In a world made of fantasy , one could only dream of the powers that they wish that they could hold from the Hollywood movies they view . Behind the shallow media cover , there is a truth behind the ‘super heroes’ . Not your regular media hyped superman , but real people who appear as normal as any ordinary person . When these powers are exposed , those who obtain them are sent to Lunar Academy , the school of the real magic , the real powers .
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Rem, well lets just say Rem was never a normal child. Ever. He was born in New York and lived there all his life. His parents were incredibly wealthy, not overly so, but enough to spoil Rem as an only child. At a young age, Rem was as hyper and happy as he is to this day. Back then it was worse though, he could hardly sit still for more then a minute. He was always dashing around, looking at things that interested him, seeing something else that he liked and dashing to it. He was like a newborn puppy exploring a new world, always running around, always wanting attention. He could never rest, in all, Rem was a giant handful when he was younger.
His life was exceptionally normal during his younger years. Through out the years, he was his same hyper self, the doctors worried about him at first, thinking he might have a mental problem. But over the years he did calm down, slightly. Then, at 12 years, his life started getting hectic.
One day, his mother’s head popped into his room where he was simply listening to music. She told him he had a new sister she’d like him to meet. For a moment, he was confused, not sure what she meant. He knew she hadn’t been pregnant, she would have told him. He went out of his room to see an incredibly skinny girl with limp brown hair standing their. She looked about ten, younger then him, but not by much. He narrowed his eyes at her. He didn’t like this, his mother had adopted a child without even asking him. And a girl at that. He immediately didn’t like her. Spinning around he went back into his room, slamming the door behind him, He thought now that he wouldn’t be spoiled anymore, wouldn’t have such a free reign to do anything he liked.
He got over being mad at her, but never grew to like Echo, he couldn’t possibly. Though, he didn’t hate her, she was more just a nuisance. He never bothered her, and she never bothered him, it was a sort of truce between the two.
Then two years later, a few months after Rem turned fourteen, his life got incredibly confusing. It all happened one day when he brought a friend over after school. Rem and his friend had been together since they were in diapers, friends for life they always said. They were just sitting in his room, music pumping from his stereo, simply talking about whatever caught their fancy. Then Rem did something that was just a sudden urge he couldn’t stop. For a moment, he wasn’t sure what was happening, then his mind seemed to click on and he found himself leaning over his friend, kissing him full on. For a moment, he stayed there, almost…enjoying it. Then he fully realized what was going on, and he quickly stood and stepped back until he hit the side of his bed and slumped down. His hand went to his mouth, where he touched his lips, not sure if they were the same. His friend was staring at him, his eyes wide. Just then, there was a small creak from the door. Both their gazes turned to see Echo standing there, her hands limp by her side, her head tilted to the side slightly. She stood there for a moment longer, Rem could tell she’d seen them. His heart was pounding loudly, then Echo simply left. Rem looked toward his friend, red slowly creeping up his face. His friend looked angry now. He got up slowly, and headed toward the door without a word. Just as he was about to leave, he turned toward Rem and said slowly “I never want to speak to you again.” Rem watched him go, extremely sad now, and just as his friend closed the door, Rem was sure he heard a soft muttering of ‘fa-ggot.’
Rem sat their silently. He still didn’t know what happened. He was so confused. He had just kissed his best friend, and enjoyed it. He didn’t know what was wrong with him, he really didn’t. He was so sure he was normal before, maybe a little hyper, but that’s it. He’d had crushes before, all on girls. Never had he even thought about kissing a guy, ever. Then, this suddenly popped up. Maybe it was nothing, maybe just curiosity. He hoped so, that’s what he’d say, just curiosity, nothing more, He even convinced himself he didn’t like it. But deep in his mind he knew that was a lie. He had enjoyed it. It had been his first kiss, and he liked-no, almost loved it.
The next day, Rem thought it would be normal. His friend would have surly forgotten all about the other day, surely. He was wrong. When he walked through the doors, everyone stared at him. A few people whispered to their neighbors, a few stayed silent. Then most turned away in what seemed like disgust. Confused, yet slightly knowing what was going, he walked through the halls. Then, he saw his friend and went toward him, slightly unsure but did it all the same. Just as he got to him, he turned around and frowned at him. Glaring at Rem, he almost spat “What do you want?” Rem was shocked, his friend had remembered, and now hated him. He slowly shook his head, looking down, and turned away. From behind him, he heard a laugh and then his friend saying “Yeah, I thought so fa-ggot.” That seemed to release the other students from their silence, the word. As he slowly walked away, his gaze to the floor, several of them stared whispering names at him. Mostly “fa-ggot’ “homo” “queer” “gay”, a few people actually put those words with a select few others to insult him. Finally, he started to run down the hallway, trying to get past the people, and they all laughed as he went, calling out the names louder. Finally, he got out the doors, but continued to run until he was at the fence of the school. There he slumped down, defeated. The voices of his peers still mocked him in his mind. He would have stayed out their all day, torturing himself, but then a teacher came out and told him to get to class. He went, and throughout the rest of the day, he was taunted by jibes from everyone. It was such a relief to get home away from it all.
