The Unknown

The Unknown Ep.2

So many things were running through this girl's head, but one thing was jumping out. 

"How do you know my name?" I said in disbelief, her eyes opened wide, "How do you know that?", she said, "You are one of them, you can read my mind, you are not who I thought", I read her mind and in a blink of an eye I knew she was going to shoot, I turned my head and raised my hand shouting no, but it was too late, I heard the trigger, it was only a matter of time before the bullet hit me in the chest, but it never did, I couldn't feel any pain, did she miss, she couldn’t she's 10 feet away from me, as I looked up at her she was staring at me, her blue eyes looking straight into my soul, her face was no longer covered. My god she was beautiful, my mind wandered for a second before I realized what she was staring at, it was not me, it was the bullet floating in front of my hand. 

As I dropped my hand the bullet dropped as well, I was as shocked as she was, how is this possible? What am I ? What have they done to me? But the one thing I could not stop thinking about is how did she know my name.

"What are you?", she said, I asked her to stay calm and I would explain, we sat on the floor, neither of us said much for a few minutes and then she spoke, " the beach, that's were I know you from, that's how I know your name, we used to live close to each other, I used to hang out at the beach where you and your friends would meet up" In my head I thought how was it possible that I never noticed this stunning girl, she went on "I am a few years younger than you that's why you never noticed me", "I'm sorry I never did" I said. 

"What happened to you? I mean where have you been all these years?" she asked, I explained where I had been and the things that were done to me, the horrors experienced. "I don't know what they were doing to me, things in my head, injections, pills... I'm not sure what experiments they were doing but all I know is that one day something inside me snapped and the room I was in just vanished...", her face looking at me was pure awe, she couldn't understand how I could of survived all these years with the things that had been done to me and neither could I, "have you met or seen anyone like me" I asked, " never in my life have I seen anything like what you did just now, you stopped a bullet mid-air, I mean, I can't even begin to comprehend what just happened here", and who could blame her, I mean even I couldn't understand what was going on. 

After I escaped I couldn't remember anything, I woke up in the middle of some rubble, got up and ran as far away as I could, I don't remember what I did or what triggered the destruction I left behind.

"Come with me, I will look after you until you can remember what happened", she was like an angel, coming down from heaven to save me, I was weak, hurt and in pain, and even though I could feel that she was also scared I sensed that she genuinely wanted to help me.

"Where are we going" I asked as she held my hand, "don't be scared, it will all work out, you'll see". 

Somehow I felt compelled to believe her, something inside me said I could trust this girl and that it would all be fine, little did I know what was to come.

We went out of the city, away from the rubble and the destruction left behind from the war. We walked what felt hours but I didn't mind, this girl was amazing, the more I spoke to her the more I wanted to know, we lived in a hopeless time yet she gave me hope, something I haven't felt for a long time.

"We're here," she said excited, I was amazed at what I was looking at, a whole city, underground, full of people, buzzing with life, laughter... I wept, of pure joy, I had never imaged a place like this could exist in our world. We were walking to her house to eat, I was starving, not had a decent meal in days.

She lived in what looked like a container of sorts, not sure, but its a house none the less, as I walked in I could smell food, it smelt amazing, by God I could taste the food in my mouth. "what is that smell?" as I uttered these words the Chef walked out with the food, "Mum?!"

It was my mum, in front of me, in flesh and bone as beautiful as I remember, the food fell of her trembling hands as she launched her body towards me, "you're alive? You're here? How? I saw you being taken away, oh my boy!" Neither of us could contain the tears, we held for a while just crying, then I realized that we were not alone, "I'm sorry, how rude of me, this is my mum" I said when I realized that the girl had been staring at us for a while. We talked for hours, we laughed, we cried , I had little hope that I would find her alive, to be honest, I had lost hope of ever finding anyone.

Months passed, I was developing my powers with the help of my mum, don't know why but she knew what I was going through, she understood the power I had, "no one else must know" she said to me " they would not understand what you are and what u can do."

Every day we heard news of more destruction, more death. I had to do something to help, but what, what could a single man do against... well... whatever those things are. But none the less I was the one with the power. It was time to leave, I could not bear the fact that I had this power and was not using it for good, so one morning I left, not saying goodbye, never really liked goodbyes. I simply left a note for my mum that said "Glad I found you again x". During my time in the City I had fallen in love with the girl, I say the girl because it hurts to say her name, I miss her so much...

I decided to leave her note as well, simply saying "I love you, my angel,", I am a man of few words and I left not planning on coming back of course, I wanted to end this struggle, save the lives of the people I love. I heard rumors that there was some sort of base for those things a few days walk from the City and that's were I needed to go. I had no idea what I was going to find or what I was going to do but I was ready to face what was coming.