The Awakening of Maxwell Devonshire
After all I went through to get to this point of my life there is no turning back.I know what I must do ... But I'm still confused. It seems all too dream like still.And most of all ... why me?... Why couldn't I have a normal life.
It's been two months since I landed in this damn trailer park of freaks. The only normal one here is the little girl who I swear at times is an 80-year-old woman in disguise. A babbling scientist who wants to pick my brain apart, an alien queen who apparently for years been trying to kill me and when I thought my end was near. I find out she wasn't trying to kill me ... her twin sister was and they have been struggling for dominance on this planet we call earth for years but found the perfect opportunity to cripple each other by sowing their own seeds and raising them on Earth. Confused yet? It gets better.
Since i got here, it has been the training camp from hell. If its not the blonde munchkin riding my back like a used circus pony to play with her, its the scientist cackling about my brain and its potential scientific possibilities and the Black Queen Chimera practically beating the history of her people and abilities into my brain. I miss being growing up thinking I was a normal human teen striving to be myself. I didn't have to sleep in enclosed spaces to keep the scientist from probing under my skull cap which still hasn't completely healed despite the bad stitching job and every time I fall or laid down the skin pulls on the stitches and it hurts.
But soon, it became so norm, that's when it was my time to practice my unusual talents. I was building up my muscles, my peak physical fitness and profile. That was two months ago.
Two months has passed since the truth has been revealed to me and Ive been working with Chimera and my side kick of a scientist on how to use and control my...'Powers.'...It's getting hard to get use to living your whole life as a 'normal human being' as apposed to waking up in a bad sci-fi movie.
At the crack of dawn I'm rudely awaken by the munchkin alerting me that it was time for me to train with Chimera. Training begins with meditation ... which I have no patience for but for some god forsaken reason I must meditate in order to concentrate on whatever powers she hopes I possess. Today's lesson I'm told by the munchkin is the ability to transform my shape. Please. I can barely keep my skull in one piece let alone change into something completely different.
The child was adamant about my participating in today's lessons. Who knew an kid could be such a slave driver.
"Yes master!" I teased. "I'm coming... I'm coming."
Her little nose crinkled and she gave me a sour face before storming off, probably to tell on me. So I pulled on a pair of jeans and a raggedy t-shirt one of the residents gave me. This ought to be interesting, boy won't they be pissed off when they find out I'm just a regular kid ... so what if I have the ability to amplify my thoughts. If I knew I had that ability years ago, my aunt's wouldn't have rummaged through my home for my mother's belongings ... those damn vultures.
The scientist greeted me before my feet could cross the threshold of the door. His face was awash in goofy delight, in all it's glory. He softly clutched on my arm, like a overly sexed prom date. ('If another person touches me, I'll hurt them.')
As we walked I just couldn't deal with it and exploded.
"BACK OFF!" I shouted and brushed his hand off my arm. "What are you?! My girlfriend?"
The scientist stood there confused ... it was something he was unfamiliar with.
"What? What do you mean? I'm very heterosexual young man! What are you insinuating?"
He looked at me with a sad hurtful look.
"Look. I'm ... tired of being poked, prodded and handled ... I'm sorry. Just ... don't touch me like that again ... okay?" I responded. The scientist turned with his head lowered and walked ahead of me towards the training area.
It was a long silent walk to the training site, the Black Queen was sitting there ... waiting.
"Max ... I see your awake," she asked. "Come ... let's begin where we left off yesterday."