Secret Heroes

It all started in the year 2006 when my life would change forever. Growing up with a small family in a small town was nothing extraordinary, and keeping myself busy was always something I never had to worry about. The reasoning behind that was because I was the only one of my kind, so I thought. It all started at the age of 10, when my family and I took a trip to South Africa for a mission trip through our local church. For me the trip was very exciting, I always loved to travel and I had always dreamed of seeing the world for myself. The day we landed we were told to unpack and head out to the local village where we would be helping out, however that changed when a massive storm hit. So far my new adventure was lame, but I decided to go venture off and take a look around, which would later turn out to be one of the best decisions of my life. As I started walking along the path near our camp, I decided to take an alternate route that I made myself which took me 3 miles away from camp. While walking on my new path I came across the most interesting object that I have ever seen. It was a gold necklace with weird markings all over it. Being a 10 year old boy I picked it up and put it on, but while trying on my new necklace a group of men with guns started to come at me. At that moment I had no clue what to do, I started to panic and then I started running. The men were shouting at me and it caused me to run even further away from camp, and since I did not know the area, I ended up staring straight down a cliff. At first I thought to just get caught and face the consequences, but then I thought I could hide from them by trying to climb down using the rocks as a guide. As you can tell that didn’t work out so well considering the massive storm that was going on. I ended up slipping and started to plunge to my death, but that all changed when I realized that I was floating in the air. I couldn’t believe it, I was shocked and confused at the same time, and had no idea what to do. All I could do was wish for myself to me set on the ground, and that's exactly what happened. I figured out right away that the necklace I was wearing had some sort of powers that gave me the ability to fly, all I had to do was imagine me flying and it would do it for me. Ever since that day I was able to practice using the necklace, developing my skills and being able to go where I wanted, when I wanted. To this day it has been hard keeping such a big secret for my family and friends, but I knew if I wanted to keep the necklace then I had to be careful using it. Fast forward to the present, I’m now a 20 year old college student attending the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, and for the past two years I thought I was all alone when it came to superhuman abilities, but that all changed when I met my college roommate Grant. Grant was a shy kid who never really spoke much, until the day he saw me flying. I thought that my life was going to be over, I was thinking to myself “how are you going to explain what just happened” but there was no need for that. Grant admitted to me that he had the ability of telekinesis. He never really told me how it happened, something to do with experimental drugs his family was working on, but ever since that day we have been best friends. We decided to use our powers for good and to help the locals, however there was another group of three who had abilities of their own. This made things awkward for us, until the three asked us to join their team. Ever since that day college has been different for me, it wasn’t just about getting good grades and having fun, it was about keeping the people we cared about safe from whatever came our way, and that’s how our group started. To some were just normal college students, but between ourselves we were known as the Secret Heroes.