My dreams were always confusing and typically had me trying to get some where or running for something but the world changed shifted and sometimes seamed to become completely new worlds as I tried to get where I was going.

If my dreams were ever turned into movies or video games they'd probably have to be turned down so people could actually notice some of the things that was going on.

Most of the time it didn't even really matter what I was after. I could never remember but I chased or was after but I do know I ran or flew or jumped like I was running a race threw realitys. It was fun and trying to piece together the things I saw while awake was a fun way to start a day.

Other people pay for drugs I just go to sleep.

Anyway in the 2 days I slept I dreamt I was running and chasing something threw tunnels of earth with large mushrooms lowing and crawling around at the edges of my vision I turned a corner and was suddenly in a white room a woman in a flowing white dress was floating there her hair was far to long going pasted her feet.

"hmmm I don't often see such blatant animoo shit" I said looking around the bare white walls

this seamed to confuse the woman for a moment before she spoke "I am Tutorial a spirt guide to the changes going on in our body mind and spirit."

Suddenly the floor gave way and I was falling down a vine covered and wet tree trunk sliding along it as if it were a sort of slide. I rode it increasing speed noticing I mite die if I hit so I looked ahead and saw some large leaves growing below so I jumped off the slide and landed on the leaf as if it was a large blanket I started to slide again then found myself sitting on the ground in the room again I frowned looking up to see the floating woman looking a little disheveled.

"your body is currently undergoing a transformation the first steps into enlightenment. Your body will grow as you struggle and train. Reaching new hights." she said

"ah so like The Gamer web comic or cinda like The Land? sweet." I said as I noticed a window open onto an icy field covered in large ice crystal spikes growing in all directions.

Tutorial looked confused at what I said "what?"

The window exploded outward all the air in the room sucking out and taking me with it. I ran dodging the spikes feet lightly stepping on the blue snow that was so heavy and cold it seamed more like sand.

Tutorial Floated beside me trying to doge around the spikes and sudden gusts of cutting snow.

"would you just stop?" she said her tranquil tone cracking with annoyance.

I looked around and saw a large crack in the snow wall I dived into it seeking shelter from the storm growing above our heads.

My feet hit solid tile and we were once again standing in the white room I frowned looking around at the confining space and started to rock on my feet.

"I have ...tried to revue your memories." she looked a little queasy. "and have seen some of what you meant. yes like those books. but when you level up you will have no base stats."

I gave her an annoyed glance standing still for just a moment and as I did the plain white floor grew into old and creaking wood water pooling here and there splashing with heavy rain drops nither of us could see.

looking a little worried Tutorial tried to speak quickly "but in stead you will gain modification points that can be use for much more then the simple base stats."

"sweet" I said with a smile as it started to rain inside the white room while the floor started to rock and sway "and by the way is this you trying to make the white room stuff?"

"yes it normally works to quite the background noise in the minds of those I inhabit." she said with a little glare hair already damp from the down pore.

"yeah that makes sense." I said as the walls blew away in splinters of wood I tyred not to start running, just keeping my feet seemed like enough movement and it wasn't like the ship wasn't already moving.

"sorry please go on" I yelled over the roar of the storm and the lashing rain. A bolt of lighting lit the sky and the thunder crashed before it even got dark.

"you know what I think you get the gist." she said "oh and your starting power is ...vector creation."

And with that she was gone, the boat tipping over I hung onto the railing for long enough to get a clear shot into the water then let go the ship collapsing as I fell and plunged into the cold waters landing at the bottom along with coral and reefs of differing colors.

I started running my legs pushing the water around me making me glide yards with every step.

I woke up still in the car but with one of the spare blankets draped around me the sun was out and I squinted angrily looking around to see Lu placing an order at a fast food taco joint.

"Tell them you're going to park and come inside" I said with a gruff voice.

Lu nearly jumped out of the car and said to the speaker "um. ok um sorry I guess i'm going to come inside."

He navigated his way out of the drive through line and into a parking space while I yawned and double checked I still had my wallet and my phone on me.

"so how long was I out?" I asked while sending a txt to my wife telling her how I was awake and with Lu getting some food and if she needed anything to txt lu as my phone was only at 15%

"2 days." said lu "Eva was talking about taking you to a hospital if you didn't wake up soon"

"Shity idea Apollo's butchers wouldnt help me." I said getting out of the car and stretching.

