Bang!
I watched the bullet coming at my chest with wide eyes. I saw my whole life flash before my eyes. I shut my eyes tight, waiting for the impact, but a scream of pain in front of me made me shoot my eyes open. Steven was standing in front of me. My eyes widened and my mouth was partly open.
"Steven?" He fell forward and landed on the ground. "Steven!" I ran to his side and turned him over. Blood was soaking his shirt. I felt his pulse. It was still there, but it was faint. "Steven, come on. Don't die on me. Steven?"
He coughed up some blood.
"Look I… I'm sorry, okay. I-I'm s-sorry that I-I sold you o-out."
"Steven, stop talking," I said. "You'll only die faster."
"I'm… sorry."
Tears were falling down his face. I turned to the others.
"We have to help him."
Chu-Hui pushed through the crowd and came up beside me.
"There is a way to save him."
"What?" I asked looking at her.
"If your friends combine their powers together, you'll be able to save him," she replied. "But you don't have much time." She looked behind her. "Slade got away Rocky Wolf. You can save him."
She patted my shoulder and walked away. She vanished as she walked. I looked down at Steven and back at the others.
"Come on," I said. "I think I know what to do."
Courtney, Sheilee, Lea, Alan, Ariel, and I got in a circle around Steven. Courtney summoned her black magic, Sheilee controlled the wind, Lea formed gas-like ice, Alan summoned his spirit, Ariel summoned her invisible spirit, and I formed a Midnight Tornado.
"On the count of three," I said.
"One…" Lea said.
"Two…"
"Three!"
Our powers went towards Steven. They touched him, the tips of our attacks connecting together. Our attacks grew bigger and there was a blinding white light. Our powers came back and crashed into us, knocking us to the ground by the force of them. I sat up. Electricity sparked around Steven. I slowly stood up and walked towards him. Electricity jumped out at me, but I didn't even flinch.
Steven eyes slowly fluttered open and he sat up, holding his hand to his head. Electricity came out of Steven's wound, pulling the bullet along with it. His wound healed shut and he stood. He stared at his hands as electricity formed in them.
"How did I-?"
"Steven?"
He looked at me.
"I'm alive?" he asked.
I grinned.
"Sure looks like it."
"But how?"
"My friends and I combined our powers to save you," I said. "Somehow you got powers of your own. And it looks like electricity manipulation is what you can do."
Steven manipulated more electricity. It flowed around him. He looked up at me.
"Thanks for saving me… all of you," Steven said turning to my friends. "I'm sorry for what I did. Do you guys forgive me?"
My friends smiled.
"Of course we forgive you," Sheilee said. "Whose not to like?"
"We're with you all the way," Alan said.
Steven turned back to me.
"Thanks."
I stuck my fist out and we bopped fists.
"No problem."
"So what should we do to celebrate our victory?" Courtney asked.
Courtney was very excited that a flame burst in front of her. We all looked at her in bewilderment. She looked at me.
"I didn't do it," I said.
"Did we get new powers or something like Steven did?" Ariel asked.
"Not sure," I said. "Try getting excited or something."
"Let me try."
Alan transformed into his wolf self, but instead of having only claws, ears, and tail of a wolf, he turned into a full wolf. He stood on his back paws and changed back to his human form.
"Alan! You can turn into a full wolf now!" Ariel shouted.
By doing this, a chunk of Earth rose into the air in front of Ariel.
"So you guys do have new powers," Beast Boy said. "What can you do Lea?"
"Not sure. But I think I have a clue." She concentrated and water appeared in front of her. "Knew it. I can control water. It should increase my ice powers greatly."
"What about you Rocky?" Robin asked.
"I don't know," I said. "What else out there has more than one manipulation?"
Everyone thought about that for a moment.
"Well you can control all the elements," Steven said. "Maybe you can change people's personalities."
Beast Boy snapped his fingers.
"I got it! You know how Raven needs to keep control all of her emotions?" We all nodded. "Maybe you can control people's emotions!"
I gave Beast Boy a smile.
"Wow, Beast Boy has a point." I looked at Raven and willed happiness into her mind. She laughed, but covered her mouth. "Ha! It worked!"
Raven gave me a death glare.
"I don't do happy."
I laughed nervously.
"Sorry Rae." I noticed Sheilee looked slightly sad. "What's wrong?"
She looked up at me.
"I guess I couldn't get a new power like you guys."
"Well what have you've always wanted to do?"
