 
                        Marcus's Power (7 of 16)
 
Marcus's Power
 
Chapter 7
 
It was the next day that Marcus decided to tell Mouse that he had to
leave. He feared the tears that would come from his beloved, but never
the less, it had to be done. Jesse had stayed the night in his bed, he
knew that did not go unnoticed by Mouse. Marcus did not know how to
approach the one he loved so long, to tell her he was leaving.
 
When Marcus awoke that morning, he immediately packed his bags. He
wanted to make his goodbye's as short as possible. After that was
finished, he then started downstairs. Marcus walked slowly with his
hand in his pocket and his head bowed. He hated what he had to do. But
it was his destiny and he knew this like he knew the sky was blue.
 
He saw Mouse and Kathy sitting behind the counter in the kitchen. They
saw the look on his face and immediately knew that something was wrong.
They had learned to love AND learn him over the last few years. Jesse
and Kasey followed behind him. Jesse knew that this was hard on him,
but there was no other way.
 
He sat the suit case he was carrying down on the floor and looked at
them. Marcus then did something that was totally unlike him. He reached
up and took his shades completely off. Mouse could tell by the look in
his eyes and the suit case on the floor that he was leaving. Tears
welled up in her eyes. 

"I have to go. There is no other way.... And no, I can't tell you why
or where I'm going." Marcus said in a low, sad, but yet serious voice.
 
Kathy was about to put up a motherly front and tell him that he would
do no such thing. But she saw the look in his eyes and just broke down
into sobs. Marcus just walked over to her and held her tightly. She
calmed somewhat, then just looked at him with sorrow in her eyes and
kissed his cheek.
 
"WHY! Why do you have to go?!" Mouse suddenly screamed, tears rolling
down her face.
 
"I promise I'll be back. I don't have an exact time.... But I'm not
going to let you guys out of my life that easy." Marcus said in that
same low and tender voice.
 
"I love you..." Mouse said as she ran into his arms and gave a powerful
embrace. Marcus hugged her back and a single tear rolled down his
cheek. It was the first time he cried in a half decade. The sorrow he
felt was immense.
 
"I have to go...." He said, letting her go. His eyes swept over Kathy
again.
 
"Take the car and come back to me safe." She said as she reached in her
pocket and pulled out a set of keys. She walked over to him and placed
them gently in the palm of his hand. Then she gave him one last hug.
 
Marcus then picked his suit case up and headed for the door. He did not
look back from fear of his will breaking. Marcus slipped his shades
back on as soon as he turned his back. He wanted know one to see the
emotion he felt. That walk to the front door was probably the longest
walk of his life.
 
Jesse and Kasey was only a step behind when he walked out in the semi
warm air. Marcus walked over to the fully restored '68 Mustang. The car
looked brand new. 'Kathy always did have a taste for the classics'
Marcus thought with a slight smile. This smile was not a happy one
though. It was a sad one.
 
The three of them got in the car, Kasey rode in the back, while Jesse
rode shot gun. Marcus started the car and could feel as well as hear
the power of the machine. He backed out of the drive way, taking one
last look at the house. The house where he spent the best years of his
life.
 
Jesse could sense Marcus' sorrow and said "Don't worry, if all goes
well, you will see them within a year or less. It depends on how fast
you build your skill." She said this with a low and gentle voice that
said 'I love you', without speaking it aloud.
 
Kasey said reassuring things to him as well, but he really did not pay
that much attention. His mind was on the two women he was leaving
behind. Then he came to the thought that he was going to be the best
Shadow Knight in the shortest time possible. He remembered reading
something about how perfection should not be rushed though.
 
Marcus drove down the road trying to make the thoughts of his past give
way to thoughts of the future. He knew that he was in for one long
drive. They would have to stop at a motel before the night was over.
They drove for hours without speaking to one another. All three of them
were thinking of something or another.
 
