That Icy Hot Feeling (Open for Trainer)

[Jay Downs]

Jay Downs made his way down to the training rooms without any real idea of what he was going to do once he had gotten there. He was still relatively new after all and thought of his meta human ability as a more counter-offensive one at best. As far as he knew his ability worked mainly on a subconscious level, at least that was how it had worked out on the football field out at his old school.

The Kinetic energy of another was absorbed by him and then released through his own kinetic exertions, be it a short but extreme burst of strength and speed or a complete reversal of the items or persons trajectory. Their were times of course that he had tried to hold in the extra energy as it fed into him, like during a shower with the water beating down upon him. He hated taking them now for no matter how hot he turned up the heat the water always felt cold as ice against his skin and if he stayed in long trying to clean his body would start to convulse involuntary starting with his hands like an extreme caffeine high.

He had learned quick to try and hide those by focusing at least one hand on revolving a pencil or pen with his fingers. Still when it was to bad his head would twitch every so often. That's when he new he had to release his pent up energy. It is what made him look forward to his more physical classes and activities in gym, in sports, or a hidden personal favorite in a fight though those were rare and far between.

Jay was clad in his typical style of his clothing choice that started off with a V-necked retro mighty ducks jersey, a pair of jeans, and some tennis shoes. Of course he had his black backpack slung over his left shoulder and a pencil that he fidgeted with in his right hand. The fifteen year old lad's blue eyes scanning the hallway and checking the rooms to see if one was occupied. He really hoped so after all without guidance he really did not know what he into.

[Valentia de la Torres]

Valentia was so sure she had a session booked that afternoon. But who was it with again? Her mind had picked an odd time to fail her, and that proved to be incredibly frustrating. Especially since she was there in a vacant training room by the time she realised Alyssa had been forced to reschedule the meeting. Something about being held back. That was right.

It was when she turned with the intention to leave that she felt something. Like some kind of sixth sense, a surge of almost pulsing energy.

No, not pulsing. Walking.

The closer it got, the more intense it felt. Like a pent up ball of energy begging for the means to vent. It was actually distracting, to the point where her ability had practically honed in on it. Finally the owner aligned with her sight; she was staring at the opened door and he'd walked right past. He was searching for something it seemed, given the vacant expression in his eyes.

"You." She started, pointing in his direction. "What are you doing?"

[Jay Downs]

Having had walked up to an open door the lad was about to pass on to the next when his presence in the hall was challenged by he woman within the room causing him to stop mid step an rock back to look back in the room. The flipping of the pencil with his thumb, fore, and middle finger stopped as well as Jay Downs slung his back pack off his shoulder so that he could open it up and riffle through the note books, school books, and lose papers within as he spoke.

"Hi umm, I am Jay Downs and.. Ah, here it is.", he would pull his class schedule out of his back pack," I'm scheduled for a training class but I was not told who my trainer would be."

He moved, as he spoke, into the room, his hands rotating the paper for the evident person of authority to see if they wanted. The pent up energy inside him made him want to do something, run, jump, smash something just to get it out of his system, it really was a battle of wills for him as he offered the page with his left hand as his pencil spinning resumed. It was no wonder he was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder, shortly before his meta abilities started to fully manifest itself.

It was his reserved nature that stopped him from being the overly hyper class clown, but he had his slip ups in control every now and then with now feeling like it was wanting to be one of those times.

[Valentia de la Torres]

Valentia watched with curious dark eyes as the boy in question threw his bag down and searched it. His name, once given, was oddly familiar in her ears. She'd heard it recently. Today. Or perhaps she read it? His energy was just distracting, and she needed to adjust to its... Frequency.

Valentia stepped towards him, extending her hand out and watching his as she took the paper from him. In particular, she paid attention to his hands. His knuckles. "That would be me, I presume." She replied finally, once she'd given the information a decent look over. With a fold, she ran her hand across the crease in the paper and handed it back to him.

"You want to run, correct?" She asked, turning her head slightly to gauge his reaction. "Feel free to. I'd rather that than have you explode and hit something."

[Jay Downs]

Jay smiled meekly as he got the folded piece of paper back from the trainer. Deciding that he might need the paper again he simply placed it in his back pocket on the left side of his jeans. His hands contained discolored skin from, before his meta-gene became active, where mosquito bites had been itched until the itching had stopped or where he had trimmed his nails with his teeth. Other then that the hands where normal.

Jay was taken aback by the trainers perception on his need to move and rather shocked that she w going to let him. He could not complain however ad could only give a tight mouthed grin and a nod of his head,"Thanks."

Turning he would set his bag onto a desk before pacing his way to the front of the class.

"The recruiter said that I freely absorb kinetic energy then release it. It is what made me so good at physical sports. Taking the impacts then increasing my speed and strength or releasing it back into the blow."

