Liam and I stumbled deeper into the forest. I grumbled each time a branch snagged my coat or scratched me hands, it was very very annoying. Liam stopped when we had reached a small clearing. I had never been this deep into the forest before, but we couldn't risk people learning of Liams powers. Or... my powers.

"Ok big shot, show me what you got!" I say.

Liam grinned nervously, as if in front of crowd. He held out his hand for a moment, it started to shake as if he were trembling. The morning dew on the grass slowly started coming towards him, pulsing and trembling in the air. I could see every individual bubble of floating water. It was spectacular. 

Suddenly Liam dropped his arm, the water which had been coming together when it grew near him had dropped to the ground with a splash. Liam was breathing heavily.

"What's wrong Liam?" I ask concerned.

"its just- just..." he breathed heavily, as if he had just done six laps of the high school track. "it seems like, whew. It seems like it takes energy to do this stuff. Like, my whole body needs to put in energy and willpower to make the water come."

"But you did that thing at your house super easily." I say

"That must be because it was super small, think about it. That was one wad of spit and I was just spinning it around in the air,  I was just lifting a the entire meadows dew from the grass and pulling it towards me a meter in the air. It's a big difference."

I thought about it and I realize he's probably right, it's not like he'd be able to do all this without relent. "Maybe let's start with something smaller then. Maybe focus on a small area of grass, or something that has water in it? You could try moving branches, I bet that would work." I start thinking on my feet, I felt like I was ten again. Trying to think of every possibility of every superhero power to see which was the best. 

"That sounds awesome, ok give me a second I have to try this."

"Ok, try that tree." I point to one of the trees outlying the meadow. Nothing special about it except the small branch the protruded into the haven of grass.

Liam stopped. And narrowed his eyes at it. He rose his hand to the branch. It was a thing, long branch almost like one you could use as a marsh mellow stick but just barely too small. With the small twig like branches coming out of it of course.

Nothing happened for a few seconds. Then slowly Liam clenched his fist, in reply the branches small twigs that grew from in started collapsing inwards. Like it was hugging itself. Liam lifted his hand slowly and the branch followed. He stopped and the branch sagged back to where it used to be. Lifeless once more.

"Holy crap Liam that was amazing." I said speechless.

He just grinned and walked up to the branch. I followed him. 

"You were right Finn, I can control them. What else can I do? This seems limitless!"

"But you'll need to practice it though, otherwise how else will you get better? I bet if you just keep using it you can get stronger, maybe even enough to lift the entire meadow. Or move an entire tree!"

Liam was ecstatic. He stopped smiling for a minute and sat down, I sat down next to him.

"Thanks Finn, for coming out here with me. I still dont know what im going to do. This is all so new and... are we the only ones?"

"I don't know Liam. I dont know."

"What should we do now? What powers are you going to get? Why is this happening? Why..."

He sighed and stopped there. 

I put my hand on his back, "dont worry man, Ill help you. Plus we're in this together, you're not the only one with powers."

He grinned, "thanks."

Suddenly the branch swung down and hit my head softly. Liam burst out laughing, I couldn't help but smile too.

"I have an idea," said Liam. "We can go around and use our powers on our friends and prank them! We don't have to tell them about the powers but we can use them to our advantage and laugh at them!"

I instantly thought of bringing down an entire trees rain upon Freddys head and I smile. "Plus we can ask them about having a weird dream and see if this has happened to anyone else!"

"Good idea!"

"Look over there its some little kids!" a voice yelled over to our left.

Liam and I both look over panicked, as if we were caught passing a note in class. Three boys in black hoodies walked towards them through the forest. For a second I thought they were here because of the powers but that couldn't be. I calmed down a little. 

I stood up with Liam and we watched the three older kids come at us. They were all wearing black hoodies, jeans and were big with strong muscles. They were at least three years older then Liam and I. They stopped about ten meters away.

"Hey kiddies what are you doing out here?" The lead guy stepped forward. "I'm Bart, this is Zeke and thats Phil. Not that it matters to you though."

"Were just hanging out in the forest." Replied Liam timidly, still self-conscious about his powers and not knowing if this was a bad situation.

"Hehe, well you chose a bad time punk. I'm in a bad mood today, my girlfriend just dumped me. And I needed something just like this to get it out of my system." Said Bart. Cracking his knuckles and started walking towards us.

This was bad, not only were they going to beat us up. But I could tell something was going to go wrong. I looked at Liam. He looked at Bart bravely. Just seeing Liam like that gave me courage. As Bart advanced Liam and I stood defiantly. 

Without warning Bart lunged forward with a big punch, hitting Liam in the stomach and sending him reeling backwards into the grass. Bart laughed and with a little hesitation Phil and Zeke joined in.

With the little time I had I looked around for a weapon. A big club of a branch was a few meters away on the edge of the clearing. I ran for it, Bart would turn to me momentarily. As I predicted Bart finished his laugh and turned to me. but I had already booked it and picked up the branch.

"You think that thing will help you buddy? Think again. It's three to one, your little friend over there fell like a sack of potatoes, and so will you. Zeke and Phil came and backed him up. Both grinning.

Bart strolled towards me punching his palm menacingly. I raised my club in defiance but I knew my number was up. Bart once again lunged at me, I couldn't bring my club down to block it in time. But instead of the gasping pain of his punch. A branch as think as a baseball bat swooped down and hit him over the head.

