Abilities

The sun was beginning to rise in the distance. Half of the small town in Ohio was covered in light, the other still hidden behind the hills and forests. Leaves from trees and bushes were damp, scattered across the roads from the storm the night before. Even a couple giant branches had been snapped off and littered in the lawns.

Gazet, his tall redheaded friend, and William raced around the foliage and were in the car before William could blink. on their way to the hospital. William sat stiff in his seat; his right hand grasped tightly around the seatbelt protecting his chest. He had never seen anyone travel at such a fast speed and remain as calm as Gazet had been in a car that was traveling at such a fast speed, and he had never seen anyone go that fast and remain as calm as Gazet’s friend. With the expression on his face, the car couldn’t have been going any faster than 25 miles per hour. It was up to 97, though. Breaking 100. William looked away from the speedometer hoping that it would calm his nerves, but it didn’t because the speedometer was planted on the back of his eye lids.

“Ok, ok,” William began to speak with his eyes closed tight. He thought the redhead was laughing at him, but it was only his imagination. “So Gazet...you’re an Ability?”

“Yes,” responded Gazet.

“You see the future?”

“Yes.”

“So, look into it, are these people going to kill the boys?”

“I can’t tell you.”

“But you just said.”

“No,” interrupted Gazet. “My ability doesn’t work like that. I can’t look into the future anytime I want,” as Gazet spoke, William released his death grip on the door handle and turned to the backseat. “In order for me to see something, somebody must make a decision. I only see a couple handful of visions a year, sometimes none. If someone makes a decision that can alter a person’s life, I may see it. Or worse, if someone decides to try and alter mankind, I may see it.”

“So why me?”

“You and your wife decided to have a child.". This was more than you were hoping for I bet.”

“And you couldn’t have found me any sooner?”

“I don’t choose what I see, William,” Gazet’s weight shifted in the back seat from the frantic side-to-side car dodging. “I didn’t see an address. I didn’t see your name. I didn’t know how to find you until a couple nights ago.”

“So,” the driver swerved into the far-left lane, which slammed William’s head into the side of the window. “Thank you!” William’s comment drew a smirk from the giant behind the wheel. “Who are these people coming after…Michael and Mitchel?” William asked as he rubbed his head.

“I’m not sure, but apparently they have the same information that I saw in my vision.”

“And they’re just going to kill both of them?”

“For complete certainty that they get it right. Without your boys, this world is going to be a safer place and it is their job to make certain of that.”

“What?” William looked at the driver’s stone-cold expression and turned back. “Gazet, get what right?”

“William,” Gazet leaned closer to William’s seat. “In the story, the sun was created to give people light. A certain hope. It was a protector; it warmed peoples’ souls. And it was the moon, the night that was born out of evil. That was created to take away the light. The only reason the moon exists is because the sun exists. When people see an eclipse in the sky, they put on their sunglasses, get out their cameras, and sit on a blanket in the park because they think it’s beautiful. But in the story, in our world, an eclipse is simple; it’s the sun and the moon in an eternal battle for control over the skies,” William faced forward and dropped back onto the headrest as he listened to Gazet. “One of your children will inherit the powers of the Sun, and the other will inherit the powers of the moon.”

“What does that mean?” William turned back to Gazet. The driver’s eyes shifted to the rearview mirror and connected with Gazet’s. After a moment his eyes returned to the road. “Gazet?”

“It means that one of your sons will be earth’s savior. The second most powerful man on the planet.”

“And the other?”

“The most powerful person on the planet,” Gazet cleared his throat. “Earth’s destroyer.”