+++ Daydreams +++

| Eight |

Incubus' POV

I was walking along the sidewalk, having ditched Starlight. He didn't seem to mind much. I think it was because I had wrecked havoc in his room, controlled the weather, and made his bed skirt around his room like it was a wagon.

Out in the cold air, I laughed loudly, throwing my head back. My breath came out in a thick puff of white, dissipating just as quickly as it had formed. Shaking my head with giddiness and amusement, I tried it out again. I curled my fingers ever so slightly, and watched as the dead leaves that littered the pavement, go crazy. I chuckled to myself and then stopped.

Someone else was laughing. In the distance. She was speaking to someone else and they both sounded very very drunk. I decided to investigate. Turns out, they had been only a few feet away from me, on the other side of the road.

I watched as the man whispered something in the woman's ear, and then how she laughed with her body shaking with it. It was clear that both of their bodies and minds coursed with the drink.

Watching from the side, purely curious for the first time, I peered at them until they turned a corner. I walked completely normally as I turned the corner as well. They were in a neighbourhood now. I was only a few feet away from them - I was a fast walker - when I heard the man whisper: "he's behind us." Despite what  hearing what he said, I grinned.

Now, I was in the mood to play. And, I would now get to 'try' out my new...ability.

I continued walking behind them, burying my face into the high collar of the jacket I stole, watching the couple through my eyelashes. After a few silent moments where only the woman would giggle quietly, the couple stopped and turned around so quickly even I couldn't process it.

"Boo, Tyrell!" They yelled and the woman started cracking up like it was the funniest thing. I knew I had a confused and weird look on my face but so did the man.

"Uh...sorry kid. We thought - Lisa, will you quiet down? - that you were our friend." He said, looking at the woman at his side with slight concern. I guess he wasn't that drunk. She had stopped laughing and was now staring at me with wide brown eyes.

"Aw, look how pretty he is, Justin!" She squealed, barely even whispering.

"Lisa..." He warned and turned to me with a sheepish and embarrassed look. "Uh, sorry. She's an artist and loves -"

"Dang, your parents must've been hot!" The woman - Lisa - yelled. Her friend, Justin turned a deeper shade of red.

"She's drunk." Was all he said. "Really drunk."

"Yeah. It's not a problem." I replied. I smiled to make it seem like it really was okay. And it was. It's just...they had gotten me into one of my...killer moods. Man, the look on their faces would be priceless when they found out that this 'eighteen year old kid' wasn't normal at all. Especially Lisa's. I wonder how pretty she would think I was once I was covered in her boyfriends blood and brains.

"Oh...aw, are your fingers cold?" She asked with pouted lips as she noticed my curling fingers. She thought she was talking to a little boy? Well, I would show her.

"Yes, actually." I spoke, rubbing my hands together. "Freezing."

"Aw. Here. Take my mittens. I can just steal Justin's!" She laughed as he gave her a withering look. Clearly, Justin was done with Lisa's bullshït.

Good, because I was too.

"Thanks." I replied as I took her disgustingly cute mittens. Pink, wooly and sequinned. They sparkled under the orange glow of the street lamp. I would choke her with them.

Nonetheless, I slipped them over my hands and then stepped toward Justin. My determined, defiant step caused him to blink in surprise and step back. I smiled knowingly. Beside him, Lisa laughed a unsure, shaky laugh. I turned my gaze to her, and blinked.

Seeing the instant terror that morphed on her face gave me a rush of insanity. I knew this would end up dirty. Her poor mittens, they looked new.

I turned my sight back to Justin who was taking more steps backwards, faster and faster. He was now a few feet away from me. I rolled my red eyes and thrust my arm out into the space between where I stood and where Justin was, so far away. A gust of wind picked up immediately, blowing him off his feet. It was so cliche, but I loved it.

I cackled like a madman as Lisa screamed and began running across the street. I didn't know where she planned on going because there was just trees on the other side of the road we stood on, but she made it easier for me.

I walked after her. She looked over her shoulder as she ran and I caught her eye. I winked and laughed, making her scream even louder. As I marched behind her, I curled my arms upward, slowly as I felt the wind pick up around me. I looked skyward and saw clouds beginning to appear in the clear night sky. They blocked out the faintly twinkling stars and began to rumble dully with thunder. I grinned and saw that Lisa had stopped running. She was frozen on the side of the road, the part where the trees just began to grow. I neared her but she didn't move. She was...really frozen. But she didn't have ice forming on her nose.

Her eyes were wide with fear, her mouth gaping open in a scream. I dropped my arms and poked her cheek. She didn't even blink. Easing an eyebrow, I circled her, looking her up and down, trying to figure out what I did to her. Suddenly, as I was staring intently into her eyes, she twitched.

I listened as her joints cracked, freeing themselves of whatever frozen state they had gone into. It was like she was cracking away the invisible plaster that coated her body.

I took a step back and watched as she bent her fingers, circled her wrists and then cracked her neck from side to side as if she was getting prepped for a fight.

"Well..." I trailed over as she looked up at me. She didn't look scared anymore.

"Yes, my Prince?" She asked me in a pleasant voice.

Her eyes were yellow.

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Dang, another power!!?
Well of course! In the honour of Halloween, I have to present my darling Incubus with his birthday gifts ;)