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"Okay guys what I'm going to ask is very important. Is there something special about our family that I should know about?" Terry asks his parents. "Special?" "Like what son?" says the father.

"Something supernatural like making things happen will like magic." Terry says, trying to sound confident in what he's saying.

Terry's mother responds in an assured not phased at all voice "Oh well, sweety your mother comes from a long line of witches, gypsy, spirits." "Really?" Terry says, surprised.

"Yeah, your great-great-grandfather can predict the future, your grandmother can talk to spirits, and I can read people at first glance." She tells him. "Why do you ask?"

Terry quickly comes up saying "I watched this movie about witches and magic and stuff and for some reason I felt this strong connection to it."

"Well sweetie, you know those movies don't actually portray people who practice magic correctly. It's about connecting yourself with nature and all living things as one."

Not the type of powers he was thinking about but it was a start to do some investigating. "Thanks mom." Terry says to her as The parents soon leave for work.

Knowing that one side of his family has spiritual connections he decides to look up that first. Terry enters the cemetery. The mother's side of the family is from this small town so that's where he goes. Reading a list of names of his relative Terry goes to each tombstone and tries to use his powers to talk to them but finds that he can't. Terry talks to each relative thinking he's trying too hard but still gets no response.

"Okay first on the list is our 4th great grandfather Betsy." "Isn't Betsy a girl's name?" "Well on the list. see it says great great great great grandfather Betsy." "Weird times back then." Terry goes down the list and one by one but still he gets no response from the other side.

Terry upset that it's not working, does anything to provoke a response from the spirits. He smack-talks to them.

"Yeah, I know you're too scared to face me. You're probably a little wimp that gets abused by your superiors!"

Barters with them. "How about if I use my powers for good, I'll bring you back to life if you want."

Begs them. "Come on man. I'll do anything. I will live out my life in the service of God if you come down and give me answers."

He even makes up a chant to somehow summon the spirits. "Oh God and Heaven among you please send down a ghostly spirit to help this child learn more about his god-like powers. Klaatu, Barada, Nikto. Hear me out of from my condemned voice! Amen!"

As he cast his made-up spell clouds formed above the cemetery, the wind blows hard and violently around the area, and then lightning struck right in front of Terry hitting the tombstone creating an explosion. The lightning blast threw Terry back, hitting the ground.

Terry looked upon with amazement as his hair stood up from the electricity. "Wow, that had got to do something." Terry says to himself. "I don't know we may have unintentionally started a zombie apocalypse." Terry waits a couple of seconds before saying to himself "Or maybe we just summoned light to hit the ground and that's it." "Don't be stupid. Wait longer than 30 seconds to see if we did brought the dead to life or not."

Terry waited 10 minutes before going to the tombstone and digging with his hand to see if the zombie was just trapped in his coffin. When he manages to get to the coffin he places his head next to it trying to listen to any movement or sound.

"Hear anything." "No." Terry sits back and says "Well that was a waste of time." "Yeah, now we have put the dirt back in its place." "Awww." Terry complains.

Thinking he's not strong enough to talk to the dead, Terry decides to go to the woods to get some training. He throws his hand up trying to shoot out energy blasts shouting out "ha!" but nothing happens. He then repeats the process multiple times to try to force it out but still nothing.

Terry then jumps off of rocks and small hill cliffs trying to fly or do some cool moves but just hits the ground. In his final attempt, Terry just runs around flaring his arms and screaming random nonsense in the hopes of something might happen. After hours of failed attempts, Terry lays on the ground, warns out, and stairs up into the sky looking at clouds and conversing with himself.

"Man, why is this so hard?"

"Things in life will always be hard."

"Yeah but this isn't life. People don't just one day wake with powers. Right?"

"I don't know. We don't know much about the world we live in."

Terry thinks back about all the times he used his gift, teleporting in the girls' room, running super fast out of their house, making his room shake, and summoning lightning on his grandfather's Betsy tombstone.

"You know each time you used your power you felt something emotionally strong."

"So."

"So, you weren't thinking all those things, you felt it, you were in the moment nothing about anything else. You willed it to happen." hammering his point.

"And how does that help it sounds like another challenge to face." he complains

"Well, you know what helps makes you feel powerful like you're in control of your life." Then Terry gets an idea.

