Finding ELE (ELE Series #2) Written By: Rebecca Gober and Courtney Nuckels (27 page)

I know I need to find my parents but for the
mean time, all I can do is try to help. I see a girl around twelve,
fall to the ground a few feet from me. She balls into the fetal
position and cups her hands over her ears. I run to her with
lightning speed, scoop her up and deposit her a little ways into
the forest where some others have gathered. Tony is at my side with
a woman in a similar condition. He places her on the ground and we
silently run back. We run back and forth helping people, who can't
help themselves, to safety.

Returning to the clearing on my fifth trip I
come across a Reaper kneeling over a young girl. The first thing I
notice about the little girl is her red hair. "No!" I yell in a
high pitch voice realizing that the little girl is Connor's sister,
Lilly.

The Reaper put's his hand on the Lilly's
head. "Stop!" I yell at him. Not waiting for a response, I pull the
gun out of my back pocket, aim and shoot.

The Reaper falls down on top of her. I shove
him off and work on picking Lilly up into my arms. She's passed out
and fear for her overcomes me. I can't let anything happen to
Connor's sister so I hold her tightly to me doing my best to
protect her from the war around us. Tony comes to my side with
another victim in his hands.

When we turn to take them to safety I see
him standing in my path. Our eyes lock and his head cocks to the
side. He eyes me with a cool, dangerous stare. I watch as the
colors in his eyes twist and turn like a small tornado surrounding
his pupils. My stomach clenches when a crimson red shadow overcomes
the colored twisters, filling half of his eyes with the tint of
blood. The shock of the sight nearly makes me drop Lilly.

Tony jumps in front of me in the next
instant ready to attack him. His hands are empty, except for a
gun.

"Hello Willow." The man says coldly, looking
over Tony's shoulder, into my eyes.

The fear in my voice doesn't even sound like
my own when I say, "Hello Zack."

To Be Continued....

Dark Green
-
Ability to read minds and hear thoughts. (Willow's first gift.
Willow's original eye color: brown. Willow also absorbs other
people's gifts when she is around them for a certain period of
time. They still don't know how this is possible but some believe
it's because she has a bit of Reaper in her. However, there is one
major difference between Willow and a Reaper: Willow is still in
touch with her humanity.)

Dark Blue
-
Ability to heal. (Alec's gift. Alec's original eye color: Emerald
Green)

Hazel-yellow/green
- Ability to compel people and
make them do or believe what you tell them. (Zack's gift. Zack's
original eye color: light brown)

Purple
-
Ability to turn invisible (Claire's gift. Claire's original eye
color: icy blue)

Brown
-
Ability to change molecular structure and walk or pass through
objects. (Connor's gift. Connor's original eye color-
black)

Light Blue
-
Ability to see through people's abilities or see when someone is
using a gift. (Candy's gift. Candy's original eye color: light
brown)

Neon Yellow
-
Ability to possess great strength, speed, agility and immunity.
Rarely, if ever, does someone with this ability get sick. (Willow's
mom whose name is Alice, Sebastian and Tony's gift. As well as
everyone else in the first compound. Alice and Sebastian's original
eye color: Baby Blue. Tony's original eye color: Hazel
Green.)

Copper
Orange
- Ability to see visions of the near future.
This is an ability that is new to everyone. Nobody know's how far
in the future this ability will allow its posseser to see, but
currently Willow's dad has only been able to see a few minutes and
no more than an hour ahead of time. In addition, with the knowledge
of what lies ahead, they have been able to change the future
outcome. For example, Willow didn't die during the attack on the
hotel like the dad forsaw. (Willow's dad: Henry's gift.)

Black
-
Ability to read other people's emotions and intentions. In addition
this ability allows the possesor to control the emotions of others.
(Erik's gift.)

Red
- Reapers,
steal other people's abilities and drain their life from them. Not
a lot is known about this power. Some believe that once a Reaper
takes from someone that they only posess the ability for a limited
period of time. This requires them to continually search for
abilities to consume or in other words to help them power up.
Because the process of reaping takes a lot of energy and a few
minutes to completely drain a person, they don't bother using their
powers on the people with yellow eyes. After all, the Reapers
currently possess this ability since it was their first gift before
they took the red shot that was supposed to cause instant death.
Instead that shot caused the death of their humanity.

Wow, God has blessed us to be able to
do something that before had only been a pipe dream. We had no idea
when we started on this adventure that we would finish one book,
let alone four books. We are extremely grateful for the success he
has granted us and for his biggest blessing of all, our Lord
Jesus.
(Philippians
4:13
)

We appreciate all of the support we have
received from book blogs, our favorite Facebook pages, our family
and friends and most of all from our fans. Your encouragement kept
us writing. All of your Facebook posts, Goodreads comments and
emails that told us that you loved our books, made our hearts soar
and made us want to write even better for you. Thank you to
everyone who has taken the time to review our book and thank you to
everyone who continues to read our work. A shout out to Mandy
Buchanan with LEO Editing for making our words look pretty by
editing the heck out them and for helping us keep our story line in
check.

To Marya Heiman with Strong Image Editing:
Can we just say that you totally rock our socks?! No words can
express how much we appreciate and value the beautiful covers that
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"Thank you Adam for being
an amazing husband and for putting up with my 'cave' time while I
plug away on my dreams. Thank you for listening to me talk for
hours on end talk about our books. Your advice on weaponry and
knife etiquette should be quite amusing to some of our female teen
readers. I know it was to me when you first handed me back a knife
and told me I handed it to you the wrong way. LOL! Thank you for
walking me through the gun scenes and giving me the technical terms
to use so I didn't just say gun and thing-a-majig. I lava you so
much! <3 Thank you Trinity and Aiden for being the best kids
ever. Trinity- Have I mentioned that you are my favorite daughter
lately? Aiden- I know you know that you are my favorite son! Mom- I
love you, thank you for listening to me talk about books and I hope
I didn't freak you out too much when I was talking about the
Reapers. Have I told you that you are my favorite mom? I love you
dad, thank you for being the first person in my family to read my
books! Wow, when I look at my family I have to say that I am so
blessed to have a family that keeps me on my toes and paints my
life with such beautiful colors."
*Smiles
really big*
~Rebecca Gober

"To my family, the loves of
my life, thank you for being you. My husband Kevin, thank you for
putting up with my shortfalls as I strive to become the 'Proverbs
31 wife'. And a big thanks to my three beautiful children: Cameron,
Chloe, and Kaleb, you guys are my constant in life and I cannot
express in words how much y'all mean to me. To my mother, who is my
biggest cheerleader, thank you for being all the parent I need. You
showed me the joys of life from an early age and I'm so thankful
for you always believing in me and instilling in me a stubborn
heart to know never to give up. Thanks to Bob a.k.a. Pappy for
having a heart bigger than Texas. We had a rough start but I'm so
glad God brought you into my life. You are an amazing man. You
always put a smile on my face when I hear your cheery
whistle.
~Courtney Nuckels

Rebecca and Courtney are downhome country
girls powered by chocolate and other random late night cravings.
Coined in southern twang they bring new meaning to the word y’all.
BFI’s since the 6th grade, with a knack for getting into sticky
situations, has resulted in countless ideas to write about for
years to come.

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