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Chapter 5 - Time for Action

Dash runs up to the hole that she made in the bus with Honey on her back.

"The ice has been working, but I think Honey's almost at her limit. I think we can buy ourselves three minutes at most. Whatever you're gonna do, you have to do it fast." She looked back at Honey, whose head was nodding on her shoulder. 

"Don't worry, you've done enough. Make sure that you get away from the bus with Honey, okay?"

"Are you sure you can get everybody off the bus without everybody panicking?"

"I told you already Dash, you don't need to worry. I can take care of it, trust me." Dash nods at me and runs off with Honey, who's passed out from overusing her OD, at least that's what I assume happened. Okay, it's time to get to work. I felt the invisible kid approach me, but he was using his oddity for whatever reason.

"What do you want?" I said, looking at where the kid was standing. Apparently he wasn't expecting me to be able to tell where he was, since he appeared again in front of me with a surprised look on his face. He masked it in a second, putting a blank face on again.

"What are you going to do to get everyone out?"

"You'll just have to wait and see." I turn back to everyone on the bus. I focus on the air outside the bus, since there's more than there is in the bus. I gather the water in the air and form fifteen thick clouds outside the bus. I bring them all in the bus one by one and pick up each of the kids in the bus using the wind, placing them on the clouds. In total this all took about two minutes. I could have done it faster, but I had to restrain some of the kids using extra wind to make sure that they don't fall off the clouds. 

Okay, one minute left, I don't think I have enough time to get them all out the small hole in the door. I can hear the bubbling lava getting closer and closer, we're running out of time. I need to do something, and I need to do it fast.

Gosh, I wish I didn't have to use my OD this early in the day, but I guess there's no choice. I created a blast of wind that ripped the wall of the bus right off. Ouch, I don't know how I'm going to be able to pay for the exam bus, there's no way I'm going to be chosen now. I damaged their property, they'll probably make me an indentured servant or something to pay off my debt. Ugh, no time to think about that now.

I rushed everyone out of the bus, everyone safely seated on their clouds. Then I jumped off and caught myself with the wind. I lifted myself up over the bus, only to see it fall into the pit of lava. I really cut it close there, didn't I. Well, I think I got everyone off safely. I looked over my shoulder and saw everyone sitting on their clouds gaping at the pit of lava they all almost fell into.

"Wait, we were headed to the lava pit?"

"We all almost died!"

"I didn't even notice where we were headed!"

"We're lucky someone saved us!"

"Did anyone see who did it?"

"It must have been a pro hero!" All the students began talking loudly trying to figure out who saved them, while I floated closer to them. Someone pointed me out, and everyone went silent. 

"Okay, I'm going to let you all off your clouds now, try not to fall and make a fool out of yourselfs." I said, sitting on a cloud that I conjured underneath me. I really don't feel like walking right now. I slowly dissipated everyone's clouds, and surprisingly enough, only a couple of them fell getting off. That's a first, normally everyone falls down the first time.

"Wow, color me impressed!" Dash ran up to me, Honey nowhere to be found.

"Where'd Honey go?"

"Oh, I put her down over there. She passed out from using her OD too much, she should wake up soon. I feel bad though, I don't have a softer place for her to lay down." Sighing, I crack my neck and float over to where Honey's laying on the gravel. I get off my cloud, carrying myself with the wind (walking is overrated) and put Honey on the cloud in my place. Drifting through the air, I float myself and Honey's cloud back to Dash.

"There, now she has a soft place to rest on." 

"Yo, so, can you control wind and stuff?"

Sighing, I describe my oddity to her. "Sort of. My OD is called Weather. I can basically control most aspects of the weather. I use wind and the water cycle the most, since there's no lack of air and water here. It's easier to summon things when I have the resources around me. I can also control things like lightning and sand, but I can't summon them by will yet since I haven't had enough exposure to that type of weather yet." Dash stared at me blankly, clearly lost. "I can control the weather."

"Oh! That makes so much more sense! Are there any side effects like how I always have tons of energy?"

"Sort of, it's nothing too severe. It makes me super light, that's why you were able to carry me like that earlier. The streaks in my hair also change color depending on the color of the sky. Other than that I'm pretty sure those are the only side effects of my oddity."

"Ah, very impressive display Miss Nova."