He stumbled, "what the?"

I brought my own club down over his head now. It hit him with a resounding crack and he slumped to the ground. He was out cold. I look over at my saviour, Liam was on one knee holding his hand out with concentration. While holding his stomach at the same time.

Both of the other bullies stared in horror at their unconscious friend. Their eyes blazed with anger.

"You sons of-" Zeke started to yell, but Liam and I were already gone.

Sprinting through the trees and undergrowth, we ran as fast as we could. I couldn't tell if they were chasing us. I legs and back started hurting and my breath grew short, I wouldn't be able to go much longer. 

Thankfully, Liam wasn't going his fastest so I could be in the corner of his eye while still sprinting forward and looking at the undergrowth. A small patch of grass was coming up, so I quickly gave a glance behind us. Dammit.

Gaining on us about twenty meters back was Phil. My lungs hurt like hell and I felt like I was choking on my saliva. We wouldn't be out of the forest for another minute at least, and I wouldn't be able to sprint that long anyways, I had to lead Phil somewhere and lose him. It wouldn't be hard, to them I had taken on Bart on my own. They didn't know half of it had been Liam.

I kept running trying to think of somewhere to go. I look ahead to see Liam had left my side and was waiting at the creek, the creek was a small river that ran through the middle of the school. It started out on a nearby mountain from glacier water and led all the way down here. I had once made the mistake of trying to swim in the cold water as a dare. I didn't do it again.

I skidded to a stop next to him, gasping. He readied his hands in some sort of fighting position. It looked like he was about to take Phill head on. Right on queue Phil came charging through the undergrowth. Branches snapped as he plowed through the bushes towards his targets. As he came about five meters away I realized what Liam was about to do.

I hoarsely call out to Liam. "No Liam stop you can hardly lift water up!"

But it was too late. He pushed out his hands and a small wave came up and shot out at Phil. It splashed his legs, wetting them. It had managed to make Phil stop dead, confused on what had just happened. While he stopped Liam took advantage and took a column of water into the air. Mid-air it sharpened enough to look like a knifes point. 

Phil seeing the water floating screamed in panic and scrambled away. He tripped on a root and fell backwards into the muddy bank. Liam sent the sharp dagger point of water at Phil's thigh, I knew he didn't want to hurt him too badly. The dagger hit his leg and broke apart, splashing over his chest and left leg.

Phil, realizing he hadn't been hurt, slowly got up. Now cautious.

"What the hell was that, how did he do that?" He demanded, I looked over at Liam. He was in worse shape than I was. The effort to defend them was too much. I grabbed Liam and pulled him along with me, managing a slow jog. If Phil chased it would be over for both of them. I look back at him. 

He stared at us jog slowly away, with squinting eyes. Assessing and Identifying us. He then turned and walked back from whence he came. Probably to help Zeke with Bart or tell them about the freak who could lift water into the air. 

I let go of him and we start to walk now that the threat was over.

"Shit shit shit shit. Im screwed, they know I have powers. Everything we had just talked about hiding them and practising them is over. Oh god, and I think I even recognize them from school. They'll tell everyone. They'll surely come back, fro revenge. Dammit what are we going to do Finn. Finn???" He yells frantically, hardly stopping for a breath. He turns to me wild eyed and grabs my shirt shaking it. "Finn help me here! Your in just as much shit as I am here. Soon enough you'll have your own powers to take care of."

"Liam stop! Stop! Your panicking, just calm down we can think of something. Nobody will believe them anyways. If someone came and told you that some kids you ran into in the middle of the forest had powers, would you believe them? You'll be fine trust me. And when those kids come back we'll have an explanation ready if they ask about it." I say

Liam seemed reassured, "but what about them coming to beat us up?"

I snort, "not like it hasn't happened before. Don't worry its your powers I would be worrying about."

"Agreed," said Liam.

"One more question though Liam, what are we going to do now? We can't go back to the forest and when you gain a super natural power its not like you dont use it. If I were you I'd be using it on every tree around us."

Liam frowned, "but you're energy would get drained so fast."

I frowned as well and say, "Oh you're right... Well I'd still use it often on small things."

Liam grinned, and spat in his hand. It started to float and formed a translucent sphere. It then popped and began again. "Looks like I have a new habit."

I sigh, "you dont believe how jealous you're making me right now. Dammit when am I going to get my powers? I had my passage so much earlier then you, shouldn't I get them sooner as well?"

"I dunno man, I dont know science. Even if I did I bet i couldn't explain it. This is supernatural, nobody can tell what the hell is going on."

The foliage broke and the road emerged. We started walking back to Liam's house.

"Where can we go though, we can't keep going to the woods. We'll need a real place to start practicing. Do you know any places?" Liam asked.

I strained to think of any such places that no one goes. I came up with only one.

"I know a place, but it might not even work." I tell Liam.

He shrugged, "well we may as well check it out, you dont know. What is it anyways?"

"The abandoned construction site, a few blocks away from my house. It's probably closer to your place then mine if I think about it." I explain.

Liam nodded slowly, "I know the place. Let's go check it out right now, my mo won't be expecting us for another hour or two and its only 12:00. If we hurry we might even catch that italian places lunch menu still up."

"Then what are we waiting for?" I agree, thinking of the pizza and pasta. "Let's go!"