Chapter2: Discovery

I looked at Dylan and asked "okay so got any ideas bud? I mean on how to solve these questions we have to find the answers to" Dylan woke out of the state of wondering he was in and looked at me "Yes! First off we need to add one more question if threes one are there more? And I think we should answer what powers this thing has first. It makes since rite?" He said as he was tossing the gem up and catching it over and over. I snatched it out of the air and said "HEY! Stop that you mite break it or something! Then who knows what will happen" "Okay! Jeeze you so oversensitive to that stone" "DUH! If you found a magical stone that has the engraved with your favorite element on it that has powers and I was throwing it you'd get all bent out of shape to" Well for starters my favorite element would have to be fire. For two we don't have one now do we. So anyways we no it gives you speed which in every video game I've ever played wind powers come with speed but can you do anything else with the power of the gem? Have you even tried" "Well? No actually I haven't, want to go outside and try?" "Why are we still sitting here inside?" We both jumped up and went outside. Dylan looked at me and said "Okay so try and jump" "Okay ill give it a shot" I said as I jumped. Sadly I jumped my normal jumping height. Dylan thought for a moment then explained "Maybe you have to try and tap into the gems power. Try and think about you and the gem being apart of each other or drawing energy from the gem." So I took his advice and closed my eyes and thought of the gems energy and me absorbing it I felt tingly and so I jumped with my eyes still shut I herd Dylan yell out "WOW!" and I opened my eyes I could see the top of my two story house I was way in the air! Well above the top of my house. I freaked out in mid air and started flailing around and was falling head first. Rite before I hit I closed my eyes and focused and a gust of air shot out of me and flung me up again. Not as high but still high enough for me to have the time to regain balance and land in my feet. When I looked up at Dylan's face he was pale. He probably thought I was going to die or something. Just then he yelled "WHY DID YOU PANICK! You almost killed yourself!" "Yea but I'm fine aren't I?" "Well yea, but what if" I interrupted him "What it!? What if the sky fell what if the world come to an end! What if….oh wait I can basically fly HAHA!" we both started laughing and I gave him a hug. "Ok! We know you have jumping and speed and some air gust thing lets try that some more" "Ok. Ill try" I said as I closed my eyes again and focused the energy from the gem to the palm of my hand. I felt a power there. With my eyes still shut I drew back my hand and flung it forward in a judo stance I learned a while back. A gust of air flew out of my palm and blew the trees back. Not like a lot back but enough to knock leaves off the trees and a few twigs. "WOW! This is cool! I wish there was one of fire and I had my hands on it" I thought about telling him about my dreams with the battles of fire and wind but, something told me not to. "Yeah! We'd be the elemental two!" I said rite before we both started to laugh. Well what to do now we both said. "Well I'm kind of hungry and drained its hard to use this stones power it uses my energy to I'm guessing. Or maybe I'm not using it to the fullest of its powers. You know like not using it rite." I said as I walked in my side door. "Well that mite be rite and all but I'm a little bit hungry to" Dylan said as he followed me. "Hey! Lets cook those pizzas you know the ones I BOUGHT" Dylan looked at me confused. "yea I bought them as in you owe me" "Yea rite cause you totally didn't live at my house for like all of last month" We both started laughing again. "Ok well you better enjoy this pizza" I said putting the pizzas in the oven. "I will! They look scruplicouse" I think it was a combination of scrumptious and delicious, I don't know he's crazy. I walked into the living room and sat on the couch and looked at Dylan so "So Dylan how about our next question? Are there anymore of these stones if I found like the only one, then what are the odds of that. I bet you there are more but are they all wind?" in my head I knew that there were others because of the dreams and I knew there powers were different but I can't tell Dylan that hell obsess over finding a fire one. Just as I was thinking that Dylan said "Yea I hope there is ones with different powers because that means there probably is a fire one." I thought to myself yup see that's exactly why I can't tell Dylan about my dreams. "Yea we should go to the park in a little while after we eat" I said. Dylan looked at me. "Why" "Why not go it will be fun" "Ok well go but what are we going to do there" "I don't know we can….practice my powers on the water. Wouldn't that be cool way to practice?" "Yea I guess that would be cool" "Hey mom after we eat can you take me and Dylan to the park?!" I yelled through the house from the living room. I heard a faint "Yea sure" from my mother and me and Dylan both yelled back "Thanks mom!" Just then the oven timer started beeping. I walked in there and got an oven mitt. When I went to grab the hot pizza pan Dylan nearly dived on me and said "NOO! That one is messed up look at the thumb" I did and saw that it had a hole in the "ginah" of your hand. You know the spot in between your thumb and the pointer finger where they connect to your hand, it was there. So I took it off and bent it in half and grabbed the pan in the fold of the glove. "Yea I have burned myself on that a lot of times over here." Dylan said as he was staring at me. "Okay well thanks for saving my hand dude. Will you go grab the pizza cutter it's in the top drawer rite there?" I pointed to the drawer it was in. "Yea sure thing bud." He walked over to the drawer and got it for me and gave it to me as I was cutting the pizza my mom walked in and asked "Why do you gees want to go to the park?" Dylan began to reply "We want to train Alex in using his" "MY!! New ability I learned how to do a cartwheel." I interrupted Dylan because I knew he was going to blow my cover. "Oh well that's a good reason I guess" My mom said as she grabbed a slice of pizza that I just got done cutting. Me and Dylan chowed down on the pizza splitting it between me him and my mother's two pieces. As me and him were eating we were talking. I said "Dude no one can know about my powers if they found out either they wouldn't believe you or they