That year, Rem was taunted and bullied everyday, he quickly lost all his friends, pushed to be a loner. He was always alone now, not even his sister coming to him. He knew she didn’t mind him being like this, she understood, he guessed. She must just think that he’d rather not be seen with her and ruin the little bit of reputation he had.
The next year, he begged his parents that he go to a different school then everyone else, telling them that the school they were all going to was on welfare and he’d probably get lice or something. Hearing this, they agreed and sent him, along with Echo, for whatever reason, to an expensive boarding school. Here, he thought that no one would know he was different, he’d be normal again. He was wrong, word from his old school had reached this one in some sort of connections and spread throughout the students here. But, instead of shunning him, they didn’t even seem to mind. There was even a few guys like him, and much more open about it. Here, he was actually accepted for who he was.
Then came the time when he decided to tell his parents simply by brining a boyfriend to the house. He just told his parents he was having a new friend over, knowing they would want to meet him. The doorbell of the apartment rang, and Rem quickly went to get the door before his parents could. When he opened the door there stood his ‘friend’. Rem looked around to make sure his parents were not their yet, and when he saw they weren’t, he slowly lent forward and kissed him. Just then, he heard approaching feet that came, seemingly, extremely fast, then stopped abruptly. He broke away from his ‘friend’ and turned to find his parents staring at him. Mostly he could see shock, but behind that, disgust, and anger. He quickly grabbed his friend’s hand and pulled him closer to himself. He looked at his parents, waiting for his reaction. He could see Echo behind them, standing still. She didn’t look shocked, he hardly blamed her. “Boy, you’d better leave, now,” his father said, his voice dark, aimed at Rem’s friend. Rem looked toward him, and gave him a brief kiss before whispering in his ear, ‘Don’t worry, I’ll sort this all out. See you tomorrow.’ Then his friend turned and left.
The door closing behind him seemed to start both his mother and father off at the same time. With both of them yelling, Rem could only catch a little what they were saying, but it was enough.
“What the hell!? What in God’s name is-
“Why didn’t you tell-“
“-with you!? What kind of son are you to-
That was about all that they said. Rem’s parents weren’t Christians, but now they seemed to be. His mother began crying, saying she was disappointed in him, saying now he was going to hell. His father comforted her, and once she stopped crying, he turned toward Rem again. “If I ever, ever see you even look at a guy to long, I will send you away. Boarding School, Military School, somewhere anywhere but here. Do you understand?” he said. Rem slowly nodded. “Good, now go to your room. But first apologize to your mother, look you’ve done to her, poor thing,” he said, his voice growing sympathetic at the end as he went back to comfort her. Rem mumbled a sad “sorry” to her, and walked away to his room.
Even though Rem took his fathers threat seriously, he couldn’t stop himself form liking other guys. Several times he was caught stealing kisses in the halls. He went out several times, but never let his father catch him. His parents almost had him on house arrest though, so it was hard, but he managed by saying he was out studying.
His life went on normally until he was 16. That was when Echo suddenly seemed to become crazy, and his father finally caught him with another guy. Rem had gone for a walk with a guy he’d been with for a while, and that was just where his father had to walk to get to work. Rem wasn’t worried though, since his father wouldn’t be coming through until tomorrow morning. But, his father had forgot something at work, and decided to walk straight through the park to get their. He was sitting on a bench, making out with the guy he’d come with. They were lost in their own little world, not even caring that they were in a public place where there was little kids around. What brought Rem to his senses was someone yelling very loudly “REMINGTON JASPER CASPIAN GATES! WHAT IN GODS NAME DO YOU THINK YOUR DOING?!?!” Rem broke away and turned to see his father standing there, looked terrifyingly angry. Rem turned to see the boy he’d been kissing before had fled, as scared as Rem was now. His father stormed toward him, and tried to grab his arm. But something strange happen. Rem’s father’s hand went straight through Rem’s arm. Rem was confused, but he seized the chance to run. He fled quickly, dodging people. Then, he reached the corner of the park. He hadn’t thought of where he was going, just getting away, and there in front of him stood a ten foot tall fence. It was too late to stop, so Rem kept on running, closing his eyes and hoping that this killed him. But the crash against the bars never came. He opened his eyes to find him on the other side, running along the street, now he was incredibly confused. He stopped in the middle of the side walk, trying to figure out what happened. Bad move, his father has spotted a couple of police officers on the other side of the fence and told them he was a thief and to grab him. And there they were, on either side of him, holding him firmly. He tried in vain to get away, but it seemed he was no longer able to go through things. His father came toward them, still mad, no doubt. He looked at the two officers holding him and nodded at them to go, he could handle this. They walked away and his father quickly grabbed Rem by the arm and without saying a word, dragged him home. At home, his father left in the living room, nearly throwing him down in a chair and giving him a look that told him to stay. His father was clearly not speaking to his son, treating him like a bad dog. His father left and Rem heard him talking to someone, his voice muffled. After a while he figured he was on the phone with someone. Then his father came back and told Rem to go to his room and pack up his stuff. Rem wasn’t sure what was going on, but he wasn’t about to disobey. He did as he said.
