Secret Powers
Chapter 4

Hello! I know I threw you a curveball on the last chapter. I honestly did not know where that was headed. Like I said before, I thought I was going to make them superheroes later in the story, but I guess not. Please vote and comment! I do not know if you are liking this story or not if you do not do these thing. I will take what you tell me and, most likely, use it. I promise! On that note, on with the story!!

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It had been three weeks since my parents had told me I was a superhero. I was ecstatic. Of course, they didn’t let us do anything but train until today. Tonight was our first mission. I like to call it a mission, but it’s really just patrolling the highest crime-populated area of the town. Our town is small, so nothing bad ever happens from the residents. It is the criminals from outside our little bubble that screw it up. Tonight, Jax and I will start to fix that.

However, we still have to go to school. I thought it would be harder to keep the secret after my parents had let us become superheroes, but I was wrong. It was almost easier. Before, I had all this built up anxiousness to tell someone, but now that I had, it felt like I was done. I did not need to tell anyone else. The secret brought our friend group closer together. We had a secret that only we knew, and it was exhilarating.

Today, I woke up on time. Things were looking good. Which means things were about to go horribly wrong. We just can not get a break.

“Breakfast!” Mom yelled from downstairs.

“Coming!” I said as I was running down the stairs.

You see, four weeks ago, I would have covered the entire railing in ice, but not anymore. I was free from the curse that was my fear of my other side. Khione and I are friends now. No, we are sisters.

When I got downstairs, Jax was already there. I do not know how he is always so punctual! Even with me waking up on time, he still arrives everywhere before me!

“Hey, frosty,” Jax said.

I turned my eyes blue/white just to scare him. Obviously, it worked.

“Ha!” I laughed, “You should see your face! It’s priceless!”

“Shut up,” He murmured.

“Guys, can we just have ONE morning without you two getting into a fight?” Mom asked.

“No,” Jax and I answered at the same time.

Mom sighed. In response to that, Jax and I smiled. We had always done this; pushed Mom’s buttons. In our defense, she was an easy target. Mom walked right into every single one of our smartass remarks. It was even better when Dad would laugh with us and get in trouble for it.

“Just eat and then get to school,” Mom told us.

So, we did exactly what she told us. We eat our breakfast that she made us and went to school. Today, Jax and I decided to run to school. Well, we did not really decide, our parents did. It was part of our new training. To make it more fun, Jax and I made it a race. Whoever lost had to do whatever the winner wanted for the rest of the day. I know, we are evil geniuses.

“I’m gonna win again,” I said as I started to gain distance ahead of him.

“In your dreams,” Jax told me back as he passed me.

We went on like that for the rest of the run. In the end, I won. Just goes to show that women are the superior gender.

“Dammit!” Jax yelled as I made it to the front entrance first.

“Am I dreaming? Cuz’ I think I just won,” I smiled.

“Whatever. What do you want me to do first?” Jax asked.

I thought about it. There were a lot of really good things I could make Jax do, but I thought of one that benefited to me the most in this situation.

“Stand still so I can freeze the sweat droplets off of you,” I instructed him.

“What? That’s the best you could come up with? You last wins were better than this,” He said.

“You won’t be saying that for long,” I told him.

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Just as I finished, our friends walked off of the bus.

“Ow!” Jax yowled.

“Oh, suck it up. You’re going to attract unwanted attention,” I told him.

“What are you guys doing?” Luke asked.

“Torturing me,” Jax answered.

“He lost?” Lux asked.

“Yup!” I answered, “I had to freeze every sweat droplet on this body one by one until they were all gone, along with the smell.”

“It hurt!” Jax defended.

“Maybe you should have used your powers to make them into steam before she had to chance to freeze you,” Caitlin said.

Jax looked away in embarrassment. I am glad he feels that way. After what he made me do last Friday, he deserves it! He made me punch one of the rude basketball boys. Trust me, you DO NOT want to see how tall they are. It looked like they are actually going to fight back, but they restrained themselves. For that, I am deeply grateful. I made sure to explain it to them once they had calmed down. Besides the superhero part of it, of course.

The bell rang, and we went to homeroom. Today, it was a short homeroom so we could have an assembly. I hate assemblies, they are just an excuse for the school to remind us not to bully and other meaningless stuff. I know that sounds harsh, but it’s true! Nobody at this school takes any of what the staff tells us with meaning.

