Pt. 1 of Ch. 1 "Clubs and Hammers"

            
                                                                              Pt. 1

          Tyler. That was his name, the name of the biggest bully at the orphanage. His persecution of Josiah earned him rather many punishments, most of which came from Josiah himself. Punishments could range anywhere from something odoriferous planted in Tyler's bed to his hand being changed into a chicken's head for the rest of the day (which was quite a shock.) All this could be done with a simple wave of the hand. But instead of relenting from his bullying, Tyler's hatred of Josiah only grew...
          And so Josiah began to work on a new trick, this he called "Duplication." As the name suggests, this trick would "duplicate" the targeted object. But, obviously enough, by doing the reverse process, you would get the opposite of the desired effect, eradication. Which is why this trick had to be done by a very punctilious person, otherwise the result could go very wrong. It was for this reason that Josiah never performed this trick on human beings.
           But it just so happened that one day, Tyler was trying to mess with Josiah's paraphernalia, and, after catching him in the act, Josiah resorted to the trick he had never intended to use: "Duplication." But, in his anger, Josiah forgot his tendencies of carefulness, and so brought about a horrifying result. Tyler had disappeared, and was never found...