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It was the beginning of a new age, or so they told us. Most children are now being born with some sort of mental "power." I don't really understand why, but the government is trying to keep everything secret so panic dosen't break out. I think they should just tell everyone what is going on.
Cities are opening new schools for these "gifted" children, so that we can be taught about the changes to our biology and what is happenning in this "new world." The scientists think that we get our powers from another galaxy. As our milky way system floats around in space, it is passing another, larger, galaxy. The radiation from this other galaxy is so strong that it is causing these changes in devoloping children. They think that it will be hundreds of years before we get away from it and things go back to normal.
People used to think that the "new world" would be the end, domsday. Everyone was saying how the world was going to come to an end December 21, 2012. I understand most of it yet I'm still considered a fledgling. I am 16 and there is only 7 months until my 17th birthday and my "powers" are considered mature. Then the leaders will stop doing tests on me. You see the thing is, as our bodies grow and mature, so do our powers. They are very unstable and must be monitered every day to ensure that our powers arn't killing us.
My friend Brenton Michealson's powers were almost to much for him, and almost killed him while they were performing a somewhat risky test. The test involvd him accessing his powers and completely letting them take control of his conciousness. As soon as he let them take over his body, he passed out and went into cardiac arest and nearly died. Luckily they saved him. The test proved too risky, and was abandoned. Brenton was the last student they performed this test on. So far my powers have only gotten out of hand once, this is very rare for girls of my age. They tell me it is an exellent sign that they will mature successfully and develop to their full potential. But even still I am afraid that I will lose control and not make it.
My name is Naomi Vilaro, I was born December 22, 2012. My mother had been terified for my life, because everyone still beleived that the world was about to come to an end. But as Decamber 21, came and went people only began to feel really silly about ever beleiveing the profecey about the end of the living world. They misunderstood the meaning of it. The Mayans had only meant the end of the Age of War and the beginning of the Age of Peace.
The Age of War was also called the Age of the Fifth Sun and we were now moving into the Age of the Sixth sun, the Age of Peace. I'm glad I was born into the Age of Peace and not War. My mother says that it was horrible. She was born in the eightys, it was a very different world she watched the growth of technology sore and seem to change overnight, and childrens morals changed drastically. Young People became very violent, uncaring, and stuck up, even how they spoke changed.
She was one of the few who remained indifferent to their ways as well as my father. He had been A wonderfully careing man and a wonderful father. He was killed on duty fighting in Iraq when I was 9, leaving my mother a widow and to raise me alone. People that knew my father say that I am just like him I have his scence of hummor, his reddish brown hair and his eyes. His eyes were like sombody had put two small polished amber stones in his them. He was always so full of joy and confidence and it ratiated from him so that when you were around him you couldn't help but be happy and confident as well. I have been blessed with my parents best qualities. My fathers outlook on life, his hair and eyes, my mothers tenacity and her smarts, as well as her body shape which is a subtly curvy pear shape with a perfectly oval face.
As for my powers I havn't quite figured them out yet. The scientists say that I have an afinity with the elements, but they're not quite sure yet. I know for sure that I am a telapath, as is Brenton, but he is much better at it then me and he can move things around with his mind. It's so cool when he does the thing he is controling almost glows. He can make absolutely anything move, he can even turn the TV on with his mind. Hes tried and succeeded to control human movments, he experimented on me and got me to jump around my house like a rabbit. It felt so weird, almost like a little voice in the back of my head telling me what to do, and if I didn't obey, it would be a terrible sin.
We are both telepaths, and because we are such good friends we can talk through our minds and even share our feelings with each other, and still be across the world from each other. It definately feels like a sixth sence when you hear your best friends voice in your head. It's not intursive, so we can still keep our secrets to ourselves, or at least I hope he can't hear me when I'm day dreaming.
"Naomi, come on honey it's time to go now." today they're going to try another test to see which element I may be able to control. The drive there is a long and boring one, so I brought my ipod with me so I'm not too bored. When we got there, we were greeted by the technichians that will be working with me. They are a small group of younger looking men, that look like they havn't slept in days. They introdued them selves to me, but I am terrible with names and almost instantly forgot all of them. Except for Victor, on account of his being drop dead gourgeous.
