Ch 4
Getting there
            David opened his eyes and quickly shut them because of the bright sunlight coming in through the passenger window of his car. He squinted to allow his eyes to get used to the light.  He moved and felt that his back was sore from sleeping in an upright position.  He looked over to the driver's seat for Kyle, but there was no one there. He tried to think of where Kyle could be.
He tried to think of anything except that Kyle would abandon him.  It was a sudden frightening thought that he had.  Maybe he got caught by one of those things?  Maybe he went on without David?  David shook his head, as though to assure himself that none of that would happen.
He heard the crunch of gravel outside his door.  David opened the door and got out of the car.
            "Breakfast." Kyle said as he shook a bag.
            Apparently David fell asleep before Kyle had stopped the car on the edge of the road by a gas station.  Kyle had just gone in to get some food.  He got some sandwiches and orange juice, not quite the perfect breakfast in David's opinion, but he didn't complain.  David wondered if Kyle even slept that night.  He wondered if he even needed to sleep, but didn't bother asking him.
            "Where are we?" David asked instead.
            "Idaho, near the border of Oregon, we made better time than I thought. There wasn't too much traffic. Probably because it was the middle of the night?" Kyle said in a mock foolish way.
            "I'll drive through Oregon." David offered.
            "No, that's okay, I can do it." Kyle said quickly.
            "No, I want to." David responded in a voice that ended the conversation.
            They got back in the car, and David turned on the radio. He flipped station to station looking for something he liked.
            "Ugh… country," He said, "Remind me never to move to western Idaho."  He turned off the radio and looked over at Kyle. "Hey, I've been thinking."
            "Well that's scary." Kyle interrupted. David smiled, because it seemed that Kyle was no longer foreign and strange as he had been the day before.
            "No, I'm being serious.  I wanted to know how you know that I'm supposed to be all great and stuff, and where you learned that telekinesis thing."
            "Well, I'm not ready to tell you how I know, but I learned how to shift objects while I was training in Japan."
            "When were you in Japan?" David asked in bewilderment.
            "Well, technically ‘I’ have never been to Japan. So, I guess I'll have to explain that to you later also." David frowned, so Kyle quickly said, "It's not that I don't want you to know. It's that you won't understand."
            "Uh huh." David cut in.  
            "I might be able to explain it before we get to Japan."
            "What?" David raised his eyebrow.
            "We will eventually be leaving the… country." Kyle said in a relaxed tone, but he paused before the last word, as though he were going to say something else.
            "So, why are we going to Japan?"
            "Because we need to meet with the people there to protect you and train you."
            "Train me for what?"
            Kyle sighed. "Never mind."
            "No, seriously. What?"
            "I'm not going to tell you right now." Kyle said as he turned to look out of the window.
            David drove on in the silence.  He decided to change the subject and they talked for a while about things from home.
            They had gotten through all of the twisty winding roads of the Oregon slowly, because the roads were not in very good condition once they got off of the interstate.  But since thay had left Idaho, David noticed that Kyle kept looking behind them.  He would look out of his window to the side, then ahead of them, and so on.  David noticed he was started to fidget.
            "What's wrong?" He asked.
            "You should probably drive a little faster.  I can sense some kind of… power" He said. David remembered that Kyle acted like this right before the car crash. David could also sense something, and it felt like the new side of him that was comfortable with danger like this was growing… maybe even causing the tension he felt.
            "What about the police?" He said, not wanting to break the law.
            "I'd rather deal with the police, trust me."
            "Is it another Mælethrocant, or whatever those things are?" David said with a worried look.
            "I don't know; let's just hope it isn't something worse."
            "What are those things anyway?"
            "What things?"
            "The Mælethrocants!" David was starting to get annoyed.
            "They were people once… very gifted people.  They let their power control them, instead of the other way around.  Now they are corrupted."
            David didn't know what to say to this. He felt like his question wasn't really answered, then he remembered how Kyle said he wouldn't be able to understand things very well yet, so he decided to remain quiet.
            He drove on with increasing dread, slowly increasing his speed.  After a couple tense hours, Kyle relaxed, and David asked what happened.
