Zach, Brian, and Jessy were all sitting at Zach's house, helping him pack so he could move in to his new home in Scotland.
There was an uncomfortable silence between the three and the air was as thick as sheet metal. Zach hadn't even seen the other two since the accident.
It had been three months since the incident at Williams' house and, although they had tried to move on, no one had forgotten. Brian and Jessy had begun dateing again and Zach had started dating and they were moving faster than a speeding bullet because Zach was trying to get over the loss of his best friend with his new and exiting relationship.
Jessy was thinking hard to find something to say that would break the uncomfortable silence and she finally thought of a descent question to ask that might possibly start a conversation. "So… um… who all is going to come live with you in your new house?"
"Well, William is the only one who has givin me a definite yes, everyone else has givin me really if-e answers" Zach answered, glad that the silence had finally been broken.
"Well, I've got school to go to, and Brian wants to stay here with me until I graduate, what's everyone elses excuse?"
"Let me think. Well, Guy and Jackie don't know yet because they aren't sure if the other two they're living with can pay the bills without them, Ariel isn't old enough to move out of her moms house, plus I don't think she has quite accepted what happened at Williams house yet and Nikki wants to stay here with her new boyfriend."
"What about Joey?" Jessy asked without thinking.
"What the hell do you want Joey there for, so you can fuck him again!?" Brian snapped bitterly at Jessy.
Tears began to well up in Jessy's eyes as the full affect of what Brian had just said sank in. "Why cant you just let that go?" her voice was filled with guilt and sadness as tears began slowly rolling down her cheeks. Brian did not reply. Jessy suddenly felt her sadness replaced with anger as she said this next sentence "Stop acting so stubborn and let the past go, I already said I was sorry for that a thousand times. I feel horrible enough without you reminding me constantly. I swear your acting just like your dad!"
Zach already knew Jessy had hit a very touchy nerve with Brian and he was about to start raising hell.
Brian stood up and stared down at Jessy glaring at her, more hurt than he was angered "How dare you compare me to that bastard, I am nothing like him and I never will be!" Brian screamed.
"How dare you bring up shit that's in the past" Jessy stood up, getting as close to his face as she possibly could, being a whole foot shorter than him.
"I don't care what I bring up, there's no reason why you need to compare me to him! What if I compared you to your mother, huh, what you would you do then?" Brian knew he should just stop right there but he was too angry to care how much he hurt her. "What If I said you were a crack-whore just like her? You cheated on me, you lied about being a virgin when we started dating again, you're always flirting with every guy you meet and you're just like her!"
Tears began pouring down her cheeks. "Well, you're just like your asshole father! You're jealous, your sarcastic, your rude, you have no fucking manners what so ever and your nothing but a dick!" she screamed, her voice tainted with much rage and sadness.
"That's it!" Brian screamed as he stormed out of the room.
"What the hell Jessy? Why did you bring up his dad? You know how much that pisses him off." Zach yelled in surprise at Jessy's statement.
"I just don't care anymore." she whiped a few tears from her face and eyes.
"Jessy you know that's not true. You have loved him ever since you saw him in the fourth grade" he put a comforting arm around his small friend. "Your not going to give up now, are you?" Zach placed his finger on her chin and gently led her face upwards so he could look her in the eyes. "The Jessy I know is far to stuborn to ever give up that easy on something you have worked so hard to achieve."
She sniffed and wiped the water from her glazed eyes "Thanks Zach."
"Hey this is what I'm here for, you." he opened a helping hand toward Jessy as he spoke "Now come on, lets go catch him before he gets away" Jessy took his hand and they headed out the door, into the pouring rain and hopped into the car.
They drove around for a few minutes then Jessy started to dought if they would ever find him.
"Where could he possibly be?" she asked looking around anxiously, in hopes of catching a glimps of his long, skinny, form.
"I think I know exactly where he is." Zach said as he veered left toward the large church that he and all his friends used to attend.
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Brian stared up through the heavy rain at the large building that stood before him. "House of god, huh?" he thought aloud. "Well here I am god, right here at your door step!" he screamed at the church where he had spent so many hours of worshiping the lord and having fun with his friends. "The question is, where the hell are you!?" he yelled with even more intensity "where were you when I was a child being beaten by my father!?" a strange golden glow began eminating from his rain drenched body. "Where were you when I walked the streets alone, crying out for anyone to come and save me, and where were you when my best friend died, huh, where were you then god, where was my miracle, where was my shining beacon of light!?!" he screamed as he looked at the building from left to right in anger and frustration. "ANSWER ME!!!!!" his golden aura grew larger and flared upward as he screamed again at the empty building.
