The Ascended

Tuesday

Something hits me, I wake up fast and notice that I am not home. I stood up an saw my clothes were either wet with water or sweat. Out of the corner of my eye, I see a shadowy figure.

"What do you want with me?!" I tell to it in fear.

It simply turned, said something in mysterious language and disappeared. That thing scared me to death. Suddenly, every light around me turns on and I realize that I'm in a museum. Since I have never been to one I decide to explore for both answers and enjoyment. It was fun walking around because I was able to see and learn about other cultures like African, Roman, Chinese and other as well. As I was walking around I saw the welcome desk, but strangely there was no exit doors any where around it. The first thing I see are pamphlets and the cover it says "Welcome to the City of Amext and its Museum of History." I continue looking and I find a phone, picked it up, put it my ear and realize the phone doesn't work at all.

I look art the pamphlets and say, "I have family that live Amext."

"Hades." said a hidden, raspy voice.

"Who are you? What do you want with me?!" I screamed out into the darkness. Suddenly, all the lights were shut off. I looked around in terror, expecting to get jumped, but instead I saw a single lit room. I walked to that room and saw that out was an exhibit of the ancient Greek civilization. As I was looking around, I saw a pitchfork hanging on a wall. The pitchfork was mostly black with Adobe gold on it. The plaque by it said "The Fabled Pitchfork of Hades" and beneath that was a brief history of the weapon. As I was reading the pitchfork began to glow faintly, but got brighter the closer I got. I reached out and touched it. As soon as I touched it, I was shocked and my arm turned the same charcoal black color as my leg. The pitchfork disappeared and next thing I know I wake up in bed feeling sick. I sit up and look at the time and realize that it is 2:46 am. I lie down and think about the dream I just had, but I end up falling asleep before I interpret it.

My mom shakes me awake, so I can get up and go to school. I get up, grab some clothes, and head to the bathroom to get ready. Am I'm getting dressed I noticed that the arm that turned black in my dream, turned that color in real life. In panic I grab soap and start scrubbing my arm, but nothing is getting cleaned. In fear I look down and see that the black thing on my leg was spreading up. As I was looking down someone yelled at me to hurry up, so I grabbed my stuff and ran to my room before my sister could see anything. Since it was cold and raining outside, I decided to wear jacket, gloves, long-sleeved shirt, and pants. I wore those things just so I can hide the stuff on my arms. I ended up walking to school because my mom had an important meeting to go to. While I was walking down Esplanade Street, I notice this small dog hiding from the rain. It looked hungry to me, so I fed it my lunch. It was very friendly, but the dog tag didn't have a phone number I could call or an address I could go to. All it had was a name which is Leroy. I told Leroy that I would come back for it after school. School was horrible, my best friend was out sick, the cafeteria was serving crap on a stick, and the dance was only three days away and I still needed to ask out Alyssa. On a side note, I felt like I was being followed all day by something that didn't feel alive or nice.

I just kept on trying ignore it, I was convincing myself that I was still paranoid due my dream scaring me half to death. The rest of the school became so boring that I fell asleep during my last two periods. The final bell rang at three, I grabbed my stuff and started walking home. I stopped by the place where the stray dag was found, but it was nowhere to be seen. After waiting fifteen minutes, I continued walking home, but I was depressed because I was hoping for a new dog. When I got home, I froze because the dog was sitting on my porch swing.

"How was your day, sweetie?" My mom ask as she walked toward to give me a hug.

"Good, where did that dog come from?" I responded. I was still shocked due to the fact that dog was at my home.

"He's a stray. I found him hiding from the rain, so I picked him up, went to the store o get it food, and came back here. Why?" She said as she was walking back to unload the car.

"I saw Leroy earlier when I was walking to school. I was planning to get him on the way back and give him to you s a surprise." I said as we were unloading the car together.

"How funny," she said, "looks like we'll surprise your sister instead." She goes to Leroy and says, " Time for a bath."

My mom goes upstairs and turns on the water, then she starts giving Leroy a bath. I followed upstairs to watch her because I thought it would be funny. She was struggling because the dog kept on barking, shaking water off of it, trying to escape, and the dog was attacking the water. After it was showered the dog did nothing but run around the entire house at it's top speed. I watched the dog for a couple minutes then I started homework which took me a couple of hours. When I was putting away my books, my sister for dropped off by her dad.

"Hey Steve, how have you been?" I yelled to him.

"I've been good and yourself?" He yelled back. My sister said good bye to her dad and started walking to the house.

"Good!" I replied.

"We still doing go-karts for your birthday tomorrow?" He asked me.

"Yeah just pick me up front school tomorrow." I said happily. I turned to my sister and told her to go straight to her room. I say by to Steve, shut the door, and get scared because my little sister screamed. She runs down the stairs with Leroy and hugs me. My sister and I spend the rest of the night paying with Leroy.