They drove on and on for hours. In fact, close to six before Jesse said
something. "Marcus, I think we should stop and get some rest. Besides,
I have to call Shain to make sure that he will accept us." She said
with a slight frown.
 
"Have you ever tried to talk to him with telepathy? It seem's to me
that it would be easier." Marcus asked with a curious expression.
Whether or not he liked it or not, the darkness of when he left his
most loved women, was quickly diminishing.
 
"Yes, it would most certainly be easier.... But I haven't the power to
reach him that far away." She said with an apologetic smile.
 
"Is there anyone in the world that can do that?" Marcus asked more than
a little curious. If he was to be as powerful as she said, he thought
he might have a shot at it later on. He did not get his hopes up
though. His past scars of rejection prevented that.
 
"There are quite a few Shadow Knights in the world that can do that.
Even some of the rogues and outcasts have accomplished this feat. But
they say it was very difficult to do so." She said, smiling at Marcus'
obvious thirst for knowledge.
 
Marcus then slipped into deep thoughts of the possibility of power. He
also kept in mind the old saying that 'Power implies Responsibility'.
With that in mind, he made a vow to himself that he would not let the
power he had or might receive go to his head. That would be the worse
thing that could happen.
 
They pulled into a town that was about sixty miles from their
destination and Marcus pulled into a Holiday Inn to get them some
rooms. He never really thought about money until then. He was
completely broke. He guessed that he would PERSUADE the manager to let
them stay there for the time being. Marcus really did not feel guilty
when it came to using the power to get the necessities of life.
 
Marcus found out that the more he used his power, the easier it became.
He found that out with the manager of the motel. He wondered on the way
to his room if he would be better at the telekinesis if he tried it. He
had acquired a room with two beds in it. He did not know how
comfortable the three of them would be in one bed.
 
Jesse and Kasey followed close behind as he walked to his motel room.
They had very little to say to one another for some cause. When they
arrived in their room, Kasey just flopped down on the bed, as if the
trip had exhausted her. Jesse walked immediately to the phone and
picked it up to call her brother Shain collect.
 
Marcus just sat down on the other bed, to see what news Jesse would
tell. She got through to him but the only time she did not say yes or
no was when she said hello. That was mostly what she said. "Yes
Shain...... No Shain." Like that. It would have irritated him, but he
scolded himself quickly for eaves dropping.
 
Finally she just hung up the phone and turned to Marcus. "He asked me
to hold off a couple of days on coming back." She said with a slight
frown.
 
"Why would he tell you that?" Marcus asked with an equal frown. He was
just as anxious to get there as Jesse was.
 
"He is trying to reach a peace agreement with a band rogues. They call
themselves the Dark Knights. Shain said they had been at war for months
with them. He is hoping for a peaceful agreement. If not, there will be
war." She said this with a look of dread.
 
"Why don't he want you there? From what I've seen, you are pretty damn
good at telekinesis." Marcus said with a gracious smile.
 
"I used to think that as well, but apparently Shain does not think
so..." She said this with a sad look to her beautiful face, and Marcus
was pretty sure that if he could see her eyes though the shades she was
wearing, they would show the true depth of her sadness.
 
"What's all this talk about telekinesis? I've never heard of it." Kasey
asked with quizzical eyes. She had the curiosity of a cat, that much
was for certain.
 
"Well, I'm sure that Marcus would be more than happy to give a
demonstration." Jesse said this with a devilish smile as she looked on
Marcus. "Besides, I want to see if your any stronger than the last time
you tried." She then added.
 
"I guess I could give it a shot." Marcus said in a low and focused
voice.
 
Marcus then put all of his focus on a lamp. He could feel the familiar
tingling sensation start to rise. The lamp was brown and ceramic.
Marcus imagined a hand that reached out and grabbed the lamp. It
immediately started to rise from were it sat. Then it lurched from the
table pulling the cord from the wall. It just sort of hovered by the
ceiling then.
 
"Very impressive, Marcus." Jesse said with a rather predatory smile.
 
