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It was a cold winter’s night, as I was walking home from work. It was that very night when my nightmare began.
To me it was an ordinary night no different from any other. The wind was howling and the rain was beating vastly down from the winter’s night sky. I took a left onto Adams Street. I was making my way to the subway, which was at least two blocks away from were I worked. There were only a few people in sight, more cars and taxi’s than usual. I was walking pretty fast trying my best to get to the subway before I caught my death. I could see it and thank god I could, I was absolutely freezing!
I was walking down the steps, as I started to feel rather light headed and dizzy. I sat down to take a breather, wandering were everyone was. I felt better; best go get my ticket I thought. I went down the elevator stairs and went straight to the ticket machine. I was walking over to the train and again only a small number of people were there. I got on the train and sat down no one was in the carriage so I lay down. The train stopped and I got out. Made my way up the 2 flights of stairs and set off home. I got home and put on some dinner and sat down to watch television. I finished my dinner and done some paper work I had got at work. As I was walking over to my room I started to feel dizzy and light headed again. But this time it was worse I felt myself starting to lose consciousness. That’s all I can remember of that night. ‘Why officer have I done something wrong?’
‘Is that all you can remember of that night truthfully?’
‘Yes I’m positive...’
‘Ok we’d like you to stay the night’
‘Sure ok if it’s what you want’.
‘Ok here is your cell; you’ll be out in the morning sir.’
But of course that’s not all I remember from that night, I can remember in full detail what exactly happened and what yet lies in front of me. It was when I entered what people call the twilight zone, but anyway was drifting off when I heard it, a voice, a mans voice talking to me telling me I have to kill. I woke up and looked about the apartment. Everything was ruined; I was scared all I thought of was some monster like thing in my apartment wanting me dead! As I got up I saw a figure sitting in the corner of the room. It was motionless, for a second I thought it was dead until I saw it move. I took off running towards the door, but it shut without anything physically touching it! Then I heard another voice saying your safe now everything will be alright. I looked round and seen another figure in the door of my room, it was smaller and looked like a woman. Her words were soft and very convincing but I didn’t know whether or not I should trust her.
I looked over to the corner of the room and the figure had moved, I ask
“What is going on?”
“What had happened?”
My answer is
“All in good time”
Then I passed out...
Bang! I jump straight out of the bed, and look about. A police officer goes flying past my cell! My attention is quickly drawn to the man and woman I had encountered in my apartment. I look straight at the man and then the woman, the man grabs the cell bars and a thick darkness filters around his hands and covers all the cells bars. He takes his hands away but no bars are to be seen! I look at the woman while she interrogates one of the wounded officers, I can’t hear much but what I do hear doesn’t make any since to me, she then looks at me and says “if I was you I wouldn’t watch this!” she then looks around at the officer and uses her two fingers and slices him open, it kills him!
I look at the man and ask him ‘what do you want from me?’ he says nothing. The woman tells me to keep quite and to follow them if I want to live. We’re walking out of the back doors, there’s a car. The man looked at me and says ‘get in the car no questions!’
‘Were we going?’
‘You’ll find out soon enough’
‘Ok, but I don’t know what it is you want from me; I’m just an ordinary person!’
‘Should we tell him?’
‘No Boss said not to’
A window moves up, like one in a limo its tinted black; I can hear talking but can’t make out exactly what it is they’re saying. Am I going to die, are they going to hurt me? How I wish this was a nightmare! It happens again I start to feel dizzy, light headed and then I go, once again I am unconscious, but this time its different, I can see, I can touch, I can taste, then it hits me like a punch in the face. I’m not unconscious, but how this isn’t possible I’m in a big room, looks to be like a normal living room. A bowl of fruit on the table, TV is on, its my favourite programme, ‘smash’ I look swiftly around, and to my astonishment I see me making dinner and dropping a plate. Then I realise was the night this started. This should be last night, if I’m right I should...
‘No no not now no’
‘Is he ok?’
‘Yeah he’ll be fine’
‘Where am I?’
‘Your safe and that’s all you need to know’
I get out of the car and look around, its dark, wander how long I’ve been in there for. Well never mind that.
‘Follow us’
I start following behind them; we come to a door,
‘Right in you go’
I hear the door shut behind me, I take look about, its very much like my work, looks nearly identical, we’re walking up the stairs, they sop and look at me, then the woman points to the door, ‘well go on in you expected’
By who I wander, I open the door, and look around, and they’re no were to be seen, I turn back around and walk in. There is a man tallish, looks to be wearing a suit.
‘Sit down Jack; we’ve a lot to discuss at this moment in time’
‘What the hell is going on, and what exactly do you want with me?’
‘Now Jackie boy, you should’ve learnt your manners, but ok. Your a part of a race of people, there are the bad guys and then there is the good guys which are us and everyone you’ve seen has a special ability’
‘What about those two people that came and got me? What about my apartment, there was a voice telling me to kill!’
