The woman turned around and saw the man. She lifted her arm and out came a burst of green light. The man reflected with an equal amount of white light. I saw people flooding in from the windows all wearing white. Avni’s dad was handling them. He would kick them out the window before the entered and blasted some of them with his green magic.
Avni’s mom was handling the priest-looking man. He obviously had the upper hand. When he attacked, it did not seem like he worked hard. Then the man stopped and started shooting random bolts of white light in random directions. They weren’t aimed at anyone, or anything. Then the bolts of white light switched course and began hitting Avni’s mom. They were hitting her from every direction and she could not block them in time.
Eventually Avni’s mom fell unconscious. Avni’s dad tried to run to her to help her but was held up by the men who had flooded through the window. “Grab him. I want him to see me kill his wife.” said the priest-looking guy. The priest-looking guy picked up a metal rod from in the room. The people who flooded in through the window held Avni’s father back but let him see what was happening. The priest-looking guy hit Avni’s mother hard. You could see blood trickle down from her head and the rest of her body. Avni’s father trashed a cried but could not budge from the grip of the people. There was a pool of blood on the floor by the time the man was done. She was definitely dead. There was just too much blood loss to survive.
The people let Avni’s father go. He grabbed Avni’s mother’s body and cried. Hi held Avni’s mother’s head in his lap and hugged her. There was blood staining his clothes. Some were his but most of it probably belonged to Avni’s mother. The priest-looking man stood there and laughed.
Avni’s father’s head twitched a little. His eye’s began to turn green. Not just his pupil but his whole eyeball was bright green. He got up and stood on his feet. His head faced upwards and he screamed. It was not a normal scream. There was something wrong with it. It made your made get goosebumps on it from just listening to it. The scream vibrated through the rooms and halls. It started to get windy in the room. The priest-looking man looked surprised. He had not expected that to happen. Leaves came rushing in through the window. The leaves sliced into people’s flesh. The priest was dodging the leaves somehow. Avni’s father took the time to run into one of the room’s, take out a baby girl (which was probably Avni) and jumped out the window. Then Neel kicked us out of the memory.
Everyone stood there mouths open. We had not expected that. It was cruel. I looked at Neel and asked “Why?” It was a question that everyone was probably wondering.
Neel looked at us. He looked like he had grown older all of a sudden. “I was told to give this memory to Avni when the time was right. We all looked at Avni. She was so lost she opened her mouth and closed it a couple times. Only air escaped her lips. Then she cleared her throat and tried again.
“Why did they kill her?” was the question Avni had. “Avni, your mom was also a Legendary.” replied Neel. “Each of the previous Legendary were captured and killed by the Dark and Light Lord. The man who killed your mother was the Light Lord. The Light and Dark Lord strived for power and knew that they could only achieve it once they defeat the Legendaries.”
It was obviously a lot for Avni to take in. She stared at the ground and her fingers were trembling. Then she released the same scream her father had once released. A green light surrounded her. She ran off to the woods. I stood up to go chase her but Neel held me back. “She must do what she must.”
After a couple hours she returned. She looked up at Neel and asked “How did my dad become mentally-handicapped?” Neel replied “He never was. He just pretended so that he could be with you and protect you from unnecessary information.”