Russel was drying off in the boys locker room after practice one day. Most of the other guys had left, but he and a couple of the best swimmer's had stayed longer. He wasn't about to lose practice time and let either Matt or Joel get ahead of him.
Suddenly, the lights of the locker room went out except for the one over Russel's head. Normally, everyone would make dumb comments about this, but everything was silent. Even the showers had turned off. Russel tried to see what the problem was, but found he couldn't move from his little area of light.
"Russel Kingston," a deep voice rumbled from seemingly everywhere, "You have been chosen to weild the powers of God. You are now immortal and all-powerful. Use your powers wisely."
A loud crack filled the air and all of the lights came back on. The shower resumed and he could hear Matt and Joel talking again. For a minute, he doubted what the voice had told him, but then how else was that possible? He decided to test his new abilities. Russel willed the shower to turn off and it did so instantly.
"Hey! What the hell?" he heard Matt yell. "The water just shut off on me!"
"Maybe if you didn't stay in there so long you wouldn't run out of water," Joel remarked.
"It's city water, it doesn't run out," Matt said, completely missing the joke.
"Holy crap!" Russel thought, "My powers are real! But what to do with them?
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