Rem soon learned he was going to an Academy in British Columbia. At first he thought it a military school, or a place for kids like him, but then he learned that Echo was going with him. This confused him, but then when he got their, they explained to him what this place was. Lunar Academy, a place for people like him. He found his power was phasing, or the ability to move through anything without harm.
Though Echo was born in Japan, that’s not her real origins. Her parents were world travelers, and that’s where they were at the time of her birth. Echo’s parents never really meant to have a child, they figured they would wait until they had settled down to start a family. But, Echo just happened, and her parents could not just kill her. So she was born.
For five years, Echo moved around with her parents, traveling somewhere new in less then a year usually. With her along, it just wasn’t the same for the parents, they never anticipated what it would be like to have a baby, then a toddler, along on their worldly trips. She was a quite kid, but still, her parents were paranoid that she would wreak something, or get lost, and most places they wanted to go wouldn’t allow little children to be in the building. Finally, at six, they finally agreed that they had to give Echo up. They took a flight to New York, and left her in an orphanage, hoping one day they would see her again.
Echo was devastated by this. She’d been very dependant of her parents, all the new places they went to scaring her. And now they simply left her, alone in this strange place. For weeks she simply stayed in her room at the orphanage, terrified and lonely.
Then came her savior. One day, she was simply sitting on her bed, staring at her hands folded neatly in her life. Then she heard a soft voice. She couldn’t make out what they were saying, it sounded simply like the wind, but she could tell it was a voice, and she felt a strange presence in the room. She looked up from her hands. For a moment. Nothing was there. Then a young boy seemed to appear right in front of her. Amazed, she stared at him, and he stared at her. Then he spoke, his voice was but a soft whisper, a little more then the wind of before. “Echo-That’s your name isn’t it?- my name is Edward. I know you can see me, but know this, no one else can. Do not mention me to anyone else, and I promise to stay with you,” he said. Echo was intrigued, this was nothing she had ever seen before, it was strange. The boy was her age, and slightly transparent. She listened to him, and soon they became great friends. Echo often left her room now, but just to wander the halls, talking to Edward. She never mentioned him to anyone else, as he asked. Several of the people at the orphanage worried about her, but nothing else seemed wrong with her except that she talked to herself and was often alone.
Then, one day, when Echo was nine years old, the workers decided to do something about Echo’s solitude. They forced her to play with others, go out on outings with the rest of them. Echo didn’t want to, she couldn’t openly talk to Edward then, but she had to.
Echo had barely got past a month of this when she made the biggest mistake she could have. When one of the caregivers tried to get her to go to a museum with the rest of them, Echo shouted, “Edward and I do NOT want to go to a stupid museum!” It was not unusual for nine years olds to have imaginary friends, but the worker, once hearing of Edward, knew this was the reason Echo wasn’t playing with the others. “Echo, I’m sure that Edward told you that, but come now, he’s not real, is he? Echo, you have to understand, Edward is just a figment of your imagination,” she said, then took her hand and tried to pull her away. “NO! Edward is real! He is! He’s not imaginary, he’s a real living ghost!” Echo shouted, then suddenly what she was saying hit her. Slowly, she turned to where Edward had been standing before. He wasn’t there. As the worker dragged her away, she looked for him furiously, trying to escape the workers grasp. She’d been shouting his name, but as they went along, her voice finally dropped to a whisper. Edward was gone, she knew it, she broke the rules and he left her.
From this point on, Echo swore never to get close to another person, or ghost, again. She feared they would leave her, just like Edward and her parents had. She went more into solitude, only playing with the others because the workers made her. For a year she was in the orphanage, alone.
