I got in my car and drove. Just drove around until I ran out of gas really. Sure I could have just made more gas but I was just done. Could I really do that to someone again? I really didn’t have to kill him but I guess I wanted to. It was the ultimate closure that I needed with the whole situation. It was just me. Just me and it finally hit me. That no I was not the only one anymore. No one else could really feel how I felt; no one could say that they have any clue what I was thinking. Part of me just felt like dying right then and there. Even though I was sitting I collapsed. I blacked out. It was just me and the darkness once again. I was known there. It was nice to be known and to be accepted. Then I saw white.
I saw my girlfriend standing over me. The light was so bright that I thought that I had died and it was just me and her. I never really introduced her all that much. It was ironic to say the least because she was glowing in light. I had always told her that she was my light out of the darkness. She was. She had dyed red hair and green eyes. A look of concern was wiped across her face. I wished she would smile. She had the brightest smile. It would light up a room full of darkness and monsters. She was beauty infinite. She was my everything before I got the program. I would have done anything for her and not regretted one day of it.
"Hey handsome how are you feeling?" She asked. I was still a bit woozy. Everything was spinning. It wasn’t hers or my room that we were in. It was all white. Something was wrong. Before I could tell what it was everything was black again. Back inside the darkness. When I woke up I was laying down in a white bed. The room itself was white but it was night still and dark. My girlfriend was sitting next to me holding my hand. She had closed her eyes and I could tell that she was sleeping. I put my head back on the pillow. All of a sudden a nurse walked in. She walked over and took my temperature. She saw that my eyes were open and tried to wake up my girlfriend. I stopped her and said, "Let her sleep. She looks so peaceful." The nurse smiled and gave me a wink. She walked out of the room.
I was just lying there for the longest time. I didn’t think about anything. I couldn’t sleep anymore though so I just lied there. I never really new how much brain activity it took to sleep. It was downloading everything, loads from the previous days. Some of the things mixed together. It was just nice not to have to use my powers for a bit. I knew that when I got up in the morning that I would but tried to think what my life was like before the program. For some odd reason my brain just wouldn’t let me do anything except rest. Amy was still holding my hand. It was nice to touch her skin again. Nice to just lay there and hold yet be held at the same time. I didn’t even think about the fact that I was now a murderer. Even though there was no proof I had still killed someone. I decided not to let Amy know about the program.
It would complicate things too much. I just wanted her to live her life as normally as she could. She didn’t deserve the pressure or the stress that knowing this would give her. She didn’t need to think about her lover possibly dying in a couple of months. When someone is in love a couple of months can seem like a couple of days. She was just Amy. I loved her and never wanted her to go through anything this difficult. All of a sudden I heard a stir in the chair that she was sitting in. She just shifted and went back to sleep. I was hoping that she would. This way I could just rest a little more. It was all I really wanted at that point. Thoughts went to different things. Different things became incoherent things and incoherent things turned into darkness. I had closed my eyes and everything just shutdown until morning.
When I woke up the nurse was doing her daily rounds. She just walked into my room. "Mr. Clem how are you feeling today?" She asked. "Where’s Amy?" I asked. "Who? Oh the girl that was here last night. She had to go to work but she said she would be back tonight." The nurse said. "Oh what happened. The last thing I remember was that I was driving my car down the road." I asked. "Mr. Clem you were in a bad accident with a telephone pole." She replied. "Its you were found by a kind pedestrian and brought here. Amazingly you have no injuries as the car itself was totaled. You can consider yourself very lucky. The doctor will be in with you very shortly and if you have no pain to complain about then you should be free to go." "Thank you very much you have been a great help. As for keeping me informed in such a kind matter I would like to give you a special gift." I said as I entered her mind.
Amy was working but she wasn’t at her job. At least not in spirit. Her thought kept returning to Julian and she had hoped that he was alright. The nurses and doctors weren’t very clear with what his condition was. She was also concerned that his family wasn’t there. She knew that they had cared about him but when she called last night to tell them no one answered. They hadn’t called her back yet and she was starting to worry. She decided that she would head over to his house later to see what was up. Her and Julian had been together for a while now. There was never a doubt in her mind that she loved him but he looked different than he had a couple of days ago. Things were starting to get odder and odder. She didn’t think about it too much up until that point.
