Above All Opps

Drift pt2

Chase awoke with an intensive rage and felt that all his emotions had died out, making him feel a little bit less than his usual self, not like he had any pleasant emotions . He felt like something had happened but didn't quite now what except from his near death experience. What day was it? How long had he been out for? And more importantly, Where was he? Well, that didn't matter for the moment, he was pretty much alive and was grateful for that.

Knowing that he was alive, he tried moving his limbs slowly to try to evaluate the amount of pain he was in for but it felt normal. He waved his broken arm in the air and realised that it was working just fine and even his broken leg had seemed to have healed without any repercussions of pain or agony. He stood up without a problem and analysed his body thoroughly: Blood had dried up on his jacket but except from that, he seemed fine.

The places where he had gotten stabbed had all closed up and by his amazement, no scars were visible along his body but he was kind of ticked off that there were several knife holes in his favourite jacket making him think about what he'll have to tell his aunt if he ever managed to get back. His clothes felt heavy because of the rain a couple of days back but he still managed to walk and move about.

Growl. His stomach rumbled loudly and he realised that he was suddenly very hungry. He was so hungry that he could literally eat about anything. He didn't know where he was but he thought that it would be better for him to just go somewhere in hope of finding a city or something remotely close to civilisation and with that, he headed north.

*******

Four days passed and there was still no sign of Chase. Lily and Maria were at wits end as they had searched everywhere for him without even a slight glimpse on him and every passing day negatively affected the mood of the two ladies. They had no way of reaching out to Chase as he had left his phone at home and because of his non existent power level, he was untraceable.

They both let out a sign as they walked through the front door of the Tennyson household looking extremely tired and lifeless.

"You girls are finally back." May said as she carried a bottle of water to the dinner table. " Hurry up and eat otherwise the food's going to get cold. "

The ladies took a seat next to each other and dug into their plates, salvaging all the food like a couple of hungry wolves. Finishing up their food, May looked at them attentively and asked a question that she knew the answer to.

"Found him yet?"

The ladies didn't respond and May took their silence for no.

"Just give up." She told them as she took away their plates from them and cleared the table. " it's been more than a week since you two searched for him and still nothing, so you might as well give up. "

"Do you even know what you're saying mother?" Lily asked with absolute contempt. "You didn't even go look for him and now you're just going abandon him, talk about a mother."

May didn't react nor did she need to as she figured that it was a waste of time to fight her own daughter and turned to her sister.

"Are you still going to continue looking?" She asked.

"Yeah." Maria answered as she got up from the table , "But don't worry about Lily, she won't be coming anymore."

"Wait-" Lily tried to protest but Maria held up a hand in silence.

"You need to have a sufficient amount of sleep Lily and your exams are coming up so you need that time to study ok?" Maria said as she gently ruffled Lily's hair.

Lily understood what her aunt was trying to say but she still wanted to go look for her brother but the angry look her mother gave her made her agree to Maria's decision and she headed up to her room.

" Well, " Maria started as she headed towards the front door, "I'll be on my way."

" Ah! Then good luck on your search. "

Maria nodded and with that she left the house.

******

On a fairly warmer November Thursday, Chase had finally managed to find his way home after 11 days of outside life but he hadn't quite figured out how he had gotten home but was sure that a voice had guided and whoever it was, Chase was grateful.

It appeared to be 7pm at least as the sky was dark and the stars were starting to show themselves in all their glory. He passed a familiar road and knew that he was on the right way home and would have ran home in absolute glee but the lack of food and water left him with no energy and even though he hadn't ate anything for 11 days, he was quite impressed by the fact that he wasn't dead yet and he felt that there was something keeping him going.

Arriving in an empty road, he heard a couple of voices approaching him and normally he would have been scared out of his mind but in fact, he felt calm and relax and even though the people approaching him carried murderous intent, Chase didn't know how but all he knew was that he could win considering that his opponents were quite weak and their power level was nothing to gloat about.

