Peter: part 2 I would go on a seeing quest to find the truth. I would metamorphisis my mind through time, I could do it, it wasn't impossible. Nothing is unless you give up hope which I never will. I sat down and started the changes. I felt like a yoyo at first. Back and forward not able to hold where I wanted to be.
It's like walking the dog, you know the trick on the yoyo where you try and keep it down on the floor and then it shoots forward. Anyway I caused small pain to myself and a nose bleed but I finally did it. It was this room. I had often had dreams about it. I was watching a battle. It was the same one I saw earlier except it was from a different angle so that I could see the boys face.
I placed it in my memory, then he used psychic power to throw this wolf that felt wrong right at me. I held it, it was going to attack him from behind which I think is cheating. I watched him totally obliterate the pirate guy. He then took this big crystal that was like mine plus his times two. He put it over these skeletons and then saw four cribes.
He then picked up the crystal again and seemed to concerntrate. It split four ways and he locked each one away for a day in the future. I don't know if he noticed but his, and come to think of it mine where glowing, He teleported the babies away draining a lot of power. I knew he needed it to get back so I donated him half of mine. I'm not evil, not like some people, I could understand his reason for coming back, it was something that had to be done. I realsied then, that he was my older brother. I don't know why he couldn't sense me, he was obviously an adept psychic. It took a moment for what I had thought to actually sink in, and then surprise hit me.
So this was my brother, back from the future. It felt wierd seeing him we didn't look much alike but that was probably his doing. That moment the wolf leapt free from me right at him. I called out and he seemed to hear suubconsiously and caught the wolf. That instant a white bubble apeared around him and he was sucked back. I felt that there was not much I could do now except close this portal above the house.
I caused the morphing power to seal it up. I was then shot through time, something was pulling me. I stopped at this house, I had less than a quarter of my power left, I drew strength from all the animals around and saw this phantom like figgure chasing a little kid that bore a resembalence to my sibling. He ran into this old house.
A few minutes later he re-appeared with some ghosts. They tried to use there power to banish him, they stood no chance alone so I helped. I scrambled his powers slightly. That made it easier for them. He owed me twice now. I travelled back to my own body in the forrest. I found that it was only two in the afternoon and I had untill tea time to get back.
I spent most of the time either practising the symbol or updating some of the files on creatures that I had. I looked up the wolf and it turns out to be known as Shadowghost. The phantom was called Phantom and both were supposed to not be able to go further. But as you have already have found out they can. I believe that because Mike is over the normal boundry of power that his creatures can also go over theres which can result in them evolving, He didn't mention that, did he? well, it was shortly after he arrived at the island, he sort of got into this fight with someone how had like no power, but then they got power from the darkness and summoned this demonlike thing, or so I've been told, I remember feeling a change in the metaphysical properties of reality, and then the presence of something that wasn't an animal I was familiar with. I don't think the other boy, who even later than that, I found out was called Jason, knew what he had done, or was doing, which sort of made sense, the powers of darkness and stuff can act through people, even the unwilling.
I think that was after Jane had shown up, anyway, that was like their first taster of the forces of evil, and they had nothing to combat it with, that's when Jane used like some kind of shapeshifting power to force both the Shadowghost and Phantom into a higher evolutionary stage. Which was like odd, because I'm sure I read somewhere that only one of us was supposed to have the ability to change the shape of things, which made me wonder whether I'd been thinking about my own power in the right way. I could do more than just become the animals, I could talk to them, so perhaps I actually had the divine power, which is all this nature stuff, anyway.
I wondered if some of my captured beasts could do that. It was an amazing sence of power, of control, of evil. No not evil just like it. A cold shiver ran down my spine when I thought this. Would we turn out like that evil circus ring master person. I hoped not, he seemed over the boundry aswell. Maybe a level ten. It was hard to tell.
I drifted out of a sort of day dream to find a friend sitting beside me. It was Inocent. Her real name isn't known and neither is her home. She is one with the forrest as it were. She spoke softly, almost in a honey voice that relaxed muscles. She seemed to be able to read minds yet had no power at all. She asked "Anything wrong?." at first I didn't think there was but as I thought about it my mind changed.
"Yes, but I don't want to talk about it, it's not safe for you or for me." she smiled and placed her arm inside mine and the words blurted out at such a speed I was sure she didn't hear them "Destiny awaits me, and I don't like it one bit." she took a deep breath and after several seconds silence she continued "Well, the future can be altered, we are friends aren't we, so lets talk about it, I'll listen while you tell me." My reply was slow and seemed to be drawn out.
"I have to save the world, I'm one of the chosen, everything rests upon my shoulders as it where, and it doesn't look to hopeful from my point of view, or for that matter yours or anybody elses, which is a shame, I like it here, but I have to go." She stared for a long time in what seemed to be a hypnotic trance.
