Chapter 1: The Awakening
Dream:
Jack liked to dream, it was the only place where his misfortune did not reach him:
He could run freely without risking tripping, falling into a manhole or bumping into a tree.
He could smell the flowers without risking being persecuted by bees, or stung by red ants.
And he could go around the city without risking something falling on his head... in short, if he had the chance he would always want to do it.
At this moment he was dreaming of being an astronomer who was studying a constellation with the telescope: "haaaaaaaaa... and really relaxing" was about to return to his work when he heard a noise behind him...
Zzzzzzzzzap!
Jack turned around but didn't notice anything, and went back to work.
Zzzzaaaaappp!
Zzzzzzaaaaaap!
Jack turned around hearing that noise again but this time he saw like little gold-colored lightning bolts shining on the floor, I keep staring at them for a few more seconds: "m-but what? ..."
When suddenly a small smoke curtain to jack's surprise came out another version of him who seemed to have a fairly tried air, wearing a gray light shirt with a black sweatshirt.
"M-But you are me as it is... pffft!!!" tried to tell the teenage jackal but the other Jack immediately silenced him.
"I know you have a lot of questions, but I don't know how much time I have left right now so you have to listen carefully to me ok?" the original Jack nodded in response and the other Jack continued:
"ok listen well... you're about to throw yourself into a complicated situation!" "What complicated situation?" asked the original, then the other Jack sighed and said:
"The fact is that you..." but it was interrupted "and that..." and he interrupted again "feel and complicated to explain but I came only to tell you something" he took my hands and continued, "from tomorrow if I end up in serious trouble you will have to get out of the blood and think or say one of these words ..."
The other Jack approaches his lookalike's ear and begins to whisper.
"ok the words are; pfs... pfsss... pfsss... psfsss..."
When it was over he turned to the original Jack "did you grab?" the original outcome for a second "DO YOU REMEMBER them!" shouted the other Jack "yes! Yes! Yes! I'll remember them!"
Suddenly from the body of the other Jack began to come out small lightning bolts of the same color with which he had arrived and the last thing he said was: "good luck ... you will need it" and disappeared into the same smokescreen in which he appeared.
"but-but what was that..." then you hear a continuous sound:
Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!
End of the dream
Jack had just woken up and saw that on his alarm clock on his bedside table it was 6:30 in the morning "and time to start the day" he sat on the side of the bed stretching, but as soon as he put his paw on the floor you feel a stabbing pain that made him jump:
"haaaaaaaa!!!!"
He looked at his paw and saw that it was a drawing pin, and he didn't even wonder how it ended up there.
First he went to the bathroom to take a shower but stumbled on the bar of soap and broke his neck, but after a few seconds he returned to his feet.
He took the backpack and went to the kitchen where his mother was preparing breakfast: "good morning son!" but Jack did not listen to her because he was still thinking back to the dream he had had.
"Jack..." "Jack..." his mother called him "are you honey?" then he noticed her: "oh good morning mom, sorry but I was overthinking" Mindy seeing the look of the son asked: "is there something wrong?" "I have nothing mom" "Jack I'm your mother and I know when something is wrong."
Jack wanted to tell her about the dream but didn't want to worry about it so he decided to lie.
"and... for my curse" "I understand" replied Mindy slightly ruffling his head, "I know this thing is heavy for you, but do you know what your father always said?"
"No," Jack replied timidly, "he always said that the people who seem the weakest on the outside are also the ones who have the most potential inside... Jack I know that one day you will do great things and you will see that your moment will come when you least expect it" and kissed him on the forehead.
Jack was happy after what his mother told her and for a moment he forgot about the dream, after breakfast he took the backpack greeted his mother and left the house to go to school.
The commute to school was quite quiet for a normal person but for Jack it was like crossing the Amazon jungle.
While walking a concrete mixer poured concrete on him quickly and it took 10 minutes before he broke free, then suddenly a crevasse just a few meters after freeing himself.
Finally after other accidents he arrived at school and luckily he was not late, as soon as he entered he saw his friend Zill and greeted him with his paw, his friend I notice him: "hey hello Jack!"
The two approached and started talking as they went to class but for Jack the accidents were not over:
At math time he borrowed an eraser from his friend Spam and broke his arm.
At the hour of History while making a presentation the blackboard fell on him.
At music time while arranging instruments, it suddenly caught fire.
At lunchtime he burned his eyes with the hot soup.
While at the hour of gymnastics a satellite fell on him.
In short, today his curse did not give him respite.
By now the lessons were over and Jack was turning the corner when someone kicked him and fell.
"Where do you think you are going... weird!"
Rusty was the school bully who liked to torment everyone in the school, and at the top of the list was Jack.
"Please T-you Rusty not today..." Jack said to him without looking into his eyes, "I have and as if I do it today!" and pushed him back to the ground while the yellow dog grinned "and this time there will be no your friends to protect you."
"you don't see how useless you are..." "n-no is true!" I try to shout jack at him, then Ruben took him by the head and put his face in front of his "look reality in the face, as soon as your friends understand it they will also throw you like an old shoe because if they waste time protecting you, then who will protect them?" Jack stood up and stuttered:
"l-l-l-l-I will protect them" "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!" I continue to laugh maliciously "but do not make me laugh, for your misfortune you would not be able to protect even a flower, we see each other idiot!" and the dog I leave and left.
When Jack finally got out of school he picked up the phone and wrote to his mother:
Jack: sorry mom I don't go home right away, I have to reflect on some things ...
...
