11-20

I tried to get the sensing of the power down but to no success. On my last I try I thought I got a glimpse of it but I doubted it because just for a second everything went yellow.
I was tired and my family wasn’t home yet so I went to sleep. That entire night all I dreamed only about people with powers. Mainly it was just Bethany, Adam and my mom because those were the only ones that I have actually seen in use.
Midway through the night, literally mid way, at 12:00 Mike and Johnny woke me up. They didn’t yell my name, they didn’t shake me, what they did was a little different. Form what they told me Mike basically super charged me with a small dose of energy.
“Come on Trip, wake up, we decided that we need to train, and you get to come with us,” Johnny said.
I rubbed my eyes and Mike said, "Don’t give me that. I know you have energy, I just put in at least a day’s worth of energy into you.”
I got out of bed and grabbed a pair of pants and a tee shirt and started to change. Mike and Johnny were smart enough to turn their backs to me. “So why is it that I have to come with you?”
“Because you have the power,” Johnny simply said.
“How do you know that?” I said pulling my white tee shirt over my head.
“Because you took in all of that energy. Only people that have the power can take it when people give it to them. If I did that to Adam nothing would have happened,” Mike said.
“But I thought that he had a power,” I said pulling up my pants and zipping them up.
“He dose it’s just his powers run on mental power, not the earth’s power. Do you get the difference?”
“Yeah, but what about me, I hear you guys saying that I’m both,” I said sitting down on my bed putting on my socks,” by the way you can turn back around.”
They both turned back around. “That’s right buy we talked with your mom and Adam and they both said that we could get you first. I think it’s a little bit better anyways, that mental stuff gets too confusing,” Mike said.
I put on my shoes and laced them up, “okay I’m ready.”
“Hold on because this is going to get bumpy,” Mike said, “But don’t worry after your first time it gets better and by your tenth time it gets fun. Here we go.” Mike grabbed my shoulder then the world shifted around me. My room melded together into this blur of color. It wasn’t like the acid trip, hippy blur it was more of the just a dark, every color out there blur. Then suddenly we stopped and the three of us were on a beach. It was just about to be dusk and the view was awesome, but as I stood there me stomach finally caught up with me. That little trip form house to island was making my stomach do more flips than a professional gymnast on a trampoline. My knees started to fall out from under me, luckily Mike and Johnny reacted fast enough and each one grabbed me underneath my armpits and kept me standing up. I got my feet back underneath me and slowly I started to walk around the beach.
“This brings back some memories,” Mike said.
“I know it’s almost like s tradition that new powers are found here. The only person that didn’t get their power here was Adam,” Johnny said.
I realized what they were talking about. In the book they got trained on how to use the power on an island and they practiced on a beach. I took a wild stab in the dark, “Is this where you guys originally trained?”
“Yeah, even Pyra learned how to use her power here,” Johnny said.
“Not only is it just a good view but there seems to be really easy to connect to the power here. You probably don’t know what I’m talking about so let’s just start with training you. The first thing that you need to learn is how to charge up.”
“Just as a warning once you start you’ll see everything flash into a color. The brighter the item the more energy is stored in it, but don’t worry about that, hopefully you’ll never have to deal with that. So just don’t be surprised when the entire world in front of you turns orange, or some other color.”
“Not to sound naive or anything, but how do I do it? It’s not like I just say, ‘okay I want to have power’ then I have it,” I said, “you guys are the masters at this, so how do I do it?”
Mike tried to explain, “Okay remember how we said that everything has a little bit of energy in it?”
“Yeah.”
“Okay, close your eyes and imagine the world around you.” I shut my eyes and imagined the beach around me in my mind. “Now in that image in your head fill everything with a color, that represents the power. Once that’s done, try to get all of that surrounding energy to drain out of the world around you into you.”
Yellow was my obvious color of choice because of the results of my previous attempt to charge up. I just imagined all of that yellow light coming underneath me then entering into my feet.
In my mind the light started to enter me, I started to feel weird. It was like every nerve in my body just jolted to life. It wasn’t painful or pleasurable it was just an uncomfortable feeling. It almost felt like when your foot goes numb and then all the blood ruses to it, but it was all over my body, half as painful, and twice as weird feeling. It almost felt like jumping into the ocean up by New York in December but it wasn’t as cold, it just had that shock effect over my body. I doubt that through my entire life I will ever find the right words to describe that first time.