Terry figured out that his powers are based on emotions and decided to get himself motivated into using them by reading his collections of comics in his room. He mostly reads great and powerful stories that focus on character emotional struggle and how they overcome it with help of their abilities like The Human Lighting Bolt.

reading a scene where the lighting bolt super-speed to save his girl from the black tornado trap. The lightning bolt shoots electricity out of his hand short-circuiting a device that was cutting off her ability to breathe. After saving her she gives him a kiss and he runs off ready to face the black tornado. Terry, feeling his confidence, his high point, Terry starts feeling electricity surge through his body and super-speeding out of his room.

Running around town, Terry feels the air hitting his body, feeling like he's running underwater, people slowly move around like they're moving at 0.25 the speed. Around town people catch a glimpse of Terry running but are unable to make him out and create a gust of wind wherever he runs, startling whoever's nearby.

Feeling more excited and more confident, Terry does a super jump feeling ready to fly. He sores into the air shouting out in excitement "Sweet-edge!" but his excitement is short-lived when he comes falling down crashing down back at his training ground in the woods. "Ouch." Terry says softly in a bit of pain but fortunately, he's alright. "Guess flying is too advanced for us." say while looking up into the sky.

Back at home at the dinner table, Terry uses his powers secretly for both good practice and for fun. Terry looks around the house using x-ray vision, seeing through stuff like food cans and spices behind close cabinets, seeing the skeletal structure of his parents, and seeing the inside of the furniture and the tv in the living room.

"So Terrence, how has your research been going?" Terry's mother asks.

"What?" Terry says snapped out of his distraction

"Research about our family history. Did I help shed some light on your curiosity?" she says enthusiastically about Terry's interest in her side of the family.

"Oh yeah, It really helps a lot. thank you for telling me."

"No worries and if you want to know more you can always come to me."

"Thanks mom."

Terry then flickers the lights on and off causing the family to worry. "The powers going haywire." shouts the mother.

"it's your stupid spirits doing, make them stop." said the father.

After messing with his parents Terry checks his phone and sees that he received an email from Jane. She emails him saying "I know it was you. I would like to talk to you." under the message is her number.

Terry quickly eats his food and heads upstairs to his room. Terry paced around his room in a panic. "I thought we cleared this up."

"You can't expect to clean that mess in a day." Terry explains to himself.

Terry thinks of ways to get her off his scent "We should write back clarifying it wasn't me."

The other side of Terry says to him"I don't know, she seems like she's sure and, is that such a bad thing?"

"Huh." Terry says in a stress-induced way.

"Well she doesn't seem mad, we'll get a chance to talk to a cute celebrity, and who knows, it could be the start of something." he explains

Terry takes a couple of deep breaths and says "Okay, okay I'll call her."

Terry looks at the number and presses it. His phone then takes him to the call keypad with the numbers set in. Terry's heartbeats as he tries to force himself to press the call button. The room starts to shake again but Terry is too consumed in the action of just calling Jane to either notice or care about it. Terry gives up and decides not to call her. Collapses on the floor saying to himself "Wimp." "I know."

the father comes up to his room in a panic "Are you alright Terrence are you hurt."

"No, just fell a little bit. How are you and mom?" Terry says trying to sound surprised about the shaking.

"Good. Your mother is a bit shaken up but we're alright. Never experienced a mini earthquake before." Terry's father tells him

"Yeah, that was scary." Terry says in response.

Later that day Terry goes to the family computer and does a bunch on the supernatural, mythology, and religion. Some are useful, some are pointless, some make no sense, and are impressive.

"Damn Zeus is the ultimate cheater and Hera is the ultimate bitch."

"Now I'm confused, is god loving or is he vengeful." "He could've been vengeful but then turned loving." Doesn't that make him human?" "We are created in his image."

"Okay, well this guy is a joke."

"Supernatural things. Are not an exact science."

"Okay after absorbing all that the possible theory is a greek god came down and impregnated my mother, one of my family made a deal with the devil (hopeful to god) and I'm getting the aftermath of that deal, or some aliens mess with my genetic structure."

"So we got nothing?" "Nothing." Terry confirms to himself

Terry continues to look around despite being exhausted looking for something to explain his condition. He then comes across an article about the power of the mind.

