《Golden Draconian》


 Prologue

    Deimien p.o.v


    Looking outside our quiet little house sometimes on sleepless nights like these, I think how long I can live in this peaceful world.This world where there are no dangers lurking in the shadows,where the greatest dangers to the humans are humans themselves.People here, ignorant of the world, look up in the sky and can only speculate the vastness of it.Afterall this only one of the few safe world in this vast multiverse.And sometimes I look at the beautiful women sleeping peacefully beside me and think of how long this farce will last this time and if I could muster the courage the courage to actually confess my true identity will she love me the same or will he be heartbroken nonetheless.Snorting I can only curse the injustice of The Rules and my own stupidity for not reading it at that time.


    Suddenly I feel a gust of wind with the smell of earth and a hint of power in it.I can identify this power anywhere, but..... why would Mother be calling here.She never calls me when I am living in a world and I just visited her few decades ago.For beings like Mother and us it is just the blink of an eye.Something troubling must have happened for Mother to call so soon.


    Getting out of bed without a noise I trudge outside towards the back of the house where the farm is.Getting lost within the tall crops I thank the spirits that our closest neighbor is a few miles away.Looking at my surroundings one last time I shift,or as you mortals call it, teleport. As the light from the shit dims ,the surroundings finally become clear.All around me as far as the eye can see is a dense forest.In front of me is a large tree in the middle of this clearing on which I built my treehouse. Though calling it a house would be an understatement.Last time I visited it would be a century ago,only the walls and little parts of the roof is left intact.I made this clearing first time I came in this world.Till now no one has ever managed to find it,a great accomplishment taking into accound the small size of this world and the fact that the humans have discovered most of this planet. Safe houses like these in all the worlds I have visited till now acts as my impromptu landing pad and also contains any residual energy I release.Thats why any major spells I do within the wards I erected outside this clearing.


    Sitting cross legged on the ground I connect myself to the mana in this place.After years of releasing residual mana this place is full of it unlike other places in this world which is almost devoid of it.After a few seconds, I close my eyes and envision the runes required to open a temporary connection to Mother.Opening my eyes I watch as the multiple rune circles of deep blue,almost purple colour form in layers one inside the other floating a few feet of the ground.Putting vast amounts of mana from my personal cache, I activate the spell. Instantly a bright light fills the surroundings and from the rune circle appears a silhoutte of a woman. Though her face is hidden in her shadows one could easily see her eyes the colour of molten lava,filled with wisdom of untold ages.


    "So many years had passed, so much you have experienced and accomplished but I see you still remain the peasent you were at heart,demein." said mother,her voice like the moving of clear spring water.


    "You know me mother, I never wished those things.All I wanted to do was make the world a better palce.I was a simple farm boy at birth and will remain so at heart till eternity.


    So tell me why did you call ?"


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    "What is it Mother?"


    Sighing se speaks, "Another seed has been born.But this time he is the son of my High preistess and second prince of drezsten kingdom.Both very prominent figures.Their child is already the target of many conspiracies and assasinations.Add to the fact that he is a seed and everyone will try to either control him or kill him.An assasination has already been thawrted during his birth but this this time some powerful people of both the human and draconian kingdom had joined hands to finish them. Fomora had to finally give her own life force to activate the old teleportation array to save her child and send him somewhere else choosing to let her child atleast live insted of death or worse in their hands."


    Saying this mother becomes very sad.I know how much she loves her high priestesses and this one too much potential to die this way.Mothers heats must have broke watching her give her life away,not being able to do anything.Curse The Rules.And it really is a very troubling thing.Seeds are very rare and they can either save the world or destroy it.


    Mother again continues"I dont want him to become lost like this,wasting his potential,becomng an outcast that he surely would become with his gifts.That is if he could live long enough to be found by civilisation insted of appearing somewhere in a forest and be killed.So I have intercepted and paused his teleportation with my powers but I cannot do anything more.So I want you ,my child, to bring him to this world and help raise and teach him all you can.See to that he can utilisize his full potential.And when he is of age and you deem his ready bring him back to me so that he can take his rightful place in his world, making it better along the way if he is any good."


