The rain eventually stopped. My mother being the cause of the sudden down pour had to get her emotions in check to avoid drawing attention to the area. Where I just continued to sit outside now soaking wet and covered in mud. I was staring at the clear sky questioning my entire existence.
"You can change your life if you wish." I turned my attention to a male who was standing a few feet from me. He was dry and wearing black dress pants a white button down shirt with the top two buttons undone and a black vest. He has spotless dress shoes on and was slightly levitating off the ground. His hair was long and pushed back. His skin was extremely pale but I could tell he was not a vampire. His eyes looked like they were shifting In colour.
"What?" I asked him. He held his hand out to me
"I can give you a different life. One where your obligation to save the world are no longer yours. Would you like to see the lives you could live?" He asked me. Did I want to see them? Did I want to have a different life.
"And if I did want that life?" I asked him
"I can give it to you. But there would be no returning to this one. You won't even remember this life." He told me. If this responsibility could be someone else's and not mine why shouldn't I take it. I took his hand and in a swift effortless way he lifted me up off the ground. I couldn't feel the gravity anymore. It felt like I was floating.
"What happened?" I asked
"We are between space and time at the moment. So straighten yourself out." He told me I straightened myself as if I was standing up and like static the space began to fill around me. We were in the forest
"Where are we?" I asked the man
"This is the life you would have if Freya did not give you the gift of her eyes." He spoke. I saw a child running thought the woods scared and frightened. Moment later the child was shot down with an arrow though the back. I gasped in horror. Who would kill a child? Dante appeared down moving the child. Dante?
"What?" I whispered
"He let a child live one and it slaughtered so man people. He never made the mistake again." The man spoke as we went closer. I couldn't breath. I was looking at my child self. "You wouldn't have made it to your fifth birthday." The man spoke
"No there has to be another life!" I yelled at him He gave a slight nod and we were in a space of nothing again.
"I can only show you 3 choices no more." The man spoke
"then pick the best three." I told him
"The choice is not mine. The choice comes down to the small alterations that must take place at your birth." He explained to me "I can not change the fact the collector made you. That will always be your birth right." He explained to me before it cleared and we were in a school. Actually a collage.
"Where are we now?" I asked
"In this life you were found and adopted out. Only human dna was in your system. You know nothing of the supernatural world nor did you believe in the existence of anything but normal." He told me before Casey walked passed me
"Why is Casey here?" I asked angry
"That's not Casey. That is you." He spoke. I looked again "you and Casey are created from the same embryos. Grown at different times. Your upbringing is what made you different to her." He explained and I watched myself hug a girl and kiss her.
"Is that my girlfriend?" I asked him
"Yes. In this life you are a lesbian you were raised by two human woman and knew you were gay from a young age. Your mums supported you and you graduate school and went into collage. Your girlfriend of 3 years moved with you working a fulltime job supporting your education. You live in an old crapy apartment with two cats and dream of the perfect wedding and having children." He told me. It was perfect this life was perfect. I saw myself start crying now
"What happened?" I asked
"You just found out she has cancer. She will go though three years of chemo and die. You don't recover from her loss and overdose on her leftover medication the same day." I looked at hIm alarmed "no change it!" I demand.
"I can only change one thing." He told me.
"What's the last one?" I asked hoping it would be better. Praying it would be better. The area around me change and this time I was in a church. It was done up like someone was to be married. Actually it looked exactly like the vision the oracle showed me. Every single detail was exactly the time. The flowers. The stain glass windows. It was all the same. I saw myself in a wedding dress coming down the isle towards a man I didn't know. Even the dress was the same as the vision. The way I looked. The way the man looked. I had seen it all before.
