[ WP ] Every person in the world develops a weird mutation/power the day they turn 16 . Everyone 's powers are always different , some more insignificant than others . You turn 16 , and watch as all your friends discover their newfound ability 's . That is , until you discover the severity of your own .

As a kid, I have always looked up to the people that use their talents for great purpose. Aunt Laura is always hard at work, so I have the TV for myself and I'd watch all about Steffi Larkin, Reed Horundas, Alex Stevenson, and my idol, Jeff Knox. He has the talent to clone himself and consciously control them. He is known as the *Miracle Constructor* and he has his own show, aptly named `` Do It Myself''. He builds schools and hospitals by making his team of about 50 clones and himself work with a little bit of `` menual labor'', as he likes to call it. 
 
 Every person in the world experience the Discovering at the age of 16, at the midnight of their birthday, oddly enough. Some people say that talents are genetics, while some say that talents are determined by the actions you choose to do prior of the Discovering. I am a strong believer of the latter, because well, it's partly because my parents were n't all that special. They had passed away when I was but one month old. They were never around, but I know one thing, I refuse to be insignificant like my mother and father who, as Aunt Laura told me, has the talents to disappear and to draw with uncanny realism. 
 
 I want a talent that can shape the world. I want to believe that it's not genetics, but the upperclassmen in my high school all have talents similar to their parents', whether in power or properties. Even Jeff Knox once said on TV that he was thankful for his parents, and while that could mean many things, my mind makes the worst of it. With my luck and my family's genes, I'll probably get a useless talent like burrowing underground so that I can quite *literally* shape the world. 
 
 3 hours from now is the midnight of my birthday. The Discovering is only moments away as I get more and more excited. I turn on the TV and turned the channel to an old interview of Steffi Larkin on her experience with her Discovering. 
 
 `` Were you able to identify your talents right away?'' 
 `` It was n't until the morning after I had slept after giving up that I discovered it. I woke up in another country!'' 
 `` You discovered your talent in a dream?'' 
 `` Yeah, I have always wanted to see the world, but I never imagined it as easy as teleporting!'' 
 
 How lucky she is to have that great of a power. But I was n't too worried about what my talent was going to be anymore at that point. As time closes in on midnight, I'm just excited to finally have a talent. 
 
 2 hours away now as I look at the clock. I have set up a sort of target practice / obstacle course in Aunt Laura's garage, as she told me that she knows I've been waiting for tomorrow my whole life. Earlier today, she gave me an okay and a big hug, and with tears in her eyes told me that she was proud of me. She had always been a mother figure, and cared for me like her own son. I'm a bit sad that she wo n't be home until tomorrow afternoon, when I will already have mastered the talent to race against time with my super speed, or have the accuracy of a hawk, I hope, who knows. 
 
 1 more hour and here I am thinking of all the good I will do, however boring my talent will be. I have come into acceptance with what I probably will be able to do, as to not disappoint myself. I could probably settle with the talent to climb trees or something, I could use that to create tree houses for kids to play in. 
 
 And then all of the sudden, I felt a presence and almost in an instant, I was surrounded by water, gasping in what feels like the middle of the ocean. 
 
 `` WHOA, WHAT HAPPENED?'' 
 ``... I'm sorry,'' I heard in a calm voice, `` I'm sorry for everything.'' 
 `` WH- Y- YOU'RE STEFFI LARKIN!'' 
 `` I had to do this... Your father saw it all.'' 
 `` WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?'' 
 `` Son, I have heard many great things about you from Aunt Laura.'' 
 `` ARE YOU INSANE, WHERE IS SHE?'' 
 `` I'm your mother... We've all been lying to you because you are a danger, your father drew it when you were just a week old...'' 
 `` Wh- what? You're telling me he saw what I was able to do?'' 
 `` You're a ticking time bomb, and it was all our fault for bearing you... We wanted to give you a happy life, but I loved you too much to take care of you, I would n't have been able to handle it... I'm very sorry... I'm proud of you, son.'' 
 
 A lot of things went through my mind as she disappeared, leaving me to drown in the ocean. Furious did n't even begin to describe how I felt, because somehow, I felt at peace. The roars of the ocean was alarmingly peaceful. I lay back, floating... What could I have done with this talent? 
 
 Heh... I guess I will actually shape the worl- 
 
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