    Okay,I did not expect that.Mother must realize that I dont know anything about raising a child.But nonetheless if mother has asked me to do this task she must either know something or have too much faith in me.But I cannot reject Mother too! And if I can raise this seed at least I can make sure the kid grows to be a good one.But how can I raise a kid.


    OH fuck it!! I am The Deimein Runespeaker.I have the power to easily destroy this world.I can easily raise a child.....maybe. I will think of something when the time comes. Now lets bring him here .Too much time and he could return back to the essence.


    "I will try my best mother to help this child and raise him to your expectations."


    "Farewell then my son.I will expect you soon.Oh, and give this to the child, it shall help me watch over him.",saying this she disappeared in another explosion of light and in her place was a gold pendant in the shape of a coiling dragon with a red diamond as its eye.


    Now lets see where you are my wonder child


    I again closed my eyes and drew another set of runes this time connecting my spirit itself to the land of andrea.I was a little like astral projection but here you became aware of all the energies flowing in the world.I have to concentrate in specific places with high mana density to find him


    Lets see where you are.Huh...not here....nope....neither here.....Where are you my little drake


    Found you at last.Wow you have got some serious punch my boy.Let''s bring you here.


    The rune circle activated one more,this time a summoning array connected to the teleportation channel.The runes flared for a last time before vanishing, leaving behind a small baby of a few weeks.His skin was the colour of fairest white with a head full of gold hair.His small round eyes were gold with flecks of different colours in them,as if his eyes were a rainbow.As soon as he appeared he started wailing loudly.I gently picked him in my arms and kissed his head and placed the pendant on his neck and he immediately stopped crying and closing his eyes went to sleep.Carrying him in my arms I got up on my feet and immediately realizing my blunder asked a loud "But what''s his name?".


    The answer came in a soft whisper in the wind seemingly coming from the dragon pendant "Nathaniel Arthur Drakul"


    "So baby drake let''s see what we can do for you".I spoke aloud to no one. Taking one last look at the clearing and remembering to come at once and repairing the tree house I shift from the place in a intense blinding light.


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 Chapter 1

    Nathaniel p.o.v


    Scientist say that the earliest memories a person can remember was when they are 3 years old. But not me. People say I have photographic memory but I think Its different cause the things I remember are not possible for a normal person. Not only I remember all my childhood but I remember my entire existence. No, I am not joking, I literally mean my entire existence as in from the moment my consciousness existed.


    My first memory is of floating. I didn''t have a body then, neither did I have any thoughts or senses. I was just being. I don''t remember how much time I floated in this nothingness but as abruptly as I became me, I now had sensations. First came the sense of touch. I could feel I was actually floating in a warm liquid. After some time came the sense of hearing. My first sound of hearing a loud Thump. I was very startled from the sudden input. After a moment the Thump came again. From then on the sound came repeatedly at intervals. It was a very soothing noise. Time passed and I could fell the space I was growing smaller or perhaps I was getting bigger. I first found out I have an actual defined body and not just a floating mass when my extremities once touched the end of my space. There was something soft but stretchy thing preventing me from moving further and that was when I found I could control feel and control my four limbs, but not voluntarily. From then on I tried to control my limbs whenever I had energy. Time continued to pass. I became too big to move much anymore so I just waited, for what I don''t know. Suddenly one day the darkness slowly receded and I started to move. It was a little tight squeezing but someone continued to push or pull me.


