The Mind of a Hero

Chapter One: Joining the Ranks of Heroes
It was done. He had just signed up to become a member of the Guild of Heroes; something he'd dreamt of doing since he was very young. Today was his sixteenth birthday, and he was finally old enough to join. He loved helping people, and by joining the Guild of Heroes, he would be able to help even more. From now on, he would be known as Kalosyni.

He was used to donating blood, working at soup kitchens, raising money for world hunger charities by selling lemonade, and various other things, but the Guild of Heroes had a ton of charities he'd never even seen before. Most of them involved the use of superpowers. He was encouraged to choose which charities and volunteering activities he liked best before choosing his powers because of the need of certain powers in certain fields. He saw that there was a shortage of heroes working in one field: transport of food and medical supplies. This field needed heroes with flight, superspeed, and other such transportation powers. Kalosyni chose flight for this task.

The Guild of Heroes also wanted him to take an attacking power to help him fight off supervillains when they pulled their various schemes. For this, he chose a green energy ray power.

Joining the Guild of Heroes would also make it easier for him to do all his other favorite good deeds as well. There were several blood donating stations around the headquarters, and most headquarters themselves also served as soup kitchens.

The next day, Kalosyni was allowed to work. He stood in a line of heroes waiting to receive the backpack for transporting. His job was to transport the pack to Zambia, as it contained important medical supplies severely needed in the area. On his wrist was a digital watch with GPS that would help him find his way. He watched as, one by one, the other heroes in the line before him received their packages and sped off. The heroes with superspeed could run on top of the waters of oceans, and the heroes with flight could simply fly over them.

Finally, he was next in line, and an adult male superhero, dressed all in blue handed him a backpack. Kalosyni put the backpack on quickly. The adult superhero saluted him, and said, "Be safe, and Godspeed." Kalosyni nodded and took to the skies, flying as quickly as he could at a fairly high height.

The flight was long and mostly uneventful, in spite of how much fun Kalosyni was having by flying through the skies. However, he soon started to feel as though he was being watched. He didn't stop his flight, wanting to get the supplies to the people who needed them as quickly as possible. He looked around to see if, perhaps, he was being observed, but didn't see anyone. He shook his head and thought, "Maybe I'm just imagining things..."

Kalosyni finally landed in the area in need of the supplies, and the citizens could not have been more grateful. There had been disease and violence that threatened the well-being of the people, and most could not avoid injury and illness. The supplies would bring the whole village back to good health. The look in the people's eyes and their happy smiles deeply moved Kalosyni. He was over joyed to help these good people so much. It almost hurt him to leave, but he had other deliveries to make. He waved goodbye to the villagers, and they waved back with tears of joy and gratitude in their eyes. Then, he started to head back to the base.

That day, he made a total of ten deliveries. With each delivery, the citizens expressed great appreciation that warmed Kalosyni's heart. That night, he gazed at the nightsky from his bedroom window and thought, "This....is what I live for."