Chapter 2
Well, there isn't much more to say. All that is left is me, but I am a weird one. How can I describe myself to you when I don't even know what is going on? Anyway, I will give it a shot.
You see, I apparently have powers that nobody understands. Now, I can't explain it, but I will try to sum it up from the limited knowledge I do have. You see, I seem to be psychic. I have talked to Sam after one of our many training sessions. He says that I have abilities.
The way he put it was that I could read people's surface thoughts. I found it crazy at first, but he explained it to me. The way he put it was that I was countering moves before he did them. I knew where to and where not to be at all times, it was freaking him out.
Sam also said that I have telekinesis. I beg to differ. I have never used it, so how could I have it. It is like a tail, I don't have it, so who thinks I am using it. All I know is that Sam said that he saw my eyes glow a few times. Just like his, only my eyes were blue, his were bloodred. I think it has something to do with the eye colour. My eyes are blue and his were red-brown, so who knows.
At first I didn't believe him but he convinced me. He told me about how anything that had telekinesis being used on it, it glowed in the colour of the eyes. You see, in one of our recent fights, I could see the rocks he was using turn bright blue. He said his were red. That really got my attention.
On top of all this, I was the only one who could use telepathy outside of morph. Everyone else could only use the telepathy in morph, but I was able to use it outside of morph. I also tend to pick up thought speak that I'm not supposed to hear. It was really weird. I was able to listen in on things that weren't meant for me. At some times, at least when I concentrated on it. I have only done it a few times, but it is weird.
To go on top of all that crap, I have been having dreams. Weird ones. These dreams are very realistic, they actually have me convinced that I am there, doing those things. It was all fine and dandy until they started getting closer to plausibility. Many of them didn't seem realistic, maybe wishful thinking, but you could tell it was one of those dreams. They had a totally different feel. But me taking on an entire army of hork bajir? Right.
It was all harmless, until about three of them came true. Little things, but they followed the exact path. Even them, I was sceptical. I dismissed it as an extreme case of deja vu. But they kept persisting, and it got annoying. It was almost as if I could see the future. It was freaky, but I kept it to myself, thought it was better that way.
That was until the same one kept persisting. It was of the ocean, with rolling waves and fishes, and water, of course. The dream was me flying inches above the water. I was hearing something, but didn't, couldn't understand what was being said until I got there.
It was a voice calling for help. That was about as much as I got at first, but I eventually started getting hints of actual words.
{Help me, I am in trouble, my life could end at any moment, please help me.}
It was an andalite, I could tell that by the sound of the voice. It was weird, I had only ever heard two andalites speak, Visser Three and Elfangor. This one sounded vaguely similar to Elfangor, and it was desperate. It was also repetitive.
{Help me! Help me!} like the guy off the fly. Really irritating. By the time I stopped dreaming, I could make a giant circle shape under the water. Then I would wake up.
Overall, the dreams were odd and irritating, but I was dealing with it.
One night, after a particularly realistic dream, I woke up to see that it was probably three in the morning. I checked my new watch. It read, 1:52 AM. I rolled over. Oh, Crap, gotta get back to bed now. I thought to myself.
I tired to go back to sleep, but it was completely in vain. After about ten minutes of rolling around, I gave up and got some clothes on and left the house. (No, I wasn't naked, I was sleeping in the same big room with another guy. I had some boxers on.)
Unfortunately, we live out in the woods, so there is absolutely no artificial light whatsoever. All we had was the stars and moon, which happened to be out in force tonight.
I waled along the meadow adjacent to our house for a while before giving up and making my way back to civilization. I though, oh, what the heck, I wasn't tired, so I might as well raid a seven-eleven.
I walked through the empty, dark forest, trying to interpret the dream onca again. Once again, not coming to any new conclusion. Plus, the forest was full of distraction. The rustling bushes. Al the bugs, and the occasional howling. It was almost scary, except I was wilderness-smart. I knew the basics in wilderness trekking. 'Stay away from them and they will stay away from you.' It worked so far, so I wasn't worried.
After about half an hour of walking, I finally made it to Cassie's barn to be greeted with surprise.
