Welcome to my Nightmare

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About an hour later Lauren and Madi came back with 4 fish, one in each hand. Lauren had caught fish before but they were never this large. They both laid their fish over the fire and Sarah heated up the fire. Not by throwing sticks on it but just with her hands.

We all got our portion of fish and then Johnny and I brought up the topic of last night. We told everyone word for word what we had heard. Then everyone started to volunteer for leader. This is what the girls’ ‘election’ speeches and debates went like.

“Hi I’m Nikki and I would like to become the evil dictator that is going to rule this group weather you like it or not ‘cause you know why? You have all been Nikkiamatized,” I smiled and watched everyone else give their speeches.

“I’m Sarah and I’m 15 and I like fire and flying and if you are tall, have wings, are tan and have light brown hair give me a vote,” She winked at Ryan and then smiled at everyone else.

“Hello, I’m Lauren, and today I have been sober all of my life, you all have really helped me get through my drinking problem and since you’ve helped me so much so I hope that you will vote for me, thanks,” When Lauren was talking she had put air quotes around drinking problem.

“Hi I’m Madi and I can save your life,” Madi looked at Tanner who was running his fingers over the lack of his scars on his arm.

“And now it’s time for the debate,” Ryan said in a very announcer like voice. Everyone burst out laughing and then we started the ‘debate’.

“First question,” Ryan said keeping up with his announcer voice, “How will you keep us safe? Please clap your hands if you would like to answer.”

I clapped my hands first, you could say that I have an unfair advantage, but really it’s just a helpful tool, “I can hear thoughts of who ever is attacking us and I can control their minds to make them go away or something along the lines of that.”

“Ok next the next question is a task, you have to take down Johnny in a fight, first person to their knees loses, this time the first person to snap out their wings can do this task,” Ryan said and motioned over to Johnny to stand up.

Lauren was the first person to do this and I got worried. We all were amazing fighters and we were all extremely strong for our weight (our bones and muscles are very light which is useful for flying, for example I’m 5’8” and I weigh about 100 pounds and Ryan who is 6’3” weighs about 175, you do the math) But another thing is that Johnny is the strongest of the guys and I’m the strongest of the girls. Lauren could have easily won in a fight against Trey or even Ethan but not Johnny. Also Lauren didn’t have any 1% extra anything to help her in the fight; she is one of the ‘pure bird’ people. John is 1% wolf. See how unfair this match is?

I’ll leave all of the theatrics out of the fight and just say that Lauren lost quickly. Next Madi fought Ryan (he is the second strongest guy) and the fight ended faster than it did between Johnny and Lauren. Then Sarah and Johnny were paired up to fight. Sarah went into her wolf mode and everyone could see fire in her hands.

Johnny merely stared at her and said, “You don’t want to do that. You’re going to drop to your knees now.”

Sarah dropped to her knees and went back to her normal looks. Ryan ran over to where she was and checked to see if she was okay; which she was. Ryan looked over at Johnny and asked him, “Do you want to fight Nikki?”

He nodded and I stood up. “Since when do you control minds?” I asked him. He shrugged his shoulders and said, “Two minutes ago.”

I stared at him and without even speaking I had him on his knees. If he can play dirty I can too. Only bad thing is he hadn’t learned how to use his abilities well enough to block what I did. Since he had just discovered them, give him a week and he’ll be controlling even me. Crap.

The all of the guys voted and I was official the candidate for leader. Now it was the guys’ turn to impress us. They were going to do the same things as we had done. First were the speeches.

“Hi I’m Ryan and I want to be the, uh, leader person,” He said it in his normal voice; this was the first time he had spoken like a normal person in hours, what a relief.

Next was Tanner, “I don’t want to be leader.” Surprisingly those were six more words than he’d said all day.

“Hi its Peter,” Ethan said, “I can’t come to the phone right now because both Ethan and I aren’t going to win.”

“What the hell was that for?” Peter yelled.

“It’s the truth,” Ethan muttered as Peter punched him in the face. Ryan intervened and stopped the fighting. Ethan and Peter were glaring at each other for the rest of the day.

“Hi I’m Carl and I think this whole leader thing is crazy because we are functioning fine with out one,” I completely disagreed with him but he did have a very good point.

“I’m Johnny and I would like to have a rematch with Nikki, this time no mind controlling,” I nodded my head and agreed.

“Ok it’s time for the debates, nah, let’s just have ability tests. So who all is actually planning on becoming the leader?” Sarah looked around. It was Carl, Ryan, Johnny and Peter.

“First is a race, first one to catch up with me wins; I get a head start though. Go when Madi says to,” Lauren said and took off into the late afternoon sunset.

15 seconds later Madi yelled go and everyone took off. None of us could even see Lauren, because she was a really, really fast flyer and she had probably already covered a several thousand feet distance.

Lauren came back after a few minutes with all of the guys. “Carl was the first person there,” She said.

“So much for the not liking the leader idea, psh,” I muttered under my breath. I heard Johnny start laughing shot him a look and he stopped.

“Now the fighting,” I told the guys. I could tell they were dreading this, because it would really bring down their self esteem by loosing to me, I knew that and I was gonna enjoy winning. “I play dirty,” I warned them.

First up was Peter, I felt bad felt bad because he was still catching his breath from the race so I just made him fall and I did the same with Carl. Ryan seemed to be blocking out me telling him to fall so I did the easy thing, grab his hands and twist them in different directions, like in a game of mercy just your hands are about 2/3 the size of your opponents, actually you are about 2/3 the size of your opponent. And then knee him in the soft spot yeah I know I’m really nice, but I like winning.

And then it was just me and Johnny I really had no desire to hurt him, well to hurt anyone but it really hit home with him. I had promised not to use my mind controlling abilities on him but I was having a harder and harder time as he kept beating me. Finally my knees buckled and he’d won, dang it!

And in the end everyone voted for Johnny to be my opponent and in the end he was chosen to be the leader. But since I’m his best friend I was happy for him; even though I was envious of him.

I sat against a wall and felt the tears getting ready to come in. I stared at the ground and I tried to make the tears go away. I just needed to keep it together for… the rest of my life. Johnny came over to me and put his arm around my shoulder. “It’s okay,” he whispered in my ear. “Nothing will change,” Johnny kissed my cheek then got up.

Oh god, I felt the tears in my eyes begin to dry up, Johnny was becoming just as powerful as me. I tried getting into his head and I still could but for some reason I wasn’t jealous of him anymore.

What are you doing to me? I thought to him, Why can’t I be angry?

Because I hate to see you that way, Johnny thought.

So I can’t have emotions, wow, you aren’t going to be that great of a leader if you can’t let anyone be slightly jealous. I snapped back at him.

I just don’t want to see you like that.