Chapter 2: Powers
Daniel walked back to his class when he finally calmed down and his powers no longer appeared, he try not to stress for all he knows stress could trigger his power. As soon as he arrived everyone of his classmates stared at him, Elise how ever was giving him the stink eye. 'What exactly did I do in the past life to deserve this shit?!' He mentally stated. "Are you okay Daniel?" His teacher asked with the worried look hence the first name usage. "Y-yeah everything's all good here... hehe." He added a weak chuckle, he still felt everyone's eyes on him so he quickly got back to his seat and covered his face with a book. He couldn't focus on the lesson due to what happened to him, when the bell ringed he quickly got up and walked outside the room. But as he reached the door Elise and 2 of her friends Blocked him, one was a blue haired chick named Samantha Jefferson, the other was a brunette named Carol Morris both were also pretty also attractive. 'Great' He mentally stated. "Uhhm... can pass through?" Daniel said but they just keep giving him the stink eye. Daniel Cleared his throat. "Can I pass through... Please?" Still same treatment. "Uhh... Simon says can Danny pass through?.. No?... Well worth a shot, what do you want from me?" There was silence but then Elise finally spoke. "You're pathetic! Attention seeking creep!" Then they walked away. 'Ooookay... that was weird.. what was that about. hmph I've heard worst insults.' He walked to his next class which was Algebra nothing happened he still couldn't focus on class. And then lunch period started Daniel went to the cafeteria to get a sandwich and a bottled water and went straight to the roof top to eat in peace. When he was done eating he still got plenty of time to sit idly by, but he decided to try something. He tried to use his power, he focused and stared at his hand but nothing happened. He tried again but still nothing. "Was that all just in my head?" He kept trying and trying until his finger tips started smoking a little bit. "Woah! Okay! Okay! Okay!" He started to panic and even more smoke came out "Shit! Oh fuck!" His hand started glowing the burning charcoal color until tiny flame particles started coming out of his body mixed with black smoke that quickly disappears. He tried putting it out by tapping his hands on his shoulders with the fear that it might burn his clothes. He couldn't stop the particles and smoke from coming out of him but the he noticed that it didn't even singe his favorite 3/4 shirt. His panic turned into amazement. "Woah! It doesn't burn me or my clothes." He tried experimenting he saw a flower pot and ran towards it but instead he turned into smoke and went a meter away from the flower pot 'note to self learn to control that smoke dash thingy.' He mentally stated. He walked to the pot and tried touching but nothing happened. "What?! So this powers can't do damage! It's just for show!" With his frustration he hit the pot with his fist and it disintegrated to ashes. Daniel's frustration soon turned to shock and joy he smirked and realized. "I get it! If I intend to destroy something the powers work!" He tried focusing in his breathing to conceal his powers, it took a bit of time for him to fully conceal his powers but for him it was progress. "Okay so I just need to relax in order to conceal it. Got it. Welp time to go to go to class." he finished his water and threw the bottle on the recycling bin and went to his next class. The rest of the day fly by with Daniel still can't focus but this time he got a burning question he wanted an answer to. And that was 'Where the hell did he got his powers?' he kept thinking until he realized that all of his classes for the day was over, and it was time for him to go to work.
