The Couple

'Are You Worthy?'

James' head shot up from his pillow, he was drenched in sweat, he had another on of his question nightmares, but this one was a recurring nightmare, and it scarred him more than the rest 'What does it mean am I worthy? And what would it be talking about, what do I need to prove my worth for' his thoughts ended when he heard his alarm go off, he looked at it read '6:30' James looked to his door and back to his clock and sighed 'I need to take a quick shower before anyone else wakes up' James got out of his bed and walked to one of the dressers in his room, well more like the workout room that was put in here a few years back during some renovating, it was his idea to put this down here so the sisters let him stay down here if he cleaned it, the workout equipment, and keep his part of the basement clean.

James grabbed his clothes and walked to the door and headed up the stairs and out the first door on his left, he looked around and saw all the little play things the younger kids played with, when he walked down the hall he could have sworn that he heard so form of noise coming from one of the older girls rooms, but he let it off with a shrug and keep walking a little tired from the restless sleep he had, but he was a trooper so he trudged on none the less. When he found the bathroom he let out a sigh of relief, and grabbed the handle and twisted it open and walked in, he went to the shower and turned it on, he striped and got in the shower, but thought out the whole time he felt like he was forgetting something that's when he heard the door knob click open and some one walked in. James poked his head out of the shower and said

"Hey, there's someone in here." the person turned around and saw James and apologized and left, locking the door on there way out. James was slightly agervated that someone had walked in on him in the shower, but he continued with his shower. When he was finished he checked his watch on the counter and it said about 6:50. James finished putting on his clothes and walked out of the bathroom and went back to the basement to get some of his things before he went on his way to school because today was there yearly talent show and he wanted to show off his guitar skills.

He made it down stairs and looked around in his room only to find some of his things gone, including his guitar strap, now James was pissed, no one messed with his guitar strap and left uninjured, who ever has it has just signed their death warrant, he got that strap when he was 14 years old, it was given to him by the closest thing he had to a mother, Sister Mary gave this to him when he was 14, when he discovered his foresight talent, but she died of cancer that year, and he was destroyed by her death, that was when he turned into a rebel and started playing his own metal music and lyrics.

James put on his boots and his Iron maiden shirt and grabbed his short sleeve hoodie and picked up his guitar case and placed it in it and walked up to his door and placed it there, he turned and flipped on his light switch, he walked around his room to see if he could find any evidence about who would have taken his strap. He looked over to where he had lying, and found some pink stuff in the spot where he had it placed, he got some on his finger and brought it up to his nose and sniffed, the smell made him cringe, it was nail polish 'So It had to have been one of the girls had to have been dared to steal it from my room' he thought as he walked to the door, grabbed his guitar and walked up the stairs and across the hall to the next set of stairs to the girls side of the orphanage, he passed by the kitchen and grabbed a pot and a wooden spoon. When he made it to the girls hall he saw that one room had a sign on it that said 'Cassese slumber party' ' Why did the sister's let her have a party?' he walked back to the kitchen and put them back in the cabinet and went to Cassese room and knocked. He stood out there for a good five minutes before Cassese answered the door

"What do you want?" James gave her a an angry glare and said

"Where is my guitar strap Cassese?" she gave James a smug look and said

"I have no idea what your talking about." he wasn't buying her little act

"Did you know that you a bad liar? Because you are." he gave her a wicked smile and said

"If you hand it to me in the next five seconds then I won't break everything in your room. Deal?" she gave him a look that could kill and he just held up his hand and started counting down

"5" he put up his thumb Cassese was getting a little less angry and a little more scared and looked at the other girls in the room

"4" she scrambled to the girls in the room and started to talk to them about something, he walk a step forward

"3" she ran to another group of girls and talk to them about what he assumed to be his guitar strap

"2" she looked at him and then ran to another girl who looked a bit shy about seeing James at the door

"1" Cassese grabs the girl and said to James

"Here she's got it." he looks at the girl who looks like she would never hurt a fly and asks

"Where you dared to take this?" she gave a small nod and I saw her eyes tear up and she said

"I'm sorry." she looked like she was about to cry a river so James said

"Hey its ok, no need to cry about it, I'm just really attached to it, you see I got this for my from sister Mary before she died, see she was like a mother to me, and I'm trying to live by the example she set for me and this is all I have to remember her by so I love this, but hey its no need to cry about it so cheer up." James put on a big smile and the looks to the girls in the room and gives them a look that could kill and said