Mom: Ok honey, try not to come back too late
After receiving the message he walked into the forest to rethink what Rusty had told him without looking at where he was going: "what if he was right..." "how can I protect the people I care about if I can't even walk more than a kilometer in a row without incampaAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!"
And he began to roll from the hill and stopped only when he slammed into a tree, "behold... precisely..."
Then he gets up and I notice that he was in a very dark part of the woods...
"it seems that no one has set foot here for a long time, and the hill is too high to climb, and better to find another way."
So our teenage jackal tried to find a way back, but it seemed that the more he turned in the bush the farther he went, "cabbage I don't know if I'll be able to find my way to..." but something caught his attention, there was light in front of him, perhaps he had finally found the exit, but as soon as he crossed the passage I still find something that made him stand open-mouthed.
It was an immense clearing a very large open space without trees, whose center was the largest tree he had ever seen, not even the redwoods reached such a height and at his feet there was a natural cavity.
"whooo, if Spam saw this he would write us a song about it"
But as he admired the majesty of the plant, I hear drops falling on his muzzle and look up realizing that it was raining.
"ho-no!" he had to look for a place to shelter from the rain and thought about the cavity you have feet of the giant tree, after entering the cavity he remained leaning against the wall hoping that the rain will end.
"cabbage right now, now how I get home!" took a pebble and threw it into the dark side of the cavity just to hear:
tic, tic, tic, tic, tic,
Apparently the cavity was deeper than he thought, Jack got up and entered the tunnel that stretched to the roots until he saw an exit, slowly approached the entrance and saw that it was in a huge natural cave with all the roots involving in a pond of dark water.
"whoooooo..." Said Jack has his mouth open as he continued to walk to better examine the spring, but since it was dark he did not notice a root in which I stumble, "HAAAAA!" shouted Jack before banging his head and falling into the source.
Jack as he fell and went deeper and deeper he felt his eyelids become heavier and heavier until he closed them and saw nothing but darkness.
Jack slowly opens his eyes still in a confused state: "m-ma where am I..." the only thing he saw around him was only the darkness there was nothing around him only black, "but I am not dead, I am immortal and..."
"Hiiiiiiii..."
The teenage jackal heard a chilling noise behind him that made his whole back shudder, he turned slowly and saw that a giant skeletal arm rose from the ground, from here another followed, and immediately after a rib cage two legs and finally a skull with bright golden eyes that stared at Jack without showing emotions.
To say that Jack was frightened was an understatement he was completely terrified but so terrified that he could not say anything, his legs trembled madly, and after a minute of tomb silence the skeleton opened his jaw and made a chilling sound:
"Hiiiiiiii!!!!"
Crawling at Jack, he in response decided to flee with all the speed he had: "Leave me alone! You don't have a stomach and I'm not even that good!"
The Skeleton in response screams: "Hiiiiiiiiii!!!!" while he continued to chase him. Jack, believing that it was his time, began to think of all the people he loved: Zill, his mother, Vanexa, Spam, Kayla, Cameron, Da Damian (after all he loved him, although sometimes she makes fun of him) and lastly... Jill.
That was her biggest regret as she never found the courage to tell her what she really felt. I keep thinking about her until she hit a kind of invisible wall, apparently that place had an end.
Jack turned around and saw that the skeleton was approaching menacingly towards him, Jack covered his eyes in fear.
But nothing happened...
Jack slowly opened his eyes again seeing that the giant skeleton was just staring at him, "but what..." the jackal moved his head slightly to the side and the skeleton did the same, Jack moved it in the other direction and the skeleton copied it in turn.
"O-O-Ok beautiful skeleton, what do you want from me?" the gigantic monster after two seconds of long silence went with the sending towards the jackal, Jack leaned against the wall terrified, from the idea what he wanted to do to him, but to his surprise the skeleton I touch only slightly his chest with his big bony fingers removing a kind of green sphere from Jack's body.
Jack didn't know what that sphere was, but he was curious at the thought of what he wanted to do with it, the must then took it with two fingers and destroyed it, "so you just wanted to do this right to me?"
But the skeleton did another thing that surprised him, with the other hand he grabbed Jack, the frightened jackal tried to free himself "NO! NO! NO! PLEASE! DON'T HURT ME, PLEASE ME..." the skeleton opens the jaw and place Jack right in the center of it, Jack frightened began to pray: "PLEASE MR. SKELETON DO NOT MAGIC ME AS I SAID BEFORE I DO NOT TASTE GOOD AND I HAVE FAMILY AND ..."
But the skeleton I don't listen to and let go, letting Jack fall into his jaws.
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!"
"PLEASE DON'T EAT ME!!!!" shouts Jack screaming frantically as he inspects, "I'm alive! I'm alive! I'm alive!" immediately looked around seeing that now he was back in the real world and had stopped raining, Jack looked around and saw that there was no longer the tree or even the pond in which he had fallen, "but where the tree?"
Instead of being inside the tree he was inside a crater and didn't understand how he ended up there, "cabbage was really a very strange dream, but I think it's time to go home."
So Jack came out of the crater and took his backpack back into the bush, what I do not know and that the gigantic crater in which he had awakened had a humanoid form ...
Hello to you readers I do not know if you have immediately understood cha that anime I took, (but I already know that 99.9% of you have understood) Jack has always been my favorite character of Zoophobia after Damian, his story, his complexes ... I felt sorry for him so I decided to give him a "little kick of the ass" and also because he never had many interactions with Lucifer and in this story there will be many.
Anyway Write me your comments with advice, opinions I have more I will be very happy to light and let's start with this new adventure.
Dedicated to (ThunderboltPikachu)