“Are you guys ready?” I asked.

“Yeah,” Lucy answered.

With that, we went into the theater, where the school meetings are held. It was the only place that could hold the entire school.

“Welcome, students! Please take the nearest seat to the front,” Our principle instructed us from the stage.

Of course, nobody did what he told us. We chose the farthest seats from the front, the top row. We sat in the middle, all seven of us sitting side-by-side.

“Are you guys excited?” Lucy asked.

“Yes! We’ve been waiting for this our whole lives!” Jax answered.

“You guys will be safe, right?” Caitlin asked.

“Of course we will, Cait. We’ve been training. Plus, it’s just patrolling,” I said.

“Ok,” she said uneasily.

“Relax, we’ll be fine. If you want, you guys can watch out body cameras and talk to us through the coms with our parents tonight,” I offered.

“Really!?” Lucas exclaimed.

“Really,” I said.

“Cool!” Cole said.

I was amazed by how much these types of things kept making our friend’s days. It was not really that exciting, but they kept on getting excited. I could see that Jax was happy. We were never known as special to the outside world, but now we had people who knew we were special. It sounds selfish, but this is what made me in such a good mood for the past few weeks.

The assembly went on and on for what felt like months, but it was really just about an hour and a half. My friends and brother were chatting for the rest of the assembly, but I starting thinking about something. Everything was perfect right now. Jax and I are about to go on our first mission, I had control over my powers, and my friends knew my family’s biggest secret. I was gong over everything that was good in my life at the moment. I tried to replace anything significantly bad, but I could not. This worried me. Something terrible was going to happen, and it was going to happen soon.

Before I realized, the assembly was over. Because of the assembly, we had missed the first two periods. I had PE with all my friends now. It was the first time I would be doing PE for almost four weeks. I had a “doctors” note that said I was excused from PE for medical reasons. You would be amazed by what my parents can do on a computer. I could tell they had done this before.

“Do you feel ready?” Lux asked me in the locker room.

“I feel great, and that’s the problem,” I answered her.

“What do you mean?” Caitlin asked.

“Nothing significantly bad had happened for almost four weeks. In my life, that means something bad will happen very soon,” I told them.

“That can’t always be true,” Lucy said.

“Trust me, I have lived in this world for a lot longer than you. I’ve learned a few thing,” I told them, “But it’s fine. Jax and I will go on patrol tonight and then we will deal with this when it comes. Ok?”

“Ok,” They answered in unison.

“Now, let’s go to class,” I said.

“Now that everybody is here, we can start. We are going to be starting our volleyball unit,” our teacher told us, “Partner up and get a ball.”

“You want to be partners?” I asked Jax.

“Sure,” He answered.

We got a volleyball and started to pass. Turns out, we guessed correctly on what our teacher wanted us to do. Jax and I did not talk. I was too busy thinking about what could possibly go wrong tonight. Unfortunately, Jax knew my worry face.

“What’s wrong?” Jax asked.

“It’s just... I know something will go wrong tonight,” I told him.

“So it’s not just me?!” he exclaimed.

“You have a much better poker face than me, then. But I refuse to let the fear of something bad happening tonight make me not go,” I said.

“Me, too,” Jax said.

“Ok! Then it’s settled, we will be aware to the threat, but not afraid of it,” he declared.

We spent the rest of the day as per usual. Our friends came home with us, and we all hung out until it was time. I felt like every part of my body was pulsing with adrenaline. I was nervous, but at the same time, excited. It was the best feeling in the world. I want to feel this way all the time. It made it even better when I let Khione out. I let the door that I was constantly holding back open. I had no fear.

“Are you ready?” I asked Jax once we had changed.

“As ready as I’ll ever be,” he answered.

“We will be watching and talking to you on the coms for the entire time,” Dad told us.

“We know Dad, you have told us this ten times already,” Jax said.

“He is just worried. We made a lot of mistakes when we were first starting out,” Mom said.

“But you didn’t have people who knew how to prepare you,” I told them.

“Still, be cautious,” Dad told us.

I nodded. I gave him a hug and then Mom one, too. My friends were standing awkwardly by the computer console. I smiled. In this moment, I knew that I would always have these five people to count on if I needed to.

“Let’s go, hothead,” I said to Jax.