    Finally I was free to move as I like. I opened my eyes and took a long breath. And all my senses overloaded. All this time I knew only darkness. Now there was so much light and so many things I could see, so many scents flooded my nose, I could feel the cold breeze on my sensitive skin and hear the loud chatter coming from the big things surrounding me. Along with this chaos with my senses I was flooded with instinctual knowledge about everything. At once I knew everything and nothing at the same time. Like all the knowledge in the world was around the corner and I just needed something to jog my memory. I knew the concept and feeling but didn''t know the meaning behind them. I knew all this people surrounding me and holding me were just like me but didn''t know what or who they were. I knew that the noises were them communicating with each other but I didn''t understand a single word. Amidst all of this knowledge and experience frying my brain one of them slapped me hard on my back and felling pain for the first time I did what my instinct told me to, I opened my mouth and started to cry so loud something came out of my eye. This noise coming from those people to increase so I shut my mouth.


    The one holding me gave to some one else. As the held me I got the felling that they were mine and they loved me, whatever love was. Then I was moved and something came close to my mouth. I got a whiff of something pleasant and there was a tug in my middle. I understood I was hungry and I needed the thing where the smell came from. So I again followed my instincts and opened my mouth and sucked whatever it was. A warm spray of liquid flooded my mouth and I got another sense. The sense of taste. The liquid was delicious and I started sucking with my full force. After I felt my middle was full and no more tugging came I released the thing form my mouth and got surrounded by something warm and comforting. My body started feeling weak and the darkness started coming again. I didn''t want to go to the darkness again, this was better but the darkness still came and this time my consciousness faded with it.


    I didn''t know how much time I was in the darkness but as my conscious returned I felt that I wasn''t floating again but lying on something soft. I understood that I was sleeping and that this was my body taking rest after being able to do those things. I again felt the tug in my middle so I opened my mouth again expecting the warm liquid but nothing came. So I opened my eyes and saw light everywhere. After I got used to all my senses a little I saw that I was lying somewhere else and there was no one here. So I again opened my mouth and tried to make noise like they were making but it didn''t seem to work. So I took a big breath and this time screamed like the first time I was hit. Well that got their attention because soon someone came and I got my favorite liquid. After getting my fill I again felt myself getting heavy and the darkness approaching so this time I didn''t try to fight I and got embraced it falling asleep. This seemed to become a routine, I would wake up, start to cry, someone would come and feed me and I would fall asleep again most times. The times I would not fall sleep immediately I watched. I saw that all the people who came here looked different and so I could recognize all their faces and scents. That is something else unique to everyone and everything. Even the place where I sleep has a different though somewhat similar to me. Among all the different faces I recognized two, both of them I get the feeling are mine, one who always feeds me and another who always hugs me and throws me up. I like the sensation of floating but without the darkness. They come to me the most and always seem happy. Though I still cant understand those voices.


    After watching people the next best thing is watching things. Though that is something I can''t do by my own. I can move my hands and legs just fine but my head is too heavy to move. So I mostly I just lie there and watch whichever direction my head is placed. But sometimes the people come and carry me and I got to see all around the place. There were so many shapes and sizes, so many colors, and so many smells that though I didn''t know what any of those things were I liked them very much. This was my daily routine.


    One day, I was lying facing the place all the people came from, a new person came to my place. He didn''t look like the normal people I see every day and I couldn''t even see his face. As he got closer to me I got his smell. It was not at all familiar and I got the feeling that he didn''t like me and would cause me pain. So I started crying, so that someone else will come and take him away. Seeing me crying he quickened his steps his steps and as he was going to pick me up someone else came in. As soon as they saw each other the new person started shouting and the place was filled with many more people. There were some flashes of light and some more screaming and then silence. Most of the people left my place leaving just a few, one of them the one who feeds me. They didn''t leave me alone that day or the next day till I fell asleep.Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website.


    When I woke up again I realized I was no longer lying in the same place anymore. The place was constantly bouncing and opening my eyes I saw that we were in a new place and this time moving too because I could see outside, where they were so many new things to see, new colors, new scents, new sounds. Some things were moving alongside us too and above them were more people. I was having a blast seeing all these new things. But inspite of all these things I knew something was off. Those two people who always have a felling of happiness around me, today I also felt they were worried. Though what and why is worried I didn''t know so I kept quiet most of the time. When I saw big bright thing above slowly moving down and the light became less, I became hungry again and then I fell asleep all the while the place kept moving and jumping.


