TSP Draft Two, Book Two - Ch4-6

Overview: https://kaylinrosealexande.wixsite.com/kaylinalexanderbooks/post/draft-two-book-two-of-the-secret-portal

Read-aloud, pt1: https://www.tiktok.com/@kaylinrosealexander/video/7178137272351509802?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7168171927235937835

Previous: https://kaylinrosealexande.wixsite.com/kaylinalexanderbooks/post/tsp-draft-two-book-two-ch1-3

Enjoy!

Chapter Four

Training……… Sort of

“Awesome!” I said.

“Cool!” said Mikey.

“Sweet!” said Nellie.

“What powers do we have?” I asked.

“Come,” said Liz.

We followed her to the far end of the kitchen where the wall was blank. Liz walked up to it, lifted her fist, and knock knockity knock knocked on the wall.

The wall swung open and she led us down a passage way that led a long way down in a spiral.

Nellie, Mikey, and I followed Liz down the stairs.

On the way down, Liz told us what powers our families had. Apparently, my mom could take away pain, my dad had an amazing photographic memory, and Alexia had teleportation.

Mikey’s mom had super-vision, his dad had super-strength, Aurora could read minds, and his oldest sister Hannah had ice powers.

Nellie’s little sister, Isabel could make inanimate objects come alive, and her mom could make things disappear.

I have no idea how she knew about Isabel since she is only 6.

The stairs went down, and down, until we finally walked in a room that was big and had a lot of random stuff like a brick wall just THERE, a pile of books in a corner, robots, a machine, a thing that shot some fake non-pointy darts, fire places that didn’t have fires in them, an obstacle course on the ceiling, an indoor pool, a BIG book, something that looked like a weather forecast thing, and a bunch of other things.

“Welcome to the basement,” said Liz. “Here we teach all kids with powers to control them.”

“But you never told us what powers we have!” I pointed out.

Liz smiled. “Let’s see if you can guess what you have. I’ll give you a list the powers you 3 have and you’ll guess who has what power,” she took a deep breath. “Fire-powers, force-field, turn-into-animals power.”

Tricky. Nellie, Mikey, and I huddled up.

“I say we try all of them,” said Nellie. “Then whichever works for each one of us must be our power!”

“Good idea!” said Mikey.

“Let’s do it in the order that she said them,” I said.

We turned back to Liz. I held out my hand and concentrated really hard. Maybe I would see some tiny flames there. The three of us concentrated for a few minutes until….

“Oh my gosh!” said Mikey. “Look!”

I looked. Tiny flames were dancing in his hand.

Nellie and I looked at each other. Time to try a force field. 10 minutes past and we still couldn’t get it. So we agreed on every 2 minutes we would try the opposite one. 5 minutes later and Nellie constructed a force field and I was a tiger cub.

Of course this only happened for a few seconds.

“How are we supposed to control these powers if they only last for 3 seconds?” Mikey asked.

“3.25106 seconds,” I said, looking at my watch.

“That’s why you here,” said Liz. “You are going to train.” She pointed to the machine. “Press the ‘on’ button, Madison Morgan. The screen will show an animal. You will attempt to turn into that animal. But it will time you. Your final time will be recorded after your 5th transfiguration. No rush, please, Madison.”

“OK,” I said. “But please, call me Maddie.”

I walked over to the machine. I was about to turn it on, but I wanted to see what my friends were going to do.

“Nellie Newman,” said Liz, pointing to the not-going-to-harm-anyone darts. “The fake darts will shoot at you. Attempt to block them with your force-field. Don’t worry, they will not harm you.”

Nellie walked over to the darts that were still shooting, but stood to the side so she could watch Mikey, like I was.

Liz pointed to the millions of fire places. “Michael Austin, you will attempt to light all of the fire places.”

Chapter Five

A Trip to the Weird Park

After about 20 minutes, I managed to turn into 1 ½ animals (yes, 1 ½, I turned into a tiger perfectly and when I tried to turn into a horse, I came out as a girl centaur), Nellie got hit by 9/10 of the totally-not- going-to-harm-you darts, and Mikey lighted only 13 of the millions of fireplaces.

“Whyyyyyyyyy is thiiiiiiiiiis soooooooooo haaaaaaaaaaaaard?” I whined.

“Whyyyyyyyyy doesn’t it come naaaaaaaatruaaaaaaaaaaaaalyyyyyyyyyy?” Nellie whined.

“Do we haaaaaaaaaaaaaave toooooooooo keep gooooooooooooooooiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing?” Mikey whined.

“We’re tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiired!” we all whined at the same time.

Liz took pity on us.

“How about you take a break?” she asked. “There’s a park nearby. You can go there, if you want.”

Best thing I heard all day.

“YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” we all screamed, no longer tired and whiny.

The park was easy to find. It was either because it was right across the street, or that it had everything 3 kids with superpowers could ask for.

Rings, obstacle courses, and a bazillion more things-literally.

I turned into an eagle and flew over the park, screaming (actually squawking) with joy. Then I turned into a penguin and slid down the 800-foot slide (Maybe 800 was a liiiiiittle bit of an exaggeration.) on my belly.

Nellie ran up to the super-duper-awesome-scream-your-lungs-out twisty slide and constructed a force-field and tumbled down the slide in her little force-field hamster ball.

Mikey’s whole body burst into flames, and he ran to the rings and jumped through them, which caught them on fire.

Our powers were doing so much better now that we were having fun. I slid down another slide like a penguin, flew off, turned into an owl, flew higher, turned into a human, then fell down to Earth and turned into a dove at the last second and landed on the ground next to a man.

Chapter Six

Oh Crap

The man was dressed all in black with a hat so low I couldn’t his face.

He glared down at me.

“Who are you?” I asked.

He didn’t say anything, he just kept staring, so I stared back. I was so busy staring at him that I didn’t even realize that Nellie and Mikey were standing right next to me. I barley saw them, (since I was too busy staring) but they were also staring at him.

“Follow,” he said.

We did.

I know, I know, DON’T GO WITH STRANGERS! But I felt like I wasn’t controlling my own body, like he was the one controlling it.

We followed him until he reached a house, which was probably his.

He reached into a container and pulled out a bottle with a green liquid inside. Well, more like a green mist.

He opened the bottle and spayed it over us.

I suddenly felt drowsy.

Then everything went black.

Honestly, this is a lot cringier than the last one.... I hate it.

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