The Power Within (A Gidbo_Mido Production)

Chapter 3: The Power in Three

October Thirty-First 2014
About a year and a half later

About a two weeks after Eric discovered he was a pyromancer, Tashinga discovered her powers. She discovered them trying to protect me from a stray shuriken flying towards my head. She snagged it straight out of the air before it could hit me. Did I mention she was fifty feet away? She's able to use electricity to super amplify her molecules so she can move faster than the speed of light. They even discovered that Eric is a delta chromesite and Tashinga is an omega chromesite. We had all started official hero training and every night, we were up sparring and doing pretend missions. Everything was great. For everyone else but me.

I hadn't even showed any signs of developing powers. No sparks, no flames, no speed spasms, no nothing. It was starting to get to me. So I started skipping practice to party, to smoke weed, and to meet up with Emma. What was the point of training every night if no powers were ever going to come to me?

It was Halloween night and Emma and all of our friends wanted to trick or treat and go to this costume party one of the football players were having. So instead of going to my scheduled training with my siblings I snuck out in my halloween costume. I stole one of my dad's old suits to use as a costume and hopped on one of his old all black motorcycles. I gunned the engine and snuck out the hidden garage door. I swerved into traffic and blasted down the high way until I saw the neighborhood where we were supposed to meet. I saw Emma chatting with a group of our friends in her vampire costume.

I hit my breaks infront of the group turning all the way around, popping up on my back wheel. "Am I late?" I asked pulling off my helmet. Emma hugged me and I kissed her cheek. Her costume was pretty cute. Black tattered jeans, and a tight black tee-shirt that showed her belly button and she had a fake ring around it. Her nails were painted black, her lip stick was black as well as her eyeliner. To top it off, she had fake glow in the dark fangs in her mouth. She hissed at me playfully and I laughed.

"Your costume is really cool? Who are you supposed to be? That dead super hero, Steel?" one short blonde chick named Maddie said. I nodded biting my tounge and pulled on my helmet.

"Are you ready to go or are we going to sit around here and grow old?" a tall buff kid who I played football with named Bounty asked. We all cheered and ran off to collect our candy for the night before tonights party.

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An hour and a half later

After a few hours of fun we were all about ready to head to this party so we all put our candy in the back of Bounty's huge jeep and got ready to get going. I hopped onto my bike, and Emma hopped on with me. She wrapped her hands around my waist and rested her chin on my shoulder.

"Okay," she said sounding scared, "I'm ready to do this!" I kicked my bike off its stand and placed my helmet over her head. I revved it up and blasted down the street. Finally after about 15 minutes and making a few sharp turns, I pulled up to the huge mansion that was the party. The bass was blasting and strobe lights were going off in many different colors.

"Oh hell yeah! Thats my kind of party!" I propped my bike up on its stand and I ran into the party, pulling Emma behind me. After several shots, thousands of chest bumps from the guys on my team, and even more shots, I was dancing with Emma in the middle of the floor.

"I didn't know you could dance!" Emma yelled in my ear. The bass was thumping in my chest as I moved to the beat.

"Neither did I," I yelled back, "but alchohol makes me a literal god!" She giggled and smiled that cute smile as we moved around each other. I spun her, pulled her in, then kissed her. Slowly at first but I became more passionate. I broke the kiss and pulled her off into the next room.

I picked her up and she wrapped her legs around my waist. I kissed her again and she pushed her lips against mine. We kissed each other in our slightly drunken condition. (By "slightly drunken condition" I mean heavily intoxicated.) I put her down and she pushed me onto the floor. She sat on my waist, unzipping my dads suit and pulling it off of me.

She leaned down and kissed me as I was pulling off her black top. As soon as it came off I flipped her over onto her back and I kissed her neck. She moaned and pulled my head closer into her neck. I started to kiss down her neck and then to her chest, stopping right above her black bra. She trembled in my arms as I began to softly kiss her lips.

She grabbed my shoulders pulling me in for a more passionate kiss. She broke off the kiss and flipped me over onto my back. She started to kiss down my chest and stopped right above my rust colored bottoms. Just then the door opened and Casper walked in.

"Ahhhhh BRO!" I jumped up and covered Emma's chest. She quickly pulled on her shirt and passed me my black short sleeved undershirt. "What the fuck is it man?" I said walking over to him. Casper was bouncing back and forth on his feet nervously shifting his gaze behind him. He was the only other person, besides Emma, that knew about my family being chromesites. So that prior knowledge plus his nervousness was not a good combination.

"You might want to see this." He said his voice quavering. I glanced back at Emma and she stood and followed me and Cas as we ran back out to the large family room where everyone was gathered. I pushed my way to the front of the group and saw something that would haunt me to this day. My mother and father badly beaten and lying in the middle of the street, while my brother and sister made their final stand against three fully powered deltas, trying to protect our mother and father.

Eric, was floating a few feet off the ground and was shrouded in blood colored flames. Tashinga was standing on the street in an electric blue costume, with yellow lightning bolts on the arms and chest. She was wearing a pair of goggles that shrouded her eyes from the blinding light of her enemies. Blue electricity crackled around her and she was slightly vibrating.

Opposite of them was Razor (again?) And two other people I was unfamiliar with. One had a mask that covered his (or her, because I'm not sexist) face, and had four arms each holing a katana. The other was in dark grey armor and had 3 heads, each with one eye. They looked powerful, and it seemed as if Eric and Tash had already been fighting a long while. I wanted to help, but what could I do? I had no powers and I would be badly outmatched.

The three deltas charged at my brother and sister and I felt a fire burning up inside of me. I ran out of the front door, and in the middle of the deltas and my siblings, with amazing speed. Instinctively, I raised my arm to block the attack, covered my face, crouched down, and I braced for impact and certain death. But it never came.

I looked up to see a large bulb of golden energy covering the three of us and the three deltas were a few feet back.

"Did... did I do that?" I turned to my sister and she nodded enthusiastically. "Holy fucking shit... HOLY FUCKING SHIT I DID THAT!" I had finally discovered my powers.