War of the minds

Chapter 1: The End of the Old
There I was fading out of consciousness and all I could hear was the culprit's voice "Now I will never be forgotten I killed him. The adept will never cause us a problem now". My safe house was burning. My home would soon be nothing more than dust on the wind. I blacked out. This should be the end of my story. But in fact it is beginning of it all. My apparent death was my rebirth in to the world of the gifted. But let us look back at my life for a moment to see what leads up to my "death".
My name is Damien Zeller I am of average height a little round around the waist. But my mind is my greatest thing it is what allowed me to survive school. I lead a normal life; my parents were more caring to my little brother than me, but let us dispose of that topic. When I turned 18 I became fascinated with parapsychology (the study of mental abilities, telekinesis, pyrokinesis, telepathy, and so on). One day during my studies Milton, he was a tall man with a face anyone could like he also had a scraggly beard but he was one of my greatest friends, said "Hey nice research subject. You know I remember someone who mentioned pyrokinesis or something like that." Immediately my attention was pulled from my studies
"Who?" I asked.
Milton said "I believe her name was Anna."
At that I put up my books and headed out in search of Anna. I went to get my friends to help me. But they were all busy Don, Aly, and Travis all had a meeting of some kind to go to. Don was about my age and a bit taller than me but he was strong and always wore black. Always swore he was not emo or Goth. Aly was a few years younger than me so she was shorter than me. Her blond hair had a tinge of brown in it and she was a very talented artist. Travis had muscular dystrophy so it was hard to tell how tall he was but he was gaunt. He had a powered wheelchair because he could not walk since he was little. Milton had papers to grade and Quentin said" I don't want to go because I am just too lazy."
"Blast it all," I said while walking away "I'll just do it by myself."
Later on that night I was in my safe house prepping my surveillance kit. My safe house looked like a rundown old apartment building, when the cold war occurred an extremely wealthy tenant had a bomb shelter constructed in the basement. As I was packing someone stated knocking "Who the f" I started to say then the door suddenly and violently exploded in to flames. The shockwave was powerful enough to slam me in to the back wall. I feel blood running down the back of my head and everything was getting darker. Now the story truly begins.
Chapter 2: My Gift
When I awoke I was greeted by some familiar voices, but I could not open my eyes.  "Quite a nice setup he has here" said the first.
"I know, but that is not why we are here. We need him and the security tape from last night" said the second.
"Yea yea we know we know I'll get him on the truck" said the third. Then I felt weightless for a little while. From what I could feel I was moving as well. I'm not sure if I thought or said "What a wonderful feeling". But at that moment I heard a fourth voice apparently one only I could hear. It said "Be calm. You need more rest, you will need it tomorrow." I almost asked why but I lacked the strength to do so and passed out again. The next time I woke up I was in what appeared to be some sort of hospital. Then Don came in to view "Well good morning Sleeping Beauty," he said" and welcome to the Convent."
"Why am I here?" I asked.
"Because you are one of the gifted and certainly not one of the Forgotten, "Don continued on" this is where the Convent train and bunk the newly awakened."
"Hold up" I said "gifted, what does that mean?"
"You now can use power most humans never knew truly existed." He said
"Like what?" I asked   
"Telekinesis is one, but I hope that is not your gift, we have too many lifters as it is." He
Said pointing to what looked like a firing range but instead of guns they were throwing large rocks with the greater ease, without touching them.
"How do normal people not see this?" I asked
"The ungifted only see what they want to see." He responded "Here's another training area, don't get to close, you'll get scorched." Pointing at another area this time it was wide open but there were dummies burning in the middle. "The pyros enjoy themselves a little too much" he said interrupting my thoughts of what gift I might have."Well, we don't have much more time before you need to see the council, so let's start heading there now."
"The counsel?" I asked
"Yup, they are the ones who make the rules and they judge the newcomers." said Don
"What do you mean, judged?" I asked
"They will determine if you are worthy of fully awakening to your gift. If not they will erase your memories and put you back where you belong." said Don
"Wow that sucks." I said
"To most yes but something is happening to those who were erased," Don said with the most disturbed face I have ever seen "they have been awakening to the memories somehow and making trouble for the Coven. They call themselves The Forgotten."
"So, the who attacked me was one of the Forgotten." I said
"We believe that is the case but that is not why we brought you here. What she said is what intrigued the counsel." He said "Well, this is where I say goodbye, for now hopefully; you must proceed alone only those whom the counsel calls may enter the Hall of Echoes." He said turning away back towards the fields
The counsel was seated high up in the room to where they could see all that occurred in the hall. From what I could tell they were old but incredibly powerful. At the moment someone else was conversing with them. A short girl with long brown hair.
"We have lost three more gifted in two days, the Forgotten are winning" said the girl in the stand
"Elder Theron please show our guest to his seat, we will be with him momentarily." said the foremost elder
"I will elder Kain." said the elder just below Kain. Theron came down and showed me to one of the stone benches
"This will not take much longer." Said Theron
"As for the matter of our lost fighters, it is a regrettable loss but sacrifices must be made this war will not be over just because some our fighters die." Said Kain
"But it's not right" the girl said with increasing frustration "you knowingly sent them to their deaths."
" We did not." said Kain as calmly as ever" We needed scouts in the area, they volunteered knowing the risks"
"But" she said
"This meeting is concluded you may return to the medical area adept Mariah." Said Kain "Elder Theron please bring the newly awakened into our view."  At that Theron escorted me to the empty podium.
"This meeting is only to see if you are worthy of your gift so you will not need to speak but if you must you may." he said then he lifted his hand and I immediately sunk in to a black void. I was pulled out almost as fast. "This if a first, I cannot see your memories of the past."
"Because I myself do not remember them." I replied
"Amniesia?" Kain asked
"No," I said "I don't see why I should dwell on the past, so I forget about it. I fear what my actions may do but there is no good in wishing I had done things differently in the past, because I cannot change them."