"Hey Kennedy! Wait up!" Yelled a boy of about 16 across a crowded high
school hallway. A beautiful girl of about the same age pauses and turns to
see her best friend Jason run at her at full force so that they could leave
to hang out, it was the last day of school and they were both eager to get
the Hell out of there. Just as Kennedy was about to respond, she felt an
extremely uncomfortable tingle all over her body, then out of nowhere she
felt something spread like vines over her entire body, and when she looked
at her arms they were covered with lines of black, like some sort of weird,
tribal tattoo, however this totally covered her body, face included. She
looked in the locker mirror of a girl who was packing up her things just
before stopping to stare at her in a strange combination of wonder and
fear. When she looked into the mirror, what looked back at her was the
most horrific thing she had ever seen looking right back at her. Her once
shoulder length brown hair was now much longer and as black as midnight on
the new moon, her face was covered with the same markings as her arms and
legs, and the worst of all were her eyes, they were beyond black, they were
like what black wants to be when it grows up, they actually seemed to
radiate the color. She looked back at her best friend and, if possible was
even more mortified than when she saw her reflection. Her best friend's
face was contorted in a look of sheer and utter disgust and cold hatred,
she saw out of the corner of her eyes, through which she saw surprisingly
clearly considering they were black, her older brother run down the hall to
see what was up and actually vomited at the sight of his freak of a sister.
Kennedy's confusion and fear was suddenly totally overcome by anger at the sight of these people she had gone to school and lived with all her life, everyone that she had ever known and cared for, aside from relatives, looking at her as if she were sent from Hell and about to kill all of them or torture them for days on end. Then, as quickly as these changes occurred she felt some weird sensation at her hands like something fell out of her hands, but when she looked down what she saw freaked her out almost as much as her sudden change in appearance. Strong, black tendrils erupted from her fingertips and flung towards her brother, holding him in a bone-crushing embrace, slowly squeezing the life from him. Almost immediately the anger was replaced by more fear and confusion as she dropped her now unconscious brother to the ground as the tendrils loosened and withdrew back to her fingertips. Just then the principal decided to see what the commotion was and as soon as he saw Kennedy the first word to pass his lips was, "Mutant" Just then everyone, including Kennedy, figured out was going on. One of their very own students, one of the quiet kids they had classes with that they actually thought to be a "cool kid" had just been exposed. All of the fear and confusion were replaced by hatred, disgust, and betrayed trusts. The words "FRIEK!" and "MUTIE BASTARD!!!!" were heard all throughout the school and Kennedy knew that before the day was done everyone in the town, including her parents, would know, and she assumed his parents would be devastated and try to understand. She was dead wrong. Her parents had already put her clothes and things on their porch before she got home with a note that said that they didn't want to taint their household with a "Demon Child", as they were extremely religious, and they told her never to come back, on the back was a prayer for mercy on his soul and there was a vial of holy water, which he angrily threw through the window on the door, shattering it and the bottle all over the hall floor.
Kennedy's confusion and fear was suddenly totally overcome by anger at the sight of these people she had gone to school and lived with all her life, everyone that she had ever known and cared for, aside from relatives, looking at her as if she were sent from Hell and about to kill all of them or torture them for days on end. Then, as quickly as these changes occurred she felt some weird sensation at her hands like something fell out of her hands, but when she looked down what she saw freaked her out almost as much as her sudden change in appearance. Strong, black tendrils erupted from her fingertips and flung towards her brother, holding him in a bone-crushing embrace, slowly squeezing the life from him. Almost immediately the anger was replaced by more fear and confusion as she dropped her now unconscious brother to the ground as the tendrils loosened and withdrew back to her fingertips. Just then the principal decided to see what the commotion was and as soon as he saw Kennedy the first word to pass his lips was, "Mutant" Just then everyone, including Kennedy, figured out was going on. One of their very own students, one of the quiet kids they had classes with that they actually thought to be a "cool kid" had just been exposed. All of the fear and confusion were replaced by hatred, disgust, and betrayed trusts. The words "FRIEK!" and "MUTIE BASTARD!!!!" were heard all throughout the school and Kennedy knew that before the day was done everyone in the town, including her parents, would know, and she assumed his parents would be devastated and try to understand. She was dead wrong. Her parents had already put her clothes and things on their porch before she got home with a note that said that they didn't want to taint their household with a "Demon Child", as they were extremely religious, and they told her never to come back, on the back was a prayer for mercy on his soul and there was a vial of holy water, which he angrily threw through the window on the door, shattering it and the bottle all over the hall floor.