When she was ten years old, a woman came into the orphanage, alone. Echo was in the play room with the others, but she was in a corner, reading a book. This had become a hobby of hers, it helped her stay away form others, but didn’t worry the workers. She knew the woman was probably looking for a cute baby to adopt, no one wanted a ten year old sitting alone in the corner. But to her surprise, the woman came over to her and started talking to her. Asking her name, how old she was, how long she’d been here, things like that. Echo answered, but she didn’t move from where she sat, and didn’t show much emotion. This woman, she told Echo to call her Mrs. Gates, would leave eventually. She was only talking to Echo to be nice.
Then the woman left, smiling, but instead of going to see the other children, she left the room briskly. Echo went back to her book. But then came a worker, with Mrs. Gates in tow. They came straight towards her. “Echo, this woman here says she wishes to adopt you. What do you think of that?!” she said, she sounded happy, though Echo thought it was probably just because she as glad someone was going to get rid of the silent little girl they thought no one would adopt. Echo looked to Mrs. Gates, who was smiling. She looked nice enough, and a home would be better then this place, and there she could probably be alone without anyone bothering her. She managed a smile and nodded in what she hoped seemed an enthusiastic way. The worker smiled brighter, and left with the woman.
So Echo left her temporary home with Mrs. Gates, who know Echo knew as Molly. They drove back to her home. when Echo saw it, she was amazed. It was a giant suite on the top floor of an expensive apartment building right in the middle of New York’s down town. Echo was amazed, but not for long.
Echo had been thinking that it would be just her and Molly in the house, alone, since Molly hadn’t brought a husband with her. But what she didn’t know was that Molly had a husband, and a son. And worse, neither of them knew that Molly was adopting her. So she was surprised as both of them when she walked in the living room to find the husband sitting on the couch reading, the son wasn’t their, so Echo didn’t know of his existence, yet. Molly, and her husband, who she told her to call Mr. Gates, went away into a separate room, leaving her alone. She stood their silently, listening to their yelling from the room beside the one she was in. Then Molly came back after everything went silent. She motioned for Echo to follow, and she did.
From then on, Echo lived with the Gates, eventually meeting their son, Remington, or as he told her to call him, Rem. His way of greeting her when she first met him was to look at her suspiciously for a moment, then walk away, seeming mad. She didn’t know what she did but some how she had made the usual hyper, as Molly said, Rem get mad. Her life with them was pretty normal, Except two things.
First, the father never liked her. She was often neglected by him, and since the mother was usually never around, that meant she was shunned daily, usually never given meals unless she made them herself, which was hard seeing as these people seemed to live on meat and Echo was a vegetarian. Rem never did warm up to her, always seeming very distant to her.
And second, she began to see more ghosts. She didn’t actually meet many, but she could tell where they’d been, and which people had had a person die in their lives. It didn’t bother her, they never came close to her, or talked to her like Edward had, so she learned to ignore them.
Echo lived for many years with the Gates family. When she was 12, and Rem 14, she wasn’t totally surprised when he brought home a friend that was a boy and she walked in on them kissing in his room, she always knew there was something strange about him. She wasn’t surprised either then, at 13 , when Rem brought home a boyfriend instead of a girlfriend and his parents practically blew up on him, threatening to send him to military school if he ever saw the boy again. Yet she often saw Rem with other guys in the hallways of their school, and saw him stealing kisses in the hallways.
Then, when Echo was 14, and Rem 16, something strange happened. A ghost actually began talking to her once more. It was an old woman, and she didn’t often see her as she did hear her voice. She told the woman to leave her alone, go bug someone else. But she never did, calling out to her in a language Echo didn’t understand. Then, at one suppertime where Echo was actually allowed to sit there and eat, the woman started bugging her again. Echo couldn’t say anything though, not wanting the family to think her crazy. But the incessant talking grew too much and finally Echo had to say something. “WOULD YOU JUST LEAVE ME ALONE! I DON’T CARE ABOUT YOU! GO AWAY!” she screamed, making the rest of them jump and stare at her. Quickly, she looked down at her plate, hoping that they would just think she was crazy.
They did, and decided to send her to a shrink. She never told them what was happening until finally decided she would, since by know the lady never stopped talking to her. She told the doctor that she could see, hear, and feel spirits. They looked at her strange for a moment, then nodded and told her she could go. She left and went back to the Gates’s house.
A few days later, she learned that her and Rem would be going to a place called Lunar Parkland, to an Academy, Echo had no idea why Rem was going, but he was. She didn’t know what it was, but when she arrived and was brought into the school, she learned why she was their, and Rem as well. She found it strange that both she and Rem came here, considering they weren’t even siblings, just from the same household, but both still had a power. But she soon forgot about that, and Rem soon forgot about her, not even acknowledging the fact that he was the adopted sibling of her. She didn’t mind though, in this school, she was quickly branded as a loner and a freak, and left alone, or made fun of.
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