He reached Bill's shop and greeted him. "Sup Bill!" Bill replied shocked. "Kid! Boy you're a sight for soar eyes! I though you weren't coming in today?" Daniel replied in confusion. "Why wouldn't I come in for work today?" Bill couldn't believe the kid. "Well uhh... Because you just came out of the hospital duh! You took one hell of a hit you even cracked the wall when you were sent flying by the blast!" He pointed to the cracked wall. Daniel stared at it in disbelief. "I did that!?" He touched his back and trying to recall what happened before he woke up from the hospital, but it was all in vain he failed to remember anything all he remembered was he was revving the bike and the black sphere glowed bright red and then there was darkness. "The sphere!" He exclaimed. "What!?" Bill looked at him in confusion. "The black sphere Bill! Where is it!?" He asked. "Well to be honest kid I don't know... all I found was you lying unconscious 10 feet from the bike... by the way I scraped that bike project.. the sphere just disappeared when I got back." He sighed. Daniel felt guilty and looked down to his shoe. "Sorry Bill." He said on a low voice. "For what?" Bill asked in confusion. "For the bike... it's my fault it exploded... I kept revving the bike and it triggered the sphere to explode and now you lost it." There was nothing he can do besides apologize. "Are you seriously blaming yourself for that? No... We didn't know it would've exploded on the first place!.. it should be me who should apologize kid... not you! You understand?!" Daniel just nodded the guilt never leaving him. "Now we have orders of 4 by 4 metal plates it's quite a big order so we better get to work Dan." Bill said. "Okay we better get started then." There was nothing but the sound of metal clanging for the rest of the afternoon. "Alright kid that's enough for today." Bill said "Oh! Okay." Daniel replied "Start locking up kid!" Bill gave the order to close the shop, it was 6:00 pm. "Bill is okay if I stay here for a bit? I just gotta do my homework here." Bill looked at him with confusion but allowed him to stay. "Alright kid but be sure to lock up okay? Now I'll see you tomorrow!" Bill went out the shop waving him goodbye. "Thanks bill see you tomorrow!" Daniel quickly locked the shop and closed all the windows and went to the junk yard of bill's shop. He then sighed heavily and focused on what he wanted to do with his power and then it activated grey and black smoke began to emit from his entire arms including the firefly like particles. "Alright! Lets try to practice smoke dashing... now how should I do this?" He asked himself. "Screw it I'll just go for it! I'll try to dash through that rusty old truck." Daniel then ran to his objective at full speed then he notice his body didn't turn to smoke, he tried saving his head from hitting the rusty truck by turning his entire body sideways. "Crap." He managed say before he slamming his shoulder and his entire left arm. [Crash sound] he dropped to the floor in pain holding his left arm with his right applying pressure. "Yup!... ughhh!..that definitely dislocated...mmhhmm!" Holding his breath in pain. He stood up still holding his left arm. "Might as well try to return it to it's original position." He took in a deep breath before slamming his shoulder again on the rusted truck. [Slam sound and cracking sound] "mmmmhhh! Oh God this is so painful!" He fell down the ground again but then notice the ember particles coming out of the area where his shoulder was dislocated. "Woah! The pain is gone! I have healing factor?! Oh yeah! I forgot about that!" He facepalmed and grinned a mischievous grin. "I think... I'm [Invincible Title Card] okay probably not... but I can heal!" He exclaimed. He decided that's enough practice for one day, I mean the kid pretty much experienced immense pain after slamming to a rusted truck and dislocating his shoulder for heaven's sake give the kid a break... sorry.. just explaining anyways he went home, had dinner with his aunt, fixed his door knob, brushed his teeth and went straight to bed.
-The next day Daniel's POV
I walked my way to my first class when I encountered Elise Avalon. "Well if it isn't the creeper himself Daniel Frost. Don't you have any friends!?" She said trying to insult me, people in the hallway laughed in unison. "Nope, why? do you wanna be my friend? It looks like you could use one." I replied, people then started 'ooing' Elise looked embarrassed due to my reply, I then felt guilty for embarrassing her. I was never the type of person to confront or to spit back at snarky comments. "W-why would I wa-" She stammered her words but I cut her off. "I was joking." I said in a low voice so only she could hear, Elise didn't reply. "Look I get it... you're popular, rich, and drop dead gorgeous and by that I mean really really really gorgeous." Elise was taken aback and started blushing. "And you act bitchy because you're afraid people will think you're weak.. look I know you don't like me and I don't have a problem with that.. I can't control who you like or don't like." I stopped for a moment. "I-I don't-" She said but I cut her off again, yes I know rude but I can tell she's having a hard time talking. "Listen you don't have to go out your way to insult me or degrade me I'm used to it.. and non of what you say affects me in anyway shape or form... anyway have a good one." I finished and walked away she was still standing there lowering her head as I was walking away I could hear some people say 'what did he say to her?' or 'Why is she just standing there?' The day went by without any interesting event happening except for the thing Edward did after hearing about what happened to Him and Elise earlier but that is a story for another day, on the rooftop during lunch period however I tried playing with my powers a bit but it somewhat got out of control a smoke ball shot from my right hand hitting one of the fence grill of the rooftop. "Woaw!.. that's new... how the hell did it poke a hole on that metal fence grill?" I asked myself. From the looks of it the smoke ball had flaming embers mixed with the smoke so that probably costed the metal to melt. "Okay gotta work on that later."