"That's nothing." Marcus said in a low mumble as he held his
concentration.
 
Then the brown ceramic lamp that was hovering near the ceiling, burst
into tiny pieces. Very, very small pieces. Marcus let go of his
concentration right after he shot the blast of energy to destroy the
lamp and they were showered in glass. None of them got so much as a
scratch though, because the pieces were so small.
 
Jesse had a look of awe when the lamp exploded. Kasey on the other
hand, had a look of shock. She had never in her life seen such power.
Marcus' face matched Kasey's. He never seen, let alone did something
that powerful. The thought of himself doing that unnerved him more than
a little. The real kicker was the dizziness did not come this time.
That told him that he was capable of much more.
 
"Do you feel dizzy?" Jesse asked, coming to his side.
 
"No, not in the least.... What does that mean?" He asked looking at
Jesse with a frightened and curious face.
 
"Your strength is building it's self at an accelerated rate. I thought
you would learn faster than most... But I never dreamed it would be
this fast!" She said in a hushed whisper.
 
"Kasey, what's wrong?" Marcus asked. She was just sitting on the bed
with her bottom lip quivering. She was almost frightened to death.
 
Marcus dove inside her mind and gave her commands that all was normal,
that she should not be frightened. It took only seconds to do this. He
then scolded himself for trying to show off. Her mind was immediately
calmed when Marcus' command kicked in. The fear was replaced by a look
of curiosity.
 
After he fixed Kasey, Marcus sat down on the bed, his hands were
trembling ever so slightly. This was not from exhaustion though. It was
from a mixture of fear and exhilaration. For the first time, the
feeling of what real power might be dawned on him. And he did not know
what to think of it.
 
Jesse could sense his torment and slid closer to him. She laid her head
on his shoulder and said "You should be proud... There are not that
many of our kind that learn so fast. At this rate you will be the
strongest." She said in a low and loving voice.
 
These words did little to comfort Marcus. All his life he wanted to be
normal. He thought that he had a shot at it with the Shadow Knights,
but now he realized that he was going to be sat above the pack. He
smiled a cynical smile when he realized that most people would kill to
get in his position. With a sigh he stood up.
 
"I think that I will take a walk. I'll be back in a few hours." Marcus
said as he started towards the door.
 
"Are you sure you don't want to stay?" Kasey asked as she stretched out
on the bed in a very sexy position. At least Marcus thought so.
 
"That's a very tempting offer, Kasey," Marcus said with a coy smile,
then added "But I have to clear my thoughts. A walk will help. Maybe
when I get back we could..." Then he walked out the door.
 
The moonlit night felt good to Marcus. He always did like the night
better than the day. Marcus did not know it was the same with all
Shadow Knights. He started his walk out of the parking lot. If he
remembered right, there was a Wal-Mart super center not far from were
they were at. So he started his way for it. 

He tried to push most of the thoughts of power out of his head. It all
seemed so strange to Marcus. One day he was a shy and withdrawn boy.
The next he found out that he was to be the strongest Shadow Knight in
existence. All of this had brought on two different emotions. The first
was exhilaration, because he was to be the best at something. The
second was severe nervousness, that was because the power Jesse said he
possessed was a little scary.
 
He walked down the road in the semi-small town with a brisk stride.
Marcus was starting to push the thoughts he didn't want out of his
head. But when succeeded, there was more that popped up that he did not
want. Like the thought of Mouse and Kathy. They was the two woman that
had saved the last of his sanity in those darker years. How did he
repay them? He left them crying when he left.
 
There was not that much traffic left on the road he was taking. Marcus
was glad of that. The reason being, he still did not like people
looking at him. He kept his stride steady as the thoughts raced through
his head. He was almost to the store that he wanted. He had decided on
the store because he wanted to practice scanning abilities on the
people in it. Marcus thought that would take his mind off the Zone.
 
Marcus reached the store rather quickly. He walked into the cool air
conditioned store and it felt good after the walk. He walked towards
the back of the store. He scanned people's thoughts along the way. The
reason he walked to the back of the store was because he wanted to work
from the back and then to the front.
 