A patient of hers was screaming for help but Amy wasn’t listening. A nurse ran past her and into the room of the patient. She wished she had called out of work today and decided to see if she could leave. She wasn’t there anyway. She went to her supervisor’s office and told her supervisor what had happened. Her supervisor knew Julian and how much Amy had cared for him so she decided to let Amy leave. IT was odd that she wasn’t putting up a fight about it but decided that things were weird now anyway and that she wouldn’t worry about it now. As she went outside she saw that a tall man in a black trench coat was standing near her car. She walked up to him and saw a familiar face.
"OHH MY GOD!!!!!!!!" the nurse screamed. I had entered her mind and given her pleasure beyond what anyone had given her before. It wasn’t a sexual pleasure though. I hadn’t wanted to give her that because it was just sex. This nurse deserved much better. Partly because she had reminded me a bit of Amy. She didn’t really look anything like Amy but she had the same kindness in her. I just made her feel really good. She was sitting on the chair and the room was sound proof. It was a pleasure that no one really ever got anymore. Society had built up barriers for emotions. Made people feel that they could only experience one pleasure at a time. I just made her feel as if pleasure seeped through every part of her body. She collapsed herself in the chair. I got up and went over to her whispered a personal note and a thank you and signed myself out of the hospital. I decided that I would walk over to Amy’s job since it was only a couple of blocks away.
"Thank you for all of the help" Amy said to the man. "I didn’t realize that I had a flat tire. It was good to see you though." The man could sense that Julian was approaching so he decided to leave and quickly. He bid his adieu. But first he pulled out a little black book and asked for her name. He knew that she would give it to him because he just had that appeal to ordinary people. Masters were a different story though. "I lost your contact info a while back" He said. "Sure no problem, its Amy Difery my number is (483)-555-2964. If you ever want to talk I’m usually available. I’m sure than Julian would love to see you again." With that the man in the black trench coat turned around and walked away. Amy wouldn’t remember that she had seen him. She would just remember that she had forgotten something back inside and had come out again. It was good to have that info though. Just to keep for later. He smiled an evil grin and zipped away as fast as he could. He didn’t want Julian to even get a glimpse of him.
As Amy turned around to open her car the memory of the man in the black trench coat faded. She looked up and what she saw almost made her breakdown into tears. Julian was walking towards her. A rose in his left hand and his right hand was in the pocket of his jeans. She ran up to him and kissed him with all of her might. She was never going to let him go. She didn’t want to. Tears were streaming down her face and she smiled as they held each other. "I missed you." Julian said "Who was the guy?" "What guy?" She asked curiously.
We went back to her place. The drive was kind of quiet. I was thinking while she drove. I looked at all of the cars passing us by. It was a sense of euphoria for me. I couldn’t shake the image of the guy in the black trench coat from my mind. I could see her shift into her seat. I didn’t want to corrupt her anymore than I had. I didn’t read her mind or even go near it. There were some things that I could tell just intuitively. I put my hand on the back of her neck and started rubbing it. It was nice to be able to do that. She thought that I had gotten hurt really badly because the doctors couldn’t tell her anything. She wasn’t family it was against the rules. I told her that everything was fine and was going to be alright. Even I didn’t know that though. Sooner or later something would probably happen. We got back to her place. She turned off the engine and we just sat there.
"Is something wrong?" She asked innocently.
"Nothing too serious just thinking about things. Things have been weird the last couple of days that’s all. Everything is mixed up. You shouldn’t worry about it ." I said. The words just flew out of my mouth. I wasn’t thinking about what I was saying. I was reverting back to my old self. The one that didn’t have the program. "Julian I know you very well and know that when you say that I shouldn’t worry about something, usually something bad is about to happen." She said. Something bad was about to happen and I knew it, I just didn’t care. "Nothing is going to happen and even if anything did it’s not like it would be bad." I said. I was lying through my teeth and was really not wanting to but I knew I had too. She wouldn’t let it go and I didn’t want to have an argument for her so I did what I really didn’t want to do.
