The Celestial Zone.21 Fan Fic Chpt 1: What power?

Year 1999, 5 years later. J.Jay was with a group of friends going home from school. They had just gotten off the bus and were heading to the mall when there was a scream. Turning around they saw a man waving a butcher knife and running through the crowd. Unable to avoid in time, J.Jay got caught by the man's free hand.

"NOBODY MOVE!!!!!" screamed the man.

Silence fell on the place. Nobody moved. J.Jay struggled for a few seconds before giving up. (Oh man, what the hell is this!? I can't believe that i am a hostage...) Kenny, J.Jay's best friend since pre-grade school decided to speak up.

"Let him go!" he shouted from where he stood.

"Shut up! I said don't move!" the man screamed. Brandishing the butcher knife a little too close for comfort in front of J.Jay's face.

"Whoah!! Watch it!" J.Jay screamed, struggling a bit.

"DON'T MOVE!!!!!" the man made a slash at J.Jay's face.

"Jay!!!!" Kenny leaped forward and kicked the man in the shin, HARD.

"ARGH!!!!" the man dropped J.Jay in pain.

Scrambling away, J.Jay turned around to see Kenny skewered by the man in a furious rage at losing his only hostage. Blood splattered all over J.Jay's face. The only thing that went through J.Jay's mind then, was Kenny's bloodied body lying on the ground with a blank stare looking into his eyes...then everything went blank.

When J.Jay came back to his senses, he realized everyone around was staring at him. Looking at his surrounding, he realized that the man was hanging off a lamp post nearby all battered up and Kenny was sitting in a corner all healed.

"Why is everyone staring at me?" J.Jay wondered out loud.

No one answered. As J.Jay walked towards the crowd, they all backed away in fear. Confused, J.Jay turned to Kenny and to his surprise, all his friends pulled Kenny away and they were all frightened of him.

"What's wrong will all of you? Why are u running away from me?" J.Jay exclaimed.

"FREAK!!!" screamed one of J.Jay's friends from behind the crowd.

"Yeah, u are a FREAK!!!" another exclaimed.

Before long, the whole crowd was bustling with screams and shouts of "FREAK" or "GET LOST, MONSTER". J.Jay, utterly confused by the crowds reaction, ran away from the scene. All their screams and shouts kept echoing in J.Jay's head, he could not make heads and tails from what had happened when he had blacked out. Reaching home, he quickly ran to his room and locked himself there.

The next day, J.Jay awoke thinking that everything that had happened yesterday was just a dream. To his horror, it was all true, and everyone in the neighborhood had gathered and was making a racket outside his house. J.Jay's poor mother; We shall call her Amelia, ok? Was trying to quiet the town down. Soon after the crowd dispersed...

J.Jay headed downstairs. Seeing his mother slumped onto a chair and weeping silently, he walked over and said silently:

"I am sorry, mom. It's all my fault, but I don't know what happened, really!"

Turning around, Amelia hugged J.Jay so tightly he almost couldn't breathe.

"No, its not your fault, its mine. I knew this would happen but i never thought it would be this soon..." she whispered.

"Mom!?" J.Jay looked at her, bewildered.

"It's nothing, go to school and come home straight after, you hear me, young man?" Amelia ordered.

"Yes mom."

J.Jay turned to prepare for school. After J.Jay had left, Amelia stared listlessly at the home phone. Then she searched the drawers and finally took out a piece of paper. Deep in thought, Amelia hesitated for a long time before picking up the phone and making a call.

The day at school was miserable. The normally very cheerful and outspoken J.Jay met cold shoulders every where he went. None of his friends spoke to him, even Kenny gave him a look of disgust. During lunch break, he was bullied every where and even the teachers who were nice to J.Jay, became extremely biased towards him. Everything was his fault even when he was not there.

When school finally ended, while everyone ran home with their friends, J.Jay stayed behind to finish up the punishments he received that day. While in the midst of his lines, J.Jay felt as if someone was watching him, staring at him from a distance. Feeling shivers down his spine, J.Jay quickly finished up and left quickly.

For a whole week, this went on until one day, J.Jay could not stand it any longer and he started a fight in school. It was a losing match however since everyone boycotted him. When he was finally pinned down, he saw that Kenny had not joined the fight.

"Kenny! Help me, Please!" he begged.

But Kenny only turned away but only after saying:"Get Lost, Freak Show."

That's it, J.Jay finally snapped. Well now, you cant blame him can you after all he has been through. Suddenly, a surge of energy pulsed through J.Jay's body and he lifted the people holding him and pounced on Kenny. Screaming in mad rage, he pounded his fists onto Kenny repeatedly ignoring Kenny's pleas for mercy. At last, J.Jay stopped, and when he saw his bloodied hands and Kenny's motionless body on the floor, he turned and ran, even as he saw an unfamiliar face calling him to stop, he ran.

As he left the school, he did not notice the group of people watching him from behind the signpost.

"Let's go, we have confirmed his power." one of them said.

"Now, to make him join our gang." said another.

And they followed J.Jay into the distance.