DARK FIST

CHAPTER 2

I felt a tingling sensation on my nose, I opened my eyes just to see a dove perching on it, I tried lifting my arm but I couldn't because I felt weaker than ever, I tried lifting myself but could only shake a tiny part of me, the dove finally felt disturbed and flew away, I heard my head ringing as I forced myself up, I was really weak. I looked around and found out I wasn't in the forest anymore, I was on a walkway near the roadway, I tried walking but my legs felt like spaghetti, I tried thinking but my head ached, I felt like I was going to burst in an instant, I noticed people looked at me and gave me space, they looked at me like I wasn't pleasant and sane.
"Help me, please." I started feeling dizzy and slowly I fell and everything became dark once more. I blanked out again.
I wriggled on a soft material then I opened my eyes, thank God this time I felt peaceful, I looked around and the place seemed arranged and tidy but what was I looking for in a hospital, I tried to get up but my left arm was cuffed, what was happening?
"Hello, please is anyone outside."
I got no response, I looked around for an object I could use to pick the cuffs then I heard the door open.
"You are finally awake." A neat man who seems to be in his late forties whom I guess is the doctor came in with a nurse.
" Of course I am awake, can you get me out of this." I requested holding up my cuffed arm.
"Your heartbeat seems to be normal." He said viewing the ECG then he continued.
"We can't release you yet?" He finally looked at me
" What do you mean you can't release me yet?, I am no criminal." I replied sternly.
"We were told you showed some sign of lunacy so we informed the psychiatric center and they are on their way." I was really offended with the 'l' word he used but I understood.
"Back at the roadway I wasn't just my self, I'm fine, I'm not crazy, can't you see?, Discharge me."
"Well, that's not for me to decide." He said walking out of the door with the nurse who seemed to be very disturbed.
"I'm no crazy person, release me at once, I need to call my parents." I demanded receiving no response.I sobbed knowing how much mom would be so worried.
Knowing the psychiatric people would be around any minute as the doctor said I thought of freeing myself and fleeing.
" Only if there was a key I would just..." I got distracted as I felt something covering my right index, I was bewildered, it looked like it was attached to my skin, still wondering what had happened I heard faint footsteps 'the crazy peeps' I thought as I hurriedly dipped the key in the keyhole and surprisingly it fitted well, I unlocked the cuffs, quickly grabbed my clothes and hid behind the door, it opened and I made sure they all entered then I rushed out and hit the doctor in the process, he alerted some men with him and they ran after me, confused on how to escaped I decided to surrender already then a text appeared like a projection and I knew I was the only one that saw it, it told me to go left, with no time to decipher what was going on, I obeyed, it told me to go right again then I followed , i thought it could be a trap but it was better trying than just surrendering, finally I got to a room with a large window and I was told to jump, 'I shouldn't do that' I thought but I heard the quick running foot of the chasers, I climbed the window frame and jumped without looking down then 'ouch' I fell in an empty metal trash can. I looked up and saw two men looking down at me, they swiftly left the window and I knew they hadn't given up yet, I emptied myself from the trash can and finally escaped, I assessed myself but I wondered how I was still alright after that long jump, I sat for some minutes and thought of everything that was happening, I felt stronger, swifter, enhanced, 'is this all happening to me because of that blue cube' I removed the hospital clothes and slipped into my clothes which was a bit tattered, I found a way to the highway and boarded a taxi home after I found some bucks in my pocket.
I got off the taxi thinking about what drama was going to happen next, mum might be away from home looking for me, Craig would rant all day if he found out about my absence and plus what was I going to say if I was asked any question. I just kept on thinking till I got to the front door, I rang the door bell and as expected nobody was around, I picked the spare key under the flower pot and unlocked the door, I kept all the worries behind me and went straight to the refrigerator as I was already famished, I emptied half of the refrigerator and I finished it all in no time, I switched on the TV to amuse my eyes but the news that was been broadcasted at the moment caught my attention.
"...they are believed to be space junks but researchers are surprised not to find anything except from the debris caused by the fast falling objects and a bike which has been taken for further investigations..." I panicked as I saw my bike in a transparent nylon being taken into a vehicle, was I going to be in trouble? I tried imagining myself in an interrogation room in front of a scary looking cop but it didn't seem good, I was about to dip a spoon of porridge into my mouth then I heard the door open.
"Who's home?" It was mom.
" Hello mom." Seeing me, she rushed at me and gave me a really tight breathtaking hug which I really needed.
"Oh my God Sean, where have you been? I've been looking for you all day, are you hurt? Are you ...?"
" Mum relax, I'm fine."
"Oh thank God, I was already planning to go to the station if you were not home before evening, where were you?" So glad she didn't go to the station.
"I was in the garage.". I replied so fast like I told the truth.
"The garage! I called for you at the garage but nobody replied."
"I guess I was already fast asleep." I lied again.
"Thank goodness, I was so worried, have you had a meal?"
"Yeah, I had a lot, where's Craig?" I expected him to come in already.
"I didn't find him either when I woke up, he obviously has gone on one of his useless trips."
"Thank God, I'm off to my room." I excused myself to prevent any further questions.
"Great, you should go rest and before I forget, I found your phone in front of my car, it's beside your bed."
"Thanks mom." I said as I jogged up the stairs, it was easier than I thought.
After I got to my room, I locked the door behind me hoping to get a good nap but as soon as I showered and got on my bed, all the happenings I experienced baffled me and I decided to think about it all.
"How did a key appear on my index."I questioned myself as I looked thoroughly at my index then suddenly a female voice filled my head.
  "Your DNA has been genetically altered changing you into an upgrade of your kind, one which your world has never seen." I was shook as I heard this in my heard, was I thinking this? Or have I actually ran mad? Deep down I knew there was more to what was going on.
    "Are you real?"
    "Are you asking if I'm just a thought in your head or a program living inside you?"
   "So you are a program living inside me."
   "Of course I am."
    "How did you get inside me?"
    "I came with the Zadoi, I'll help you get used to changes that has been made in you body 'correction of the human flaws' my creators would call it." 'her creators' I was curious but I had other questions.
    "If I may guess the Zadoi is the blue cube, it's inside me and you came with it to help me get used to it."
    "Yes sir."
    "Sir! Do you answer to me?" I asked.
    "At your service."
    "Oh God." I didn't know if I was meant to be happy I was an upgrade or supposed to cry because I was no more human. I asked a lot of questions and received a lot of heartbreaking answered like how she told me my body  wouldn't rely on the food I eat any more and that I was actually something like a toy to her creators whom are going to use me to stop war from happening between there planet and another. For God's sake, I'm just 19.
     "So what I'm I supposed to call you?" I asked.
    "Any name you seem fit." I thought of names then I finally came up with one.
    "What about April?"
    "April I would be called then."
    "One last question."
    "Yes boss."
    " Do I still have access to my emotions?"
    "According to the knowledge I have been given, no technology has been discovered that could emotions in the universe, so you have a one hundred percent control over your emotions."
    "Cool then, it's nice meeting you, I'm Sean." I was finally getting a hang of it.
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