Lu gave me a look as if about to say ur bringing up that joke now? are you fucking seius?

Apollo was the ancient greek god of the sun, music, poetry, healers, disease and archery.

I cant spell, get rhymes stuck in my head a lot, hate most music, cant seam to play an instrument with out some one trying to break it, 2 out of 10 bows go out of there way to try and snap me in some way and 9 of 10 bows would miss the target all together and the tenth would hit it but always manage to break the arrows.

Any doctors I saw always seemed to just shrug, smile and say you'll get better. the one time I needed stitches the only doctor who whould do it looked pissy like he drew the short straw and injected the numbing agent he put it just the wrong spot so it burned and left the side of my hand numb while he stitched up the cut above my pinky.

And I cant say this enough. I FUCKING HATE THE SUN. the light burns any part of me it tuches making my skin hot and itchy I get sun burn in minutes and it never seams to tan, sometimes when im having a bad day I can feel the light moving threw my eyeballs like hot light spikes.

So when I looked for who to blame for all the things that were wrong with me I kept running across him so why not blame him?

Also just to be clear iv got more wrong then that but we don't need to be here all day just with that.

"Tacos huh?" I said looking at the building and checking my body for needs.

Sleep: just woke up and feeling awake and energetic

Food: was yes tacos would be acceptable.

Drink: yes again Pepsy something with a lot of ice.

Piss: tank was empty no need to go.

Colen: reported nothing to report.

Confort: clothes sweaty bit smelly but no piss or shit SUNLIGHT! warning, no akes cramps or joint pains.

I grinned heading for the restaurant. "so did Eva tell you everything that was going on?" I asked Lu as we walked.

Eva texted back thanking Persephone I was awake.

"Yeah. there was a portal in the back but after you passed out we were worried you had something wrong with you so we didn't try and go in." Lu said watching me like he should be ready to run if I started sprouting tentacles out of my face and trying to eat his soul.

"yeah. Aztec bird killed its self as an offering for the moon." I said opening the door for a small family to go by they gave me a smile in thanks till they heard what I was saying. "other then that the place looked great got to go back there."

"thats... good?" Lu said unsure and walked into the place.

"you go ahead I don't know what I want yet." I said texting Eva back "getting food with Lu not sure what yet and I thank Odin for the dreams of a guide." little blue box appeared before me.

"qwest get food with Lu and tell him about Tutorial. rewards exp."

"cool" I said and hit accept and then noticed that a lot of the people were looking at me strangely.

I grinned and said. "bata testing the new Aphone 66. hush hush." I put my fingers to my lips in a shhhing gesture.

I could tell that no one believes me but what were they going to do? They did the only thing they could ignore for the time being and move on.

I looked over the menu while Lu ordered looking up on my phone how much money we had in the bank to figure out how much food I could get while also checking to see if Eva texted back.

The smells of taco meat, hot tortillas, and the chopped vegetables made my stomach turn. So I got some grilled quesadillas and nachos in stead.

I chugged a single cup of Pepsy before refiling it with ice. we had ordered to go and I waited until we were back in the car to keep talking to Lu I didn't want another blue box to appear and all the people in the place was starting to make me twitch.

"So any way" I said starting up the car to head home. "while I was asleep I had a dream of this floaty Woman in white and she said iv got video game powers now but its not base stats you get when you level up its "modification points" that you earn witch is like base stats but so much better cus you can put it into anything and everything."

I started driving and the little blue box appeared.

"quest compleat exp gained you are now level 2"

I suddenly saw light blue glow and felt like I was floating in water for a moment then it passed.

Lu was just staring at me shocked.

"just leveled up" I said with a grin "so it seams like the sleeping for days is just part of the process you know rebuilding you from the ground up adding in magic and all that."

"okay..." Lu said glancing at the back seat "so what if I jump in then il sleep for 4 days then be a video game character?"

I shrug "looks like it... so you ganna go? take a trip down and then get you some power?" I asked.

He looked out the window clearly thinking then looked down. "I don't know, all I know is I wanna get home and eat my tacos before they get cold."

I laughed "ok man well you think about it and let me know. Its probably good you let me see if there isnt side effects or anything." I said then we headed home to eat while I thought about what to put my first point into.

The word anything danced around in my mind and I dissected it for any meanings that I hadn't thought of before.

Then I put the point into getting more points every time I leveled up. the blue box appeared.

"you will now receive 2 points per level."

