The (M)ost (O)utstanding (S)park (E)ver (S)tarted

Chapter 4: The Misdiagnosis

Moses

It has now been a full month since the worst day of my life and most of my injuries have finally healed. It's been this long since the tragedy but still...still those painful memories still fill my head with nightmares. I can't even sleep because every time I close my eyes i see the bullet piercing through my mothers head over and over like a broken iPod that is stuck on repeat. I can't lie, every time I think about it it fills me with tears but then I think to myself..everyone in this apartment room was a orphan so I shouldn't be crying.

When i heard about all the stories I couldn't help but to toughen up and stop acting like a wuss because every single one of them was left there as a baby and took in by the landlord of this rusty apartment. To top it all off they are all forced to fight, just to pay for the room they all stay in and for other expenses. I couldn't complain about my life because I actually had the privilege of having a real family with a place over my head. Even so i still told them my story and they all looked sorry for me, i mean it was sad but was it that sad compared to there's?

The day came when i was finally able to walk and move with manageable pain and that same day i had to meet the landlord. It was 3 days after it had been a month and to be honest I was scared to meet the landlord. I calmed myself down by thinking to myself that the landlord couldn't be that bad if he took in three kids. Tristan or should i say tree? Took me upstairs and walked me down a scary path that literally looked like I was taking a passage way to hell especially with all the markings all over the walls and only one light bulb working in the middle of the hallway swaying back and fourth revealing more and more markings. He then told me to go through the door with the marking of death on it. I said okay after I shook a little and walked, I looked back for tree but he was gone and i was panicking and my headaches returned as I looked at the door. It already felt like I was looking at the door for a couple of minutes so I got tired of looking and opened the door. I walked in and a kind voice told me to please come in and as soon as I did my headache went away. I was pleased and walked in. To my astonishment the landlord was a cute woman and she was nice. I could not see why the boys were scared of her. She told me to go to her so i did, she was sitting on a chair that looked like it belong to Queen Elizabeth at the top of the stairs in her room. I am not going to lie, her room looked like a palace. When I made it to her she looked like she was astonished and said to me in a praised way that she was surprised that I didn't pass out from her. I told her that I actually felt better being around her because usually I always have a headache. She answered by asking," Really? Whats your power boy?" I responded by saying that I didn't know crazy landlord. At that moment her hand came flying at me and i dodged it by moving my head back and taking a step back. She got off her royal throne and took one fast step in and she was within my range in seconds and she tried to slap me again but i dodged it again by using the same move i did before but here is how things got weird. I remember waking up and it was the next day and my face was bruised and i kept thinking that i know i dodged it. I saw Tree and he said with a relaxed smile that ," You called her a crazy landlord huh? but still I think she actually likes you." i said with a mean look that i doubted that. He laughed and said let me fill you in on her. He said that the manager was a nullifier that specialized in Martial Art street fighting. He told me that a nullifier cancels out your power making it useless and in my head i was like, that's probably why my headache went away. He then asked if i got knocked out by the first blow like they did and i said no and he honestly looked shocked like he didn't believe me. He then said," So you expect me to believe you dodged the lightning slap on your first try? I said," Yea, twice i believe." He said, "B.S". Then Steven came out of nowhere and said," I was there, he actually did it but i am not impressed because we had to do the same thing when we were 5. Even so after he dodged the first slap she knew exactly what he was going to do so she rushed him and baited him into dodging the same way then used the momentum of the slap to do a even faster roundhouse kick. Poor kid didn't stand a chance." I gave him a stank look like aren't i older than you but he just ignored it.

It all made sense but at this point of my life i didn't know my power so i honestly thought my power was to get headaches but i guess the manager thought differently. The next day after spending a whole day hiding from her she wanted to have another talk and she asked if i really didn't know my power and i told her i didn't and explained everything that happened to me and that i keep getting headaches and she said i think i know what your power is and then she started teaching me how to fight. For 2 weeks in a half she woke me up early in the morning , taught me the basics of fighting, made me fight her, then made me sleep to recover from the poundings she gave me. It was horrible and so very painful. The next day after all that time training she made me fight E while she nullified our powers and I was actually winning. He was throwing punches and i was blocking them and punching him back faster and faster. He threw a roundhouse kick but i seen that move to many times before and i dodged it by ducking low and swiped his vulnerable foot with a kick of my own and he fell down hard. He held his ankle and hoped off. She was amazed and told me i was ready for phase two. She told me to focus on people and just think hard and feel my body negating there body and to embrace the headache and i tried but nothing happened. i still felt the same. Days went by and she still had me fighting E and i kept winning until one day she said i am not going to nullify him and told me i had to do it on my own. I don't know why but i could have sworn i saw E crack a smile as he put his gloves on. She then tells me to negate his power before he rushes in to punch me and to stop it and punch him. I said okay with a lot of doubt. E stood at the edge of the room which was a good 10 feet away and waited. Then the demonic manager said go and E flew towards me so quick cranking his arm back for a wide swing and i did everything the manager told me to do, i focused on him, thought hard, felt my body negating his, and really tried to embrace my headache and then E power stopped mid swing to my face and i was shocked. I raised my arm to counter the punch but E focused his power to his other glove to propel faster to my face. I felt my body flying and that's when i realized i was not a nullifier and once again..i woke up and it was another day.