Middle of Nowhere, New Mexico- Monday

Rylan pushed his motorcycle to a sixty miles per hour in the late day sun.

“Yay, go faster, Rilly!” cried his nine year old sister Chloe, as she held on tight from the bike's rear seat.

On the last mile of road leading to their house Rylan slowed the bike down and popped a wheelie before skidding into their front yard. Chloe hopped off the bike exhilarated.

“Yaaa! Next time you pick me up do a wheelie in front of my school!” she laughed running ahead of her sixteen year old brother.

Rylan smirked, “Ha ha! No! I don’t think your teachers would like that- eh?”

At that moment a surge of heat coursed through Rylan's body.

“Oh no, Chloe!” he shouted, dropping the bike in the yard.

“Rylan? What is it?”

Rylan clutched his gut as an amber colored light surrounded his body.

Crap, this is happening again!

He fell down next to his bike, consumed by the amber light. After a second, he floated above the ground.

This is bad!

“Rilly, you’re flying!” shouted Chloe.

“I know, get back!”

Too late, the amber light expanded and surrounded Chloe, raising her off the ground as well.

“Ahhh!” she cried.

As Rylan and Chloe defied gravity, the amber glow surged out of their bodies and re-appeared as a condensed oval shaped orb floating in their yard. The siblings dropped to the ground staring at the pulsating glowing oval orb in front of them.

“What is it?” whimpered Chloe.

“I don’t know but-"

Suddenly the glowing orb ejected a large black object directly at Rylan and Chloe.

"Chloe watchout!”

Rylan dove and pushed Chloe out of the way of the flying object. As Rylan clutched his sister he glanced at the ejected thing, and couldn’t believe his eyes.

What the heck? That flying object is a woman!

A black haired woman hurtled through the air backwards and landed on her ass with a thud.

“Oww!” she cried.

The woman wore all black leather and held a weapon in her right hand and a strange smartphone-like device strapped on her left wrist. Rylan gaped at her speechless.

The woman raised herself off the ground and shot a glance at Rylan and Chloe, before walking toward them with a cold smile.

“Hello! So you’re the grounders aren’t you?” asked the woman.

Rylan kept his eye on her weapon, a pistol of some kind, as he shielded Chloe behind him.

“Lady, I don’t know what you’re talking ab-”

“Haha, don’t be stupid boy! I know who you are! It’s not my first time here,” she said to Rylan before dropping to her knee and scrolling information on a screen on her left wrist. Satisfied, she turned and stared intently at Chloe.

“Oh my little girl, you are a strong grounder..Honey, would you like to come with me?” asked the woman to Chloe.

Chloe hid her face in Rylan’s back, “Rylan!” she cried.

“Nobody’s going anywhere with you lady!” yelled Rylan at the woman.

The woman’s face shifted to evil as she squinted and walked closer to Rylan, and he took full view of her beauty.

“Oh? Do you like what you see?” she asked.

“Uh…what?” answered Rylan, fully thrown off.

“Hee, silly boy, the only reason I haven’t killed you- Eh? Oh crap!” she shouted turning toward the floating orb.

The orb, still in the yard, ejected three large metal objects directly at the woman and the siblings. The objects, the size and shape of giant steel oil barrels, flew too fast for Rylan to dodge.

“Oh no! Chlo-”

“Shield full power!” yelled the woman throwing her left arm up and forming a translucent force field around her, and the siblings. The three barrel shaped objects slammed into her force field and bounced back spinning, attempting to stabilize in the air.

“Come on you cheap sentinels!” yelled the woman as she rushed at the closest object, a sentinel is what she called it, and fired a red blast from her hand weapon, destroying it.

She fired two more shots at the remaining sentinels, but they deployed their own shields and returned fire at the woman from somewhere in their metal frames.

With a shootout raging in his yard, Rylan grabbed Chloe and ran toward the house. One of the floating sentinels reacted to his motion and pursued him, but didn’t fire. As it reached Rylan it stopped in mid air, refocused, and flew back to attack the woman in black.

What?..It didn’t attack me. Why?

Rylan ran with Chloe into the house and hid her in his closet.

“Chloe, stay in here, and don’t come out until I come back for you!”

“Rylan, don’t leave me!”

“Don’t argue!” shouted Rylan as he reached under his bed and pulled a twelve gauge shotgun.

I don’t know what’s going on out there but no one’s taking my sister!

Rylan pumped a round in the chamber and ran toward the open front door with a full view of the woman still fighting the sentinels. Only now her weapon changed from a handgun to..

A sword? When did she get that?

The sentinels flanked and attacked the woman, one flying on each side. But the woman’s speed and skill with her force field and sword were too much for them.

“Ha! You think these flying trash cans stop me you brats! Raaah!” screamed the woman, parrying and striking the attacking objects.

Whoa..this lady can fight!