As I started I heard Johnny, “Oh, my….”
I opened up my eyes and stopped concentrating. When I opened up my eyes I saw a yellow glow dimming from around me.
“Why did you stop?” Johnny asked.
“Why did you say that? I though something was wrong.”
“It’s just we’re a little thrown back,” Mike said, “It’s just that the only people that we’ve seen or known of that could learn the basics that fast is us, and we’re the inventors of this.”
“Huh?”
“You did that faster than any beginner we know,” Johnny said bluntly, “You didn’t grab that much energy but still, most people don’t’ do that well their first time.”
I must have had a worried look on my face because Mike tried to calm me down and get my mind off of being on top of the learning curve,” Don’t worry this time just keep going and don’t stop until you think you can’t take any more. Also try to keep your eyes open this time.”
I stood there and tried to keep my eyes open. I imagined everything around my having energy attached to it and I dragged it over to me and shoved it into me. Once I mentally shoved the power to my feet I just seemed to flood in, filling me up with just raw pure energy. As the energy level in my body got higher I noticed two things. One which was very obvious to me, was that after that fist little split second of discomfort things got feeling a little bit better, but the sense that came over me after that was that I was like a water balloon and someone was trying to fill me up with energy until I bursted. I didn’t know how I was going to stop the flood of power but I knew somehow it would stop. The other thing was my vision. It was like I had one pair of eyes but I was looking at two different worlds. One was normal and colorful, except for the yellow tinge that surrounded my vision. The other world was blacks and grays. Inside of everything there was a little bit of pure white. Some of that white dropped out of whatever the item was and made a line over to me. One thing was wrong thought, when it got to me the white little line would turn yellow, and absorb into me creating a yellow glow that surrounded me, in both ‘worlds’.
I was only a half second or two into charging up when I started to look around. When I looked at Mike and Johnny with the black and white vision they both radiated white and green, in that order. (Mike was white, and Johnny was green) They dwarfed my puny yellow glow. It was like I was a first grader and they were professional football players. There was no doubt in my mind that they had a lot to teach and I had a lot to learn if I would even learn to be just half of who they were.
By then I was two seconds into this and my mental balloon was about to explode if I tried to push it any farther. It may have been only two or three seconds, but it seemed to last a life time for me.
When I came out of it, it felt like I had just slept for 12 hours and then set up an IV that pumped pure adrenaline for another hour, “Do you two ever sleep because right now, I’m wired.”
“When we’re bored or we’re forced to, we go to sleep but other than that we never sleep,” Mike said, “Now you know why we’re doing this little lesson during our middle of the night.”
“Our middle of the night?”
“Yeah it’s simple, it’s only on the east coast that it’s midnight over here it’s on 6:00 or so. Once you learn how to teleport you’ll never wear a watch, because it just gets too hard to change it all the time,” Johnny said holding up both of his wrists, both bare. Mike held up his bear wrists just to get the point across.
“So what do I do now with all of this power?” I asked knowing that the power running thorough me could do more than just keep me awake.
“We’re going to start with the basics, the fireball,” Mike said. As a side thought he added, “Have you ever seen DBZ?”
“DBZ?”
“Yeah, Dragon Ball Z, they only stole close to everything that we do,” Mike said with a hint of hatred in his voice.
“I’ve never heard of it.”
“We’ll have to change that,” Johnny said grabbing my shoulder. In an instant we teleported and I was standing in a mansion. I couldn’t tell if it was a mansion considering I was inside of it, but from where I was standing, it better had been a mansion. I was a little shook up because of the fast teleport but I shook it off. As I walked around the dark room looking around I asked, “Where are we?”
“At our house,” Johnny said, “in Holland.”
“But Holland has no big town in it. There isn’t a single house in this entire country that has electricity. Then again there shouldn’t be a single house within miles of here, wherever here is.”
“You underestimate us Trip. Mike and I planned this out just in case something like the leaders happened. We have a person watching out for the place and any second now, Mike will get the reactor core going,” Johnny said dusting off a leather lazy boy chair and sitting in it.
“Reactor core?”
“Yeah, no house is quite a home until you have an antimatter reactor in your basement. Don’t worry it was a gift from our friends over on Neptune, an illegal gift to have on earth, because it could destroy the entire earth, but a gift none the less.”
Mike appeared out of no where, “Try the power now.”
