Chapter Five:
"I'm sorry," Erica gulped. "I think you might have the wrong house." She closed the door but I stopped it with my foot. I wasn't going to let her go this easily.
"I'm sure that I don't," I spoke. "You have an ability, don't you?"
Erica looked at me with a shocked look on her face. "How do you-?"
"I have an ability too," I said. I raised my hand and allowed a surge of electricity to dance around in the palm of my hand. I looked at it quickly with a smile.
"You… you do," she said shocked. She then quickly unlocked the little metal string on the door and let it swing open. "Please, come in."
Erica had given me a glass of water as she sat down across from me in her fancy living room.
"Are there any other people with abilities?" Erica asked as I took a sip of the water.
I just shrugged. "I've only met one," I said. "But I don't know if there are any more of us." That time I lied.
Erica just nodded.
"So," I looked at her as I placed the glass back on the table. "What kind of power do you have?"
Erica just looked at my hand and a few seconds later I saw a bright light on my hand. Looking down I noticed flames licking at my hand. I lifted it up in fright but was shocked when it didn't burn me. I heard Erica sigh and the flames just dissolved off my hand into the air.
I looked up at Erica. "Illusion?" I asked.
"I think so," Erica confessed.
"That's a… great power," I said awed.
Erica just shrugged. "Sometimes I wish I never had it."
A smile spread across my face. "That can be arranged." Erica looked up at me as I swung my hand up. Her body was thrown out of the chair and against a wall.
"W-what are you doing?!" Erica cried.
"Getting rid of that power," I said as I got up out of the chair. "You see, this electric power," I raised my hand and the blue electricity sparked from it. "wasn't my first power. From the very being I was able to copy another person's power. And that includes you."
Suddenly, my body started to flame but I knew it was only one of Erica's tricks. I looked up to her and smiled. "Nice try but I know it's your ability," I said.
I turned my head and saw a bunch of CD discs. I raised my hand and concentrated on the discs. They rose up off their stand and when I swung two fingers forward, the CDs flew like sharpened weapons into Erica's body, one of them penetrating her skull.
The fire disintegrated off my body as Erica's body hung limb on the wall, held by the CD discs. Blood dripped from her head and chest, as long as her knees and arms.
I smiled as I concentrated on her coffee table and the glass. I pictured the glass full of blood instead of water and bodies laying on the sofa and chairs. The living room suddenly – almost blurred and dead bodies appeared scattered in the room.
"Nice," I said as I opened the front door. When I looked back to the living room, it was empty, just the way it was before – no dead bodies or a glass full of blood.
I like this power.
Murder Count - 7
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