Sike

Chapter 3: Flynt's Backstory

"Flynt! Come here!"

I groaned and rolled out of bed, I had just come home from grocery shopping and I wanted to take a nap, unsurprisingly, it takes a lot of energy to save someone.

Sadly, my hopes and dreams of taking a nap had been crushed by my mom, who wanted to take a nap herself.

"Yes Mama?"

"There you are! I've been watching the kids all day, and I want to get some rest so I can be ready to make some food before Papa comes home. It's your turn to watch the kids."

"Oooookay...... Fine, fine." I replied in a tired voice.

My mom turned around to shoot me an annoyed look before turning back around to go to her room. "Oh and don't forget, your first day of school begins tomorrow."

I gave a frustrated sigh before making my way through a maze of boxes in the living room and plopping myself down on the couch. We had just moved to Paris this week, and there were still some boxes cluttered around the living room.

Great, another school to go to. Wonder what will happen this time...

My thoughts were interrupted by the sound of pattering feet. "Flynt! Flynt! Come look!"

I am the oldest sibling in the family, I have one brother, and one sister. "Yes Joy?" I said to the older of the two.

"Look what we made!" Joy brought out a petite little kite, it had red and blue dots all over it, my two siblings favorite colors.

"Wow! That's pretty cool! It's too bad there isn't any wind to-" I was interrupted by the sound of whining.

"Let me hold it Joy! I want to hold it!" It was Levi, our baby brother.

"No! You can't have it, you might break it!" Joy then proceeded to argue with her younger brother, and ran off to another room, with her brother close behind.

I chuckled a little before pulling out my phone to text Philip, who was my best friend before we moved.

Philip - Yo wassup man?
Flynt - Um.... The sky is
Philip - lol wow... Well did it come yet?
Flynt - did what come?
Philip - oh whoops its a secret
Flynt - what????
Philip - sorry i can't tell you gtg ttyl
Philip - maybe it'll come in the mailbox tomorrow
Flynt - ok ttyl

I sighed, well that was short, I wonder what happened? Also what is he talking about? Oh well, I have better things to do.

I went back into my room, it was painted sky blue, my favorite color, and it was decorated with submarines, swim goggles, fish, and anything else water related you could think of.

Then I noticed something that hadn't been there before. It was a box, and it had a note on it, I curiously picked up the note and read it, "To my Nephew, hope it fits! - Uncle Fu"

With an ever growing smile on my face, I opened up the box to find a super suit of my own. It was awesome!

The material was most likely the same material that divers used, It was navy blue, with a Curvy white stripe going down the sleeves and the legs. In the middle there was an "S" in white, which stood for Syke, a name that I had made up based after a "sike" an old english term for a stream. I smiled and slipped into the suit. While doing so I remembered how I got my powers.

2016 July 5th, Before we moved, me and my family had decided to take a family vacation and go to the Niagara falls.

I, being the water lover that I was, was ecstatic at the thought of seeing one of nature's greatest wonders. I was able to stay awake throughout the entire eight hour drive just with the thought of being able to see the Niagara falls.

When we finally got there, I was a bundle of energy, racing from one place to the next, trying to get a better view of the place.

Suddenly I saw a boy, about five years old, drifting down the river on a direct course to his death.

I still have no idea why I did the stupid thing I did, maybe it was the hero inside me begging to be let out, maybe it was because he was screaming enough to make me do something crazy, or maybe I just had a death wish, either way, I jumped into the river in an attempt to save the boy.

I can still remember the screams and the shouts from my parents as I dived into the river. All of the people who were watching looked like a blur as I struggled to swim towards the boy, his screams becoming more and more chopped off as he was being suffocated by the water, which was rushing us to our impending doom.

I saw him struggling to keep his head on top of the water, his energy almost gone. Then I watched with horror as his head was sucked under the raging water, in a panic, I took a deep breath and dived under the white foam which was constantly trying to cover my head.

Then I felt it, the sickening drop in altitude, the fountain that had looked so inviting before had turned into a death machine.

I panicked, I had never felt the type of fear I had at that time, the type of fear that freezes you, and suffocates all reason out of your mind.

That's when I saw the body of the boy about four feet in front of me, unconscious.

I'm not sure how, but everything inside the water is crystal clear.

It's like I'm a part of water, and every small movement brings me closer to the boy, there is no difference between me and water, because I am water.

I flow over to where the boy is, and I create a bed of water to absorb the shock that I knew was coming after the fall.

Then I feel the impact I was waiting for, it was as if twenty school buses were dropped on me.

I struggled to keep the boy safe, enveloping him in a bubble of water. Then all the pressure that was on me suddenly disappeared as me and the boy drifted downstream.

A wave of relief passed over me, and I lifted the boy up so he could breath. But then I remembered that he was unconscious.

In a rush, I swept him over onto the bank of the river, where an ambulance awaited. Apparently, someone had called 911. Still in my water form, I oozed onto the bank of the river next to him.

I watched as the paramedics rushed over to the boy and put him in the back of the van, he had purple bruises all over him, and his arm was bent in an unnatural position, but to my relief, he started sputtering and coughed to life.

I had finally become what I was destined to become, a miracle.

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So......... That happened :) oh and don't worry, I'm going to tie in some more miraculous soon, you could even say I'm going to miraculously tie it in.

Did you like this action packed adventure?

Any words you have to say to Flynt about his insane death wish?