Okay for the record, I am sorry that my first chapter was lame. I haven't had time to upload anything else since that so again I apologize. I hope that the next chapters are a bit more interesting and that you all give me feedback. Good or bad, I would love to hear what you have to say about my writing. Every writer needs criticism to make his/her work better. Thank you and enjoy.
DISCLAIMER-- I DO NOT OWN SKY HIGH OR ANY OF THE CHARACTERS FROM IT. I WROTE THIS STRICTLY FOR FUN AND AM NOT MAKING ANY KIND OF PROFIT OFF OF THIS.
The next morning as Tara started to wake up, she noticed that something was wrong in the room. Realizing this she kept her eyes closed and tried to read around the room for any thoughts. She found her brother who had just stepped into the room invisibly and was about to spray the two girls with a water pistol.
"Don't even think about it Demitri." Tara said sleepily as she opened her eyes and sat up.
"Aw! Sis, why do you have to use your powers first thing in the morning?" He asked her as he became visible.
"Because, if you would have done what you were thinking about doing, I would have roasted your ass and you know it." She said as she turned to wake her friend. "Cass, wake up."
"Hm?" Cassidy said opening her eyes and rubbing them. "Morning Demitri. Why do you have a squirt gun?"
"Because Mom told me to wake you guys up for breakfast." He said. "But Tara stopped me. Hurry up and get ready guys we gotta leave soon."
As soon as Demitri left, the girls got up and changed into their school clothes. Cassidy was wearing a kimono style shirt that reached about halfway down her thighs and a pair of navy blue jeans, her brown hair was half up and then put into a bun. Tara decided that for the first day she would wear her pink leggings under a Tripp skirt that was black, with pink ribbons hanging around it. Also, she wore a pink form fit long sleeve shirt that covered her hands from the thumb down and had a hole for her thumbs, over that was a short sleeve, black shirt that reached right below her ribcage and had Happy Bunny saying "do i look like i care?" across the front. She grabbed her black low-top converses, and topped it all off by straightening her hair and applying her make- up. When the two were ready they grabbed their school bags and headed downstairs.
After breakfast, the three teens went down the street to the bus stop as they waited for the bus to their school. When the corner of the street came into view, they saw another guy standing there as well. He had on jeans and a leather jacket, and his brown and red hair was about down to his shoulders. It was Warren Peace again. The whole ten minutes of waiting for the bus to Sky High was an overly long awkward silence in which even Tara and Cassidy didn't talk.
After the interesting bus ride to Sky High, and the even more lovely "welcome" from Speed and Lash, all of the freshmen were taken by Principle Powers into the gym for Power Placement. The placement went by fairly quickly. The teacher, Coach Boomer, called students up and asked them to show their powers. Then based on those, separated them into Hero or Sidekick. Tara was almost immediately put into the Hero class, while Mariette just barely made it because she almost blinded Coach Boomer. Cassidy was close to becoming hero, but was put into the Sidekick class. However, she didn't mind. The last to be classed was a girl named Layla who refused to show her powers, saying that she didn't believe in using them unless she had too. Boomer immediately put her as a sidekick and dismissed the class to lunch, ordering them to return for the rest of placement afterwards.
"At least you guys got the same classes." Cassidy said as the trio got their lunches.
"Yeah, but you aren't gonna be with us." Mariette said as they searched for a seat. "At least we'll still have lunch to hang out."
"And we have a free period right before the end of the day, remember?" Tara said as she picked up her hamburger and took a bite. While her friends started to have their own conversations about their summer, Tara started to look around the cafeteria. Part of her was just looking around spacing as she always did, but the other was searching for one person in particular. Before she could find him however, a wave of nausea hit her hard and her head began to throb.
The last thing she remembered was Cassidy putting up a quick shield so that she wouldn't hit the ground, and a ton of voices in her head. The last face she saw was Warren Peace sitting alone at a table looking at her. Then everything went black.
Tara woke up in a white room that she knew was the infirmary. "Hello Ms. Langley. How are you feeling?" the nurse said as she walked over to her. "Uh, I've got a massive headache but other than that fine." Tara said as she sat up in the cot that she was laying in.
"Do you know what happened in the cafeteria today?" The nurse said, giving her an aspirin and, checking Tara's pupils as she spoke.
"Actually yeah. I just got my mind reading power a month ago and Dad told me it would take a while to control it." Tara told the nurse. "I did this once over the summer at the mall."
"Thoughts got to be too much did they?" Nurse said. "I've had some with your case before. Just try to stay focused on something when you're head starts to hurt like it did and you should be fine. You're friends are very helpful, if not for Ms. Shields you'd have a concussion right now."
Tara smiled. "Yeah, we tend to watch out for each other."
