2 The First Lesson

Phillip rolled his eyes at the intructors lecture. He has heard this story so many times that he did not care about the history. He was more focused on the powers. He was about to turn 12 and he was about to awaken his power. For some reason powers took time to manifest, and besides the select few that awakened them before the coming of age ceremony he was currently attending now, none had achieved at infancy.

It was said that once all of your baby teeth fell out and you started to experience growing pains you were able to forcefully unlock a bit of your powers if you could not on your own. He just hoped he didnt have a trash ability. He was neither negligent or estudious in his studies resulting in him being at the top of the middle, or barely above average and he was fine with that. People liked the fame and the prestige that came with being at the top but he was more focused on what could entertain him the most. And fighting games was his favorite.

There was so much to explore but he didnt care about expanding throughout the solar system as a lot of things were atleast established on other planets and felt that others could probably do better than him since he wasnt as fervent as others when it came to that criteria. He always dreamed of fighting and looking badass just because it was cool.

He was daydreaming when the teacher suddenly stopped his lecture on history. "Alright so a few of you might now know how to feel the power inside of you, everyone has atleast some power. The way it manifests is usually in the form of the property of your power. For example i can use fire," he stopped talking as he waved his hand in the shape of a circle as if he was using a sparkler and the trail of fire cascaded behind the direction he was moving his hand in.

"That's not all, the power is fire but the formation of fire usually transpires from the depths of your conscious, you cannot control the outcome," he continued. "The formation of my fire happens to be a parrot." He waved his hand again and the fire that was on his hand condensed into the shape of a parrot, seemingly as if the parrot was alive itself. At this point the 300 or so kids in the auditorium were looking at him expectantly. As if they wanted him to show them more cool shit.

"The manifestation is that of a parrot but the property, the power itself is of fire." He explained slowly as if to try and reach the kids to explain that each power a person has is different than the other. "Hmm lemme see, Ms. Viola please come up here." As he said that he directed his gaze to the left side of the stage. A woman, who looked no older than in her mid 20s walked slowly to the middle of the stage. She had a fair build, with black hair and she had a long purple sweater with red leggings. It was fall and she wanted to dress the occasion. Some of the boys thought that she looked pretty whileas the girls were all commenting on her makeup and her clothes.

She was the assitant to the instructor who was giving the lesson. "Ms. Viola please demonstrate you power," she nodded in response. All of a sudden bubbles started to come from her body and as the bubbles touched a surface and popped they released a resplendant light. Some of the kids on the front row had to somewhat cower their eyes as it might've been to bright for them. "See," the instructor said with a slight shrill excitingly. "Her power is of a bright light but in the form of bubbles, some might have the power of a bright light in the form of a flashlight, or maybe even an animal like me or perhaps even as a weapon."

He said the last part with a low tone as to maybe confirm to the students how dire the last part may be. Militaries always looked forward to the ones with a weapon or animal manifestation the most, with tools not that far behind. "Of course you might not have just one manifestation some might have maybe 2 or in the most rarer of cases 3. If you dont unlock that many today dont worry you might be able to unlock some more when youre older but do not be expectant upon that because in most cases it does not happen."

Phillip who was sitting in the middle of the auditorium was almost standing out of his seat, halfway between standing and sitting. His best friend James who was sitting next to him looked as his friend with a weird expression. He was a bit more, well nourished, than other people. He had black hair and was taller than phillip by a few hairs. He also had a lot of humor. He looked to Jordan who was sitting next to Phillip on the other side and gave him a signal pointing to Phillip who had his bottom halfway out the seat and Jordan replied with a smile like he knew exactly what he meant.

Jordan was a bit taller than both James and Phillip and also had black hair but his was a bit longer and more curly. He also had glasses because although the evolution of man progressed some were bound to the fate of bifocals unless they wanted to try and use powers to fix it which may make it worse. In the end it wasnt worth it as it was too expensive. They both reached for Phillip at the same time holding on to the belt loops of his pants and flung him to the row in front of him, but they used enough force that he wouldnt land directly onto the person sitting in front of him. He flipped upside down with his feet in the air. The surrounding kids all started to laugh when they had noticed what happened.

Phillip was immersed in the lecture the instructor was giving now he thought it was way more interesting then the history lessons. He was lost in thought when all of a sudden he felt something tugging at his pants and before he could react he was flipped upside down and the whole world turned. His legs were in the air but he quickly got up due to the surrounding kids laughter and he had landed on the feet of what appeared to be a girl. He also wanted to apologize to the girl because he realized what had happened when he looked at James and Jordan not being able to stop their laughter.

He was about to apologize when he realized who he landed in front of. It was the girl he liked. She was maybe as tall as he was and she also had blonde hair like he did. Except for his blue eyes, she had green. She was always at the top of the class and had plenty of people trying to follow her. When he noticed who it was he couldnt formulate what he wanted to day and became more embarrassed. He didnt really talk to her much but secretly liked her, but didnt talk to her because he felt that she had already to many admirers and wouldnt pay attention to him.

When he looked at her, her face was red as if she was a little embarassed but also looked like she was the only one trying to hold back her laughter even though there was still a quiver of a snicker on her face. When Phillip noticed all he could say instead of Sorry was "Saa" with a blank expression on his face and at that point she couldnt hold back either. And as soon as he said that the immediate surrounding kids started to laugh even harder.

The instructor was talking about the chances of someone having 2 or more manifeststions of power when he heard a commotion in the middle of the auditorium. All the kids were laughing so He looked around to see what could have caused the outbreak and saw a boy who was maybe a little short for his age standing in the middle with a somewhat dumb expression on his face. "YOU THERE BOY," he said neither angry or composed rather as he was curious as to what happened but had said loud enough to quiet the kids in the auditorium.

"Come up to the stage," the instuctor looked quite giddy when he said that as he saw the last part happen.

Phillip turned his gaze up there and the only thing the girl heard him say was "Shit" which made her smile a bit more because it seemed like she was the only one who heard him say it. Phillip squinted his eyes at James and Jordan as to say ill get you back but they were looking away in different directions of the auditorium as if to say back we have no clue what the hell happened. Phillip took a deep breath and slowly walked on stage.