Tori Vega walked out to join her friends for lunch at their usual table. She ordered her usual sandwich and sat down in her usual chair but today was to be no usual day. She took a bite of her sandwich and just about choked.

"How much pepper is in this sandwich?" she said sputtering and pushing sandwich away. Beck picked up the remainder of the sandwich and took a bite from the uneaten end.

"Tori," he said, wrinkling his forehead, "I hardly tasted any pepper at all."

"Are you kidding," said Tori, "I can smell it from here." Jade took a bite of the sandwich

"Beck's right," she said, "it just tastes like a regular Turkey lettuce and tomato on wheat with salt pepper and light mayo." Still shaking her head Tori got up and went to the bathroom to rinse her mouth out. Just as she was finishing she caught a whiff of smoke. When she glanced down at the floor something strange happened. Her eyes sighted through a small crack in the floor and she found looking at pile of old rags in the janitor's closet one floor down. As she watched the rags burst into flame thanks to the sparks from the badly frayed electrical cord belonging to the janitor's hot plate. Her sight returned to normal and Tori raced down the stairs to the janitor's closet. Grabbing a fire extinguisher of the wall she kicked the door open and put out the fire before anything other than the rags got burned.

Psycowitz and the rest of Tori's friends came running in.

"Way to go Tori," said Andre, "You probably just saved the school!"

"How did you know," said Psycowitz

"Well I saw- I mean I, oh forget it," said Tori, "You wouldn't believe me if I told you."

#

Tori sat in her room trying to make some sense out of what had happened that day in school. "What's happening to me?" she thought. Suddenly she was jarred out of her thoughts by the sound of Trina on the phone.

"But Mr. Carter," she was saying, "I'd be perfect for that part are you sure you'd rather have Shaquille O'Neil play the part of Bigfoot in Bigfoot's revenge!"

Tori snickered,

"Trina really is desperate, and I don't even want to know how she got the personal phone number of big producer like Jackson Carter." She said to herself. When Tori walked down the stairs she suddenly realized that Trina wasn't anywhere in the house. Her dad was behind the kitchen counter sticking a homemade pizza in the oven.

"Dad," she said, "Where's Trina?"

"She ran out of here an hour ago to go to Mario's that Italian restaurant." Said her dad Tori didn't answer she just ran back up the stairs to her room

"What is happening to me," she said, "Trina makes a phone call sitting at a restaurant three blocks away and I hear it from here?" Tori began to pace the floor just as she stopped by the sliding glass balcony door and was turning to go the other way she was stunned to see a black Leopard sitting on the balcony looking her square in the eyes. She blinked her eyes in place of the leopard there stood a tall dark haired boy about her own age.

"Miss Vega, My name is Zachariah Stone," he said, "and I can explain what's happening to you, what's going on with your senses." Tori opened the door and the boy walked in.

"So what's going on with me," said Tori, "it's like my senses have been going crazy!"

"Tori," he said calmly, "You're a Sentinel."