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~Alex's POV~
I watched Ranella and Bea try to build something with scraps of burnt wires and pieces of cloth.
I could hear Bea's thoughts just fine but I wondered why I couldn't hear Ranella's thoughts. I kept staring at her, I was intrigued by her, so far she was the only one who had caught his attention, she was mysterious and made him want to explore her.
Our gazes met and she turned away immediately, she looked cute with her chubby cheeks and her innocent big eyes. I caught myself smiling and shook my head, eliminating any weird thoughts I heard.
It was Ranella who carefully put the wires together, designing a headband or whatever it was, while Bea passed whatever she needed.
After 30 minutes, teacher Wayne came back into the class with a bell, when he rang it everyone stopped what they were doing.
"Are you done?" I asked Ranella and she nodded, it was indeed a black headband with wires connected in a zigzag shape.
"OK, those of you who are not done, please step to the side." Teacher Wayne said and half of the class stepped to the side, remaining only four teams with two people each.
Vincent and Leo were team one, Mia and Edward were team two, Liam and Charlotte were team three and lastly, Bea, Ranella and I were the last team, team four.
"Could the first team please come out and showcase their invention?" Teacher Wayne asked, Vc and Leo went in front of the tech class to explain what their invention was. While the others who didn't finish their inventions and had to step to the side became an audience.
"Hello everyone, we designed a super strength assistive device. It helps those with super strength to utilize their strengths more efficiently." VC said and handed over a glove to Leo, which he wore.
"As you can see, it looks just like an ordinary glove, but inside it, there are some connected pulse timing circuits inside the glove that increase my strength, look," Leo said, as he walked towards the huge desk at the front of the class where Teacher Wayne stood, he took another table and doubled it and then he lifted it with ease, and with just a hand.
The class applauded them, but I didn't see anything they did useful.
"Impressive, but I wanted something different, Leonard already had immense strength, and with enough training, he could do more than what the glove helped him to do." Teacher Wayne said and I nodded. It was exactly what I thought too.
Teacher Wayne was nice but he could be straight-forward when it came to marking his practicals.
"Next." Teacher Wayne said calmly as he sat down and crossed his legs.
The next team came out, it was Mia and Edward, Edward was smart despite his goofy attitude and Mia was just a random classmate with an awesome power, she could see ghosts and talk to them while Edward was an Elemental, he could manipulate the Earth and bend them to his use.
"Yeah, our invention is this," Edward said and brought out an abbe condenser, they only took the lenses from there while tossing the condenser away.
"That's just a condenser lens." Charlotte interrupted while rolling her eyes.
"You didn't invent anything." someone else said.
"Yes, we didn't event anything, but we thought of something. My partner here has the power to see ghosts so I figured we find something that could help us to see what she sees." Edward said, handing over the condenser lenses to Mia.
"Ghosts are everywhere, even right here with us, those lost souls lurk around the earth. And now this is your opportunity to see what they look like." Mia said with a smile before holding the lenses in her hand. She closed her eyes and said some words, cupping the lenses with her palms. Her palm glowed and when she removed her hand it was the lenses that glowed.
It was amazing, they figured out a way to channel some of Mia's power into the lenses and it glowed with a blue light. She walked towards the table Leo had doubled a while ago and placed the three lenses down on the table, the lenses blue light illuminated the atmosphere. And like smoke, figures began to appear in the air and they were transparent, one appeared behind Charlotte and she screamed her lungs out, launching herself at Liam and hiding her face in the crook of his neck as she gripped his shirt tight.
I looked at Ranella and saw a hint of jealousy but it went as fast as it came, she had a crush on Liam so I knew seeing Charlotte and Liam in that position would ache one way or another.
The ghosts flew around making a whooshing noise, I was in awe and so was everyone, it was impressive watching the ghosts dance and swirl around Mia.
Teacher Wayne stood up and clapped, he looked very impressed and excited.
"That's great! This shows that you don't need to invent something to enhance your power, you could also think and find something to increase your power." Teacher Wayne said.
The class applauded the wonderful show and they were also impressed, Edward stood tall and proud while Mia was all smiles.
"I will give you your mark after I see the performance of the remaining two teams." Teacher Wayne said, taking the lenses and giving them back to Mia.
"You may return to your podium." Teacher Wayne said, giving a pat on Edward's shoulder.
Next up, was Liam and Charlotte, Charlotte was smart, but Liam, not so much, although he was powerful and had almost mastered his powers, Liam was not as intelligent as he seemed.
"Hey everyone, my invention is this special gauntlet...which I designed." Charlotte said, I rolled my eyes at her attitude, she was the type that takes credit for everything and even if Liam was not intelligent I saw him helping her to put those gauntlets together. I keep wondering what Liam sees in Charlotte.
She wore the gauntlets on Liam's hand and powered it up. It looked like an Electrical energy gauntlet.
"This gauntlet can suppress the discharge of electricity and counter it," Charlotte said while Liam stood there letting her take all the glory. He wasn't stupid, he knew what she was trying to do, the question was why would he let her use him?
She went backward a little while telling Liam to try to catch her electrical energy with the gauntlet. Her hands began to glow and an electrical surge crackled while circulating her arms.
And then she let loose all the Electricity she muster up. Sending it directly to Liam. Our eyes widened in shock afraid that discharge would badly hurt Liam.