Section 2/ watch your words, they become your actions
We all went to the professor’s home. He does not live far, just the other side of knothole. His tahanan is a museum, the historical museum of Mobius and beyond. His house is the small room on the far left, it is just a bedroom.
He was in his private study, in the back of the museum. We knocked on the door, there was no answer. We knocked again, this time he replied, “it is open!” we entered. Everything in the room was perfect, almost too perfect. He stood up and greeted us.
Professor atsara is not that tall, only 5’ 10”. He has large bushy eyebrows, and his cloths were old and ragged.
“professor pickle, we have a situation. We need to know why shadow suddenly got these, abilities. ipakita him shadow.” Sally said. I looked at her, then at professor pickle, he looked attentive and focused. I gulped. Then I closed my eyes, and thought through the same memories as when I shape shifted. Then I opened my eyes, only this time I felt light headed.
He looked at me and thought about what I just did. He then said, “follow me.”
He leads us to a aklatan in the museum. atsara began looking through the books, then the journals, but then he pulled out a scroll. The scroll was old and faded, but it was readable.
He opened it up, and inside was shocking. Memories and thoughts flooded my mind. “most of this I can’t translate,” professor atsara said, “the language is a Nawawala font, and I can’t figure out what they are saying.” “how about the pictures?” sonic asked. There were pictures written all over the scroll, some looked familiar…
“shadow, can you understand any of this?” tails asked me. I looked at the scroll, I thought about each symbol, and each picture. “it is hard for me to translate; it is written in the old tongue. The language was discontinued over 35 million years ago, during the reign of the 5th or 6th kings. Then darkian was made.”
They all looked at me, astounded. “but the pictures are familiar, that one depicts the current kings, doom, death, and iblis.” I continued. “but if these are the current kings, why is the scroll so old?” tails asked. I replied, “this scroll looks to have been written when the kings were anointed. There no mentions of me or my family.”
“your family?” sally asked. I looked up from the scroll, they were all looking at me. That is when I noticed my mistake.
“I, um, it…” I began to try to find an excuse for what I said. “well, the time lines when Gerald had me…” great, I thought, how am I going to finish that sentence? And black doom nearly destroyed the world? Or when I was an experiment? “and when black doom found me.” I finished.
They all looked at me in disbelief. I was almost too embarrassed to speak, but I choked out “that is all I wish to say.”
“Can you morph again, so I can observe better?” professor atsara asked me. I still felt light headed still, but I did it anyway. I closed my eyes and concentrated, but then my head burned. All went black.
When I awoke, I was back home. At GUN headquarters that is. I sat up and looked around, then my head throbbed. Laid back down and stared at the ceiling. What happened? I thought, did I black out or faint? “shadow.” A voice called, I looked around, no one was there.
I thought it was just my head, but in then again… “remember the song to go home…” the voice continued, but it was so familiar. “eclipse?” I whispered. Nothing. Then I thought it, eclipse? “yes?” he replied. Brother I thought you were dead! I’m so sorry for all I did in the past, I want to make up for it all but… “don’t worry, we will see each other again.” He said.
“shadow?” hope sinabi walking into my dorm. “yes,” I sinabi sitting up. She had breakfast on a pinggan with her. “you came back unconscious; we were all worried. But a doctor took a look at you and he sinabi you would be alright.” She pasted me the pagkain and I ate it. “how did you pass pout anyway?”
I realized I had not told her about me shifting abilities. “you would not believe me if I told you.” She giggled, “I highly doubt that.” I looked at her, then I sighed. “fine, yesterday the freedom fighters restored most of my memories, I found out I have shape shifting abilities, and apparently if I use the ability too much, I pass out.”
She was stunted. “told you.” I said, “no, it’s just, shape shifting?” she said. “yes.” I replied. “alright.” She sinabi suddenly. “really? You’re just going to believe me just like that?” “why not? It is what mga kaibigan do.” I smiled at her, she smiled back.
The susunod day, I went out to discover madami of my new abilities. I shifted into my darkling form again. I found that I can climb trees really well, even head first down the tree, I am stronger than before, I can run on my fours early, and I now have a prehensile tail.
Little did I know, I was being watched the whole time.
At first there was silence. Then a noise. My ears perked up, u listened to see which direction it came from. I heard breathing. I spun around and got down on my fours, growling. Then, my watcher stepped out from behind a tree. “Locke!?!” I yelled. He looked at me, “so knuckles was telling the truth, the Nawawala prince has returned.” The wha?” I asked. “come with me, I will explain everything.”
Now, I know better than to follow Locke blind. He kidnaped me, hurt me, and just plain insults me.
“why?” I asked him suspiciously. “because, don’t you remember? Darkling lived with the echidna millions and millions of years ago.” I stared at him. He got on one knee so he was eye level with me, and extended his hand. “come, trust me.” Still on my fours, I crept up to him. I sniffed his hand. With his other hand, he reached over and stroked me. “see, you have nothing to fear.” He sinabi in the kindest voice.
He stood up and beaconed for me to follow. I looked back in the direction of home, then at Locke, and back again. “come, shadow, I will help you.” He called. I looked at him, waiting. Then I gave in and followed him.
