Most 17 year olds usually have a story of their life by now. Like how they met their girlfriend, how they had gotten into a freak accident, or some sort of other thrilling story, but not many people can say that they've kidnapped, captured, nearly experimented on, fought freak soldiers and beasts, met someone from a different dimension, gained powers, flew a space ship, teleported, been intensively close to the sun, flew through the air, and/or even saved the world. Well, I could! I never told anyone, because they'd just think I was crazy, but I had proof. My friends Chase (my cousin and one of my best friends), River (a girl who goes to my school and is my girlfriend), Terra ( a good friend of mine, though she's not here to back me up), and Nate (one of my best friends who'd become my enemy), we'd all received powers last year, except Nate-he already had his.

"You guys, Nate's not dead"

"What do mean", I asked as I stood in amazement at my new powers. Last year Chase and I had lost our powers.

Earlier that Day…

"So, watcha guys doing today", Chase asked?

"Well River and I were planning on going to the lake, you can come if ya want", I said

"Really? Sweet!" Chase said excitedly.

"Hey Chase, do you ever wish you could still have your powers", I asked?

"Huh. Every day", Chase sighed, "Every day."

(At the lake)

"Whooo, Go Chase!" River encouraged Chase as he wake boarded.

SWOOOSH! BOOOMMM! (Giant Splash)

Chase fell off and out of the wake board onto what he'd expect to be water but was really a thick layer of ice. Where the giant splash of ice had come from now had a huge energy ball there, which radiated heat, coolness, and light.

"Chase! Are you alright!" River and I asked in unison.

"I think I'll make it", he responded.

"Ok good, now let's go check out whatever the hell that was", River said in concern.

As we approached it, a wall of air formed blocking out River and trapped Chase and I in.

"River!" I yelled.

"I'm alright. You're the one who's trapped in", she chuckled.

"Oh yeah, right", I smirked back with a sarcastic smile.

"Umm? Garret, you might want to turn around"

"Huh?" (turns around) "AWW, what's going on?" I asked.

"This is it", Chase said with a grin.

"What's what?" I asked.

"These are the energy sources which morphed my powers before."

"And what exactly are you getting to?" I asked.

"I'm not quite sure. Just try putting these two together: Us and Powers", Chase said as his grin grew bigger.

Radiant streams of light flowed rapidly into our bodies suddenly. The magnanimous light overwhelmed our bodies with petrifying energy which almost seemed to pierce fear into our souls. It happened in the blink of an eye.

Chase and I woke up on a cold ice floor moments later with River shaking us frantically back and forth even though we'd only been unconscious for a few minutes.

"Ughh. What happened?"

"You're a…a Light Wielder or Light Yielder. Meaning you wield light or control light, natural light that is", River said to us in amazement, "You make weapons with light."

Chase and I threw our arms out forming

Swords of light.

"You guys, Nate's not dead"

"How can Nate be alive", Chase asked, "Remember we drove him straight into the sun last year."

"Well, let this refresh your memory", a dark scruffy looking kid said as he picked himself up from where the energy ball had been, "Don't worry I'm not here to kill you…yet." He chuckled and grinned.

I still didn't trust him, not after way he'd tried to kill us last year.

"What do you WANT!" we snapped at him in unison.

"Well I want what you want, Powers", he said with a grin.

"How are you even alive", I said as I charged at him with my newly formed swords of light. As I swung, he'd vanished into thin air. My swords were twin blades with strange carvings and engravings in it.

"Well don't you seem happy to see me", he said as he reappeared in near, different location. "Anyway, your so-called teleportation powers, Chase, they not only teleported you and your friends. So you can thank your little friend. "

River and I both looked at Chase. "What?" he said, "It's not like I did it intentionally."

It wasn't hard for us to figure out all of our powers. Chase and I had light powers, River had "Pyschokinetics" A.K.A. Telekinetics, and Nate had Dark Teleportation, meaning he teleported using darkness.

Chase went to attack from behind while Nate was distracted, but when he went to slash his swords vanished and he went tumbling into Nate, who would've broke his fall but vanished and reappeared in another spot, leaving chase with only the hard cold sheet of ice to catch him.

"Huh? I just had the swords out a second ago", Chased said in frustration and curiosity.

It was my turn again, pulling out my twin engraved swords as power flowed through my body, I went to slash again. Once again Nate vanished into darkness avoiding my attack, and with a quick reply said, "We'll have our chance to dish it out against each other soon, Very SOON." In a matter of seconds Nate and the darkness had vanished.

"Nate's up to no good again."

"I wonder what he's got up his sleeve this time", River said sadly, shaking her head at Nate's sorrowful life.

"So Garret, what are you going to tell your parents about what happened to the boat", Chase asked sarcastically?

"Awww, crap!" was the only thing that came out of my mouth as my head spun around to embrace the sight of my parents boat frozen sideways in a frozen wave about 20 feet high and cracked in half.

"Also how are we getting back to land", River asked?

We had either two choices hitch a ride with a stranger or have River try to levitate us across the lake since we just so happened to be in the center.

"I'll get us across", River said with a grin. Chase and I both knew what was coming.

"Awww!" Chase and I said as we flew through the air crashing and flopping across the surface of the water which was about six feet deep. River of course levitated herself nice and gently across.

When we got to the car, Chase and I's jaws dropped almost farther than a girl could make it drop.

"Ummm…. I hope I'm not the only one who sees this", River said as she looked at the devastation.

Craters, the size football fields, covered the land at about a mile apart each. Smoke filled the distraught air. Fear came over millions of people. This time weren't the only ones who saw it, so we knew it wasn't an illusion. Fire overtook the dry desert. Destruction reaped what life had sowed. Animals ran frantically just as the children and their mothers did. Life would now be filled with sorrow and poverty; poverty for everyone. The sky was dark, the sun was going down, the moon was peeking out, and Chase suddenly had a strong sensation flutter through him

Terra had told me once that our world would soon become like hers; now I know what she meant.