Shadow of A Thousand Suns

CH 13: Ghost of Past

December 24 2004

09:12

Peralta Residence

Blackshot opened his eyes. The sudden change of environment is not that easy as he tried to keep his blurred vision to a clear one.

He was not used to calm environment he was in now. He got used to the environment where gunfires and open fighting were taking place, not to an environment like this.

Blackshot stood up from his seat. There were noises around him. He could not make out the sentences these people were saying. Someone old approaches him, probably his Mother.

The name she called him was not clear on his head but he could still make out those things she was talking about.

"Someone wants to see you." She says.

Blackshot stood up from his seat. He looked around him. He was on a medium sized house. Furnitures were placed neatly, visitors were gathering on the kitchen and around the dining table, people laughing, etc.

Blackshot reached for the door. There, he saw his 'girlfriend'.

Again, the name she was calling him wasn't clear.

"I was calling you!" She says.

Blackshot stared at her face. His heart fluttered as she stared back at him. She was the most good looking girl he have met in his life.

"Blackshot, what are you doing? We don't play for girls who were older than us!" Blackshot says to himself.

Blackshot felt sadness at that moment. He knew to himself that this girlfriend of his doesn't know who he was nor if she even exists. He also thought she was probably married anyway and that she was too old for him.

Blackshot shook off his thoughts. Even if he doesn't know where she was, he could just probably talk to her inside his head?

Blackshot followed her as she speaks to him. He knew that he was talking to her but then, he could not make out everything he was saying.

Blackshot did a little trick on his head. He absorbed his own memory to improve the receptions in his head.

After a couple of minutes, he could now hear everything she was talking about.

"Gary, aren't you happy about that?" Hannah asked.

Bingo, so his name was Gary. He looked to his left to find a diploma which was hung on the roof. It was his father's diploma.

John Robert Peralta, so my full name is Gary Peralta huh? That reminds me of something. Blackshot thought.

Who am I exactly? He asks once more.

He stared back at Hannah.

"Hey what's wrong?" She asked.

"Nothing." He automatically says. "Just had a little dejá vu."

"Come on, why don't you enjoy the day?" She asked.

Blackshot did all his can to take full control of his memories but doing that is way too dangerous. He could fall into coma but it was the time risk it especially if it holds the key behind your 'locked' identity, right?

Blackshot successfully did it. In the current time, he was screaming without a sound. What he was doing is painful and at same time, dangerous. He was surpressing the sound of his voice because of obvious reasons.

Blackshot lift his left hand up to see if he succeeded on taking over Gary's 'body'.

Blackshot glanced back at Hannah. Now, he was officially locked inside his memories. But he doesn't know how to get out. He put that thoughts aside as he stared straight at her.