"You are marrying your childhood best friend. You were neighbours grew up together went to collage together and now are marrying. He is a doctor you are a photographer." The man told me. "Children aren't an option. You had an accident on a ski trip and a branch pieced though your abdomen shredding most of your lower organs. You now have two bags attached to your abdomen for both bowel and bladder. You can not have sex as you have practically been sown closed." He explained to me. No so perfect life. I thought looking on as the ceremony began. As the line does anyone object to the marriage the ground opened up and demons crawled out and began to kill people
"What's happening?" I asked alarmed looking at the guy. The space around us became blank and he looked at me
"There is no one else to take on this responsibility. If you don't, the gates of hell eventually open up and destroy the world." why didn't he care about the consequences? Why show me all of this? "The choice you have to make now is accept the life you already have or take one of these lives. And either die a child. Die from heart break after a life time of love. Or die on your wedding day knowing the man who is marrying you is only doing it our of duty and not love." The man told me.
"Why can't I have a happy life? Why do I have to give up my humanity and the people I love?" I asked him sobbing again.
"Don't cry child." He said slightly amused now wiping away my tears "they aren't really as bad as they seem. Give up your humanity is not what you think it is." He added
"Then what is it?" I asked still sobbing
"It's passing though a place no human can go and come back from." He told me. "Something that normally destroys a person mind. The task of giving up humanity is a mental challenge. One stronger then Lilith." He explained to me.
"And love?" I whispered wiping my eyes.
"This one will break you a lot more then I believe you are ready to handle. So when the time is right I will tell you." He told me "for now so as Wes has told you. Make yourself stronger. These tasked will not come for some time. So enjoy the time you have." He told me before we were bake in front of my home. He left my hand go and went to leave
"Wait who are you?" I asked
"Until next time gemini." He said with a slight bow and disappeared. What happened? If that what my vision was. A fragment of a different life? Getting to my feet I headed inside still dripping went and dirty. I found my mum in the kitchen cooking. I walked up to her and hugged her
"I'm sorry." I whispered. She hugged me back.
"Don't apologies you have a lot on your shoulders." She told me
"You saved my life when I was a baby. You raised me with no hesitation. If not for you I wouldn't have survived long in life." I told her she was sobbing now
"I just wanted to give you the best life I could. No one deserves the pressure that's you have to deal with. And I wish I could take it all away. I really do. But I can't. I can't do anything but support you and be here when you need me." She was just as upset as me. Her crying made me start crying again.
"I just want to be happy but so many people hate me." I sobbed.
"Then find the people that make you happy and be with them." Mum told me
"I don't even know if I should continue at school." I told her.
"Why do you continue to go then?" she asked calming down. I just shrugged.
"I don't even know. At the start of the school I wanted to become a monsterology professor. Research and teach other students. But yo be a professor I have to complete the 4 years:" I told her.
"And now do you still want that?" She asked me.
"I do. But there is so much happenings i don't know if I can do it." I told her She held my face and gave me a smile
"So what makes you happy." She told me. What makes me happy? Olivia makes me happy. Being with my creatures makes me happy.
"I want my girlfriend back." I told my mum before I began to sob again. "She's had to go home and I can't see her." I cried.
"Oh honey." She said hugging me again. "It won't be forever tho."
"I know. But I miss her so much already. She made me feel so complete and whole. Something I haven't felt is so long." I told my mum
"Well until you can see her again what else can you do?" She asked me.
"I could go back to teaching." I suggested
"Then do that. Go back to teaching get your training together and when she comes back you can show her you are the happy gemini again." Mum toms me. Happy gemini. Olivia would love that. I nodded now
"Okay." I whispered wiping my eyes.
"I have some time away from the school I thing it would be best I refresh my theory and get familiar with my creatures again." I told mum
"You let me know if you need anything honey." She told me I nodded before giving her one finally hug before heading off to get myself in order. If I couldn't do it for me I would do it for Olivia so she could see me be happy again. So she wouldn't have to worry about me anymore
Hey guys so just a heads up. In the next week or so I'm going to start going working on turning the first book into a comic and publishing it on a different platform. I will also edit the first book as I got along. And I will be also continuing to write this book as well.
