Gifted: The Revelations

Prologue

Running

Why did it always have to be running? I hated running but now I was trying to escape. Escape the school, my friends, my family, everyone and reality all in one fowl swoop. It was working to a degree but honestly, I wasn't sure how much longer I could last.

My legs were burning; the fire was running through my whole body and into my heart. My breathing was obviously erratic but I couldn't afford to stop or pass out at the moment. I was so close. The blurry edges of what looked like a forest were in my reach. Looking behind me, which by the way was a mistake, I noticed that everyone was catching up. This doesn't surprise me. I was a horrible runner. I took in a deep breath and counted as my feet hit the ground.

Closer. I was getting so much closer to the portal. I knew it wasn't a forest. It couldn't be. The outlines were to blurred and front of the forest looked like the ripples in a pond if looked at in the right way. I had to know what was behind there. My curiosity got the better of me as my mind started running through all the possible scenarios of what could happen. I was closer now.

The tingling sensation in my arm had now spread throughout my whole body and as I reached the edge of the forest portal. Going through it felt like I was being ripped apart. I couldn't feel anything but pain. The pain of a thousand searing needles on my flesh. That was all my body could feel as I entered the portal.

A rush of cooling went through my veins and the pain subsided, I couldn't feel a thing any more. Upon the other side of the portal, the first thing I noticed was white. My back felt heavy and there wasn't any one around. I must've entered without anyone knowing. Smiling to myself, I started to walk around. This definitely wasn't a forest. That fact was certain. How could it be? This place was way to white for my liking. And from what I knew of forests there was no white in them. Then there was also the fact that there were laboratory instruments all around. I put a hand over my mouth to stop the gasp that I knew was coming. Taking a small step, I tried desperately hard not to make any noise.

I heard noise coming from a what looked like a hallway connected to the room I had just entered. So, moving my body, I quietly made my way to the noise. The creaking of the floor defiantly wasn't helping me to be quiet as I made my way to the door where the noise came from.

Upon hearing whispering, I tried to get closer to the door to hear what the people were saying. I had my hand on the metal of the door handle when I heard what sounded like footsteps rebounding through the noiseless hallway of this facility. Cringing, I quickly opened the door and shut it. Looking around the room, cages littered the sides.

Frowning, I slowly walked up to one of them. Looking inside were toys. Making a face, my brain kicked into overdrive trying to figure out what was being kept in them. My first thoughts were of some type of prime mate. Upon further inspection of the cages, I found what looked to be human faces. This time I let out a shocked gasp. I couldn't believe it. This place was testing small children. Testing them for what? Was my next question. I quickly made my way back to the room I had first come through. What didn't notice however the movement from the back of the room.

Crap. There was someone else in here. How am I going to get out? My leg and back were throbbing by now.

Smiling to myself, I remember the feelings I had at that exact moment. I remember the feeling of the spiders walking over my legs. I remember the feeling of the venom as spread throughout my body. The feeling of the web as I walked through it. The way it wrapped around me and clung to me. The way I felt safe and warm wrapped up in the web of the mother spider.

I could feel all those things as my body began to respond to the thoughts o had been having. No, I'm Not spider man but that would be cool. Anyway. I felt the web as it wrapped its invisible threads around me encasing me in the warmth I knew it held. I took in a deep breath not feeling confident but this had to work. I had no other choice. If it didn't work I was dead and I couldn't take that chance. Not Today. Not this time.

As I pushed a tube off the table I crouched to the ground and steadied myself. The tube fell to the ground in slow motion. I watched as it broke apart and shattered on the ground. The feeling of ice spread through my whole body. I couldn't move. I was paralysed. The loud crashing noise as the glass instrument on the marble floor got the attention of the person working in the room.

It was at this moment I had to strike

I would be like the spider. The spider whose venom could act in an instant. The spider who held no fear. I would be the Spider Queen

Realising the breath, it seemed that all other noise has stopped as I readied my web. This was all new and I prayed to the spider god that this worked. I heard the footsteps approach. My heart raced. They got closer

And Closer...

And Closer.

When the person was almost upon me I umped from behind the table moving through the air like a spider on a web. I flicker my wrist sending the invisible thread into the back of the lab coated man. Suddenly it was like I was plugged into a television. My vision clouded before I could see through his eyes in my mind. I was the weirdest feeling. I tugged on the web and he moved.

I smiled to myself running my tongue over the fangs that had grown. I liked this. This feeling over power that I held over this man. No one would know that I had taken him as my worker bee. I just had to figure out how this worked.

I swore, loudly. I wondered what else I could do with this web I possessed. Frowning I tried to ignore the sharp pains flowing through the veins in my back. Focusing on the guy again I felt around his brain. After a few seconds the guy had just returned to what he was doing not even noticing that I was there and I quickly rushed back through the portal ignoring the pain that came with it. I knew deep down inside that what I had done worked.

Sitting on the ground outside of the portal, I started to think about what I could do. Everything I had done had something to do with perception and the mind. That's when it hit me.... I could manipulate people with this web. I could control their every action, thought and function from no matter the distance or time away from them. A grin came over my face for a second before it fell at the daunting realisation about the power I now held within me.

There had to be an explanation and I was going to figure it out. Even if it killed me