Johnny reached underneath his cushion, dug around, and found the TV remote and clicked on a TV, “Good it works, Now for the DBZ marathon.”
Mike walked over to a wooden cupboard and pulled out a tape that was labeled DBZ episode 1 year 1. I won’t go over the six hours of mind numbing animation but by the end I caught the point. DBZ was a rip off of Mike and Johnny’s life, but with a story line that could go on forever. The story line for DBZ was simple, get all the balls, make a wish, get all the balls, make a wish, try an attempt at a real emotional conflict, get all the balls, make a wish.
Midway through episode 10 or so, I looked at my watch and it was 5:30. “Hey Johnny, it’s 5:30 in New York and I have school at 6:00 can one of you get me home?”
Mike got up from where he was sitting, “We need to teach you how to teleport, I hate being a showfure.” He grabbed my shoulder and we teleported back to my bedroom.
Two minutes after Mike teleported out of my room my alarm clock rang. I quickly got ready, I changed out of my clothes, and charged up full just because only a little bit of my energy was gone and I wanted to keep it full. My thought process was that the more I charged up and the longer I kept my level at full, the more likely I was able to hold more power. I was dreadfully wrong, but it made since at that point.
I walked out of my room and outside in the hallway Adam was already up and walking around, “You’re up early,” I said to him, “If I had a choice I would be sleeping right now.”
“I would have been sleeping but I felt someone tap into the energy, and from what I can tell you were the one. So, now that you’ve woken me up, what’s your color”
“I was paying attention, all until that color thing. I don’t get it.”
“Your color, I glow blue, Mike’s white, Johnny’s green, Michelle’s red, and you are…?”
“Yellow.”
“Yellow?”
“Yeah, yellow, why?”
“I’ve never seen yellow.”
“We now you have.” “I haven’t seen a single thing yet,” Adam said, “but where did you learn this where you up with Mike and Johnny last night?”
“Yeah.” “Okay, I’ll go back to sleep I did this once and I never want to do it again,” Adam said walking down the hallway, “By the way, tonight it’s my turn. Your mom and I are going to work your mental power tonight.”
I just sort of grunted an okay and followed him down the hall because the living room where he was sleeping and the kitchen were connected.
He made it into the living room before me and I wanted to say something to him so when I passed by I looked in. I looked around the room but I couldn’t find him. I double checked the couch and chairs and he wasn’t there. As I was walking out I looked up and there he was sleeping on the ceiling. I continually thought he was going to fall but he stayed up there. I didn’t dare wake him up so I walked out and finished getting ready for school.
It felt good to finally go somewhere knowing that nothing would go wrong. For once I considered school the most peaceful seven hours of my day.
When I got back home after school a woman in a very skimpy French maids outfit answered the door, “Bonjour monsieur, how can I help you?”
I just stood there with a puzzled look on my face. The busty French maid changed into a very large body builder, “Come on puny man let me help you with that bag.” I pinpointed the muscle man as Bethany as she reached over my head and lifted me up by my backpack and dragged me to my bedroom. As she dropped me to my bed, she shifted into my dad, “And I don’t want you to come out until you’re done.” Bethany then turned into her normal form and just started laughing as she walked away. I didn’t really get the humor of this, so I just sat down and started to work on my homework. Two hours latter I sat down by the TV and tried to relax while flipping through 156 channels of entertainment. I finally found what I liked and sat there and watched. A few minutes into the show Bethany shifted from a fly or something equally small into herself, and sat down on the couch and started to watch TV with me.
During one of the commercial breaks Bethany looked over to me, “Trip, I’m sorry about what happened when you came back. It’s just that I haven’t been able to use my power for a long time, and when I do it isn’t that long. So, sorry if I went a little over board.”
“Just fine,” I said, “I just thought that you’d gone off the deep end.”
“Get use to it. Every on with a power deals with a hint of insanity every now and again. Once you use you power and kill someone you’ll be changed for the rest of you life. Just don’t let it get to you or else you’ll snap. Once you snap things get messy.”
“Messy? How messy? My brain blowing apart messy or a dog throwing up messy?”
“Messy as you go insane, start killing anything and every thing and it takes a few other people with powers to stop you.”
“I defiantly don’t want that to happen to me so how do I not do this?”
“From what I’ve seen. Fight something big and that could and almost has killed you or has threatened your family. Do not start out with someone that plays mental games. The ones that screw with your mind while they’re alive seem to have their way still after they’re dead,” Bethany said pausing for a moment to think, but there are always exceptions to the rules.”
