Supernova

Awakening

Date: June 21, 2067

Time: 4:38 pm

Subject: Awakened

----Alexander----

The light was beginning to die down in the putrid skies I was flying through. My eyes had sight of the bodies below accurately. They were approximately 52.34 feet below. I dove down a few feet and made it 48.326 feet below; because the air was to foul smelling the higher you went. Elijah was lying limply in my arms. I hadn’t wanted to carry her, but as much as I’d hate to admit it; she was an important part of the team, so I had to keep her out of dangers way. Carrying someone was certainly a burden. Maybe when this was all said and done Elijah and I could become acquaintances and discuss important matters over tea or coffee. Whatever her preferences were. We could discuss quantum physics together and the theories of Plato. Ah, those would be joyous times.

For now Elijah was a traveler. Not an enemy or acquaintance. She seemed to be very hostile towards me, because she felt threatened of my knowledge and cunning persuasion she thought only she would possess. I laughed a bit inside my head at her preposterous thought. I couldn’t wait until I’d be rich from finding a cure.

Our knowledge combined would certainly find the cure. We had what high powered scientists lacked. We were still young therefore we had more open minds unlike them. Surely with equivalent knowledge and our young mind structures we’d discover the cure. Then I could take all credit and be rich. Maybe later afterwards she’d put the troubles behind us and we’d share tea or coffee like I’d like. It was all about me, wasn’t it? Of course it was. It always has been.      

We travelled along the highways for hours. Eventually we decided to set up base camp on top of a mini mart along the side of the highway. I flew everyone on top and we threw out the tent. I sat Elijah gently down on her pillow and covered her up with her cactus blanket that was in her bag. I was not surprised at how prepared and knowing she was of the apocalypse, but it still surprised me that someone so like myself was on this world. Our personalities differentiated drastically, but we were both so remarkably intelligent and leader material. I couldn’t help, but be secretly moved by her. I lied down on the opposite side of the tent and the others talked and chatted outside. Even Mindy was striking conversation to Terrance. I could sense she had feelings for him, but he was oblivious to it. I knew she once had feelings for me too, but I changed that when I left her behind.

I didn’t care though. I was not much for dating. Most people didn’t understand me or didn’t meet my expectations. Mindy was intelligent and her features were pretty, but she was not someone I would get a feel for. She was just Mindy. It was improbable to explain. Our attraction genes just were not equally balanced.

Elijah rolled over and faced me. Her eyes were closed and her red hair was still curled slightly. She needed a shower; badly. They all did. We were coated in layers of dirt, blood, and sweat. Elijah fidgeted a bit and I watched her out of curiosity. She had beautiful features and kind eyes, but those kind eyes could change in a second if you set her off. They would suddenly convulse themselves into pits of fiery rage it seemed. A strand of my black hair fell in my face and I took my index finger to put it back to the side.

After my hair was relieved from blocking my sight I saw to big blue cat eyes staring back at me. Her face was straight and then she smiled a small ‘hello’ smile. I gave her a curt nod back.

“What no hello?” She asked me. I smiled a little embarrassedly.

“I didn’t think that would be necessary since we aren’t on terms of any sort of friendship.” I told her straight forward.

“We aren’t enemies either.” She replied.

“True. I might keep that hello thing in mind then.” I told her. I actually meant it. I lacked social communication skills, because I never really had friends. I was homeschooled by my wealthy family and worked on projects in my free time. I built many devices in my recent years and in my younger years I was constantly drawing blueprints for the future or putting together crazy sequence contraptions.

“We really need to get you out of that suit.” She murmured to me. I didn’t have to glance down to review how stupid I looked in it.

“It is quite comical. A boy in a skin tight white suit caked in dirt.” I told her with a small smile. This was the first real conversation I had ever had with a girl or any being my age or almost any age. I had only ever had real, unsophisticated conversation with mother from time to time. It was odd.

“I think I’m going to go outside.” She told me. I nodded.

“Wait, I have a question.” I told her.

“Yes?” She asked.

“You seem to be treating me much better than you have the past days we have been travelling together, why is that?” I asked. She looked in the distance thinking.

“You’re right I was a lot more hostile before. I guess I just caught up on some sleep and you seem to be travelling with us for a while and you weren’t doing anything annoying or stupid at the time, so it was basically instinctive. I’m nice to anyone who isn’t rude, stupid, or annoying.” She told me unzipping the tent and climbing out. I smiled even though she could not see. Then I thought about what she said. Me being stupid? I’m never stupid. I am a genius. I guess she was using that as a metaphor for something else.

I heard everyone rush to greet her and the color glands in my eyes began to fade. Since I was merged with bat genes my color glands failed at night. Bats never saw color, so making me part human my color glands only functioned in the day. At night everything was black and white.

Before I fell asleep I made sure to put my camera chip on the outside of my eyelid to monitor anything suspicious that happened during the night. It was clear so it was unnoticeable to the human eye. I didn’t trust anyone, so I would have to keep my guard up at all times.