Chapter 4: I'm A Shifter?

Lars busted into the classroom anxiously reaching Seymour.

"I'm finally ready sir!" Lars said so letting him.

"Very good! Now take a seat next to you classmates!" Seymour instructed.

Lars turned to his fellow classmates ready to begin his new class.

"Whhhattt!" Lars yelled "Why are they all Kindergarteners!"

"Haha First graders to be exact! You've gotta go back to the basics," Seymour said

Every single child in the class was barely over the age of 7, except for one teenager with dreadlocks , who seemed to be assisting the teacher with a child.

"Re...Reggie?" Lars said.

He was in good shape and was at least three inches taller than Lars was. His dark skin went into contrast with his bright hair that was black but had neon yellow tips on the end. As he turned to pick somethin gup, Lars could see that he had lost an arm. It was replaced by a gigantic mechanical one that was nearly 3 times the size of a normal arm. As he turned to see who had called him, he made eye contact with Lars and started laughing.

"Ax? What the hell are you doing here!" Reggie said laughing.

"Wait how did I know his name?" Lars thought

A memory flashed through Lars's head but it was too blurry to make out.

(memories)

"Sleeping again Ax!" He remembered Reggie saying.

"They say dream big don't they? So I've got to do my best." Axel replied

"Haha, your a fool yo!"

(Back to present)

"Is that my memory? Or Axels?" Lars thought.

"Ehem!" Seymour said. " Please take your seat!"

Lars sat down at his tiny desk awaiting instruction from his teacher.

"Ok class we have a new student here!" The teacher said. She was a young woman in her twenties with caramel skin and blond hair.

"You look a little old for this class" The teacher said eyeing Seymour. "What is your name?"

Lars looked down at his Id card.

"My name is Axel."

"Well Axel what is your power?" The teacher asked.

"I can control… well not very well… I can use water I guess."

"Wow!" The teacher said applauding him. "Well let's see it!"

The teacher brought over a metal tray with a digital screen connected to it.

"Accumulate H20" she spoke into it.

Out of nowhere little water particles began to gather in the plate until it was full of water.

"Wow" Lars said amazed. "What is that?"

"Why don't you show us your powers first" Seymour said.

Lars looked at the pool of water

"I'm afraid…" Lars said.

"It's ok you can do it!" A seven year old said behind him. "I used to always make bugs go everywhere! But now with teachers help!" The child stuck out his finger as a tiny ant climbed out of his pores. "See!"

"Good job Jason!" The teacher said.

"Now Axel what I want you to do is imagine you are surrounded by invisible strings." The teacher said.

"Invisible strings?" Lars said.

"Yes because you are a Shifter and your element is in front of you, you should feel it's invisible strings reaching out from your body. Close your eyes… and you can feel them."

Lars closed his eyes. Falling into a trance he felt strings connecting from his body to the water.

"I can feel them!" Lars said. "What now!"

Now I want you to try to use the strings on your hand to slowly move that water." The teacher said.

Lars reached forward opening his eyes

"No!" His teacher yelled "Keep your eyes closed! And make slow movements."

Lars slowly moved his hands lifting the strings Into the air. He slowly rotated them around in a circle.

"Yes excellent! Now open your eyes Axel!"

Lars opened his eyes and began and saw the water swirling around a circle.

"Excellent Seymour said taking the bowl from beneath Lars's water. " Now Axel put this water into this plate.

"How do I make the strings… stretch?" Lars asked.

" Slowly open up your hand and then curve your fingertips like your fingers are becoming a wave and use the wave to push the strings along." Seymour said.

Following Seymour's instruction, Lars waved his fingers and directed the water into the plate.

Splash!

"Well done!" His teacher said smiling "You have officially graduated the first grade!" She said laughing

"Now what do we do? What's second grade like?" Lars asked

"We're going to do things a little different! Were going to skip you straight into college!" Seymour said

"WHATT!!!" Lars yelled

"Follow me!" Seymour said

"Hey Ax!" Reggie called after him.

"Yeh?"

"Don't forget about us little people when you go off to college ya hear!" He said laughing.

"Haha don't worry I promise to write!" Lars said.

Lars followed Seymour into the S.P.A pool.

"Ok so now let's talk about this plate, you had asked what it was right?" Seymour said.

"Yeh!" Lars said "What is it?"

"It's called a ethereal converter! Basically it takes Ether and turns it into matter, its capabilities are limited bot most simple elements and compounds can be created by this device. Do you understand?" Seymour said

"What is ether?" Lars asked.

