Thanks again to all who have given great advice and positive criticism. Hopefully, my writing has gotten better!
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Jeff decided there was so much more that he should be able to do using the power of the ring. He was sitting alone in his living room the next day trying to figure out what he was now capable of. At this time, he knew he could control people, by thinking in his head what he wanted them to do, but he knew that he should be capable of so much more if he truly had to the power of the God's!
It appeared that the ring was trying to communicate with him, but he was so new at this, he was having a hard time listening to what it was trying to tell him. He tried to relax, freeing his mind of all thought, trying his best to let his subconscious mind take over.
He felt a slight tingling in his body, similar to when you touched your tongue to a nine volt battery. He relaxed as best he could, closing his eyes in an almost dream like state. The ring began to show Jeff different things that had taken place over the years. He saw the sorcerers chanting over something, somehow he just knew it was the book of enchantments that they had found the ancient spell in. He seemed to be above them looking down at the scene as it played out below him. He saw the ring materialize, glowing as he had seen it do that day at Madame Zera's. He watched as the sorcerers continued their chanting, even though it was in a foreign tongue, he could understand everything he heard.
The ring showed him all of the men that the sorcerers had gotten to try the ring on. He saw what kind of men they really were, recognizing their true nature at a glance of their aura. He could tell that the ring was refusing each man and saw their deaths as the ring consumed them. This frightened Jeff as the scenes played out in his mind. He knew that he didn't want the same thing to happen to himself.
The ring continued to show him the original Basa relative, trying the ring on. Jeff couldn't see any evil in the man's aura, like he had with all of the others that had tried it on previously. He watched as the man killed the king and the evil sorcerers, seeing the means he used to do so. This gave Jeff a tremendous insight into just what powers he should actually have as well.
He was also shown how that same man had been talked into trying to become king by his family. How they had told him of all the things that he would be able to do using the power for their use, not what Madame Zera's ancestors had planned for him. Jeff watched him as he killed the sorcerers, his aura began to change. He watched as the ring consumed him, right after he killed the last one.
The ring then showed him the Basa family, making the box to house the ring to prevent any of them from touching it, as they were afraid of even picking it up, lest one of them be consumed by the ring. He watched, as over the years, one of their ancestors would try it on, only to be consumed by it. The ring showed Jeff, just how evil the Basa family actually were.
He saw how they had made their money through criminal means. They had been bankers that would loan money to people to use for farming, only to destroy the crops the people would grow, and then foreclose upon their loans, taking the property from them. They would force these families to live on their new property, farming as before, but it was the Basa's who would earn the money from the crops they would grow.
They amassed a fortune from the backs of these unfortunate families, paying them meager wages while selling the crops at high prices since they owned most of the farmland. They had become the largest landowners in Hungary and other nearby countries. They had hoped to use the power of the rings to take over the rest of Europe, but had never found a single relative that could wear the ring.
Jeff saw just how evil the family had grown over the years; he was beginning to see what he might be up against. The ring was showing all of this to Jeff to prepare him for his upcoming battle with the Basa family.
It showed him how the ring had come to the States, when a decent Basa family member, took it and fled. They had hidden the ring over the years from the rest of the clan, hoping to one day use it for good!
The Basa clan had found them, and had tried to force them to give the ring back to them. When this failed, they destroyed the business that the owners of the house had, forcing them to lose their house and everything else they owned. They had finally drawn them back into the fold, but the owners had purposely left the ring at the house, hoping it would be lost forever when the fire department burned the house down.
The Basa family over the years had become so paranoid that one of their members would take the ring and use it against them, that they had stopped passing down the history of the ring. It had gotten to the point that actual knowledge of what the ring was fully capable of was lost to them. This was why Andras Basa had thought that he could simply take the ring from Jeff. Now that Andras couldn't remember anything about the ring, the rest of the family knew that they were up against something more powerful than they were prepared for. They didn't know how strong Jeff was now, but they were planning on getting it back at all cost. That cost was going to be a lot worse than they ever dreamed possible!
The ring had seen Jeff's aura that day of the house burning and could tell that he was the right man to wear it, fulfilling the destiny of the ring. It had purposely shown itself to him so that he would find it and be the man that would right the wrongs that the Basa family, and so many others had done over the centuries since it had been created. The ring was supposed to be used to prevent evil from ruling the world; this was going to be Jeff's responsibility from now on. The ring began showing Jeff what his new powers were. He had a lot of experimenting to do before he was fully capable of wielding the way they should though so he set about trying them out.
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He started off by turning on the lights on and off several times, turning his stereo on and off, and just trying simple things at first. He stared at the table lamp sitting next to the sofa, thinking it should move. He knew that was what had worked for him with the TV. It moved slightly, but when he waved his hand at it, the table lamp was thrown across the room, shattering against the wall!
"What just happened?" He asked himself out loud.
It took a few moments to realize that when he waved his hand at the lamp, he wasn't focused on how he wanted it to move, he had simply waved his hand. Now he understood that he had to think about what he wanted to happen, so he could control it. Without the thought process, everything happened violently.
This going to be challenging to control, he was going to have to learn discipline with these new powers, or someone could get hurt! Then again, if he was ever attacked, he could just react without having to focus his ability, letting his reflexes control things.
He decided he had a lot more practicing to do. He looked at the broken table lamp, wishing it to be back on the table in one piece. The broken pieces swirled in the air, and simply became whole again on top of the table. There wasn't a crack or any evidence that it had been shattered, lying on the floor a few moments ago.
"I'm going to dig these new powers!" He said excitedly.
He looked at the couch, wishing that it was floating in the air. It lifted off the ground, staying there. While the couch was in the air, he wished all of his furniture to be floating like the couch, every piece of furniture in the room, rose into the air, hanging in suspension.
He thought to himself, 'Laura is going to love this, next time I make love to her!'
This time, he slowly lowered his hand, and the furniture slowly lowered back to the floor. He slowly raised his hand back up, the furniture rose again at the same speed his hand raised. He lowered them down with a slow lowering of his hand. He was getting the hang of the powers now. He also didn't actually have to think in his mind, what he wanted to happen; his subconscious mind was in control now. He snapped his hand up, the furniture leapt off of the floor, but stopped when his hand did. He got a kick out of this and was bouncing the furniture up and down with his hand when Laura walked in, back from her wedding dress fitting.
"Master, what on earth is going on in here?" She asked excitedly.
Jeff laughed before he said, "Look Angel, I am controlling them with my hand; I just figured this out a few minutes ago!"
He looked over at her smiling, before he used his left hand to pick Laura up off of the ground, levitating her, bringing her to him, while she was still in the air. She was flabbergasted at the power Jeff had learned to use.
