Duncan POV
People always assume that I'm a criminal, what with my attitude, appearance and basically everything about me.
I kind of guess they are right.
I've been in and out of Juvie for most of my life.
I barely know my family, they say that I've changed for the worse but I say I've changed for the better.
I've had more fun in the last year than they have in their entire lives.
Okay, maybe not the best idea to go opposite the family tradition of cops, but I love the feeling of the steal, car, money, whatever. It's all good. I like to be able to do what I want, say what I want, write on whatever I wanted. I was on the run for a good month one time before they put me away again. But I always get out of Juvie in the end, but it only takes me a couple months at the most to get tossed back in again.
My family would always be there, telling me what I did wrong, where I could fix up my act, bailing me out of the slammer when I was put in for the night. Of course I didn't appreciate it at the time and just pissed my family off even more when I was caught a few hours later. They loved me and I took that for granted.
But at least I could always see them if I wished.
You see.....Something happened to me. Something big.
I used to be just another kid, rebellious but at the same time I was calm, normal, you know....but not anymore.
There was another fight in the yard, some guy tried to beat me in a fight. He and his loser friends ganged up on me, then my friends joined in. Let's just say it got from bad to worse quickly, I was on the ground and the guy punched me again in the face.
I saw red, I felt hot, I was angry so when I raised my fist again and hit him he jumped back.
I thought I won the fight, I did, don't get me wrong. But when I really looked at him a saw this giant burn on his face, his was bleeding badly and the hair near his face was burnt away, his face black with ash. I freaked out, this guy had this massive burn on his face and it wasn't there before I punched him.
I looked down at my hand and saw that a few red flames were flickering in the palm of my hand.
I shook my hand furiously and the flame went out, then I looked around for any burns. When I found now I started to wonder where the flame came from, I certainly didn't have my lighter in my hand.
When I looked back to the guy he ran away, along with the rest of his friends. My friends cheered but I just looked at my hand in confusion. Suddenly helicopters were flying above the yard, everyone scattered as did I, trying to get out of the way.
But then I felt strong hands around me, pulling me towards the helicopter. I tried to fight it but then they knocked me out. I woke up in this white room, I started to freak out and I found out my power.
The thing about me is that I can control fire.
Yeah, that's right.
The guy with the hot head can actually control fire.
For a whole week I practiced non-stop in that little room, I practiced sending out the flames, to kill really, I wanted to make those agents who put me in the white room pay. I practiced everything I could and when they opened the door to try and get me out of that room I tried to set them alight.
As you can guess it didn't work since I'm getting off the jet right now and going to a boarding school that will 'look after me'. But as they shoved me out of the car they warned me that if I caused trouble they'll put me in a place worse than Juvie and the white room.
We all got off a plane after a 5 hour trip into the middle of no where, it was a long trip but I found out a lot of interesting things. One being some new friends (Geoff and DJ) and two I found one other person who annoys me so much I want to kill myself but I also find interesting. Seeing as she was taken the same way I was.
Courtney Williams is the only person I have to say that makes me want to kill her but also want to be around at the same time.
I don't know what her power is exactly but she did tell me that the second it turned up she was dragged out of her school by her arms and thrown into a van, given an hour to pack then taken away from her family and home and dragged here.
The reason she made me want to kill her was because the whole time on the plane we argued over everything possible. I don't know, she was kind of hot so I decided not to set her on fire, but was very tempted.
So very, very tempted.
When I saw Geoff glance at that mulibu girl again before we landed (I know her name is Bridgette or something, but I like to give people unfortunate nicknames.....just the way that Juvie has raised me) I had to ask "Dude, you like her or something?"
"Don't know dude, maybe...she's pretty hot" he said in such a calm voice I had to laugh at him. Geoff, good man for a laugh or a party. His parties are legendry! A couple of guys who came through Juvie for a few weeks were always part of his parties, caught somehow when they went a little too crazy at those parties. I almost got to one of them one time, but I was caught vandalising a building and I was taken right back to Juvie.
That stupid voice came over the intercom "We have arrived at your destination, we hope you have a nice day and enjoy Glison Academy for Powerful Teens" so Glison was this place I was going to, I snorted and undid my seat belt when I could.
"Come on guys" I said, getting out of my chair and grabbing my bag that had my very few belongings in it. "Time to get this over with"
"I don't know" DJ said, getting his own bag and grabbing Geoff's and handing it to him "I think it will be pretty cool" I raised my eyebrow at him and he still smiled at me. "What? I like school!" he told me, taking his bag and walking away.