            "I think it’s just... Look out!"
            David saw a deer running out into the road right in front of him.  He tried to slam on his brakes, but he was going too fast.
            The deer was right in front of the driver's side of the car heading to the left.  All of a sudden, the car seemed to move slightly to the right.  David noticed a lack of vibration, and then he saw that the car was slightly airborne, and it moved to the right to avoid the deer.  Then, with a lurch, the car went back to the ground and David pulled off to the side of the road and stopped.  He was panting heavily and noticed that he was very tired as though he had been running.
             "Thanks. I didn't even see that deer coming onto the road." David said as he looked over to Kyle. "I'm not sure I really want to drive anymore…"
             Kyle was looking at him very strangely.
             "What?" David said.
             "I didn't do anything." Said Kyle.

CH 5
The Truth
             David thought for a little bit to try to take in what Kyle had just said.
             "So, you mean something else came and…" David began.
             "No…" Kyle interrupted, "It was you."
             "Haha, yeah right.  You're the one with all these powers."
             "No one has ever done anything before training, especially not something so… large-scale. I mean, maybe small things, but a whole car? That was what I was sensing…" Kyle trailed off. He was saying this more to himself than to David.
             "Okay, time to stop joking now. Let's try being serious. So, where do we go from here? Do you want to drive?"
             "Sure." Kyle said absentmindedly.  He was lost in thought, and he would look over at David, then mutter something, then look away.  They drove the rest of the way like this, and it was a while before David actually accepted that he had been the one to move the car.
             "So… so… I did that?" David stammered.
             "Did what?" Kyle was still lost in his thoughts.
             "Moved the car!" David yelled in his frustration. He didn’t like how Kyle went in and out of being in control and being distant.
             Kyle snapped out of his reverie and said, "Yes. It was you, I didn't do it, and nothing else could have done it."
             "Well, so, that means that I can do that stuff now? Like, I could move this car right now?"
             "You could go ahead and try." Kyle responded.
             David concentrated as hard as he could. He squinted his eyes, lowered his head, cleared his thoughts, but he could do nothing. He tried to move a pen on his dashboard.  He concentrated till he got a headache and said, "That had to be you, maybe you did it subconsciously or something."
             "No, I didn't do it.  I think you only did that because it was an extreme situation."
             Kyle had just turned onto a dirt road, and David looked off into the distance and saw a foreign horizon that he thought was the ocean; he had never seen the ocean in real life before.
             "So, we're almost there?" David asked as he looked around.
             "Yeah, we should be."  The road they were on entered a dense forest, and David noticed that the road seemed to be less traveled, and it was starting to become overgrown with the undergrowth of the forest.
             "Are you sure there are still people here?" David asked wearily.
             "I don't know why there wouldn't be anyone here."
They reached an old rusted gate with a faded orange No Trespassing sign on it.  Kyle opened it with a flick of his hand.
             "They should know we're here by now. I don't think they were expecting you for a while though."
             They proceeded on the overgrown road till they reached a series of simple wooden buildings.  David thought the place had a run-down feeling to it, and he did not desire to stay there.
             "Well, I wonder where our welcome party is." Kyle said as he stopped the car. He got out of the car and walked up to the nearest building and knocked on the door.  The hinges of the door broke, and they the door fell inward as David also got out of the car.  
             "That can't be good." David said.
             "Well. I was not expecting that." Kyle said with a frown.
             "So, did they move or something?"
             "I didn't think...  This has been an outpost for us for years."
             They walked around from building to building in a futile attempt to hopefully find a person in the abandoned setting.
             "So… where to now?" David asked in mock politeness.
             "But this was a whole village full of people just twenty years ago.  The only possible explanation that I can see is that they all moved to another outpost, but I know they were expecting us to show up here eventually."
             "Okay, I've had enough of this. I've known you since you were five, and I know there is no way you could have been to Japan, here, or anywhere else.  I want to know how you know all of this right now. Did someone tell you all of this? Are you really like forty years old, and you just look like you're sixteen, or what?"
