Disclaimer: Do you really think I own anything other than the people you haven't heard of before? ... That's what I thought.
Chapter Four: Unity
"Could this semester get any worse?" muttered Caleb under his breath as he paced around the book of Damnation. He raised his voice slightly. "There's nothing in the book on how to stop this thing. Do you know anything about how to kill it?" he asked the girls.
"The only thing I've heard is that the eight of us have to find some way to combine our powers. Oh, and once we kill Nathaba, the aging curse will be lifted from you guys," Rem said. She was still shaky, but had convinced Caleb to let her out of bed. The eight of them were now sitting around the book, save Caleb, who was still pacing.
"Maybe we should practice on something. Like moving things together?" Tyler suggested. "We'll keep it simple at first and then we can step it up after we know how to work with each other."
"That sounds good," said Reid and Caleb at the same time. "We should start out in teams of two," Reid said. "And then teams of four, and eventually all eight." Caleb nodded in agreement.
Everyone divided up, and making sure that all the window drapes were closed, went to a different room to test their abilities. Caleb and Rem stayed in the basement; Reid and Brianne were in the living room; Pogue and Monica were upstairs in Pogue's room while Tyler and Kira took the attic.
Reid and Brianne were the first to run into a problem, seeing as they were both so headstrong, that neither would listen to the other. "You're not even trying!" snapped Reid.
"You're just weak!" Brianne retorted.
"Excuse me?!"
"You heard me!" It was at that moment that they both directed their anger toward the sofa which shot up to the second story and then burst into pieces. "Hm," they both said in unison.
Tyler and Kira found that they could work easily together. They had no problems, so they had sat down and began to talk. "So, Kira, um, we don't all get attacked tonight," Tyler began, but had trouble getting the words out.
"Dinner?" Kira asked.
Tyler smiled, "Yes."
"Sounds good."
Pogue and Monica easily discovered that they were like fire and ice. She was passive while he was aggressive; the list went on and on. "This isn't going to work," muttered Monica.
"Yes, it will. Otherwise we'll all die," Pogue replied.
"That's optimistic." said Monica.
"I am a bit of a pessimist."
"A bit?"
"Ok, I'm a big flaming ball of pessimism. Happy?" Pogue smiled as Monica laughed, her whole face brightening. They both jumped, hearing the couch explode, and went to the next room, Caleb's, to see what had happened. "Dude, Caleb is going to kill you!" Pogue laughed, looking down the hole at Reid and Brianne, both of whom were laughing to hard to reply.
Caleb and Rem couldn't hear all the noise above them. They were too deep in concentration. They could work together, but they hadn't figured out how to combine their powers. Until, "Hey wait!" Caleb exclaimed. "If we can will our power to another person, why can't we combine our powers the same way? Then it'll be like a big collective of power, and we can defeat Nathaba and Gaius."
"Sounds like a plan," replied Rem.
Caleb spoke a few words very softly, and then waited; it seemed that nothing had happened until he and Rem both screamed.