Jack of all Trades

Chapter 10

Its been 3 days since Tyson and I fled the town. We got all the way to our Spot before I even slowed down. After a while, I stopped and let the situation sink in. I'll never be safe again, Tyson will never be safe again! We had sat on the roadside for almost an hour, thinking and crying. Eventually, I got my wits about me and pushed my bike off the main road and into the trees. We stopped and made camp near a small creek. It was dark and we were both thirsty and hungry so I had called it a night. I had used my magic to materialize food for us. I don't think it has a high nutritional value (seeing as I just kinda made it out of nothing) but it kept us fed. I also cleaned the water from the creek for us to drink. 

The day after that we moved further around the mountain. By bike ran out of gas thirty minutes in. Luckily I already knew the magic for filling up my gas. (I've never had to pay for gas in my life)

I had woken up this morning to Tyson shivering under our blanket so I pull him closer, even though his scales are pokey. I had him shift into his dragon form to keep warm. Now we are sitting in front of a small fire (made by yours truly). My phone beeps. (I can keep my phone alive for days because of magic) I look down and Tyson bends his long neck to see the screen.

Its a video message from Tanner, I open it and press play.

It's Tanner and Gina making out on the bench. Ew.

"Look at this my fellow Snapchatters, some people have no shame!" Some young girl's voice says. Then I come marching onto the screen. I start talking to Tanner and then he and Gina get up to leave. That's when it happens. You can hear the windows shatter in the background as I scream 'Tyson' and you can see time stop. You can see me sprinting as fast as sound before disappearing. That must have been when I teleported.

The camera turns and you can see the car hit me and split right down the middle. You can see as white flames jump from my eyes, the mark of a Jack. It goes on to show as the ground moves beneath my feet as I stomp towards the man I had just thrown from above my head. You can see as my fist catches fire and slams into the man's face, burning some of it. You can see the rain clouds being summoned above the park. The cars exploding and catching fire, the drains flooding, my eyes glowing. You can see it all. 

"Dad... why did the camera keep going when everything stopped?" Tyson asks quietly after the video ends. I sigh.

"I'm a Jack of all Trades, master of none but better than the master of one. My magic has faults... when I stopped time, cameras could continue working. You could see the cars in the distance still moving. I only stopped time around us. Its more like freezing everything but myself, actually. But the time stamp in the corner of her video stayed the same even though it was videoing. I'm not sure exactly."  I explain to him. 

"I need to call Tanner, okay?" I tell him. Tyson nods his head and goes to sit closer to the fire.

My phone rings twice before Tanner picks up.

"Jack! Are you okay!? Are you or Tyson hurt!? Where are you guys!?" Tanner shoots off.

"I'm okay Tanner, so is Tyson. We're hiding." 

"Dude, you won't believe this! So pretty much everyone thinks your a hero!" What.

"What?"

"Yeah, man! Kenzie's mom saw the video and said that you were saving lives! Then some reporters showed up and Kenzie called you her superhero! And your hot doctor, Kelly, came forward and said that it's natural for father dragons so go into kill mode if their eggs or baby are threatened! And everyone was like 'but he's not a dragon? He's a Jack?' but she said you changed his blood? By the way... YOU CHANGED HIS FUCKING BLOOD!? Man! That's crazy! Anyways she went on and said that when you changed his blood, you changed your own! So now you are like... part dragon or something. But now a lot of people are calling you a hero and stuff! Only the executioner and the guy you tried to kill still want you dead. Well, I mean, some people still want you dead. Gina said that you're too dangerous to be alive. But then the whole 'you were just protecting your son" thing came up again and basically it's going in circles here." WHAT!?

"TANNER THIS IS AMAZING! We might get to go home eventually!" Oh my god! I might get to see my parents again!

"Thank you so much, Tanner. Your amazing!" I cheer. I turn to Tyson.

"Bud! We might get to go home!" He immediately starts cheering and jumping around our little campsite. I drop my phone and jump around with him. After a minute of celebrating I remember Tanner and pick up my phone again. There is only one thing still bothering me.

"Tanner? You still there?" 

"Yeah, man."

"Aren't you surprised that I'm a Jack of all Trades?" I ask timidly.

"Nah." 

"What."

"Dude, your name is Jack and you wouldn't tell anyone your magic. I was suspicious. But then you started acting weird and weird things kept happening at the school. I mean, the bathroom tiles were green. Then there was the day you brought your kid to school, and it was a dragon. Then the picture of you as a dragon. I just put the pieces together man." I WAS THAT OBVIOUS!?

"O-kay" I choke out. I can't believe I went around thinking I was being sneaky when in reality I was being incredibly obvious!

"Dude, just go home tomorrow. You'll be fine." Tanner says. "I gotta go, my mom needs me. Bye man."

"Bye."

"Dad, can we really go home tomorrow?" Tyson asks, pulling on my jacket sleeve.

"Yeah! Yeah, we're going home tomorrow." 

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"JACK!" I hear my mother shout. I had just enough time to get off my bike before my arms were full of my loving mother.

"OH, MY BABY YOU'RE HOME!" She screams in my ear. I wince slightly but hold her tight. God, I missed her. Shes hugging me like her life depends on it. Its kinda starting to hurt, but I squeeze her back and don't let her go. 

"My other baby! Tyson honey how are you!?" She asks, moving on to coddle my son. Shes not hugging him, since he wouldn't let her. But he shoots to her and hugs her, and she crys. I'm crying.

"Hey, Kid." My dad greets. He gives me a hug but doesn't squeeze the life out of me like my mother did. I smile and hug him back. My dad keeps his arm around me and I know he missed me as much as my mother.

"DAD HELP ME!" Tyson shouts, running away from my mother who had started tickling him.

I chuckle and chase after them.