Chapter 2
They were all silent for a minute….then chaos once again ensued. Questions of why they were here, where was here, who was he, who were they? The field echoed with anger and confusion.
"SILENCE" the old man yelled. Dressed in a white robe with gray hair, the man surveyed the nine young men and women standing before him, "I will explain everything but you must be quiet"
"Ages ago, some humans began to develop powers, powers that shouldn't have appeared in your race. Several were well behaved and used their abilities for good, but recently all those in this time have used their powers for evil purposes. I am Loredan, part of the elite council, a higher power you could say. We have decided to bestow a power upon each of you after studying millions of your kind in order to balance out the world and combat the darker side"
"You expect us to believe that?" Alexa said, tossing her hair back "We aren't two years old, magic doesn't exist or supernatural powers, or whatever you want to call it"
"This is a joke, a prank, your using holographic imaging or something" Stephen drawled.
"Then explain how you are all here for the hologram? Alexa, you were at your college in New York, while you Stephen, are in Arizona, am I correct?" the old man replied.
"How'd you know their names" Anni fearfully put in
"I know everything about all of you, where and when you were born, how you interact with your parents, where you go to school, what you like, what you don't. But especially, I know that at heart each of you are good, and believe in doing the right thing overall" the old man replied.
"So these powers?" Jonny put in, "What are they, and why?"
Loredan glanced over "Now there is the right question, the powers were chosen to suit your personalities as well as inner desires, we thought to give you that much. You Jonny, will possess the ability to control fire"
All of a sudden a ball of fire erupted over Jonny's palm, he cried out in alarm, but it didn't burn at all. He thought about it disappearing and all of a sudden, it was.
"Now Anni, your power complements his, you have control over water" He stated as a stream of water sprayed out of her palm.
"Adam, you will possess super strength, almost nothing is too heavy for you" A 6 ton anvil appeared in front of Adam. He gingerly attempted to pick it up, it felt like holding up a small book.
"Danny, you can read minds, and Grant, you have the ability to move things with your mind" Grant concentrated on picking up the anvil out of Adam's hand, as it floated across to him, Danny heard in his head everyone's shock and amazement, and the half frightened and half excited thoughts of those who had received their powers.
"Jasmine, you have the power of becoming invisible at will" Jasmine's face scrunched up in concentration, and suddenly she wasn't there, for a minute she wasn't visible and then white faced she reappeared.
"Stephan, you can move at an extremely fast pace" Stephan went to run to the end of the field an back, a normal five to ten minute trip, it took all of ten seconds.
"Misha, you have the ability to heal by touch" Misha absently noticed a cut on Alexa's leg and touched it. Within seconds, the skin was smooth and there was no sign of the cut.
"Last but not least, Alexa, you have the ability to shapeshift into any animal you wish to be" Alexa thought for a second, and then where she had stood now sat a very confused looking wolf. Within a second a human being reappeared.
All of them stood around, shell shocked. Unable to believe in what was happening, even after testing out their abilities.
"I know that this is a large adjustment" Loredan said patiently, "But those who follow the dark are planning something and training must begin as soon as possible"
"Training?" Anni squeaked.