A Different Island

Chapter 14: Home?

When I first saw I was about to go over, I tired swimming back as fast as I could, but I just couldn't fight the current. While I did this, I also felt more of my body changing which included a bit of fur and my eyesight began changing which hurt my eyes bad at first.

Anyways, I was eventually forced over the waterfall where I totally expected to die.

Except I didn't.

Except a few hours later, I realized I had survived and had landed at the end of a river where I saw Shelly was standing right over me looking quite concerned. "Are you ok Evan? What happened to you?" She asked.

I quickly shot up and began checking my body for the tail and all the fur over my body. But I found out there was nothing out of the ordinary and and I let out a sigh of relief. "Is something wrong? What's bothering you?" Asked Shelly.

"Nothing. In fact, I should be asking you. What are YOU doing here?" I asked. "We came here to find you of course. What else would we be doing?" Asked Shelly.

Honestly, now that I think about it. I don't see why there would be any other reason why she and likely others would even come here in the first place. "Anyways, we've found you, now we just need to find Tommy, meet with the others and then we're out of here." Said Shelly.

The two of us agreed and then we set off, but I was still thinking about what the spirit said to me and about the tent that we had discovered in the arctic region of the island that belonged to A-Sync. How could they fit into all of this? Unless they were the ones that were breaking through the barrier that divided earth from this island through separate realities. However, I suppose my intense thinking was what really caused what happened next.

I was just so zoned out that I didn't even notice the worried and panicked expression on Shelly's face. "RUN!" She shouted. And we just took off. I tried asking her what was it, and all she said was that it was like those kingdom warriors except more powerful.

And behind me, I could hear the sound of a car engine, and I suddenly realized something. They were A-Sync people, the ones who started this whole mess, and the ones that were going to get me out of it.

"Shelly! Go on! I'll distract them!" I yelled. "What? No way! Not this again!" She shouted back. "It's the only way, they're after me, and tell the others I said goodbye." I said. "No!" She said. "GO OR THEY'LL LIKEY KILL YOU!" I screamed. It was then Shelly let go of my hand. "I'm sorry! I'll never forget you!" She said.

And so, she took off running into the forest. Once she took off, I turned back around to face the truck. And I stood my ground and stuck my hand out like a hitchhiker wanting to be picked up. The truck parked right in front of me, just a few feet from running me down.

Just then, two men stepped out of the car and threw me into the back of the vehicle. And in the back of the car was Tommy. He looked beaten up as if he had been attacked by these people. I asked him how he got here and Tommy explained that he and the blacksmith were doing some late night work when two of these men came in and shot the blacksmith in the chest before being taken away.

Anyways, the two of us were driven along a strange path that led into a cave that didn't have the same magical vibes as that one that was inhabited by the spirit, or more accurately, Kipo. Inside seemed to be a camp set up to study the island and it's organisms as there were cages full of small multicolored squirrels and even some of those arctic salamanders locked up in cages with some being taken away. I know they were a bit troublesome to me before, but now I feel sorry for them. But after driving through the base camp in the cave, we eventually reached a giant white transparent portal that looked to lead back to the real earth.

And I better tell you, the minute we were brought out of the car, I ran for the portal and jumped into it. And when I went through, I suddenly felt some sort of strange feeling in my body leave me. But I was glad to be back where I truly belonged after being away for over 20 days. And boy, I couldn't wait to tell everyone else my story.

However, the second I was on the other side, several guards swarmed me and dragged me to another room within the facility and strapped me down before hooking me up horizontally to a strange machine. A few minutes later, Tommy was brought in and the same thing was done to him. The scientists then all left the room as people in another room powered on the machine.

At first, nothing happened, but soon enough Tommy started shouting in pain, screaming about something in his head. And then I must've began to feel the pain that Tommy was feeling and I also screamed my lungs out for how painful it was, and then, everything went black.

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I woke up in a strange white room on a bed after what seemed to be hours later, except I could only remember a few things about myself.

I know I have a family, I know who they are, I just don't know what I'm doing here or where I am, but, what's my name?

Just then, strange men came in and escorted us out of the room and into a van. A doctor also followed us. When we began driving away from the building we had been doing in, the doctor spoke to us.

"Tommy, Evan, don't worry, we're gonna get you home to your families, alright, everything is going to be fine." She said. And that's when I remembered who I was, Evan Hansen. But something still get off.

There was just something in my head, telling me that something was very wrong, and I just couldn't remember it at all.

It took the entire day to board a plane and fly to Texas where I could get home to my family, who were just ecstatic to find me alive, they told me they put up flyers, they posted me all over social media, you name it, they were dead set on making sure I was alive. And literally all of my living family members were there as well.

However, I just didn't know what they were talking about, what had happened to me? Had I gone missing? I know something's just missing, but I don't even know what it is. If only I could remember what it was.

What happened to Evan Hansen?