A new friend, and a new mystery.

Hello! So, Uni today has been weird.
First, I get here, and creepy friend, who wants to know all about me, rushes up and starts asking me loads of questions, and I swear he scowled when I said I had to get to my lecture and didn't have time. Then I get to my lecture, sit down with a couple of friends, and saw one of them looking pensive (Both shall remain nameless for now, security purposes ).
'What's wrong? Anything I can do?'
'Don't think so, but thanks. Just had a weird call this morning from some guy called Suresh. Wanted to know if anything weird had happened to me lately. Said he was now looking on a global scale for 'special' people. What a weirdo, huh? Oh well, I'm not worrying about it.'
It's a good thing I wasn't holding anything breakable. My pen fell from my hand, and she reached down to pick it up. 'Whoops! You alright? You look kind of pale.'
She sighed as the lecturer came in. 'Ah, another hour of learning things we already knew. Let the gaming commence.'
There was a helix doodled at the corner or her page.
A lecture and a 2 hour lab session later, and I was thinking about what to do next. I could tell her about all of us, but was it too early? She might not even HAVE a power. Although, if I tried hard, I could feel a slight tingle of power coming from her....
Two men dressed head to toe in black came round the corner as the three of us left the building, and, turning, I saw two more come from the other direction.

'There she is!'
'Stay where you are! You are suspected of being an equinox!'
Our, friend, knowing nothing of our powers, looked shocked and confused. 'Er, see you later!' I called to him as, grabbing their target by her arm, we fled.
'What's going on? Is this something to do with that phonecall this morning-'
Blocked from view, I I phased us into a support pillar.
'What the HELL???'
'Sshhhhh!' They ran past, just as my phone started vibrating 'Tempest, they're on red alert, they have a file on her, but don't know her power. That makes her dangerous.'
'Who's that?'
'What? Oh, just Hana, she lives in my phone.'
'What?!'
'Sshhh!'
I got us up to the roof, to get a better view of them coming. My phone went off again, and I answered, waving a hand for my friend to be quiet.
'Centaur? Are they after you too?'
'Who? Noooooo, I'm fine, just wondered how everybody was. I hope Skyblade recovered from my sting?'
'Uh, yeah, everyone's good thanks. Why can I hear shouts?'
'Oh that. I may have had a slight incident getting off the plane....'
'Meaning?'
'I'm a flying centaur being chased by an angry mob and a helicopter.'
'What!?'
'Yeah, thought you might be able to help. Oh, hang on, some guy in a hood is gesturing to me. He's got a place to escape! He's one of us, I can smell it! I'm going to be ok, don't worry!'
The line suddenly went dead.
I didn't have time to think about the call, because agents were swarming towards us. One fired a taser gun thing, but I got in the way, got struck by the shock and letting out a cry. I stumbled, and toppled into my friend, knocking her over the edge. I was busy absorbing the shock, and could only watch as she plummeted. Then she glowed blue, and vanished, appearing above me and crashing onto me.
'What......What did you do?'
'Nothing! I...well, I guess that's the question of your power sorted out.'
Weather manipulation having absorbed the shock, I turned to the agents, firing up persuasion.
'Clearly nobody here has powers, GO AWAY!!!!'
All but one fled. 'But...she....does.....she used...'
'You want to get so drunk that you don't remember anything of today. You want to do that now.'
He staggered away. We clambered to our feet, and I was about to head for the stairs, when she grabbed my arm.
'Uh, explain please!?'
This is going to take a while. And we've got a lab session at 2. Hmm. It seems you can't get away from this life, however hard you try.....



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