He is the head of operations and supervisor, so he will be the one to explain the procedure to me and my mother. I had been nervous about the test ever since they told me about it, but when Vitor explained everyingthing to me I felt much better. I had originally thought it would be something like the test that nearly killed Brenton, but Victor assured me it was nothing like that.
"The way this test works is, you will be placed in a secluded room that has microphones in it so that we can hear you, and speakers so we can guide you through it. You will not be able to see anyone outside of the room, this is so that we know your mind is concentrated only on the elements and not on anyone outside, that way we can be sure that nothing is distracting you. In front of you there will be A small flame, some earth, and a large bowl of water and obviously there is air all around you. You can atempt absolutly any thing you can think of that may help you to control each element. You could try to blow out the flame with air, maybe make the earth move and shape itself, maybe make the water float up out of the bowl or try to make the flame larger. Just make sure you try all of the elements. Our scans of your brain show that there is a very strong link with one or more of the elements so you should be able to sucssefully control at least one of them."
After Victor explained, they led me to a room where I had to leave leave my Ipod and cell phone so that it doesn't interupt with any of their equipement. I have to wear this special white uniform so my normal street clothes don't distract me. They gave me white sweat pants that are actually really comfortable, and a white french cut blouse, that is really flattering. So I didn't mind wearing their clothes. The room that they use to do this test is, a white room, with a two-way mirror so they can observe me while they proform the tests. Now that I better understand the test I'm not so worried about it, and I'm actually excited to frind out which of the 4 elements I can control. I think it is fire because of my hair and eye colour, But who knows.
As I stepped into the testing room, sure enough there was the fire, earth, and the bowl of water waiting for me to expeiment on. "Step up nice and close Naomi so that you don't have to strain to much yo reach each element with your mind," I heard Victor voice say over the intercom. I stepped closer, I decided to try out water first. I took a few steps towards the large bowl or water to my right and concentrated on making some of it rising out of the bowl. I felt my mind conect with it, and I tried with all my might not to lose the conection, I tried with all my brain power to control the water but it just wasn't working.
Next I decided to try out air I found it with my mind just as easily as water and I tried to make a small breeze to blow the hair out of my eyes. But just as with water I couldn't get the air under my control. So I moved onto earth they had placed a small bowl of sand inbetween water and fire. It was a little more difficult to reach with my mind. When I did I noticed that the sand had started to move around. I used my mind to make it rise out of the little bowl and float arouond the room! I made the little pile of sand flip and twist around me creating shapes in the air. I was so excited that I lost my concentration and the sand fell to the floor.
"I can control earth!!!!! that's sooo cool" I shouted to no one in perticular. Haveing completly forgotten that I was being watched, I nearly hit the ceiling when I heard Victors elated voice over the intercom.
"I know your excited Naomi, but try to remain concentrated. Oh sorry did I startle you?"
"No I'm fine, I just got caught up in the moment thats all." I said, as I felt my cheeks get hot, and I knew that I was blushing from embarassment.
"Don't forget about fire Naomi, we're still not finished."
"Are you sureI'll be able to control another? Even still I hope so fire is so cool!"
"Oh yes, we are quite confident that you will be able to control fire as well, Because of your hair and eye colour being the colours of fire. It's not a very scientific explainantion, but is useually connected"
I moved over to the still burning flame sitting on a ball of some kind of slow burning material. I concentraited on the small flame just like I had with the other 3 elements. I was encouraged when it was harder to reach like earth had been. Sure enough in a few moments the fire began to slowly grow and get larger. I began to smile and giggle and the flame started to shrink.
"Thats it Naomi, don't get too excited, try to remain focused, you can be excited about it after. Try to make the flame snake around the room."
I heard victor encouage me. I focused my mind back to the flame that had gone back to it's original size. It began to grow and started to become what looked like a rope that is on fire. It disconnected from the ball and started to float around the front of the room. It startled me, and I lost control, all trace of the fire dissapeared in a puff of smoke. I felt silly for getting scared, and wished that I hadn't lost control. I heard Victor begin to say somthing but I wasn't paying any atention to what he was saying, becuase I noticed that there was a little flame beginning to apear in the middle of the room, I felt the conection. Then it became the same firey glowing rope of flames I stayed focused this time and made it grow until it was quite a large fire that floated in mid-air in front of me.
Well thats chapter one hope you liked it.
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