I haven't been on here for awhile so give me a chance to get back into the swing of things before getting super critical on me please! I've missed writing on this site and hopefully will be able to keep this going at a steady pace. The rating may change later depending on what ends up happening. I don't own sky high, just my characters. Please review and tell me what you think!

For as long as I could remember, we had never lived in one place more than a year. How clichéd is that for an introduction? Anyway, my name is Alickta Donavin. I am 15 years old and live with my dad and three brothers. The oldest is Donnie, he's 27 and can work with almost anything mechanical. I'm super jealous of my oldest brother's powers because I love cars and everything about them. He and my other older brother used to take me out to street races back when we lived in Las Vegas a few years back. Speak of the devil, my second oldest brothers name is David. David is 17 and can control and distort different types of metal. Between the two of them they are a street racers dream team. Then there's my youngest and most adorable younger brother, Daniel. But everyone calls him Danny. He's 6 years old and hasn't developed any powers yet, and honestly I am in no rush to see him grow up. I love my little brother. Since our mother disappeared all those years ago, I'm the only girl in the house and his only real female figure. He absolutely adores me too. I think if mom was still here he'd be the definition of the sweet little mommy's boy.

As for me, well I unfortunately had developed my powers. They weren't anywhere near as cool as the rest of my families, excluding Danny. I had the ability to hide. That's right, hide. However my abilities only applied in the shadows, or if it was completely dark. Which, ya know, helped when walking home late at night and such, but still, pretty lame power. Oh well, guess not everybody in the family could get an awesome power. Usually I was pretty content with my ability, today however, I wasn't feeling to super. That would probably be due to the fact that it was my first day starting at sky high. Ah isn't that always the way these super stories go? Anyways so here's where MY so-called "super" story goes, as I said, today was my first day of school. HIGH school. For SUPERS. No pressure right? Just your slightly less than average super teen waiting for the super bus to go to her first day at super school. Yeah enough with the "super" thing, it gets old quick doesn't it?

Well here I am at the average looking bus stop with my older brother who happens to be starting his senior year as I start my sophomore year. Like I said, we never stayed in one place for very long so I didn't expect much from this new place. I was actually pretty sad about moving last time. We lived up in the mountains in Colorado and it was pretty awesome. Great curves for racing, almost always shadowed by mountains, nice cool weather. I had actually made some friends there, and for the first time in years I had started to feel normal. But since my dad had come across better work here in Maxville, as well as realizing that he now had two high school kids with powers that needed work, we were uprooted once again and relocated here and quickly enrolled in the infamous sky high only a few weeks before the first day of class. David was lucky, he knew some of these faces from the last time he was here. He had stayed with my uncle Hector, Hec for short. My uncle runs a mechanic shop on the outskirts of town. He was a retired super, my mom's older brother and my dad's best friend. David had spent over a year with him his freshman year, getting better at controlling his powers and helping Uncle Hec in the shop. I was so very envious. He got to spend over a year in a single place, and now we were going there, all of us.

The bus pulled up at the stop, pulling me away from my reflections. Speaking of, I looked out the window and mine was not at all pleasing. I had picked a seat in the back near my brother and had my headphones in listening to my songs on shuffle, skipping five or six at a time. I shook my head and tried fixing my deshevled shoulder length black hair. Once I realized it was futile I just grabbed my black grey striped beanie out of my backpack and adjusted it so my hair didn't look bad at all. That's the thing about my lucky beanie, no matter how bad a hair day I have, it always seems to make my hair look decent at least. As for the rest of my appearance, I was wearing black and blue striped long sleeves under a black and grey punisher t-shirt with faded dark grey jeans and black and blue checkered vans. I was far from what anyone could consider feminine, but hey! I was raised in a house of all boys. The punisher shirt was actually one of Donnie's but he'd outgrown it and David didn't really want it. It fit me well, and I really liked it. My black and silver messenger bag held my first day of school crap, aka notebook, composition book, spare pens and pencils, batman usb drive and a calculator. The bus flew off the bridge as Enter Sandman by Metallica started playing in my ears. A bunch of kids were screaming their heads off. Thankfully my brother had taken mercy on me and warned me the night before. Right before I tried to go to sleep. Bastard. So I wasn't screaming bloody murder and making a fool out of myself.

We made it to school a few minutes later and I stepped off the bus, dignity still miraculously intact. Nope, spoke too soon. That was before I had slipped and landed on my hands in the grass. No, not slipped, Tripped. Something had tripped me. I watched as a long black and white striped…er.. thing, slithered back to its base. Base being that of a freakishly tall and skinny floppy haired prick with a stupid smirk on his stupidly smug face. Why, oh why couldn't I have my brother's powers and make his own cell phone attack him, yes, Donnie dearest HAD in fact done that to me before. If I had their powers I wouldn't even hesitate to wipe that stupid smirk off his smug face.

My glare must have given away my anger because he simply grinned wider and made his way over. "Sup freshman," he was soon joined by a rather large companion and they loomed over my rather unfortunate 5'3'' form. If they expected me to cower, they would be sorely disappointed. "Since you clearly missed the memo with your bus buddies over there," he motioned to a bunch of flustered students grabbing papers and picking up their belongings. "We're here to collect the $15 new student fee." He stretched his arm out expectedly.

"I'm not a freshman. And if you think you're taking anything from me, I'm sorry to say you'll be disappointed." I responded trying in vain to keep the snark from my voice. I guess it didn't work since he scowled and they pressed closer to me, backs to the sun. I smirked and watched as they created the very shadow I would use to make my escape. I watched invisible and intangible as the confusion settled in on them. I knew my power wouldn't get me into hero class but I was pretty damn excited to be a sidekick. As long as no one knew exactly what my powers were, I could have a world of fun here while it lasted.

The downside to my power, I couldn't actually leave the shadow I hid in quite yet, if I did I sort of became a shadow and that was a bit of a mess because it was hard to change back unless I was in another shadow entirely. So I was stuck following the ever annoying stretchy kid and his pal without them even knowing it. I was supposed to be in the gym going through the "power placement" with the freshies. I had to get out of here, like NOW because I was losing the group quickly.

Finally they passed a rather large shadow by the side of the building and I was able to detach and switch shadows. Unfortunately the bell rang and I was startled into the light just as they passed around the corner. Thankfully I don't think they saw me but just in case they had I didn't waste time darting around the other side and rushing to where I could only assume the gym was.

~little did she know at the time a striped clad boy was watching her from the corner of the building after telling his friend to meet him at lunch later, he needed some time alone. He wouldn't admit it, but he found the little show from the invisible chick kinda amusing. She was clever, he'd give her that.~