"Beep" "Beep" "Beep" "Slam" Jace gets out of bed, gets ready, goes out the door and gets on his bike to head to school. Arriving at his first class, he sees Matt engrossed on his phone with an amazed look on his face.
Jace takes his seat beside him and looks over, seeing what appears to be a news report, at the top of the screen which reads "Breaking news: Children all over Asia showing supernatural powers." After reading the head line, Jace taps Matt's shoulder and waits for him to take out his ear buds.
"Dude what video is that" asks Jace. It's called "Children all over asia have supernatural powers", "its like number 1 on trending" responds Matt who puts his ear bud in and goes back to watching. Jace pulls out his phone but, he hears a "Brirrrrng" and the teacher then walks in and starts his lesson.
Matt notices Jace is not as attentive this day, which is unusual. Jace arrives home after school still not able to check out the video as phones are banned during lunch, but as he walks in, he hears the tv reporting,"... the 'supernatural powers' given to children all over Asia, shown on TV late last night, are not the only ones to have them and that the same powers have been showing up all over the world. The US government is asking all parents to watch and see if your child has these supernatural powers. If so, please call the number or visit the site on the screen. Your child will be put on the list to go schools where they can be trained to use their powers safely and for the good of the people."
The reporter then stops and touches an ear piece "This just in; we have pictures of one of the new schools showing here on your screen." The tv then switches to an overhead view of a massive complex with huge concrete buildings.. The reporter continues "This school has 4 gymnasims, 2 tracks, 2 Olympic sized swimming pools, dorms housing up to 500,000 people, 8 baseball and softball fields, a park with a community garden, and much much more" but Jace heard none of what the reporter was saying.
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He was focused on the barbed wire and checkpoints which would stop kids from coming in and out. To Jace, this amazing school just looked like a beautified secure prison which would keep kids while watching and controlling what they did.
Jace wanted none of that, so from then on, he decided to keep his powers a secret until the day of the invasion in a year. The reporter then goes to the next story while Jace grabs a bowl of chips and heads up to his room, after he shuts the door he goes on his bed and sits cross legged.
He puts the bowl on his lap and decides to try out the abilities he received. Jace then takes the mana he felt last night and while thinking about how cool it would be to make a hex, he hears a "Ding, user connected mana to hexmancing giving insight" Jace then blacks out.
When he wakes up he is once again in a dark room but this time there is a huge, light grey, human silhouette. The silhouette lifts up his arm and extends his finger and traces a symbol which looks just like an explosion.
It shines white and after 5 seconds, the silhouette takes a step back and the symbol explodes with a big bang. Jace watches the whole thing in awe as the silhouette does the same movements again. After watching it perform the actions 3 more times, Jace decides to try it out himself.
Standing up, he puts out his finger and traces the symbol in the air, which takes 10 seconds. Jace then takes a step back but nothing happens and he realizes his symbol didn't show up in.
Confused, Jace remembers his mana and he gets back up and gets back up to try again. This time he pulls the warm feeling he felt in his body last night, through his finger, and starts tracing the symbol. To Jace's surprise it takes 30 seconds this time instead of 10.
Jace then takes a step back and sees a white symbol floating in the air to which he can feel a connection. All he needs to do is think, and it will explode. Jace then thinks "explode" and "boom!" Jace feels wind blow past his face as he loses vision and blacks out.