Chapter 2: Power Placement

The bus ride itself was very interesting, kind of like a rollercoaster with all the turns and screams. Aurora had been the last one off the bus waiting for Aester to come along. When Aurora had fully reached adolescence, Aester had taken the permanent shape of a white Bengal tiger and she had been very happy with that shape. With time she had come to realize that people, who were unhappy with themselves, were actually subconsciously unhappy with the shape their daemon decided to take and she was glad she wasn't one of them.

Once out of the bus, Aurora had been marveled with Sky High's campus but she almost had no time to enjoy it since the group was quickly surrounded by a moving figure. She realized this was a student when she saw his cheetah shaped daemon. The student stopped and was soon joined by a guy who could stretch; his daemon was a spider monkey. They asked for money but were soon interrupted by a girl who introduced herself as Gwen. She had seemed really nice but then Aurora had spotted her snake daemon and mistrust began to fill her. She then decided to avoid this girl as much as possible since snakes are not to be trusted.

After Principal Powers had introduced the power placing drill, she was replaced by Coach Boomer. She had been really nervous waiting for her turn due to the fact that she was a really bad liar and her face would sometimes become red while lying. Sadly her nerves extended to lunch time because she was to go after lunch. She remembered walking with her lunch tray over to an empty table. She was never the loner type but she was afraid of being rejected if she just sat at any table. She engaged in a small conversation with Aester who was trying to give her the courage to stand up and go sit somewhere with other people. She was in the process of answering when she was interrupted by a deep voice saying "Hey you… psycho girl". Aurora looked up to see the origin of the voice and saw a good looking tall guy wearing a black leather jacket. He looked pretty intimidating and had a Black Panther daemon standing ready to attack.

He continued by saying "Why don't you go off and talk to yourself at some other table, this is MY table".

She blushed at the "talking to yourself" bit since she realized how ridiculous she must have looked talking to Aester when no one else could see him and answered "You do realize that there is room here for more than just one person right?".

She realized that she had said the wrong thing when his eyes started looking like deadly arrows and she jumped when his hands burst into flames. He gave her a warning look and in said "Move" really slowly but with promising menace. She looked at her options and remembering her promise to herself she decided that all she could do was move in order to avoid using her daemon controlling powers.

She stood up and whispered "fine, whatever" and moved off to find another place to sit. She could feel his gaze on her up until the point in which she was a fair distance away from "His" table. She saw a small group of freshman just like herself waving at her to go sit with them. She glanced back towards the boy once more and muttered the words "territorial pig" under her breath before moving towards their table.

At their table she met Jason, Luna, London, Alex and Miguel. Miguel and Luna were twins and like her they had a Latin background. Miguel had short dark brown hair, brown eyes and dark skin and had a nice average guy kind of personality- he had an American Bobtail cat for a daemon and his power was invisibility (yeah he was a hero).

Luna looked a lot like him but personality wise she was wild and exotic looking with a zebra as her daemon, her power was making voices sound like they were on helium (Boomer put her as a sidekick).

Jason was tall and muscular with sandy hair and dark green eyes but he was very calm and had a German shepherd for a daemon, his power was the ability to control water (Boomer placed him as a hero).

London was a redhead with light brown eyes and a personality to match- she "angered" easily. Her daemon was a lion and her power was the ability to talk to birds, Aurora always thought she could have made hero but Boomer didn't think that talking to birds was what it took.

Alex like Aurora still had not been power placed but he told them that his power was his ability to see…. Kind of like birds eye view. His daemon was a peacock..

She told them she had the power to heal small wounds and looked down on her food hoping they wouldn't notice she was lying. Gladly they didn't and when the bell rang she was feeling excited about having made friends.

The first guy up was Will Stronghold and knowing his family history I had been quite disappointed and had felt sorry for him having Boomer embarrass him publicly and send him to the nurse.

After two more guys Alex went up and was placed in sidekick class. When Aurora's name was called the butterflies in her stomach went crazy. She looked at her friends and received sympathetic looks from them and then looked down to Aester who gave her a reassuring look.

"Power?" Boomer asked.

"Um… I can heal small wounds" She said uncertainly.

"What do you mean small wounds? Boomer asked while giving her and intimidating look.

" Um… stuff like paper cuts and scrapes" She said becoming really nervous.

"Can you at least heal other people?" Boomer asked impatiently. Aurora felt the blood rush to her face and looking down to avoid eye contact she said "No". She was glad when she heard the words sidekick practically screamed at her.