FLESH

CHAPTER TWO: Survival

The next morning, I woke up hoping that it was all a dream but it wasn't I saw my father asleep outside, he must have fallen asleep while waiting for her. I woke him up telling him to come in and have a rest but his first words where if mother was back already, I said no not yet, he said okay that he will go into the village and ask around for her that something might have happened to her, I told him I would like to go with him, he said of course. We went to the village together asking around for my mother but all the answers were no nothing and I looked at my father sad, angry and hungry I decided to get him food and told him to eat, he said to me if anything should happen to his wife he won't ever forgive himself because he should have been with her, seeing how he ate i looked at him feeling that sensation again, I gazed at his skin non-stop feeling that hunger I didn't want to do that to him then I ran away fighting the urge, I didn't stop running I couldn't go back home knowing what I could do to him. I decided to leave and never return I had too, he would not just lose a wife but also a son but he will still be alive and far away from me, so I left and as a 13 year old boy I had to fend for myself walking around people hearing them i tried the best I could not to harm anyone but it was so hard I was so hungry but then I saw where they sell killed animals, I realized I could also eat their skin even if humans where far better I didn't mind so I waited for everyone to pack up and go then I visited the shop but it was closed, I didn't mind so I went to the window luckily it was open I guess he forgot to lock it, as hungry as I was I couldn't care less about what I saw and how hungry I was I ate every single thing not a piece of flesh left, and I left thinking is this how the rest of my life will be knowing I can't die and having to feed on flesh to stay sane. I had to know more of myself and what I could do so I needed money to set up on a journey and knowing if I had to feed I won't have to be in one place because if they caught me that's the end.

So I worked for money and if I was hungry I will hunt for animals, it was easy knowing I couldn't die I went after dangerous animals too I couldn't do what I did to my mother to someone else again, i lived on with animal skins I did that moving from place to place finding out things I could do, I found out I was faster than animals or anything if I go for hunting, stronger, too quiet no one could hear me coming that's how I get most animals and when I saw what I looked like when feeding, I had red eyes they glow so bright with my long teeth's and claws and tongue I saw my reflection in the water. I lived like that for 55years, humans figuring out what was happening to their animals and me as I was getting old. I visited my father sometimes knowing how sad he was everyday then I decided not to ever go back.

One day I was by the river when I heard a scream for help then I went to check what it was, seeing young boys harassing a lady knowing I should play hero I went over there asking them to stop but they didn't instead they harassed me and beat me up and left me for dead, I heal very fast and when I heal my blood goes back in, I was angry at them so I followed them. After knowing where they all stay knowing what I could do to them I decided to back away but one caught me and brought me to the others, I saw him spying on us one said and the other one said I know this guy from somewhere else we beat him up and left him for dead but seeing how strong I was with no bruised he asked what I was looking for and I answered him please let me go am really hungry right now and I was I haven't eaten any animal skin yet but knowing they won't and knowing how hungry I was I told them how sorry I was and then I killed everyone of them, all 5 of them, have forgotten what human skin taste like the feeling was so good and I couldn't stop I ate all their flesh leaving just the blood and their bones and then I looked at my hand knowing things where changing inside me and my skin fading out into a smoother one and then I realized I was getting younger, i looked at myself in a mirror I saw myself being 25 again I was shocked I haven't tasted human flesh in years and if this is how I feel every time I do so I would want that everyday then I realized their is so much about me that I don't know yet, If I could get younger then how younger could I get. I had to burn their bones and I left figuring out what happened then I said to myself why not feed on those humans who don't think their Worth it or who I know aren't worth it. so I feed on men who harasses ladies and me too and every time I feed on humans I stay younger until one day I realized I could control it I was thinking of getting younger than I was then I saw myself as a 13 year old me and I got younger than that till I was a baby again..nice I said to myself If I could get younger then half of my problems are solved so I decided to look for a family who needed a baby so I turned myself into one and a couple took me in they raised me. If I couldn't die and I could get younger I was bored with my life and decided for a family to raise me up and take care of me. I do feed on animals but humans where less I couldn't attract too much attention, at night when they are asleep I hunt, they can't hear me because of how quiet I was and faster too so I don't always take time and if couldn't find an animal I just go after a human instead I always felt this hungry when I was around my adoptive parents so I just go to sleep and they let me be alone so that’s when I go, I didn't want to get to attached so Incase I couldn't control it and anything happen I won't really feel it. when I was 16 I got so angry with them about something they said so I raised my voice at them and my dad hit me I haven't learnt how to control my anger yet so I ate him with my mum watching she screamed tried to run I went after her telling her how sorry I am for doing this and how I couldn't stop nor control it then i said please tell me you understand she said she understand, surprised at her statement and how terrified she was I told her not to be scared then she wasn't anymore then I realized anything I tell her she obeys I did not know if it was me doing it or just her trying to be calm so I won't hurt her, I had to try again by telling her what she thinks of me right now then she said am a monster I couldn't disagree because I was, then I told her to stand still and not go anywhere, I had to go pack up dads bones and bury it, I came back she was still there she did not move then I told her why hasn't she left yet she said because I asked her not to then I told her she can move then she ran away, faster than her I came up to her and told her to stop then she stopped and then I realized I figured something about myself, I could tell people to do things I want them too..I could compel them, knowing what I can now do, I told her forget about what she saw me doing and that she should leave her life without remembering who I was and she left like nothing happened I was amazed, I wondered what other things could I have, I left home and went after another. One ending in a disaster or I decided to leave and make them forget, learning I could not only get younger but older too so I survived the next three thousand years home after home watching people come and go learning things about myself and how I was the only one of my kind learning if I could find my real parents and what they were and it brought me right here where I was before telling my story, I couldn't care less about them they got what they deserved.