I grinned wiping some cheese off the corner of my mouth then started looking up the word vector.

It took a while and a lot more looking up but I finally got the gist of it.

Physicists hear my words and shudder. Vectors are where something is, where the direction the thing is going, and the speed at witch it travels.

So that being said Vector Creation would probably mean that I could make things move like a janky telekinesis or I could multiply the Vectors that already exist in things like jumping multiplying the Vectors to jump over buildings or make Vectors that work in the opposite direction to where things were going like making it so I floated to the ground instead of dropping.

Already this is truly a great power one to be feared given the right sort of mind but iv earned my title so many times over. I was going to train to use my Vectors to do so much more.

If video game powers existed, then so did magic, and if magic existed, then so did healing spells have to exist and if healing spells exist then healing exists and if healing exists then healing spells must move healing around, and if spells moved things around that would mean they would have Vectors to do it with.

So I saw no reason why I couldn't use a Vector to change the direction of some one's life force to make them better or to make some monster die to give me there life.

And I couldn't see why I couldnt take there exp or there modification points, and if I could take there exp and modification points then I could give them away as well.

I smiled wondering if monstes had exp like I did or just existed then died to give exp. If it was they had exp then I could grind very quickly by simply draining them dry. and if that didn't work then I could nearly kill them, stop pump them full of my exp then finish them off and gain all of it back and then some.

But that would all depend on how exp worked and what exactly it was. And of corse there was the other thing Tutorial had said.

Enlightenment, the purpose of exp was to Enlighten witch to my mind means to make us into gods or make us as powerful as we would like to be to live comfortably.

You may not like how I view the word Enlightenment but you can thank anime for that. and it is the word she used knowing that is what I would think so I guess its her falt for all the things that happened after.

Then again a few minutes in my head is enough for anybody to start going a little crazy.

But anyway I had things to do frist I started to learn to use my power.

'how dose this work? ...how do I want it to work?' I thought to myself if desire and willpower led to my growth and my changing then I would need to choose how my power worked, this took me the better part of 30 minutes.

I tend to get distracted and theres lots of ways to go about things.

But in the end I decided I would imagine arrows there collor and shape would be how I would controle where how fast or how far things went.

I took a deep breath then held it, trying to kill two birds with one stone I wanted to be able to not breath anymore it was annoying when I noticed it and it would help latter when I did other training.

Not running out of breath while running, or needing to watch how I was breathing while trying to stealth or search would come in handy.

But the other reason I held my breath is so the air around me would grow still so I could see how much I could move the air around me.

I rased my hands feeling the air then imagined a light gray arrow going just above one and pointing to the other.

As soon as I imagined the point of the arrow the air terned to wind it felt about as strong as if I was blowing on it.

I don't really know the math or anything so if thats not a good system of measurement then I guess fill a balloon then point it at your hand to let the wind out?

It was a little weird to feel both the point where the wind hit my hand and also the other hand could feel something like the wind being sucked into it.

I could feel my lungs tighten as I imagined the base of the arrow wideaning to try and increase the power of the wind and also try and focus it.

It worked and the balloon turned into a fan on high but it was aimed at such a narrow point before it dissipated it cinda hurt.

I kept up the image as my chest started to hurt and I could feel a tingle in the back of my head, as my lungs cried out for air.

I imagined another arrow where the point of the first one ended pointing straight down to one of my legs, the first arrow flickered for a moment as I started to lose concentration but then it came back and the new arrow moved the stream of air along my leg, then they both flickered as my lungs could no longer be ignored and I stoped trying to use the spell and just focused on not breathing for as long as I could.

Witch was only another second but a slice at a time could cut a down a tree, eventually.

Breathing in calmly as I could I tyred to keep my heart from racing to much as I recovered.

a nock at the bedroom door didn't quite surprise me, it was Lu finally making up his mind wether or not to use the portal.

"hey i've already called in to work for the next 2 days and then iv got a weekend after that so... can I just take the keys or do you want to go with?" Lu asked threw the door.

"hold on im getting up" I said standing to open the door slipping on my shoes and grabbing my phone. "and yeah I want to go with I want to see if theres another bird already or it takes longer for them to show up"

"ok." he said waiting on me to lead the way.

"now right after you get in you'll get a head ake then a few minutes latter you will feel like you need to pass out so its best if you just take a quick dip in and out." I said as I grabbed the keys off the nail by the door and headed out to the car.