‘Yes those two people are called Jessica and well the other one the man we don’t know his name, he never told us it, said it wasn’t important, but call him TK’
He goes on to tell me about how there is a war going on between the two sides, and how I have a major part to play in the ending of this war, but I still don’t know how I can do what he expects of me, when I can do anything like what I’ve seen so far!
I’m walking back the stairs, while he talks about how this war has went on for years, he takes me to this room, and says tells me how I’ll be training with them soon, he takes me into the room and starts to tell me who they are and what they can do, he takes me up to a few of them and introduces me to them. Then he takes me up to a girl and asks her if she’ll show me about and look after me for a while until I settled.
‘And he thinks I’m gonna stay here, not a chance!’
‘It’s for your own good; right show me what it is you can do.’
‘How, I can’t do any of the things you can do!’
‘Right well I’ll show you, just stand like this and believe...’
‘Look whatever your name is, I’m not able to do what use can, now stop making me look like a twat and let me go!’
She let go at once and looked at me angrily and told me to follow her. As I walk past everyone a strange feeling starts to come over me, I look at my hands, and stop dead in my tracks, I bring them closer to my face, they’re covered in a strange darkness, the same kind I seen on the TK’s hands at the police station, the woman I’m with turns and looks at me, and smiles as if to say I told you so.
‘What’s happening to me?’
‘Your like us, you have a power unique to anyone else’
‘Tk’
‘Who?’
‘TK, he can do this, how can it be unique?’
She says nothing more and starts walking back to the door I came through with the man. It starts to go away; the darkness leaves my hands and vanishes. The man I was with earlier is with the girl, and asks me to come with him, as I follow I can see a lot of people each one looks at me, I keep my head down and try not to look at them or say anything.
We come to a room, and he opens the door and looks at me, he nods to me, I walk in through the door and find myself in a large room with scientist like people, he walks over to them and starts to talk, then one of the scientists walk over to me, and tells me if I want to know my ability they need a sample of my blood. Fair enough that sounds like a plan to me, so I role up my sleeve, he smiles and brings me over to a chair, I sit down and watch him he, he turns round with a needle, he puts it into my arm and takes it back out with the blood he has withdrawn from my arm, he takes it over to a small machine, in no time he takes it out and says,
‘I’ve no idea, his DNA show no sign of mutation. Let me look into it and get back to you...’
I wander why I’ve been passing out then, what might be causing it. As I look around, it happens again, the dizziness, the light headed feeling. Then I go, once again I fall into the twilight zone. I can see panic around me, and then I go.
I wake up, gradually opening my eyes, as I start to come round I can see the doctors looking at me with clip boards, I look to my left, and see the girl Jessica, and to my right the man TK. It made no since, all this had happened since I can’t remember. Through my childhood, I’ve been different... being able to do abnormal and supernatural things. I never understood it, it hasn’t been this bad before. When I get annoyed or angry things happen without control, but I don’t know until it’s over as if to say I’m not there when it happens.
“Ok Sir... your free to go, but just don’t leave the building without supervision”
I nod, get up and star heading towards the door, and out of no were a voice starts talking to me. I stop and look around... no one is looking or talking o me. I turn and keep walking, the voice starts again.
“Get out! Bad things will happen!!”
It stops, I open the door. Its night time and I’m on edge, ready and prepared for anything, an hour passes and I’m beginning to drift over.
Bang... I wake up on the ground with six people around me... making a fuss and restraining me and keeping me down.
“What the hell are use doing!! Get off me!!”
“What are you!?”
“What!?”
Suddenly a massive bang rang from out of no were, people with guns start shooting. The people holding me down start to run, all of them get away except for one. He is killed instantly!
I start to go over again, back into twilight zone, the voice is no more... but a figure appears, it looks familiar, I’ve seen it before, its footsteps softly gaining on me, its getting fast, I’m running now but still its gaining on me as if I’m not moving. I fall, and almost immediately turn around and look straight at it. It stops, standing over me, it says...
“look were you can’t go and regret were you could have gone...”
And vanishes, no trace, as I get back on my feet, noise and shouting is coming from no were.
“Wake up!”
As my eyes slowly open I can see more people, my first guess would be scientists, as my eyes open I can see men in black shined body armour, their heads and faces covered by black helmets...
‘Your name please?’
‘(shhyyy)’
‘Am I?’
“Your name please, I am growing inpatient!!”
“Chris”
He turns and walks away, nodding at the two men at the door, one of them starts to walk towards me, his gun is at his arm, steady and ready to fire, and then it happens, he shots, as the gun sounds I close my eyes and cover my face. Seconds pass and I’m still breathing, I look up, my heart is racing, my palms are sweaty and my breathing is increasing vastly... the door opens and a man in a suit with more men on black armour walk in. He looked at me and said ‘I see you no’ no words leave come from my lips. I look down and see a small trace of the thick swirly darkness leaving my left hand.
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