The sun beat down on Jonas's homestead, as the harsh rays from the sun baked the earth until it was looking dry. The sound of cicadas filled the air, their incessant buzz adding to the oppressive heat that was on it.
They could feel the full force of the heat, as if like a heavy blanket that had been draped over them. It was obviously going to be a long, hot journey.
Jonas was busy working on the engine of the van, making sure everything was working in order, before venturing off.
After some few minutes, he was done with whatever he was fixing under and then, he pulled out of the underneath of the van.
He entered the van and stirred it up. Immediately, the engine roared to life, just as he had expected, and he gave it a satisfied nod.
Serinal and Jerry were busy loading supplies into the van, they where carefully packing each item into its designated spot.
They worked with a sense of urgency, knowing that time was of the essence, they couldn't wait to embark on this mission, that could probably be remarkable in their lifetime.
"Serinal…." Jerry called, as he dropped the last set of their weapons, he took back one of the riffle, and shot the boot–of the van–closed.
He then took out his phone from his pocket, and scrolled to his camera app, it was obvious that, he was about to take some selfies with his jungle wears.
"Serinal!!" He yelled again, as serinal couldn't hear him the first time he called. She was actually working with her earphones, she had been carrying the backpacks, that lily had carefully arranged.
"Oh! Goodness" Jerry exhale as he strode towards serinal to tap her. His tapped startled serinal, as she never expected it.
"Whoa! Jerry! What was that for?" She asked astonishly, her voice quivering as she tries to regain her stance.
"Well, I have been calling your name for about two times now, and obviously, you seems too far fetched to hear me, from just there." Jerry said, as he pointed at the position where he had been calling her from, which was very close, about two meters from her.
"Oh! Sorry dude, you know, I was playing my favorite….by…."
"Red Moon, by Sophie heart, right?" Jerry interrupted, as he already knows her favorite song. Although this wasn't the first time that he was predicting her songs anytime she was playing them.
"Yeah of course, sure, I expected you to know that actually" Serinal said, flushing slightly.
"Then, why where you about to tell me the name, if you had actually expected me to know?" Jerry asked, still wanting Serinal to admit that she didn't expected him to know.
"Why did you startled me, i thought we where busy, huh?" Serinal asked, quickly suspending Jerry's question, knowing vividly how tough Jerry could be, whenever it was about arguing.
"Oh, I was about to tell you to give me a selfie, with this uniform and gun, it kinda of remind me of Sam digal" Jerry said, smirking at her.
Sam digal was an american soldier, who had died in a war during the attacks that the super humans launched on humans, before the invention of the Halo system to stop them. However, he died as a hero in their world.
His statue, was still in the museum, and some of his photograph where dail with his uniform and gun, which many people respected and admired, perhaps, Jerry wanted to be the new Sam digal, who knows!
"Hmm" serinal sighed, staring at Jerry, not looking please at all, with his impression. "Seriously?"
"Yeah, look, take the phone and give me a shot" He said handling the phone to her while shifting backwards, close to the van.
Serinal took the phone, and swipe it to the camera app, she strained her eye's trying to see his image on the phone. After a while, she balance the blur and position it to take the selfie.
"Alright, are you ready?" Serinal asked as she shifted her face from the phone to look at him.
"Yeah, sure, go ahead" Jerry said, as he position his hand resting at the wall of the vehicle, he used his right hand to hold the rifle, smiling weirdly.
Dooom!!!
A loud deafening sound bombed out of know where, that flirted the hell at of Jerry, he fiddled and felled to the ground out of fear.
It was a gun shot, as smoke could been seen, fogging in the air. Serinal and Jonas suddenly burst into laughter at Jerry, as he squiggled like a squidward out of fear.
"Hope you got that, girl?" Jonas asked serinal, still chuckling at Jerry, who was now standing up as he began to suspect that, it could be a trick.
"Yes of course, I got the selfie" Serinal replied, still laughing.
"Sir, Sam diga, hope you're fine?" She asked, feinting at him.
While Serinal was about to shot the photo, Jonas had winkled to her behind the van, not to let Jerry know that he was going to startled him, he raised his pistol and shot the air, which got Jerry startled out of balance as he attempt to take his selfie.
While everyone was laughing at the scene - Lily can be seen sitting at the corridor, her legs where dangling over the edge of the bench– of course, she had been laughing all this while.
After a while, the humor, tends to died down, as Sam digal (Jerry) was now frowning his face towards the house, well, who cares if he was being angry, he should prove that he can live up to Sam digal legacy. Sam wouldn't haved fidget if he where to be him.
Admist that, lily passed the time by practicing with her powers, actually, she was playing with it not practicing, as it may look like.
Even though, she didn't like them, it was still something that made her unique among her fellows, so she just take this moment to play with her tricks, who knows, this might just be her last time trying.
After all, she was about embarking on a mission in the mind of getting rid of her powers.
So she spent sometime floating one of the knife she found in the garage, she had come here to rest earlier, after she was done with her duties, she sat there and was watching the rest.
Actually, she had thought of helping the rest, but she was so exhausted, so she just decided to rest for a while.
While she sat down watching–before the scenario of Sam digal (Jerry), she accidentally flick her hands to to hit a knife, that was closed to her, as she proposed to use her hand to support her sitting stance.
Her blunder, sent the knife swirling and coiling towards the edge of a standing cylinder, that was resting in a wall.
Her eyes immediately caught the knife, she had first thought, it was a spanner or some kind of mechanical stuff, since it was mutual in the garage, but she was wrong, as she realizes that it was a knife and not a spanner as she presumed.
Admist that thought, she tried to stretch and picked it so as to drop it to the standard place, but she was too lazy to, her hands weren't reaching to it, and she wasn't willing to stand up either.
She declined immediately, as she couldn't get to it, after all, it wasn't important, she position herself watching them again, but a thought swirl into her mind to use her powers.
Actually, it sounded ridiculous, standing up and picking that knife wouldn't take her less than ten seconds to, but she just prefer to indulge her powers instead.
She wasn't that good with her powers but at least she had been trying in mastering her telekinesis ability overtime, and by the way, it was not like she was going to blow a big mess by trying.
She turned towards the knife again, smiling at it, as if she was about doing an impossible thing.
'alright knife, if I'm to be honest with you now; you really seemed far-fetch from me.' she pondered as if the knife could hear her, her eye's sparkling with playful smirk as she raised her hands in a bit to fluctuate the object.
"But I'm not one to let a mere distance, stand in my way. After all, who needs arms when you have telekinesis?" She whispered, as she lifted her hands and twirled her fingers in direction of the knife.
The air around the knife, floated it up, moving in direction with her mind, although it wasn't steady, it was still wavering. She swirl it in the air and spin it around, and then, it twisted like a spinning fan, that lited up her face.
"Wow, that's new" she said, as she saw the way she had accidentally twisted the blade, that grace it with an unimaginable style.
The knife spun and twirled, moving in perfect unison with her thoughts, as she kept controlling it. It was almost mesmerizing to watch, like a magic trick performed by an invisible hand or something.
The knife then began to ripple and swirl, slowly coaxing the blade towards her waiting grasp.
Lily smiled to herself, as she was lost in the moment, the truth was that, she get elated whenever she was in absolute control of her powers.
But it usually not often; which if she tries in her bad luck days, it often seems like she was a monster and that just makes her feels her powers is a mess and not a gift as everyone assume.
However, she didn't notice someone had been watching her all this while.