“That’s one of the few you’ve been able to come up with,” he said.

“Come on!” I yelled from the front yard.

“I’m coming!” he started running to catch up with me.

We started by just getting out of the nice suburban part of town and into the more crime-affiliated part. Khione and I were working as a team. No one person was in control. We were in a state of harmony.

It looked like nothing was going to happen tonight, but something did. Right as we were about to leave, there was a robbery at a convenience store. I know I should be scared of getting hurt, but I am not. This was the perfect thing to start Jax and I off.

“Are you ready?” I asked Jax.

“Have been since I was seven,” he answered.

“Then let’s do this,” I started walking to the store.

When we got into the store, the bell above the door rang, which gave away our presence instantly. There were four of them. All of them were dressed in black with a black ski mask on. It was so stereotypical that I had a hard time keeping a straight face. One of the robbers had a gun pointed at the clerk. He was making the clerk get the money out of the cash register. This made Khione and I angry. What made them have the right to threaten someone with a gun just for a couple of bucks and junk food. The other three guys were grabbing things off the shelves.

“Hey! Are you gonna bring yourselves to the police or are you gonna make me do it for you?” I asked. This was going to be fun.

*Underlined and italicized is Khione and Blair speaking together. When they are like this, their thoughts are sorta combined.*

“What are you guys supposed to be? I didn’t know Comic-Con was in town,” robber one said.

“So we have to do this the hard way. Just remember we warned you,” Jax said.

They smiled with their disgusting teeth. They seriously thought they could beat us? We had been training to fight outnumbered, so this was going to be a walk-in-the-park if they acted as stupid as they looked.

They charged us first. Two guys came at me, and two guys came at Jax. One tried to kick me and the other tried to punch me. I guess they weren’t above hurting a woman. I know I should be happy about that, but I realize I had no idea there were people like this in my town. Honestly, it just made me want to keep fighting these bad guys more. I blocked the punch, but I did not have time to get out of the way for the kick. It hit me write in the gut. I got the wind knocked out of me, but I was able to come back from it quickly. Jax looked like he was doing fine, at least from what I could tell.

“Oh, you just made a big mistake,” I said.

They backed away from me. I felt cold mist come out of my hands and mouth. I started to form ice on the ground and make it slowly creep towards my attackers. I stuck to their feet so they could not move. I moved towards them. They tried to get away, but I reinforced the ice. I went behind them and froze ice handcuffs on their arms. I made it so it wouldn’t hurt them, but it would still stay there long enough for the police to replace them. Then, I made their feet frozen enough to stay, too. I saw that Jax had knocked his robbers out, so I went over to Jax and we fist-bumped. This could not have gone better.

“Did you seriously have to knock them out, Jax?” Lux asked over the coms as we were running home.

“Unlike my sister, I don’t have the ability to make handcuffs out of ice,” Jax answered.

“Whatever, just get home as fast as possible. You have school in four hours,” Mom said over the coms.

“Race?” I asked Jax.

“You’re on!” he answered as he was already starting to sprint.

“Cheater!” I yelled and hit him with an ice blast.

“Ow! That hurt!” he said.

“You’re just a baby!” I told him.

I said that right when we I touched the front door. I beat him for the second time in one day. That must have hurt his boy ego.

We got changed and said goodbye to our friends. Unfortunately, Jax and I did not make a deal about what the winner would get, so it was just bragging rights. It was a shame because I had the perfect idea. Our parents congratulated us on our first night. They said that we should be prepared for what some people might be saying at school tomorrow. We needed to have a way for nobody to suspect us, if the change came up. Jax and I decided on saying that we thought it was somebody with a special gun that could use heat and cold since there were scotch marks and ice at the crime scene. We would not believe that people with powers were real.

“Good night, Khione,” I said as I was drifting off to sleep.

“Good night, Blair,” she said back.

I really thought that something bad would happen tonight. I had this terrible feeling in my stomach. Do not get me wrong, I loved the adrenaline rush I got from fighting crime, but I knew something was going to happen that would change my run of perfectness going on. But, I refuse to think about that right now. Maybe something did happen last night that will show itself tomorrow, maybe it didn’t. I will not ponder on it until I absolutely need to. I am going to enjoy my life as it is for the time being. That is it.

Little did I know, I had guessed right. Something did happen last night that would make a huge difference in my family’s lives.

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