Gifted or cursed?

Ice boy

        The room I wake up in is pitch black except a little light coming from a little window with bars " It's not a prison", I say mocking Mr. Tyke. I sit up on the bed, " hello! Where am I? Turn on the lights! Get me out of here please!", I stare at the light coming from the window waiting for something, anything. The room is cold and I start to shiver, the wall I'm leaning against is made of metal just like the rest of the building, the thing I was laying on- which I think is supposed to be a bed- is made out of what? Just guess, metal. I hear or see nothing for awhile and I begin to worry, " Hello!!! I want answers now!", a flashback of what happened earlier flashed through my mind and I feel a shiver run down my spine. Did I really do that? It wasn't a dream right? I felt amazing and so powerful until I didn't all of a sudden and I couldn't keep my eyes open. Am I sick? Can they fix me? Am I dangerous? I don't want to hurt anyone. I curl into a ball scared of myself and what I can do. I begin to panic a little, " Where's my brother!!! Hello, get me out of here!!!", I start banging on the wall but suddenly fell this weight hit me. I felt week and I dropped my arm, I begin to beg. " Someone please, I'm scared, all I want is my brother". I feel the darkness overcome me and I shut my eyes and once again fall asleep.

When I wake up I'm in the same dark, empty, and cold room. The light was shining through the window, you could tell it was early in the morning because the sun was rising making a beautiful, flushed sky of purple, orange, pink, blue, and other colors that I couldn't see from the tiny window. I stared at the sky and I felt a little hope come through but not enough to make me smile. I still don't know where my brother is and I have to find him, there is now way I'm staying in this room forever. Feeling that my strength had returned I stood up and looked for a door. What the hell? Where's the door? There was nothing but steel and metal walls surrounding me. My heart jumps and I walk to one of the walls and I start feeling around for anything that could be a door, anything that felt off. I couldn't find anything so I began to start banging on the wall. " let me out right now!!!". As I begin to scream and yell I hear something coming from behind one of the walls, there's a weird noise and the wall opens up, there's light, bright light and a dark figure in the door way. I push my self against the opposite wall, "who are you!".
" Relax Ember it's me, Bret".
I instantly feel relieved and push myself away from the wall and start walking towards the door in a hurry.
" Hold on! Where are you going", Bret puts his hand up to stop me from exiting the room.
" Going to see my brother, you did your test and now I'm leaving". I stop right before I hit his hand
" Ember, I need to explain some stuff to you, please sit down".
I feel irritated but Bret has a calm but sad look on his face so I figure it's something important and he's nice so it would be wrong of my to ignore and push past him. I turn back to the bed and sit down and cover myself with the blanket, " It's cold in here".
" I know, we have to keep it cold it helps to keep your powers under control". Bret comes and sits down next to me with a slight sad expression but he's trying to cover it up with a calm one.
" Bret where is my brother? All I want is to see him, please, and where am I? I don't understand what's going on". I look at him my heart rate a little fast because I am confused and worried.
Bret finally gives up and shows the sad expression on his face. " your brother is at another facility".
"What!! They said the wouldn't separate us! They can't do this, I won't let it!". I get up and begin to head for the door again but Bret grabs my arm and gently pulls me back to the bed. I follow his gesture not really understanding why, he made me feel safe and calm.
"You have to stay strong, be patient, and calm", Bret is now looking at me with seriousness in his face, nothing left of the sadness I had seen before. "You will see him again but we have to make sure it's safe for both of you first".
" Safe for us?".
"Yes, you could hurt someone or yourself with the power you have". He was completely serious and I could feel the sincerity in his voice, and from his body language. "We are going to teach you how to control them so that you can go see your brother, it's going to take a while but I promise it will be worth it".
I found my self staring at the little window again, I refocus my attention on Bret. "How long?", my heart drops as I saw the words, not believing anything that was said. Not seeing my brother, I could feel the tears begin to build up behind my eyes and I took all my strength to push them back. I just couldn't imagine not seeing Lucas for so long, what will he think? Will he think I abandoned him? Is he scared? All I wanted was to see him and now I can't.
"It could be a month or longer we have no idea how fast you will progress and the bumps we will hit". Bret's expression had returned to his original sad but calming look that helped me relax for some reason. "It's going to be ok, you will see him again", Bret said this and I wanted to believe him but the look on his face told me otherwise. I gave him a look letting him know I knew he was lying and he just gave my an almost pleading look.
"So where am I? What is this place? I need answers". Bret can tell that I'm worried, confused, and beginning to panic.
"Stay calm, this is still the MCA this is going to be your bedroom. There are others like you here, people with powers from every age group, you're going to live here with all of them".
"What? There are more? Do they have the same power as me? How long am I going to be here? What are they going to do with me here?"
Bret holds his calm composure, "Slow down, and no they don't have the same powers as you, and I'm not sure how long you're going to live here. What they are going to do is run test on you and teach you how to use your powers".
"Tests? Do they hurt? I don't want to be here."
"I know but it's what's best for everyone, so everyone is safe".
"Ok but what kind of tests are they going to do on me? Are they safe? Will they hurt?".
Bret looks me in the eyes very seriously but calm. "Some tests will hurt and push your limits but you have to stay strong and fight. Everything will be ok". I look at him a little frightened and Bret places his hand over mine to comfort me
"I don't want to stay in this dark empty room", I tell Bret with a slight wine behind my voice.
"I know it doesn't look like much but you can make it a home as long as you follow the rules and do what they say, they'll let you decorate it and make it homey".
I look around the room with skepticism, "So it's a prison". I look blankly at him, questioning everything they told me.
"It doesn't have to be", Bret says this with a blank face and I can tell he's lying again. "Are you comfortable in those clothes?".
I look down and realize I am wearing different clothes. I burned mine off, someone must have changed me, "Ya they're fine", I curled up in a ball on the bed.
"Would you like to meet everyone else? There's a meeting hall where everyone hangs out and eats, making friends usually helps most of the kids cope". Bret's face was almost as blank as mine except he had a small fake smile.
I give him a very nervous, "I guess", and go to get up from the bed. Bret leads me out of the room and into the light which hurt my eyes from sitting in that dark room for so long. Outside the room is a little hallway about halfway down there is a door and at the end there is another door. The walls were metal and dull as usual the hallway is warmer the the room I was in and it felt nice to feel the warm breeze hit me. Bret lead me to the door down at the end of the hall without speaking and then grabbed the door handle while stepping aside so that I was standing in front of the door alone.
"You ready?", Bret says with a bigger fake smile on his face than earlier.
"Sure", I say skeptical of what was behind the door.
Bret opens the door and behind it is a large metal room with no windows, the only light came from the lights in the ceiling that was so high it was as if I was the sky and the blue sky we once new no longer existed. The room was a dome and on one side there were tables and seat to sit down, relax, and eat and on the other side there was a toy area for younger kids with an arts and crafts area, then in the middle was nothing but a giant open space kind of like a big meadow with no grass or animals other than the kids already in the room. Some were eating at the tables or just sitting reading a book and all the little kids were in the toy area, and there were few in the arts and crafts area. Most of the kids were in the middle of the room  playing ball or tag. I stood there just analyzing the room for awhile till Bret nudged me in the door way, kids started looking my way and I got nervous. It feels like the first day at a new school but more prison like.
"Good luck and just try to take your mind off of everything", Bret says this and gives me another nudge into the room and with that he smiles and closes the door behind me.
I didn't want to stand there like an idiot staring at everyone so I immediately walk over to the tables and take a seat at one all alone.

