H.O.M.E

Chapter 6

I lag behind Buddy and Sadie as we make our way back to our room and all head for the living room. They both sit on the couch looking over a book of different techniques for scenarios that Mom gave them to study as homework. I on the only hand only got one thing to do as homework and that was to practice.

 I sink into the loveseat and prepare to let the electricity flow. I hold my hands slightly apart and have the current flow from one hand to the other and enjoy the slight tingle it creates.  After I spend a few more seconds getting warmed up and start to slowly form a ball of electricity in between my hands. It starts to grow fast and in les then a minute is about the size of a basketball and I can see the energy swirling inside of it. I think back to when Mom told me that I need to control how much power I put into my attacks so I try to maintain the size of the ball but take away some of the energy inside of it. With a lot of concentration I am able to take away most of the energy from the ball and when I release it there is a popping sound with a slight sizzle. 

That attack probably wouldn’t have really hurt anyone but maybe it would stun them for a little time. Forming another ball in my hands I try to make it fill up slowly making it more and more dense with energy so much so that I can feel it getting heavier. Even with it only about the size of a baseball it feels like it is about 10 pounds. Knowing that if I release it the effect will probably be undesirable for all of us I slowly suck the energy back into my hands until the whole thing dissipates.

Feeling confident that I can now use the right amount of power for my attacks I wonder if there are any other moves that I can learn to show Mom that I am committed to getting better. I try to think of other things to try but I cannot come up with anything so I look up at Sadie and Buddy who are still looking at the book. “Hey guys I’m trying to practice new moves do either of you have any ideas on what I can try?”

Buddy looks over at me with an interested look on his face,” actually I have been thinking about that too and have been doing some research. Let me go grab my computer.”

As Buddy gets up and leaves Sadie walks over to me,” a good way to make up new moves is to just take the ones you already know and tweak them a little bit. Like you were just making balls of energy right? Well instead of using two hands to do it why don’t you just use one and then that way you can have two at the same time instead of just one.”

I nod my head and hold out my left hand and try to produce an energy ball but nothing is happening. “Maybe you should try holding you hand a different way like think of it as a bowl and then try to have the energy fill it up” Sadie says couching me.

I make my hand look almost like a bowl and imagine the energy in my hand going into it and when I do I can start to see it taking shape. After about a minute or so of concentration I finally get a reasonable size of energy in my hand and I am able to maintain the shape. “Good, now keep that one going but now use your right hand and make another one” Sadie says in the background.

I hold out my right hand the same way I did with my left and with a little bit more speed than before I am able to get an identical ball of energy. “That’s perfect Gizmo! Now if you just practice that like you did before you can be twice as powerful which might come in handy one day” Sadie says to me as I make the energy recede back into my hands.

As soon as I do Buddy walking to the room with his laptop in one hand,” I think I found something, lightning!” Sadie and I both look at him like he is crazy.

“How do you expect me to make lightning?”

“I have been looking at this website on different superpowers; I mean it is all about comic books and stuff but the ideas should still be the same for you. It says that if you focus the energy above the object that you what to hit and then send the energy down as fast as possible it should create lightning.”