"What about you?" I asked Geoff.
"What about me?" he replied.
"Are you happy to be here? At this school, I mean" I asked, we backed into our seats for a second as Trent and Gwen walked past us.
Geoff gave me a thoughtful look and let me walk in front of him, "I don't really know. Depends on what the school is like, laid back then it's all right with me. Uniforms and I'm going to make a break for it"
I laughed "Yeah, me too" Geoff gave me a goofy smile and followed me off the plane.
As everyone got off the plane they all yawned and stretched, I cracked all of my knuckles and my neck "Ew" Courtney said as she pushed past me, Bridgette smiled at Geoff and then gave me a friendly smile.
"Same to you babe" I yawned, jumping down the last step and turning toward the cart that had all of our bags on it. Everyone was trying to shake their legs from sitting for so long and some of the girl's were trying to fix their hair. A very noticeable princess was trying in vain to get her hair to sit perfect and hold her very large carry on bag at the same time, accidently hitting Malibu in the back.
Bridgette stumbled and feel into DJ. DJ set her right and Bridgette turned around and glared at Courtney, who just gave her a weak smile.
I find people fascinating, being in prison you can kind of pick up how some people will react to a situation. If they will completely freak out over a change in the schedule or if they will be all cool with it and just go with the flow.
Courtney, she's the first option. I mean, if I took her PDA right now I doubt she wouldn't know to pick up her bag or jump off a cliff. And Bridgette, total opposite of that, if I tell her there has been a change of plans and we have to get on a bus and go back the way we came, then I think she would be the first one on there trying to find a pillow.
I laughed again and watched as everyone interacted and went to collect their bags.
"Your attention please" someone said in my head.....huh, I thought I would go crazy in the white room, not out of it "You're not going crazy" the voice told me, that's exactly what the voice in my head would tell me. I stood up straight and turned around, everyone had the same look I did. Who, or what, was that?
"I am you principal" the unspoken question was answered out of in my head. So....the little voice in my head is the principal?
This dorky kid with a sweater vest on, without looking up from his book, said quite calmly told us all the answer, "The principal of our new school, has the power to read and control minds"
"Why thankyou Noah for that introduction." This time the voice didn't come from my mind, but from the side of the group, the voice belonged to a woman, about 40 or something, she wore a pant suit and had short black hair and glasses and a rather cocky look on her face, hey no one deserves to have that look on their face but me! "Good afternoon everyone, I am your new school principal, Miss Watson, and this here is Chris Mclean" as she gestured to a man with a horrible fake grin, and perfect hair.
"But you guys can call me Chris, I will be your mentor and your house master" he said with a big grin at the end.
DJ looked at wonder around the area, looking for something that Miss Watson and Chris could hide behind and end up there in a moment. I think Watson knew this though because she simply said "Chris Is a teleportor, he took me down here and he will take us all back"
Queen bee (Heather, I think, bit of a bitch....hot though) asked "How is that supposed to work out?"
Watson smiled at her "Well, grab onto that bar there" she said, gesturing to a long metal bar that I never noticed before, was dividing the group in two "Hold on tight, and Chris will take us back to the school" she continued.
"But what about our stuff?" a whiny voice came from the crowd, I looked around and saw this hot blonde next to the Queen bee, Lindsay, I think. She is one of the dumbest girls I have ever heard, in one moment on the plane I heard her confess that she forgot her middle names sometimes...I mean there is dumb and then there is just plain stupid.
Miss Watson nodded "Lindsay, your bags will be taken up to the school. Now would you all grab onto the bar, hold on tight, we don't want someone trapped in the Jason"
This is where I had to say something "Uh excuse me miss, in the Jason? What is that, some evil model?" I asked, making scary noises at the end. A few people laughed at me.
Watson gave me a very cruel cold smile "Don't push your luck Duncan. I've read your report and it says that if I ever think you are not trying to make an effort to fit in then I can send you to an even worse place than the white room" I gulped and nodded my head at her. Telling her that I understood.
She straightened her jacket and continued to talk to the rest of the group "Yes Duncan, the Jason, if you let go of the teleportor while he is between worlds, if you let go, you will be trapped in that world until someone rescues you, but I have to say it is difficult, the chances are that you will never be seen again, so with that out of the way, let's go"
What the Hell?
