The Weather Incarnates Gathering

Part Seven

Rainbow

Rainbow had not seen any other colours other than white, black grey, red, yellow and green. Even-though her hair were all of the colours of the rainbow, she had never seen it, nor had she seen her jaded eyes that looked like a rainbow in a circle with a black dot as a pupil. She did not even know what she even looked like nor that there were any other colours in the world. She had not even seen the sky nor did she even know what that was.

She would sit in her padded white cell with only a sheet and a single white pillow for a bed. Her clothes were a blinding white. She would stare into nothing waiting ether for food or to be carried off to her next terrifying experiment where men and women would take her off to take their 'tests' which would land her on the floor of her cell too exhausted to get in 'bed' or to eat the next bowl of rice.

So why did she not try to escape this Hell? She had any notion of escape beaten out of her by the age of five. She would get some, what they called, a relapse they would give her more beatings. Then there was the fact that she had nothing to escape to. She had no family that she knew of nor did she have friends on the outside nor did she even know what a 'friend' was. This padded cell was the only thing she knew of what was home for her. Then there was the fact that her emotions were almost non-existent.

Suddenly she felt a stinging tug in her heart and soon her vision became watery and a single tear fell. Then another and another. Soon she was crying without knowing why nor remembering the last time she had done this. It was an alien sensation to her as her eyebrows touched a hand was placed on her back.

“Crying?” he asked in his high-pitched voice that was like ice. She wiped the tears away. She nodded.

“I-I don't know why.” she sobbed. “I-I j-just feel hurt.”

With a sense of dread she knew exactly what this would mean and what it was about to lead to. As her predictions went she was dragged over to the lab and put on her the rubber hat. They flipped a few grey switches and pressed a few red buttons. Soon their machine was up and running. Immediately one of the women's eyes lit up.

“Zis is amazing!” she exclaimed her voice thick with a German accent. “It seems as if she is reacting to an external influence or grief.”

“What do you mean by that Doctor Johanna?” asked an Australian man.

“She is picking up somebody else's grief.”

“Who's?”

“I can't tell, but it must be the mother source, the leader of these Weather Beings, that our Weatherless friends have been on about.” she replied.

She had often heard them talk about the Weatherless and they had always called her a Weather Being as if she was not even human. She had often hated it when they talked about them and about her in this way. Then again, that was the only thing that she truly knew about, well that and pain. She had often wondered about other emotions and whether or not she had or felt them. Especially love.

When the feeling the German woman ended their experiments and she personally took her to her cell.

“Urm...I know that I am not to speak but I was wondering, what is love?” she asked knowing that something bad was about to happen to her. Johanna's eyes widened.

“Y-you don't even know what love is?” she asked with a genuine tone of unbelief. Her eyes screamed of an emotions that Rainbow could not place nor could she empathize with. Suddenly she was afraid that she had done something wrong.

“No.”

“Tell me; what do they teach you here? I mean you can not be that stupid.” she snapped. Rainbow looked away wondering on whether or not she should answer. Her eyes softened as she realised the truth. She embraced the child as she shook in her hands. Rainbow could feel a dampness on her head. She soon pulled away.

“Tell me Rainbow, how old are you?” she asked. Her eyes lit with anger.

“I don't know, I lost count when I was twelve.” she replied.

“Oh, child...” she tailed off. Rainbow frowned wondering what she was going on. Johanna was clearly something new. But she seemed to get a grip on herself and looked strait into the girls eyes. “Don't vorry, zis nightmare vill end soon.”

That was when Rainbow heard a loud bang and Johanna pressed the girl close to her as she opened the doors to the cell. She closed it behind her. That was when a new colour entered her eyes at the window, orange. It was coated with red and yellow.

“Johanna, what colour is that?” she asked pointing to the orange.

“Orange.” she replied as alarms went off. She saw red again in a flash of light and another colour.

“What colour's that other flash?” she asked.

“Blue.”

Then she heard a knock on the door, as an old woman's face appeared in the window.

“Johanna! It's safe to come out now!” she called. She soon was dragged out of the padded cell and she felt the wind in her hair and pushed the tips of her unseen fringe into her eyes. Soon she was poked in the eyes with more colours than she had ever thought even existed!

“What-”

“No time we have to go!” Johanna shouted as she pushed the girl along quickly, but not quickly enough for her eyes skimmed the other scientists that she had worked with. They were nothing but a pile of corpses. Her eyes widened at the sight already comprehending what had happened as she turned the next corner.

What's going on? Why is this happening? Why are they pulling me away from this place? Where are they going to take me?

She soon was out and her eyes dropped to the sky and the rainbow in it. She had not seen such beauty nor had she seen the pail blue sky as the clouds gathered and-SMASH! Lightening had struck! Then a tornado cut through the building and a fast dart-like rain hit on the roof and snow soon joined the rain. Soon the world that she had known was nothing but a pile of rubble.

“Hi! You must be like Rainbow! I'm Sunny.” sang a girl she soon was hugged by a girl with glowing yellow hair and eyes to match. “And this is my niece Storm!”

“Speak for yourself!” Storm snapped. “Oh, look congratulations you scared her.”

“C'mon Stormy, can't you see that I'm trying to cheer her up!”

“Well why don't you try to jump off a cliff?”

“Enough Sonny. I don't think that my daughter's-”

“Daughter?”

“Yes Rainbow. I am your mother, however I could not tell you for I've been trying to infiltrate that lab for a long time to get you out after those Weatherless- took you from me. I also had to be patient too. I could not let them know that it was me for I knew that if they did then they would try and kill me or you. So I- so I-” she then burst into tears as she wrapped her arm around the girl and clutched her.

“What you're mother's trying to say deer, is that she is very sorry that she had to allow what happened to you to happen to you.” she said. The old woman let Johanna dry her tears until she was told to drive the minibus as the rest of them slept in bliss.

Later on that day the Weatherless came in their spaceship and scanned he rubble for life. They soon spotted a woman in the rubble her hands raised. It was obvious what she was doing and they had no intention of entertaining her nor her needs. They coldly looked away and pressed a black button, followed by a grey, followed by a white and finally red. Soon there came a beam powerful but silent soon there was nothing. With only a deep crater to show that there was something there. They had gotten what they wanted.

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