The show on the TV came back on so we both turned our attention to the show. A while latter commercials came back on so Bethany and I started to talk again.
“Since our ultimate goal is to time travel, do you have any warnings about the past?”
“Don’t ever use your powers in public unless you have to. Right now I could go outside and change into an elephant and people would just think that I worked for the leaders. Also just get ready for a culture shock. Nothing will prepare you for the sights, sounds, and the smells, oh the smells. You’re just so use to your sterile world where every one is white, everyone believes in the same thing, and you all dress close to the same. You will flip.”
“You act as if I don’t smell or I can’t see.” I said trying to defend myself, “I learned in history what it was like then, and I like the way it sounds.”
“No you don’t. You’ve never had even the smallest of pleasures: Burger King, Techno, Rap, sushi, lasagna, roller coasters, cereal, and perfume, you have never experience. Trust me history books do no justice to the mass chaos and pleasure these are. Just don’t say any other thing until you know what a good fun time is.”
She was right I didn’t know a thing. Techno, and rap meant nothing to me, the only music I knew was classical. Beethoven and Vavaldi were the things I knew by heart. Then things like sushi, it sounded like she was from a different planet. I was a little worried. I wanted to see what all of this stuff was but I was just afraid to see if people were as harsh as I thought they were. I was also just afraid to break out of my little safety bubble. I didn’t know anything else besides every one being white and everyone being quiet and reserved. The thought of kids rebelling or dressing how they wanted was astounding. It just sounded too weird.
The show that we were watching was just finishing up when my mom walked in the door, “Trip do you know where Adam is?”
“Yeah, he said that he was going to be at Mike and Johnny’s house.”
“Their house?” her face went pale as she said it, “Do you know where exactly the house is?”
“Yeah, I was there yesterday, they said it was in Holland.” “Oh, my.”
“What? What’s wrong?” I asked, “What’s so bad with them living in their house?”
Bethany started to laugh, “The question is, what won’t they do now that they have that house back.”
“That house, I mean that castle is their playground. It’s bad enough with Mike and Johnny running around in it but you add in Adam and things get messy. They are always playing around in there. One time they flooded the entire basement just because they wanted to try scuba diving.” My mom said sitting down on the couch. “They never keep one thing for too long. One week it may all look like a club while the next it could look normal, but in the back yard they’d have a roller coaster.”
Bethany looked over to me, “Remember how I was saying that after a while, some people just need to unwind? This is how they unwind. Back in the day those three did a whole lot so they needed some sort of release. I doubt that they’ll make the same wild changes now for two reasons. One, they aren’t killing any one and two they actually will have to pay for it.”
“They didn’t pay for it before?” I asked, wondering how any one could get that much stuff and not pay for it.
“No, SN paid for it. Joining SN had its perks. Not only did you get to save the world, you also got a monthly paycheck that came in the mail even if you didn’t fight evil. Better yet being a member of SN made you immune to all laws within the US.”
My mom let out a deep sigh, “Mike and Johnny occasionally over used the immunity. Just to pay for renovations they would rob banks, lie, and swindle, to them it was all legal. They could be drug trafficers, which they were for a while, and they government couldn’t do a thing about it. I make them sound bad, but they only did those bad things when the paycheck wasn’t enough. If you want to know how much the paycheck was for them, let me put it this way. With both of their paychecks within four months they paid off everything dealing with the house, they owned it, and the land it laid on.
My jaw hit the floor. That house was huge. I only saw it from a few rooms on the first floor, and it was gigantic. It was surely no castle but it was pretty close to one.
My mom reach over to me while I was thinking about things and stole the remote for the TV out of my hand and changed it to a news program. We all sat there and watched the news. Nothing important happened.
I sat there in the chair and let my mind wander aimlessly, giving it a break from trying to comprehend everything that was going on.
Midway through the broadcast my mom got up and set the table and pulled out the packets of gray goop that made up our dinner. It didn’t taste bad because there was really no taste at all; all it did was fill you up.
As if by magic right when she got done my dad walked in. He almost yelled loud enough for the next-door neighbors to hear, “Honey, I’m home!” As he walked in he had a smile from one ear to the next, he actually looked giddy. He walked up to my mom and gave her a long hug and an even more passionate kiss.
My mom was a little shocked, “What was that for?”