"You all should be ashamed of yourselves, for putting her up to taking my guitar strap, and Cassese you know what happened to the last person who took this, in fact if I remember right, it was one of your ex's that broke up with you that week after you told him that I stole it from you, and did I tell you he screamed like a girl when I got the drop on him in my room? You should have seen the look on his face, it was killer." after that last word Cassese walked up and slapped James causing him to say

"Wow, not only do you act like a bitch, but you slap like a bitch to." that got a lot of 'oh' from the girls, then Cassese slapped him again

"Hey did anyone see the bug that just bit my cheek." by now Cassese was pissed, now she punched him in the face, James was undeterred

"Wow you hit harder than that boy toy you had a few years back, now I have to get to school for practice, later." he turned and walked down the hall with his guitar strap and guitar case and left to the kitchen and grabbed a quick bit to eat and left to school. It wasn't too long of a walk, the orphanage is a thirty minute walk to the high school.

It was a boring walk to school but he had to get to school so he can practice the song he was going to play today with his friends. When he made it to school he saw his girlfriend walk in and he ran to catch up with her, she texted him yesterday saying that they need to talk at school today. He ran to catch up with her in the hallway, when he found her at her locker he went up behind her and put his hands over her eyes

"Guess who?" she let out a sigh and said

"Let me guess.... James." he gave a smile and said

"Kill joy much? Ok what did you want to talk about?" he looked at her and uncovered her eyes and leaned on the locker next to her. she was acting like he had done something wrong and she gave him a sad look

"What's wrong?" James asked as to why she looked sad

"I think we should see other people." James' heart stop at that

"W-what?!" James asked very surprised of what she had said

"I said I think we should see other people." his mind shattered at the sound of those words. James looked at her, shocked tears forming in his eyes and asked

"W-why?" she just stared at him and walked off, 12 lockers down on the right and stopped at the schools football quarterback and grabbed his hand and he pulled her into a kiss and looked back to James with a smile on her face, and walked off with Dave in toe. James was feeling a mix of emotions and he had no idea how to deal with them, his girlfriend of four years has left him, hanging high and dry, he was just going to find his friends and talk to them. He walked around the school and found them hanging out in the gym.

"Hey guys, what's up? James asked to his friends, who heard the sadness in his voice and looked at him concerned as to why he was sad.

"What's wrong bro? You seem down in the dumps." Jason asks James only to get a very sad look, then came the tears. James' legs felt like jelly and he fell to his knees, crying and broken. James found as much force in him as he could and tried to talk

"J-Jamie left m-me." he was barely able to get out the words through the tears. Jason ran up to him and grabbed him and pulled him into a hug while saying

"Dude its alright, you'll be fine man, its ok, its ok, no need to cry about it man, it wasn't your fault man, it was Jamie being a bitch like always, she was using you to get what she wanted, to hurt you, she wanted to hurt you man, she wanted to hurt you James, but you wouldn't listen to us and now look at you, a broken mess that is left to rot. Well to bad she forgot you had friends like us." Jason gave James a wide smile and hugged him tighter, there British friend Sammie chipped in and stated

"Yeah mate, cheer up, she was a bloody wanker anyway mate, and I say good reddens to her, she was nothing but a bloody skank who would fuck a piece of rubbish for a penny." James gave her a look as she stretched out her hand, he took her hand and pulled himself up and gave her a hug. Breaking the embrace, James gave Sammie a nod and said

"Now that my self pity is over, lets practice for the show!" James was full of new vigor, and was ready for the talent show at the end of the day, they and the rest of the people involved had the whole day to practice what they were doing, and James was sure as hell ready to shred some notes with his guitar and he knew there was no way they could lose.

It was minutes till James and his friends were up to play in the talent show, they have practiced all year for this and they sure as hell were not going to give the other acts an inch of there glory when they were done with there act

"James and the gods of rock, your up in 3" the school president said so they had time to prepare for there act. They move all there gear to the stage and hocked everything up, James let a light strum on his guitar and hear it through the speakers, he then looked to his friends and gave a nod

"Hello everyone, before4 we get to the last performance of the day we would like to thank you all for coming and supporting the students who are performing for us all to day, now without further delay give a big hand for James and the gods of Rock as they preform a song." hey step's behind the curtain and opens it all the way, James takes a good look at the students and yells

"ARE YOU READY TO ROCK?" the students cheered and he took that as a yes

"TONIGHT WE ARE GOING TO PLAY MY SHARONA BY HAMMERFALL

They played the song like a dream. James put his hand in the air and made the rock on devil horns and said a few last words

"THANK YOU FOR LISTING, AND ROCK ON." He and his band grabbed there gear and rolled it to the back as they awaited for the acts to judged. It was the longest wait of his life, the judges took 5 minutes before the president asked

"Judges, have you declared a winner?"

