Edward''s eyes blinked open as he felt a blossoming warmth in his soul. He could feel power radiating out from it and he felt power the likes of which he had never felt before and he looked at Sam with a wondrous awe struck smile. “I feel it! Sam I feel it!" He rubbed his arms as they were suddenly covered in goosebumps. "My skins really itchy.”


    Sam nodded. “You''re very slightly over powered, just like I did with Rae, you need to use it. Can you sense the ship? Feel it''s weight?, it''s movement?”


    Edward closed his eyes and sensed... something. He pushed deeper and immersed himself into the ships mass as though he was a part of the ship. He felt it push against the water, it was massive and he could barely focus enough to encompass it. He looked at Sam wide eyed and nodded.


    “Great, I knew it. Gravity magic. OK um.. how about can you feel yourself being pulled down into the earth? Can you feel the attractive force pulling at you?”


    Edward closed his eyes and reached out for the pull of the earth. As the ship around his senses disappeared he felt deep down under the sea the massive density pulling him down. He nodded. “I feel it!” Edward was giddy with excitement and barely heard Sam next instructions.


    “OK try pushing against it, push against that massive density. Can you do that? Use your essence and Push, just a little.”


    Edward felt his essence. He thought Sam might have been right, it seemed familiar to him. But what had been the faintest of shadows in a world full of darkness there was now a feeling like a blazing sun and he drew from it, pushed against the density miles below him that was inextricably linked to him, pulling him down and was shocked as he felt his head collide against the ceiling of the base.


    He opened his eyes to see he was way, way above an ecstatic Sam and suddenly realised he was sitting on thin air forty feet from the floor and felt his connection to his essence fail as he plummeted back down to the ground.


    “Ah man that hurt.” He looked up and laughed as Sam squealed and clapped her hands.


    “You did it! You did it! I knew you could.”


    She raced over and embraced him and before she knew it he was kissing her and she felt warmth blossomed in her heart. Sam melted into his embrace. relief and passion filling her soul as Edward crushed her to the deck.


    Sam leaned back and grinned her face flush with excitement and desire as she looked up at an equally joyous Edward. “Am I amazing or what?” grinned Sam. “I knew you could do it. Just think. You can fly.”


    “I can..what? Jesus Christ!” Edward sat up and leaned against a truck. His head a whirl with the revelations of the past few..minutes? He looked at the time in his H.U.D. 90 minutes? Wow that must have taken longer to reach a peaceful mindset than he thought. He grinned at Sam and grabbed her hand.


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    “C''mon lets go tell the other two how awesome you are and get some food. I''m starving!” Sam grinned and nodded as they headed back to the cabin.


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    Sam grinned as she ate her bowl of vegetable and pasta yellow Thai curry with relish. She was hungry! Then she remembered she''d been in hospital that morning, so god knows what meals she had missed.


    She checked the time, yup. Breakfast and lunch. It was a good job they were at an all you can eat cafeteria, she had some catching up to do. A growing girl needed to eat.


    Edward looked up from his steak and chips with a big smile on his face. He''d been grinning like an idiot through out the meal and it gave Sam a warm glow from the knowledge that she had helped him get over his block.


    She thought to herself that if he hadn''t put so much pressure on himself beforehand that he wouldn''t have needed any help at all, but Sam was glad she could be there for him whether it was needed or not. She looked up and saw Rae walk hand in hand with Paul into the cafeteria and smiled.


    Rae was positively luminescent as she clung onto him, their relationship was clearly deepening and Sam was happy for them. Particularly for Rae, who on espying Sam and Edward beamed at them and dragged Paul over to their table.


    “So? How''d it go?” Asked Rae.


    Edward gave her a relieved smile and nodded. “With Sam''s help I finally managed to get past my block. I''m not sure I would have been able to do it without her help.”


    Sam shook her head. “No you were there. You just didn''t realise it. All I did was shine a light on what you had already found.”


    Rae gave Sam a hug and smiled at Edward. “Yeah but that''s some light Sam, I''m with Edward, I would never had been able to ignite that candle without your help.”


    Paul gave an affected yawn. “Enough mushy stuff already. Hey Eddy have you ordered your new clothes for when we dock in Valencia yet?”


    Edward nodded. “Yup and I''ve sorted out transport as well. It should be fun I''ve never been to Valencia before.”


    “This is the transport?”


    Sam looked incredulous at Edward and then back to the four electric scooters.


    “What? You don''t like them?” He asked with a grin.


    Rae squealed with delight. “Oh Edward I love them! look Paul, aren''t they amazing!?”


    Paul grimaced at the scooters. “You couldn''t afford real scooters? Man I''m going to loose all my street cred running around on one of these things.”


    Edward shook his head. “Money''s not the issue. Who here has a license for a moped?” He looked at the other three who looked blankly at him.


    “Right. Just as I thought, these.” He looked at Paul and gestured at the scooters. “Don''t need any license or insurance, it was this or push bikes. You fancy pedaling everywhere?”


    “Fine. Fine. How fast does this thing go anyhow?”


    “Er...50kmh I think, though the legal limit might be 25kmh. either way still plenty fast enough for the city centre anyhow. If we need to go out of town we can always get a taxi.”


    Sam nodded in acquiescence as Rae beamed with pleasure, letting out a squee of delight as she shot off down the road.


    Sam snorted. “I guess we better catch up. She has no idea where she''s going.”


    Much to Sam''s surprise 50kmh actually felt pretty dam fast on a board a foot wide and three feet long And she couldn''t help but grin madly at Edward as he caught up to the two girls. He smiled back at them with an air of triumph.


    “OK you got me. These are way cooler than I first thought.” Sam exclaimed as she looked at a smiling Paul, who it seemed had also had a change of heart too. Sam''s mood lightened as she breathed in the hot Spanish morning air while they shot down the road into town. The ship was amazing but she couldn''t help but feel cooped up on it and the sense of freedom on these little scooters was exhilarating.