The last few days were rather interesting. As it turns out, I'm not only capable of sprouting foxlike features, but now I can completely turn into an animal, like shapeshifting. This morning I managed to turn back to my human form just before my foster mom came into my room to see if I was up. She would have screamed if she saw me as a snake.
When I met up with my friends Caleigh and Rachel, in the basement during third break, they were talking about the latest rumors that have been going around the school.
"Hey V, how come Mr. Cashol stopped doing those cool experiments with your class?" asked Rachel, as I approached her and Caleigh.
"What do you mean? He has been doing experiments with us; we've been doing Gizmo's".
Rachel put a hand on my shoulder.
"Vanessa, those experiments are online and are there for lazy science teachers who don't want to put the extra effort in to actually do a hands-on experiment".
She has a point.
"I honestly don't know why he's giving us Gizmo's to do" I explained, shrugging my slim shoulders.
We all paused for a moment, before Rachel thought of the next question, she's going to ask me.
"What was the last hands-on experiment Mr. Cashol did with your class?".
"The body lotion lab".
"Did anything go wrong?" she asked, trying to pull information out of me.
As soon as that question came out of her mouth, the memory of waking up with fox ears and a tail came back to me, replaying the incident.
I can't tell her what the blue lotion did. She wouldn't believe me unless I showed her proof.
Then another thought came to mind.
Did I accidently leave my...In the midst of my thoughts, I noticed that Rachel was starting to spread a smile across her face, thinking that she was right about not trusting Mr. Cashol with reversing the Benedict's solution.
"No, nothing went wrong. Everyone's body lotion turned out well" I said, lying to my friends.
"Are you sure?" pressed Rachel.
"Yeah, I'm sure. I was in the classroom when we did the lab. No one got hurt or spontaneously got super pow-" I replied, before a dangerous but cool idea popped into mind, stopping me from finishing my sentence.
"I've got a random question to ask both of you; If you suddenly discovered that you have a superpower, what would you do with it?".
"Does this have to do with the body lotion lab? Asked Rachel, putting her hands on her hips and shifting her weight from her left leg to her right.
I narrowed my eyes at her.
"No, not at all, it's just a question that came to my mind".
Literally.
"To answer that, I would use it for my own good. For an example, if I could teleport, I would only teleport myself and my stuff" said Caleigh, answering my question.
"Well, if I had the ability to create illusions, I would use that to save people" pipped up Rachel.
I let a broad smile spread across my face, now knowing that I clearly have only two options of what I can do with my new power; Serve only myself or serve for the greater good. By the way, how could you save a civilian with the power to create illusions?