             Kyle looked him directly in the eyes.  He tilted his head slightly to the side, and then he gained an expression of concern, similar to the way a parent would look at their child.  "Fine. I guess it's time I start telling you the truth.  I'm not sure if you would be able to understand it yet…"
             "I don't care.  I'm getting fed up, and I just want to hear this truth." David had turned serious and cold.
             David noticed that Kyle could tell the meaning of the tone he used.
             "Okay, to start off, I am sixteen.  I did grow up with you, and we have been friends for eleven years.  But I also had a life before that."  David saw that Kyle looked like he was thinking of something painful. "My name was Samuel, and I lived my parents in America until I was seven years old.  Then, we moved to Japan for my father's work.  It was hard to make friends in a country where you didn't fit in or understand the language."
             Kyle let out a long sigh. "I remember one day on my way to school I… I'm not ready to talk about how it happened.  But, the end result was I was accepted into a group of people who taught me the things that you have seen me do. Wow, I can sum it up so quickly, but I could also tell you about it for days. The training, the people, how much it all opened my mind, there was so much. Hopefully you will be able to experience this. After finding this place abandoned, I don't know whether there are any of us left that I can find.  Anyway, those of us who are weaker that have completed our training as far as we can are offered the mission of finding others who are like we are, finding others with even greater power that we can use to help the world instead of harm it.  You see, there are many people capable of the things we can do.  Some could be able to do things no one has done, or what no one can imagine.  We are sent out to find these people." David was silently mesmerized by this time. "One of our leaders was able to see into the future, and he had a very limited view, mind you.  It's not like we could know everything that will happen. He could see very few things actually, but he did see you.  He saw you, and he saw only a part of what you could become.  My other memories start to get fuzzy around there, and I don't know much else.  But, you see, I could not just go to your house and take you away from your parents, and I don't think you would want to go with some stranger, because of how stubborn you are.” David laughed as Kyle said this.  “Also, there had to be someone with you to protect you as you grew up, and we would never want you to be taken away from your family at such a young age, so I was sent to be your protector and guide you until you were old enough to be brought in for training."
             "So… you're really like a hundred years old or something?" David asked, because he was quite utterly confused.
             "Now, that's the interesting part.  It was strange, because I grew up as a normal child, then as I got older, I remembered things that had never happened to me.  I was remembering Samuel's thoughts.  Then, I recalled the part of his memory where I found out that he was to be made again as a newborn child, and I was that child, so I was Samuel.  I'm not sure why or how it happened like that, because there are still many things I haven't remembered yet.  Then, I remembered the part about you, but it was amazing that it was after we were already friends.  I'm still not sure how they knew where you were going to be born, or how they got me here.  I think it must have been tricky to slip a child into a community unnoticed.  I intend to ask them how this was done once we arrive in Japan.  Anyway, then I started to remember how to use Samuel's, or my, power to shift objects.  I know that there was more I could do, but I haven't fully developed yet. You see, I wasn't supposed to bring you in with us for a few years now, and it was quite a shock that the Mælethrocants knew about you at all.  We never dreamed they would have the ability to do that. I guess it is time that we stop underestimating them."
              "Everyone has different powers though?  How do you know what they have? What if they have something that you've never encountered before?" David asked now that he had some of an idea what was going on.
              "That's when we have to improvise.  Like with the car yesterday… I've never seen anything like that before.  To move something that large, going that fast, and not be near enough to be seen. That is some power."
              "Well, what other powers are there? Well, that you know of." David said while he was overflowing with curiosity.
              "You already know what I, and apparently you, can do by shifting objects.  Let's see, some can see into the future, some into other's heads, while some just have extreme intelligence.  Anthony could move fire, which I believe is now called pyro-kinesis.  I knew of some who could move with heightened speed, and some had greater strength.  Now, sometimes the power can change the way people look. You will probably see people like that later… And some don’t really have a clear power or thing they can do. They can just do some things without knowing how they do it, and they may never be able to do it again." Kyle would have continued, but David cut in.
               "Why are these given to people? Who does this? Does everyone have a power like this, but they just don't know about it?" David could not control the questions that were escaping his mouth.