"okay"

I set the seats down and made sure the rope was well tied again.

"realy?" Lu asked looking into the portal at the sand not that far below the opening to the portal.

"im short your tall ass might need to duck when you get in there but I want to be sure I can get back out. besides it'll help you climb out its not like theres anything down there to brace yourself on... yet" I said and offered him the rope.

He rolled his eyes and just grabbed the top of the car and used it as a hand hold to jump down into the portal.

"skinny bitch" I said enviously he gave me a sassy head shake the top of his head barely sticking out over the portal. I tossed the rope down into the hole after him as he ducked to fully submerged.

"You didn't say anything about bugs being here." he called out.

"what?" I asked then stuck my head in looking around "there weren't any bugs last time I was in here."

a blue box appeared. "this is a manna ritch area all training is x3 more effective." I smiled dismissing it.

"well there is now" he said pointing at a line of red ants the size of rats walking by at the edge of the tree line.

"fuck. well I guess its a good thing theres no way for them to climb up on there own." I said as Lu closed his eyes and rubbed the side of his head. "told you, you mite want to come up before you become ant food"

"yeah help me up" he said

I took one of his hands and helped pull him up to where he could climb out on his own. With as easy as it was for him to get in climbing out was harder given how tall he is and small the car was.

"good news in the portal we can train 3x as well." I said with a smile making sure to pull up the rope and the string so the ants couldn't climb out.

"yeah thats great... don't forget eva gets off at 9" he said then headed back inside to pass out.

"ok thanks night man" I said to him closing up the car and locking it before looking around to see if anyone was watching and looking for different vantage points where they could see is if they wanted to.

We lived in a small set of apartments next to a large open field but there was a couple other houses that could be watching.

I couldn't think of any reason why they would be but it was still something to think about. I mean it wasn't like we could realy park anywhere else.

I made sure to set an alarm on my phone it managed to get up to 50% charge in the hour it had ben on the charger.

I took off running down the street running as hard and as fast as I could I lasted longer then I thought I would considering how long its ben sense I tried to do so much as jog.

My left rib, right leg, and all of my back just under the shoulderblades started to cry out in pain like I was stretching the muscles out in the wrong way.

I tyred to keep on running and then my left ankle started to hurt and my right shoulder joined the complaints, the other pains growing worse.

When my neck started to have a tearing feeling I stoped and started breathing heavy glaring at nothing my heart was racing a little but I ignored it focusing on breathing as if I was fine refusing to pant as I turned and started walking home.

'i think il save running, and jumping for the beatch so I don't have to keep struggling so much' I thought.

a blue box appeared. "quest received, run 1 mile on the beach, quest received, jump 100 times. rewards exp and 2 modification points put directly into helping you run and jump"

"Thank gods" I muttered, accepting the quest trying to figure out exactly witch god I should thank for this.

I walked back up the driveway heading back inside I really wanted to go explore inside the portal but getting Eva from work was far more important.

So I went inside and grabbed a 100 count box of matches and an old cookie sheet I didn't mind if I ended up needing to throw away then I grabbed some of the candles Lu had bought to freshen up the house before the smell had given me head akes and once or twice nose bleeds.

I set the candles down on the table in the kitchen on top of one end of the cookie sheet and spilled out some of the matches onto the other side.

I layed out 20 matches to start off with then imagined arrows on top of all the match heads lifting them up to stand.

They all did witch surprised me. I then tyred to make only 5 matches float up into a circle but it failed all the matchsticks dropping. Mostly because I lost concentration trying to count out only 5 match sticks.

iv got a problem with numbers, especially in piles of objects. its so much easier to just call it one pile instead of each one as an individual. anything past 15 and I just couldn't do it it just became 1 pile.

Witch probably explains why I was able to control so many at once so easily. In my own mind it was just turning the pile of match sticks into standing pile of match sticks.

In other words my mind was wired so that the group was only one thing so I could control the group if I acted like it was one thing, but if I tried to control just 3 and the whole pile it started to be to much.

That and I always did have a vivid imagination.

I used the arrows to put half of the matches back into the box then organized the rest of them so that if I were to put another match on it it would only light the one and not all of them at once.

then I swore under my breath "fuck forgot to get some water to put the matches out with..."

I smiled and turned looking at the cabinets and sink behind me.

I used the arrows to open a cabinet door then used an arrow to lift one of the bowls we bought in bulk in case they broke off the top of the stack but accidentally lifted it up to hard and nocked it into the shelf above it.

