2 Ability

Now back in my room, alone, I was at a loss of what to do. And then it hit me, the internet, where everything travels at speed of light. As expected, there were already people showing off their powers. Many profiles were already created that just took videos of others and posted them in one place.

I opened one with most followers. The majority of videos were of people using mana, showing wings and some with unique powers. There was one guy that had a spot of his skin on his arm turned into rock.

This caught my attention. I concentrated on making my skin rock, but I didn't get any results. Depression hit me... but then I got an idea.

'What if he's not turning his skin into the rocks and instead of covering it?' As I thought of making a layer of rocks, I felt something. Speck of dust was on the back of my palm.

'Yes! Yes! I got something too!' Excitement and relieve was running through my blood as the dust was falling from my hand. Not sure what use of this I will have in this new society but at least I had something.

Now with something to spend my time on, the phone was placed on the desk.

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A few hours passed. Now I was able to cover the backside of my palm in a very thin layer of rocks. Something important was that I still felt senses when touched on the layer. Thinking of a spot and making of a layer, I could do it, the only limitation was my stamina.

After a few more hours of training, I went back on the internet. There were few people similar to me. But there were exceptions, some could cover their hands with wood and some with steel. I was actually quite behind others that used rocks, guessing it's just a difference in talent.

People who used wood could already cover their hands in a thick layer, while most of the steel users could just cover two or three knuckles in a thin layer. But there had to be a difference between those three. Metal is much more solid than rock or wood.

After one more hour of training, I was now able to cover the back of my palm and to reach half of my fingers in a thin layer of earth.

Knock Knock

My classmate was in front of the door.

"Hey Luke, the hotel is serving dinner, whole class is supposed to meet up in few minutes on the first floor."

"Alright, I will come down in two-three minutes."

"Sure."

When I came class was already sitting at the tables chatting with each other. But it wasn't as crowded as it was during lunch. With much fewer staff, and some people just didn't come, including some of my classmates that stayed in their rooms, I was very thankful I'm not one of them.

I made sure to listen and watch everything. Girl from before was now able to make a puddle of water in a plate, some could do more pushups or squats, a shirtless guy from before, now with cut parts on his shirt, also improved. Wings were bigger in size than before, almost as big as those of a pigeon. People were saying the results of their training following the circle, which now came to me.

"I can cover my body with rocks, I can almost cover the whole hand in a thin layer."

My classmates were looking at me jealously, even friends were sometimes jealous of each other, where was I on the scale than? It was in human nature... I didn't notice a few pairs of eyes that just didn't care.

After finishing the dinner I went to my room with a bitter taste in my mouth. Now lying in bed and with a phone next to my ear.

Everything was alright, Dad came home with his heroic stories of saving the cat from fire and we discussed powers. My sister didn't feel any different, brother felt stronger, Mom could feel infinite energy but not use it and Dad also didn't know. I told them my story and story of that girl in hopes of helping. They were trying but nothing happened. After a lot of chatting, we ended the call.

Not feeling like reading a book I went to sleep. Even if tiredness made bed super comfy, sleep wasn't coming, noise outside was too much, every few minutes firefighters or police would pass by.

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My just awoken eyes were getting blinded by the sun. Putting hand in front of them I stood up and went to the bathroom. It was 7:54. Just about time for breakfast. Dressing up I went downstairs. A similar conversation was held yesterday. There were few new faces now, effortlessly eating and with red eyes.

After finishing we just went to our rooms. My family probably wasn't up now because they didn't go to work. Training, internet or reading a book was all I had to do. Book was eliminated, now wasn't the time for reading. I decided to spend most of my day training with time spent recovering on the internet.

After starting to train, I remembered picture from a dream last night. I could only see three circles in complete darkness, two were blank and one had a rock. Stopping the training and not wanting to speak with my classmates about it I checked the internet, no one was talking about a dream. Putting it aside as the creation of my imagination I restarted.

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[Two days later]

Now I'm able to cover my whole hand in a layer of rocks 2cm thick (little less than an inch). Days were similar, talking to my family, training and searching for information on peoples achievements.

The world was much more stable, much different than before. Planes started to fly again but not many streets were cleared of the vehicles, there were just too many. The excitement was brimming in me since today my father was picking me up. He insisted on that compared to just buying me a ticket online.

"Hey, Dad when are you getting on a plane?"

"We just departed, I need to hang up. Bye son."

"Okay call me when you arrive at the airport. Byye"

Finally, I can go home.

'I can't wai-' Without being able to finish, my body fell asleep on the ground. What I didn't know... was what kind of change will happen when I open my eyes...