Monster

This time things were different. Time slowed down instead of pausing. Instead of thinking he just took advantage of the situation. He ran dribbling the ball. Suddenly, he felt that he could even control how much slower the time should be. He didn't slow it too much so that it wouldn't be too unnatural for the audience. From the point of view of Riza and the audience, he was faster than other players but not too much. Sam was surprised to see John run so fast.

He reached the opponent's basket and slowed the time a little more so that he could aim properly. He threw the ball with all his might towards the basket. To everyone's amazement, he scored. Every John's team member shouted. Sam even hugged him in excitement.

He continued it throughout the whole match. John's team was now in the lead.

They were overwhelming the opponents.

At last, they won.

After celebrating and resting for a while, everyone returned home. John and Sam were talking about their victory while returning home. After parting ways with Sam, John started thinking about today's incident. He realized he was now able to not only pause but slow down the time as well. This made him happy.

'I guess just pausing time wasn't the full extent of my power. Now I can slow down time as well. I wonder what I will be able to do if my power keeps growing.', he thought to himself. It was evening and the sun was about to set. He was walking on the street when he heard the sound of a loud crowd. He moved forward a bit and turned left. He saw a huge crowd gathered.

After consulting with some people from the crowd and looking at the situation he found out that a seven-year-old girl was hanging on the window of a five-storey building. Everyone was panicked. The mother of the child was crying on the road. Some people were busy comforting her. Some rescue crew were trying to save her but the situation was harder than anyone thought. At last, the child's hand gave up and she fell.

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John slowed down the time. He spread out his hand to catch the girl. The girl slowly landed on his hand. He returned the time to normal. Everyone was stunned. The mother came running and hugged her child. Husband too came running.

John didn't want to gather attention so he left the place and headed to his home.

He reached his home. After he changed his clothes he went to the dining hall. Mrs Vincent came into the room.

She said to Mr Vincent, "Come on, What's wrong with me? I didn't even recognize you. I am silly, aren't I?". She laughed.

"Your head is preoccupied with many thoughts. You should take it, easy dear.", Mr Vincent replied.

"Anyway, congratulations on your victory", Mr Vincent added. John was astounded.

"What? How did you know that? I haven't even told you.", John asked. "I already knew it.", Mr Vincent replied.

After having dinner he went to his room. He was tired that day. He quickly fell asleep. He was seeing an extremely bizarre dream.

In his dream, he saw his dad being turned into a monster by other monsters. He looked at his hand, to see his hand turning black and eyes growing in it.