Story Debate

As strong willed as Destiny was due to her father's abuse and the hard life she lived, at this point she was paralyzed with fear, after falling to the floor on her knees she could no longer run, this was the first time she screamed in a long time, it was dark she couldn't see, With the hand still on her shoulder and suddenly more footsteps approached her, she still remain on the ground with her hands over her eyes with her head down and weeping. The footsteps stopped and after a few minutes of silence destiny wondered why nothing happened. Destiny thought to herself"What the……?" As she slowly lifted her head upward to see who was touching her the remaining lights came on and lit up the whole house. The person touching her took off the glove disguised as a claw and around her was 5 people; average looking people smiling and after short pause they all began to clap. "Welcome to The Alliance!" they all said at once with a cheery tone "Is this some kind of sick joke? Was I just some manufactured ideology used as an experiment?" Destiny's voice began to get sharp as she stood up and looked at everyone with no more fear but now a bit of anger. The clapping came to a slow halt and one of the members spoke. "My name is Jade, I was the one you spoke with on the phone, No you are not some test subject, we are here to evaluate your qualification for joining the alliance as you agreed to and you passed the test, congratulations!" Jade said motioning for the other members to say something too. "How did I pass the test if I was scared out of my pants?" Destiny said "Everyone has a weakness, that had no bearing on your credentials, you still came without knowing a name and we saw you stop outside of the house and instead of you leaving, you continued, gazing at the outside a beat up house most people would have called it off but you still pursued, this showed you had a strong motive and that's what we need, people with heart." Drago said grabbing destiny a chair to sit down in. Destiny didn't sit still a bit agitated over what happened, "Why didn't you just ask me what my weakness was, what is the point of doing it this way?" Destiny said arms folded. "The pictures on the wall near the staircase look like you and your brother for the no real reason we wanted to see your reaction, many things we wanted to see how you would respond, the cobwebs, the yelling in the cellar etc. an honest evaluation of your behaviors to these things determined your mental state, you are quite normal. We had to do it in an unexpected way to get a more genuine reactions and determining the core instincts from you based on what you do in situations." Sophia said. Destiny said looking at the remaining people who had not spoken, "I still think this was lame to do it this way, I feel like the initial trust was broken." "We understand that, but we are on your side, but I cannot share my name yet, just in case of a spy or in the midst, only half of the group's names are known. It's for the safety of the group, we will reveal" The male said looking next to the female motioning for her to speak. "Other people who went thru this same event had much different responses, such as breaking pictures or finding a weapon to use, this determined you are not a fighter-survival instinct type" The Female said. "Ok this is starting to get really confusing, so why are we here wants next? I don't understand what's going on." Destiny said as she finally sat down in the chair offered her, as she did that she noticed another figure coming from another room and entering the room where everyone else was. "Please allow me to clarify, the voice said the person became closer into view as they walked towards destiny handing her the cup of coffee that was on the table. "Th--thank you," Destiny said a bit nervously as she was trying to take all of this in. "It's your favorite kind, I know, glad you could join us my name Is Theresa the originator of this Alliance, I would go in detail but right now, we a have serious matter at hand, and you have been handpicked. At the age of only 15th my records show that you are already halfway into high school, you have the typical emotions of a teenager but your intellect and strong will is amazing." Theresa Said "Why did we meet in a place like this?" Destiny asked sipping her coffee; all the other members grabbed a chair to sit while Theresa Stood and talked. "This house is abandoned but I own it, my parents are gave it to me to use as I see fit, and here is where I hold meeting for the alliance so that we can stay out of the light. I need to make this quick, 30days ago an email went viral over the Kingsley High school, but many teachers don't know about it yet, it was sent only to students, and I took upon myself to act, I'm a college student so I'm unaffected but I'm here to help" Theresa said as she pulled a piece of paper from her pocket the email printed out she handed it to jade to read. "Attention all students, as of now and until as long as we see fit, you will be under our control, watch your mouth, and just do as we say, we been among you for quite some time, and we know a lot about you, your secrets that you didn't want anyone to know, we are using as blackmail, everyone is to pay us 5bucks a week to drop it off at the address stated at the bottom, noncompliance will result in your secrets being revealed, 5bucks shouldn't be too much but you should be grateful, or we will make an example of you like 3 students who have been expelled or dropped out in the last week. Teachers have no idea and your friends who you thought you could trust could very well be one of us. Just comply and no one will get hurt. Try and show this email to an authority figure and we will find out and you will be student number 4. We have our reasons, but that's nothing you need to worry about. That is all. Good day." "Seems like a bad prank, are they invisible and see everyone at any given moment? Could they- Theresa interrupted her, "Your skepticism is valid, but we don't know their methods at this point, but 3 students are no longer at the school in a weeks' time, one of those students were one of our members, we can't contact them anymore, we tried email, cell, and we have no clue where they are now. Destiny, these people are elite thinkers and with their emotional blackmail they can get people to do almost anything." "So they are master manipulators? But how much do they know and have access to can they really make me do something I didn't want to?" Destiny said "Destiny, let's say someone told your dad that you were doing drugs and that you ran away, what would your dad do? What would happen to your brother, when your dad sells all your stuff and moves and you can no longer protect your little brother, all of this could happen with some simple piece of false information about you." Drago said "We could tell a teacher, but fear paralyzes people to do that. It's not just students leaving the school, Friendships and relationships started going haywire betraying each other distrust is of the norm now, and from unknown of the origins chaos has swept over Kingsley high, fights, break-ups, people in detention, and being expelled or leaving. it's practically an emotional warzone, or like a storm that's just messing things up leaving strong bonds broken and friends scattered like straws." Sophia Said "You just joined the school and haven't made friends that is why we were the first ones to contact you, they will most likely target you, possibly people will try to befriend you, trying to be your pal and get a secret out of you, you have an edge over them being aware of this already" Theresa said. "This group, they didn't give themselves a name but we are the C.A.T. Collective Alliance Team, I cannot give you my real name just yet but you can call me Barbie and the guy next to me Ken, you feel free to change our names at any time. Barbie said with a smile "So will you help us?" All the members asked