{AAAH! Tobias!} Cassie yelled at Tobias.
{Sorry, just thought you were a regular squirrel.} he replied. He sounded embarrassed.
{Well, I would like to know what you were doing hunting in my barn.} Cassie said accusingly. {Eating my patients, now, are we?}
{No, I was just heard some commotion. When I didn't see anything, I saw you, thinking you were a squirrel. I'm awfully sorry.}
There was no reply. Cassie must have demorphed, because I couldn't hear her response. Knowing Cassie, it would be something simple, like 'it's okay, jus be more careful, and please don't eat me.'
You see, Tobias just recently got in touch with his avian side. When he first got trapped he was being fed burgers and stuff from Jake and Rachel's attic. One day he was not paying attention and killed a mouse on instinct. He went crazy and vanished from existence for three days. He had felt he lost himself in the bird, but we were all there, so he felt at home now.
I decided to see what was going on. I went up to the barn gate and knocked on it. "Hello, Cassie!" I called quietly, not to disturb her parents.
Cassie came up and opened up the door, holding her chest. "Whoa, you scared me for a minute." She said.
I shrugged. "Sorry, was out strolling the neighbourhood. Couldn't sleep."
"I see. Well, I guess none of us can. We are all here out of lack of sleep, let's start a club." She said jokingly. "Weird dreams been keeping me up for the last couple days."
"Yeah, me too." I said.
{I didn't think birds could dream, but I guess I was wrong. I was having a weird ass dream about the ocean. I woke up because I can't feel right over water.} Tobias said. He kind of shuddered.
"Yeah, me too. The ocean is really intimidating. It is so big and we are so small." Cassie said.
"What do you mean, me too?" I asked. "Do you mean that the ocean bothers you too, or that you were having the same dream. The one where someone is calling?"
She was thinking about it when suddenly she stopped. She stared at me, then Tobias. "From under the water, right?" She asked.
{Yeah, in thought speech.} Tobias said.
I froze. It was warm in the barn, but suddenly I felt cold.
Well, there isn't much more to say. All that is left is me, but I am a weird one. How can I describe myself to you when I don't even know what is going on? Anyway, I will give it a shot.
You see, I apparently have powers that nobody understands. Now, I can't explain it, but I will try to sum it up from the limited knowledge I do have. You see, I seem to be psychic. I have talked to Sam after one of our many training sessions. He says that I have abilities.
The way he put it was that I could read people's surface thoughts. I found it crazy at first, but he explained it to me. The way he put it was that I was countering moves before he did them. I knew where to and where not to be at all times, it was freaking him out.
Sam also said that I have telekinesis. I beg to differ. I have never used it, so how could I have it. It is like a tail, I don't have it, so who thinks I am using it. All I know is that Sam said that he saw my eyes glow a few times. Just like his, only my eyes were blue, his were bloodred. I think it has something to do with the eye colour. My eyes are blue and his were red-brown, so who knows.
At first I didn't believe him but he convinced me. He told me about how anything that had telekinesis being used on it, it glowed in the colour of the eyes. You see, in one of our recent fights, I could see the rocks he was using turn bright blue. He said his were red. That really got my attention.
On top of all this, I was the only one who could use telepathy outside of morph. Everyone else could only use the telepathy in morph, but I was able to use it outside of morph. I also tend to pick up thought speak that I'm not supposed to hear. It was really weird. I was able to listen in on things that weren't meant for me. At some times, at least when I concentrated on it. I have only done it a few times, but it is weird.
To go on top of all that crap, I have been having dreams. Weird ones. These dreams are very realistic, they actually have me convinced that I am there, doing those things. It was all fine and dandy until they started getting closer to plausibility. Many of them didn't seem realistic, maybe wishful thinking, but you could tell it was one of those dreams. They had a totally different feel. But me taking on an entire army of hork bajir? Right.
It was all harmless, until about three of them came true. Little things, but they followed the exact path. Even them, I was sceptical. I dismissed it as an extreme case of deja vu. But they kept persisting, and it got annoying. It was almost as if I could see the future. It was freaky, but I kept it to myself, thought it was better that way.