You know, it’s really kind of funny. Normal people go about their daily lives everyday and don’t realize that they are being controlled by addictions. Their addiction to eat, to drink, to smoke, to sleep. There are the abnormal addictions to drugs like heroin, cocaine, etc. as well. When I entered someone’s mind it became an addiction for me. Just tweaked one little part of their free will and I couldn’t do it just one time. I started to reason with myself that I wasn’t normal anymore. That I was a god and really could do whatever I wanted. Amy’s first tweak was something minor. I told her to just drop it. She thought that the idea was from her own brain. It was hard for me to do because I had wanted her to live as normal a life as she could. I reasoned with myself that it was only once. That it wouldn’t happen again.
"Anyway I was just worried about you that’s all." Amy said. She did just drop it. It was funny she wanted to say more but didn’t want an argument all of a sudden. Then she felt his lips on hers. She melted like butter. If he had done anything else she wouldn’t be able to move. She really did love him but something was up. She knew that they should have gone inside but it was just so nice out. They got out of the car and met each other half way. They kissed passionately. He put his hand up to her cheek and caressed it ever so slightly. When they broke apart their lips he started to kiss her cheek and was moving his way down to her neck. Out of no where he picked her up and carried her into the house. They didn’t make it past the rug. Their clothes came off in a fury and all of a sudden he was inside her. Pushing in and out and around. It felt so amazing.
She knew that somehow his dick was huge now but at that point she didn’t care. It just felt amazing they changed positions. They had not done that in some time. They moved into her favorite position. She could feel her climax rising at as exponential rate now. All of a sudden it was right before her climax but she couldn’t get to it. She wanted to so badly. Julian was pumping in and out of her pussy so fast and hard now that it somehow seemed inhuman. Somehow she felt another climax building in herself but she hadn’t even had the first climax yet. She wasn’t worried. The pleasure was starting to overload her brain. She got to the same place with the second climax and it stopped as well. They changed positions one more time. She was on top riding him like there was no tomorrow. Then he stopped her. He was moving her whole body now up and down in a moment of pure ecstasy. Her third climax was building. It was different this time. When it built up it was so pleasurable that she almost passed out. "Stay with me honey." He whispered. She did and enjoyed every second of it. When the third climax got to where the other two were it was like it picked up each of them and carried them forward. When she orgasmed it was incredible. She saw stars, she saw the moon, she saw everything in the night sky, she saw his face and then she saw darkness.
I slowly put her down. I got up and picked her up and put her in her bed. I pulled the covers over her and kissed her on her cheek. I entered her mind this time with a little more ease than I had the previous few times and gave her the command that she was to sleep until the next morning. I watched her sleep for a little bit. I went back downstairs and picked up her clothes. I threw them downstairs into the basement and put on my clothes. I went into the den and turned on Halt. It was a game that I had been playing for a while just couldn’t beat. I played for a while. Her brother, Tom, walked in and said hello. We talked for a bit about nothing like always. Well at least nothing important. I wanted to test something though. "Hey Tom if you could be any superhero who would you be?" I asked. "I can’t really think of the one I really wanted but what the hell I think I would be Timberwolver." He said. "What if that were possible, for you to become that person?" I asked. "That would be awesome except I would definitely have to still be myself through just with every mutated thing about him though." He answered.
I entered his mind so easily. I told him to go to sleep on the couch. He fell and slept. I concentrated and put my hand up. A light was showing at the palm and suddenly rushed into his body. His body convulsed and relaxed. I gave him the command that he would wake up with the powers and that he would have an ultimate loyalty to me. He wouldn’t remember our conversation before he fell asleep nor would he know that it was me that gave him the powers unless I told him that I had. He was to sleep until tomorrow morning. I entered Amy’s mind and told her that she wouldn’t be surprised or alarmed at her brother’s new powers.
