Omega Rising - On Hiatus Due To Lack Of Inspiration

Chapter 3: An Ordinary Shack in the Woods

Karen stared at the dazed people in the bar not thinking of what she had just done. The owner of the bar came out from the back room to see what all the commotion was. As he stared at the wrecked wall, he sighed.
"So a little girl smashed my wall this time? Well, at least she didn't take down most of the bar with it."
Grandpa immediately stood up and walked over to where the owner if the bar was standing.
"I'm very sorry Manager, my granddaughter doesn't know much about what her Talent does and-"
"I've been told that excuse a million times. All I believe in now is money, so pay up, 30 gold pieces."

          Grandpa looked surprised and turned towards the manager to protest, when Karen walked right next to him.
"Only 30 pieces right?"
" 'Only'? What kind of money do you have little girl, that you can pay off for an entire wall?"
Karen pulled a sack out of her belt and held it in front of her. She started to pull out some glistening coins while counting them one by one. With each coin stacked on top of eachother, the gap between the top of the managers jaw and the bottom of it grew farther apart.
"27, 28, 29, hmm, how sad. It seems that I have run out of gold coins..."
The manager snapped back into reality and started to laugh
"Hah! So you can't pay all of it after all, I mean, what kind of girl can-"
"Oh, who am I kidding, there are actually a 100 more in this pouch of mine."
Chaim stared at his sister in disbelief. He knew that she was a good salesperson, from being able to sell over a thousand glasses of lemonade in one week, to going from door to door, leaving people behind with a 10 box high stack of chocolate bars, and a 100 dollar bill out of their pockets, but being able to get that many gold coins? Unbelievable. How much was a gold coin worth anyhow?

          After the incident, Grandpa pulled Karen over to the side and asked her how she made that much money within the 4 hours she had been in this Universe. She to,d him that she had been giving shadow puppet shows to the common folk who lived in the town. Once they were done talking, Grandpa began to lead the  somewhere in the forest.
"Hey Grandpa, I've been meaning to ask you, but now that you look younger, can we call you Uncle or something?"
Grandpa thought about it for a while and then smiled.
"Call me whatever you want kiddos, but remeber, I'm still two generations older than you."

          After walking for a while, Grandpa stopped in the middle of a clearing.
"Hmm, seems to be the same, just the way I left it."
Karen looked up at Grandpa as if he had gone insane.
"Just the way you left what? There's nothing here!"
"Oh, you'll see..."
Grandpa made his way over to a strange looking tree and pulled three of its branches down. The ground began to rumble and then split apart! There was a large hole in the ground, and out of it came... a house?
"Over here!"
Grandpa had already walked up to the front door as Karen climbed down from the tree she had hidden in. Chaim was still left investigating the tree where Grandpa had pulled the branch-levers.

Karen cautiously walked into the house and examined everything that was inside. She was surprised to find that the inside of the house was the size of a mansion once inside. There was a large foyer that held two marble staircases and 7 doors on each floor. Grandpa beckoned her to come into one of the doors, and behind was a massive library. Karen began to question the reality of space, for scientifically such a small room couldn't hold a library the size of a football field. Grandpa seemed to understand her questions.
"This is a manifestation of Space oriented Talents. This room was infused with the power to be at least a 100 times its original size, while appearing to be the size of the average bedroom. But we are here to study something else, how to properly control you and your brother's Talents."
Grandpa glance around for a second seeming to have lost something.
"Have you seen your brother?"

Chaim had finally pulled himself into the house after fully researching the tree-lever. Inside, he looked around the house expecting it to be just as cozy as the outside. Surprised at the house's immense size, he began searching for Grandpa and Karen. Seeing that the library door was open, he headed towards that room, and to his anticipation, Karen and Grandpa were inside.
"Ahh, Chaim, you're finally here. Its now time to begin your training."
All Chaim could do was nod his head. He couldn't believe that a small house could have a mansion inside it, and a mansion could have a library the size of the U.S National Library inside of it. Karen patted her older brother on his back, understanding his surprise.