Anyway. I went to see Inception today. It was amazingly confusing. I didn't know what was going on half of the time. I don't know if that was a good thing or a bad thing. I mean, I think I caught up by the end, and then that random ending just completely confused me. It lost me.
I guess I'll have a think about it tomorrow and I'm sure I'll come up with something, right?
And as time is running short, here's the next chapter or DYRM (I can't be bothered to type the title).
Chapter 17
I could feel the scream creeping up my throat. I held it off. I couldn’t wake anyone up and let them see me like this.
I did a few experimental tests, waving my arms, and blinking repeatedly into the mirror just to make sure it was me. Every time it came with the same results. It was me.
Danny Istari, no me, had the same face as me. Blonde hair and dark, dark brown eyes. I was the same size, height wise, though I was slightly more muscular. I wasn’t overly built, like some comic book hero I’d seen on the TV when I was lazing around earlier in the week. No, I was smaller, more agile. I could feel the ability, feel the power flowing through me.
One of the questions that was beginning to bug me, were how do I turn back to normal? Surely, it couldn’t be too hard, right?
How did I become Danny Istari? What made me change? Would Jamie know how to change it?
I didn’t know what to do, that’s the easiest way to put it. I was scared. Not a ‘I’m-scared-for-my-life’ thing either, it was more a ‘I’m-scared-because-I-don’t-know-what-to-do’, thing.
Jamie will know, I resolved and crept out of my room to where she’d be sleeping.
I made my way quietly out to the hallway and down towards Jamie’s room, careful to hardly make a noise as I was walking.
“Uh, Danny, what’re you doing up?” Damn, I was trying to be sneaky, but Maggie snuck up on me first.
“Uh, nothing, Maggie, just going to the bathroom.” I said quickly.
“Well, alright…” She seemed hesitant. I knew why. I’d walked past the bathroom door just as she’d snuck up on me. “By the way, what have you done with your hair? It looks different.”
“Um. It’s the light?” I said in a hesitant voice. “It’s the light and your just tired from waking up in the middle of the night.”
“If you say so.” I didn’t turn around the entire conversation. I didn’t want her to see me like this. If it was supposed to be a secret, then it’s probably better if she didn’t see me in my Danny Istari kit.
She left, shrugging her shoulders in confusion. Maybe she thought it was all a dream? I wish. She’ll probably question me about it in the morning. I’ll have to think of an excuse to give her by then.
“Danny?” The voice of Jamie whispered. I looked to her door, it was slightly ajar.
“Yeah?”
“Oh, shit.” I’d never heard her say something like that before, I was a little shocked. “Come in, quick.” She opened the door all the way and I ran inside, as quiet as possible, before Maggie or Jim came out.
“Do you know how to help me?” I asked as soon as I closed the door.
“No.” Shit. How was I supposed to turn back? “How did you get like this in the first place?”
“Um, well, this guy, he called himself Mage Kennedy, attacked me just as I was going to sleep.” I started. “I was getting the shit beaten out of me, so he told me to let instinct take over, well, he didn’t’ really, I let instinct take over. I took him down, he vanished. I walked to my room and this was how I looked.” I finished, pointing at my body.
“Oh, my God.” I think that was a reference then to my injuries which seemed to show up, even though I was in a completely different… body? Form? What would be the right way to say it? “Danny, how bad did he beat you?”
“Not that bad, he just threw me around a little. I’m sure I’ll be okay.” I brushed off her concern like it was nothing. “Anyway, how come you didn’t hear anything?”
“He must have pit a spell up, making it so only magicians could hear the fight.” She was thinking out loud, obviously. “That’s why there isn’t a lot on the magicians, and the stuff that does come up, is huge.”
“Why is it huge?”
“Because magicians prove to the world that there is such a thing as magic. No one knows how to handle it.” She didn’t really know how to explain it. I could tell that. “It’s like, they prove everything that science has tried to prove wrong. The capabilities of trained and high ranking magician’s are great. They can bend anything to their will.”
“Right. So where do I fit into it all?”
“You fight against them.”
“Why would I fight against my own people?” Were they my own people? I didn’t come from a family of magicians, or is that not how it works out these days? I don’t know. I feel so clueless to the cause.
“Because, over time, magicians have become evil. They only use their power for their own gain. They use their powers against people. You stand up for the people.” She smiled proudly at me. “You are also unique in the form of magicians. Kennedy, the mage you fought? He was just a weakling in the ranks.”
No way. He was really tough! I could barely keep up with him.
