"You… agh… why do you have to behave like this, don't you
know that there's people looking at you outside?" After saying this he feels
once again the weird monster coming from in front of him, but and he was fast,
faster than he ever was, and it hits him straight in his own face. "It hurts"
says Mike but he soon realizes that there's no monster behind what just
happened to him but rather the cruel gaze of his mom that was aggressively
pointed towards him and that was so… dry. Wasn't her his savior, she just got
him out of that endless tunnel of pain that he was trapped in but still he
couldn't perceive from her words and from her gesture too non kind of
apprehension. He still didn't feel safe and how his mother approached him
didn't actually hurt his soul, what really did hurt him in fact wasn't what she
did to him but rather what she should have done but that she didn't do. Was
maybe her the monster? No. it couldn't be, then who was? To answer all those
questions and to feel a bit safer he goes to his room after his mom left him
with the attitude of somebody that has a lot of more important things to care
about and that cannot care about childish and stupid problems.
The kid walks down the hallway keeping his hand on the wall,
because at least the monster couldn't attack him from one of the sides, he
reaches the door and after safely entering his room he runs to a corner of the
room and he sits down over a soft plush. This corner was what he considered as
his safe place, his parents often complained about his 'weird behavior, for
example they thought that it was weird for him to sit on a corner of the room
when he could sit over his comfortable chair or over his luxurious bed. He used
to put on the corner of his room some stuffed toys, his pillow and he even used
his sheets to create an entrance to his den.
His parents to make him stop doing this, they often destroy everything
by putting all of the things back to their 'proper' place. That's why he used
to put everything back when he had to sleep and to create his little den once
again the day after. The day before he forgot to do so but anyway his parents
didn't destroy, maybe they didn't notice, it was his lucky day.
He loved to get into his little place and think or fantasize
a lot of things, but the reason he felt so good being there is because that
place was little and he felt like in control of everything there and, it was
also something that he built making it be even more important for him. But the
little amount of peace that he just received had soon to come to an end since
he had to hear the voices of his parents "William. You must do something about
this child, how is he going to be of any use for our family, how can a weird
and useless being like him serve any purpose, didn't you see what the other
children at the academy are capable of? He compared to them looks asleep for
how much dumb he is, he's 5 years old and he still knows less than 7 languages
as the school's programs requires for a guy of his age, being so stupid after
having the best means in the world! I'd be ashamed of myself if I was him, but
aside that I wanted to discuss with you about another 6 important matters and…
a half, why 6 and a half well basically…" his mother continued to talk nonstop
for another fifteen minutes, her voice was so fast that if you're not trained
it's hard to keep up with it. Mike could absolutely do it but he decided not to
do so, or rather it was his own mind that refused to hear what she had to say,
instead he kept thinking about his mother's words that wouldn't leave him
alone, he didn't care about the fact that he was a delusion for this parents
but rather because they considered weird and he quickly understood that he do
was. What just happened to him wasn't normal and it shouldn't be considered as
such. He felt that if wouldn't be over anytime soon.
"Ugh ahh…" Mike turns
around himself and what he sees is something that looks like an enormous cave,
or a minuscule one, he couldn't really tell, every was so flat but so deep, he
could have a mask over his face or he could be in a storm as big as a star he
would not notice the differences, the only thing he could notice were colors,
colored stripes were surrounding him, and they were moving so fast that he
could not distinguish one from the others, they blended together and formed an
enormous tissue of various colors. The colors were disposed in a weird way,
they were crossing one another like the colors of a picnic tablecloth. He felt
like he was immersed in a deep sea, his lungs were filling with a weird
substance that didn't bother him, it didn't make him panic like a drowning man
but it was instead very calming. Then he heard a voice, the figure was
approaching him from a while now, but he was so lost in his own mind that he
was able to perceive him only after he got really close to him. They both were
in his unconscious but anyway he didn't find if weird that another being aside
from him could wander without any problem or restriction in his mind and do as
he pleased, or we could say that he couldn't do anything about it, since even
if he understood the danger the emotion that were moving around him so quickly
couldn't let him choice of his own free will.