I picked up my things and walked out the door. I walked around back towards my house. I passed by a nice looking car that I liked. I went into the dealership and with a little coercing walked out of there with the keys and a full tank of gas. They would put it on their records that it was a donation to an unspecified charity. They would get the deductible and I would get a new car. As soon as I got into the car I started it. I thought to myself and said "Shit!!!". I realized that my money probably long gone. I closed my eyes and concentrated to find out where it was. I found it all. It was still in the briefcase but it was in the hospital. I concentrated once more and thought of the nurse the other day. I gave her the command that she would get the briefcase and take it home. She would open it and take out 20,000 dollars for herself. She would go up to the security desk at my job and tell them that it was mine and that I wouldn’t be in today because I had a bad accident. I gave her the final command that when everything was completed she would feel what she felt earlier tenfold. I released her from my grasp.
I drove off of the lot with my new car and drove back home. When I got there I heard nothing. I walked into the house and found my mother and father sleeping next to each other. My sisters were upstairs in their rooms and the animals were quiet. I walked up to my room and fell into my bed. I closed my eyes and slept. It was a nice sleep. It was peaceful. It was…and I was out. When I woke up there was still silence. The sun was about to come up and I was waking up. How ironic I thought. I sat up in bed and noticed the new room. I still had to get used to it. I was used to the cramped space that my old room had given me. Don’t get me wrong it was a decently sized room I just had clothes on the floor to where you couldn’t see the carpet. I turned around and got off of the bed and went into the shower.
As I turned on the water it was like heaven to feel the extra hot water brushing off my body in one fowl sweep. I started to lather up some soap and started to sing a heavy metal song. As I was cleaning my body it occurred to me that I hadn’t done really anything at work yet. I had plenty of time. I figured I would do other things before I did anything there. Part of me, I guess, was scared to go up there. The other part of me knew that my job would be the final place to go. Where everything would culminate together and explode into the resting place for my excursions. I didn’t know what I would do that day but I knew I wouldn’t do anything with work. It was an anomaly to me at that point. I thought about it for a while and I decided that I wanted to see how my experiment worked out. I also knew that I would need massive amounts of women for my job. I got out of the shower and got dressed.
I went down to where the computer was and opened the program. I typed in the command that my mother and sisters would accept the changes to my father’s features when he walked in the room. "That was pretty messed up with what you did last night Julian." He said. "Interesting night?" I asked with a smile on my face trying to hold in my laughter. "Your mother is finally sleeping. It took me 2 hrs to try and convince her it was me. Your sisters never came home last night. I guess after those two hours it was better that they didn’t. It was really irresponsible of you to do that." He said. I rolled my eyes and went back to what I was doing. "Don’t roll your eyes at me!" He yelled. "I knew this was a bad idea" I muttered. I turned towards the computer screen and typed in his name. I gave the command for him to forget everything that had happened in the last couple of days but to accept every change that had happened that affects him. "You don…" He started to say as my command kicked in. I typed in one more command for him. I gave the program the command that the last command was irreversible even by myself.
It was time for me to go. I grabbed my hoodie and went outside. Another beautiful day. More and more of those seemed to be happening. I didn’t think anything of it. I walked to my car when I heard a zipping noise. All of a sudden I turned around and caught an arrow that was aimed straight at my head. All of a sudden a sky full of arrows was heading straight for me. They stopped in mid air and moved around until they formed the words "COME TO THE CENTER OF YOUR TERRITORY I HAVE SOMETHING FOR YOU". All of a sudden the arrows just disappeared. I concentrated on the center of my territory and found out where it was. I didn’t want to drive because that was just too slow. I teleported to the center of my territory. When I got there I saw Sara and a man standing next to her. "Julian, I have been watching you." He said. Somehow I didn’t like the sound of that.
