A sparkling adventure!

By: Marcus Leung

TW: Slight violence

I woke up and knew what I had to do. On the first day of superhero school, I wished that my teachers would be great and my classmates would be amazing but the only thing I really wanted to happen was that I would find out my cool superpower. I walked into the classroom quietly while holding all my books in two hands, there were all my classmates waiting to find out their superpowers. I looked at my teacher and the first image I got in my mind was her hitting me. She had got one, two, three, wait no four moles on her face and something, on her face that was rather weird it looked like a big pimple, wait, no something even worse. I wanted to have a closer look but my teacher quickly told me to sit down, I looked around and saw that there was this one classmate with tons of bruises on his face. I looked to the right to find out more about my classmate, but his face was the worst one of all, he looked like his face was going to burst any minute.

I was about to take my books out but the teacher called me to go to the front of the class to introduce myself. I didn’t know what to say so I just thought of something random, “hello my name is Leo, and um um umm, I’m looking forward to working with all of you”. Everyone clapped their hands, they didn’t seem to care that I stuttered while saying that. At lunch, I went to the cafeteria. The food they gave out was terrible, as I can recall it was broccoli with onions. I took one bite out of the broccoli and I started feeling weird as if something was happening to my belly. Everyone in the cafeteria didn’t seem to feel anything but I felt like I could burst tons of energy out. After that weird lunch, I came back to class and we were learning science. It was really fun, I used a pig’s thigh and connected it with a cow. After science, it was my favorite lesson, the “superhero lesson.” I tried letting go of all my power to one hand and something came out for a split second. It was yellowish blue, I told my teacher but she said it’s probably your wee coming out. I rolled my eyes and walked away from my teacher. I tried the same process over and over again. On the last try, I got it. I found out that my superpower was Lightning, just about 5 hours ago my mom gave me a lucky charm to hope I get the power I want and I think it worked….

I went back home after school to tell my mom the “lucky charm” actually worked. She asked what powers I got. I told her that it was lightning, nobody talked for a few minutes, it felt awkward, I didn’t know what to say and I guess neither did my mom. After a few minutes or so, my mom asked me what I would like for dinner, usually, I wouldn’t be able to choose what to eat but my mom said “it's fine you can choose since you unlocked your power today!” Since it was the first time I got to choose what to eat, I was so excited. I told my mom I wanted to eat pizza, hamburger, ice cream, fries, candy, seaweed, lemon tea (cold) and maybe… donuts. My mom was actually mad at first, but she still wanted to make me happy so she bought all the stuff. The next day of school was terrible. Everyone wanted me to show them my power well because not everyone had their power yet. At lunch, I sat down and everyone came to sit next to me, I felt like I was a celebrity. After school, I met a gang that always bullied me. I had waited so long for this moment. I zapped them so that they started to faint one by one, I watched as the king of the gang fell below my eyes, “what a relief” I said. I then turned around and walked back home, I noticed not many people were on the streets these days, I wondered maybe if it was because of the gang. I asked my mom what was happening on the streets and she told me that most people were scared that the people in my school were going to go crazy with their new powers.

After a few months, almost everyone in the school got their powers, I met a couple of new friends and one of them was named Joe. Joe was a nice friend. He showed me what he could do with his powers. One day he even showed me that his power called phoenix could let him heal himself. I was really surprised. Our “nice teacher” even taught us how to control our powers and how to make them even more powerful. I know I said my teacher was a bit mean but she turned out to be nicer than I thought. I unlocked many new powers such as lightning berserker, lightning cannon, thunderstorm and Zues. Honestly, my favorite one was Zues, Zues could make you have extreme powers, it can make you fly, but the con about it was that it needed tons of tons of energy. My mom told me that her dad’s power was lightning too, so she told me some techniques to become more “powerful”. Right now, all I had to do was to learn one more skill and I was done with this school, but I didn’t think it was going to be that easy. Most of the “lightning masters” took more than 3 years to learn this skill and I didn’t think I, a normal person could master it that quickly. I really wanted to learn the last skill, some say that the last skill can destroy a quarter of the Earth. After hearing that from a ton of rumors, I suddenly got really motivated, I trained and trained, it took a few months, well it took exactly 11 months. Even my mom told me to stop training, my MOM! I didn’t really want to listen to my mom exactly, but I still spent time with her. I really really wanted to get that power so I had to face the consequences… The next day I asked my mom if she would like to help me train, in fact, she said yes. I trained all day after that time I talked to her, at last a few months later I got it. “THE POWER IS MINE MWA HAHAHAHAHA” I said, my mom was so happy she wanted me to actually try and use that dangerous power.

I then remembered that my childhood dream was to be a superhero who could really help others. I wanted to use my powers for good, not evil. To do that, I knew I had to pass the ultimate superhero test which I’d been training so hard for.. While I was walking to the test, I thought in my mind, if my superpower is lightning, can’t I travel at the speed of light? I got into my running position and got ready, my mind counted. Three, two, one, GO! I was running so fast that I bumped into the hero HQ, “ow” I said. I was trying to get up when a giant muscular man came up to me and said, “you okay kid?” I was amazed at how big he was. That man was quadruple my size! I told him I was fine and asked for his name, “my name is Oliva, Biscuit Oliva”. “Oh my name is Spark”. His massive presence made me wonder if he was a superhero for good or for evil, I wasn’t sure but he seemed impressed with my lightning speed. “Do you mind helping me?”, I wanted to say no but I seemed interested, “uhmm sure”. He asked me to help stop this evil person who was going to destroy a town full of innocent people. Apparently he wouldn’t be able to handle it without my lightning speed. I accepted and off we went. Finally, I felt like a real superhero.