"Yes we have. The third place winner is Chris with his great dancing." Chris jumped up and ran to the stage and got his third place ribbon

"Second place goes to Jamie and her great new cheer number." James gave her a evil glare as she walked by him in her little cheerleader outfit, that barely covered her body, she walked back with her yellow ribbon and teased James with a flick of her hair in his face and ran to her boyfriend

"First place goes to the band that sang a song that we all know and love, James and the gods of Rock." James had a huge smile on his face as he and his band made there way to the stage to get there blue First place ribbon

"Great job out there guys, would you like to say a few words?" James nodded his head and grabbed the microphone from his hand and put it up to his mouth and said

"Thank you all for this, we had a blast preforming here today and there for a little while we thought we were done, there was good compaction out here today and they were good right guys?" he turned his head to his friends and held out the mic.

"Yeah, I thought we were done for sure when Chris got called to get a ribbon, I mean he has good dance moves, so good job Chris." James held it out to Sammie, who passed on saying anything, Then passed it to Josh, who declined as well, and then handed it the microphone to the president and walked off stage and went to the lobby to hangout

"I can't believe we won." James said as he sat down near Sammie and put his arms behind the chair and stretched

"We were great out there guys, I think this could be our calling." James gave Jason a weird look and said

"Really, you think so?"

"Hell yea I think so, I mean you write your own songs right?" James gave a nod and said

"Yeah, that's true, but we all have our own passions, I'm more of a writer than a song writer, hell I can't even rhyme, unless I try."

"Yeah , and I'm more ov an actress than a drummer." we look to Josh who only says three words

"I make games." Sammie gave a surprised look, as she had never heard him talk but one word before. Jason looked at us in shock and said

"Did you hear that out there, they loved us." James looked at him and said

"No they loved the way we played the song."

"Same difference." James looked at his watch and says

"Hey, I have to go, they need me at the orphanage. See you guys later, have a good winter break guys." they all said there goodbyes and went on there own way.

When James got to the orphanage, he saw a man smoking out front, the man gave him a look with his yellow eyes and put out his cigarette and walked in, James followed the man inside and then he went to his room as the man went to the adoption room. James got changed out of his street clothes and put on his working pants and his white t-shirt and walked up stairs. He passed the adoption room and was waved in by Sister Jane who said

"James I need you to come here for a second." James walked into the room and stood near Jane

"Please take a seat James." he sat down and leaned back into the chair and asked

"Why did you want to see me?"

"This lovely couple would like to talk to you." she moved her hand to the people sitting in the chairs opposite to us, one was the man who was smoking outside, and the other was a younger woman with pinkish hair. The woman looked at James and the back to the man who only nodded and then looked at James and said

"Hello James, I am Discord and this is Celestia." He pointed to the woman next to him, she looked a Discord and then back to James and said

"Hello, we would like to know about you and some of your interests." James gave them a small look of interest, no one ever want to take in a punk rocker, he then smiled and said

"Well my name is James, I don't know my last name, I love metal, I have a seeing problem but prefer to not speak about it."

"Would you tell us about it?" this came as a shock to James as most people would just zone him out after he told them that, but these people are different, they actually wanted to know about him

"So you want to know about what I can do, well its hard to explain, but I'll try to give you the simple vision, I can see what happens when something else happens, like say you drop a pen I can tell where its going to land and the way it lands, the angle it hits the floor and I can see things that are going to happen." Celestia was taken back by what the boy said and turned to Discord who gave her his full attention

"Do you think this is the one?" she whispered in to his ear

"I don't know, I think we should test him, I'm going to go out of the room and walk around the place, if he tells you what I'm doing then he is the one." Discord stood up and made for the door but James turned and said

"Why are you going to walk around the orphanage, wouldn't you like to stay and listen." James felt a smile grow on his face and then looked back to a shocked Celestia who's jaw was hanging open, Discord looked at James and asked

"Boy, how did you know I was going to walk around the place?"