Not hard enough to break but hard enough for it to make a loud annoying ting thump.

I frowned and nearly dropped the bowl but caught it before it nocked over the whole stack of bowls.

I moved it more gingerly this time watching it move and wobble as it did so I changed it form just one arrow in the center of the bowl to 4 arrows around its rim and it stabilized.

I grinned and had to think of the right way to put the bowl down. If I pointed the arrows in a new direction then it would tilt the bowl or make it go crashing into the counter. Instead I kept the balance while easing up on the arrows letting gravity slowly take it back so it rested on the counter before letting it go completely.

'Didn't even make a sound.' I thought smugly as I turned on the water. witch was mutch easier as it was a simple lift handle.

I made sure it was lifted just a little so the water was only a trickle then imagined a blue arrow moving along where the water trickled out then marked it upward pointing into the other section of sink.

I watched it flow up then back down gravity winning after the arrow's path ended. I considered moving the arrow to fill the bowl right there but was worried I'd just be poring water all over my sink. so instead I extended the arrow and made it tern in the air to wrap around itself.

I watched as the water flowed and started to form into a ball of water spinning in the air. I had just started to smile when the edges of the water started to spill out splashing into the sink.

I let the water drop letting the arrow disappear. if I didn't hurry id get distracted and just play in the sink for the next hour instead of doing what I was trying to do.

I got up and filled the bowl shutting off the water to come back to the matches. I was worried that trying to move the bowl over to the table would just send the water flying out of it or if I stoped it to hard it would spill out onto the table.

So until I figured out if I needed to put an arrow in the water to hold it to the bowl while also moving the bowl or if I should just move the bowl then the water.

And I started this trying to work with fire not water. though I would sertonly start doing that soon.

I sat down and stuck a match holding it at an angle to let the fire start to climb up to my fingers so the fire itself could get a good grip then tilted it the other way so that it would burn slowly.

I then imagined a reddish transparent arrow going from the flame into the candle wick. Trying to only take the heat out of the flame to light the candle.

It seamed to work the flame stoped burning and the the wax around the top of the candle near the wick melted before the wick ignited.

The smell of chemical wax dark red die with an apple sent added as an after thought quickly filled the air. I frownd tossing the spent match into the bowl of water and noticed there wasn't a sizzle.

I struck another match and this time made an arrow the same yellow color as the flame and moved it off of the match in the same way I had moved the water.

The flame stretched out then was snuffed out.

I narrowed my eyes but when I thought about it it did make sense. If the flame could just burn in the air then it would burn the air lighting everything on fire.

I turned and used an arrow to send the paper towels flying at me I grabbed them from the air and started tarring them into stripps then rolling the strips into balls.

Then tried to float a ball of paper towel then struck a match and tried to imagin the flame moving to the pater ball.

It was easier this time then last to make a new arrow while maintaining the old. The paper towel burned up quickly and the arrow I was using to hold it lost effectiveness as the black ash fell away then the arrow disappeared.

'thats good to know. with the system I set up it made it so if something changed as I held it or fell apart then I would need to change the focus of the arrow or just lose it' I thought watching the candle to see how much wax had built up it was only a little puddle in the middle of the candle so I made another arrow moving it to the edge of the glass.

I wanted a lot of wax for the next project I was thinking of doing and if the flames wouldn't give me enough then id use the oven.

I was nearly done with the match experiments. This time when I lit the match I tyred to make the arrow split going to 2 of the matches layed out on the cookie sheet. It seems like that was just enough heat to light the matches and I put them out in the bowl.

'Well that was pretty much everything I had thought of for the matches. Seams like fire as a weapon is possible but id need to take along lighter fluid or something and it seams dangerous to rely on between the wait of the fluid and how fast it mite run out.' I thought looking at the matches and considered trying to light a match with amplified light but figured there wasn't enough heat in the light to make it worth trying and also the beatch seamed to be dark most of the time so it was dubble pointless, but out side in the sun I could probably make lasers that were at least as powerful as one of those giant magnifying glasses they made videos of melting coins and cooking eggs.

I picked up matches putting them between my knuckles so they would be separated but in the air then lit one to light the others moving the candle in front of me.

I used arrows to move the heat off all 5 matches and into the candle wax. It was fun to watch the candle melt where I pushed the heat into it with the arrows. it didn't melt all of it but a good top layer of wax was melted.

