Chapter 3
Realization
The room I awoke in today was stragely familiar. Anime posters covered the walls. I sat up. A purple down comforter covered my legs. I noticed that I was wearing a strange outfit. I had on a golden-colored metal belly-shirt-thing with holes in the back to make space for my wings and tight, black pants that went around my feet and under my shirt and strapped around my shoulders. Kind of like a bathing suit with legs that go around your feet, but made out of a soft material. I got out of bed and stood up. The floor was covered in feathers that I had shed in my sleep. I quietly walked over to the closet and slowly opened it up. I found a pair of baggy blue jeans and a belt. I put the belt as tight as it could go. It was still a little big , but it was better than nothing. I found a pair of small black boots without a high heel that went a little bit past my ankle. I put them on and slipped the jeans over them. I reached for the doorknob. As soon as I had turned the knob and opened the door, a girl entered the hall. She stood in the hall, staring at me. She screamed. A older lady ran up the stairs. Her face was so familiar...
The second she saw me, she froze. The lady said, "What. . . no. . i-it can't be. . NO. . . GET OUT OF HERE, YOU FREAK! GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!"
The lady ran at me. She punched me square in the jaw. I fell to my knees. When I raised my head again, I felt my face grow hot. Shebacked down the stairs and almost fell backward. She suddenly rose into the air and slammed against the wall, close to the ceiling, and fell down onto the floor. The girl I saw before ran to her mother. She turned around and glared at me. She shoved me backward.
"Go away! Do you realize what you've done? Get out!"
That little twit made me so angry. I held my fist out and pointed it at her. A yellow aura surrounded my fist and a laser shot out. There was a huge explosion. I felt warm liquid splatter on me. When the smoke cleared, I saw that there was a gigantic hole in the side of the house. It was. . . So familliar. . . Blood streaked the walls, floors, and ceiling. The girl was nowhere to be found. I flew out through the hole. The wind beckoned me. I flew above a busy road, people looked up and pointed. I looked behind me and saw a few feathers come loose. Who or what was I? I am a friek, just like that old hag said. . . A FRIEK! Tears streamed from my face and dropped to the streets below. Two cars exploded beneath me. Tears streamed from my face. What is happening to me? Why do weird things happen when I... feel?
I averted my gaze downward. I saw a very large red brick building below me. I noticed there was a football field in the back. I dedided this seemed like a good place to land. As I flew between the field goal posts, I noticed people stopped on the track that went around the field, all staring at me. They were all in uniform. I hadn't noticed them before. The people that were on the track looked about my age. They all looked so familiar, as if I had seen them in a dream long ago. They started to whisper. A teacher ran across the field as she was talking in her walkie-talkie. I decided not to stick around. As I ran off the field, I heard her scream into her radio: "There's a girl here that looks dangerous! She's headed for the school! Go into a complete lockdown!"I flew over the school very close to the roof. As I did, I blinked and saw right through the roof. I saw that people inside the classrooms were trying to hide from me. I felt their color, I could hear their breathing. I tilted my wings up toward the sky and flew away. They didn't want me here, just like everyone else.
I flew until I was tired. The land had changed; all I could see below me was great big squares below me that looked like giant pachedquilts. I landed in a stream and washed the blood off of me. I looked at my reflection. A pale, skinny girl with short light brown hair and. . . A metal visor! How could I see if I had metal over my eyes? I tore the visor off my face and opened my eyes. It was amazing! It was like I had been blind and all of a sudden, I could see! I saw brilliant colors and fine details on everything that i looked at. I looked back at my reflection in the water. My eyes were pale blue and had no pupil. I also saw that I was wearing a thick leather collar. I wrapped my fingers around the front and pulled it up to try to get it over my head, but it was just the right size to where it would not fit over my forehead. I looked at my reflection again. That was not me. I did not look like that. . . But it was. I struck the water with my fist and walked in the meadow until I couldn't walk any further. I sat down in a patch of clovers near a large rock. I was very tired. I curled my wings around the parts of me that were exposed to the air, and leaned up against the rock. I soon drifted off into a deep sleep. I dreemed a dream very familliar to me. Even though I could not remember anything that happened before this morning, I knew I had this dream before. . . .