"The brain is the most extraordinary organ in the human body. It is responsible for everything the body does and even possibly more. The brain houses our conscious and subconscious that creates our personalities to allow a flow of emotions, attitudes, and healing thoughts. New studies show that with the right mental condition you can train your mind to make your body do things otherwise would seem like fiction, durability, super strength, super speed, resistance to heat, cold, and many toxins. In the east, there are monks well documented showing these great abilities by the team of scientists from OxRade university with their consent of course. Now in Germany, a grad student has been displaying some telepathy ability, reading people's minds, moving objects although these acts are very limiting it shows proof that there are endless possibilities on what the mind can do. It is only a matter of time when humans can do anything with just a single thought."

After reading the article Terry concluded, "Well this seems like something we could have."

"Yeah, an extremely advanced version of it."

"Well, we do think a lot."

Terry corrects himself saying "We easily obsess a lot, anyway I don't buy it if we can do this..." Terry points his finger up and a light shines through his window followed by a humming noise. Then people scream out "UFO!", "The sky is on fire!", and "God is upon us!" the light recedes and people's voices die down after a while. "It has to be some work or something greater." being skeptical.

"What if this is just a natural form of human evolution."

"Then that's a pretty gigantic leap."

"Well, we don't know until we look inside ourselves."

"How are we going to do that?"

Terry thinks for a moment before saying "Science class."

Later that night Terry then sneaks into school wearing all black. "Shouldn't we wait till tomorrow to do this?"

"Eh, too long, plus now we have powers, this will be easy."

"It's easy to break into a school but it's impossible to talk to a girl?"

"Yep."

"You truly suck."

Heading to the front door Terry tries to open the door but it's locked. Using his power Terry concentrate to unlock it. He closes his eyes, breathes in and out, and tells himself "You can do this." he sticks out his hand towards the lock and continues to say "Just visualize the mechanics of the lock" Terry then turns his hand while finishing "and turn it." Terry successfully unlocked the front door and headed inside.

Walking through the dark halls, Terry turns a corner and sees a security guard walking towards him. Dress in black Terry hides behind the corner of the wall using the dark to cloak his appearance, being silent as possible. The security guard walks past him, not noticing him. Once the guard is far enough Terry makes his way to the second floor.

Once up there he sees another guard hang around outside the science room. Terry creates a noise to distract him. First, it was a little tap but unfortunately, the guard has headphones on listening to music so he didn't hear it. Terry creates a bigger sound. BAM!!! "Ah too much." the guard quickly takes note and investigates the sound. With the guard walking away Terry sneaks in.

Once inside the science classroom, Terry starts setting things up. He grabs some gloves, a microscope, and some sliding glass plates. He pricks his finger using a tack he brought from home and places his blood on the glass and begins to observe his blood. After having a good long look at it he makes his conclusion. "Just as I thought. I have no idea what I'm looking at. What a waste of time."

Just then his teacher Ms. Walker comes in. Terrence? What are you doing here on a Saturday?

Terry quickly makes up an excuse. "A friend gave him this blood sample and wanted to know if there was anything strange about it because he's been feeling strange."

"Well, I'm here because I left my papers in case you were wondering. So is there something strange about his blood."

"I have no idea." Terry answers.

Ms. Walker checks the blood for him and tells him "Well it seems to me that your friend's blood is completely normal."

"Guess we are the next step of human evolution." Terry thinks to himself

Ms. Walk adds on "But if you really want to look into it you need microscopes more powerful than the cheap kind the school provided."

disappointed hearing that Terry thanks Ms. Walker for the help and they both leave the school.

"Do you need a ride home?" Ms. Walker asks Terry. "No, I'm fine. I could use the exercise." "Okay get home safe."

Terry walked home thinking to himself "Well I guess now we have to look up what places have a powerful microscope." "And research how to use it." "Oh yey how fun." Terry says sarcastically.

While walking home Terry lets out a loud hard yawn realizing how tired he is. Terry freezes realizing the more he uses his power the more tired he becomes and needs to recharge. "Huh how bout that."

Once at home in his room Terry goes to his bed feeling extremely tired. Before Terry falls asleep he picks up his phone and presses the call button. The phone rings for a few minutes before there is an answer.