"I always wanted to fly."
Starfire got all excited and jumped up in front of her.
"Friend Sheilee! In order to fly, you must feel the joy of flight! Think of something joyful!"
Sheilee looked at Beast Boy and smiled.
"What was your joyful thought friend?"
"That I was married to Beast Boy."
Beast Boy fell over in a very anime-ish way.
Then the wind picked up around Sheilee and she disappeared in a tornado. The tornado vanished and Sheilee was in the air. But what was really peculiar was the black wings on her back. She looked at them and laughed.
"I can fly! Schweet!" She did a few back flips and spins. She circled around us and landed in front of me. "But you're lucky. You get all the cool powers. First control of elements and now the control of emotions? Man you suck!"
I smiled.
"I'd take bat wings any day."
The sun was slowly going down over the horizon, making the sky and clouds have a beautiful orange look to it. It felt like a warm summer day on the beach.
"Let's go Titans," Robin said. "Jump City needs its heroes back."
"I heard that dude," Beast Boy said.
We headed for the exit to the parking lot and I saw Johnny Rancid trying to get away from the crowd.
"Yo Johnny! You got something for me?" I hollered to him.
He started running the opposite way.
"I'll take care of it," Ariel said.
A wall of Earth rose in front of Johnny, stopping him in his tracks. I walked up to him, my arms folded across my chest.
"Where's my 200?" I asked.
"I ain't giving you jack shit Wolf Boy," Johnny said. "You just got lucky."
Sheilee whispered in my ear.
"Give him fear."
I smirked and sent fear into Johnny's mind. He backed up into the wall of Earth and shuddered.
"Okay! Okay! Here's your fricken money!" Johnny yelled, holding cash out in front of me. "Just stop doing that!"
I made the fear vanish.
"Thank you Johnny," I said, taking the money from him. "I'll give you my address so you can mail my helmet to me. I'll allow your butt some comfort and let you get out of me kicking your ass. And I want a dragon printed helmet that can match my board."
"Fine. Can I go now?"
I gave him my address and he pocketed it.
"Catch ya later Johnny."
He walked away into the crowd. Sheilee flew up into the air and looked around.
"Some tall blonde chick is coming our way."
We turned around and sure enough a tall female that was about Lea's height was coming towards us. She stopped and gave me a smile.
"Can I help you?" I asked.
"I just want to say that your powers are so awesome. You're Rocky Wolf from Grants Pass High right?"
"Yeah."
"I go there too. My name's Meghan, with an H."
I laughed slightly.
"Hi."
"Do you have powers?" Beast Boy asked.
"I'm a vampire," Meghan said. "So I don't have many friends because sometimes my cloaking powers for my teeth and eyes turn off, revealing sharp fangs and tinted red eyes. I'll show you."
She closed her eyes and reopened them. Her eyes were tinted red and she grew vampire fangs. She closed her eyes again and reopened them. Her fangs shrunk to normal size and her eyes turned back to blue.
"Wow."
"Schweet!" Sheilee said. "I've got bat wings now. That's pretty cool."
"Thanks," Meghan said.
"So you want to be one of our friends?" I asked.
Meghan smiled.
"I certainly do."
I stuck my hand out.
"Friends it is."
We shook hands.
"Do you need a lift home?" Lea asked.
"That would be great actually," Meghan said. "I think I live close to you Lea. You've rode on my bus before."
"Yeah, I've seen you on my bus before."
"Come on guys. I want to go home. We'll try finding Slade again later."
We arrived at the T-van and everyone got in.
"Are you guys ever going to tell your parents that you have powers?" Raven asked.
I looked up at her after gazing out the window.
"Probably not. My mom would flip and my dad wouldn't believe me. Venus, she would think I was a freak. She already thinks that since I know you guys."
"Your sister annoys me," Beast Boy said.
"She annoys everyone," I said.
"She thinks she's a know-it-all too," Courtney added.
"Good thing none of us have siblings," Beast Boy said.
"Not all siblings are bad," I said. "My oldest sister Abby in California is cool."
"And I have an awesome brother," M said. "He got me into the skateboarding business."
"I'm an only child," Meghan said. "But what's weird is that my parents aren't vampires. I think I might be adopted."
"Maybe," I said. "Lea and Meghan's stop is closest. So take a right Cyborg."
"You got it man."
He turned left on the next street and right on Lea's street.
"It's the second house on the right."
Cyborg stopped at Lea's white gate. She and Meghan got out of the T-van.