Lightning cracked and thunder boomed across the sky as Brian slammed his fist into the ground, causing a large crack in the pavement. His aura faded back into nothing as tears began to mix with the heavy raindrops rolling down his face. Brian whispered as his voice cracked in a soft tone. "Where are you now?"
Brian looked up as he heard a car pull up behind him and could see lights casting a large shadow of him on the wall. He turned his head around to find Jessy and Zach stepping out of the car and into the pouring rain.
"Brian, thank god I found you." she yelled as she ran toward her lover.
"Stay away from me!" Brian barked in a harsh and threatening manner.
Jessy was suddenly scared stiff from Brains rage and harness of tone. "Baby I… I'm sorry I…"
"Save it! I don't need you or anyone else, besides if I'm so much like my father than why would you even want to get near me!"
"Brian, I didn't mean it I…" she began.
"Bullshit! If you didn't mean it you wouldn't have said it." the golden aura suddenly shot out of his body, flaring up wildly. "I don't need you or anyone else!" he turned his back to Jessy and look toward the pitch-black sky.
"NO!!" Brains' attention was turned toward Zach's sudden outburst and his aura disappeared once again "I won't let you run away from your problems anymore! Its time you turned and faced them like a man!" a few sparks of electricity pulsated from his body as he spoke. "I will not let you walk away from the best thing that's happened to you in a long time!" he unclenched his fists and softened his tone. "You've got a friend that will always stand at your side and a girl that loves you and would do anything to make you happy and you wont run away from that, not tonight."
"Watch me" Brian said bitterly and looked back toward the sky. Brian's body lifted from the ground slightly as the golden aura surrounded his body again.
Brian suddenly shot upward into the sky, then stoped in midair, turned around and shot forward, toward the horizon.
Jessy fell to the ground, sobbing uncontrollably.
Zach looked up at Brian then glanced down at Jessy and he was filled with a horrible rage. As the rage built inside of him, large sparks of electricity began flaring out of his body. "You will not run away anymore." he whispered under his breath as he held out his open palm towards the ground and firmly grasped his wrist with the other hand.
Electricity began swirling around his arm and into the palm of his hand creating a ball of pure electronic energy. "You think you're the only one with powers Brian!?!" Zach screamed out at him as the ball of lighting grew larger and more powerfull as electricity from the air, and Zach's body, were drawn into it. "Well think again!!!" he roared as he flung his arm upward in Brian's direction, forceing the ball into a bolt of lightnig that shot straight at him.
Brian looked back just in time to see the bolt of lightning make contact with his back and send an extreme jolt of pain through his body. He lost his concentration and he fell to the cold hard ground below landing roughly and sliding forward.
For a moment, as Brian's body lay motionless, Zach felt worried, but his wory quickly changed back to anger when he saw Brian stirring from the small crator he had left.
"You wanna play like that, huh." he pulled himself to his feet and his aura returned. "Fine then, lets play!" with that, he shot forward, flying rapidly, straight at Zach.
Brian stoped not even a foot in front of him and landed a hard hit straight to his face, flinging Zach's head backwards. Brian took this opurtunitie to charge a small amount of positive energy from the air in both his arms, increasing the strength and speed in them greatly.
Then, before Zach could even turn his head back toward him, Brian began landing a deadly series of hits on him, letting his fist strike wherever they flew. He finished the last bit of energy he had charged with one powerfull blow with his left arm into Zach's stomach and while Zach was kneeled over in pain he landed the last powerfull hit with his right arm straight to Zach's face, twisting his whole uper body in that direction.
Before Brian could charge energy again, Zach created a quick ball of lightning in his hand then closed his fist, super charging his whole arm with raw power. Zach then slung his arm, carrying all his body weight with it, and landed a powerefull hit straight to his face, sending him flying backwards. Brian was stopped by slamming hard into the brick wall of the church.
Brian recovered just in time to see Zach running straight at him, his right arm reared back, swirling with white lightning. He ducked just in time to avoid the attack, sending Zach's whole arm straight through the church wall. Brian quickly rolled behind him and took the opertunitie of Zach being stuck in the wall to charge his leg with enough energy to take down an elephant.
Brian lifted his energy-filled leg and kicked him hard in the back, sending him straight through the wall and onto the ground, creating a thick cloud of smoke. Brian created a small ball of energy in his hands and threw it into the dark cloud, generating a small explosion. He then walked into the smoke in search of Zach's remains.
When the smoke cleared enough for Brian to see the ground he saw no trace of any one and he looked up just in time for Zach to land a good hard hit into his face, flinging him across the room and into the wall. He did not even have the cance to look up before Zach was on him again. He grabed Brian by his already tattered and torn shirt and slamed him into another wall then punched him hard straight through it. Brian rolled into the hall and hit his back hard against the other wall. Zach, yet again, punched him straight through it and into the main sanctuary. Brian was stopped by ramming his back into a pew.
