2 THE EXTENT OF HER POWER

"Rina?"

"Hey, Rina!"

Both her friend pulled her wrist to stop her from walking and this brought Serina back to reality. She looked at them with a questioning gaze and they both pointed their fingers to the two-story house which they had passed by. It was her house.

"Oh! I didn't see that." She said. She turned around and walked towards her home with an awkward smile on her lips. "I'll see you guys tomorrow."

"See you." Hillary and Brigette waved their hands at her and bid farewell but even when Serina has entered her home, the two of them didn't leave yet.

"Is she really alright?" Brigette questioned.

"I'm worried for her," Hillary added.

This short exchange didn't escape Serina's powerful hearing. She didn't know what exactly was going on with her but she knew that it wasn't normal. She could only try to block the voices from her head but she had no idea how to do it.

"Mommy, I'm home." She announced her arrival and her mother came out from the kitchen to greet her. As usual, her father was busy working in his study room once again.

Ever since the argument they had five years ago, her father looked for a job where he can work at home to put his wife at ease. He didn't want her to have weird ideas again. Thankfully, he got accepted as a product analyst by the Vallardi Corporation. They would only send the product to their home and her father will submit the report online. It was really convenient.

"How's your school, sweetheart?" Irene asked her daughter as she wiped her hands on her apron. "You look upset."

"Well, I got into a fight again today. The principal might call you to come to school tomorrow."

"What caused the fight this time?"

"I don't want to talk about it for now. I'll go back to my room first. You don't need to call me for dinner. I'll just come down to join you."

"Alright."

Serina left the living room to go upstairs and look for her own bedroom. As soon as she arrived there, she slumped on her bed and thought of building a wall within her brain again. She had been practicing for so many years on how she can build a wall around her and she never told her parents about her condition because she was afraid of their reaction.

"How should I go about this?" She asked herself while imagining the wall being erected within her brain. "Am I even doing the right things?" She continued to imagine the walls being formed in her mind but it was so taxing and she felt so tired from doing it. "I wonder why I'm like this."

She turned her head and looked at the clear blue sky outside her window. She looked at the fluffy clouds and suddenly, she started thinking of the dark clouds gathering up together to give them rain. "Flashes of Lightning are pretty cool, too." She told herself while looking at the changing atmosphere outside their house. The wind has picked up the change and it started to grow stronger. A bolt of strong lightning illuminated the whole city and following it was the deafening thunder.

This was so sudden that people were caught off-guard. It wasn't forecasted that there will be a storm. In fact, even the weather forecasters were so surprised to see the forming storm over them. The rolling dark cloud and the continuous lightning brought fear to everyone's heart. It was just so strong.

Serina frowned and rose from her bed. She raised her hand and waved it from east to west while thinking of many flashes of lightning appearing one after another. In front of her, the bolts of lightning appeared across the sky from the east to the west. It truly surprised her. She pointed her finger at the sky and waved it in a circular motion. The clouds were rolling faster and with the strong gust of wind, a huge tornado appeared.

"This is getting out of hand," Serina told herself as she closed her eyes, imagining the storm to disperse. The tornado was getting smaller, the clouds were getting thinner and the lightning stopped appearing. After ten minutes, the storm that was threatening the whole city disappeared like a bubble that burst into nothingness in the air.

"What was all that?"

"Is mother nature playing a joke on us?"

"Oh my! That was so scary."

"It appears and disappears all of a sudden as if someone was controlling it."

"Come on! There's no way someone could conjure such a strong storm. It was just a coincidence."

People started to discuss it but Serina, the person who summoned the storm was sitting on her bed like it was nothing. She had done this before when she was 8 years old, and she thought that it was just a coincidence that her imagination happened in reality. Then, it happened again on the day her school was having a sports festival. She didn't want her class to lose so, she had been strongly thinking of the opponents to lose. In the end, their class won all the games and became the champion. It rose many questions but everything was done with teachers supervising them so, no one could really say that they cheated.

From then on, she had this vague idea that she must have power. Her abnormality to hear voices must be another form of her power. She was so happy about it but she felt lonely as well. She didn't trust anyone to tell these things to.

Serina sighed and laid back on the bed. She continued practicing the mental wall that she thought could help her block the voices from entering her mind.

Around seven in the evening, his father came knocking on her door, calling her for dinner. "Wait a minute." She immediately stood up and looked for a change of clothes. She arrived home for a little while already but she forgot to change her clothes. "I'll test it on my mom and dad." She told herself while putting on a large black shirt.

On a mountainous area, several kilometers from the city, two wolves were standing on a huge rock, overlooking the wide and huge human settlement. They have seen the huge storm forming over the city and they sensed the psychic power that conjured such a strong thunderstorm.

"I wonder who her mate is?" the male wolf asked.

"We won't know until she's eighteen years old. I hope she's for our boy. She's really strong and she'd be a great Luna if she pairs up with our son." The female wolf responded before turning around to go back to the pack. The male wolf raised its head and let out a loud howl which resonated throughout the property.