Rylan witnessed the woman, spin, block, slice and completely destroy the remaining two sentinels, their metal corpses burning on his lawn. Satisfied, the woman faced Rylan and smiled as he aimed his shotgun at her.

“You’re Rylan right? My name is Anya nice to meet you!”

With the fires of the destroyed sentinels spewing smoke around her, the woman called Anya walked toward Rylan.

“Don’t come any closer!” he shouted, ready to shoot.

The woman stopped walking, her sword retracting into the base of the hilt.

Whoa..her sword disappeared!

The woman advanced toward him again, smiling.

“Eeh? But Rylan, why can’t I come close to you? I won’t bite you…unless you want me too, handsome, hee hee!” said the woman.

Rylan wanted her to leave, but he needed answers. Trembling, he asked her.

“Anya…is that your name? …Tell me what’s happening here.”

Anya stepped back perplexed. “What’s happening? Haha, You’re a cute boy with no clue, but don’t worry, I see your potential.”

Anya’s strange charm, and knockout looks, distracted Rylan.

Why is this beautiful woman here? What does she want?

The floating orb in the yard pulsated again, and Anya reacted.

“Damn! That rift’s still open and I used too much juice!” she growled.

Anya raised her left shield arm and fired a force field around the oval orb. On contact the orb vibrated violently, as something, tried to escape from inside.

“Those fucking brats are still after me!” yelled Anya, shooting an evil smile at Rylan before dashing toward his motorcycle and jumping on top of it.

“Hey! Wait, that’s my bike!” he yelled.

“Sorry lover, I gotta go!” she yelled back, kicking the motorbike to life in an instant and taking off.

“What the- No, no! Lady, hey!” shouted Rylan running off the porch and firing a shot at Anya.

Anya flipped her left arm behind her and blocked the buckshot with a force field. She spun right and her sword handle ‘shifted’ before Rylan’s eyes into the ‘handgun’ she wielded before. Anya then fired a shot near his feet, blowing him sideways.

“Aaah! You thief, I’m calling the cops!” he howled at Anya from the ground, unhurt.

“Don’t worry lover, I’ll get you a new bike!” she yelled back while flipping Rylan ‘the bird.’

As Anya disappeared down the road on his motorcycle. Rylan could only stare at her black hair whipping in the wind, in disbelief.

“Seriously? A beautiful woman from nowhere just stole my bike and flipped me off.”

“Rylan look!” shouted Chloe pointing at the glowing orb in the yard.

“Chloe? Why are you out here? I told you to stay-”

A crash sound echoed in the yard as Anya’s force field covering the orb shattered and two new flying objects hurtled into Rylan and Chloe’s yard. Arriving the same way Anya did.

The first new flying object was a young lady. “Aaaaaah! Ooof!” she cried landing on her face with a thud.

The second flying object, a young man, “Siiiiiiis? Ooof!” he cried, landing on his side with a thud.

And after that, the floating amber orb in Rylan’s yard flickered and disappeared.

“What the heck? That orb thing is gone,” said Rylan to Chloe.

“Ya!”

Rylan and Chloe turned their attention to the two new strangers now standing in their yard. The female stood up first, surveyed her surroundings, and spoke.

“Oi! I don’t see her body anywhere, but I see three busted sentinels!” she said pointing at the three burning metal objects the woman called Anya destroyed.

“Of course, Sis! What’d you expect it’s Anya!” replied the young man, standing and dusting himself off.

Rylan and Chloe observed the young strangers. Not in fear but in quiet curiosity. They wore similar dark leather garments as Anya’s, form fitting and seemingly designed for combat.

The two also displayed holstered weapons and smartphone like wrist devices on their left arms and Rylan could tell they were teenagers. He caught something else about them. Although the male stranger stood taller than the female, and had darker brown hair than hers, their faces were definitely..

Twins…

“Rylan, they look like they’re brother and sister!” said a sleepy eyed Chloe.

“Chloe, go in the house,” whispered Rylan to Chloe as he pumped another shell in his shotgun.

Chloe inched her way back on the porch and her movement caught the eye of the teenage strangers in the yard. The female turned and stared at Rylan holding his shotgun, and whispered.

“Leif.”

Her young male partner suddenly dashed straight at Rylan, a sword forming from the hilt of his weapon, the same way Anya’s did.

“Holy he-”

Rylan fired a blast from his shotgun at the speeding young attacker, but the attacker blocked the shot with a force field from his left wrist. Before Rylan could re-load, the attacker smacked the shotgun out of his hand with the broad side of his sword.

Ah...he's so fast!

Too fast for Rylan, the strike forced him on his rear as the attacker drew his sword back…

..for the finishing blow.

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Whew!..how’s that for a first chapter ;)

Edited by the awesome Chiisutofupuru the Yandere Darkling- Writer of Sasha