Before The Rebirth

3 Years After

I was 15 years old, I was going to be 16 in a few months. Three years had passed since Mrs. Hinawa's death. Even though I lived in my parents' house, I earned my own living. Still no word from Claus, sometimes I imagined the worst, what if the same thing happened to him as to Mrs. Hinawa? But sometimes I was relieved to think that he was a brave and cunning boy, who might be living in a small, safe cave, making  a plan to kill the drago... dressed in a loincloth, ah hahahaha.... haha.... haha... the loincloth thing... Bah! Bad joke! Bad joke! Bad joke! Forget the loincloth. Moving on to the subject.

My life had changed abruptly, as had the lives of the other inhabitants of Tazmily since the appearance of strange ships with pig noses. There were pig masks soldiers everywhere, everyone had a strange "box" that produced very hypnotizing lights and colors, they called it "Happy box". A little monkey brought them in his boxes, what a thing! Of course I had my own box, but I didn't watch it as much as the others because most of my time I spent away from home, composing my songs, drawing, visiting Lucas, walking around the new Tazmily alone or with my sisters, going to the the woods. The animals were no longer as they used to be (except my cats, I don't know why), all over Tazmily there were some very strange animals, some snakes with chicken heads, cows with anaconda necks and tails, horses fused with tarantulas, hammerheads fused with kangaroos, animals with robotic parts; they were much more hostile than the animals from before. I see that it was a challenge for me to tame them, a cow with an anaconda neck and tail almost killed me, but with the teachings my cousin gave me I managed to tame them, not all the animals on the island, but I did it when it was necessary; feeding them and behaving according to the animal was one of my ideas that worked; the most difficult were the ones that were mechanized, but I didn't give up until I finally succeeded. But where had those genetically altered creatures come from? I was very curious. They appeared since those Pig Mask soldiers appeared, I suspect that they altered those animals.

That tall man near the village bell was gone, and the strangest thing of all is that those rays appeared all the time without gray clouds in the sky, and stranger still, almost all of them were falling towards Lucas' house. In the centre of the village there was an Middle-East-looking man named Fassad talking to the crowd about things like happiness, hope, about the problems that afflict Tazmily. He was accompanied by the cute little monkey who brought the "happy boxes". I got along very well with Mr. Fassad, he looked very nice, the little monkey was trying to communicate with me in body language and Mr. Fassad said he was trying to make me smile.

One of the things that caught my attention the most was that Osohe Castle was open (I see that I never visited that castle in my life, they told me there were ghosts in that castle and I was afraid of ghosts), I saw some war tanks there and they left their marks on the ground.

Those 3 years that passed were also my preparation as an artist and the beginning of my fame. I quickly adapted to the new Tazmily, to the use of money and technology; it was of great benefit to me, because there were new musical instruments for me as the synthesizers. I would release CDs, record my songs on a record company called "Pork Records" if I remember correctly; I knew many genres; the genres of all my songs were Synth Pop, Funk, Synth - Funk, Disco Funk, Freestyle, New Wave, Quiet Storm, House, R&B, Soul, Jazz, Reggae, Dance Pop, Dance Rock, Pop Rock, Progressive Rock, Art Rock, Electronica; I sang, played and danced in a famous Club called Club Titiboo. My songs had great melody and rhythm and extraordinary lyrics, I was even a guest singer with a very famous band at the time: the DCMCs.

  When people saw me walking down the street, they would get excited, they would greet me, they would ask for my autographs, even several of those soldiers with pig masks would do it, I was very loved on the island. Maybe I was famous but I also liked to be calm with my hobbies, venturing anywhere in Tazmily, climbing trees, playing piano, guitar or any other instrument, drawing, talking with frogs and mole crickets, or with hybrid animals to study their behavior and way of life and perfect techniques of how to tame them.

Once, one of those military pig masks realized my ability to tame beasts when he saw me with a lion with robotic tentacles and it didn't hurt me. He was amazed that it was me, the musical artist, with a dangerous chimera as if nothing were wrong, the soldier asked me how I did it, I told him everything I knew; the soldier told me "My favorite artist is a chimera tamer! Unbelievable! You are amazing" and they gave me the job of keeping the most troublesome chimeras calm; I liked the job, and even as a gift they gave me a metal monkey, I called it "Toumai". Having him was an experience for me, but one day that monkey escaped and I never saw him again. And so my work as a chimera keeper began; where some of these mutants caused trouble, there I was. The wild boars now had wheels and riding them was much more fun. I was running all over the Highway on boar on wheels, it was exciting; Even better? The Rhino-Rockets, those were taking you flying at incredible speeds. Here is an illustration made by me riding a Rhino-Rocket:

I had a mushroom-headed dog as a pet, you had to be careful to have one of those pet dogs, they were aggressive. Once a Horsantula knocked me unconscious with a good kick in the head, fortunately some soldiers were there to help me; I was unconscious for 2 days. Because of the kick of that crazy, miserable, 8-legged equine dentist, I lost a tooth, but luckily I didn't suffer a serious damage, that didn't stop me from continuing to tame that Horsantula, this time I was wearing a helmet, of course! and also with a mouth guard that box fighters use. That time I trusted myself a lot and as a lesson that Horsantula put me to sleep, but now, with more caution and protection that ugly thing couldn't take me, it became a submissive ***** with me, I dominated it! I showed her who the alpha***** was in the neighborhood; I didn't hurt the poor *****, relax. I think I still have my "war wound" on my head; I never knew where that hit on my head came from, why it hurt when I touched it, and why I'm missing some teeth in my mouth; now I know why... Unbelievable!

Now I will stop talking about my work with chimeras and tell you about someone special I met in that other life that this egg shows me and with whom I had a short but close relationship. One day when I was walking around, I saw a group of pig mask soldiers walking in a very orderly line; I saw the color of the uniforms of each group of soldiers who were marching and I assumed they were sorted by rank, then at the end there was a guy who had no pig mask; he had a helmet that covered almost his entire face, on his right arm he had something similar to a cannon, dark gray suit, orange pants and black boots; He was short compared to the other soldiers, but because of his appearance and cold expression, he instilled a lot of respect and fear; that guy caught my attention, I asked one of the soldiers who wasn't marching with the rest of them who he was, he replied that he was their commander; I said: "whoooooaaaaa!"When the army commander approached, he noticed me, stared at me as he walked. He came up to me and stopped for a while to look at me; I was very nervous, shouldn't I be there? After a while he saw me, he returned to the march; i was relieved, what did he think?