“You, Danny, are special, whereas all magicians only have one shapeshifting form, predetermined, you can shapeshift into anyone you want. Anything you want.” Jamie looked distractedly at the ceiling, as if seeing an unseen memory. A memory I would probably have had. “It comes with a price. A price I don’t want to tell you. Besides having hordes of magicians of all levels after you, of course. But, you carry on fighting, because you want to prove to the people, that even though magicians are viewed as evil, they can be good too.”
“So, I’m guessing I’m hated too, by the people.” I stated bluntly.
“Not exactly. You used to be. People picked up on the smallest things. You went through a bad patch at one point, and people are quick to judge. No matter how much good you do for them, tens of thousands of stuff, they’ll always remember that one small thing.” Jamie said sadly.
“Right.” I said. “But that doesn’t help me change back to normal. You can explain it to me better in the morning. Or whenever you’re free. I’m too tired to be dealing with all this mental damamge.”
“Okay. I don’t know how you did it before. Think of when you became Danny Istari in the fight. You let instinct take over. So why don’t you let instinct take over and think of what you looked like before.”
“Right.” Mrs Connors was right. I should get a dictionary, a thesaurus or something. I need a new vocabulary. Ignoring that thought for the moment. I let instinct take over. Danny Smith, I thought, and thought of what I looked like before I changed.
A cold sensation overcame me, a slow creeping from my finger tips, and my toes. It crawled though my body, spreading like ice. I suppressed a shiver and then, slowly, the feeling died away.
“You did it.” Jamie whispered in an excited tone. She shoved a mirror in my hands and, yes, from what I can tell, Danny Istari was gone and Danny Smith replaced him. I had my dark brown hair back and my light blue eyes. I felt something strange in the air now. A feeling.
A feeling that I didn’t belong here.
“What do you want from me?” I whispered.
“I’ve told you time and time again what I want.” The voice said. His strong presence covering the room.
“There’s more to it than that. You wouldn’t just kidnap my friends and me just for the tome. You want more than that.”
“Of course I want more from you. You know what else I want.”
“I won’t give you that either, you freak.” A fist slammed into my face and I could see the stars decorating my vision.
“Ah, I won’t be having that kind of talk from you know, Mr. Istari.” The voice sneered, using a mock-parent voice.
“Eff you.” A kick to my stomach. I would have doubled over if it weren’t for the fact that my arms were chained to the wall.
“Danny, just tell him.” A female whispered to the side of me.
“I’ve got nothing to tell, Hayley.”
“Yes, Danny, tell us.” The strong male voice said.
“I’ve got nothing to say.”
“So, what do you know of the tome? You’re obviously new to this career. You’ve been at it, what? Two years now?”
“I know enough. I know why you’d want it.” I said defiantly. The man moved so his face was in front of me. He showed a ring on his finger. A pale purple one. I gasped. No, it couldn’t be. “Where’d you get it?”
I felt nothing but pain as the man in front of me cackled. I screamed. The pain, it was so intense. It felt like a thousand electricity volts were going through me, spreading and touching every part of me.
“What have you done to him?” I heard my friend, Jesse, shouting.
“Nothing.”
“Of course you’ve done something. Look at him; he’s writhing all over the place. You’re shocking him. Let him go.” Haley demanded.
“I highly doubt you’re in any position to be making demands, little girl.” The man sneered, the pain stopped. I sighed in relief. My body ached. I could feel the darkness on the sides of my vision.
“Danny, Danny!” I heard Haley shouting my name. “Are you okay?” I laughed. A crazy laugh.
“Am I okay?” I asked. “You should go through that and maybe then I’ll ask you the question.”
“There’s no need to be like this, Danny. We’re trying to help you.” Jesse said sadly.
“Yeah, well you guys aren’t the ones being tortured.”
“Just tell me what I want to know,” the man shouted, throwing another punch to my stomach. “You can’t keep going forever.”
“You won’t kill me.”
“Who’s stopping me?”
“You. You won’t kill me because you want your stupid tome.” I replied defiantly.
“If that’s what your attitude is going to be, you can have another round.” I felt pain, a lot more than the last time. I screamed and everything went black.
“AH!” I screamed, sitting bolt upright in my bed.
“Danny, what’s wrong?” Maggie came running into my room.
“Oh, it’s nothing. Just a bad dream.”
“Are you sure? Do you want to talk about it? What if it was a memory?” She asked hurriedly.
“No, it’s fine. It was just a dream.”
“If you say so.”
Of course she wouldn’t believe me.
It was strange though. I could still feel the pain of the electricity on me. Sending small jolts through my body.
“Well, get back to sleep. It’s early in the morning.” She instructed.
“Alright.” I said, lying back down on the bed, my body still a little jumpy. My heart beat was all over the place. I was scared. I didn’t know what to do.
I hope you all enjoyed.
Night!
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