Chapter 6

Jake

I could not believe it! She did it all so fast! A total blur. From the back flip on the couch in her sitting position to being on the ceiling. My mind was trying to catch up from all of it.

Marianne was waving her hand up and down in front of my face. "Hellooooo!" she said. "Anybody home?" She laughed again. "Oh c'mon you haven't seen nothing yet!" With that, she grew huge in a blurry motion. None of her outer clothing had ripped! It easily stayed on her when she morphed into... a Tyrannosaurus Rex. All in a matter of two seconds.

I was very terrified, thinking that she'd try to eat me in a few seconds. I remember when I had first morphed the Tyrannosaurus when my friends and I were stuck in the Cretaceous Period, the last age of the dinosaurs. The instincts were so difficult to control. The king of the prehistoric giants was an enormous killing and eating machine with no fear.

Marianne was bending her huge Tyrannosaurus head down to focus one of her eyes at me. I fell down flat on my butt when I saw that huge square head was looming over me. I was really scared. As if my thoughts were read so easily, Marianne said to me in thought speak, Relax Jake. My powers are much stronger than this beast's instincts. I can take over any animals instincts so easily. It's almost like the morphing I do have no animal instincts whatsoever! Yet I can still feel the animal brain. But I can push it away for no problem.

I staggered backward a bit, shocked and in disbelief. "This is impossible!" I said. "I tried morphing the Tyrannosaurus when I came back to the present-" Through the Sario Rip from the Cretaceous Period, I know! I have read the second Megamorphs at least twice already. And another thing? Almost nothing is impossible for me.

She immediately changed into another form. Only it was not her own, but a orange Velociraptor covered in black stripes, outlined in white shrank and emerged from the Tyrannosaurus morph. About the size of an average man, the dinosaur had a white feathered crest near the top of its head. When I was not aware, Marianne pounced onto me so fast that I never noticed she moved. Her heavy weight of the Velociraptor had me pinned to the floor. "Ahhhh!" I screamed. Boo. Marianne said, mockingly. I like doing that to Human-Controllers and other Controllers, in their dreams. Even to Visser One if I felt like it. I felt a warm sensation with the horrifying fear that tingled all over me. I had just wet myself.

"What are you trying to do?! Scare the life out of me?!" I cried in terror. Marianne got up and changed back to her original, human form. I squirmed away a few feet. "It's only a part of a demonstration I'm doing." Marianne replied to me. Shaking, I said, "Whatever you're doing, you sure are doing a great job of it." "Thank you!" Marianne responded with a grin on her face that disturbed me. "But could you make your demonstration a little less frightening please?" I asked, still shaking. Marianne noticed my little accident then. "Sure, no problem." she said calmly, with a blank expression.

"So, if I heard correctly, you can do almost anything. So out of all things, what can't you do?" I asked Marianne. She answered me without hesitation. "I can't time travel. Sorry, I wish I could, but I can't. Nobody can be totally invincible you know. Every living creature has a weakness. Supposedly even the all evil Crayak has a weakness. I don't know what though. I wish I knew..." She paused for a second. "Crayak seems to know of my presence, because lately I have not been able to reach him." "What about the Ellimist?" I asked. "Can you reach him?" "Yup," Marianne replied. "He and I chat occasionally. We play chess, drink tea, and so on..." That drew another surprise there. "Why hasn't he told me about you?" She shrugged, "I don't know. I guess he knew I wasn't ready to talk to you yet."

She then gave what seemed like a smirk and she questioned, "Want to know where I got that cool Velociraptor from?" I leaned forward. She continued, "Have you ever heard of a video game called Primal Rage?"

After this flash of blinding light for a second, I saw this arcade game in some fast food restaurant. The words came in my head so quickly as the upcoming images. Bert's Restaurant was the name of the fast food place.

Have you ever fast forwarded through the previews or through parts of a movie that you didn't like? That's how Marianne's imagery thinking came inside me.

Then came the arcade again in another millisecond. That Velociraptor I had seen a minute ago was fighting with this bigger, bluish dinosaur. This one that had a cobra's head, two Tyrannosaurus-like arms, and a long thin tail. Vertigo. The name of the creature who was fighting the raptor. Talon was the raptor. The names had come to me so quickly that I didn't realize it at first. After another flash of blinding bright light, I was shown the top of the arcade game, along with other fast images I can't remember easily. All I can remember during the rest of that time were only two words. Primal Rage...that was the name of that arcade game.

After yet another blinding flash of light, I was facing Marianne again. "Whoa." I said, feeling a little dizzy. "I guess you had enough for a while." she said, giving me that disturbing grin on her face again. It seemed like some kind of game to her almost.

"Feeling hungry? Follow me to the kitchen. I'm gonna fix up my favorite breakfast." With that, she grabbed my arm. I was being dragged with her to the Purple Cube's kitchen.