"I will go with you, if it will allow you to feel better, but I feel that this is your battle and you can do it." her words where only a slight help and I knew deep down that she had to stay here and protect this forrest, it felt like it had some hidden secret that must be protected. "I need to go alone, you must stay here and protect this forrest"
A feeling of deep regret filled me but I knew that it was right. I asked a favour before she started to vanish as usual. "What are you protecting, can I see it?." she smiled and vanished, where she had been was a symbol on the ground, it could have been my imagination though, I couldn't be sure. That was the thing about spirits, even ones able to take solid form, they often left you more confused than when they arived.
I decided to go home, the sky was darkening and I felt a sudden chill run down my back. I wasn't up to moving so I morphed into Chigon. The teleporting power was all I wanted really. I teleported and demorphed myself. I was back in my slightly small room, on my own, thinking, Inocent was such a strange girl. That night I must have tossed and turned a bit for later in the story when I awoke I was on the floor in a puddle of sweat and breathing like I was out of breath. But that is later on, I had funny dreams that night that made sence when I was awake. I dreampt that I was back in the forrest and Inocent was leading me somewhere. We came to this cave like place.
I dreampt that we entered and kept going for what seemed to be miles, no light years. Eventually we came to a waterful that ran upwards gaurded by four statues that seemed to be alive yet dormant. They were of a Griffin, A pheonix, A dragon and a unicorn. The eyelids didn't feel real but more like an illusion.
I dreampt that they looked into me as I passed. I felt all my secrets and personal history being looked through for any evidence that I should not be allowed entry. Eventually the feeling of numbness stopped and I no longer felt like someone was walking over my grave. I reeled my mind back in, It seemed to have gone wandering away.
I dreampt that I climbed the stairs infinitly, until the infinite came to an abrupt stop. There was a slide going straight down. You couldn't see the bottom. I had never had virtigo, but right then at the top of that steep drop I felt it all the way up my spine and down the other side. I shut my eyes and when I oppened them several seconds later the slide was behind me and I was on solid ground.
I dreampt that there was a gateway, we walked through it and I felt all evil things in me vanish. I felt young, like a child only wiser. As I looked light surrounded me, I had not realised before how dark and mirky it had been. We then came to a pool of lava. Without thinking we leapt through. I dreampt that we were now in a spherical room staring at a pedastol upon which three stones were placed. They glowed a soft harmonious colour. I had heard of these before they were the three lost stones. Never touched by evil and purer that gold. They kept up most of the balance and should not be touched by darkness.
I dreampt that a vission of the future popped into my head, these were the three stones that could stop Orad from coming through and forever seal the gateway. I felt a warm glow inside as Inocent drew upon the ground a complicated symbol representing the three crystals. It went straight into my memory were I couldn't retrive it until it wanted to be retrived.
I dreampt that the scene changed and it was a battlefield. Mystical beasts where flying above and scavaging around on the ground. Dead bodies littered the ground for as far as the eye could see. I heard in the back of my head voices. But they sounded slightly off, like a radio near a station three rooms away. I had fallen onto the sodden earth and was kneeling.
I dreampt that the voices stopped but it was a long time untill I could get up. Rivers of blood surrounded me as I stood. I called out and all the beasts stopped what they where doing and came over. They formed a giant half circle infront of me. Tears were in their eyes and scars lay across their battered and bruised body. I rose up above the ground in part Chigon morph.
I dreampt that I asked what was going on. One word that they all said at the same time was 'Diniac', Diniac was another word for the dark forces, was this the Earth after they had been set free?. Layed bare and stripped of all its light and purity. Where were the Diniac now, back to the beggining place.
I dreampt that the beggining place was where everything started and once was a place where beings that were neither good or evil but balanced once existed. Then something had happened to seperate them and all the true power was given to good which abolished the then weak evil. It had grown since.
I dreampt that such a place would, could wipe out gods and goddesses. If the evil got hold of this nothing could stop it. Beyond eternity and infinity of torture and termoil. I shuddered and started to fade. I was returning to the real world before I got all the answers if ever there where answers.
I awoke with a start. Cold, sweat surrounded me, I was on the floor again and part through Chigon morph. I demorphed and relised that against all my expectations it was another morning of another day. The trip was getting closer, I could almost feel the evil radiating back from when I was there, or will be there, that's the tricky thing about writing two different times and then you get a middle one.
I was unfocused and my power seemed to be nearly diminished. I went into meditation. I drew in power from around me channeling it into my non existant power cells. It sounds crazy, but if you cut me open, which I don't recomend I get very angry at even the thought of such things, you would find no-where for my power to be stored. Very confussing but you get used to it.