    I knew when we stopped moving because the place stopped bouncing. There were some noises and then I was being carried away somewhere. I was in a half dream state due to all this jostling and just opened my eyes once to see we were again inside and then I fell asleep again.


    I woke up this time not because of my own needs but due to the shouts and screams coming from outside. They were so loud I think everyone in this place must have heard it. I was going to join the cacophony of noises outside when the one who feeds me came running inside my place followed by the other one. But both were different that normal. One was sad and crying while the other was angry, very angry carrying something big and shiny in his hands. But though it looked very beautiful and shiny I knew that it was used for nothing good. They talked with eachother though too loudly for my liking. Then one finally shouted something and the other one picked me up and they both started running. I was asleep when we came here that I didn''t realize that this place was so big. And so many people were here that saw when we were passing though there seemed to be two groups wearing same colors and all the people were what I understood fighting the other group.


    We ran for some time turning here and there some running with us or running behind us and whenever two groups met they would stop and fight. We finally stopped inside a big place with a very big person was standing with open arms though not moving from its place or moving at all and of a different color that what I normally see around me. Everyone other that the one carrying me exited the place and I was placed in front of the big unmoving person on the hard surface. Then the person sat beside me clasped hands, closed eyes and started muttering something fast. So it was no shock to me when another one entered the place and being directly behind the one beside me and no one saw it. But the new one quickly got attention when he was followed by another person and there was a loud scream which abruptly cut off by a gurgle and the silence once again, though the only reaction he got was more faster muttering. As he advanced and came fully in my field of vision, I saw he was wearing the dark groups color and holding the same shiny but dangerous thing in his hand. His face was covered but I could see his eyes and that was enough for me to understand a few things. This person was BAD. And he would harm me and mine, and he would enjoy very much while doing so. That was the first time I felt angry. No one harms what is mine. My eyes started stinging, then they hurt so much I closed my eyes but it still stung. Then suddenly there was a shift in the air, the pain intensified for a brief moment they cut off completely and I roared. Not the roar of a baby but the roar of a dragon and the whole place shook.


    I opened my eyes and saw everything the same other that the fact that everywhere instead of empty air there was something else floating. It was same color everywhere but it was light enough that you could see everything else easily and it was in surrounding the one beside me in large amount. I understood that this thing is power, it will listen to me and do everything I tell it to do. So I looked at the bad man in the eye, and imagined poking him there hard with all my baby concentration. I know that is a place which hurts very much because I once accidentally poked myself in the eye and it hurt very much and couldn''t open it for a long time. So when there was a flare of light that moved very fast towards its eye I was very happy when he started screaming and shouting. But still this didn''t deter him for long and he again started advancing faster this time with only one eye open and the other black will something dripping from it. As soon as I thought about poking him in the other eye my head felt like it would split open and I started crying. I had to watch with tear filled eyes as the Bad person came running behind the one beside me and put the thing he was holding through the other person. The one beside me screamed with agonising pain and slumped forward when he took the thing out of this one. The one beside me kissed me on my forehead one last time, muttering something loudly and then fell sideways. I watched as the bad person become filled with joy, and the colorful thing floating before quickly form around and above me. Then I felt the air being pulled above and then slowly my whole body was being pulled. I felt like my whole body was being dissolved in the air and pulled to someplace else. My last sight before a bright flash of light was the look of anger and despair on the bad persons face when he understood something was wrong.


    As my vision returned from the bright light I saw that there was nothing familiar with this place other than the color floating in the air and that too was lot less than what I saw before and there was no light anywhere. I suddenly got picked up by someone. This one looked nothing like the ones I have seen before but his eyes held a warmth like the one who used to feed me. Then I remembered what happened few moments ago, how she had fallen still and knew that was no sleep but something much more permanent. Thinking about the fact that that I will never get to see or hear that person again, neither feel the sweet milk, I felt a pain in my chest I didn''t know could pain. Tears came in my eyes and I started to cry. Then the person holding me put something on my neck and I fell that comforting presence when my favorite person hugged me. My eyes closed automatically and the last thought before I fell asleep is perhaps That person is still with me.