Jay placed his left hand against the front wall as he got ready to run. Taking one last glance over at the Trainer to make sure he had approval he would take off. A portion of the pent up energy would surge through his system causing the lad to blast off his designated starting block. It was a short burst of speed and the pent up energy would be siphoned off just a tad. Racing down the isle on the outside of where the classrooms desks where lined in columns and rows.

His take off was fast but after the short burst from the beginning he slowed to a standard pace after a few steps. Making his way across the room to the back he would touch the wall as he turned around and another surge of kinetic energy would be released. The drain further loosened the tightness of the pent up energy. The burst of speed only lasting fora moment before it returned to a standard pace to slow down to make contact with the front wall.

Jay focused on trying to push the pent up energy out of his body as his fingers brushed the wall on the turn around There would be no surge of power off of his run back to the back of the class room though the energy within the lad was steadily fading away. The classrooms central air unit kicked in as Jay passed the thermostat for the third time since starting the run. The kinetic energy that faded away finding its way into the molecules of air around the youth causing the air around him to heat up in their energized state.

[Valentia de la Torres]

"I have something of a knack for understanding energy." Valentia replied simply. Knack. Did she use that right? She supposed she must have, if he didn't give her any strangely confused looks. Still, the breakdown of his power was helpful. No wonder he was such a discharging ball of pent up energy.

She offered a small nod of approval, folding her arms before her chest. And she watched as he moved, using the ability to his advantage. The more he used the ability, the more she felt her own shoulders fall and relax.

"How would you describe the act of releasing your kinetic energy? The way it feels through your movements. I can't imagine you've had access to it for more than a few weeks." After all, Hammel and its sister schools had the irrefutable ability to find newly developed meta-humans quickly. Within days of their development. Weeks at the most.

[Jay Downs]

Touching the back wall as he turned around he would stop as the trainer spoke and simply walk around to the front of the class. She wanted him to describe the feeling, that was a tough one as he never really thought of focused on it. Still he would decide to focus on the few weeks portion.

"As I look back I cant say precisely when my abilities started to emerge. It was not like one day I was getting trashed on the football field and then the next I was the American football god. No, it was not like that at all. I was initially positioned as a tackle. I would line up at the ball wait for the snap and crash against the offensive line. My abilities slowly showed progressed and I was not apart of some big name school. The school itself was a consolidation of three or for towns and we were still only a two A school.

No one, not even I realized that I had this ability. It was the coach who saw it progress and shifted me to running back after the fourth game of the season. It was three more weeks until the first news crew even showed up to try to tape highlights of the game. And I still got to play another game before the recruiter showed up. By then even I noticed them.

How it feels is well subtle. Yes, a subtly feeling of release. Like my muscles unwinding and the tension leaves though when I'm in a shower or something its like I'm plugged into a generator or turned into a wind up toy."

[Valentia de la Torres]

Valentia listened to him as he spoke. She understood the concept of powers developing slowly. Some were not as openly flashy as others. While teachers were told to keep an eye on their students for outbreaks that occurred with newly developed powers, she wasn't surprised that some slipped through their hands. The fact that he body slowly burnt energy out was another interesting factor.

"What I can tell you is that in time, you will understand enough to control whether or not you absorb kinetic energy." Valentia stated as if it were a fact. It had to be if he wanted to sustain a normal life, and graduate. "Do you always run to expel the energy?"

[Jay Downs]

The energy buried within his body slipped out, pouring the kinetic energy into the air around him, as he stood by the thermostat causing the heat pouring off of him to raise the thermostats needle to read twelve degrees hotter then what the air conditioning was set to. Facing the teacher Jay would not be aware of what he was doing as he continued to unwind. The energy within dissipating until he felt normal once again.

"You say that as though my abilities need to be stowed away when in theory I might even be bullet proof and could save people...", He did not mean for it to slip out so snobbishly. he would look down and to his left as he thought about all the times he had been filled with the pent up energy.

"No, I don't always run, some times I can just sit and I guess meditate and it just leaves but its harder for me to do without forcing it our some other way first.", He let out a sigh as he finished speaking and finished forcing the rest of the energy out of his own self. Looking back at the trainer he would head back slowly to get his backpack.

[Valentia de la Torres]

Valentia could feel the energy around him, as if exhaling from every part of his body. He was nothing but a cloud of kinetic energy - a slave to that power. It burnt within the air, heightening the temperature above its regular status. Valentia pulled a tie from her wrist and resolved to pull her curls into a tightly held knot.

"You speak of kinetic barriers." She pointed out, offering a mild shake of her head. "I may not know where your energy will stem to specifically, but I can guarantee you won't be shot at during your time here. I doubt you'd survive live fire." He might not have meant to sound so pretentious over the fact, but she did. Over a decade in the military? She'd been shot at before. And she'd been shot before.

He made the move to collect his belongings; "Come here." She protested. "I could teach you. But I have to wonder if it is a commitment you'd be willing to make. You're in an unfortunate position; it won't be easy."