There was a blinding flash of light and the world went black. When Kate woke up she was in a hospital bed in the emergency room. Her parents were standing over her and her little brother, Josh, was playing with the otoscope. Bandages loosely covered her chest. She turned to face her mom and opened her eyes and her parents jumped back. “What?” Kate demanded. She grabbed a mirror and saw that her eyes were shifting from lightning yellow, to storm cloud gray, to electric blue. She also had a thin layer of vapor swirling around her. Josh ran over with the otoscope balanced on his hand and asked if he could look in her ear. Without waiting for an answer, Josh brought the otoscope to her ear, but as soon as it touched her skin he jumped back. His mom asked him what happened and he said there was a tiny flash of light on the otoscope (a spark). Both of her parents turned to face her. Just then the doctor came in and asked what was going on. Her mom pointed to Kate and she rose in to the air and the vapor thickened and thunder clapped. Lightning bolts shot out of her body with loud booms and bright light. When it stopped Kate was sitting on a fairly thick storm cloud that evaporated in seconds, dumping her on the bed. Everyone was staring at Kate except Josh, who was getting comfy with the wall, his eyes wide. Then all the electric stuff in the room started shooting off sparks for 10 seconds and they exploded. Meanwhile, her parents were staring at her in awe and the doctor was talking on 3 phones at once “Send a research team over in room 5B now! A girl just exploded the electrical system. That’s what happened!” Kate yelled “What’s going on?!”but no one answered. They The Lightning Girl 1 The Lightning Girl 2 left and the doctor didn’t notice. She didn’t know it yet but this would be the biggest catastrophe ever. When she got home she went to her room to read a book and touched the lamp. It flickered and without her touching the ON switch it turned itself on, brighter than usual. She frowned at it and went downstairs to watch T.V. instead. She touched the ON button and every electric thing in the house blew up, like a chain reaction. A fire started blazing and no one could call 911. Then someone drove by, saw what was happening and called the cops. By the time the cops came the neighbors’ house was on fire too. While they were cleaning up a wallet fell out of one of the cop’s pockets. Kate snatched it up and her eyes rolled back in to her head and she slumped unconscious, but she caught a glimpse of a cop carrying a dead girl in his arms. She was dumped in the car and driven away. Kate woke up 10 minutes later and looked around the cell. In short it was small, dark, and boring unless your idea of fun is sitting around and daydreaming/staring into space(Which people were actually doing.). A guard turned around, took one look at her eyes and screamed his head off. Kate looked down and saw the thin vapor again and thought that she might blow up the jail. She started to bang on the bars and yelling to the guard to let her out. He ignored her. Suddenly the vapor thickened, thunder clapped, and lightning shot off her body. 300 meters away the electric fence blew up. After her tornado Kate was sitting on her cloud again but it didn’t disappear in seconds like the first one. Then she started wondering if she could summon the storms at will. She stretched out her arms parallel to each other and thought about storms and lightning. (By now the cloud had disappeared.) A miniature lightning storm The Lightning Girl 3 appeared between her hands. She slowly spread her arms at arm length and the storm got bigger and bigger. She quickly slapped her hands against each other and the storm dissipated. Then she thought about the storm that appeared after every tornado and it appeared in front of her. She jumped on and flew away. She landed in a random town an hour later. She walked around until she found a store that sold candy and came out with Kit-Kats, Ice Breakers, Xtremes, Hersheys, Nerds, M&Ms, and Sour-Patches (Nobody said anything about her eyes) that she got with the cop’s money. She conjured another cloud and flew away. By the time she got to the Pacific Ocean she had eaten the Nerds, Sour Patches, and M&Ms. She flew around the Atlantic until she found a small island to live on with lots of food, (she’d eaten all the candy by now) wood and animals. Nobody ever saw her again, but people did notice the huge electric tornado in the middle of the sea.