 Chapter 2

    And that, my friends, is pretty much how I came to be in this small town of Spinning Hills, Ohio. I was miserable for a few weeks both to myself and everyone around me but I was learning to adjust. Well as well as a three week kid who saw his mother die can adjust to a new place and new home. Everything was calming down and was starting to get a sense of familiarity and safety again and I was enjoying my nice new family.


    My life changed when we got a new addition to our little family when I was Just a month from my first birthday. I was sitting in the backyard at night on Holly''s lap and Dan was showing me the stars when Deimein walked in carrying a bundle in his arms. Who are they you say, Why I haven''t told about that yet? Sorry my fault. Well you remember the man who picked me up that fateful day. Well he is Deimien. Nice guy, tall maybe six foot height, though everyone is tall for me, brown hair and eyes such deep blue that they appear to be violet with flecks of dark in it. So the official stories goes something like this.


    My parents were very good friend of Deimien. He was my godfather. My parents had an accident so he took guardianship of me after my parents died. But since he wasn''t home often and he found out his wife was pregnant he couldn''t ask her to take care of infant now he gave me to his closest friend Holly and Dan to take care of instead. They have some family history and are pretty close plus Holly always dreamed of having a kid but never could. So it was a win-win situation for all of them.


    Why ''Official story'' you say. Cause if my memory serves right and it always does my parents weren''t killed in any car accident but were killed by the man with cold evil eyes who still starred in my nightmares sometimes. So I knew he was lying but I never told anyone that partly because no one is gonna believe a kid, let alone the fact that I couldn''t talk then and partly because my intuition told me it wasn''t time yet and it never failed me till now.


    Now you are wondering how I know all of that. Well having too much of free time and having a practically perfect memory makes learning a language a lot easier. Along with that and the fact that I have a instinctual knowledge of everything that I could fathom the concept of and learning english was a piece of cake. So even before I could speak my first word I could pretty much understand every conversation. And if you have ever heard those small town ladies gossiping then you wouldn''t ask me such questions. I even how the town sheriff was in bed, bless my baby ears. The old ladies have no filter when they think the cute baby in their lap can''t understand a thing.


    So where was I, Oh yes Deimein. Well, though he gave me away for others to raise didn''t mean he was less than any father. He would routinely come every weekend, though he had a life of his own and played with me, sing to me or just watch me rolling around. But lately he had been very distracted, with dark bags under his eyes and he would always feel sad. Then suddenly two months ago he just stopped coming and though I came to know that his wife was sick I was still sad and missed him.


    So imagine my surprise he saw his again after so long. I ran up to him, okay it was mix between crawling and waddling, and hugged him tightly on his legs. He smiled down on me, but I could still sense that sadness in him, this time also mixed with love, hope, anger, hate and pity. It was like a maelstrom of emotions just boiling under the surface. Dan and Holly followed me in and greeted him though even they could sense something was wrong. "Can I speak with you for a moment.....privately" He said the last word looking at me and the followed Dan and Holly to the downstairs bedroom where he stays during the weekends closing the door behind him. I knew I could listen to them if I got really close to the door and concentrated really hard but I stayed where I was. They will eventually talk about it to themselves where I can hear, they are terrible at keeping secrets.


    After some time, they came out and Dei called me in the room. There I saw lying on the bed next to him a small baby sleeping peacefully wrapped in blankets. Dei pulled me close and kneeling to my size said " Little drake, this is my baby girl." Looking at the sleeping child he continued " Her mother died, just like yours. And I can''t be here for her now. So do you think


    So where was I, Oh yes Deimein. Well, though he gave me away for others to raise didn''t mean he was less than any father. He would routinely come every weekend, though he had a life of his own and played with me, sing to me or just watch me rolling around. But latey he had been very distracted, with dark bags under his eyes and he would always feel sad. Then suddenly two months ago he just stopped coming and though I came to know that his wife was sick I was still sad and missed him.


