Missing Teen
El PASO, TX:
Isabella was last seen with her parents celebrating her birthday at Ardovino's Pizza on Central Ave. Later that evening their home burned down. Mr. & Mrs. Cantaria did not survive. Fire department determined that the fire was caused by a malfunctioning kitchen oven.
After two months of searching El Paso and neighboring cities to find traces of the girl, the trail has gone cold. Authorities assume that Isa was so frightened by the fire that she ran away. They've questioned friends and family and no one has heard from her, not even her best friends, Abigail Walker and Janessa Lawrence. Her friends and high school classmates assumed she was dead.
The Truth
Before Jorge met Gloria, he was a member of the Morelez Gang, a group of Mexican thugs with mutant powers that bullied local businesses and controlled the drug trade in the small town in Texas where he was from. Morelez was small time compared to the more famous cartels, but he was making a name for himself by using humans with mutant abilities to get what he wanted. As an orphaned teen with the ability to become invisible, Jorge became a drug runner. In his late twenties after meeting Gloria, getting married, and with a baby on the way Jorge wanted out... but he could never stay gone for long. He still had friends and connections in the business that made it easy to get ine "one last job".
When Isa was two, she witnessed an event involving her father, Mr. Morelez himself, and a few others, that would forever be imprinted on her brain... though to this day she doesn't remember it. After that event her father left the gang and moved to El Paso with his wife, a beautiful and strong woman with the ability to fly, where they got straightlaced jobs as Real Estate agents and began to build a "normal" life. They stopped using their powers and never told their daughter about their abilities or their past lives.
Gloria & Jorge were wonderful loving parents even when Isabella gave them a hard time as an unruly teenager. She was constantly getting in trouble in school and with the law though she never hurt anyone and her crimes were mild. By her sixteenth birthday she still had no clue that she carried mutant genes... that is until that night when she witnessed her parents murder.
They were looking for something, those men. Isa woke up to shouting and arguing coming from her parents bedroom. No sooner had she opened her eyes was there a gun pointed at her face and a man telling her to scream. Yes, he told her to scream. He wanted her parents to hear her. Before Isa could even open her mouth she was being lifted from the ground. Her bed.. had moved! The mattress and box spring had bowed itself and the posts were rearing themselves up like a stallion as she rolled out of harms way... she crawled under her desk to see.. her bed? Her bed was attacking the man! The commotion caused more men to come and as Isa screamed and scrambled to get out of the way her furniture seemed to be coming to life! And it was protecting her? Unfortunately it was also blocking her way in to the hall so she could see if her parents were okay. By the time Isa had climbed out of her bedroom window the flames were roaring and black smoke was pouring into the air. She turned back to see her home.. and everything in it being destroyed.. including her parents.
But it wasn't over then. She heard wheels squeal and suddenly high beams were pointed right at her. She had no time to go back and check on her family. Now she was running for her life. She ran into the woods, trying to lose the SUV that was chasing her and it wasn't long before she realized that the trees seemed to be falling in line behind her to form a protective barrier. She ran and ran until she could hardly take another step.. and when she fell, she fell into a deep sleep. When she awoke, she was cradled in the arms of a tree that seemed to have wrapped itself protectively around her.
For the next few hours she'd experiment with this new realization.. that she could control the things around her. As she grew weaker her powers grew faint and her focus was on finding food and shelter. She wandered, she collected stolen food and clothing, and she continued to travel away from her home, terrified that she still hadn't quite gotten away from the people who killed her family that night.