The store was filled with quite a few teenagers. Most of them were
girls, the ones that were not, was a teenage boyfriend of one of the
girls. Marcus scanned people with casual ease. It was much easier than
the first time he done it. Their thoughts both interested and
frightened him. Marcus once heard that the human mind was a virtual
trash can. He soon found out that the theory was not to far from the
truth. Not to far at all.
 
This was not so with some of the people he scanned though. Some of them
were quite nice. Marcus was having a good time reading people's
memories and fears. Some of the fears were quite silly. Marcus noticed
that most of the teenagers in this store had never experienced real
fear, as he had.
 
After Marcus became bored he started to make his way towards the front
door. That's when he noticed a man that was standing near the check out
line. This man had shaggy red hair that looked as if he had not washed
it in a week, and short beard. His clothing was normal enough though.
This man was just staring intently at the check-out girl. Marcus was
about to scan his thoughts, but the man did something unexpected.
 
He pulled out a gun and pointed it right at the cashier. The gun went
off with a mighty blast and the bullet went right into the cashier's
stomach. She held her stomach as the blood seeped through her fingers,
then just fell to the floor. The man then turned to the rest of the
store and screamed "EVERYONE DOWN ON THE FLOOR NOW!"
 
Marcus was in complete shock at first. But for some reason, that shock
was starting to be replaced by a blinding rage. Marcus's rage was
overwhelming him so much that his tight clenched fists at his sides
were trembling. The thoughts of his past experiences in foster care
were starting to flood back. The sight of the girls blood had started
that.
 
The man with the gun looked directly at Marcus then. "ARE YOU FUCKING
DEAF! DOWN ON THE FLOOR NOW!" he screamed
 
That's when something happened that Marcus had never done. A huge blast
of telekinetic power shot from Marcus like a cannon ball and struck the
man. The man that had the gun literally flew through the air about
thirty feet, slamming against the wall with tremendous force. He then
fell, fell to the ground with a thud.
 
A wash of dizziness ran over him then. But that only lasted a few
seconds. He walked over to the cashier that had been shot. She was just
laying there holding her hand over her stomach. The shirt she was
wearing was soaked through with blood. The girl was about his age.
Marcus did not know why he did what he done next.
 
Marcus went down to his knees beside the girl and pulled up her shirt
just enough to see the wound. The girl did not try to stop him for some
cause. Marcus could see the sweat that had broke out on her for face.
He then looked down at the bullet wound she had. His face had grown
pale then.
 
Then without thinking he placed his hand over it. Marcus could feel the
warmth of the blood that was seeping out and he could here her moan in
pain. Marcus wished with all his heart that there was something he
could do. That was when the strangest thing happened. Marcus had done
what he done next by instinct alone.
 
Marcus felt the power build throughout his body. It made him have a
tingling sensation all over. The power then started to focus in his
arm. He had never felt such power as he did just then. The power
started to completely focus in his hand then. It suddenly left his hand
and shot into the bullet wound the girl had. He felt it leave him in a
rush and that was when a wave of dizziness washed over him. It was all
he could do to sit up right.
 
Marcus removed his hand from the girl and watched through a cloud of
dizziness as the wound started to close and heal itself. Marcus
noticed, that he himself, had broken out in sweat. He watched this
wound start to heal and suddenly felt very tired. If he could have
curled up in a ball and went to sleep, he would have.
 
But he knew that he had to get out of there and quick. Marcus knew that
the police would be there soon, but he did not know if he had the
strength to change their thoughts. That little move he did on this girl
had taken more than a lot out of him. He looked down at the girl and
seen that she was quite cute. She had red hair and a few freckles on
her face.
 
She was looking at Marcus with a look of awe. She alone knew what he
did. Marcus literally staggered to his feet. He was very weak. "Tell no
one." He said to the girl before he started towards the door rather
quickly. He was trying to fight off the wave of dizziness he felt. He
started off in a slow jog towards the door.
 