    So imagine my surprise he saw his again after so long. I ran up to him, okay it was mix between crawling and waddling, and hugged him tightly on his legs. He smiled down on me, but I could still sense that sadness in him, this time also mixed with love, hope, anger,hate and pity. It was like a maelstorm of emotions just boiling under the surface. Dan and Holly followed me in and greeted him though even they could sense something was wrong. "Can I speak with you for a moment.....privately" He said the last word looking at me and the followed Dan and Holly to the downstairs bedroom where he stays during the weekends closing the door behind him. I knew I could listen to them if I got really close to the door and concentrated really hard but I stayed where I was. They will eventually talk about it to themselves where I can hear, they are terrible at keeping secrets.


    After some time, they came out and Dei called me in the room. There I saw lying on the bed next to him a small baby sleeping peacefully wrapped in blankets. Dei pulled me close and kneeling to my size said " Little drake, this is my baby girl." Looking at the sleeping child he continued " Her mother died, just like yours. She will need a friend when she wakes up. And I can''t be here for her now. Do you think you can be her friend, keep her safe till I return ".


    That I a very big responsibility an to show him I understood the gravity of it I nodded.....and nodded.....and nodded. Ok I may have nodded too much cause my head started spinning later but I had to show him how serious I was. In retrospect maybe nodding that much wasn''t such a good idea to show my seriousness. But he smiled so maybe he understood me. He then kissed us both goodbye, nodded towards Holly and Dan and left. That was the day I got my best friend and light of my life. No, seriously her name is Alina which means light, so literally light of my life.


    My next big incident occurred when I was five years old and attending my third week of kindergarten. All the kids were pretty much avoiding me I am sure, though I didn''t knew why. Adding insult to the injury is the fact that Ali is super popular among the kids and everyone wanted to play with her. Now to my 5 year old mind, we were grew up together, we played together and were always together, so we were pretty much the same. So seeing her getting so much attention and me pretty much being ignored I was a little jealous, ok a lot jealous, and wanted to show the kids how cool I am. So I did what I saw in all cool movies, when I saw the big bad kids bulling the small kid and went to the rescue. I stood in front the biggest kid of the bunch and in most loudest and authoritative voice I said " I will not let you bully other anymore, Leave him alone". When I say I spoke in my loudest voice only the people close could hear it, but still everyone turned my way because everyone knows not to mess with these kids. OK, now let me give you a few facts. My voice is low. Not low pitch or anything but the volume is low. When I talk normally its a little better than a whisper so I am usually the silent type. Even when I am angry I usually brood silently and never shout, Holly called them silent tantrum because you literally wouldn''t know I am throwing a tantrum. And other fact was that I was totally skinny. So when I confronted him expecting fear or awe, I got mockery and anger that he was spoken to infront of everyone by a skinny kid smaller than him. He pushed me hard on the ground and spoke full of spite " You don''t get to speak to me like that. You are a freak, no one wants you, even you uncle gave you to someone else. So just go away and don''t come near us" " What are you saying ?" " You didn''t see no one wants to talk to you. Everyone is freaked out by your eyes. You are not like us. My mother tells me you are a freak. So go away. Freak Eyes"


    That hurt. I expected atleast someone to say something but when they turned their heads I knew they agreed. I knew his mother, Hell I almost everyone''s mother here. She wasn''t rude to me but pretty much ignored me everytime I saw her in town. They are wealthy and has a big house on the outskirts of town. They have what people call old money, Their ancestors were one of the first settlers here. I only ever saw her in town driving her car or in the tea shop chatting with her group, so I had no idea why she would think so bad of me. Then I remembered the first time I saw her. She had flinched on seeing me then ignored me the rest of the time, only talking with Holly. From there I remember every meeting I had with all the people in town and they showed some kind of reaction on first seeing me. Perfect memory can be a bitch sometimes. When the boy I came to help, ran away when everyones attention was on me without a backward glance, I knew I was never going to be the liked kid. My lips wobble and my eyes sting from the humiliation and hurt. To add insult to the injury he turns to the two at his sides and says mockingly "~ Whats this, are you going to cry like a baby now. Wanna go to mommy~"Unauthorized use: this story is on Amazon without permission from the author. Report any sightings.


