The ground was cold, just like my life now. All that schooling and training for nothing. Everything I'd ever worked for was gone. I felt bitter. I worried about my family, but Nate just kept telling me that the Ganguards wouldn't touch, hurt, or intervene with anyone non-powered/gifted as long as they didn't get in their way.

When I got up, Nate was training Chase and teaching him how to hunt and kill. Chase easily grew back to Nate, but between Nate and me, our friendship had changed somehow. (Probably because of all the things that had just happened to us…..i don't know ....just a wild guess.)

"You all ready to go", Nate asked from behind me?

"Ya, where to", I responded?

"Anywhere, we just have to survive", he answered, "We should probably start training, getting weapons, and gathering food."

"Who and what are we going to train with", I asked?

"We'll train each other", he exclaimed! To him that must have sounded like the best idea in the world, and his ideas usually weren't the brightest ones…..but I figured…hey… what else are we to do. He turned around and threw me a sturdy stick and said, "Let's start now!"

I lunged forward with the jaggedy, rough stick. Nate quickly reacted and blocked it as if he completely knew what he was doing. Then he sliced through the air like a knife slipping through butter at my leg. It must've been reflex because I've never seen myself jump so high. I must have been at least 6 feet in the air when I saw an opportunity and took it! The next thing I knew was that I had kicked Nate into the air about ten feet till he landed flat on his back. Chase stared at me in amazement.

When Nate got back up, he exclaimed, "H…how….how did you do that?!"

"I ….don't know", I was all I could say before I heard clapping in the distance. I quickly spun around and to my amazement; there stood a beautiful blonde haired girl, about my height, blue eyes, and did I mention gorgeous. The moment was one of the finest ones I'd had in a while and I didn't want it to end, you would too if a hot chick was slowly walking up too smiling. That was one of the finest moments I'd had n awhile, until she came up and slapped me across the face. Her hands were smooth, yet the impact of the slap still had the sting of a scorpion. It hurt like HECK! But I quickly got over it when I looked up at her again.

"You idiot", was all she would yell at me!

"What the heck did I do", I asked trying to make conversation with her?; though It really wasn't that kind of conversation.

"You completely blew my cover", she said, "If it weren't for you getting all popular around the school and stuff, they never would have noticed me!"

"Wait the Ganguards came after you", I asked in curiosity?

"Why else would I be here right now", she continued to yell!

"I didn't mean to attract them……I didn't know anything about them…….I'm sorry….up until then I didn't know what I was or that anything actually existed", I said.

"He's telling the truth", Nate said. All Chase did was stare at her, which was until she caught him and threw him on the ground.

"Nate's the only one who knew about his gift", Chase decided to add. She turned around and slapped Nate, knocking him to the ground.

"So you're the one I meant to slap. Oops sorry, Garret; though you probably had it coming to you sooner or later. Anyway, so what's your power", she asked? She was probably right, I did have it coming to me. I just thought know that I ran away I'd avoided.

"Oh…I have the gift of Accuracy", Nate chuckled

"Not you, Garret", she said.

"Oh me…I really don't know", I managed to say.

"Hi, I'm Cha…Cha….", was all he could manage before I hit him on the back of the head, "Chase".

"Fine, there's a city about 50 miles from here. We'll head there", she stated.

"Wait, who made you and charge or even said you could tag along with us", Nate questioned?

"You blew my cover, practically ruined my life, and besides……I can lead and train this group a lot better than you'll ever be able to", she declared.

"Hmph", Nate muttered, probably because it was true. At that we all started to make plans, night watches, and training again.

So I'll probably never see my parents again, maybe I'll get a power or gift someday, I'll have to learn to fight and survive, a gorgeous girl just slapped and joined my party, and still have 20 pages of homework left to do; which is late now. What next?