When he was glad when he reached the outside. The spring air felt good
and cleared some of the dizziness, but not all of it. Marcus thought
that he should try to run it off, since the police was no doubt on
their way. He started off in a slow jog down the road. The dizziness
would not let him run full speed. Even though he felt weak and dizzy as
he ran, he could not help but to chuckle at the situation he put
himself in.
 
He was well down the road when he realized the dizziness had not let
up. What he really wanted to do was stop and lay down. But that was out
of the question. The motel was only about another mile down the road,
so he had to keep going. So he kept going at that same slow jog.
 
He was about give though. It was starting to become clear that he was
not going to make it. Marcus was about to just sit on the side of the
road when a blue car pulled up beside of him. He stopped and looked to
see who was in the driver's seat. It was that same cute, red head,
freckle faced girl from the store.
 
"Get in. Hurry up!" The girl said and leaned over to open the door for
him.
 
Marcus was all to happy to comply. He walked slowly over to the car. It
looked like a stiff breeze would blow him over. He sunk down onto the
seat and thanked what ever gods there were for this ride. Marcus was
positive that if he kept going the way he was, that he would have
passed out on the side of the road.
 
The girl still had the same look of awe on her face as she looked at
Marcus. She put the car in gear and started off down the road. Marcus
looked her over carefully. She was wearing jeans and judging by her
arms she worked out. She did not have a lot of muscle, but what she did
have was toned. she kept glancing at Marcus then back at the road. Her
face had an odd smile on it.
 
"How did you... What did..." She could not even get the sentence out,
she was so flustered.
 
"It's best you don't know." Marcus said in a cool and low voice. His
dizziness was starting to let up somewhat.
 
"I'll decide what is best for me," She said in a smile. "Now tell me
what you did and how you did it." She added.
 
"I don't know how I did it." Marcus said truthfully.
 
"For some reason I don't believe that." She said with a wry smile.
 
"Could you just drop me off at the motel down the road?" Marcus asked
in a low and tired voice.
 
"No, we're going to my house so I can change and me and you can talk.
My name is Crystal by the way." She said with confidence that Marcus
thought was a rarity for teenagers.
 
"My name is Marcus. Look, I have friends at the motel and they will get
worried if I am not back." He said with a slight frown.
 
"You can call your friends from my house. I REALLY want to talk to you
about what happened." She said as she watched the road.
 
"Very well." Marcus said, not feeling like arguing with the redhead
named Crystal.
 
She just nodded with a smile and continued driving. Marcus' head was
spinning with ideas about what to do with this girl. He thought about
giving her a few convincing lies, but that really wasn't his style. He
was not for sure whether or not he should tell the truth. Marcus knew
that Jesse would disapprove. Then he thought of changing her thoughts
around after he got his strength back. But he decided against that
because he was the one that revealed his power to her.
 
His mind was also spinning with the fact that he had actually healed
someone. Jesse never told him that Shadow Knights could do that. She
would have told him if they could. This was yet another power that set
him beyond the normal for Shadow Knights. This sort of power made him
nervous and excited at the same time. Marcus wanted to ask Jesse about
it when he seen her again. 

"Here we are." She said as they pulled into a driveway.
 
It was most defiantly not a rich neighborhood. Judging by the size of
the house, Marcus guessed that it could not have but one bedroom. The
paint on the outside of the house was chipped and wore by the weather.
Marcus knew that she had to live by herself, because a family could not
live in a house that was so small.
 
Crystal looked at Marcus and said, "I know it ain't much, but it's
mine." She said this with a small smile.
 
Marcus just smiled back and got out of the car. They walked up to the
house, all the while Marcus was thinking of what to say to her
questions, when she started shooting them at him. There was so many
things that he could tell her, but didn't want to. Marcus was positive
that Jesse would disapprove of this little meeting.
 
