The Green Lantern Ring – Chapter 4
She looked at me like I'm a looser. Like I could never have her. So I decided to teach her a lesson...
5 weeks after receiving the ring:
Fuck, this bitch is so hot.
I was standing at the bus stop, waiting for my bus to arrive. I’d just had dinner and walked back to the city centre. It was 14:30, so there were quite a lot of people around – students on their way home from high school, people off early from work. I scanned the crowd and spotted several hot girls, chatting with friends, listening to music, talking with guys. This was March, so the weather was getting quite good and some of the girls were already wearing crop tops, their bellies showing – usually the thinner, sexier ones.
As I looked around, I suddenly caught one of these girls looking at me. She was fake blonde (as blonde women in Hungary usually are), wore quite a lot of makeup and had a great body: relatively thin, nice medium-sized tits and an ass that was large enough to be hot, but not large enough to look like a Brazilian butt lift. I’d bang her like a savage animal – this was what went through my mind when I saw attractive women back then.
She looked at me in a way that seemed to say: “you’re looking at me? are you kidding? I’d never fuck a guy like you. I’m too hot for you. Who cares how smart you are or how many degrees you have! I only care about cool guys who ooze confidence! Guys who move through the world like they don’t give a fuck! Guys who take what they want! Guys who other guys look up to! Not a looser like you! Pathetic.”
She looked away. My expression turned angry as I kept looking at her. This fucking bitch. Who the fuck does she think she is? Zero life experience, zero degrees, zero languages spoken and she’s the one looking down on me? Fucking ridiculous.
I turned away and walked a little farther from her, trying not to look at her again, not to make her feel like she’s so hot that I have to keep looking back. I did look back a few times, but just for a few seconds. She wasn’t looking at me anymore… then, an idea started brewing in mind.
I went to the very edge of the bus stop. I lifted my hands up, stomach-level, and started tapping into the ring’s power – at this point, I could always feel it at the back of my mind. It’s like opening a mental box that’s always there in my head. Once I begin drawing out the power from that box, my brain starts to tingle a bit, it’s a weird sensation – not bad, but unusual. It feels like something new that wasn’t in my brain for 30 years, until it suddenly became a part of it, kinda like an implant or something. I focused this power on a spot in the air, right behind the hot chick’s ass.
The green construct began to grow out of thin air. I had to be very quick, I knew that, before someone would notice the levitating green hand and start recording it. But I’d practiced my hand constructs a lot since my encounter with the gypsy, so I was able to finish it quite quickly. I’m gonna have it grab your ass, you stupid bitch.
“Is that really a good idea?” asked a voice I’d never heard before.
“What the…” I answered, shocked. I started looking around frantically, trying to figure out who the voice belonged to.
I turned around on my own axis a few times before I realised people were looking at me – the kind of look they’d give a drunk homeless guy having a mental breakdown.
Someone’s after the ring and they found me! And… they can read my mind!
4 weeks earlier – so 1 week after receiving the ring:
In the week after receiving my ring, I spent a significant amount of time practicing my newfound powers. Although, to be honest, I spent more time imagining the things I will do once I perfect them. It filled me with joy every time. Just having the ring on my finger made me happy. I never took it off. Well, I did take it off a few times, because wearing a ring 24/7 can make your finger feel a little numb after a while. But I only took it off when I was awake, while reading a book or scrolling on my phone, and I placed it on my lap or on the bedside table – if anyone were to break in, I could grab it quickly and put it on.
After all, there might be people who know about the ring and want to take it from me. They could try to steal it while I’m asleep, so it’s much safer to keep the ring on my finger at night.
I also wrecked my mind about how I could learn more about this ring. The first idea was, of course, contacting the merchandise shop I bought it from. But without mentioning that it gives me superpowers. I could ask them where they got the ring from and what they know about the makers of the ring. Which factory produced it? Which department at DC Comics was responsible for this product? Yes, I could contact DC as well.
But then I also thought: if I reach out to these people and start asking questions that no other customer ever asks, I’ll be drawing attention to myself. And if anyone knows about the powers of this ring, and wants it for themselves, they might hear about me this way. So I wasn’t sure if it was wise to start poking around in that direction.
Oh and I started flying! It’s an amazing feeling. I could only lift myself high enough to touch the ceiling at that point. Still, it was a dream come true. It’s actually a little difficult to practice this inside: I always feared that I might launch myself too hard and crack my skull on the ceiling. Therefore, I was always holding back a little.
But I didn’t want to practice outside yet – I live in a relatively big city, there aren’t many places where no one’s around. So I decided to try flying practices on the balcony: I live on the top floor, so the risk of someone seeing me isn’t that high. Of course, people on the street could still look up, or a neighbour could come out onto their balcony, but I had no better option.
I also began trying to create constructs out of green light. I first decided to attempt making a hand, but I got nowhere near an actual hand shape, no matter how hard I focused. I could create simple shapes, like a sphere or a cube, and keep them alive for about a minute.
I was thinking of possible ways to improve this ability when I got the idea to start drawing. What if I start studying anatomy and different objects by drawing them? This might help in creating the construct. I love comics and have been wanting to get back into drawing anyway.
I used to draw a lot when I was a kid – wanted to become a comic book creator, a visual artist. But I’d get very frustrated every time I wasn’t able to make my drawings as good as the ones I saw in the comics. So, eventually I’d stopped drawing.
I did some Green Lantern lore research to figure out whether learning anatomy – and the parts of other objects – is necessary for the proper creation of constructs. Apparently it isn’t: the ring is supposed to take the thing you imagine and turn it into a strong construct, regardless of your knowledge of its different parts. At least according to Google AI. But then there’s the question: does my ring function like the GL rings in the comics? This is reality, after all, so maybe the rules are different. How does this ring even do what it does? Is it technology? Is there some tech hidden inside the thick metal, giving me superpowers somehow? Or is it some sort of magic? If it is, since when does magic exist?
In any case, I figured it could only be good to start drawing objects and bodies. If it helps me improve my constructs, great. If it doesn’t, at least I get better at drawing. When my OCD perfectionism ended my art journey prematurely, nobody taught me this simple lesson: you’re a beginner, you shouldn’t expect to immediately be at the level of the pros (who’ve been doing this for decades). Keep drawing, learn the basics and you’ll eventually get there. I guess this lesson applies to my GL training as well.
Also, I decided to read more Green Lantern comics. I’d read some during my childhood, but not nearly enough to know everything I wanted to know about the lore and the power rings. So the question was: where should I start?