Chapter One
The Catalyst.
I was walking home when a storm started to blow over from the west. I wasn't all that concerned, as it was normal to have storms this time of year. As I continued walking the wind died down and I suddenly felt uneasy. I started to walk faster in order to reach my destination by the time the storm broke and the downpour started. I looked up wondering how long it would take for the storm to get to close. The next thing I remember is hearing a sizzle and being surrounded by a bright light
I woke up in the Emergency section of the local hospital. There were people going back and forth shouting to each other though I was too drowsy to understand what they were saying. A doctor looked down at me and said
"What is your name?"
"I…I…I think it's Sheidow. Sheidow Makheerya." I replied.
"Where do live?"
"I…I…oh." And I passed out on the bed.
"Where am I?" I asked the nurse.
"You're awake. I'll get the doctor to see you." Said the nurse as she walked out the room and closed the curtains. I eventually realized that I was lying in a hospital bed and my right eye felt strange. I looked up to the ceiling of the building and immediately realized that something had happened to my right eye, it was like looking through a computer. A digital screen was there, instead of the normal vision we all have.
"Hello. I'm Dr. Ventrilla. You're the girl who passed out on me this morning." Said the doctor as she walked in.
"What's wrong with my eye?" I demanded.
"We had to…replace your eye because it was…burnt away." Replied Dr. Ventrilla hesitantly.
"Um…how…uh…did that…happen?" I asked in the same sort of tone.
"You were hit by lightning. It struck your eye." Said Dr. Ventrilla in a semi-sympathetic tone.
"Oh." I said as I looked down. "So you replaced it with a tech eye."
"Yes." Answered Dr. Ventrilla as she wrote down something, I'm not too sure what it was even to this day. "Do you feel any pain or tingling?"
"No."
"What about your senses? Is there anything different about them?"
"No."
"Oh. Do you feel 100% then do you?" Inquired the doctor with a smirk on her face.
"Yes."
"What?" Said the doctor immediately wiping the smirk off and becoming deadly serious, "You feel no different than before?"
"No, I don't feel any different."
"You were struck by LIGHTNING! You had 1 MILLION VOLTS of ELECTRICITY run through you and you STILL feel the same?!?" Exclaimed Dr. Ventrilla, her eyes wide with shock.
"Yes."
"But…but that can't be! Very few people SURVIVE a lightning strike and the ones that do have normal electric shock SYMPTOMS! If what you're saying is true you…you must be some kind of…FREAK!"
"Well I feel fine!" And I got up and stormed out past the curtains and to the sign out desk.
"Wait!" Dr. Ventrilla shouted as she raced to catch up with me. "I want to talk about this."
"Sheidow Makheerya" I told the clerk.
"What do you think you're doing! You can't sign out now!" Pursued the doctor.
"I can and will!" I said as I handed the papers back to the clerk. "Thank you."
"You're making a very stupid decision!" Dr. Ventrilla warned.
"Whatever!" I replied as I walked out the hospital.
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