"Well, Ms. Langley, everything seems to be just fine so if you wish you can go to you're next class." Nurse said just as the bell rang. "You missed the last bit of Power Placement, but seeing as you've already been placed that's not a problem. I believe you're first class is starting."
"Ok, um thanks." She said grabbing her messenger bag and leaving the infirmary. Right outside the door were her two best friends, looking as worried as could be.
"Tara, are you ok? What happened back there?" Mariette asked.
"Everything's fine. I just spaced out and couldn't control my telepathy is all. No big deal." Tara said shrugging and tucking her hair behind an ear as the three headed off to class.
"Dad told you to not space out, remember T?" Demitri said, coming up behind the girls. He'd clearly seen the incident in the cafe.
"I know Demitri, but its just hard to stop an old habit. Don't tell him about it please?" Tara begged her brother. "I don't want to have another week of training. I can deal and I promise to try and stop spacing until I can get this controlled."
"Ok, but one more time and you have to train again." Demitri said, turning the opposite direction. "And be careful."
"Will do big bro." Tara said rolling her eyes.
"Over-protective isn't he?" Mariette said as he became out of earshot.
"Cute though. Can't deny that." Cassidy said turning her head back from looking at the older Langley.
"You've been crushing on him since like sixth grade Cass. I think it was when we played spin the bottle." Tara said, causing her friend to turn bright red. "I still say you guys should just make-out and get it over with."
"I second that motion." Mariette said raising her hand and smiling. "You guys always give each other these looks anytime you're near each other."
"On another subject, here's my class so I'll see you guys later." Cassidy said changing the subject and heading into a classroom as her friends laughed and waved goodbye.
"What do we have again Mar?" Tara asked as they continued down the hall and up a flight of stairs.
"Um, I think we have Power training." Mariette said. "Which power are you gonna train with?"
"Fire of course. Only thing I can do with the telepathy is meditate and you know how much I hate staying still." Tara said as the two entered a gym like room on the second floor. It would've been just like a gym with its weights and machines, except for the specialty things in it that catered to different abilities. Like a heat proof room , a weight set that went up to 3 tons, and other things that Tara wasn't really sure were.
"Hello freshmen, as you already know from earlier I'm Coach Boomer." the coach said when everyone was in the room, although not all of them were freshmen. "Today will be the first day in Power Training for the majority of you. This class is one of the very few classes in which you will actually be encouraged to use your powers in school. You will soon split up into groups based on your abilities and those who carry similar ones. After this, you will find the equipment in this room that pertains to said powers and train as a group to help yourselves control and direct your powers correctly."
Everyone looked around the room at the various machines and equipment. After letting everyone search the room, Coach Boomer continued by calling out names and splitting everyone up.
"And last but not least we have the only two pyro-kenetics of this class, Langley and Peace. " Tara tried not to show surprise in her face as Boomer continued. "The only thing necessary for today is to see what you can do so far. Super strength uses weights, Mind movers see how much you can move at one time, and so on. Get to work."
Tara and Warren both headed over to the Heat Proof room that they'd been directed, to see how hot they could get.
"So the fire ball was you huh?" Warren said once they'd gotten inside and the door was shut.
Tara nodded in response, "The first flame was yours then?"
"Yeah. Didn't know you were a Langley though. Now I know where you got that little mind power." Warren said.
"Ok, get ready to start up kids." Boomer said through the speaker.
"I know about my dad, Stronghold's dad, and your dad Peace. My brother told me." Tara said, now glaring at the boy in front of her.
"Langley, you just made a big mistake there." Peace said glaring back. "No one talks about my dad."
Just then his arms flamed up from the elbow down. Tara mimicked his action but lit hers from the shoulder down. The temperature gauge on each side of the room went up according to each of them. Tara's was higher by 5 degrees.
"Pretty good. Lets see if you can go higher than this." Peace said as he made the flames on his arms go up to his shoulders and the flames themselves shoot higher. Now it was his temperature that was higher, by 10 degrees.
"Oh, trust me I can definitely go hotter." Tara said as she concentrated on the flames on his arms. Suddenly her flames shot about 4 feet from the top of the room and were now 20 degrees higher than Warren's.
Warren smirked and made his flames go just as high as hers were but 5 degrees hotter. Tara then increased her temperature by another 7 degrees, which put her ahead by 2. Warren had a look of extreme concentration and then his flames began touching the ceiling of the room and went up another 10 degrees, he was now ahead by 8. Tara got hers to the same height and interestingly enough, one degree higher than his. This went on for another 10 minutes until the two were only battling by mere points but were at the same full degree in heat.
"Class is over kids. Power down." Boomer said through the speaker. The two extinguished themselves and the room cooled down to normal.
"This isn't over Langley." Peace said as he headed towards the door.
"Not even close Peace." Tara said also heading for the door. There it was, an unspoken arrangement between Tara and Warren. They were now enemies.