Before Brian could even slightly recover from the last hit, Zach grabbed him by the shirt again and flung him up into the baptism pool. Zach begun charging electricity in his arms yet again as Brian attempted to recover from the series of blows he just endured.
Brian was able to pull himself back up to his feet. He looked down at his drenched body and clothes. A sudden fear struck him when he looked down at Zach, whose body was again swirling with white lighting. Brian attempted to start flying but Zach began shocking him with two powerful bolts of electricity before he could get off the ground, sending an incredibly intense agony throughout his entire body.
The lighting that Zach had charged had faded but his rage hadn't. Zach leapt over Brian landing directly behind him. He turned him around and punched him hard in the face shooting his body hard back into the pews, breaking several straight in half. Zach hoped down and began walking slowly toward Brian again.
Brian snapped himself out of the daze and saw Zach walking towards him. He quickly charged his arm full off energy and grabbed the half of the pew his arm was resting on and slung it at Zach, shattering it into pieces on his shoulder.
Zach looked back at him, after recovering from the sudden blow to the side, to see Brian flying straight at him. Brian caught him by the stomach and continued flying, breaking through every wall until they where again outside in front of the church where Jessy could still be found on the ground crying.
Brian then began flying straight upward with intent to end it quickly by droping him from over a thousand feet in the air. Zach suddenly recovered and realized what was happening and grabbed Brian's sides sending as much electricity surging through his body as he could. Brian just withstood the pain and continued flying upward until he could take it no longer. He lost consciousness about 500 feet in the air and both Brian and Zach began plumiting to the ground.
Zach, almost completely drained of energy, sucome to the high G's caused by falling so fast and lost consciousness.
Jessy watched in horror as they both finally hit the ground, both of them creating there own separate holes in the pavement from the force of their impact. For a moment, she thought she had lost them both but she was proven wrong when she saw something moving in both the craters.
Before she even had time to celebrate the miricale that they had survived the fall, she saw Brian's golden aura rising from his crater and lightning swirling in the form of a giant half circle in Zach's crater.
"AAAAAGH!!!!" Brian screamed as he struggled to charge as much energy as he could into a large golden orb in the palm of his hand.
"RRRRRR!!!!" Zach was holding his hand, open-palmed, above his head creating a center for all the lighting. He was drawing electricity from his surroundings into the half circle shape spiraling around his body.
The orb of lightining surrounding Zach was suddenly sucked into a small ball of lighting in his hand, he then closed his fist, putting all the lightning into his arm, and began sprinting straight toward Brian with his arm at his side ready to sling it upward and end this once and for all.
Brian focused the large energy ball into the size of a marble and closed his fist, in order to contain it all in his already bruised and worn out arm, and began sprinting straight at Zach, his arm reared back ready to put all his weight into one final blow.
As soon as they where in stricking range of each other they both flung their arms at one another but before any contact was made Jessy jumped between them surrounded by an orb of constantly swirling air stopping both of their attacks from making any contact what-so-ever with anything but the wind. When their fists made contact with the orb surrounding Jessy it instantly forced their hands into the direction the air was circling. Brian's fist was sent upward while Zach's was sent down, forcing them both off balance.
Before Zach and Brian even realized what had just happened Jessy used an incredibly powerful gust of wind out of each hand to shoot them both backwards, causing them to fall flat on their backs and loose all the energy and momentum they had built up into their arms.
"That's enough!" Jessy screamed, looking back and forth between the two, tears still rolling down her face mixing with the down-pour.
Zach and Brian both drug themselves to their feet and stared daggers at one another. There was an uncomfortable silence for a moment and you could cut the tension with a knife between the three.
Brian suddenly turned his back and his aura reappeared. He looked over his shoulder straight at Zach as he lifted off the ground.
Zach began to advance on him but something stoped him. He looked down at what was stoping him and saw Jessy's hand on his chest.
"Just let him go." she said with her eyes beginning to glaze once more. Zach backed off slightly and allowed Brian to make his escape.
Brian took one last glance down at Jessy before he turned his attention to the sky. He took off like a bullet into the air and, within minutes, he had disappeared into the horizon.
Even with Brian far from sight they both continued to stare up at the sky for a while, both of them thinking the same thing, but only Jessy dared to speak it "will we ever see him again?"
"I don't know, Jessy" Zach said as he steped into his car and Jessy followed close behind "I just don't know." The thunder roared as they drove off into the night, both of them knowing that nothing would ever be the same again.