Powers (Book 1)

Chapter 4: The Truth

"What's wrong?!" asks Leyla immediately. "I heard you- oh..." She stares at my wings for a second, and then I notice her hair is wet. Wait- how could it be wet before she has even woken up?

As I'm staring, her hair becomes water. Yeah you heard me, WATER. As she feels her hair um ... drip down her neck and back, she screams. And when my sister screams, it will leave you deaf.

"Whats going on up there?!" our Dad asks behind his bedroom door. "Nothing." Why did I say that?! He always knows I'm lying when I say that. As he sees what happened to us, he gasped. "Where did you get those powers?" "Wait, what powers?" Leyla asked trying to fix her, literally, flowing hair. "I mean- nice costumes." Dad tries covering up what he said by playing dumb.

"Dad, why are there wings coming out of my back, and Leyla's hair made of water?" "Ok, Ok, ... you ... two ... might have super powers." He said it hesitantly. "So your telling me butterfly wings give you powers?" I say rudely. "No, that's one of your powers. You know what, after you two get dressed, me and mom will explain, Ok?" "Sure-" Leyla says putting her water hair in a ponytail somehow "-and ... got it! Get out Caleb, I'm getting ready first."

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After awkwardly putting a T-shirt on and finding out my hair glows, I find everyone else in the backyard, after weirdly coming out of the door. Leyla's hair is still in a ponytail, but her skin was a lot pailer than normal. She is wearing a tank top and shorts, not something nice because her hair is still dripping.

"What are we doing outside? I thought you were going to tell us whats happening to us." "We are, just not inside of the house- and not because of your hair Leyla." says Mom. Leyla just rolls her eyes.

"Just watch." Dad says mysteriously. He starts walking to our tree in our backyard. (We follow) Me and Leyla both mouth "what" to each other while we're walking over.

My dad grabs a low branch and breaks it off. "Oops, wrong branch." Dad looks up to see which branch he was looking for. "For heavens sake-" and Mom pulls on the branch right above the one dad broke. And as soon as she pulled it, you could hear some gears turn and the trees trunk expands into a elevator.

When it dings open, Dad says " Come on, if you want to find out whats happening." "Of course I do, my hair is starting to annoy me." says Leyla. As we walk in, I see the elevator levels:
Ground floor 1
Game floor 2
Practice floor 3
Main floor 4

"There are some 'interesting' floor choices here." I say, putting emphasis on interesting. "Well, we're going to the main floor." Dad says, acting like I didn't say that. When he presses it, the elevator/trunk closes and we descend underground.

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Leyla's POV:
Why did I have to be gifted with water hair, on a Saturday. When the doors open, I see a totally different world. There's a giant computer to the right, with five monitors running different things. There was a couch, a mini fridge, and chairs to the right. And in the back of the room there was a giant ... um-thing?

"Ok, welcome to the main floor of your new hideout!" Dad says, "Theres a supercomputer to the left, a place to relax to the right, and a weapon storage box against the wall in the back."

"A weapons closet!" says Caleb. He runs over and opens the weapons closet. There is four weapons. A whip, a sword with spikes, a axe, and a long spiked flail. All very weird weapons. And in the handles of all the weapons, there were gems. Actually, jems broken in half. And the one I touched was in the whip.

"Ok, so which one is mine?!" Caleb asks excitedly. "Woah, hold up! I need to tell you why we know you have powers." Dad says, pulling Caleb away from the weapons.

As Mom and Dad seat us next to each other and they sit on the other side, we begin. "Why did I say you found powers, because they once belonged to us. I was The Stinger and your mom was Aqua." "We were amazing, you should of saw us. Bam, Zap, Slash-" "Ok," Dad interrupts "We were heros, saving the day." "But that doesn't explain why my hair turned to water, or why Caleb has butterfly wings." I say in a rude way.

"Well, Caleb's grown wings because that's one of his powers, he can fly and shrink to the size of a bug. He can also make and control light, and shoot lasers." "Wow, I can really do all that?" Caleb asks. "Yeah, and Leyla can make water out of thin air. She can also control it, and freeze it." Mom adds. "Freeze it? You mean I can freeze people! There's so many people I would want to freeze right now."

"So did you two find a giant metal rock somewhere?" asks Dad. "Yeah and when I touched it, it opened up revealing that jem over there." I say pointing to the whip. "Ok, so that rock, that you two found, was suppose to return to Earth. But it was suppose to land tomorrow." Dad says. "But if it was supposed to come tomorrow, why did it almost crush me yesterday?" Caleb asks. " Well, it was supposed to land at the meeting of all the Heros, and Villans, of the Jems. You know Brandon's Dad and Anthony's mom? Well, they had powers too. The asteroid was supposed to meet at the meeting of all our DNA?" "What does that mean?" Caleb asks.

"It means there had to be all of us in the same place." " Well, yesterday we had to meet Brandon and Anthony at the park." I say, trying to help." "So the asteroid thought y'all and your friends were us. Wow." " So wait, these powers were supposed to go to you two?!" Well ... in a sense, yeah. But you have them now." Dad said. "Were you going to ever tell us?!" I say angrily. "We were...-" he hesitated, and sighed. "No, we weren't."

Me and Caleb both looked at each other, disappointed. "Don't look sad, now you and your friends have powers." Mom said, trying to cheer is up. I can't believe it, we were never going to even know about this. I looked at Caleb; I knew he was feeling the same way.

A/N:PLEASE READ
Very sad and messed up chapter, I know. Next chapter theres going to be some action! :-)