Coming Into Age and Power
This is my first, and probably only attempt at a story for The Covenant. Of course it wasn't the best movie in the world, but I saw the need for some character development on Tyler's part because he had about as much lines as I could count with my fingers. I also noticed two things as I kept rewatching my favorite scene in the movie (the cop chase). 1) It is Caleb that calls Tyler 'baby boy'. And since Caleb is the leader, it's basically law and he is forever branded 'baby boy'. 2) The sound effects when their eyes turn black are different. If you hear what I hear, then you will understand this story. This story picks up at the beginning of their freshman year in college.
Summary: New school, new girls, new powers. Now it's time for him to ascend. But he was the only one to get sick when he first received his powers. Will the Sons of Ipswich be able to handle his ascending?
Disclaimer: I own the characters that you've never heard of before.
Harvard. One of if not the most prestigious school in the nation. Only the best were accepted into that school. That is how it always was, and how it would be. The school was prepared for anyone and everyone that they accepted. But nothing could prepare them for a Son of Ipswich.
And they wouldn't have to. They accepted Caleb Danvers. But why wouldn't they. A star athlete at Spenser and outstanding academic standings, they would have been crazy not to accept him. But Caleb was the crazy one when it came to Harvard. He turned them down.
He never told his friends that he did. They all knew that he applied. They would ask about it every once in awhile, and he would reply with a simple 'It doesn't matter'. The others just thought that he was rejected, so when the time came to declare for a school, they never brought it up again. And that is what he wanted.
So there he was sitting in a Hummer with his three best friends Pogue Parry, Reid Garwin, and Tyler Sims. One of the more dominant reasons he couldn't say yes to Harvard. Together they were the Sons of Ipswich, stronger together than apart.
After Caleb's ascension and Chase's disappearance, the four boys decided to remain close enough to home, where they could go back if something were to happen, but far enough to live their lives completely independent of their parents. Even Caleb.
He had a hard time leaving him mom, but an even harder time leaving Sarah Wehnam. The only person that he had shared his and his friends' secret with. She had gotten accepted into Stanford in California, which unfortunately for him was on the other side of the country. They decided on a mutual break up, but promised to stay friends. They hoped that eventually they could be together again.
Reid was the next person to ascend. Being the rebel of the group, he didn't exactly listen to all of the garbage that Caleb spewed about their powers being addictive and aging every time they used it. So he continued to use. Until one day he woke up and saw a few more wrinkles on his face than there was the night before. After that day, he cut back on using significantly. He still used for little tasks here and there like fixing things that he broke, or getting the teacher sick so he wouldn't have to go to class. He loved using his powers, but he loved his looks attracting the ladies a little more, so that is why he didn't want to become an addict.
Pogue ascended a few months after Reid. He didn't have any problems with his ascension. It caused him a little pain, but it was minor in comparison to the pain that he felt when he landed in the hospital last fall. He and his girlfriend, Kate Tunney, stayed together. Even after he told her about the powers that they all had. She was surprised to a certain extent, but mostly curious. But it didn't make her love him any less. She stayed in Ipswich and got a job, which made it easy for them to stay in a relationship.
Finally, there was Tyler, the baby of the group. He was the only one out of the four of them who hadn't ascended. He had about a month. He was contemplative about the whole situation. He didn't know who he was going to be like when he finally ascended. He didn't use as often as Reid, so he knew he wasn't going to get addicted. He assumed he would have the same reaction as Pogue, since he only used when necessary, with minimal pain.
But then again, he didn't exactly have the same reaction to receiving his powers as the other three did. He had gotten really sick a few weeks before he received them and stayed sick until a week later. It scared the hell out of the families because nothing like that had ever happened in their lines.
The boys were scared the most. They didn't have any siblings, so the four of them were brothers. In every sense, except by blood. After Tyler had received his powers, they made a promise to always have each other's back. Especially when it came time to ascend. That was one of the many promises and plans that they made.
When they were younger, they had a plan that they would all apply to a school that they all liked and knew that they would get into so they could still go to school together. They chose to go to Boston University.