'i want an amplifier.' I said to myself watching the wax then used the ball technique to gather up the wax and then moved it into the air letting it hover there drying.

I wanted to see if the wax would take the shape of the arrow or if it would just make a spike or ice circle shape.

I watched as the wax hardens and made the spike shape. In other words it was balanced so that the shape was smooth instead of dripping or drooping.

I made the arrow shape that was holding up the candle twist and watched as the wax spike cracked then broke apart but still remained in the spike shape.

I nodded then put the wax back into the candle thinking over the next steps and feeling my nose tingle and start to burn as the spot below my eyes started sting and grow in pressure.

I blew out the candle and put away the matches cleaning up all the unused paper balls and taking the bowl of water to the freezer saw it was to full for what I wanted and dumped it out in the sink picking out the matches to throw in the trash.

Then I grabbed some empty plastic bottles to fill with water to put in the freezer while waiting on the water to freeze I looked up weapons online trying to decide witch one I would want to use in the moonlight world.

I like most melee weapons honestly at least the ones that aren't poorly designed or just made to be showy instead of functional. But I had a special place in my heart for battle umbrellas, shepherds crooks, throwing knives, chackrums, chains, and rapiers.

At leas the lie and dream of a rapier, that if you poke an enemy in the right spot hel die so you can move on with your day instead of the reality witch was that little twig of metal was as much protection as a cardboard tube.

With my power it could be possible to use it like I wanted but it would probably take quite a while before I could get a real one made and even then I would have a whole fighting style set up.

I wanted to just use my power to do the fighting but if I could take powers other people could too. so I would need a way to train and fight so that I could do both.

I couldn't decide between trying to go tank, stealth, or doger. Tanking was risky just letting people hit you always was you took the hits until the one time you couldn't.

Doge was good make it so people just barely missed you but AOEs would be a bitch to doge.

Stealth was the idea that the best defence was not having anybody trying to kill you cus nobody knew you were even there in the first place.

I was naturally bad at being sneaky, but with this new power that changed things. If I really needed to I could use the modification points to make it easier on me.

Then there was also all of the quests I could possible get to help...

See distracted very easy.

I sat and thought deciding to start out with I already had Lu's machete and a stack of butter knives I bout and used a cheep dremel to cut the tips then sharpened to use as throwing knives cus I liked to throw things.

And again there was the dream of throwing knives that now seamed much more reasonable and fun to use. If I was going for stealth then it would cinda just fit the theme.

I had a plan on how to make more weapons as well. once I got my hands on some more money and leveled up a bit I would start taking heat from charcoal or straight out of blow torches and putting them into scrap metal then using my other arrows to take that liquid metal and shape it into knives, spikes, and if I could get enough of it swords and maybe even make a whole armory.

'i fucking hope to Hel bags of holding exist at some point.' I thought thinking about how I would be walking around with a whole were house of weapons if I didn't watch myself.

I put the phone away and checked on the bottles I had put in the freezer.

They were just starting to get icy on the out side. Figuring that was good enough for what I wanted I took them out and setting them in the sink I took the cold out of one to put into the other and watched as the first one start to swell and pop as the plastic shifted. The second one started to freeze for real not completely but definitely more so.

I nodded then imagined arrows right next to each other pulling apart the bottle of water from the base. It took a moment as the plastic started to stretch then burst.

I put the bottle back into the trash and then pulled the cold out of the iced bottle putting it into the air in the loop pattern. A faint condensation mist started spreading out from the center and soon it dissipated to much to hold.

I thought about that pouring out the now just water bottle. Then threw that back in the trash as well.

I was getting board... I new it I could just play with the power all I wanted and admittedly it was technically training, but was I really getting anything out of it?

I wished then that we had some sort of wait set in the apartment. I would like to know what the heaviest thing I could life with my power as it was, was.

Then I realized I had no reason why I couldn't go to the store and just see with the waits they had for sale, and Eva worked at one of the biggest ones in the city I could go there test it out then give her the keys and take a trip into the portal.

I got up and grabbed everything I thought I would need then headed to the car to go to the Walt-SuperShop.

Part of the reason I hadn't thought of it before was I didn't like to take the car out in case Lu would need it to go out and shop or if he had to work, but Lu would be out for the next few days and with Eva at work it actually made sense for me to head to her work so that I could go ahead an scout out the area.

