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FLA-BOOM! The ocean swam around me, and I blinked in the murky depths.
I caught my breath and swam towards the floundering child who had fallen into the freezing wintery ocean moments before.
Someone screamed, and with a startling certainty, I saw that the child was turning blue. He couldn't survive much longer.
So I pulled something out of the depths of my soul and shot towards him, controlling the currants. In moments, he was in my arms, and I willed the waters to heat, gently fighting against hypothermia. With a swish of my hand, a wave lifted us out of the deep and back onto the deck of the cruse ship.
The trembling child was swept up by his mother and hustled away. People stared at me in shock. I should have died.
My mother grabbed me and dragged me away, pulling my two younger siblings behind her. Back in our cabin, she told me that I needed to be careful. People would do anything to control power like mine.
Monsters were the only ones who were supposed to have magic.
Monsters, and the deities that controlled the world.
They were considered fables, old myths, and legends that never were true. But I knew better.
Jupiter, Pluto, and Neptune controlled their respective responsibilities.
The other ‘gods’, as the myths called them, also controlled their functions.
While the stories named them deities, their preferred name was the Vi---Latin for Strength.
I had learned of their existence two years before, when I met my father.
Neptune.
My mother was practically frothing at the mouth when she suddenly grabbed me and pulled me against her chest.
“I couldn’t bear losing you,” she whispered.
Oh, the irony of that statement.
Less then half a second later she collapsed, a tranquilizer dart in her neck. My two younger brothers were treated the same, leaving me standing alone, staring at the masked man in the open doorway.
My blood boiled. I was about to will a tsunami to wreck the ship or, even better, a great white shark to smash through and take a bite out of him when he spoke.
“We can do this the easy way or the hard way. I know this is hard, but you’ll be much happier in the environment aquatic beasts like you were meant to be.” I froze. What was he talking about? “I know you think you’re a regular human, but we saw what you are. A freak of nature. An anomaly. An animal.”
The last thing I saw was my hands locking around his neck before something stabbed my arm and everything went dark.