I wake up to someone screaming and look around. it seems like I've been thrown clear and into the treeline, "You're lucky if you hadn't been able to hear me, you'd be dead now. Nothing more than a dripping grill ornament." I hear a deep growling hiss of a voice talking as if inside my head. I look around but there's no one near me, so where is this voice coming from? "LISTEN BOY WHEN YOUR ELDERS ARE TALKING!!!" nope definitely coming from in my head. "what's going on?" I'm barely able to get out. I feel like a mouse looking at a King Cobra who's about to snap me up, this voice is making me weak. I look up and see that someone has noticed I'm by the trees and not under the bus. As they're moving towards me at a fast pace everything is turning black...
I snap awake but something doesn't feel right and I can't see. Then I notice a green light getting stronger, it almost looks like those horrible flames from the old games dad used to show me, pale green and white colors dancing around but no actual source or heat. "This'll be the last time I bring you here. so listen and understand that I am the master." I hear the voice from before but, this time I'm not as scared. "Some master, can't even show your face just talking from the shadows!" I say with false bravado even though it's all I can do without pissing myself. "How about you let me out of here or show that pile of pig crap that only a mother could love you call a face!" Suddenly something appears three inches from my face, eyes that appear to have some type of light behind them of the same shade of green surrounding me with a mouth that resembles an orc whose tusks pierced the lips. "Know this lil mortal I can destroy you in a snap of my finger but, at the moment I won't because you interest me. Being the only one who has been able to hear me since your many times over grandmother agreed to seal me away in hopes of ridding me from this realm, that is the only reason you are alive. If you wish to continue living you better start with some respect for I am Matul the lord of dark power and charisma!" while I'm still trying to process what I am staring at, I start cracking up laughing on the inside which isn't good because I can't control my facial expressions. "Dark power and charisma? what deity junk drawer did you come out of?!" I ask finally loosing it. Suddenly I feel like someone hit me in my chest, I look down and there's a run that looks like an arrow pointing up and two crescent moons pointing away from each other on either side glowing green on my chest. " Our time is up lil one so I'll grant you a small boon to prove my leniency and to make you understand I can be your end or the very life thread for you." I feel another hit this time it feels like electric running through my body.
I snap awake just as the doctor is about to hit me with the paddles again, and as soon as I reach my hands up what looks like green claws shoot out destroying the defibrillator. The doctor jumps completely back to the wall pissing himself, my first thought was to tell him he saw nothing and that the machine short circuited. To which my surprise he gets a blank look and agrees like he's been put in a trance. I immediately grab my clothes, get dressed and run outside. Outside is a taxi I get in and inform the driver of my home address. "right away sir." suddenly the car peels out like a drag race and within minutes I'm home. I notice the meter and it's 40 credits, as I go to pay the driver stops me and says "On the house!" With a stupefied smile on his face, I thank him and rush inside locking the door behind me.
"What just happened? What the hell is going on!!!?" I scream "Please don't use that infant religion while I'm stuck with you." I hear Matul speaking again. "What did you do to me, what was that at the hospital and why can't I see you????" I hear a growl that would back a rampaging elephant down. "I told you I was granting you a boon and yet you don't listen, the claws will act like a survival instinct until you can control your emotions. As for the rest I suggest you look in the mirror." I rush to the bathroom and look at my face through the mirror, my normally silver blue eyes are now a sparking green that are almost hypnotic and my face seems to remind me of movie stars. Before I can ask more questions the house phone rings. "Where the hell are you? We've been waiting for three hours now, this better not be another one of your screw ups because you missed your alarm." I hear on the other side of the phone as I pick up. "No sir, actually I was in a accident. The bus lost control, the hospital sent me home and told me to not leave for the rest of the week due to a sprained ankle." I hastily make up a half truth. "Well this was your last straw, you're fired!" I hear a click as my only source of income is ripped away. Great what am I gonna do for money now?? "Hi there, you remember me?? The only reason you're alive, your personal God?." Matul says with some amusement and annoyance. "If I'm understanding this correctly you need stuff to trade in order for you to eat and survive right? money is what I keep hearing is something you mortals horde and trade. So why not use your parent's horde they kept it locked in the basement away from prying eyes..."
"author's note. so I haven't seen much of either way on either of these chapters so I'm probably just gonna delete them.