Another thought occured to me, Lu was going to get his own ability and probably one just as powerful as my own. I just hoped he got something that would help each other like a way to amp energy or reverse it. I thought of how I mite help him and came up short on a lot of powers.

Vectors were not really made for helping others. I mean I could bend the power backwords and force it to do what I wanted but at its core my power was to move things to push them in the way I wanted.

Did that say something about me? were the powers based on the core of who you were? was I just a manipulator? pushing people the way I wanted them to go?

'probably not' I thought to myself as I waited at a red light. 'or I would be able to hold a job with out going crazy and screaming at people after a month'

But then again I was never fired even after doing something like that puzzled everyone I worked with including me.

My eyes lazily surveyed my surroundings and I noticed in another 2 lights there was a truck stop and in this truck stop was one of those coin dozer games were u put a coin in in the hope that a lot more coins would fall out of it.

I wouldn't have to hope I could make my coin push out all the others in one go.

I smiled and thought I'd surprise Eva with a free 20 monnies.

After I got to the Truck stop I fished out a couple quarters from the cup holder and headed inside.

It was mid afternoon, cinda busy I saw the line for paying for gas and decided not to ask them for a bag to carry it out with instead I asked the sandwich shop attached to the place. There was only 2 people standing in line there as opposed to the 15 to pay for gas.

"what can I get you" said the young woman at the counter.

"id just like a couple bags" I said and she scowled.

"you waited in line just for that?" she asked annoyedly grabbing a bag.

"yeah. and could you give me a couple? im not sure how many coins that things got in it" I said with a smile plastered on my face.

She glared at me then pulled off 2 more bags before handing them to me. "next"

I took my bags with a thanks and a smile that I intended to mean 'you don't see the joke and its going to piss you off when you see the punch line.'

I headed to the coin pusher game seeing a guy drop a few quarters in and waiting to find out he waisted them.

With a huff and a little thump to the machine he walked away.

I stepped up and pulled out my coin focusing more on imagining arrows on the big pile of coins before I even dropped it in I waited until my coin joined the pile and moved all the arrows at once pulling them into the slot. the sound was beautiful as coins pored down clinking into the winner tray.

I didn't waste any time pulling out my bags and filling them up with the coins. I had to double bag one of them it filled so much.

On my way out I made sure to wave the heavy bag of coins at the sandwitch maker and shoot her a grin with too many teeth that said 'like the joke?'

She gave me a bewildered stair as I left. it only occurs to me now if she knew what I was doing at all or if she had really just seen me walk out with the whole machines worth in quarters.

I finished going to the Walts, where they had a couta coin.

I was off in how many coins that thing had in it the amount actually made me start to worry a little bit. I ended up with 255$ worth and after the 2$ counting fee that was a damn fine hull.

I was wondering if they mite try and charge me with stealing from the thing, I mean I did leave it bare, but at the same time how would they prove it? I put a coin in and all the coins came out wasnt that the point of the game? and I hadn't hit it the game was made so if you tried to tilt it it would just put all the money in the bucket for the owner.

But to be save the next one I did that to id make sure to leave a few of the coins to make it less suspicious.

I also saw that the crane games on the way in had personal music players in them. I remembered seeing some of those before and im sure there were more in town that mite have prizes actually worth money.

I smiled thinking of how a few games that were made to take my money at the promus of giving me some were about to become more honest.

I headed over to where Eva worked luckily she was on break sitting in the little tables by the food prep area.

she looked up at me a little confused. "hey I don't get off for another like 6 hours"

"I know I got a quest to go running in the portal and jumping so I can finally be good at those things." I said, giving her a kiss and handing her most the keys. "so I thought id come by give you the keys and il take the clicker and then go explore and do the quest and this way I wont need to worry about not getting out of there on time."

"ok..." she said thinking it over and seamed like she wanted to tell me not to go. "well be careful. I love you."

"love you love you love you." I said giving her a hug and kiss on the for head.

"also I made 250$ on the way here at one of the coin games in the truck stop" I said with a proud grin on my face. "il hide my wallet in the car before I go."

she looked shocked. "those have that much in them?"

"apparently. I thought it'd be like 50$ at most." I said "like I said having powers pays."

I gave her another kiss and a smile heading back out to the car. I hadnt checked the waits like I planed but that was ok I probably would have made a mess with them or accidentally broke some of them while trying to play around.

And besides how heavy could those ants be anyway?