               "Your first two questions will have to wait until later, but not everyone has these abilities, they are unique.  You are unique.  I believe no one has had the same power that you possess."

CH 6
A Ray of Hope
            David slowly walked back to the passenger seat of the car and sat down.  He let his thoughts consume him as he stared at the overgrown ground.
            Kyle was pacing back and forth through the buildings thinking.  He had told David he was trying to hold onto the thoughts of his past life and try to bring some new memories into focus to see if there was anything that could help them.  Kyle was unsure whether they should even bother looking for the outpost in Japan, because there was a chance that it was deserted as well, so they needed a new plan.  
            "Trying to reach them mentally isn't working…" He muttered to himself. Every time Kyle walked by David, he would hear pieces of the conversation Kyle was having with himself.  "They wouldn’t have moved on without David… Thomas wouldn't be able to feel my presence from here… she won't be able to tell it's me… maybe if I could… no that wouldn't work… but if we went there and there was no one…Marcus."
            Kyle suddenly stopped dead in his tracks and looked over at David. "Marcus." He said again.
            "What?" David responded.
            "I could summon Marcus."
            "Oh…okay then." David said in sarcastic bewilderment. He had no idea what was going on.
            Kyle looked all around him, and said, "This place is deserted enough…"
            "I thought that was the problem." David retorted.
            Kyle ignored him and looked towards the sky and starting muttering something in some strange language.  The volume of his talk steadily increased, and David noticed that he was repeating what seemed like a chant or something over and over.  Kyle yelled one last line before stopping, and then he looked at the sky expectantly.
            David raised his eyebrow at Kyle then looked at the sky also.
            After about ten minutes, David got fed up with this awkward waiting, so he gave Kyle a quick glance before heading back to the car and expected Kyle to follow him, but he remained rooted to the spot.  David made an impatient noise, but Kyle ignored him.  
Five minutes later, David looked up and noticed a line of dark clouds just above the treetops that surrounded them.
            "It looks like it might rain soon, we should get going… to wherever we're going." David said impatiently as he got out of the car.
            There was no response from Kyle.
            "Come on!" David shouted.
            Kyle stood motionless still looking upwards, so David walked over to him and shook him by the shoulder to get his attention.  Kyle replied non-verbally by pointing above them into the sky.  The dark clouds that had been just on the edge of David's vision were now right above them, and they looked like they were bringing a menacing storm with them.  David was reminded of a few days ago when this happened, and what happened after the storm came.
            "Shouldn't we …uh go?" He said uncertainly.
            Kyle was still concentrating on the dark churning mass that the clouds had formed above them.  All of a sudden, the clouds began spinning rapidly, and they took David's attention immediately.  The clouds took on a circular shape as they continued to spin around and around.  The middle of the clouds started to clear up, and David thought he could see sunlight coming through.  But, as the hole in the middle of the clouds opened, the light coming from it was much brighter than that of the sun, and David had to use his hand to shield his eyes from the overpowering brightness.  The ring of clouds around the light was now spinning at an alarming rate, and David began to look around to try to figure out what was going on.  
When he looked back in the center of the clouds, he noticed something coming out of the bottom of the extreme ball of light.  As the figure descended, David thought it looked something like a bird.  He noticed that the ring of clouds started to dissipate, and the light along with it.  When the mysterious figure was closer to them, David realized with a gasp that it was a person.  
             David's mind immediately settled on the word Angel.  The being looked much like a normal person, but had ten foot wings coming from each shoulder, and the feathers on the wings were pure white, as was the clothing that this creature adorned.  The clothing was loose, and somewhat tattered, David noticed, as it moved in the wind.  This being wore nothing on his feet and allowed them to be bare.  When the man was about twenty feet away, David saw that he had unexpectedly dark hair, because all of the pictures of angels that David had seen had had fair blonde hair.  The man also had wide piercing grey eyes that seemed to take in all of his surroundings without ever moving once.
             He landed gracefully upon his bare feet and stood surveying Kyle for a few moments, before he opened his mouth and said, "It's been a long time Samuel."