The Five Souls - The Beginning

chapter 2 (jack) - The Encounter

On the way home I took a shortcut through the woods. It's really amazing being surrounded by nature, giving you a real break from the housel bustle of the city.  I was thinking about what I always hear people say. But that's the thing when I listen to them, I get beat-up and when I don't, I get in double trouble because everyone thinks they know what's best. not to mention plus I'm beaten up too. So, All in all, I never win. It's always a loss and never a win.

As an example, I throw a rock up into the sky and it disappeared. But now, an asteroid is hurtling toward me. Wait what!!! I turned and ran as fast as I could. But that wasn't fast enough. as the debris from the impact spewed in my direction, I was knocked down to the ground with a dirt pie stuffed in my mouth; and one nasty-looking gash across my forehead. 

"what the hell?" I mutter to myself as I felt the gash across my forehead.

as I was getting to my feet to see the impact, I heard a noise. a noise that changed my whole life. A voice was calling for me at the edge of the crater. When I looked in my whole body skipped a beat. A humanoid figure stood in the middle of the crater hole with smoke coming off his body. All the while there he was staring at me. instead of crawling or burning. he was just standing there like he just took one step down from wherever it was that he was standing. Then, it beckoned for me, So I went, even though every fiber of my being was saying no.

You know in those movies where the individual wasn't in control of their body anymore, but yet he/she could feel themselves move closer to the figure? ya, that was me. I tried with all my strength to stop but I couldn't. It was the strangest feeling I have ever felt. I was horrified.

when I was face to face with this guy, or what looked to be a guy. I could feel this feeling of heat radiating from it. I guess the best way to describe it is as if you know the person and are familiar but you have amnesia so you don't remember them. the funny thing is instead of smelling burnt flesh I smelt sunflowers so fresh it was as if the plant just bloomed and the smell just started to emanate from it. but its voice, is the voice of pure joy and happiness. it rested on me like a mom laying a baby in a crib with the blanket being wrapped around the newborn. at that moment all I felt was calmness.

"Jack, it's nice to finally meet you, after all this time," said the humanoid figure in a raspy but yet warm, kind voice.

"How do you know my name?" I asked shakily

" we've been watching you and the 'soul' has chosen you." That statement took me aback. What is this thing the stranger is referring to, who elts is working with this, I guess alien?

"What?" ok to make things clear this isn't like a movie or TV show world. This is plain old earth. It's nothing extraordinary, no Captain America, no flash, no X-men, just a plain world with plain old actors in a plain movie/tv show in a plain old movie studio. Or so I thought

"No time for questions just listen. We are the Oralacks and we worshiped the earth or souls as we call them. But now we are under attack by our own kind, who wants to control the 5 souls. But it can't be done. if the other 4 souls are awakened they will destroy everything or put all creatures into slavery. I am the ancient one so I chose you for I foresaw that you would save the people on the souls and stop the 4 souls. Now give me your hand"

At that moment, I was not in control of my body and most certainly did not want to put my hand up. But as I was thinking this, my hand raised to his hand without my command. When we touched, a familiar feeling arose. this feeling was the feeling I felt in the library today, it was the feeling I felt when I punched a hole through the wall of the school, the same feeling I felt when I ran into a burning building to save a kid on the top floor and the building collapsed on me after saving the kid and instead of being hurt, there wasn't a single bruise on my body. the only difference from the other times was that something from within me burst and I felt free. Almost like I could do anything I ever wanted at my command instead of it being just in high-intensity situations.

"Your power is granted." Said the oralack.

"what do you mean? What powers? Your crazy, I'm an ordinary boring 17-year-old. Nothing more nothing less. Got that? Good, now goodbye, I'm done."

As I turned to walk away I hear the oralack say "why is he acting so stubborn I'm sure he's the Chosen One!"

That made me mad. I turned to snap at him only to realize he was flying at least 40 feet in the air. I shouldn't have even been able to hear him much less understand him. How was that...

"It's called telepathy. Where one mind connects to the other. hearing and reading each other's thoughts."

He said all this without his mouth moving. That's when I thought back to what he said just a minute ago "my power is granted" did he mean I had powers? I can do anything?

"Anything," he said mentally

so, of course, I tried to fly and was amazed. I flew around the crater impact now in control of myself. Then while I was flying I felt heat rise to my hand so I throw my hand and fire, freaking fire came from my hand. Then I tried ice and I had a wall of ice form. I could hear, see, and smell, from miles away, it was amazing, and after what felt like hours I flew back down to the hole. The funny thing is it was only 15 minutes.

after I was calmed down a little fear crept in. Fear of what I could do. What if something went wrong and I killed someone? What if it comes with a price like magic? That scared me and that's why when he asked if I wanted the power I said: "ok I'm truly honored and all but I'm not the man, so sorry."

"Well, it's too late" snapped the oralack. "the power and the soul chose you I just activated it. It is within you and I can't change that."

"But I don't want It" I exclaimed, annoyed but also angry.

"Well it's too late, you need to step up, or all life as we know will die or become slaves. You have to go to the place of your dream before the 14th to get your knife and stop them from creating the carbon particle disconnector before it's too late and they can travel off this earth. now before I forget, You have to know about 'the prophecy of the Oralack human' I don't want to hear you complain. So Just shut up and listen." he said with clear irritation at my insistent stupidity of the whole severity of the situation.

"What is it?" I say embarrass by my childish response. 

"Let me show you" he touches the air and a hologram appeared with writing and a video of me fighting in some sort of war:

Throughout the years he will fight, with friends alongside him they take his side. when it's close to the end love will be broken and possibly die. So all the land will live on the souls and will work as one to stop the darkness that's growing. So that he may die on his grave and save the people from the great evil and unknown. for the chosen one will save us all but the end is where the choices of life or death and right or wrong will truly fall"

"Wait are you saying I'm going to be a savior and fight in a war, die, and be the one to make the final decision of life or death, right or wrong? for the whole universe," I say totally confused and kind of weirded out that that is my destiny.

"Yes and no. now I have to go before the others get to me," he says matter of a factly

"But wait I still don't understand. What's your name at least" I protested

"Jamar son of acrid the soul binder. Now I'm sorry for this short meeting but I have to go. Remember choose the good path with the soul that chose you. Do not let us down like th....." he stops mid-sentence. slowly the ground around him starts to form back up and with a blink of an eye, he was gone.

Next thing you know I'm in the middle of the forest where the crater landed. but instead of dirt debris. there was a forest all around me undisturbed like the meeting never even existed.

"ok that was weird. The soul that chose me? What does that even mean? And who elts did this?" I said to myself as I started back home.