After Hawkin got out of eyesight of everyone, he sprinted toward the smell of the ocean, and the sound of it. After about 20 minutes of running, he finally made it to the coast. He sat down, and tried to clear his head. But, something prevented it. His brain kept going to the plane. He closed his eyes, and laid down on the sand. Faintly, on the breeze, Hawkin smelled smoke. "Maybe it's a house? Or maybe it's the plane?"
Kylie limped back to her cosmic chair, huffing. Flares of light would periodically flash across the sky as she felt particular flares of anger.
Grandma is probably dead. Becuase of Hawkin. HAWKIN! Kylie slammed her fist on the asteroid's armrest, and a bright pink flash dotted the sky for a moment before something pink and shiny tumbled out of the sky, seemingly from nowhere.
Kylie picked it up. It was a tiara of sorts, made of a silver base with what was clearly pink gems of some sort forming crescent moons, stars, and cosmic swirls. She looked up to the sky in confusion, then to the others for help.
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"What….?" Luis questioned, looking at the tiara in Kylie's hand. Then he looked up at the sky, throwing his hands in the air. "Can we have one minute to relax and think about stuff before something else happens?! I need time to think!"
"A fucking teeeariaa" Rox says, her accent making the word sound weird. "Put it on."
"Then how…did you survive the fall?" Kylie tilts her head.
Rigel scoffed, “I got lucky. I don’t know.” Rigel once again found himself reaching for his cigarettes, tensing up when they weren’t there. Something crunched in his bag, making him jump slightly, bumping into Xander.
"I would like that too. I don't know what's happening." Kylie shook her head, bordering on a confused sob. She hesitantly slid on the tiara.
Immediately, she felt what could only be described as an upwards sense of control. She had no control over anything that was earthly, but as she peered upwards towards the sky, she felt as if she could control it. But it wasn't even the sky. It was something beyond it.
Concentrating with all her might, a black seam cracked open the blue sky. It grew bigger until it was obviously space - with stars and space dust and all sorts of things.
Kylie staggered backward in shock and the tiara fell off, making her lose concentration. The seam in the sky closed as quickly as it had opened.
"Yup, that's fucked up." Rox notes, sitting down and noticing something by her hand. It was a crescent moon necklace, the moon in the center had silver spirals reaching towards it. "Strange.."
"What…what was that?!" Luis wondered out loud, standing up and running his fingers through his hair. "What…I don't…"
"That's weird. Were'd it come from? If you can control shadows, then it probably came from those. Speaking of which, where did this come from?" Kylie reset the pink tiara on her head. "It came from the sky, but I don't just control sky, it's something beyond it…what is my power?"
"I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS! I OPENED A HOLE IN THE SKY!" Kylie continued to rant.
"Space or something, we just saw the milky way." She said, about to latch the necklace onto her neck.
“I don’t see why we all assume magic. What if we’re just hallucinating? What if it’s just a coincidence?” Rigel’s pulse started to increase, muscles clamping up and panic flashed in his eyes. It’s okay, it’s okay, it’s-
"We couldn't all hallucinate the same thing. But…space? The cosmos?" Kylie fingered her tiara. "God.."
Elysia watched the others freak out from a distance. She then remembered something. she has her phone! She grabbed it from her pocket but before she could even see if it turned back on it sparked and lit on fire. She quickly dropped it on the ground and stepped on it to smother the flames. When she looked down at the charged phone. She took deep breaths trying to forget about her problems and focus on the bigger picture.
“It’s- It’s not magic,” Rigel said, suddenly short of breath. He eyes seemed to go out of focus, and subconsciously his hand grabbed onto Xander’s arm to steady himself. It’s not okay, it’s not okay, this can’t be real, this can’t- Another crunching noise came from his bag, and Rigel winced slightly.
Desiree looked at the ground. She could really only be grateful her family wasn't on that plane. Plopping against a tree, she glanced once again at the ground beneath her. Might as well learn the extent of her powers. Focusing intensely on the earth alone, she started by drawing it up, creating a whirlwind of brown. It spun faster and faster, getting denser as it compressed into a sphere. She could feel the pressure increasing, but she was getting dizzy trying to control it. Behind her temples a migraine was building up, so she let go after pushing her limits. But when she did, a single gem remained. In the form of a glistening teardrop, it was a deep brown, bordering on maroon. The red hue sparkles from the precious gem. A silver chain surrounded it, suspending it in air. Desiree reached for it, fastening it around her neck.
