Enders

Enders (29)

If someone were to ever tell me that I'd been on a cliff overlooking a beautiful scenery as the sound of the crashing ocean below us rang out, sundown imminent within the next few hours, I'd assume I was on some romantic date with the love of my life.

But I wasn't. I was here for training.

And the love of my life may have been there with me, but that was too scary to think about at that point.

It didn't seem like the safest place to train to me. The only thing that stopped us from going over the edge of the cliff was a fence built out of rope and wood. Any kind of force would unearth the wooden pegs and they'd be falling onto the ocean rocks below. Not exactly the safest place to train in the world.

"My teammates and I would come out here all the time to spar and train," Vince explained as he looked out into the sea, and it made me feel like kind of a jerk for thinking that this wasn't the best place to train, even if it was the truth.

There was still so much I didn't know about my parents, even with all that I'd learned. I wondered when I'd be ready to hear absolutely everything, if I even got the opportunity to.

"Obviously, I would refrain from going near the edge of the cliff," Vince advised, shrugging before he looked over to me. "Except for you, Violet. Since you can fly it's not much of a danger to you."

I turned toward Aiden, a scowl evident on my face. "You really just tell him everything, don't you?"

"Probably because he's jealous," Anthony chided quietly beside me.

Aiden opened his mouth to say something was without a doubt going to be rude, but his father cut him off with a laugh. "Hank and Nay actually filled me in on the details of all of your powers," he informed us. "Though I'm sure Aiden is jealous about not being able to fly."

Aiden looked incredulous that his father picked on him in front of all of us, and I couldn't help but find it incredibly amusing. He knew just how much of a pain his son could be and he was going to make fun of him just as much as the rest of us did.

As Vince went on to explain that he had brought us up here to spar with each other just like his team had, I couldn't help but stare off into the ocean at the setting sun. It was such a beautiful scene; it was not a place where you'd expect to see people fighting with each other. But I shouldn't have been surprised.

My parents had stood where I was standing. The only other time I had been somewhere I knew my parents had been was when I had gone to the house we'd all lived in together, or inside of RV. I wonder where else I'd been that they had been too.

I realized I was zoning out when Dex elbowed me in the side, snapping me out of whatever trance I had been in. I looked over at him and offered a weak smile, which he returned. I wondered if he was thinking about his parents too.

"Let's see..." Vince looked over all of us, as if he was trying to decide who to choose to spar together first, even though I knew right away who he was about to pick. "Aiden and Violet are up first."

Aiden and I scowled at each other. Vince picked the two of us to go first for his own entertainment. The only other pair that may have been just as entertaining would probably have been Aiden and Dex, but it seemed like Vince would have rather seen Aiden spar me first.

"Okay," Vince sighed as Aiden and I stood across from each other, our three teammates off to the side to watch. "Now the purpose of this exercise is to show each other what you're capable of, but you're not trying to seriously hurt one another. This is the same goal you have when you fight members of Redrum or any rogue superhuman or human."