My Pet Human {UNDER SERIOUS EDITING}

A Clear Head

'I lost my mind long ago, down that yellow brick road.' ~Angus and Julia Stone

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~Colton~

It's a weird feeling, to have a clear head. To know that less than a week ago, I was a brainless drone, my personality locked behind the unbreakable titanium cage of Sodium Kryptoxide. My thoughts, feelings, memories evaporated as soon as they managed to squeeze through the bars and mingle with my oh-so-obedient brain. A few weeks ago, my body wouldn't let me access important things like my past, or even my true name. In fact, it was only when Ben suggested it to me on that first day of being his pet that some of my old life's puzzle pieces slotted back into place.

I guess that was all it had taken; that one word, Colton. That one word had triggered names and images of everything I'd thought would never come to mind again. Axel and Waverly, the Institute, the S.C.U. Parts of my life that have meant something to me. The defiance I'd always had for Laquanians before the Sodium Kryptoxide had taken effect finally found its way to the surface of my consciousness. Unfortunately for me, though, there was still a cage in my head that stole away some of my deepest secrets. And while it was weakening after every moment I took to bend a its bars, it had always held the one thing that was always going to be most important:

The will it took to be free, and not a mindless, dead to the world slave to Godpheus Mathews and the rest of his race.

And now the cage is gone. There is no 238821 anymore. There may never be one again. The robot's mind I'd come to adopt as my own is now the one behind bars. Which means that the original Colton is back. The original me is... alive again. But not even Colton is strong enough to stop what is coming.

"GET BACK HERE BENJAMIN!" The Laquanian, David roars from in the distance, his footsteps of pursuit dying out with every meter Ben and Malroy cover as they crash through the thick bush land. Mountainous trees whiz past like comets. I push myself further against my owner in fright as a blinding white bolt of lightning streaks across the sky. Never in my old self's wildest imagine would this be happening to him. I'm not frightened though, oddly enough. Something about my past tells me I've been through much, much worse than getting chased by an angry giant with a strangely prominent hatred for humans.

"Hang in there, Colt." Ben hisses under his breath as another slash of lightning cuts through the air like a knife. Malroy lets out a small yelp, which isn't really small at all, given my human ears. "Where are we headed?"

Blaine straightens up instantly in my master's hand beside me and despite his fluttering heartbeat, he remains strangely calm. "It's an old shed... down a track. The witch said it was just near a palm tree..." His odd coloured eyes dart around the place for a moment, and I let out a deep breath of relief as Ben reduces his sprinting pace a little, to a fast jog. Blaine lets out a small whimper as the Laquanian raises the hand holding him a little higher, so it's just above his head.

"I can see Candyland from here!" River exclaims in the background, though his voice is swept away by a sharp dust of wind that chills me to the spine.

"Can you see where the path is?" Ben asks Blaine urgently, his opaque eyes glinting in fear.