Atomic Mage by Garrett Carter (short books for teens txt) 📕

He began by focusing on scanning his body like he had the gator sitting in the fridge.

"Might as well start from the top and make my way down."

He began his full body scan feeling the short hair that had begun to grow at the top of his head, then the skin at the top of his head as he scanned down his body.

Making his way down his skull he noticed an odd sensation in the back of it.

Thinking back to his hours of work on the home he found himself in, the buzzing and humming noise he had learned to associate with his ability working had come from this area of his head.

Trying to multi-task he activated his power to scan the rocks around him while still focusing on the back of his head.

Succeeding just barely at maintaining his concentration he found a bundle of neurons located in his brainstem that had activated.

Cade was fuzzy on the structure of the brain, he recalled a faint memory of the fight or flight response being triggered in a small part of the brain.

Trying to recall the name of the thing only brought visions of Russian fighter jets.

Dismissing the idea as unimportant he continued, as long as he could tie his power to the rock in his hand he would be happy.

Tying off the rock to that bundle of nerve cells was simple, he had done it with the 20-pound battery under the kitchen sink last night.

Cade focused on the rock in his hand and its regulator spell, turning it up slightly his awareness of his surroundings increased drastically.

The disorganized droning from yesterday came back full force.

"Hmm, that fixes our range problem."

Deciding to play around with the extent of the range of his abilities later he continued with the scanning of his body.

With a moderate force of will, he placed all the noise, that he knew was the vibrational frequencies of the matter around him, into the back of his mind.

Grinning at the turn of phrase Cade continued scanning his body, making his way to his chest he found his heart and lungs.

Noticing an odd mass in his left lung he almost lost his focus, only the hours of concentration with the new power allowed him to maintain it through the shock.

He had cancer, lung cancer probably the same type that took his Tony as the image he had in his mind matched up with the months of scans Tony had taken during her fight with this beast.

Impotent rage blew through him for a moment, an old friend from another world.

His mind was blown at the implications of what he found.

He had pretty much a full-body heal after he landed on this planet.

Pretty much anything foreign to himself had been removed, broken glass from the windows of the car, wooden bits from the trees he had crashed into.

So why did he still have a lump of cancerous tissue in his lung?

The realization hit him, foreign, the cancer was his own cells multiplying uncontrollably selfishly robbing his other cells of much-needed nutrients, killing them in the process.

"Well, I got something for you fucker." He said out loud, vehemence adding a cruel tone to his voice.

Focusing on the bundle of out of control cells and the surrounding tissue, intending to find all of the malignant cells.

Scouring both his lungs he found two other bundles of vampire cells and began to increase the vibrations in their atoms, cauterizing the evil fuckers and thankfully preventing a bleed.

Cade began to cough uncontrollably and fought tears as he brought the destroyed cells up and out of his lungs and throat.

He almost vomited as the charred taste settled on his tongue before he spat them out.

That task done Cade was glad to see no divot in his home, checking over the power tie he found it secure, feeding him power at a nice steady rate.

Grinning to himself over his victory Cade downed a glass of water to get the otherwise appealing taste of charred meat out of his mouth.

His grin slipped suddenly as he wished he had this power back on earth maybe he could have saved his Tony.

He stopped himself in his mental tracks, down that path led to madness and rage.

He had enough of that during Tony's fight for life.

Swallowing the familiar feeling he got back to the process of making a meal, infinitely simpler.

Pulling the gator out of the fridge Cade smiled down on the late reptile, "hey sunshine how about we get some dinner cooking and work on those pants."

With a flippant grin on his face that helped to mask the tumultuous feelings in his chest, he got to work cutting up the giant reptile.

Meeting the neighbors

Stepping out of his home to meet the morning sun a full two days after the gator incident Cade rubbed the last bits of sleep from his eyes.

After his meal of grilled gator tail, he had taken the remnants of his pants and applied the magically cured gator skin to them bonding them on the molecular level to each other, providing a little padding to his armor.

Taking some of the excess skin left over he made himself some thong sandals.

He was proud of his new footwear, they wouldn't win any awards but they protected his feet and that was enough for him.

The shirt on the other hand he just repaired with a few bits of rock as the sacrificial material folding the cuffs to his biceps against the hot and humid