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Suddenly I had an idea. I found an extension cord and attached it to an already-lengthened cord. That was attached to a fairly light computer. By this time, I had already changed from the rainbow-like hummingbird into something more sturdy; a monster from one of my favourite movies (in a smaller size). I picked up the computer and got ready to chuck it.
A surprised dragon poked its head into the room, followed by a petrified man wearing a bleached white coat. The last thing they ever said was, “G-Godzilla?”
The electricity from the computer was enough to not only turn 225 back into goo, but to vaporize him into nothingness as well. This noxious gas poisoned and suffocated the white coat, thereby killing him. I didn’t feel guilty. I felt more like a caged bird that was freed after being locked up for two years.
I hoisted myself up into a vent in my blob-like form. This way no matter how small the vent became, I could continue moving forward. After awhile I could sense something. I smelled air – not the stale air of the place I had just been in, but something new. It was fresher, but something was strange.
I climbed out of the air duct and looked around. This wasn’t the happy ending I had seen in movies. There was no happy little forest or bright blue skies. No fresh smell of plant life or glowing yellow sun. The thing that I saw was a tragedy.
There were tall metal sky-scrapers, dull, black roads that seemed to go on to the ends of the earth, vehicles of all shapes and sizes pouring gallons of gasoline out of their tail pipes and contaminating the air, stores filled with everything you wanted but never even needed, and apartment buildings that looked like they could have toppled over at any minute. There wasn’t even rain; it was just diluted pollution falling from the sky with dark heavy clouds covering up the sun I so desperately wanted to see.
Even then, after my freedom had been ruined by this depressing scene, I was happy that I was free of that place. I ducked behind the building where nobody could see me. As a dragon, I blew a flame onto the building and watched it crumble. Now I could live a normal, human life without worrying about them searching for me.
People started to flock to the building, but I transformed into a female white coat. I only knew what this looked like because of various science fiction movies I had seen. I looked a bit above average for a girl, with silky red locks of hair and light freckles. My coat was scorched and torn, and I looked like I had burn scars on my arms and legs. As people approached me, I talked to them. “It was terrible! One of our experiments just exploded! I was the only one to survive,” I told them as I pretended to weep. “They couldn’t make it.”
After the humans got their answers, I lived a normal life. Spending eighteen months acting out your favourite movies had its benefits, after all. My name was Karen, and I had a job at a pet shop. The dogs would lick my cheeks, the fish would swim around their tanks happily as I passed by, the birds would move closer to me and chatter in their cages, and the cats would nuzzle me and purr as I pet them. My supervisor didn’t know why the animals loved me so much, but she considered me valuable.
I lived in an apartment with a human friend, one that I had met while working. He didn’t know I was a creature, and neither did my boss. It was perfect. I was finally free.
That is, until he came a year later.
The End
 Kagenagaru · Sat Feb 27, 2010 @ 05:22am · 0 Comments |
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