Tyler pulled into the campus parking lot and found an open parking spot close to where the freshmen were meeting for their orientation. He stopped the car and paused to take in his new surroundings. He was happy that he was at the school with his three friends that he considered brothers.
The sound that propelled him out of his quiet moment was the sound of three doors of his Hummer closing. "Tyler, you coming?" Caleb asked.
Tyler shook himself out of his thoughts and stepped out of the car. He closed his door and locked it, then took to standing next to Reid. "So why did we decide to go through four more years of hell in a classroom again?" Reid asked in despair.
"Because of that," Tyler replied, pointing to a group of ladies that walked in front of them.
Reid smiled. "Thanks for reminding me, baby boy," Reid replied. "Girls from Spenser were stuck-up."
He was the person that gave Tyler that nickname when they were younger, and it just stuck with him. Caleb lightly punched Tyler in the arm. "Yeah, Tyler. Good job reminding Reid here of the real reason someone should go to school. Screw an education, right?" Pogue and Tyler laughed at the statement. "And the only reason that they were so stuck-up was because none of them fell for your games anymore."
"What are you talking about? I'm the one who stopped going after them."
"Only after getting shot down by, what was her name? Kara? Karen? Karma?" Pogue replied.
"Carmen," Reid muttered.
"Don't be sour, Reid. Only about ninety percent of the school heard about the rejection five minutes after it happened," Pogue said.
"Better than a hundred," Tyler replied. "But it would have been the first hundred that you got in a long time."
Reid threw his arm around Tyler and held him in a headlock. After about three minutes of struggling and Pogue and Caleb deciding not to intervene, Reid let him go. "Come on guys," Caleb said. "Let's go get the keys to our rooms. And we have to sign in for Orientation."
"Can't we just ditch?"
"Not on the first day, Reid," Pogue said.
"Who's going to know?"
"We'll know," Caleb said.
"Come on, who knows, it might be fun," Tyler added.
"Who are you trying to kid?" Reid said.
Caleb walked over to Tyler and put his arm around Tyler's shoulders. "Always the optimist, baby boy."
Tyler laughed and shook his head in reply. The four of them made it over to the Orientation desk to get whatever paperwork they needed for the next week. Pogue, Caleb, and Reid all got their papers before Tyler and waited for him. He got his folder and quickly turned around to get out of line.
It would have been fine if he didn't walk into a girl causing both of their folders and everything in it to fly everywhere. "Oh shit. I didn't see you there. I'm sorry," he rambled. In the background all he could hear was his friends laughing.
"It's okay. It was my fault," the girl replied, kneeling down to pick up the papers.
"No. It was all mine," he said doing the same.
"How about this one, we share the blame?" she said grabbing the last of the papers.
"Here," they replied simultaneously turning to each other at the same time, unfortunately their foreheads colliding.
The girl squealed as she fell on her butt. "Oh man. I am so sorry," Tyler said. He stood up and walked over to help her up. She looked up at him and brushed her dark brown, nearly black hair out of her face. Her brown eyes met his blue ones and all he could say in reply was, "Wow." He stuck his hand out to her.
"We'll share the blame for that one too," she said, accepting the help.
Tyler helped her to her feet and handed her the papers that belonged to her. She did the same. They walked out of the line and into an open space. "Okay,' he replied. "But seriously, I'm sorry…Case?" he attempted at the name written on her nametag.
"Kaize. Like rise. But Kaize."
"Oh, Kaize," he replied again with more confidence.
"And it's okay," she laughed. "I'd try to say your name, but you don't have your nametag on, and I'm really bad at guessing games."
"Tyler. Tyler Sims."
"Kaize Donovan."
When his friends decided that Tyler had embarrassed himself enough, they walked over to him.
Reid threw his arm around Tyler and pointed to a tall brunette who strolled by them. "Who is that hottie?" he asked.
Tyler, Pogue, and Caleb all rolled their eyes. "Kaize. These are my friends. Reid Garwin. Pogue Parry. And Caleb Danvers," he introduced pointing to each one of them. "Guys this is Kaize Donovan."
"I apologize for him," Caleb said. "He gets nervous easily."
"Man, shut up."