As time passed I did end up meeting a couple people. Kiara introduced her herself, she usually hangs out in the arts and crafts area but when she noticed I was new she walked over and gave me a big smile. "Hey I'm Kiara, you're new right?"
"Ya", I said nervously. She has been the first person to speak to me and I didn't understand why she was talking to me.
"Welcome to the MCA, I know it's not the best but they are keeping us and everyone safe, so what do you do besides sit at a table and watch everyone". Kiara spoke her mind and never sugar coated anything but she was nice.
"Um nothing really, I don't know what to do".
"Well you could as the guards for some books or join me in the arts and crafts area, that's usually where I'm at, I like to draw and color it's relaxing".
"Um I don't know".
"Well you could always play with the rest of the savages in the middle, ball and tag or whatever, all I know is people tend to get hurt so I wouldn't recommend it".
"Alright, thank you".
"No problem, remember I'm in the arts and crafts area if you ever need me". Kiara gave me another big smile as turned her back to me and walked away.
From that day on we were friends, I was tired of being alone so I started hanging out in the arts and crafts area. I would ask her questions about the rest of the kids and all their powers.
"So what about him over there?", everyday I berated Kiara with questions, it was like she was taking a quiz on every kid in the room.
"That's Jace, he can fly, even though he plays with the savages he's a nice guy". I looked at Kiara ready to ask my next question " why do you call the kids playing in the middle of the room savages?" Kiara smiles back at me " I call them that because a lot of those kids are freaking bullies, you should definitely stay away from them". I go back to my coloring " oh, ok" I say awkwardly. I start to focus on my coloring instead of berating Kiara with questions, I feel like I'm starting to annoy her. I probably am, even I would be annoyed with myself at this point. As I start to kind of fall into a trance while coloring I here a loud commotion.  A bot with bluish black hair had thrown a kid up against the wall with what looked like ice. Kiara suddenly breaks our silence " looks like ice boy is up to his usual crap again". A group of guards come in and immediately attack this ice boy. Ice boy try's to fight them off so they electrocute him and stick a needle into his neck. "Ouch, looks like that hurts" I say to Kiara " and what do you mean he's up to his usual crap"? Kiara gets closer to me "He is always stirring up trouble, they keep having to take him to solitary. You think that would be enough to change the way he acts but every time he comes back it doesn't take long until he causes so more trouble. Me and a couple of other kids have even started making bets on how long it'll take him to cause more trouble". "Wow" I say as we watch the guards drag the boy out of the room. Kiara shakes her head and goes back to her origami. I watch the guards drag the boy all the way to the doors and when the doors open I see Bret walk into the room. I start to get up so I can run over to Bret when Kiara looks up at me and says "Where are you going? We aren't allowed out of the main hall unless we are going to our rooms". I don't even look at her as I say "I'm gonna go see Bret" I start to walk away. I can hear Kiara say "Bret? Who the heck is Bret?" In a puzzled tone of voice as I drift away from her and towards Bret. Bret notices me walking towards me and calls out my name "Ember! I hope you're ready". I give him a confused look "Ready for what exactly?" Bret just smiles at me as he says " Your first training session, I figured you wouldn't want to wait". I get excited and I start to quickly move toward him "Ya, of course I'm ready. What ever it takes to see my brother". I quickly follow Bret out of the room, finally feeling some hope.