Thursday. The absolute best day in the entire week. It makes sure that Wednesday is over, and the weekend is less distance away. It had all my favourite T.V programs on, which I would watch if we had a T.V. Anyway the last of our stuff was being taken away today, that meant no more beds, or stuff you keep untill the last minute.
I couldn't believe we would be flying on an actual plane over an actual ocean to an actual foreign land. I don't meen to sound so enthusiastic, I like flights you get food and sometimes a film or something to watch. You know what I hate the terms 'good and evil' they sound so one sided. The enemy do what they do for a reason, because they opose us, does that make them evil.
What right do we have to stop them from living?. The right to life and freedom, I suppose but don't they desserve the same thing?. they have families like us, they die like us, they hate us like we hate them. But thats life, survival of the race with the biggest and powerfulest weapons. Which is probably us actually. I realised that i shouldn't think these thoughts, they were unhealthy.
Anyway, I have finished my speech on equal rights now back to the not one bit perfect world that we have to live in. I did some warm up exercises. I had been drafted into a good old fashioned game of Footy. I'm usually goaly or something like that, once I was captain, we won thirteen nil. But I was only temporary, our usual captain had the flu.
As I was saying, it was Thursday, the best day in the entire week. I had planed a trip to see an old friend in hospital whom had been knocked down by a car, run over like a billion times, given a too high voltage jab in the ambulance, given a lethal injection of morphine, and that was all before his accident.
He lay in a deep sleep, in a misshaped heap sprawled across the bed. Little if anything was left to be seen of his flesh. You could see his mouth, eyes, end of his hands, toes and a little bit of his stomach before it vanished under the sheets. To see him for the first time would make you cringe. It looked like all his bones where broken or out of place.
The sight made you think of a girls doll thrown in a tantrum across the room to wear cobwebs for clothes and not to see the light of day less it be from a garbage can. He was a year older than me and had been better than a brother to be for the brief time that I knew him. He knew things about the future, of what he called backward readouts. His theory on life was that time was going backwards.
Higher beings lived in real time and thats why they know how the war ended but not how it started. You have to think about it, they are not on a higher plane of existance, nor are we on a lower one, they are level, but far apart. Occasionally a being is born who exists on both planes and that one is known as an Equalizer. They are more powerful than anything.
I sat down in the seat. I reached down deep and inside this shell that lay before me I found life. It was in the far recesses of his mind. A battle, between him and his alter ego that was trying to tear him apart. They where locked. I touched down and threw the alter ego far away. It was done by metamorphising the personification to another part of the mind.
It wouldn't last long. I wasn't very good at it. We sat down and we talked. You know these equalizers I talked about, well he's the grandson of one. The power has been diluted and at this time he was no where near recovering. The only way to snap him out of the sleep was to join the two halves together and bind them like that. I had practiced for weeks trying just that getting a little closer each time.
He came running over thin air, for that is what we were on. They leapt at each other and I wispered the binding spell. The energy formed a ball at the end of my hand and shot out wrapping the two together. They howled as it drew to a knot and just like in the song, two become one.
We snapped out of the trance we were in. I had finally done what I had always hoped to do, get that silly coma over and done with. I could now go on to battle the enemy and save the world. I felt all the stress I had been feeling simply fly away. If I shut my eyes I could even see it.
I left intensive care and morphed home. Basically it meant moving my body matter from one place to another. A kind of metamorphis. I think it was a random thought that had been going around my head for a long time. I decided to pick up a few battle morphs. The local animal sanctuary has some of the fiersest creatures known to humans.
I picked up some money and headed for the santuary. They had a special attraction. Piranas, Bears, Tigers, Falcons and the deadliest creature of them all the Angel Fish. No seriously it is. It is also the smartest and best deceiver of the animal world.
I decided that I wasn't stupid enough to try and get that morph. It would be like signing my death warant. Which I have already done in my drunken state. I had to unsign it though when I woke up and realised a madman with a missile luancher was after me.
The secret life of a super hero. No not a hero, a last desperate hope. Not even that the war would continue if we died. I was nothing a no-one. A something with little if any chance of survival. I liked that idea, no chance, it almost made me feel like I could do it.
Anyway. Travelling back to the old current story at hand. I was at the sanctuary. I got four animal morphs. The four I told you about earlier. I then went to the back bit. I went through a tent that was there and gave the password. Now I could get some real fire power.
Zanotereas, Degoraticals, Sentinals and about twenty others. New monster morphs. The biggest, fastest and strongest in captivity. I was then on my absolute limmit for that level. I would have to go up another two before I could get any more. The wait of the world isn't on one persons shoulders. It's on four, but it can be shared. All you have to do is find someone who is also in the same predicament right. It got me thinking. Sibling bio-relationships. Technical but farely easy to understand. Bassically its a concept that suggests that though they never met they can still feel the pressence of each other or absence of something.
