"Come on guys, at least try to catch me!" I yelled, leaving everyone in the dust.
There were five of us and we had at least two powers. There was Cody, the kinda immature prankster who could levitate and fire lasers from his eyes, Gale, a girl who seemed to always have a smile on her face with invisibility and magical powers, Sean, the tallest and certainly the strongest with super strength (duh!) and the ability to turn his body silver and become pretty much indestructible, Amy, my sister with huge dragon wings and the power to create force fields, and me, Tyson, the ever cheerful (referred to as cocky at times) with super speed and telekinesis (the power to move objects with the mind and levitate yourself).
Anyway, I was using that speed to outrun everyone. Even Cody can't catch me when he levitate (though sticks to me like glue), and Sean is the fastest non- super speed runner who can keep me in his sights. Okay, I was outrunning everyone, Cody being the one right up my back-end, and it was a bright, warm evening.
I didn't have a care in the world, at least until I tripped over something. Then I fell flat on my face and waited for Cody to laugh. Wrong! Trip at a hundred miles an hour and you get sent flying. In fact, I fell as fast as I was running, which made a huge splash in the lake. It was not only cold and wet, but painfully embarrassing enough to make me wish I had gills at that moment.
I surfaced to see Cody hovering above me, laughing like a complete maniac while I levitated out of the lake. I started to chase him in the air, me being faster, but him being a more agile flyer, constantly twisting out of my reach while still laughing. Giving up, I floated back to the lakeside to see everyone else hold their laughter. I simply ignored them, looking for what I tripped on.
"Oh man, the things you see when you don't have a camera!" Cody practically yelled. I ignored him and Sean's loud laughter, but was focused enough on it to find what I'd tripped on, by tripping over it again. I groaned as I pulled my face from the ground, met with an almighty uproar of laughter.
"You okay?" Amy asked, trying not to laugh while she helped me up.
"All okay except for my pride," I muttered, looking at what I'd tripped on, thankfully without tripping on it again. It was a fairly large, diamond cut jewel, something about it radiating power. Maybe it was the fact it was glowing every colour of the rainbow, drawing me closer until I actually picked it up for all to see. Cody and Sean stopped laughing, staring at the jewel with the same awe as I had. Gale and Amy also had their eyes glued to it, fascinated by the changing colours.
"Hey, isn't it a bit late?" Gale asked, breaking us from our hypnotised state. We were about to say something, then noticed the moon was shining brightly, stars twinkling in the night sky. What felt like a few seconds was actually about half an hour. Putting the gem in my pocket, we made for the gates, only to find them locked.
"Um, the park doesn't close with people in it right?" Sean asked, the question filling us with a sense of worry. I shivered...wait, after a warm evening, the temperature doesn't drop that much, right? I'm not a fan of horror movies, but right now it felt like we were in one. I just hope it's like Wicked Scary, but then, there's now monster here...I hope.
While trying to shake the worry that was slowly becoming panic, we turned started heading for the back gate, something we could easily climb over. All was quiet, as expected before a monster attacks, when Amy stopped dead, noticeably shaking. If it was anyone else we would have called paranoid, but Amy has enhanced senses due to the whole wing thing. She was glancing behind her, but when we tried to, whatever she saw moved, and I really mean it when I say it, very fast, the blur barely visible in the night. We looked back in the direction we were heading, but the thing moved again, this time it actually attacked, hitting Sean in the gut.
His strength makes attacks that knock the breath out of others look like harmless taps, and that's without turning silver. "Are you okay pal?" Cody asked, getting a nod from Sean.
"Okay, that thing's fast, and it's toying with us. Just wait till...hey, where in the world did Gale go?" Amy asked, her voice rising in panic. Looking around frantically, we heard a muffled voice, looking in the general direction to find the attacker, a man draped in a black cloak by the looks of it, with one hand pinning Gale's arms behind her back while the other was clamped tight over her mouth.
"I think you know what I want. Hand it over and your friend goes unharmed," the man said, making Sean tense. He and Gale were very close, and had been going out for quite a while, and we were all surprised he didn't run over and pound the probable smirk from the man's face. All eyes were on me, and Sean's seemed to bore right through me, pleading me to hand over the jewel. Fat chance. I concentrated on a largish pebble, levitating it before sending it hurtling into the back of the man's head.
Thought, amazingly, the pebble didn't harm him, the shock of the sudden action caused him to lose grip on Gale. Now free, she ran to us, chanting one of her spells. In seconds, the air rippled as blue lightning fired from her fingertips, striking the attacker in the chest. Though not killing him, it did paralyse him long enough for everyone to run while Sean and I attacked, him using overwhelmingly strong punches that could shatter stone, while I struck with lighting fast kicks, before rejoining the group. Blindly, we ran towards the locked gates, watching as the attacker walked slowly toward us, not even a limp to show for our efforts. His face, or at least his mask, was revealed, one side completely black, while the other was a bronze/orange colour with an eye hole. As fire came to his hands, we all shrank back in fear. Waiting for the inevitable, I closed my eyes, waiting for the searing pain; when we hear a voice, roughly our age, yell "Titans...GO!!!"
We opened our eyes, amazed at what we were seeing. In front of us were five teenagers, two girls and three boys. One boy we recognised as Robin (I mean, who wouldn't?), while one was a large guy with robotic parts, showing some light blue circuitry. The other boy had green skin and a purple and black outfit. One of the girls had very tanned, pretty much orange skin with purple, plastic like clothing, while the other girl was mostly hidden by a blue cloak and hood, only showing her mouth area and her indigo eyes that filled me with shivers. Out of nowhere, drones that looked like the masked guy appeared, laser weapons in hand. I don't know what came over me, or any of us, but we started dashing at drones with the other five teens and fought hard.