"Come here, I want to bring you in a special place" the
figure that was near him finally spoke to him, it was a creature that looked
like a little childe like him, it had over his body various colors too but his
main color was blue and he was very shiny, anyway it still looked like a human,
or rather like siren, a male and young one, since some of his facial feature
looked like the one of a fish, his facial traits were also very soft and
pleasant and his hair were of a darker shade of blue but they were opaque.
"Hey. Who are you? Are you me?" Mike thought that him was just something created by his own imagination since it
looked as a creature from a fantasy story and he also knew that he was inside
his own mind at the moment but anyway the creature answers "NO, I' m not what
you think, my aspect is indeed made by you, or rather by your unconscious that
reacted with the emotions that I brought with me. But that doesn't mean that I'
m you." Mike wanted to believe what he just heard even if he didn't any choice
anyway, but still he thought that the kid had surely a strong power and that if
he wanted to do anything to him he would already have done it without any
problem, so as the man that is sick listen to his doctor and does what he says
without asking proof for anything in particular so him chose to do in the
regard of the little kid. There was one thing that he wanted to ask him though,
not because of doubt but for sheer curiosity. "Where will you bring me? Will it
help me?"
The little kid while idly floating hears his question and
says "This place is a place in your memories that only you know, so I don't
know and I can't know where you will end up, also because you are not as simple
as most were from your dead specie, so it'd be hard for me to analyze
everything that goes through your mind, the only thing that I can do is to
bring you there following the strong emotion that created a path in your mind,
my only power here is to manifest here and to bring you to one of the memories
that feels very important to you and wish you the best, since even I cannot
know what happens afterwards, but what I know is that it will change you
forever. I can't say if in better or worse, this is probably up to you". Mike convincing himself to do as he was told
considering the word of that kid that acted as anything but an actual kid. He
decides to follow him floating in his direction, the kid understanding Mike's
intentions since he could feel Mike's emotions over his own skin, he begins to
move himself toward the place that he intended to bring him from the beginning,
then Mike says "Ok, I'll follow you, but maybe… could you tell me who actually
are you?" Mike felt like everything around him was changing so fast and he
wanted to ask him this to slow things down, even if just by a little bit. The
kid says without turning to him and without stopping to move "you'll get it
when you get out of here if you'll live soon enough, but naturally I can't
guarantee that to you, since I can't guarantee anything for my own self… how
could I be able to protect others, (and then he says with a lower tone) or why
should I have a reason to do so".
His words disappeared as he was speaking since his tone has
got always lower and more confused, when Mike asked his question, he saw that
the kid didn't stop, so fearing that he'd be left behind he didn't stop too,
against that he accelerated trying to reach him until both of them disappeared.
Mike looks around him, he is once more in a different place,
and he is once again a little kid, a little less little but still very little,
so he doesn't remember what has happened to him just now, he also doesn't
remember the battle that he is currently in and neither the kid he just met,
it's just him and nothing else. He looks around, he is at school, the academy
in which he passes the most amount of time of his life, his class it's as
beautiful as always, the decoration that are all around him would make greedy
any king or emperor or king of history even though he was on a "simple" academy
and in a class that was frequented by kids. The academy he went to, was a very
free academy but at he same time it was also full of foolish rules, for example
classes didn't distinguish themselves for the age of the kids that were a part
of it but rather on knowledge, in fact some of his friends in his class were a
little younger than him and some also very older. He was a prodigy even for
that school, but he still wasn't part of any of the various school councils,
and that make her mother worry since
their family was very important so Mike should have also been one of the
best in that school too. The classes were enormous, and they were surrounded by
nature, but there was none kind of dangerous animals, insect or plant near the
school, but that didn't mean that the kids that were frequenting it were a
couple of spoiled kids, instead the school had an almost brutal way to train his students and to make them study,
and the school was so efficient that it never failed, meaning that everyone of
his students became a genius that could be considered as one of the smartest
humans of the Earth of that time.
But as Mike was studying, he perceives something weird,
everything looked very brown, yellowish, and then he looks at his hands… and
they had disappeared!