    Thats when Ali comes mowing from the other side of the playground. She is the complete opposite of me. If I am silent she is very loud, speaks and does whatevers on her mind and when she gets angry you better run. Hew glare is enough to silence any more comments coming my way and believe me when I say this but you do not want to be on the receiving end of it. She comes and stands infront of me, pulls her fist back and punches him straight in the face. he lands on his butt, holds his nose and starts crying loudly. She turns to me, pulls my hand and says " Come on, you don''t need them. I will play with you"


    She got into trouble later but since technically he was the one bullying, there was no parents call and we didn''t tell the grown ups about it. But once I reached home I went straight for the bathroom mirror and notice for the first time that my eyes are really different. Normal people have blue, brown, black or sometimes some other exotic eye color with a black pupil in the middle. Mine...mine have every color you can name. My pupils are small than normal and a little stretched like rounded slits, their are seven golden streaks covering the iris to the pupil and are filled in between with all shades of color like a rainbow puked in my eye and sometimes if look closely enough it feels the shades are changing.


    That day I learned three things. I don''t need others to like me to know I am good. I am really different that other people. And lastly never piss off Ali.


    My second big incident occured when after my 10th birthday. It was my biggest growth spurt up to date. One night I went to sleep and the next day when I woke up all my clothes were all tight, my body was killing me and I was a almost as tall as Holly and she was five foot eight. Now this may not seem strange to you, afterall there are many tall humans in the world but what is strange are the after effects of it. It all started when I woke up. I was feeling mighty fine other than the ache in my body. Too fine for me cause I never was a morning person. I had the strange feeling of adrenaline and restlessness when I had a sugar rush but ten times more. It was as if I had too much energy in me. I went to the bathroom and first thing I did is squeeze the tube so much the paste went flying. Next I broke my toothbrush. And it only starts there. That week I broke all my pencils, most of my toys, my favorite coffee mug, some of Ali''s toys when we were playing, put a dent on the wall playing catch in the backyard, but the best was when I jumped in the bed and it broke completely in half. Well, other than Dan and Holly''s financial going down the drain they were afraid I was literally going to break the house or someone else so they called Deimein, their go-to for any of my strange behavior.


    Oh I forgot to tell you but he is back. Though Ali still lives with us cause frankly he doesn''t know ''C'' of childcare but he still comes every Weekend but otherwise remains away for his buisness which to this day no one knows. Anyway, he had some emergency work and couldn''t come this week so on the third day of my destructive streak they called Dei. So he came the next day and took me and Ali for our famous camping trips. Their in front of the campfire, eating sandwiches he asked me in full detail to recall whatever happened. And I told him too, its just something in his wise eyes which wants to tell him your every problem like he can solve anything and unlike other people he actually listens to what a kid has to say to him which makes sharing with him easier. The next day he put both me and Ali to a mixed martial arts dojo owned by a friend of his. I think that man has friend even in another planet. But it worked, well mostly. My energy level went down and I always returned exhausted and I learned to somewhat control my newfound strength but they have a few repairs to be made now and one junior instructor needs some serious medical help.


    !!TRINGGGGGG!!