“The president of the school gave me a raise, and I get to work less hours. Basically, I do three hours less of work, and I get paid the exact same amount on my pay check!”
“Good job. I wish we could go out and celebrate, but there isn’t really any place that we can go,” my mom said. Then she leaned over and whispered into his ear, “but from what I hear, Trip won’t be here tonight.”
This whole ordeal shocked me, “Hey you two, break it up! I’m not quite gone yet, and hearing you say those things, creep me out.”
My mom gave my dad a quick kiss and they broke up their embrace, “Lets have dinner,” my mom said sitting down at the table.
We all sat down and my dad said a prayer blessing the food, or at lest the semblance of what our food was. Once we got done and cleaned up the table my mom walked over to her bedroom and closed the door. About a minute latter she walked out and came into my bedroom. “Hey, Trip, get ready Adam’s going to be here in a few seconds.”
“How do you know, did you call him all the way in Holland?”
“Well… sort of. I basically just started a fire all the way over in Holland and wrote in it, ‘Adam come get Trip,’ and then I knew it got through because a pen that I had near me wrote on a pad of paper, ‘okay’.”
“You can control things world wide?” I said shocked thinking that she could only control fires close to her.
“Yeah, I do, but enough talking get ready because Adam should be here any second now,” right when she said that a nock on our from door echoed throughout the house. “That’s him hurry up and get your shoes on.”
My mom left my room and went down the hallway and answered the door. I put on my socks and shoes and ran to the door. As usual Adam was in his jumpsuit ready to go, however it looked a little bit different that day it didn’t look as bulky and it didn’t have it’s hood any more.
“Trip, you ready to go?” he asked me, “Today we get to go to Australia.”
“Yeah, lets go.” As soon as I said that without touching me we were flying out of the door and through the air.
It was weird flying with Adam. The world beneath us became a blur because we were moving so fast, but not a hair on my head was moving. The way Adam said that he did it was that he just surrounded us mentally with a field that guarded us from the wind.
The blur of color started to slow down and wee were above a forest that was alive with noise. Birds were chirping, bugs were buzzing, and occasionally as we were floating to the ground a larger animal would growl.
Once we were touching ground I looked over to Adam, “How fast were we going? I don’t know of a single forest that is nearby New York.”
“Don’t know. Fast is all I know, I’ve never measured, but considering that we just went from New York to Northern Australia in only a few minutes, we were going fast.”
“Where exactly are we, and why in the world are we her?” I asked looking around me not being able to see the sky above me because of the dense amount of trees.
“That I do know. We’re in Northern Australia and we’re here simply because from what I can understand we’re trying to get you to project your thoughts. Instead of dealing with people we’ll be dealing with animals, because from what I’ve been told, animals are easier to communicate with mentally.”
“Animals?”
“Yeah, animals. We’re going to try to get you to get these animals around you to react to your thoughts. Most animals are stupid enough that if you just mentally say something to them as basic as ‘go away’ they will go away. It won’t really work all that well on people, they’ll just hear your voice in their head saying go away and wonder why they can hear you in their head. To push a human takes a little bit more work.”
“How do you know so much, I thought that you could only move things. I didn’t know that you could control people,” I said thinking I missed something in a conversation.
“I can’t but two of my old friends from SN could push people. Ari and Tati, they were twins, very powerful twins, when they were together…” Adam just sort of ended his sentence and started to think about when SN was around.
“Why do you keep on saying pushing people?” I asked interrupting his thoughts.
“You don’t control people. Controlling people even Ari and Tati couldn’t do that. You just push people. Pushing is just sort of like pushing their will or their ego to believe something that isn’t there. With pushing people you can make people believe that they see something or feel something. They may react a certain way like running away but that’s about as much as you can do. Controlling people is the step above pushing. With controlling you make people run, just because you want them to run. Controlling people is like living another person’s life. You control everything, if you want them to jump, they jump. I tried to figure things out, “So when I push people I just affect their senses. I can make them feel things, but I can’t make them think things. When I control things there are no limits, I can make them do anything?”
“That’s what I understand, but then again I may be completely wrong, but before we get to that, let’s start out with the easy stuff, getting your voice into their heads. Don’t worry about the language, from what Ari and Tati could figure out, it gets translated into whatever language the person or animal uses.”
How do I even reach out to them, and where in the world do I get the power for this?”
