The Forbidden Room

Ryan

After waiting for an hour I finally went into the shack and sat down on a chair that wobbled when you sat on it. I was excited to figure out what gift I had and if I had more then one like Jacob. His powers were pretty sweet. He could see glimpses of the future in his dreams, talk to animals, and he can see in the dark. I mean how cool is that?
My thoughts were interrupted by Mr. Timothy entering and saying. "Hello Ryan so nice to see you again."
"Nice to see you too Mr. Timothy."
"I'm afraid there isn't any time for chit chat, we are running a little late so we shall get right to business. Your first test when you were in the white room you did something a little surprising."
I squirmed in my seat a little remembering how I charged the door.
"You probably didn't know this but that door was made of steel, and you knocked it down with a single kick. Your first gift is super strength. You will be able to lift kick or punch anything with ease as long as it's no bigger then four times your size.
"You said my first gift. Do you mean that I have more then one?"
"Yes my boy, in your second test you imagined that you were out of the room and you were. This is a very useful gift it is called imagine. You will be able to imagine a place and you'll be there. This gift will grow and as you perfect it you will be able to bring people with you. But you won't be able to imagine yourself on a different planet or a alternate universe.
I guess I won't be getting home using this gift not that it really matters.
In your last test you imagined a key in your hand. This gift is interesting because it's a mix of two gifts. Your imagine gift and the wishes gift. This has never been heard of before but I did a little research and I found out that you can think of an image in your mind and the object will appear. But the bigger the object the harder it will be to create it. If you use this gift a lot you will begin to become sick and feel dizzy since this is a mix of imagine you will also be sick if you use that gift to much too, and one more thing the object you create will disappear after an hour. Now that's all I have time for I'll see you later exit is that way bye." He said smiling
I had so many questions but I listened to Mr. Timothy's directions and went out the door which went into a hallway and eventually outside.

I waited for Jacob to come out, about five minutes later he popped through the door.
"Did you unlock any new gifts?" I asked him
"No, but I want to hear about what gifts you have."
I told him about my gifts as we walked to our cabin and when we arrived someone else was in there. He looked about a year older then me. He was tall and skinny with blond hair and blue eyes. He reminded me of the Barbie dolls that Sydney used to play with when she was little. He wore a T-shirt and basketball shorts.
"Hey, what are you doing here? This is our cabin." Jacob asks
"Hi I'm Isaac. I'm just late they told me to go into this cabin."
"Cool, I'm Jacob"
"I'm Ryan. It's nice to meet you."
"Is this your first year?" Jacob asked him
"No, this is my fifth time."
"That's weird I don't remember seeing you here before." Jacob told him
I couldn't tell if Jacob thought that Isaac was lying or if he was just curious.
"That's because I have four gifts and Mr. Timothy wanted to work with me personally. I've learned a lot from him."
"Does Mr. Timothy have a gift?" I asked Isaac
"No but people say that he used to. They say that he got them taken away during the Dark War."
"What's the Dark War" I asked
"It was a war for power. It's said that there was a man by the name of Peter Clenin. He was actually a student here at the institute, but at the time Mr. Timothy wasn't running the place. His Dad was. Then Peter was assigned on a mission to retrieve on of the most powerful of magical objects: The Staff of Potestatem. He returned without it. At least that's what everyone thought, but really he hid so that he could use the power for himself.
"What did The Staff of Potestatem do?" I asked
"The staff was able to transfer powers from one person to another. Peter secretly started to take each student powers. By the time they realized what he was doing there was only a handful of students left who still had their powers. They tried to make him fall but he was much stronger then them. Then when all hope seemed lost he just disappeared with a smirk on his face. No one knows what happened to him.
"How long ago was this war?"
"Not to long ago actually. About forty years ago. Mr. Timothy was about our age when it happened."
"How do you know so much?" I asked Isaac
"When you've been here as long as I have you learn to listen. And one of my gifts is super smarts so I know a lot of things most people don't." Isaac smiled and walked out the door. Then turning around and saying "Are you coming? Lunch is in a few minutes." Then turned back around and continued on his way to the cafeteria.
Jacob and I looked at each other then followed him out the door.

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As I sat down at the lunch table I looked at my meal, it was a yummy looking piece of pizza with a side salad and I had grabbed a Coke for a drink.
Isaac and Jacob came and sat next to me. I saw Sydney and Aubrey in the lunch line pointing at us. Probably deciding weather to not by us or not. Finally they came over and sat by us. Sydney stared at Isaac the whole time.
Girls are so weird. I thought
After we finished our lunch Jacob fished out a paper copy of our schedule from his pocket.
"Our first class today is Virtual." Jacob said looking at the schedule.
"What's Virtual?" I asked
"Oh it's awesome. You get to" he suddenly stopped. "I'll let you see how cool it is in person. Come on lets go."
We made our way over to the building labeled Virtual. When we walked in, what first came to mind was school. There was desks lined up in rows and a white board in the front right behind a large desk. Standing by the white board was an old woman writing something on the white board. She was a plump old lady, with white hair. She had wrinkly skin and was wearing one of those flower patterned old lady dresses with a purple shall. She wore big round glasses on the ridge of her nose. She finished writing on the board, it wrote-Lesson One then underneath that it wrote-identifying the situation.
"Ryan?" I heard a girl's voice say that sounded a little too much like Sydney.
I turned around and came face to face with Miss Annoying Pants also known as Sydney.
Sydney forced a smile and walked over to Aubrey.
A soft sweet voice came from behind me saying "Children please take your seats."
Jacob, Isaac, and I all sat next to each other in second to front row. Sydney raced over seeing that Isaac was on the end, she gave him a sweet smile and sat down.
"Hello class I am Mrs. Miller the teacher of this year's virtual class. I thought we would start lessons right away today, but before we do I must introduce you to Vicky."
"Who is that?" I said but no one answered.
"Please follow me to this back room." Mrs. Miller said walking over to a door.
As we walked over I whispered into Jacobs's ear "Why are we the only one in this class?"
"It's because were in the advanced group."
Inside the next room was about ten gray capsule type balls lined up.
"Split into pairs or a group of three since we have an uneven number of students."
What the groups were going to be was obvious: Aubrey and Sydney, then Jacob, Isaac, and me.

Mrs. Miller directed each of the two groups to different capsules.
"I'm not going to tell you anything else except that I will be able to mark your progress from up in the booth." Mrs. Miller said pointing to the booth. "Use your powers to survive and have fun." Then she walked up the stairs to the booth surprisingly fast for her age. Once she had entered the booth the doors on the capsules opened and we went inside.
The capsule had comfortable seats I sat down when I was startled by Mrs. Miller's voice on an intercom saying "Don't forget to buckle your seat belts."
I buckled and then I heard a "Three, two, one, blast off" from Mrs. Miller.
Then the capsule shot forward and I felt like I was on a roller-coaster. Then the walls started to melt away from behind it I saw water slowly leak into the capsule.