Say The Word

Lucas was hiking that day, up to the mountains, down to the trails. The sun hid behind curtains of clouds and came out occasionally to prompted the earth that it was still pretty much alive, though not present all the time.

He had a camera strapped on his chest, it was recording everything thing he did because he wanted to share the experience of the roads and places he had been to, and brought some perspective to the public about hiking there.

It was a windy morning, he had been walking for two hours straight and was still seeing almost the same deserted plain earth, dust and some wild grasses were his only companion on the road.

There was this plane that flew by, Lucas looked up to it and felt the urge to grab it by his hand figuratively, so he raised his hand and posed a gesture of catching it by the tail.

The plane ripped off in the midair into two parts, the one part was the rear he was holding, and the other was the head that plunging down in an incredible speed. The camera was recording everything.

In the footage, he mumbled and cursed in astonishment and he held on to the tail of the plane in one hand while trying to catch or at least steady the head. And he did, he caught the other part remotely and stopped it from falling down from an cold altitude with high velocity. He literally killed and saved everyone.

With a shaking hand, he put the plane or rather pulled the plane to the ground like it was nothing. He then called the police vaguely reporting the incident he had witnessed, but leaving out the details.

He continued on his path and tested his new found ability.

One of his hand reached out and he was looking at a rock the size of himself, he gestured a crushing grip and the rock exploded before his eyes. Some of the pieces came to him in an incredible speed, he tried to shield himself by turned back and raise his hands protecting his head. The rocks did hit him but he didn’t feel much pain. In fact, when it stopped, he turned to himself with no trace of scar, nor bleeding wound.

He chuckled evilly and was thinking about something better.

“Turn this rock to gold,” he said and the rock he was looking at turned into gold.

“Move the all the cloud to the middle of the pacific ocean.” he said and the cloud above him was gone in a wind. The sun gleamed on him happily.

He posed a flying motion like the superman and a feeling of gravity was slipping away, and he boomed off the ground and flew up the sky.

“fly all the trash to the sun.” he said and every landfill, dumpster and trashbag left the ground and went on their journey to the sun. There was a small explosion on the sun but barely visible to the monitoring equipment.

Lucas flew past the park and landed in front of his house. He plugged the camera into his computer and uploaded the raw footage demonstrating his ability.

“Let me say this, no one will revolt against me or attach me, no one will make me their study object or notice me,” he said and felt something amiss and added. “I simply exist by name.”

And then he was gone.