Life is a Journey - Alex Summers, Havok

The Cost of War Part 2

   I continue swimming in the direction that Sean had sent his screams but being down in the ocean every direction looks to be the same way. Before I can get the chance to contact Charles there's a ripple of something large being pulled with extreme force from the ocean, and not too far away from where I currently am.

So, I pushed myself the rest of the way until I see the submarine.

For a moment, I'm paralyzed in fear. It didn't click into my head that I was willingly going to be so close to my rapists until I saw the sub in front of me, but I can't let myself live in fear of what they did to me. I refuse too.

They force the ball into my court and now they're going to have to find out the hard way just how horrible of a mistake that they made.

I close my eyes and concentrate on my breathing so that I would be able to slow down my heart rate enough that I can become one with the water. This is the one part of my training that I have always had troubles with, mainly because the water is a living breathing thing that is more than capable of making its own decisions.

So, I tried communicating to it that I am only trying to get rid of something that doesn't belong within it. I open my eyes again and move my hands so that they were palms out, that way I can see for myself how much or how little progress that I'm making.

Bubbles start showing up around the bottom of the machine, so I was doing at least a little bit, but I knew that I needed to do a lot more to make this work. I close my eyes again and bend my knees to make it look like I was sitting down, while in my head I was visualizing the scene before me and showing myself what I needed to do.

There needed to be way more bubbles, it was almost like I needed to create a bubble the way that I did for Sean...

That's it!

My eyes snap open to see that there were a few more bubbles than there was the last time, but still no where near enough as there needed to be. I take a deep breath in, but before I had a chance to release it I see from the bottom of my eyes that I was starting to glow again.

Perfect, this is what I've been waiting for.

Whenever I begin to glow it means that the body of water that I am working with is willing to help me in whatever way that I need it too.

Now that I know that the water is willing to help me it makes things much easier. The bubble that I was trying to create came more easily into formation and had no problem going around the submarine. I know that Erik has been working hard on his mutation as well, but I was going to have to burst his bubble to show that I was assisting him by coming out of the water myself.

As the machine rose so did I. We both continued rising until we were out of the sea, but for me the water allowed it to look like I was walking on it. My arms are fully extended out in front of me and the wind from the jet was forcing my hair out in all different directions, but I didn't care. I had my eyes closed so that I can continue with the vision that I had been working with this without being distracted with my surroundings.

There was a change in the air temperature around me though that forced my eyes open, and I moved my hair out of my eyes with my left hand.

My heart pounds into over time when I realize that it's Riptide who stuck his head out of the hatch of the submarine. If looks could kill when he saw me then I would be dead.

But I had a score to settle with him so I couldn't let him intimidate me.

The water that I had moved away from them, I moved it back towards them and made the water slam the hatch door shut right on top of Riptide's head and locking it once he was back inside. I look up at Erik to see how he was doing and I begin laughing, it's not very often he's ever smiled at anyone but I guess he saw my little episode and he couldn't help but have a huge grin on his face. Now I can't say this for sure, but from where I'm standing it almost looks like he was laughing with me as well.