He led me to his home, On angel island. He took me in, and fed me, then he brought me to a small aklatan in his village.
“sit there.” He told me, pointing to a small stack of pillows. I sat down and watch as he looked through the shelves. He pulled out three books and a scroll. One of the books he opened, “what do you remember?” he questioned me. “um… not much.” I replied. “anything of your home? Species? Kingdom?” he looked at me, kindly. “well, I do remember an island, in the middle of the sea. And hundreds of my kind. And how I lived in a castle!” he chuckled. “do you remember when you first opened your eyes?” “sort of, but it is really fuzzy.” I said, sounding upset. “it is not a bad thing, at least you remember it. You were only 2 decs old.” “decs?” I asked him. “yes.” he replied.
He pulled out another book and flipped through it. He looked at one page. “A dec is a darkling year. In mobian, it is equivalent to 10 years.” “I was 20 when I first opened my eyes!?!” “yes, and you were still an infant. You are only 15 and a half decs now.” “decs? I AM 155 YEARS OLD!?!?” “and still a baby, it says here the oldest living darkling was two million, three thousand and twenty-five decs old. Not much older than the susunod oldest.” He said, being surprised himself. “so, I’m not immortal, but I am one of the oldest living species on the earth.” “not just the earth, but the galaxy.” He told me.
I was astonished. I was going to outlive everyone I knew, and thousands madami in generations!
sa pamamagitan ng the time we left the library, it was nearly night. He offered for me to stay at his tahanan that night. I accepted.
He made me a nice kama in his room. It was on the floor, but was so comfy. It looked like a nest, but out of blankets and pillows. I slept great that night.
In the morning, I looked and saw that Locke and his wife were still asleep. I crept out of kama and snuck past what looked like knuckles’s room, but he is out guarding the master emerald. I got our side, it was still cold out, and no one was up yet. I went into the forests to get a snack. I found a wild squirrel. I caught it and at it. Still hungry, I kept searching.
It was not long before I decided to go back to the village. As I was headed back I heard someone scream. I listened, it was coming from the village!
I ran like the wind back. When I got there, there were even madami echidnas, the D.E.L. clan was attacking the knuckles clan. I looked around, wondering what I should do. I looked and found Locke’s house, on apoy with him, his wife and mace, there son, being threatened sa pamamagitan ng an echidna.
Another instinct struck, I leaped onto my fours and ran at the echidna. He looked at me and screamed. Then the unsuspected happened, I leaped at him and bit his neck. I released him when he was on the ground. Blood drooled from my mouth. I looked at the susunod D.E.L. echidna, he was frightened, sa pamamagitan ng me. I attacked him too, this time, I used my claws and sliced his stomach. Then I spotted Lein-da, the leader of the D.E.L. clan. She raised a dagger at me, and approached.
“you,” she said. “what are you doing?” “protecting these innocent foke.” I said, growling.
I looked madami menacing than I should, being covered in blood. I advanced on her. She did the same. We were now circling each other, only 7 feet apart. “you are now match for me.” She said. “I am the ultimate life form. I can take you on any day.”
I ran right at her, I leaped. But I was not fast enough.
She raised the dagger and stabbed me on the side. I stumbled when I landed face first on the ground.
She laughed, “see, you will never be as strong as me.” She chuckled and left. I pushed myself up, and ran. I didn’t want everyone to see my failure. I kept running to the end of angel island, and stopped right at the edge. I needed to get off the island.
“Shadow? Shadow! Come back!” Locke called from a distance. I couldn’t go back, I had to go. I thought of the best way to escape, to fly. I had no wings, but maybe I could grow some. I concentrated, I focused all my might on wings. I felt something sprouting from my back, it was working. When I opened my eyes, a pair of large feathered wings surrounded me. They were black at the top, red in the middle, and white on the bottom.
I looked behind he and heard them coming closer. I leaped, and beat my wings, and flew.
At first it felt free, like nothing could get to me. I felt the wing, the warmth, the air, it felt like I was back on the ARK. I closed my eyes and embraced it. But then I felt pain, a cramp in my side. When I opened my eyes, I wobbled in the air, and fell.
My left wing had cramped up; I couldn’t ilipat it. I was too low to the ground to catch any air, I just fell. Bellow was a ruin of an old city from long, long ago. I crashed head first into the ground, I was not rendered unconscious, but I had my eyes closed. I stayed there for a long time. My left wing under me, broken. My other wing, wrapped around me to keep me warm.
sa pamamagitan ng the time the sun began to set, I was asleep. But I was not alone.
A Tasmanian devil dog sniffed me, and whined. “what is it sis?” thrash the Tasmanian devil asked. Him and his family came up to me. Thrash looked down at me, then from where I fell from. “filthy echidnas, no respect for anyone. They must have broken his wings and trono the poor lad over.” He knelt down susunod to me and rolled me over. He looked at my wing, “it is fixable, uy mate, can you hear me?” he said. He picked up my head, “brother, here.” One of the devil Aso laid down for me to use as a pillow. “come now mate, I’m going to take you back to my place to take care of that wing. I know some mga kaibigan who can help.”