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A scream and his eyes flash open. His feet touch the cold floor as his nostrils are filled with the smell of sweat again.




'They
are not nightmare's' he hears his mentors voice ‘You open a portal to a
different place and bring them to this world, that's all'



The light
from the bathroom lights up his head and McBride looks at the face in
the mirror.



‘My God, for a 19 year old you look 25'.  The blonde hair is
wet with sweat and his eyes have dark lines. He turns on the shower.




 



‘Good
you are awake, we will begin training again’ He turns to look at his
mentor, the beautiful Longbow agent, Susan Phillips.



‘Did you know that
those nightmare images, with control, can be fired at your target’



She
smiles that sweet spider smile. When he first saw his mentor he thought ‘sexy’, but the thought departed after 3 minutes.



‘I hate you’ He thinks.



'And if you keep training you with learn to blind your target with those painful images’



‘And your bright spandex outfit would blind anyone first thing in the morning’ he thinks.



‘Strike your target!’




‘Again’




‘Use the spectral images, as a lance of justice…strike!’




He touched that place and brought some images. He saw them shoot towards the dummy and lightly flow over its chest.




‘Pathetic…strike again’




The images washed over the chest again.




‘No…not enough, that would not hurt a fly, OPEN THE PORTAL MCBRIDE!’




Anger
flashed in his mind and he did not touch the place this time he punched
it…and the portal opened. He swept his arm and focused his anger and
his nightmares into one spectral lance.



‘They said you had potential…but my god….’




She turned to him,



'I think we need a new dummy...’



and for the first time he saw her smile.... a warm, genuine smile.



Author:  Spectral Avatar