Stuck forever?
Is she crazy?
Apparently not because she lifted her hands in the air and smiled warmly at us. She placed a hand on the bar, and everyone followed. Courtney walked up next to me and took the bar opposite me her friends Bridgette next to her "Would you stop being an idiot?" she hissed at me while Watson explained the procedure of this little trip.
"Sorry, can't" I told her. "But why do you care?" I asked, turning my head to the side innocently.
Courtney blushed furiously and I smirked, "I don't" she hissed. That was the last conscious thought I had before we were ripped out of this world.
I felt like I was on a roller coaster, except that it was 10 times faster, we went from 0 to a thousand miles a minute beackwards, we were jerked from our world into the next. For a second I saw some sort of world, it was all fire and rock, boiling hot.
I was reminded of hell.
But as soon as I saw the never ending world, it was gone. We landed on solid green ground again and my legs gave out, along with everyone else. I held onto the bar, not by my own choice though, my hand was frozen to it.
The princess grinned at me while I smirked back, melting the ice easily. She glared back "Just stop it. You don't want to go back to the white room" she asked, stood up and wiped her hands on her shirt.
"How did you know about that?" I asked as I stood up.
She gave me an up turned look "Where did you think they put me?" she told me and walked away with Malibu who was following Watson. I shook my head in amazement and followed her.
Miss Watson led us around the grounds of the school, which was huge. I mean, the big house was big and everything, but this was amazing. There was green grass and stone paths, big brick buildings, at least 3 surrounding us, the largest building at the back which was 4 stories high. I was guessing those were the dorms.
The building we were walking into now was the second largest. She lead us past the gym saying that we would partake in power lessons once a day here, she pointed out some of the teacher's offices saying that if there was a problem with school work, we could go there. There was the sick bay where if there was anything wrong with us we have to go to, the special detention room (what makes it so special?),and, at last, the auditorium, which we entered.
A hundred teens were in there, some were nerds which I could beat up, some were hot, you had the defiantly popular kids, and the punks, slackers and whatever. I haven't been in a real school for a good year, it felt nice to get back to some sort of normal ground again.
Granted that these kids were all freaks like me, some even looking like freaks. Some of the teens here looked different more so than usual, one boy was red as the devil, complete with horns and tail, he gave us a smirk and turned back to his friends, interesting school I see. She led us to the front of the hall and told us to sit down in a row of seats, I sat next Geoff and this loud and proud chick, Leshawna, I think I heard someone call her before.
Miss Watson got on the stage and started her speech "Students settle down! With a new school year brings new faces to the school. I would like to introduce you to the newest students here, they have been chosen to attend the school and will be starting at the junior level of power class, please help them if you can."
She then went on to talk about other stuff, the rules of the school, new activities which that people could join, some groups being very select about them, just normal school stuff. I started to get bored after about 5 minutes and pulled out my lighter and played with it.
"As you all know, the town down below is not filled with friendly people, as some of you have already found out. Please do not go down to the town if you can ever help it, because unfortunately, the school grounds is about how far my authority can go" huh, I thought she can control minds "I know that all of you know that I can control minds, but there are some minds that I can't control"
"If you were ever caught down in the town that's it. You're on your own. I can't help you and neither can this school. So please, never go into the town. This concludes this week's assembly, you proceed onto first period" the noise of a hundred people getting up at once started and the forever noise of chairs being moved out of echoed around the room.
I started to get up but I was pulled back down by Geoff, "Dude, we have to stay back"
"We do?" I asked
"Yeah, weren't you paying attention?"
"Nope" I confessed. I wonder why we have to stay back, sure, we have to learn about new classes and all that, but I would assume that they would let us get a book or something first...not that I would ever write in it. I don't know why though, I should pay attention more, they could be getting ready to eat us and wouldn't even know.
"Do you know why they are keeping us back?" I asked him.
"Nope" he told me.
"Well, the gym teacher is going to take us to the gym so we can see the other's powers" the guy in front of us said, he was this gapped tooth dork "The rules say that we have to tell our class mates our powers, so they are taking us to the gym so we can see how powerful we are, also, they have to tell if we actually do have powers."
Leshawna hearing us leaned forward and joined in "And if we don't have powers?"
"They wipe our minds and send us back home" he said
"Okay then" said Geoff "Show your powers or have no memory, got it"
