A diamond hidden within the gray line

Chapter 1: Uneasy ground towards a new beginning.

-Narration-

Though the early morning sky is just beginning to light up, it is just another day for max, who is living inside of an adoption home where a bridge is the only way in or out while a calmly flowing river can be seen below. All of which is not far from the border to the koopa kingdom as a light breeze can be felt while the sun began to shine from the parting clouds which slowly wakes max from his slumber who is half expecting the morning to begin just like any other day.

-Max pov-

My mind just couldn't make sense of how quickly things have changed even after it happened...it's been a little over a year ago since the roaring hurricane incident happened...and once that roar came up, it suddenly felt as if i was being pulled towards whatever made that roar and i fought against it in terms of keeping my feet on the ground as if my life had depended on it, but blacked out after I felt something hit me on the side of my head. And that was after i found this strange crystal...anyway, things took a wild turn when mom had this...breakdown.

I have known my mom all my life. She was always a hard worker, always confident, but i have only seen her freak out out of fear at least once. Actually no..i take that back..it definitely wasn't the first time...you see, she never wanted me to go further than koopa village, but she wouldn't let me go to toad town specifically. It wasn't because she couldn't get along with toads in terms of making friends and socializing, which she did so with incredible ease, it's just...it just came off as being unreasonably fearful.

Perhaps something happened before i was born that scared her? A shame that i'll never get an answer in this particular moment.

The first time she freaked out was when i was ten. She never did give an actual explanation as to why...as for my stepdad? Well..he was flabbergasted by this outburst just as much as i, and even he wondered why. The only explanation i ever got was: "They won't accept you." Which made zero sense. Why wouldn't they accept a human?

I am just a normal human...right?

Anyways, i say stepdad because my dad is...not in the picture. It wasn't because he was a guy who hurt my mom, or a deadbeat that i know of, It was simply because i have never seen him before, nor have i ever seen even one picture of him.

Hell, even now, i am curious to know who he is! But as of right now? It doesn't look as if i'll ever find out. Still..i loved my stepfather as if he was my father. He is also a human who came from the human world and made what i imagine was a fortune from fishing since he would sometimes come home with loads of fish. I myself, was born in sarasaland but moved in the mushroom kingdom shortly after i was born since, from what my mom told me after i asked where i was born out of curiosity, finding a home there proved to be a strenuous task and didn't have the time or patience for it. We ended up living in between both the koopa village and toad town, which to me, is the countryside.

I still don't know why i've never seen any neighbors that are anywhere near us though...

I became very curious when it came to the human world, especially since my stepdad is from there, and based on the stories that my stepdad has told me, the human world sounds like it's an incredible, yet dangerous place to live in! And yet, he never really told me how he had come from the human world nor did i know how he arrived here. That of course, is a secret he never once shared with me at any time.

But..the strangest part was that he once told me that i was more than a human which was so out of the blue, since i haven't shown anything to him that suggested otherwise. I think mom did though, but she didn't want me to know...at all...which i found so strange. What was she hiding that she felt the need to keep it secret from me?