Chapter Three:
My hand reached down to the tube that was stuck to his nose, but I suddenly stopped as a voice shouted at me through the glass window. I turned my head and noticed a man in a suit and tie looking at me and he was calling to others.
I smiled and a laugh escaped my lips. Were they stupid? Did they want to run to their deaths?
Suddenly, I snapped out of it. I looked at the man and gritted my teeth. "What did you do to me?" I hissed.
"Hey, get away from Sylar!" I looked up just as a man came in and shot a stun gun. But as it came inches close to my face, it stopped in mid air. My eyes moved down and the pieces of the stun gun fell to the floor.
"No, she can't have that ability," the man hissed.
I raised my hand and felt the energy of the electricity pulsing up from my chest to the center of my palm. Blue sparks formed a ball of energy in my hand and I thrust it forward. The ball of lightning made contact with the man's chest and sent him flying backwards. He crashed against the wall and the blue electricity violently pulsed through his body.
I chuckled and walked past Sylar - was it - and up to the man who cringed on the ground. He knew who that man on the table was.
I bent down and looked at him in the eyes. "Who is Sylar?" I asked.
The man looked at me with an expression that said, "I will not tell."
I raised my hand and focused on an electric ball I wished to form in my hand. As it did, I looked back to the man. "Tell me – who is Sylar?" I asked again.
"H-he's a serial killer – someone who kills people with abilities to only take their abilities. He's a dangerous man and we lock up people who are dangerous." The man said.
"Who's 'we?'" I asked.
"The Company," the man said. "It's an organization – well, I said it before – we lock up people with abilities because they're dangerous to this world."
I gave a smile. "You bet they are." I said before I placed my hand which sparked with lightning on his shoulder. His body convulsed as the lightning slithered across his body. I stopped quickly and he hissed painfully.
"What powers does Sylar have?" I asked the man.
"H-he has Intuitive Aptitude, Telekinesis, Alchemy, and Imprinting." The man explained.
Telekinesis… that was probably what stopped the stun gun… but how'd I absorb it from Sylar? Wait, what if I had a power that made me absorb abilities?
"Is there an ability to absorb another ability?" I asked.
"Y-yes," the man said, voice dry.
"What is it?"
"Empathic Mimicry," he explained.
My eyes narrowed. "Do I have it?"
"Y-yes." He said.
A smile spread across my face as I allowed another bolt of electricity to pulse through his body. He screamed painfully as his heart stopped from the shock. His body slumped down onto the ground, eyes wide with terror.
I laughed before getting to my feet. I raised my left hand and turned my head to look at the dropped stun gun. I focused all my energy on the stun gun. I wanted it to come to me – I wanted to move it to my mind. The stun gun shook on the ground before lifting up into the air and flying into my hand. I gripped it, and then slowly ungripped it. I focused on it and took my hand out from under it. With this telekinetic ability, I could lift it and move it with my mind, but it was taking a lot of control.
When I closed my eyes and lost my concentration, it dropped to the ground by the dead man's body. I needed to work hard on controlling this ability.
I turned back to look at Sylar. I couldn't let him go right now but he could be useful later on. Right now, I needed to hunt down other people with abilities and absorb it to become one of the most powerful people on the planet – maybe even stronger than Sylar.
I smiled as I headed for the exit of the faculty.
My murder count: 1 – er… counting my brother and mom – 3.