ABYSMAL

The feeling of nothingness; or other words total peace. To be able to sit in a room that has absolute silence and stillness with only the slight noise that comes from your heartbeat to disrupt it – that is abysmal.

57 years ago, 2043, was the year that everything changed. It was like every other day in the city–there were cars bustling, machinery whirring, and in the country, there was the sounds of the grass whistling and livestock rustling. Although, nobody expected that on that day a terribly loud screeching noise would cast out upon the united continents. Every human who heard that sound, dropped. It was like one of those post-apocalyptic scenes, as if someone had dropped a large enough explosion to wipe out humanity itself. At least that's what they said in history class. I was told by the elderly that it had seemed like it lasted for hours but, in reality it only was for a couple of minutes. People were frightened, thinking that it was a terrorist attack created by "Connection"… Months went by with radio silence from the government and political leaders, until one day on the news, a man faster than what the human eye could see, appeared in front of the most notorious government leader, the king, who was finally making a statement on the events that had occurred, in front of almost 6 billion people watching across the world, this man wearing a full black hoodie with pure black gloves, now known as "Sight", teared the king's head off of his shoulders without any hesitation and still with the head in his hand he turned around and said one word "SILENCE".

And after skipping another 56 years of history, we are now here in the present, 2100, where I just enrolled in high school, but not just any high school, it's one of the most prestigious high school of blanks (blanks: people who posses the ability to control the abysmal). Now, now, don't get me wrong it's cool and all being in one of the top schools of the continent, but what isn't cool... is kind of being related to the man who killed the king 57 years ago. That's like being related to Hitler here. I've been ostracized most of my life after people here my full name, William Adeptlin, though you can call me "Will". I think I owe you an explanation though, after about 10 years after the assassination occurred on the king, Sight, the man who killed him got caught and was revealed to be, Jane Adeptlin. Now, you may be asking how they caught a man who was faster than the human eye, wellll… they just used someone faster. Around that 10 year time frame people started realizing the real meaning of what Sight meant when he said "Silence"; although this happened more naturally, basically people started to realize when left alone in the car or in the house with no distractions they felt themselves having their "spirits" tugged at and the people who followed those tugs were lead to a void that was like looking at a never ending dark tunnel; some walked the tunnel, some went back from where they came from, and others, the people with true power, lit up that tunnel so they could see the end and those people are the people who catched Sight. I'd loved to introduce you to more but the school bell just rang and I'd ought to be going.

*Yawn* How lovely, walking down these school halls watching kids get pushed into lockers, teens hooking up against the walls, and oh look at that a big ass fireball coming towards my fac- *BOOM* *cough* *cough*

"Ow, my ass"

` I was then approached by a character that I can only describe as an overgrown sized potato

*Chuckles* "My bad, dogwipe, I was just thinking about the execution of your great grandfather, and I guess it was a little fiery" (Yes, yes, he did just call me 'dogwipe')

` I stand up, look at him, grab my bag, and walk away

` "Running away like you always do! I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree!"

I must explain just a little, now. My great grandfather (Sight) was burned to death as an execution as a political stunt to show what would happen if people used these powers in the wrong. The man who shot the fireball at me is named Butch Canon and he is a local bully. I was able to conjure up some wind before the impact, but it still hurts in some places. Although I can't worry about that since I need to get to class.

` I walk into class 3 – 1, and of course I get stares but surprisingly most of them weren't judgmental

` *whisper* "I heard he's the great grandson of Sight" (Well, I didn't say all of them weren't judgmental)

` *whisper* "I heard he can 'insta-visualize'"

' "No way"../.."SHH, keep it down before he hears you"

Class 3-1 is mostly filled with kids who are different from others, either by power, money, fate, and/or in my case a danger to society. Most importantly, the class has my best friend in it, Sasha Rede, most powerful girl in the school, and I don't know why but also the most famous, people fanboy all over her, but all she has is perfect slick black hair, crimson-gold eyes that might, just might, light up your world when you see her and the way she carries herself with so much finesse *drool* *cough* oh my bad, did I forget to mention I might have a little crush on her, also don't tell her I said that she might actually kill me.

` Sasha approaches me all happily like a dog that sees her owner get back from work

`"Oh!, oh!, is that twig?" (Don't say anything about the nickname *ashamed*)

` "Sashaaa, it's been a while!" I say this as I fix my hair and posture

` "Well, yeah my parents sent me to that boooring fucking school for extra credit" (Her mopey/annoyed face is so cute)

` I flick her on the forehead "You blew up the school training area, it wasn't just for the extra credit" as I shake my head at her

` "Ohhh, come on that potato, bitch, oogling me while I'm stretching deserved it" (Yes, she's talking about Butch)

` The teacher walks into the room and Announces

` "EVERYONE GET TO YOUR SEATS AND-"he pauses and looks at me

' "Well, oh, well it's William, right?"

` I responded reluctantly to say the least "Uhhh, yeah but I prefer to be called Will"

` "Good to know, good to know, everyone else please sit down" that's weird his whole demeanor has changed after that exchange

The professor starts by introducing himself, his name is Altiem Adept. He likes dogs, pizza, and long walks on the bea- what is this a tinder profile. Anyways, the first part of the semester is all about fundamentals, he carries on explaining the importance of basics and blah, blah, blah. He starts speaking about conjuring; Conjuring is one form of the basics, actually, was used on me when I was walking down the hall, with that fireball and all. To start a conjure you first need to start a visualization process, it all depends on how good you are, but usually visualizations take up to 10 seconds for high grade users using medium to large conjures, the fireball for example would be classed as a small conjure because it was only the size of a football. Now, the teacher doesn't bother talking about visualization since were high school students but for you I'll explain, visualization is a method of going into your subconscious by using the abysmal to manifest your thoughts into high-realism detailed images and then conjuring would be the process of bringing those images into reality using the abysmal. Oh, and look at that class looks like it's about to en-

`*BOOM* "WHAT THE FUCK!"