Three guys emerged from the shadows wearing and pulled out long knives. Without warning, they lunged straight at him with incredible speed but to Chase, it looked like they were walking. He effortlessly dodged the first attack making the assailants feel insecure about their movements. But, they were still out for the kill and as they lunged again, Chase's body involuntarily moved causing a perfectly aimed round house kick to send the assailant in the middle flying sideways.

Chase felt nothing but was still quite interested by the first attack he had ever dished out. But the assailants were not enjoying that random attack and it infuriated them. At least that's what Chase thought since their faces were near to invisible because of the broken lampposts on the road.

Chase knew that something had changed within him and even if there was no possibility of him gaining any kind of power, he still wanted to try. He stretched forth his hand towards the three assailants like his aunt had showed him a couple of years back causing the assailants to look a bit uncertain but were relieved when nothing came out of the boy's hand and they decided to attack again. Chase was disappointed but what did he expect, he was powerless from birth and -

Booooom!

An explosion was heard and nobody moved. The assailants all looked shocked and they disappeared into the darkness of the night. Chase had no idea of what has just happened but was happy that the assailants had fled and he was conscious of the fact that something had come out of his hand. Looking around for the explosion, he realised that the spot where the assailants were standing on before attacking had been destroyed and Chase felt a rush of excitement as he guessed that it may have been because of him.

So, to be sure that it was him, he faced the palm of his hand upwards and focused, focused and focused until a ball of dark element had formed into his hand. He admired it for a minute before clenching his palm which cancelled the ball, and trying to leave the scene as fast as possible before people came to see what had just happened.

Along the way home, he kept on thinking about the power that he was able to produce and he still felt nothing but a smile, not too happy or too sad plastered his face. When was the last time he had smiled like that? He couldn't remember but he now has power and he had to get stronger.

He finally arrived home and realised that there was no one there. He didn't really care as headed towards the kitchen to eat a big long snack. He wolfed down six ham and Cheese sandwichs before going up to his room and changing himself into a black tracksuit.

He didn't have time for a shower but he had to take a double dash back when he saw what he looked like in the mirror: His eyes had somehow turned black and his hair was also the same. The once dark blue hair colour he had had turned jet black but his the position of his hair was still the same.

It didn't bother him. He went into his room and put on a blue hoodie, took out a map from his drawer and stuffed it inside his bag. Along with the map, he brought a couple of school textbooks and that was technically it. He left his phone since he didn't need it without even bothering to check it and with that, he left the house. He stepped outside and admired the starry sky and hoped for the wellbeing of his sister and aunt before standing on the lawn and concentrating on something.

The thing was, he was trying to fly. He remembered how his aunt had showed him and his sisters how to fly and they had learnt it right of the bat but Chase didn't even manage to lift his feet off the ground.

But today, this was going to change.

He closed his eyes and remembered what his aunt had told them.

"Remember kids, " Aunt Maria's voice suddenly entered his brain, "you need to become one with the wind, you need to be the wind, you need to feel it around you and let it flow with you."

Well, it was easier said than done. Chase stood there for five minutes before seeing change. He felt his body leave the earth a bit and slowly started going up and up.

He was quite impressed by the results leading to a tiny smile being plastered across his lips but with no emotion.

He finally got the hang of flying forward, backward, up and down as well as controlling his speed and landing before making sure that he could do it again. He must have spent at least half an hour there but, it didn't matter because it was worth it.

He was ready. He checked that he has everything in his bag and after checking, he brought himself back into the sky and left without ever looking back.

*****

A couple of fifty metres below, the Tennyson had made their way home, not noticing anything unusual and going about their day.

They stepped out of the car and headed towards the front door of the house. Lazuli opened it and waited for the rest of the ladies to go inside.

Lily entered first leaving their mother to make sure that the car doors were locked and she followed her daughter in before abruptly stopping and looking up at the Starry sky.

"Mother? " Lazuli asked as she curiously looked at her. "What's wrong?" It was unusual for May to space out and when she did, she was thinking about something deep.

May turned towards her eldest daughter and shook her head before showing her a bright smile and entering the house.

"Nothing."