The Eleventh Gifted (The Gifted Fanfiction)

Chapter 67

Aria took one barely transparent, printed paper scattered on the table. It had figures and numbers that she was beginning to understand the more she looked into the rest of the papers. Even Claire and Ohm were looking at each document with her.

"No matter how horrible his plan is, if we successfully build this machine, we will be able to cure NYX-88," Punn explained.

"This means..." Ohm hoped with a smile.

"Now, we don't need to risk facing the Director openly. That'd be dangerous."

"But isn't it dangerous that you're fighting against him, Aria?" Claire asked worriedly to the girl across from her, a table separating them. She was with Pang when his agreement with the Director was made, which made that stunt of hers dangerous in Claire's eyes.

"It's not. As long as he doesn't suspect and discover us, we're free as a bird."

"If we can build this machine quickly, we will win," said Punn, sparking big hope within the four of them.

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Aria walked with Ohm towards the school infirmary where their junior Gifted students were admitted. Punn called them, so they went. But she didn't like what she was hearing as they strolled towards them.

"It's a radiation machine to kill the Gifted cells. Here's how it works: once you kill the cells that host the virus, the disease and all its symptoms will be gone."

She looked up to her friend, who looked back at her. That meant, that whoever used that machine would be normalized in order to be healed. They had to give up their potentials. That included Wave and Pang.

"D@mn!" Third cursed. "Where is Grace?" he asked Time.

"We haven't seen her since she went with the Director."

"Why would she tell us to give this stupid blueprint to P'Punn, knowing this won't help us?"

"She probably doesn't know."

Aria walked faster towards them, Ohm following behind, making the group turn their heads to her. "Grace knew about the blueprint?" she asked directly to Third.

"Yes."

"And the Director took her?"

"Yes."

Her heart started drumming in a bad way. If that machine was against the Director, and he had the person who told them this information, then... "Grace is in danger."

"What?

"We know what the Director is capable of. And if he's aware of what Grace did, we can only pray that she'll be safe."

Third clicked his tongue in annoyance. "Grace in possible danger, us having to give up our potential. Are we really limited to just this?"

"I want you guys to think this carefully," Punn suggested, before heading off with Claire and nodding to the two.

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"We're going to need boxes of water supply with all of this," said Aria as she, Wave, Pang, and Sol walked towards the engineering room to review for the upcoming University exam for their college.

Pang and Wave let Sol wander with them. He knew everything already anyway. And so far, he had been loyal to them. He hadn't told anyone about the virus; not to their friends outside Ritdha High School, not to his parents, not to the authorities. They knew that these people wouldn't be able to help them, even the Ministry had the Director's back. Besides, Sol had become close to the twins and Ohm, who invited him.