"Come on in and make yourself at home." She said after she unlocked the
door.
 
Marcus walked into the house. Unlike the outside, the inside looked
quite nice. Crystal was obviously a stickler for neatness. "I'm gonna
go take a quick shower. You wait right here. OK?" She asked Marcus with
a twinkle in her eye.
 
Marcus only nodded and took a seat on her sofa. The dizziness was
almost completely gone now. What ever he did at the store took allot of
energy, that much was for certain. Marcus wondered if Jesse would be
worried about him yet. He knew that he should call her, but he was not
about to search Crystal's house for a phone book. He did not want to be
rude by going through her stuff. He would just wait until she gets out
of the shower.
 
Marcus then came to the conclusion that it might be best if she forgot
what happened today. He could mess with her thoughts a little bit and
she would be better off. Marcus didn't really want to do this, but it
would be better than telling her the truth. He sat on the couch
wondering how he built enough power to make that gunman fly thirty
feet. He knew for a fact that the man had to be dead as hard as he hit
the wall.
 
About ten minutes later, Crystal walked back into the room. She was a
sight for sore eyes, that was saying the least. She was wearing a pair
short cut-off blue jean shorts and a tank top that just barely covered
her breasts. She certainly had a knockout body, that was for sure. She
then walked over to Marcus and took a seat besides him.
 
"Now would you mind telling me what-" She was suddenly cut off by a
mind lock that Marcus put on her.
 
He could see the terror in her eyes when he placed the mind lock on
her. This made him feel a little bad, so he removed the terror
immediately when he dove into her mind. Marcus routed around until he
found the memories of what happened that day, then erased them. He
found this very easy to do. While he did this he thought that he might
as well have a little fun. He placed the emotion of lust as well in her
mind.....
 
When he withdrew from her mind, he looked at her with a devilish smile.
Her breathing had deepened and Marcus could see her nipples poke
through the tank top she was wearing. She was also starting to rub her
thighs together. All of this, along with her flushed face, told Marcus
that he placed the emotion right.
 
"Is anything wrong?" Marcus asked, playing coy.
 
"I don't know.... I feel....." She started and trailed off. Her hand
then strayed between her legs to rub her crotch. She then moaned
lightly as her other hand massaged her breast through her tank top. 

Marcus watched this with lustful eyes. Crystal would have seen just how
lustful his eyes were if he was not wearing his mirror plated shades.
"Would you like me to help you?" Marcus said placing a hand on her
thigh.
 
"Oh, God yes!" She said and jumped to her feet and started to strip her
clothes. She removed the tank top with one swift motion and then slid
the shorts and panties down as well. Crystal then gave Marcus lustful
look.
 
Marcus stood up slowly with a coy grin and started to undress. But
apparently he was not fast enough, because she ran over to him and
ripped his shirt open. The buttons flew every where. She stripped off
of him and then pulled his pants down to his ankles. After that, she
promptly pushed him down on the couch.
 
"Don't move!" She said with a husky voice and straddled his hips.
 
She moaned rather loudly as she sunk down on his manhood. She started
by rocking her hips up and down slowly. But it only took her about ten
seconds for her to for get about slowness. She then started bucking
rather fast. She was moaning loud and digging her nails into Marcus.
 
Marcus could tell that she was approaching climax. But so was he and
that made it alright. She was riding faster and faster. Then she
stopped every muscle in her body tensed up and her face was one of pure
ecstasy. Marcus could her inner muscles start to squeezed and milk him.
That was what set him off. He shot his seed deep within her.
 
After she her climax passed, she just fell limply on his chest. She was
passed out cold. 'Pleasure overload' Marcus thought with a coy smile. 

He then slipped out from under her and grabbed his shirt. As he looked
down at the sleeping beauty, he was proud that he could save her life.
After he was fully dressed he started for the door. All the while
wondering about the new power he learned today. Marcus wondered if
Jesse would know anything about it. He had about a three mile walk
ahead of him, so he would have plenty of time think.
 