My theory is that you could use this like a map. You trace along the paths and bingo. You find someone like you. Or just related to you. Conversion was the only problem. You had to then in essence become your impulses to travel with them to your companion. You didn't need magic rings, or hocus pocus like that, not that I knew about the ring then.
I pulled out the laptop and scanned through my aquired morphs.
Oh, yeah, I forgot to tell you how I got hold of my Chigon morph, basically i found a Chigon hair as a fossil in a museum. Not very interesting but that's the story anyway. I found one of the late aquirements. Sentinal can trace energy through anything.
I brought out sentinal and it started to evolve, or like I made it start, and then it continued. It became Guardknight. Very impressive. A Guardknight can actually carry a passenger inside it and is the most loyal of creatures and one of the smartest for the Humanlike family. That's only in its looks though. I used to have a Guardknight as one of my favourite monsters but soon realised it very unlikely thhat I would get one because there has only been one other sighting.
Now I had my own. I don't like giving orders. But Guardknight, nick-named G.K., reached out for my hand. I gave it and suddenly I was inside G.K., it was quite amazing really. I told it I would like it to trace my sibling bio relationships to the second or first nearest person. It closed it eyes and a buzzing started.
It opened then and we were still in the same place. I felt the confusion running through it. It closed its eyes and the buzzing was louder and longer. But again when it opened them we were still in the same place. I got out realising that higher powers were at work. Blocking all forms of communication between us.
That's the kind of thing that can reach critical anger. There was a huge explosion of raw energy. I felt it ripple time and space. I found myself, G.K., and about ten trees onto of a hill behind a girl sitting on her own. She had hazelnut brown hair, she wore a gentle perfume and was floatine several inches above the ground using shadow power.
I was about to call out when there was an anti-ripple and I was back in the woods, all alone. Was it possible that she, this hazelnut haired girl was in actual fact my long lost older sister?. A tear ran down my face. I touched the ground and there was a deep rumble. The heavens oppened from what had previously been a cloudless sky.
Lightning struck near by and was followed quickly by a deep rich rumbling. I felt sick and realised that I was spinning. The ground under me was spinning and I felt static charge in the air. Then before me was a bird. It looked like it was pure electricity. It bowed down and spoke.
"Greetings one of Chosen, I am Zake, the electric bird, and your protector." It was noble and seemed beyond honest and into believable. "Protect me from what", I carefully replied. It took some time to answer which made me worry. "You will see when the time is right. I am to protect all of you, though you will be the one who can call me." All of us?, the Chosen first line of deffence against the enemy.
I didn't quite buy it. I mean why would we need protecting. "Why me, I doubt that I'm the strongest or most worthy of it, am I?" the bird cocked its head to the left and said "It is you on the inside that matters and you are the only one who will have the strength enough to call me, when the time is right." That scared me, the thought that we might become powerless, I had always had my powers and rather liked them.
Just then it looked up and gave a hoarse cry. Above was a black bird that radiated evil and hate. Zake Concentrated and inside my crystal grew a tiny lightning symbol, then it took of and started to attack the dark bird. That instant I was whirled back to normal time. I went home with my nerves in tatters.
I slept heavily that night and when Friday finally came I was on the verge of mindlessness. I wolfed down three cups of black coffee no sugar, two cups half full of sugar and a glass of ice cold milk. Now I was woken up I had to calm my nerves. Ten bars of 500g of chocolate and a lolly pop. Comfort food. I needed it.
I bought a map with the remnants of my pocket money. I took of my crystal in the roof conversion we had and spread the map out. On each corner a put an element like paper clip. If you looked at one you would swear that it was the element. I put the crystal in the centre. The scrying spell took two minutes to say. My crystal rose up and moved to my rough location.
"I command you to move to the location of the hazelnut haired girl I saw yesterday!." movement, light, heat, are all good words but non of them happened. "I command you by the power of the Chosen, protectors of this realm and by all elements in my power to move." It shook violantly. I was about to bring down the worst item curse I knew when it started to move.
"Yes, thats it show me." then it moved back to my location. I mumbled the curse three times over and it started to move again. It got about an inch and was forced back. I summoned the element of earth to my aid aand it was shaking worse than a tanker in a sea hurricane. It scraped across the page, which then cought fire and burnt to ashes.
The other power was too strong for me alone. I could call Andrew my cousin who had some hidden great power to help and he wasn't in hospital. He could bring his friends if they had any power, but I decided against it. I oppened the window and blew the smoke out with my giant, recently formed wings.