Exiting the classroom like many other students. Some running frantically, others and on their cell phones trying to phone someone, whether it be their mom, dad, boyfriend, girlfriend, etc. tears rolling down their faces as Salem takes steps out of the class as well.
Many of the people are acting the same way as inside the classroom. Phones, running, some even seem to pray, asking god for forgiveness in their final moments on the planet.
Salem continues walking past students on their knees. Many running past Salem heading toward the front entrance to seemingly run away from the inescapable, horrible death that is to face them.
Some bump into Salem on their way out. Shoving him hard but, not able to make him fall, instead it's the other way around and with Salems head full, he doesn't think anything of it. He just continues walking.
Salem: "How… How will I be able to save myself and everyone on the Island!?"
Salem mumbles, jumbled word to himself. Not to hype himself, but to question himself.
Salem: 'Can I do this? Is it possible to evade all the destruction headed my way? Stop the death of more than thousands?'
Salem looks around at the running, screaming, crying. Students, Teachers, Helpers… He might be their only hope for life.
He pushes through walking at a fast pace but at sight of what he sees. It looks like he's going in slow motion. Salem comes across a fork with signs on the ceiling. A green sign telling him the Exit is to the left. The right toward the Gym.
Salem takes the turn left. In the direction of the exit. Salem doesn't notice it until now but the amount of people have steadily decreased.
The reason may be because getting closer and closer to this exit. Bring him further and further from the from. Many people are running to the front. Maybe holding onto the hope that they will be able to get home fast or to meet the ones the love quicker, if they go through the front.
Salem brain is now moving on autopilot again. Different questions rummage through this mind as he walks in the direction of a black metal door, with a white piece of paper stuck on it calling it an Exit.
Salem: 'If I even knew how to get there what would I do? How do I get there? Powers? But how do I use them? Can't I just blow it up? Do I have the fire power to do that? Maybe… No I don't want to gamble on a "Maybe" .. How?'
Salem walks head first into the door. His hand extended all the way out to push the door out. He rubs his head and pushes harder this time the door opens but not without the hinges of the wall breaking off the wall.
Salem looks at the side, where the door and wall connects, embarrassed at his stupidity, for only now seeing a sign below the other calling a pull door.
Salem now seems to be holding up the heavy metal door up purely by the knob. Salem looks around and puts the door on the side of the wall making it lean against the wall.
Walking out through where the door used to be, now just a door shaped hole in the wall. Salem walks out the door onto a walkway.
The walk way leads past one of the many parts of the school. The field. The feild is the place where he school plays soccer or football. Since both can't be played during the same time, soccer season has the net out and football season just has the goals up(can't really take those down).
Past the field is a treeline that blocks majority of the schools vision of the other side. Making it very difficult to see into the treeline. Salem decides that, that is the best place to figure out how to use his power because of his of the inability for most to see into the trees.
On the path, he walks past a fair-skinned girl. Sitting on one of the many bleachers in the football field.
Blonde long hair, big round glasses. A crack on the bottom left corner of the left glass lens. Wearing a the type of shirts you would see Mabel from gravity falls wearing.
A pink outside short sleeve, V neck, saying "Rainbows" that would show her chest if not for her inside shirt. A long sleeve turtleneck shirt that has a rainbow design from the neck to the tip of the sleeves that stop at her wrists.
Jeans that have a cut style from her ankles and knees and many different places. But some don't seem like it's on for design. One of the holes even seems to have blood spilling from inside her jeans.
Tears in her eyes, makeup running down in jagged streaks. Cigarette in hand. Blowing out a puff of smoke as she pulls the cigarette out of her mouth. A phone about four inches from her face.
Phone in hand. She's recording something. She seems to be ending it.
Random Girl: "-- myself tonight. Mom, I'm sorry."
She stops recording and turns toward Salem just slightly.
Salem: 'Who gave her cigarettes? Never mind that doesn't matter.'
The girl looks over to Salem. Flashing him a smile. Not from the heart but more of because she feels like it.
Salem checked himself. Pausing for a moment trying to figure out what to do. He's never had many interactions with others a lot. He was mostly to himself, at work and in school.
Once his body seemed to come back to life instead of smiling or waving back he turned his head to the ground and continued walking. Like a child that just saw a pretty girl.
As he walked on the girl stayed smiling, not for long though. Her smile slowly faded, she takes another drag from her cigarette.
Salem: "Even if someone did see her smoking, I don't think they would mind. Since the place was going to be completely leveled. That's if I can't stop it."
As the walk continues. Going deeper and deeper into the forest. He looks over his shoulder every now and again. Making sure that the school couldn't see him.
Soon it got to the point that the school had little to no visibility on him. And he tried it to do anything. Throwing heat crescents. Making a giant fireball. Nothing.
Blowing fire out of his mouth, like a dragon. Even just lighting his finger on fire felt impossible.
Wonder: "You're doing it wrong human…"
The sudden voice of the Myth surprised him. Making him jump out of his skin.
Wonder: "…Feel it in your heart. To your lungs. To your muscles, onto your skin."
Salem: "What..?"
Salem has a very visible and almost animated confused look on his face.
Wonder: "You need to feel it inside of your veins. The heat the adrenaline. The 'Need'."
Salem: "What the shit are you saying?"
Salem squints his eyes into the empty air in front of him, mentally scratching his head.
Wonder: "You..."
Wonder pauses.
His voice making it seem like he's trying to visualise how the bird inside Salem's head is going to explain this.
Wonder: "Put your two fingers, index and middle on your neck. You know how to feel for your pulse, yes?"
Salem nods along while following his command.
Wonder: "Good. Now put your other hand to your chest feel for your heartbeat. You feel it?"
Salem: "Yeah."
Wonder: "Now close your eyes. Where do you feel your heartbeat from?"
Salem: "My chest and in my neck."
Wonder: "Now try following both, the rhythm of your heartbeat in your chest and your neck."
Salem has for the whole time. He has been visualising the beat. Like a drum.
Wonder: "Feel the heat in your heart."
Salem felt the heat but not just the heat but the whole of the flame. A flame inside his heart that is slowly growing hotter.
Wonder: "Follow the heat trail from your heart to your neck. From there just visualise your entire body being set on fire."
The darkness behind Salem eyelids, makes it almost better for him. making him feel his body better. Soon Salem able to feel the trail. Like when a blacksmith puts the melted iron into a mold. Slowly making the shape, more and more visible.
That's how it was for Salem. He felt the iron mold into a line from his heart to his neck, with each beat. Slowly the heat held the form of the mold growing the line bigger and bigger. Making the mold my whole body, making the iron shape into me until eventually...
Wonder: "Open your eyes now Salem. You did it."
Slowly as his eye open, he does feel himself glow brighter and the heat not as hot as it would seem instead to be kinda soothing.
He moves his hands in front of his face. The flames come off of it at a pretty yellow-orange hue. He turns his hand around looking at the now different color that he is covered in, shaking his hands as if to get water off. He's mesmerized as to what he's seeing.
The flames coming off of Salems hands follow making a small smoke trail. Salem freaks out remembering that he's in a forest.
Salem: "I'm going to cause a fire."
Wonder: "Keep calm, Salem. The flames will stay with you for now."
Salem: "What do I do now, then?"
Wonder: "Go stop the Bomb before it reaches the island."
Wonders voice inside Salem's head sounds so, Inspiring. But the question still stands for Salem...
Salem: "How..?"