Chapter 3- Super Dodgeball!

As we drove to my new school, I couldn't help but think, are we going to prison?

     The school was defended by a huge wall around its perimeter. On the top of the wall were, I'm pretty sure, sentry guns. That's very safe, I thought.

     I was wondering if that building was actually my new school or we just took a wrong turn.

     My suspicions have been cleared as we went closer. On the wall was the word Boniface.

     Wow, I'm only thirteen and look at me, I was already going to prison. I have a steady future ahead of me.

     "Sooo, anyone else have any new prison, I mean new school jitters?", I whispered.

     Everyone nodded in agreement. I meant to only say it to my friends, but I guess everyone has super ears in the bus. Good thing the principal didn't hear me, or I'm pretty sure he would've expelled me on the spot.

     The bus drove into the school parking lot. Outside the windows, we saw a lot of buses. I assumed that we weren't the only ones that took the test.

     We saw at least hundred students getting out of the buses.

     "Well now I don't really feel special", Jonathan said. We laughed at that comment.

     "That's a lot of kids, parents are really getting busy!", Adrian said.

     We went through the wall onto the campus. It was different from what I had imagined. From the outside it looks like a prison, and on the inside, it looked like a university.

On the left, we saw the training grounds. We saw the seniors using their powers on each other as pranks. One guy was running across the field with his hair on fire.

"I will get you for that Carl!", he screamed to a man with fire in his palms.

"Wow, this looks like this is going to be fun", Gabbie said, with a mischievous smile.

She was a troublemaker, usually getting out of situations by lying and deceiving. You don't want her on your bad side.

One time, she dared me to scream, WE HAVE A BOMB in a pizza pizza restaurant. That was not the best decision I made, but no regrets from here. Somehow, we made it out without any problems or lectures from the adults, all thanks to Gabbie.

To this day, I still don't know how she managed to talk us out of that.

Anyways, we went into the assembly hall, which is just a stage with a bunch of chairs in front of it. The principal and the vice principal went up onto the stage.

I got a weird feeling from the vice principal. He seemed to keep looking at me, like I was a target or something. Never mind, I told myself, it's just my imagination.

"Welcome new recruits to Boniface. Today you will get a tour of our campus and get accustomed to your dorms", The principal announced, "Rest now, tomorrow your training will begin."

"Before I forget, you will be living in your dorms with your bus group", The vice principal said.

And with that, we went on the tour. We saw the equipment lab, a place where we can get upgrades. I didn't know what that meant, but I was eager to know.

The tour has ended and we got the rest of the day off.

My friends and I went to our dorms.

It wasn't what we expected. We expected a cramped room with not enough room to move around. But we got a house, I am not kidding... A HOUSE.

That explains why I had to live with 12 people. We each got separate rooms. I entered my room and there was a king sized bed and a TV.

I put my my luggage on the floor and went into a well deserved sleep.

Let's just say that I did not have the best dream.

At first, I dreamt of my last moments with my dad. Hugging him, while the blood in him slowly course away from his body.

Suddenly, the dream changed. I was facing a hooded kid, with black fire in his hands on top of a rooftop.

I felt like I knew him, a distant memory I could barely hang onto. When I looked at his face, I gasped with shock. He had my face.

The image suddenly faded. I was now looking at a giant hole in the ground. I peeked into it, seeing only black. That was weird, I could usually see through the darkness.

This hole was different. Suddenly, a voiced boomed from it.

"I shall rise from the abyss that your ancestors trapped me in." That voice gave me goosebumps. I realized he was speaking to me.

"I don't know what your talking about!", I screamed into the hole.

Laughter came from the hole. It just laughed and laughed.

I woke up to the laughter of my friends. I didn't know what they were laughing about.

Then, Gabbie held up a mirror to my face. They drew something that I don't even want to mention. Let's just say that it was a part of the body.

More laughter came from them. I was reminded by my dream, that voice still echoed through my head. And that boy who looked like me, who was he?

I went to my bathroom and washed the disgusting mark on my face. Finally, it washed off.

I flipped my friends off.

"Wow, so mature guys", I said, laughing sarcastically. "Come on, let's get to class."

Our first class was physical education. Now, I've had some rough times as a kid in gym class, usually caused by Gabbie. So I didn't know if I wanted to meet some super powered bullies.

We didn't really need to change into gym stuff, they didn't really care about appearances.

"Hello class, my name is Arthur McConnell. I am your PE teacher. For today's activity, we will play dodgeball."

The class didn't seem to like that.

"You get to use your powers," Mr. McConnell finished.

That seemed to get their attention. I saw a lot of smiles from the other students.

We split the class in half. Me and Adrian on one side, and Gabbie and Jon on the other.

Coach McConnell put the dodgeballs in the middle of the gymnasium.

"On go, you will get the balls. 3-2-1 GO!" He screamed.

It was just chaos. Bodies started to drop.

A dodgeball on fire zoomed past me, barely missing.

It seemed like the game was never going to end. Jonathan and Gabbie from the opponents side were unstoppable. Jon casted barriers to protect him, while Gabbie has her telekinesis.

But then again, no ball could go through Adrian. Everything just "missed" him.

The battle was intense. I used my blind on my enemies. That was where we got the advantage. All they could see was black for 10-30 seconds.

I threw a ball and hit Gabbie in the head.

"She's out", I yelled to the coach.

She sat down on the floor, still blinded.

I couldn't help myself, I laughed so hard that I almost forgot that we were playing dodgeball.

Finally, there were just two people on their side and two on my side. Adrian and I were the only ones left on our team. On the other team, Jonathan and This girl I didn't know was on left.

I threw a ball at the girl to see what her ability was. Suddenly, I saw a blur and she was standing somewhere else. She had super speed, no doubt.

"Adrian, she has super speed", I said.

I had an idea. At the same time, Jon and the girl threw a ball at me, knowing that they will never hit Adrian.

I dodged and grabbed the balls once they hit the floor. I threw them into my shadow hoping my plan would work.

On the other side, two balls came out of each of our opponents shadows. I smiled since they didn't know a ball was about to hit them.

Our team cheered and they carried me and Adrian. They kept chanting mockingly to the other team, WE ARE THE WINNERS! WE ARE THE WINNERS!

At the end of class, everyone gave me and Adrian a pat on the back and we went to our next class.

I was actually getting pretty excited about this one. Once I saw the equipment lab, I immediately knew that I wanted to go there.

Our next class was science, and it was taken in the equipment lab.

As I walked with my friends to the equipment lab, I thought to myself, this is going to be a piece of cake.

     I was about to enter the lab, I was about to get an upgrade.

     But suddenly, at the worst possible moment, I collapsed.