"Guess I'll see you guys at school," Lea said.
"And me," Meghan added.
"Bye guys."
Lea and Meghan walked to the front door and walked in.
"Where to now?"
"My house," Sheilee said. "But I think I'll fly home to test my wings out better." She opened the door and got out. "See ya on Monday."
She took flight and flew above the clouds. It was getting darker, but the glow of the sun could be seen.
"I'm going to go run like a wolf home," Alan said. "See ya guys. Bye Ariel."
"Bye Alan. See you Monday." He turned into a wolf and ran north towards home. "I'll go home by myself too. I can test my Earth powers out this way. See ya guys."
She too got out of the vehicle and summoned Earth. She took off to the west.
"We'll take M&M home," I said. "Courtney and I live really close by, so we'll go home last."
"Can I come over to your house?" Steven asked.
"Sure."
We drove to M&M's Skate Shop and he got out.
"See ya later dawg."
We drove towards my house and arrived ten minutes later. We got out of the T-van and said good-bye to the Titans.
"Make sure you keep Jump City safe guys," I said. "I'll contact if anything goes wrong."
We closed our doors and headed for my front door.
"Good-bye friends!" Starfire shouted gleefully.
"See ya Star!" I called back. They drove off and we walked into my house. We went into my room and I closed the door. I faced them. "Okay, since you didn't trust Steven before, I want you guys to shake hands. Call a truce right now."
Courtney eyed him wearily for a second before stretching out her hand. He stared at it for a few seconds, but took it all the same. They shook on it.
"Welcome to the good side Steven," Courtney said.
"Thanks. I truly am sorry you know."
"Yeah. I know."
I smiled.
"I'll ask my mom if you guys can stay over," I said. "I'll be right back."
I left my room and found my mom.
"Hi Sweetheart."
"Hi. Can Courtney and Steven stay the night?"
"Sure Rocky."
"Thanks ma."
I returned to my room.
"She says its fine. Let's go play video games."
We went to the computer room and played Okami. I cheated by putting stupidity in Courtney and Steven's minds.
"ROCKY!"
"Sorry!"
I was happy to be home, with my friends, our powers, and Steven getting his own power of electricity. But before I would be truly happy, there were a few things I had to take care of on Monday… like apologizing to the people I used my powers on. That would be my toughest battle yet.
"Sure you want to do this?"
"Of course I do," I said. "I use my powers for good, not evil." I walked in Shannon's direction and stopped behind her. "Hey Shannon?"
She turned around and looked at me in disgust.
"What do you want loser?"
I smiled.
"I just wanted to apologize."
"Apologize for what?" she asked.
"About the prank I pulled on you," I said.
"What prank?"
My smile fell.
"The one with the water fountain," I said. "With the dirt and the mud."
"That was you!" she shouted.
I gulped.
"Yeah and I wanted to say I was sorry," I answered. "I am anyways."
"You Bastard!" Shannon yelled. "You made me look like a fool!"
I put my hands up in defense and walked back a few steps.
"I'm sorry! It was stupid, I know! But I mean it!" I backed up and hit someone behind me. "Oops."
CRASH!
I was head first into a large trashcan. I heard someone walk up beside it.
"That's karma for ya," Courtney said.
She grabbed my foot and pulled me out. A banana peel was stuck to my head. I picked it off and threw it back in the trashcan.
"Remind me to stay away from Shannon Pierce… and her posse."
"Okay."
I shook my head and went into the bathroom. I washed my hair in one of the sinks and fixed it up. I shook my head again to get rid of the excess water. I walked out and followed Courtney out towards the busses.
Now I was happy that I sorted everything out with the people I picked on with my powers. The sun was shining very bright.
"So, you apologized huh?" Sheilee asked.
"Yep. And I'll never use my powers for evil purposes again," I said. "I'll only use them for good now unless I really need to use them."
"Good to hear," Lea said.
"Who wants to go out for pizza?" Meghan asked happily.
"Let's go."
Yep, everything was going great.
What could be better then hanging out with your friends?
Me: Well guess what? This is the final chapter! WOOT! You heard right; part 2 is now officially over. Now only part 3 to go and my trilogy is complete. Booyah! Please leave a very lovely review for meh 'cause I love them. Take care and I'll post part 3 September 6th for it's the first day of school for me. I can't do it the weekend before because I'm going to California all weekend. Catch ya guys with part 3 September 6th. :3
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