Neon Jon

Chapter 6: Camping

"Stay here!" my brother said running towards Aaron and teleporting him back to my room. As soon as he disappeared I started running towards the explosion as fast as I could.

"Faster" I thought. I needed to get into the jungle before my brother made it back here. I wanted to see what was happening in the jungle and I knew my brother would stop me.

"Faster" I was running as fast as I could but it wasn't fast enough. my brother would be back and realize I'm gone before I hit the tree line. I wasn't even close.

The rings on my gloves started glowing. We haven't gotten around to traveling faster in training, I still was unsure if I could but I had to try something. I tried to concentrate on putting all of my energy into my legs and feet. I thought it would make me run faster but it was more like I had rocket boots that I me wasn't ready to control. I took off using the energy in my hands to steady my self. I land in front of the tree line which means my brother hasn't seen me yet.

"What do you think you're doing?" My brother appeared right in front of me. "Are you going in by yourself?" He didn't have his usual grin on his face.

"I'm ready!" I said.

"You have no clue what going on in there. Don't get ahead of you're or you will be left at home too." He was right. What was I thinking? I have no clue what made that explosion but I rushed in anyway.

"Follow me" we started getting closer to where the sound of the explosion came from and started hearing gunfire. We could see fire in the distance.

We arrive at the site of the explosion. It was some sort of camp I would assume was used for human trafficking and some of the prisoners were escaping.

"Should we help them." I asked. It wasn't that I wanted to help them exactly, I just wanted to try out my new powers.

"I don't know if you're ready yet." He said staring out at the camp assessing what was going on.

"Jordan I'm ready trust me. You yourself said I was powerful, and with Aaron's gloves I have more control." I tried to convince him but I was not really sure myself. He looked at me I assume trying to determine if it'd be worth it.

"Follow me, and stay low." He said coming out of the bushes towards the back of the camp. We hid behind one of their shacks. "I'll go teleport some prisoners back here you keep them calm and tell them were here to help." He said trying to get a better look around. People were running around everywhere, we assumed the ones without guns were the prisoners.

My brother disappeared and returned with two scared looking women. They were speaking what I assumed was Spanish I had no clue what they were saying but I recognized some of the words.

"Calm down." I whispered trying to get them be quiet. My brother appeared with another woman. She was frozen, in shock from what had just happened. She bent over and puked. The rest of the women didn't seem to think anything of them being teleported.

"Do any of you speak English? English?!" I wasn't even going to attempt Spanish even tho I took two years of it in high school. "Un poco" one of the women said. I understood that. "I'm here to save you." I said slowly. She translated it to the other women. They nodded. The woman who had just vomited seemed to come halfway back to reality. "Diablo." She whispered. She must've been talking about my brother. She looked terrified. "Calm her down." I said to the woman who understood some English. She put her hands on her shoulder and was speaking to her in Spanish.

My brother appeared again. This time with a little girl. She couldn't have been more than ten. She was wearing a filthy white dress and had a large burn mark on her forearm. Did they torture this little girl? I thought. The rings on my gloves started turning blue again.

My brother saw my change in emotion. "Don't do anything stupid." He said. I thought back to when I figured out that I had killed three people when my powers manifested. I didn't feel anything. I had taken three lives and I went to school the next day. What was wrong with me? Have I always been like this?

"Jonathan don't go out there you could kill them." Said Jordan. I knew I could kill them. Hell, I wanted to. I didn't even know this little Brazilian girl, but I wanted to get revenge for her.

"Let's go!" I shouted to the women. we lead them into the jungle towards the training grounds. A man spotted us from behind and started yelling something. I assume it was stop! He had an assault rifle pointed at us. "I'll take care of this." I said running to the back of of line. I raised my finger at him like it was a gun. My brother came up behind me and pushed my arm down then teleported behind the man. I turned and continue to lead the women towards the grounds. "We're almost there!" I shout behind me. One of the women who was holding the little girl tripped and fell. I put the girl on my back and we continue running. "Are you ok?" I asked her forgetting she probably didn't speak English. "I'm fine." she replied surprising me with her lack of an accent.

We arrive at the training ground. My brother teleports back to us. "I'll start teleporting the back to the U.S. Two by two. You keep guard." He said taking two of the women with him. As soon as they disappeared five men appeared from the tree line holding assault rifles pointed at us. "Stand back" I tell the remaining women.

I don't hesitate. I sprint towards them wildly shooting lasers out of my index fingers. I hit two of them and they fell to the ground. The other three start shooting at me. I take off using my blasts to boost off of the ground. While still in the air I point my palm at the men and let out a large blast hitting two more of them.

One left. By now I'm standing right in front of him. He drops his gun and gets on his knees. I take off my power glove. My hand glowing bright blue. He makes a cross with his hands over his chest and whispers a prayer. I step closer to him and cock my hand up with my fingers closed like a spear. I get closer to him, pure fear filled his dark brown eyes.

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