That was until the same one kept persisting. It was of the ocean, with rolling waves and fishes, and water, of course. The dream was me flying inches above the water. I was hearing something, but didn't, couldn't understand what was being said until I got there.
It was a voice calling for help. That was about as much as I got at first, but I eventually started getting hints of actual words.
{Help me, I am in trouble, my life could end at any moment, please help me.}
It was an andalite, I could tell that by the sound of the voice. It was weird, I had only ever heard two andalites speak, Visser Three and Elfangor. This one sounded vaguely similar to Elfangor, and it was desperate. It was also repetitive.
{Help me! Help me!} like the guy off the fly. Really irritating. By the time I stopped dreaming, I could make a giant circle shape under the water. Then I would wake up.
Overall, the dreams were odd and irritating, but I was dealing with it.
One night, after a particularly realistic dream, I woke up to see that it was probably three in the morning. I checked my new watch. It read, 1:52 AM. I rolled over. Oh, Crap, gotta get back to bed now. I thought to myself.
I tired to go back to sleep, but it was completely in vain. After about ten minutes of rolling around, I gave up and got some clothes on and left the house. (No, I wasn't naked, I was sleeping in the same big room with another guy. I had some boxers on.)
Unfortunately, we live out in the woods, so there is absolutely no artificial light whatsoever. All we had was the stars and moon, which happened to be out in force tonight.
I waled along the meadow adjacent to our house for a while before giving up and making my way back to civilization. I though, oh, what the heck, I wasn't tired, so I might as well raid a seven-eleven.
I walked through the empty, dark forest, trying to interpret the dream onca again. Once again, not coming to any new conclusion. Plus, the forest was full of distraction. The rustling bushes. Al the bugs, and the occasional howling. It was almost scary, except I was wilderness-smart. I knew the basics in wilderness trekking. 'Stay away from them and they will stay away from you.' It worked so far, so I wasn't worried.
After about half an hour of walking, I finally made it to Cassie's barn to be greeted with surprise.
{AAAH! Tobias!} Cassie yelled at Tobias.
{Sorry, just thought you were a regular squirrel.} he replied. He sounded embarrassed.
{Well, I would like to know what you were doing hunting in my barn.} Cassie said accusingly. {Eating my patients, now, are we?}
{No, I was just heard some commotion. When I didn't see anything, I saw you, thinking you were a squirrel. I'm awfully sorry.}
There was no reply. Cassie must have demorphed, because I couldn't hear her response. Knowing Cassie, it would be something simple, like 'it's okay, jus be more careful, and please don't eat me.'
You see, Tobias just recently got in touch with his avian side. When he first got trapped he was being fed burgers and stuff from Jake and Rachel's attic. One day he was not paying attention and killed a mouse on instinct. He went crazy and vanished from existence for three days. He had felt he lost himself in the bird, but we were all there, so he felt at home now.
I decided to see what was going on. I went up to the barn gate and knocked on it. "Hello, Cassie!" I called quietly, not to disturb her parents.
Cassie came up and opened up the door, holding her chest. "Whoa, you scared me for a minute." She said.
I shrugged. "Sorry, was out strolling the neighbourhood. Couldn't sleep."
"I see. Well, I guess none of us can. We are all here out of lack of sleep, let's start a club." She said jokingly. "Weird dreams been keeping me up for the last couple days."
"Yeah, me too." I said.
{I didn't think birds could dream, but I guess I was wrong. I was having a weird ass dream about the ocean. I woke up because I can't feel right over water.} Tobias said. He kind of shuddered.
"Yeah, me too. The ocean is really intimidating. It is so big and we are so small." Cassie said.
"What do you mean, me too?" I asked. "Do you mean that the ocean bothers you too, or that you were having the same dream. The one where someone is calling?"
She was thinking about it when suddenly she stopped. She stared at me, then Tobias. "From under the water, right?" She asked.
{Yeah, in thought speech.} Tobias said.
I froze. It was warm in the barn, but suddenly I felt cold.