-Later that same day-
Daniel got to Bill's shop starting a head without him on the metal plate order. "Hey Bill!" He greeted him enthusiastically. "You started without me!" Daniel said. "The shop wasn't that busy kid so I might as well get a head start the buyer's gonna pick this up 3 days from now so we better get to it." Daniel then hurried and changed to his protective gear and then started working on the metal plates. As soon as they were done Daniel asked Bill's permission. "Bill can I stay here late again? I'll be sure to lock up." Daniel crossed his fingers. "Sure kid... might I ask why though?" Bill questioned him. "Ummm... homework it's much more relaxing here than at home.. hehe." He lied. "Okay if you say so. You can stay if you wanna stay, you don't need to ask permission." Bill said ending the conversation and bid Daniel goodbye. Daniel then locked up and went to the back and entered the junk yard he walked until he reached his destination which is the rusted pickup truck.
"Hello old friend." He greeted the truck. "Alright it's time to do this again, let's not dislocate our shoulder though." Daniel closed his eyes and took a deep breath and activated his power, it only took him 15 seconds to do it this time. "Hmm.. that was faster than earlier." He then ran full speed with determination and poof. He turns to smoke and successfully smoke dashed through the truck. "Woooohohoho! Yeah!" Daniel screamed in victory. He then continued smoke dashing through a few more rusted cars. "Yeah! Now I got the hang of it!" Daniel shouted again jumping in the air on his third jump however he managed to launch himself 8 feet in the air. "Oh ow! Ahhhhh!" He screamed in terror. [Thud] he landed with both of his feet with a loud thud it even created a small shallow crater and some cracks on the ground. "That should've hurt." Daniel said shocked at what happened. "Okay that's also new.. first the smoke balls now this? I wonder how many abilities do I have." He question himself. "Okay I should try the smoke ball thing now... How did I do it though." He tried feeling his powers coursing through his veins focusing it on his hands and aimed at the the rusted pickup truck and then he shot it from his hand blasting a skee ball sized hole on the trucks door. "Hmm.. so that's how it works." He kept repeating what he did blasting a bunch of holes on the truck, then he noticed he was pretty tired. "Okay so this drains my stamina. Alright that should be enough for today."
He kept practicing every day after Bill closes the shop until he managed to master the smoke balls and smoke dash he even manage to muster a bowling ball sized smoke ball which was very dangerous he blasted and melted the entire door of the rusted pickup truck. He got an idea that he wanted to try, he then focused his power on his fists and it glowed into a fiery ember color surrounded by thick black smoke. He then punched the rusted pickup truck and he managed to dent the body on his first punch then penetrated the second punch he kept punching until all his punches penetrated holes into the truck until he remembered the night his father was shot. His powers deactivated as soon as he punched the truck, his fists stopped glowing and the smoke dissipated. His right fist made a sickening crunch. [Crunch] Daniel screamed in pain. "Yup that's broken." He then took a deep breath reactivating his powers and healing his broken hand. "So it deactivates when I remember a bad memory, okay I have to look into that one. But for now that's enough practicing." He said with a smile.