A Dangerous Secret Revealed

Chapter 12

Amira led us to a big, golden door that has these carved words: Training
She let us in. I kinda imagined a room with all sorts of weapons and guns and arrows and those dangerous stuff, but no.
Instead, in the middle of the small room, was a chair, the ones that you would find when you go to the dentist, except that there were no lights, no weird machines, no sink for spitting water. Beside the chair was a computer with a keyboard and a normal chair for sitting.
I was about to question about it when Amira explained,"This is The Chair. It tells you how many powers you have, and which. No,this is not part of Training. This just determines how many powers you have, and which ones,so don't worry. You just sit down and wear this helmet and close your eyes, then done!" She pointed to the helmet, a long wire sticking out on the top, connected to the computer, then continued,"Superhero is the first stage of training, Takinyo is the second, and Human is the last. Now, who would like to go first?"
The four of us exchanged looks. Even though none of us are talking, we all have the same question: Will the process hurt? I'll ask Amira.
"Amira, does it hurt?"
"Well, not hurt, exactly. Once you wear the helmet and close your eyes, you will see a vision. Not hurt, I promise." Well, that's not too bad.
"Then I'll go first." I said. Joan gave me an incredulous look.
"All right, then. Sit down and wear the helmet, please. Then close your eyes. Don't open them until. I say so,"Amira commanded.
I did as I was told to do. Amira was right, I had a vision.
In a small dimly lit room, their was a medium sized round table made of glass. On top of the table was a large piece of cloth.
Suddenly, a fat baby appeared on top of the cloth, lying down. The baby stretched its arms, and ice shot out from its palms. The ice hit the wall. The baby sat up. It began to cry and kick the table. Its feet became metal and it kicked harder so it made a crack on the glass table. Then its hands turned into metal and the baby started pounding on the glass table. The whole table was cracking now, and the baby would fall. The glass table shattered into pieces, but the baby was floating in the air. The vision stopped. Everything was black again.
"You can open them now." I heard Amira say. Amira was sitting down on the normal chair, clicking something with the mouse, then typed something on the keyboard.
This all seemed so familiar to me. Then realization hit me: The baby was me!
"Okay, you have 4. That's rare! First one is Ice Palm, second is Metal Hand, third is Metal Feet, and the last is Flying. Wow! Cath, Flying and Ice Palm is one of the rarest!" Oh.
"I already discovered about Ice Palm a few days ago."
"Metal Hands mean that you can turn your hand into metal, of course metal is hard, so you can knock someone out with just a punch. Same goes with the feet," She explained. Wow. I. Am. Awesome! She wasn't done talking,"By the way, Cath, 4 powers are very rare. Superheroes mostly only have 2. 3, rarely. But 4? That's very,very rare."
What should I say? "Uh, okay..." I took off the helmet and walked to where the others were standing.
"So, who's next?"

Lois's P.O.V.
"Me," I said. I sat down, wore the helmet, and squeezed my eyes shut. The vision started.
I was at home, in the living room. I was a few years younger.
"I hate you!" I was yelling.
"Jeez, I'm sorry! Don't get so mad!" It was my little brother. He broke my stuff. On purpose.
I was so angry. My eyes feel very strange. Fire shot out of it, and it hit the walls. The whole living room was now on fire.
My brother got burned alive. I was able to escape. I ran out of the house. It's on fire.
I was in the middle of the road. It's midnight. I heard someone walking. It was an old man. From the looks of his clothes, it's obvious he wasn't from this generation. Suddenly, a bow and arrow appeared on his hands. He shot one arrow, I know he was aiming for my head. But it hit a large tree behind me. Running is no use. He shot another arrow. I'm sure this was gonna hit me. Trusting my instinct, I stomped my foot one time and a transparent ball surrounded me. The arrow hit the ball. I thought it will make a hole. No, the ball protected me. The next thing I knew, the old man was saying,"Hey, where did you go, lady?" I had turned invisible. Even the ball was gone. The vision is gone. Everything is black.
"Open," Amira finally said,"Lois, you have 3. Invisibility, Ball of Protection, and Fire Eyes. That's awesome. Invisibility is aweosme! Ball of Protection builds yourself...protection from ANYTHING, Fire Eyes is fire shooting out of your eyeballs.....Steffi, you're up."
The creepiest thing was that I had the same dream as the vision. Last night.

Steffi's P.O.V.
"Steffi, you're up."
The vision: I was at the beach, and someone was chasing me. I don't know. It's someone....dangerous. I kept running and running in circles. I kept running until I reached the sea. But something's wrong with the sea. It's red. I touched it. It's lava. I looked behind me. That...dude was catching up. It's now or never. I ran on lava, but I'm not drowning, it's because I was running to fast. I ran and ran and ran until I reached the end of the lava sea. I had ended up in a big city.
It was so crowded. But it was not full of random people. The city was crowded with a bunch of ME. Everywhere I look, I see myself. Same clothes. This is weird. I'm getting out of here. I walked at a normal place, until I got to a cliff. For some reason, my little sister was with me. She began running towards the cliff. What's wrong with her? She's about to jump! I extended my arms to reach her, and my arms stretched and stretched, but she fell down too fast. She's dead. The vision is done. That's so weird...
"Steffi, you have three: Multiplier, Expandability, and Speed. Multiplier gives you the ability to multiply yourself to 7 times. Expandability, you can expand your body, you know, like the mom in The Incredibles? Yeah. Speed is super speed. You can do anything faster than anyone.... Well, that's it. Everyone's done." Amira shut off the computer.
"Okay, everyone, come with me. It's just 7:30, so we got 2 hours and thirty minutes. This is when real training begins," Amira said. We followed her. "Okay, so this is how training starts. Each of you, pick the easiest power to learn. Once you have one in mind, tell me later when we get there," Amira said while walking.
I am picking.....Ice Palm. It is the easiest, and I've already learned it, so I should master it.

Lois's P.O.V.
Hmm...easiest?? Maybe Fire Eyes...yeah...Fire Eyes.

Steffi's P.O.V.
I wonder what's the easiest. Speed? No. Multiplier, nope. That's hard. Expandability seems easy.

Joan's P.O.V.
What am I supposed to do while they train?? Sit down? Watch them? Maybe they're forgetting I'm here. I'll just have to ask Amira later.

(Kk, how was that? Sorry for all the wrong spellings, wrong grammar etc.... I'll be more careful now...)