would freak out and shun me, or call me a witch or something." "Yea I'm sorry I wasn't thinking you know I have those times. Like the time I was in class with Jeff and he stabbed that X-acto knife into that board and the teacher asked who did that and without thinking I was like 'that kid did it' and Jeff was like 'shh dude' I was like 'OHHH! sorry'" "Yea I remember you telling me that story" "Ok well I'm sorry about that" "Its okay just don't let it happen again I mite not be there to save you next time" I said as I finished my last piece of pizza and my mom walked out of her room with good timing and saying "Are you guys ready to go to the park?" We both replied "Yes!" "Okay go get in the car guys." So we both went in the car and sat down waiting for my mother to come out. As we were sitting there we both had ideas that I could try to do with my powers. I said "I could try and combine with the other elements around me like fling water and make waves with it and the leaves if I blew them around fast enough could cut things" "Yea and you could use the dirt to blind enemies if you ever have any" "Yeah!" "Okay shah my mom is coming" jus then she opened the door to the car and got in the front seat and started the car up. "Sorry had to go to the bathroom first" "Yea we know mom you always have to go to the bathroom rite before we leave and you make everyone think that you are ready to go when your not" I said as we backed out of the drive away and started on the road. On our way there me and Dylan and mom all sang poker face by lady gaga. And laughed about it. I hate that song and think lady gaga is a dude and he isn't a very good singer. Dylan absolutely loves lady gaga and needs to get a life. My mother doesn't really have a good preference on music and so it doesn't matter what she say's. We got to the park and me and Dylan got out of the car and walked down to the river. We passed the sign that said 'Welcome to Festus west City Park'. This was defiantly my favorite park besides Johnson's shut-ins witch was breath takingly beautiful. As we were walking down by the lake Dylan suddenly said "Stop!" I was like "Why" and he said "…..SQUIRL!!" We both started to laugh again because it was an inside joke you know the movie 'up' by Disney well the dog, Walter I think his name was, he always does that and we thought it was hilarious. And so it became a joke. We were both still laughing and then we both stopped and I said "Rite here! This is were I'll train myself and you can be my couch" "Yeah! Sounds like a plan buddy" "Okay so what should I try to do trainer?" "Well since it would be totally cool try and make a wave." "Okay!" So I extended both of my arms out and opened my palms towards the water and closed my eyes and began to breathe slowly while I was focusing. The wind started going wild around us and then I motioned with one arm in a sweeping motion then a hug wave about 15 feet high swept across river going down stream. "WOAH! That was awesome dude!" Dylan had a jealous face as he said that "Freaking sweet!" I said as I looked at Dylan's disappointed face. "Hey Dylan don't be down about it you know I would share my powers with you if I could, rite?" "Yea but you can't and we both know you can't. We've tried already. And besides I don't want wind powers I want fire it would be way cooler." "Well I know but at least you get to tell me what to do with my powers." "Yea but its not the same" Imitating a line from sonic the hedgehog o'6 I said "All I need from you…is your smile" Witch made Dylan laugh and I freaked out and screamed "DON'T TOUCH IT" witch is from a YouTube video me and him love. Witch made him laugh even more "See there you go that's how your supposed to be" I said smiling at him. "Okay! So I think you should try your idea with the leaves this time on this stick" Dylan said as he stuck a stick in the ground about two centimeters thick and about five feet tall sticking out of the ground. "Okay!" And just then I pointed my open palm at a nearby tree and without thinking about it flung may arm towards a tree and the leaves flew off of it and headed towards the stick at extremely fast pace. If you blinked you missed it! When the leaves hit the stick the stick was cut all over it and the leaves cut into the ground as well. The top part of the stick was cut off it looked pretty gruesome. "I wouldn't want to be in the way of that attack" Dylan said as he picked the stick out of the ground looking at it in almost fear. "Yea tell me about it. That would do some damage to human flesh" "Yea. Well mites as well try our last idea" "You mean my idea rite" "NO! The ideas were mine to." "Okay" I said with a sarcastic voice "Yea you know they are" "Dude I was just kidding jeeze. Okay so how do I focus on only blowing the sticks of the trees without blowing the leaves off them?" "Well focus on only breaking the sticks off not the leaves. Try and aim here" He said as he drew a circle in the ground about five feet by five feet. "okay ill try" I said looking at the branches with my palm towards them I focused for a while then motioned my hand towards the circle and the sticks went flying off the tree as the gust of powerful wind hit them. Some leaves flew off but most stayed attached to the flying sticks. As the leaves still attached hit other branches, they were cut and caught in the wind adding more material to the moving gust of wind. The sticks embedded themselves in the ground a good two inches. Me and Dylan walked over and looked at the circle with astonishment. "I didn't think I was going to be able to do it!" "Y---yea me either" Dylan said stuttering" "Well then!" "Okay well we can try the next idea" "Well we could but I here people coming lets go deeper in the woods" "I know lets go to the part of the river were the swimming hole used to be before the snakes came." "Okay." We both started towards the woods fooling the river and before we got there heard a splash and ducked In the nearby weeds. We both saw a huge explosion of water on a nearby tree. And heard footsteps coming around the bend up ahead. "Psst Dylan" "What?" "I think that was a water ball someone with powers shot at the tree." He looked up at the dripping tree. "Maybe." Just then we heard a familiar girl's voice say 'HYAAA!' and then a water ball flew around the corner at the same tree and exploded in nearly the same spot. "Dylan it defiantly is someone with powers I can feel the presence of there gems aurora" "Really?" "Yea." Just then the girl stepped around the corner. IT WAS……!