No ordinary hero (Keepers of justice # 1) Read Online Free

Dad.
    “Kale, I need you to accept.”
    I turn to face him. “That’s funny. Before it sounded like I didn’t have a choice. Besides, you never told me why it has to be me.”
    He’s quiet for a bit. Then he says, “Sit down. This may be difficult to process.”
    I sit down and look at him.
    He takes a breath and lets it out. “We’re still learning as much as we can about Lindsay. There’s another component to her ability. We believe other people’s abilities fuel her ability. She absorbs their ability, slowly killing them over a period of time. As they weaken, she strengthens. That’s how she killed her parents. Minutes after she was born, as she was getting accustomed to her new world, her ability was fresh and unpredictable, and very powerful. Her parents were killed on the spot. The strength of her ability weakened over the next few days, but the damage was already done, unfortunately.
    “ That’s why it’s vital that no one with powers comes in contact with her. It’s probable that would accelerate Earth’s explosion. ”
    I feel my eyes and mouth wide n. Dad continues, “It’s important for her to come here so she won’t fall into the wrong hands. But seeing that our Tower is full of people with abilities, that’s impossible. That’s why I’ve appointed you to recruit her. You’re going to attend her public school. Your mission is to teach this girl that there’s more to life than death, destruction, and despair. We hope that once you succeed, Lindsay will trust you, be filled with happiness and hope, optimism, love, and will be able to join us here at the League Tower. Of course she will feel negatively at times, being that she’s a teenager, but overall we need her positive emotions to outweigh the negative. Once those negative emotions are suppressed, she will no longer be a threat to people with powers. Because Lindsay is not aware of her power, she cannot control it. She needs to be trained to control her emotions so that the negative ones remain dormant. With training and therapy, I do hope she can live a normal, healthy life.”
    “Hold on a sec. Are you saying someone needs to constantly make her happy in order for her not to blow up? Am I gonna have to babysit her my whole life?”
    He shakes his head. “You’re not listening to me, Kale. Although I do hope this friendship you create with her will last a lifetime, no. You know that strong emotions, particularly negative ones, can cause a person to not have full control over his abilities. Because Lindsay doesn’t know she has this power, she cannot tame it. Your first goal is to lessen her negativity, and she will no longer be a threat to us here. Without training or counseling, she will regress and be a danger to those with powers. That’s why it’s vital for her to be in a positive environment.”
    “And if she doesn’t want to live with us or train? She can blow up the world any time.”
    “That’s why, once you recruit her here, we will explain the dangers of her ability and we hope she will feel at home here, with people who care about her.”
    Dad raises an eyebrow at me, probably wondering if I’m getting any of this. I think I am.
    I hold up a finger. “Question. Why not kill her? Or try to contain her ability or tranquilize her or something?”
    “Brain believes she is immortal. If anyone tries to kill her, it will cause Earth’s destruction as well. Flying her into space isn’t an option either, because we don’t understand fully the energy inside her and how it will react as she leaves the planet or when she enters space. She could very well destroy the universe.”
    Holy crap ! The universe?
    “ She cannot be contained or tranquilized,” Dad continues. “Her ability would absorb it and that will accelerate the explosion as well.”
    I stare at him. He expects me to do this? Me ? Out of everyone in the League?
    “That’s why our only solution is to send you ,” Dad says, as if reading my mind.