The next morning I woke up and got dressed. Then I grabbed my sword, threw it over my shoulder, and went to see what the others were up to. I walk in to find Jasmine sewing up a shirt I had ripped while hunting with Colton the previous week, while Colton munched on leftover deer meat from the night before.
I hear something outside, footsteps. I look at Colton not surprised to see he has already withdrew an arrow and has his bow cocked and ready to let fly. I look at jazzy who has already gotten out two knives in case Colton misses, (which won't happen) and I already have my hand on the grip of my sword ready to pull it unsheathed if I have to. I make my way slowly to the door, I can hear two familiar sounding voices, but I can't be sure. Then I hear the seven knocks at the door that only a few people know is what we use to show friend not foe. You can never be so sure so I unlock the door and make sure to stay out of coltons way as I opened the door. As soon as I got it open enough to hear what they were saying I relaxed. Jake and stretch (formerly known as Thomas), twins who lived down the street, we're arguing about something as always. I see out of the corner of my eye jazzy put the knives down and Colton let the arrow down and back to his quiver. The two goofballs walk in. I turned around to walk back to the kitchen when I realized that the argument that I had previously heard had stopped, in fact the two were silent which was incredibly unusual. I turned around and found that they were staring at me, and again I had to realize that I didn't look the same as I had the last time they saw me only four days before. They eventually got over my new look and as we all Sat down and got settled I learned that there had been a rumor around our small section of the world here in a small town of luisiana that I had founded a colored piece, which was never heard of before. I looked at Colton and by the way he wouldn't look at me I knew he had gone to town the other day talking about my new 'condition' to everyone. I would get him for that later.
There were many Evs around us and we had never been unfriendly with them, in fact many were fairly close friends. For instance Thomas/stretch found a piece in the woods over a year before in a hollow log that he had cornered a rabbit in. Colton was also with him when he found his stone, and the weird part is that when he touched it, all that happened was a small spark between him and the piece. the next day he woke up and found that he could stretch his body to incredible lengths (hence the name stretch).
I cook the three birds that Colton had shot the other day along with two squirrels and a duck that Jake had brought in his bag. We ate and I told the two about how I was unsure of my ability and that I didn't even know if I had one. After we were finished we went out to the far end of the town where there was a cliff that went about 50 yards down into the river. There was rock stairs that led down where everyone fished but we were going to stay up on top that day. And then we heard the whistling. There was only one man that whistled sketchy tunes like that. And he was not a good sign. We look and see the man called "mad".
He is called mad because that's what he is, he's gone mad. He despises all Evs. He has never left home as far as we know without a shotgun hanging over his shoulder. Always had a cigar in his mouth, and always had two big guys with him that everyone calls the brutes. Evs were scared, in fact stretch had a scar on his left thigh from that same shotgun that he had now. Luckily mad was drunk most of the time and his aim isn't the best.
Him and the brutes walk up to us and the first thing he does is take his shotgun off his shoulder, load it, and set it down and uses it as a cane. He looks at me and smiles as he says "so I heard we have a new Ev here." Nobody says anything. He looks at me and I can see his hand grip on His gun. He has so much blood on his hands that I know he has no problem killing any of us. His morals had been drowned in whiskey. And as I'm thinking this he says, "show Me what you can do" and I reply, "I don't know what I can do." His smile goes away and the shotgun goes up and points at us. He glides it along having it point at each of us. But then it stops on Jasmine. "Do it unless you want to see what the little one is made of" he says. I feel something happen inside me, my eyes slightly tingle and my hands get warm. The sky around us gets dark as if it was already night time. I look down and realize that I'm 2 feet of the ground, Floating. The fog that Colton had told me about was circling me and I could feel so much power rushing through each and every vain. I see mad's face and it's nervous but angry. I see the shotgun still pointed at my sister and his finger starting to grip the trigger. All I can think is "save her" and I put my hand up towards Mad. He looks at me confused and I see that at any second that gun is gonna go off. And then all of a sudden an explosion of purple and green light passes through my body and out of my hand. It goes into his eyes and then the inside of my head is filled with fear, but not my fear, his fear. I can see all his worst fears, and I can use them against him. He's afraid of Evs, and he is very afraid of snakes, in my head I imagine a snake big enough to eat him alive, and when I look there it is, the snake that was in my head and that I know he is terrified of. I see him shaking and I can hear his screaming and begging for me to stop. A part of me does not want to stop, but I imagine the snake away and it dissapears. Mad and his brutes have already started running. And as I look at my friends, but they look scared. I look around and I see a broken mirror on the wall of a nearby building. I figure that I can float around with this fog and so I fly over to the mirror and I don't know what is staring back. My face is gone, all that remains is a pitch black figure, my eyes are white with purple dots. The fog is almost like a smoke, and I see that I can control it.
I float back to my friends, I set down on the ground. I felt my body change again and that incredible power I had felt went away, but I somehow knew it was still there. the sky lightened around us. My face went back to normal and my friends relaxed. Nobody said anything for a few minutes until stretch finally broke the silence, "hey Dean, I think I have a new name for you, let's call you nightmare."