“You already have the power. It’s your brain power. Right now it may get a little rough and you may get a slight headache after you use it, but just live through it and the next time you try it, it won’t be as hard. How you get inside their head I don’t know but lets just start out with one thing first, then we can get to affecting mass groups of people or animals.”
Adam then leisurely floated into one of the trees and grabbed a bird and brought it back to the ground, “Start with this. It seems really stressed out not being able to move so try to get it to relax.”
“How do I do that? You still haven’t told me how to do this,” I said a little upset.
“That’s because this is new ground for me. This is all up to you. You have to find out how to do this, just like the rest of us had to do.”
“I realized what he was saying and set to work on trying to calm down the bird. I tried everything I stood, I sat, I touched the bird, I stood way from the bird, I closed my eyes, I concentrated on the bird, I thought the words over and over in my head trying to project the words, I said the words, I did everything, yet nothing worked. About two hours through this, I stopped and sat down on a near by fallen log, “I need a break.”
Adam let go of the bird and let it fly away, “Okay, is there anything that you need help with?”
“Not really, I just need to sit and rest.”
“Do you want my advice?”
“Go right ahead, I’ll take anything that you have.”
“Don’t be afraid. Just use every ounce of emotion and energy and just push it all out. You won’t get anywhere until you’re willing to give it all up.” Adam said, “and you won’t just hear this from me. The only way that you’ll get more power, with Mike and Johnny is if you give it all up.”
I sat there for a second thinking about his words of advice, “Okay then, lets give this one more chance., all or nothing.”
“I’ll go get the bird.” Adam quickly flew into the trees and grabbed a bird and flew back down. “Okay here’s your bird, it’s just as startled if not more so than the last one so get going before it gives itself a heart attack.”
I slowly walked over to Adam and touched the bird. I let my eyes close and mind go blank trying to calm myself down more than the bird. Then mentally I yelled, ‘calm down. When I say mentally yelled I’ll try to relate it to every day life.
Okay every day you wake up and you mentally just hear your thoughts. Your thoughts are sort of like a mental talk. Well, in my mind I changed that talking up a few volume levels to yelling, and that’s what I did to this bird.
I still had my eyes closed when I heard Adam, “Wow, that was intense. I could even hear that.”
I opened up my eyes, excited, “You could? What about the bird?”
Adam pointed to the ground where this bird was standing pecking at the ground and occasionally cooing. “I did that?”
“You must have because I know that I didn’t do it.” Adam said, ‘but what’s with you yelling? I was just sitting here trying to keep the bird still when I just heard your voice rattling through my head, saying ‘calm down!’ I nearly dropped the bird because it startled me so much.” Adam took a closer look at me, “but how’s your head, you don’t look too good.”
I realized that a minor headache was starting up and I could tell that it was going to get worse. It was one of those headaches that start out behind your eyes and just work around your entire head and by the end it feel like a herd of elephants were doing the tango on your skull. “I’m good for now but when I get home I know that I’ll need some morphine or something to kill this pain.”
“That’s the joy of having a mental power, but at least we’re going about this the right way and not cheating with a jumpsuit.”
“How can you cheat with a jumpsuit?”
“Besides giving you unlimited power, or at least close to it with either mental or normal power, not much,” Adam said sarcastically, “Let me put it this way, after I put on my jumpsuit not once have I even gotten a headache like yours, and I’ve moved some heavy things in my time.”
“So why don’t I just put on your jumpsuit and get all of this pain over with?” I said sitting down and rubbing my head trying to slow down the oncoming pain.
“It isn’t that easy. The bonus only works once and I’ve already taken the bonus for this jumpsuit, and they’re there forever. Even if I wasn’t wearing this right now, I’d be able to flatten this forest. If you put it on, nothing would happen. Plus personally I think that it’s just better to learn without a jumpsuit because then once you have the basics down you can skip to the jumpsuit.” Adam then went into an analogy of how the power is like a gun and if you train with the basics first it’s easier to advance to the bigger gun, but I wasn’t paying too much attention because I was trying to stop my ever growing headache.
Once he was done he took one look at me and simply said, “We need to go back now. Pick up your bird so we have proof of our progress so we go back home.”
I slowly bent down, as if not to irritate my headache and picked up the still calm bird, then without warning, my feet were off of the ground and the world around me became a blur. Suddenly we were on the front steps by my house. I hopped that none of the neighbors saw us fly in, but then I looked at the time, and realized that not one of our neighbors would be up at 10:00 at night.