    The bells rings ending my monologue about my past and the english period. I haven''t heard a single word of todays lecture but believe it or not I know more about what she is teaching than mrs Wicks, our english teacher. Perks of having the head librarian in the house is that I get free reign in the library and a summer job as an assistant librarian. I know the content and placements of every book in the library. I slowly pack my books and wait for the hungry mob to first get out of the room and then follow them to the canteen. Walking the hallways I see how much it has filled in the recent years. Spinning Hills high is one of the tops schools near around Dayton and now all the kids from the neighboring places attend the school. Putting my books in the locker I move toward the canteen.


    Our school canteen is like everywhere else. Square room big enough to house half the school filled with benches with no real sense of order and on the left side is the lunch queue along with the lunch lady. Talking my lunch of a turkey sandwich and apple I find my usual table at the corner of the room. I know what you are thinking but no I am not a loner. I am not socially impaired, talk to everyone and even have friends but then why don''t I sit with them. The answer is very simple I like to be alone. Aaaad I get to do shit like this.


    "Did you hear riley is back with parker........"


    " ........Dude, you wont believe this.........."


    "........and then captain justice punched him like BHAMM......"


    ".....is going to prom tomorrow with shirley......."


    This is my latest talent. Starting from January this year all my senses are going overdrive the closer I am coming to my 18th birthday. From birth I had a little better than normal hearing and smell but now, few days till my birthday I can easily hear every conversation in the canteen if I close my other senses and concentrate on hearing. Yeah it took a lot of time and practice but now finally this has become my favorite pass time and way to get all the juicy gossips in school.


    I was listening to a nice story of how the school quarterback Mark was pranked when someone took his towel from the shower room when !!THAWCK!! I was hit heard on the head. Focusing my eyes I looked up to see Ali sitting on the other side of the bench with a raised eyebrow.


    "Now quit thinking and tell me what I should do?"


    Um....What?" Ok, that was real smooth.


    "What? What ? I can''t believe you. I have been sitting here, talking to you for last ten minutes and you are asking what? Did you hear anything I said or were you inside your head all this time."


    Ten minutes!! and I didn''t even notice her. If I tell her I didn''t even knew she was here she would kill me.


    " Lets hypothetically say that I have no idea what we are talking abou what would you be asking me?"


    " Uhhh..... I was asking wether I should say yes to Brian for tomorrows prom"


    She asks me every time she has any problem, even in homework. Especially in case of dating cause she knows I am a better judge of character than she is. Brian would be the captain of the Football team. He is the only guy who has any brain matter among the football jocks and has some decent manners probably because his mother is very strict and more scary than the devil.


    "Ok you can go with him but remember, remember I will be sick tomorrow and you will have keep all attention to yourself and don''t bring the topic of prom or dates today."


    " Yeah, Yeah, I remember. But I still don''t understand why you remain like this. You don''t date, you don''t go to any parties or social events. Its not even like you don''t get asked out by girls but you turn everyone down."


    I don''t reply. She knows the answer, or atleast most of it. We don''t keep secrets from each other. when I turned fifteen I finally got the nerve to confront Dei about my parents. He didn''t seem surprised when I said they weren''t in a car accident. He didn''t ask me anything else, nor tell me anything either. Just said that " When you are ready Little Drake, you will get all your answers and much more".


    After continuously asking after all this time he finally said ''on my 18th birthday, I will finally get my wish''. I already have plans made. I will find the real identity of my parents, find the fucker who killed him and see that justice will be done to them. I know it will not be easy. But I have already planned for all possible situations. I have money saved, I have poured hours on the internet researching on survival techniques on all types of situations. I have practiced all forms of unarmed and armed combat and can easily improvise in any situations thanks to my sometimes annoying but mostly useful gifts.


    I know that I will have to leave home for this and it will already be difficult to leave behind those I love not knowing when I will see them again. I didn''t want to add more people to this list. She knows all my plans and reasons and even asked to accompany me but I denied it. whoever killed my parents is dangerous, I know it. This is my war, my revenge and I don''t want anybody else dying because of me.


    Its just a week before graduation, two weeks till my birthday and I just pray that I will have the strength to do what is best for every when the time comes.