The Lost Chronicles Of Pangea: Apocalypse

Experiments

There was a staring contest currently going on in a house with only a young man and three baby tortoises as it’s residents. And this contest had been going on for the past fifteen minutes. All four participants had their eyes focused on themselves. Well three of them had their eye focused on one person.

David leaned his head to the side, and all three tortoises did the same. He raised his hand to wave hello and all three tortoises actually raised their clawed feet or hands to wave right back at him. Then he tried to smile, and the tortoises tried to match his grin with theirs. The ensuing results was terrifying, considering this little guys had jaws filled with rows of really sharp teeth.

Just so you know David was not controlling the tortoises or anything. In fact he had been trying for the whole of fifteen minutes to read their mind or something, but all he did was strain himself so hard he ended up getting a headache. Then he noticed the tortoises were actually copying his every move, it was like training a bunch of dogs. They were smart, way, way smart. And David spent another fifteen minutes toying with them. And for the first time since he woke up as two guys and realized the world sucked big time, he had an actually genuine smile on his face. He had been really stressed out with all of the bizarre things he has had to face. Telepathic powers or not, he was still human and he was physically and emotionally exhausted.

But he knew to make the best of this moment, who knew when he would get a chance to be this happy and care free again. In this moment there was a bubble that blocked out the world and all of its problems from reaching him. So it was just him and three little animals who were just as alone and forgotten as he was.

But like every other bubble this was not going to last, because eventually the world will come calling and it would most definitely bring its problems along. David sighed as he lifted one of the tortoises and brought it closer to his face. Creepy eyes and fearsome jaws aside, it was a magnificent beast. Its blue shell with red veins running in between it cracks was a very beautiful sight and it seemed to have a metallic glint and luster to it.

Then David heard something, it was not hearing really it was more like feeling. He felt full, he felt a need for release if only if he would just get comfortable, he felt like taking……

“Oh s**t!”

But it was already too late as the tortoise he was holding decided it would be a really good idea to leave a steaming pile of……well a steaming pile of s**t. David almost flung the animal in his hand out of annoyance, but he was able to put it down before his anger and irritation got the best of him. David made his way to the kitchen sink and let the water run over his arms as he scrubbed as if his life depended on it. Seriously how was this fair, he adopts the damn thing, and then it decides the best way to thank him was to go potty on his hands. This sucked a lot and he wondered why the damn reptile did not give a warning before it did this. And then that’s when it dawned on him, it did give a warning in fact he felt the warning.

David left the water running as he made his way back to the tortoises who were now playing a game of stack the blocks. Using their own bodies as the blocks as all three tried to climb over each other. David picked one of them up and brought it closer, he was not sure what he did the last time to initiate a connection, but he had watched too many Hollywood movies about super heroes training. He was pretty sure he owned this s**t.

He took a deep breath and tried to clear his head, which was easier said than done since there was a million and one things marching around his brain right now. Since he couldn’t clear his head, he instead chose to focus on the tortoise. He looked at it with such Intensity and felt really hungry. Which was strange considering David just ate, he widened his eyes immediately in shock because he knew he had made the connection. He was sure the tortoises were as smart as any other human being, the only thing was that they were children. That and the fact that David could not get anything more than a few ‘feelings’ due to how low leveled his ability was made it hard to get anything other than instinct from the tortoises.

This could not be considered traditional mind reading, but it still fell under the category. His telepathic abilities were not strong enough to read thoughts or even influence them, however he could feel intent and instinct as long as he was in contact with them. It was really awesome.

Then David felt liquid dripping from his nose, he moved one hand to his face and pulled it back covered in blood. David only had the chance to say “s**t!” before he collapsed to the ground with the tortoise on his chest.

The whole room began to spin and David felt dizzy and weak. He couldn’t move his body, neither could he control it as he vomited all over himself, he felt his bladder and bowels discharge themselves with reckless abandon as the stink of body waste filled the air. And then his head started pounding and throbbing, there was a ringing in his ears that was so intense he felt like his head was going to explode. The pain was unbearable and it kept on increasing like the beats of a drum rising to a climaxing crescendo. David wished for death at that moment, but it never came, he wished he would just pass out, but his body was rather adamant about punishing him. And so he laid there for hours unable to do anything but let pain ravage his body. And when the hours blended together to the point he lost total recollection of time or his surroundings, the darkness offered solace.