"Nice to meet you," Kaize said interrupting their argument. "And Reid. You're not her type."
"How do you know that?"
"That's my best friend, Ariana Price. But once you guys get acquainted, you can call her Remy. Don't ask why, because I don't even really know."
"How do you know I'm not her type?"
"You look too cookie cutter."
"Cookie cutter!" Reid responded quite offended.
"Blonde hair, blue eyes. Boy band. She likes guys with a dark side."
"And you don't think I have one?"
"Oh, he definitely has a dark side," Caleb added.
"Then maybe you have a chance."
The girl that they were talking about walked over to them and tapped Kaize on the shoulder. "I thought I lost you."
"I ran into someone. Literally. Remy, this is Tyler and his friends, Caleb, Reid, and Pogue? Did I say that right?"
"Yeah."
"What are you guys, like a boy band or something?" Remy asked.
"No, just friends," Pogue replied.
"I see."
"You guys aren't from here are you?" Caleb asked.
"That obvious?" Kaize asked.
"Yeah. You look like you're from the west coast."
"We are," the girls replied simultaneously.
"So why did you guys choose this school?" Tyler asked.
"The same reason you did, I assume," Kaize answered.
"For the babes?" Reid replied.
Again the other three rolled their eyes. "For an education," Remy shot back.
"Sorry," both Tyler and Kaize said.
"Kaize. I'm going to start unpacking our stuff. I'll see you back in our dorm?"
"I'll be right up."
"Nice to meet you guys," Remy said and walked away.
When Remy was far enough away, Kaize broke the awkward silence. "I'm sorry about her. She's more approachable once you guys get to know her."
"It doesn't matter, I think that Reid likes her," Pogue said in a light-hearted manner.
"I think the feeling's mutual."
"How can you tell?" Tyler asked.
"She likes people who have the balls to argue back."
"I don't think he's ever met someone as stubborn as he is. And what about you?"
Kaize let out a laugh. "You're funny. And cute."
"But I'm not just a pretty face," Tyler replied innocently.
"Obviously not. Since you're here, right? You're obviously smart enough."
"I guess so."
She took her cell phone out of her pocket to check the time. She hissed when she realized that she was down for a little longer than expected. "I should go help Remy unpack."
"Do you need help with anything? Luggage?"
"We're good. We got some help from people we know on campus."
"I guess I'll see you around? Maybe?" Tyler hoped.
"Maybe," Kaize said with a smile.
"I can live with that."
Tyler watched her as she walked into one of the dorm buildings. He was knocked out of his stare when Caleb snapped his fingers in front of his face. "You're drooling," he joked.
"Shut up."
"That last time I saw you that nervous was in the seventh grade when we had to give those individual presentations and that girl you were crushing on was sitting in the front row. You were throwing up for like a straight hour?" Pogue recollected.
Tyler blushed when that memory was brought up. "So you like her," Caleb said.
"She's cute."
"That's not what I asked."
He quickly wanted a subject change. "Jeez, Reid. You've been on this campus all of ten minutes and you've already made an enemy."
"Chill, Tyler. No need to get all offensive. But you have to admit that you could like her. And I think Reid could possibly like this girl. Like really like her," Pogue said.
"I'm intrigued," Reid replied.
"He's in love."
"Shut up."
"Like you aren't imagining yourself with her," Tyler said.
"I'm not. So shut up."
Tyler bit his lip to keep from saying anything else. "It's the first day of school and we've already lost you guys," Pogue said.
"Like we're going to see those girls again. What are there, four thousand freshman in our school?" Reid said.
"Too bad," Tyler whispered.
"Guys, now that you're done falling in love and making fools of yourselves, let's move our stuff into our rooms," Caleb said.
The other three agreed and made their way back to Tyler's Hummer. After they grabbed their things, they walked into their hall. The same one that Kaize and Remy walked into. Tyler smiled at his heightened chances.
Okay, so that was the first chapter of this story. Another story started, but I haven't finished any yet. This is the first story I've written in a long time that I know exactly where I want it to go. I just needed to introduce a few characters. I hope this turned our all right. Well, thanks to everyone who read. Please review and no flames. Lil-Rock