"Like I said, I saw it happen so I decided to save you time." James gave a smile and looked back to the table and put his head down on top of it. Celestia got up from her chair and walked to Discord and asked Sister Jane to follow them, once out of ear and eye shot of James, Celestia said

"Discord, I think we should adopt him." Discord only nodded in agreement as he stroked his beard. Celestia leaned up to his ear and whispered

"He did pass our test after all." Discord looked at her and then to Jane and said

"Yes, I think we would like to adopt him." Jane grew a happy look and said

"Great, I'll go get the paperwork and you can tell him the good news and he will get his things ready." she walked off and Celestia and Discord walk back to James, who asked

"Why did Jane leave to the office?" Celestia look at James and said

"To get the paperwork of course." James gave her a puzzled look and asked

"Paperwork, why does she need to get paperwork unless you all are going to adopt." then it hit him, they were going to adopt him, a smile crept across his face. He stood up and walked out of the room leaving the couple confused, and they followed him. He was half way down the hall when they left the room, James was could no longer hold his excitement and he jump in the air and yelled

"WOOHOO." he was happy, happier than he's ever been for a long time, he made his way to the basement and unlocked his door and flipped on his lights and ran to the other side of the room to grab everything he needed his toothbrush, other pare of pants, his collection of metal band t-shirts, his extra pare of shoes, his favorite belt, and his sleeping clothes and stuffed them in an old bag he had found a few years back, and walked to the stairs, he turned around and took one last look at his room, he then turned and walked up the stairs, but stopped when he realizes he forgot his most valued item he has, a crescent moon pendent, he then walked back to the stairs and closed the door behind him.

Celestia and Discord found Jane and signed the papers and then went on to find James sitting in the floor near the exit

"I'm ready to go when you are." James got up and grabbed his bag and his guitar case and walked closer to the door

"We just finished the paperwork, so were ready to go." James was excited to be leaving, but he wondered where they were going, he has never seen these people in town before and they sure as hell don't look Catholic. James looked at them and then back the street there on and asked

"Where are we going?" he looked to them waiting for a response but received none until they moved down a alley, he looked down the alley and saw an old book store, Celestia pulled out a key and put it in the door and turned it with a click and pulled the door open, by this time James was getting nervous and was rubbing his pendent to help calm him down as he walked into the book store.

Once he stepped in he saw that the inside was not as bad as the outside, nothing was rotting, and the store's colors made it seem like its busy every day. He went to look around and saw a mirror that was a bit on the creepy side. Celestia and Discord went up to the mirror and asked James to step up to the mirror, he did as asked and when he was there he saw that is was not a mirror but something different, he looked up to Celestia and asked

"This isn't a mirror, is it?"

"No its not."

"What is it then?"

"A whole different world. Now I would ask you not to freak out and step into the frame." James gulped loudly, and looked from her to the gold frame and then back to her and said

"This isn't the matrix is it?" She giggled and shook her head. James looked at the frame and the asked

"Can you all go first?"

"If you will feel safer that way then yes." Discord stepped through the portal and disappeared with a flash. James was shaking in his boots and feared for his life, but James was a man and he wasn't going to let a gold frame stop him. he stepped into the portal with all of his things and he was spinning around after Discord screaming like a little girl, Celestia then followed him and was about to bust a gut once she saw James spinning around and screaming like crazy, they soon saw the end of this tunnel like portal and landed on grass unharmed, well James hit the ground face first with a *Thud* and was stuck that way till his legs fell back to the ground. James got up, only to be hit with dizziness and stars in his eyes, his vision was blurred, but he was still able to make out the shape of Celestia walking towards him, his vision was starting to clear up and he was blinded by the bright colors, he then saw what he thought was Celestia, but she was covered in white fur and multi colored hair and tail, and had wings and a horn, James was struck in awe when he saw this and then he saw more like her walking around he saw another one with a horn and wings, she was a shade of purple with her hair and tail a purplish blue with a pink stripe going down her tail and hair. James has no idea of what to think of this situation, his eyes started to roll into the back of his head and he passed out and fell back to the ground.

Author's Note

This is just a beginning of something I think can grow big you guys and gals I hope you enjoy it and read one my fellow readers

PEACE OUT
Emerald Knight