TWO PEAS IN A POD

My mom stood in front of her captive, breathing heavily and stealing glances of the sleeping child but not making any sudden movements as there was a pin in her ear, ready to rapture her ear drums.

She felt a warm breath on her neck as someone whispered,"Hello sis."

"What do you want from me?"My mother asked.

She began to laugh then said,"You already know, I want your hair, your husband, your superpowered children, I want your life and you know where to meet me and when, if you don't... I'll kill everyone you hold dear, one by one."

My mom felt her grip on her slowly vanish, then she was gone...

***

Indigo punched a hole through a wall then yelled,"I can't believe I didn't sense her!"

"Grandpa..."Apollo said,"...none of us did, don't beat yourself up."

"But grandma, are you sure you weren't dreaming?"Lilith asked.

My mother looked into her eyes, then turned over and brought Alena's favorite storybook, stained with blood in my mother's original name.

She looked at Lilith and said,"I'm certain it wasn't a dream."

"Well then we're going to need all the help we can get."Indigo said, motioning to the door.

My mom turned, then gasped and to all our surprise, she called,"Alex!"

My much younger twin brother ran into her arms and hugged her as she cried over him, mostly because he came back at literally the worst possible time.

I knelt down by my mother when she sat again then said,"We're going to catch her mother... Lilith, I need you to do something for me."

My daughter nodded in agreement...

***

That very night, my mom was sleeping besides Lilith then said in her mind,"Dad, she's still not here."

I thought back,' Just stay still, she might come. '

' She's not going to come. ' My mother thought.

' What do you mean? ' I thought.

' She wants me alone and no one else, this isn't going to work. '

' But how could she tell the difference? '

' I don't know but the cooperation had been tracking us when I worked there, she might be able to identify which is me and which isn't. '

I contemplated the prospect for a few seconds, then looked at my mom and in my mind, sighed then said,' Okay. '

My mother had barely got into bed when she saw a pair of golden eyes from across the room, then slowly stood up.

Her clone walked into the light with a smirk on her face then said,"Tick tock."

"I'm not scared of you."My mother said.

She giggled while spinning a dagger in her hand, then said,"You know you can't lie to yourself and don't be scared, this is only the beginning."

She then threw the dagger at my mother but she deflected it in time and caught another, which was thrown at her leg but then her clone pounced on her and pinned her to a wall, trying to gauge out her eye.

My mother held it an inch from her eye, then kneed her in the abdomen and pushed her back, then threw the knife away.

Her clone chuckled then said,"You spared me, too bad I won't return the favor."

She tore down a curtain then spun it, making a swirling wall of satin, before a blade pierced through at my mother but she dodged it in time then kicked it and hit nothing as her clone had front flipped over it and almost kicked my mom when she dive rolled to safety.

The clone spun the curtain rod then thrusted it at my mom's rib cage, who blocked it with her knee then crane kicked it, shattering the front part to pieces.

The clone jumped and spun the rod to cut my mother with the newly sharpened broken edge but my mother dodged and grabbed onto it then hammer fisted it, leaving only a third of its original length.

The clone thrusted it at her chest but she blocked it using the curtain on the floor, then wrapped it around the rod and pulled it out of her clone's grip, then did a b aerial to whip it at her clone.

The clone dodged and the curtain literally shattered a table's dreams but then my mother got kicked in the chin by her clone who appeared out of nowhere then mounted her shoulders and flipped backwards, throwing her down in the process, all while wringing her neck with the curtain string.

I was in my room when I sensed something wrong, then ran to my mother, waking everybody up.

We all ran to her and saw her shaking violently as she slept, I yelled for her to wake up as beads of sweat formed all over her face, but she didn't...she couldn't.

I told Apollo to help her then he closed his eyes...

My mother struggled for breath as the thick rope squeezed her air pipe, then she used the last of her strength to elbow her clone in the ribs and throw her over her head, but the clone brought out a dagger and thrusted it at her head, my mom dodging by the skin of her teeth.

She kept jabbing till my mother grabbed her wrist, then the clone bit my mother's hand and she screamed and lifted her above the floor and threw her down but the clone landed on her arms and did a back handspring to rather throw my mother across the room.

My mother landed with a safety roll and looked at the bleeding bite marks on her palm, then back at the clone who licked the blood off her own teeth, then darted at my mother...

My mother dodged the elbow strike from her clone by stepping backwards, but the clone darted forward and gave her a body shot to the midsection then headbutted her.

She stumbled backwards but dodged the vase that was thrown at her and kept breaking every object flung at her until the clone threw herself then wrapped her legs around my mother's neck and threw her to the floor, still sitting on her chest, she elbowed her, several times to the face, then said,"Good night sis."

Then punched her, hard...

My mother immediately woke up, grabbed the sharpest object close to her and was about to stab the nearest person to her when she stopped and began crying, apologizing for almost hurting her youngest son.

Alek hugged her and told her it was fine, but I walked across the room and lit a white flame in my palm to read a note then had been stabbed into the wall, which said,"I'll be back soon..."