"It has to be magic. There is no scientific or logical explanation for any of this." Luis muttered. "Giant voids of darkness, causing explosions, controlling earth and lighting, moving trees and growing grass…that sounds a lot like magic."
“It’s- It’s not magic,” Rigel said, suddenly short of breath. He eyes seemed to go out of focus, and subconsciously his hand grabbed onto Xander’s arm to steady himself. It’s not okay, it’s not okay, this can’t be real, this can’t- Another crunching noise came from his bag, and Rigel winced slightly.
Xander looked at Rigel, seeing that he was going to pass out soon. He noticed that there was some noise coming from his bag that was startling him so he took the bag away from his ears and sat him down on the ground with him. "There's always other things, it doesn't need to specifically be magic per se. Maybe alchemy of some sort or we were born with it or something."
Rigel clutched onto Xander’s arm, tunnel vision kicking in as he desperately tried to make sense of things. Focus on breathing, just focus on- A loud crunch came from his bag again, and he finally opened it, in feat of what he was going to see. His photos were still crumpled, but- Rigel’s breath stopped for a second as he beheld his imploded camera. “Wh-What?” He whispered shaking, reaching into the bag and picking up the broken pieces. A little shimmering necklace rolled out of the wrecked camera pieces.
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"Okay, I know some crazy things have been happening, but where did that come from?" Xander asked while pointing to the necklace. He was getting stressed out again and another cloud formed above him. It dropped something that weighed about an ounce on his head. "Ouch." He said, while rubbing the spot where it fell. It was a titanium ring with different colors. "And, I also don't remember ever owning that."
(The ring: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/397653842080617624/)
“I- I don’t know. I don’t know what’s going on,” Rigel’s hands shook as he looked at his decimated camera. He tried to convince himself it was fine, but it wasn’t. He tried to tell himself it was okay, but it wasn’t. He tried to believe that they were still normal, but they weren’t.
Xander took Rigel's hands while they were shaking and placed a hand under his chin. "Look at me, we will get through it, we all will, together. I know we're not… normal anymore or ordinary but all we can do now is to deal with it head on and accept that this is who we are."
Elysia walked over to the others. She hadn't realized it but she had been crying. Her cheeks were wet and her eyes are red. Halfway to the others, she felt something in her pocket. She went to take it out when she saw a ring. It was a cheap gold looking ring with a stupid smiley face. She laughed darkly before chucking the ring onto the ground a few feet away. She went back to walking but felt something else in her pocket. It was the same ring.
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"Try it on," Kylie urged the others. "When I put on my tiara, I felt like I could control the cosmos more. Rox, maybe it helps you gain control of your shadows." She suggested, quite liking the feel of the pink, glittery space tiara on her head.
Xander took Rigel's hands while they were shaking and placed a hand under his chin. "Look at me, we will get through it, we all will, together. I know we're not… normal anymore or ordinary but all we can do now is to deal with it head on and accept that this is who we are."
Rigel bit his lip before it could quiver and show his fear. “I— I liked being normal…” Just like that, his bag collapsed in on itself around Rigel’s hand, as if all the air and pressure had been sucked out of it. Rigel quickly pulled his hand out, the strange necklace in his palm.
"What…was that? Air…or something?" Kylie peered at the bag. "It's like in Doctor Strange, when he uses void in the mirror dimension to make things go in on themselves and whatnot."
Rigel leaned closer to Xander for support, fearing his own hands. The plane had imploded… “I- I don’t know…” I don’t want to think about it. Rigel bit his lip, trying to hide his emotions.
Rox clips the necklace onto her neck. As soon as she puts it on her eyes go all black, no whites or iris. "Whoaa." She mutters as dark swirls appear on her skin.
"Um…Rox? Do you feel okay?" Kylie asks, her blonde and pink appearance striking against this gray and black one.