"Geez! You really are a kindergartener! You don't know what ether is? It's our life energy! The thing that makes us Shifters! It's the driving force of the Universe!" Seymour said.

"What?" Lars said.

"Ok… think of it this way, inside of our bodies is a powerful energy, it moves throughout our body like blood, in fact you could call it an invisible blood that powers us, and just like blood we can use it to power our muscles and cognitive function, and if we lose it we can die." Seymour said.

"I get it" Lars said.

"Every Shifter has Ether that has a different frequency, There are billions of them and a Shifters frequency links to matter with the same Vibrational frequency. A shifters ability is determined by that overlap. Understand?" Seymour said

"Whatttt?"

"Sheesh! For example Axel, lets say a Shifter can control fire. That means he has a frequency that correlates with one that is emitted by a flame. A Shifter that controls size has a frequency that is linked to their cells. A shifter that control's water…"

"Has the same frequency of that as water!" Lars said

"Exactly! And remember Although a Shifters frequency is determined at birth, the capabilities of their powers are not defined! A Shifter with a frequency matching that of their cells could find themselves becoming immortal! or capable of multiplying themselves making millions of clones! Who knows with time, you may find yourself bein gable to control other phases of water like snow, ice or even steam!"

"Wow! That's amazing Simone!!" Lars said. "But, how do I do that? How does a Shifter become stronger?"

"It's SEYMOUR!" Seymour said face palming himself " You can become stronger in three ways " Seymour said.

"One by exhausting yourself and forcing your body to evolve past its normal capacity! Two by gradually increasing your strength! Or three growing your Ether reserves, which unfortunately is a Phd level course, you're not there yet," Seymour said laughing.

"So why did you bring me into this room!" Lars said looking around the pool.

"I have brought you here for this!" Seymour said bringing out a wooden board.

"What do you want me to do with that?" Lars asked.

"Your going to break this board with water!" Seymour said

"What! " Lars said "That's impossible! Water is a liquid and that is a solid!"

"That's true, but if you thrust water fast enough it becomes an incredibly strong force! Have you ever stood by a fire hydrant before? The force can easily knock you over! The pressurized water is usually moving so fast it takes two fireman to hold a hose! Your going to use those principles on this board!" Seymour said.

"Ok… how do I do that with water!?" Lars asked.

"That isn't something I can tell you" Seymour said "That's something you have to feel, not something I can explain."

"Ok…" Lars said "Lets see what happens when I move my arms really fast!"

Grabbing a liter of water from the pool he thrust it at the board.

Wham!

"Haha was that it?!" Lars laughed.

The board was completely undamaged.

"It's not going to be that easy" Seymour said. "Go ahead and try again!"

"HA!"

"YAA!"

"TAKE THIS!

Lars tried and tried, but he couldn't even make a dent in the board.

"DING!" The electronic bell rung, signaling the start of the next period

"It looks were out of time! What's next on your schedule?" Seymour asked.

"Hmmm.." Lars said takin gout his pad. "It says presentation from S.P.A headquarters, Colonel Henriet O'brian, on the topic of the S.P.A expectations at the S.P.A track and field."

"O'brian…" Seymour said under his breath.

"What was that?" Lars asked

"Nothing, just an overrated douche if you ask me! But that's enough talk! Get to Track and field ASAP!" Seymour said.

"Yes sir!" Lars said taking off.

After he had traveled halfway through the pool, Lars turned around.

"Thank you so much Simone! I was hopeless until you came! Your the best man!" Lars said

"Godamnit! Its Sey..." Seymour said sighing. "Whatever I'm glad I could be of help." He said adjusting his glasses

As he followed his holographic notepads direction he got lost in the middle of a long hallway.

"It says the Track and Field is on the other side of this hallway… One of these doors has to lead there!" Lars said opening up a door.

He came to a dugout area with an S.P.A banner across the top of the door.

"This must be the dugout! The fields must be right up those steps!" He said seeing a set of steps at the end of the area.

"Hehe it was a bit rocky at first but this first day is going great! It won't be long before I completely turn my life around!"

Lars cheerfully ran down the dugout ready to start the presentation.

"Grant just you wait! I'll become Colonel in no-"

Wham!

Lars was slammed against the wall by an insanely strong foe. Held in the air in a chokehold, the kid holding him had his head down so he couldn't see his face.

"What… No.. this is Impossible!" Lars gasped

"Long time no see, buddy" The kid said sadistically looking into Lars's eyes.

"Jin?!" Lars said.