"Who are you? Why did you call me here?" I asked in a fury. He chuckled a little and told me to calm down. He said that he was there on a personal call. To introduce himself. "I would introduce my wife but you two have already met." He said graciously. "Wife?" I asked a bit choked up. "Yes but don’t worry we are very open with one another. When she came back to tell me of the new master I was intrigued by what she said. Apparently you have developed very quickly. That can be a good thing and a bad thing all at once. If you wouldn’t mind I would like to test your skills, to see for myself." He said. "You know that I can’t be killed until the tournament so if this is some attempt to steal the program off of me it won’t work." I said with an alarming tone to my voice. "Calm down I am only here because I am curious. It’s not that often that someone develops so quickly. I merely want to play with you a little." He said in a soothing voice. I didn’t trust him still but said "Alright what do you want to do?"
He put his hand on my shoulder and we teleported to the top of the mountain. "Both you and I have amazing skills more than any mere mortal thanks to the program. Any given day could come along and we could be beaten. I have been lucky that I have been smarter than most. I have made and broken alliances in mere seconds. No one that I can think of in the last 15 years has been able to beat me. No matter how sure of themselves they were. All of them were very sure of themselves." He told me. "I’ve only had the program a couple of days I’m not sure of myself yet." I replied. "That’s probably the best thing that you can be. With the program you can do an infinite amount of guessing in less than a millisecond. I those 15 years I’ve never really been completely sure of myself. I could have made myself that way but then I wouldn’t be able to adapt as easily as I have." He said.
"Lets start this now and we can talk later." He said. "Alright but I would like to check on something first if you don’t mind." I asked him. "You want to see if your test worked?" He asked. "Yes I would. If it did then I have plans for later on." I said. "It did work but you forgot one thing. Tom was startled by your girlfriend when he was sleeping and almost killed her with his new claws. Luckily I sensed it and stopped it before it happened. She is fine and went back to sleeping. There was only one command that I added to yours. His claws will only be able to come out when you say the words Timber wolf. You can shut the claws down with Revert to Normal." He told me. I was speechless. I wanted to hug the man for saving my girlfriend’s life. "No need to thank me. Unfortunately though I will have to play another time. I am being challenged. It’s somewhat like being paged. I may be back in a little while though so don’t start any big projects." He said as he turned around and teleported away. I turned around and smiled at his joke. My job’s building was right in front of me. I could see people getting into buses to take them to their cars for lunch. I turned back around. It wasn’t a big project but it would take some time.
I teleported off of the mountain and straight in front of my friend Matt’s house. I walked to the front door and rung the bell. The door opened and Russell told me to come in. "Where have you been?" Russell asked. I hadn’t been there in a couple of days. I was about to tell them the usual when Matt came out of his room. "What’s going on Big D?" Matt asked. "A bunch of things actually. Do you mind if we go outside and talk. It’s such a beautiful day outside I just don’t want to waste it." I said. "Sure no problem." He replied. "Russell and I will meet you outside." I said. "Ok just let me go take a shit and I’ll be right out." Matt said. Me and Russell went outside and lit up a cigarette. "It’s funny that you came over I was just about to send over a nasty email about it." Russell said and laughed. I laughed along. It had been a rough couple of months between us because I was coming over to their house much more scarcely since I had met other people through my girlfriend. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to it was just a scheduling difference. I closed my eyes for a minute and concentrated. "Yo Julian. Are you alright?" Russell asked. I finished what I was doing and opened my eyes. "Yeah I’m fine." I said. "I know that I haven’t been around much lately but there have been things that have happened. When I told you that I had met some new friends through my girlfriend it wasn’t the complete truth. I had met new friends but new enemies as well. It’s a long story that I would prefer to wait until Da…Matt gets back out here." I told him. "Sure no problem. I hope it’s not too serious." He said. "Unfortunately it is. It’s very serious." I told him. We smoked our cigarettes for a while in silence. Russell put his out before I did. Matt in his new body walked outside the look on Russell’s face was priceless. "Holy shit! How, what, when" Russell started to say. Matt just looked at him and said "What?" He had no idea that I had changed his body to look exactly like the star of a television show that all of us loved.
"Matt" I started. "Look in the window." He walked over to one and turned white when he saw what he looked like. "Holy shit!" He proclaimed. "How the hell did this happen?" "Matt, Russell it’s time that you should know what’s really going on. It all started about a month ago when I started not coming around as much as I used to. It’s not that I didn’t want to it’s that I had a numerous amount of pressing matters to attend to." I told them. "Julian what are you talking about?" Matt asked while still touching his face and new body to make sure it was real. "Guys I haven’t been completely honest with you. It’s not that I didn’t want to tell you but I had no other choice. Remember the body that you saw me with since you’ve known me. That body is like a costume for me. It enables me to watch mankind as well as interact with them on a daily basis without having to be known about." I said. "Julian what are you?" Russell asked. It took me a while to figure out what I was going to tell them but it finally came to me. I told them the truth. "A god. Matt I was the one that gave you your new body. Everyone except for me and Brian will automatically think that you have always looked like that. The added bonus is that you know your character from the role playing games that we have played?" "Yeah" he said a little curious but skeptical at the same time. "You now have the powers of your character." I told him.
He just stared at me in disbelief. I closed my eyes and concentrated. When I opened them Russell looked just how I wanted him to look. Very big and muscular. Long, light blond hair. Ripped and toned and taller. "Holy Shit Russell. Julian just did the same thing to you except you look like Dreamer from that fighting game." Matt exclaimed. Russell walked over to the window and saw his new reflection. He just stood there in amazement for a while. He turned towards me and ran at me. When he got to me he hugged me. It was a good hug. "Guys before you get too excited there is a downside to all of this. You know who you both look like well not everything in the media is false." I said. "What do you mean?" Matt asked. Comic books, television programs, and movies some of them are real some are not. I can’t tell you which ones are and which one aren’t because I do not know. I found out the other day that one of my new friends was more than mortal shall we say. I’ve been with him for a while now. I told him who I was and he wants to test his skills. Since I do not want to hurt him I am going to ask one of you to fight him. You will not die but he needs to learn. "I’ll do it." Matt and Russell both said at the same time. "Why can’t you let me do it Matt?" Russell asked. "Because I want to test out my new skills as well Russell." They were starting to squabble like all siblings do. I sat back and watched and just started to laugh to myself.
"Guys, guys calm down. Matt I think for this fight I think that Russell should fight. I have other tasks and things that I need help with later on. Plus after he is done fighting you too can go at each other for all I care. Just to practice." I told them. I teleported Tom there. He was still sleeping. I woke him up and entered his mind. Fight Russell until you can’t go on any further. I left his mind. "Hey Tom, Timber wolf" I said. Instantly his claws came out. Russell got ready as I could see Tom getting ready to attack. In one swift motion he leapt at Russell with thundering speed. It was hard for Russell to move as quickly but he managed. Tom was on the attack and Russell on the defensive side. For every punch Russell had a counter punch. For every attack Russell had a counter attack. The fight went on. Tom missed a step and Russell caught him on it. Sweeping his sturdy leg to the ground. Now the two of them had switched. Russell was on the attack and Tom was on the defense. All of a sudden Russell jumped in the air for a flying side kick but Tom moved to the side, grabbed Russell’s right leg and stabbed the back of Russell’s knee with his claw.
Russell screamed out and I saw that Matt was thinking that he should go help Russell. I put a hand out at Matt’s chest and told him that this needed to be a fair fight. That Russell had all the tools he needed to beat Tom. Matt nodded and the fight continued. Russell now hopping on one leg but still being able to keep perfect balance was on the defensive side of things once again. Tom came at him a left hook to Russell’s side. Russell barely dodged the blow but was able to smack Tom in the face. A droplet of blood dripped from Tom’s lip. "You were lucky that time" Tom said as he wiped it away. "But you won’t get another chance." Tom finished saying. They went back and forth for a few more minutes when I started to fall to the ground. There was a nice white light passing over everything.
Tom and Russell stopped immediately when they both saw what had happened. They rushed to Julian’s side to try to see if he was alright. All of a sudden his body was teleported out of the place. They were worried about him but on the same thought they all agreed to live on with their lives as best they could. It was all they could think of. All of a sudden they couldn’t remember why they were there or who they were. They went there separate ways. Tom went back to his house and Matt and Russell went back into their house to enjoy their peaceful lives, for the most part.