Stories/The Second Nature series/1 The Awakening
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[edit] A Hopeless Struggle
I was faced with a situation that was just out of the realm of my ability to handle. Sure, I was one of the most powerful people on the face of the planet. I have the ability to use the energy of my own soul as a weapon. I am what\'s known as an extradimensional.
You see, in my world, angels, demons, dragons, they aren\'t myth. They\'re real, and they\'re damned strong. Myself, I\'m half-demon. You can call me Matrix.
Conventional weapons are a thing of the past now, entire armies are composed of others like me. Of course, the same goes for criminals. Our job is to contain and eliminate threats to the still powerless human population.
Anyway. Usually, my power\'s enough to allow me to take control of the situation, but in this case, I was hopelessly outmatched. Even with a team of others like me, we were quickly nullified. Except for myself and Phoenix, the others were dead, killed almost instantly by this madman, who calls himself Powerkeg. Phoenix, himself, lie comatose alongside the other casualties. (His power is simply that he cannot be killed.) If I were to try to describe Powerkeg\'s power in a way you could comprehend, I\'d say he were as strong as a 10 gigaton nuclear warhead, assuming he unleashed it all at once. As it is, his power to release explosive blasts from his body proved to be too much.
So, I did the only thing left for me to do. I unleashed a blast of energy using the last of my stored power. This would take me out of the fight, and I was hoping I could catch him unaware by it. No such luck. To add insult to injury, he knocked me out with a small concussion blast.
The last thing I heard before I slipped into unconsciousness was him cackling at me...
[edit] A Hidden Power
\"Rise, my child.\"
I struggled awake, and I noticed I was not at the ruined mansion that I was knocked out in.
\"Please rise. You are gravely wounded, but I can help you. Please. Get up.\"
I looked at the woman who was speaking to me, and she was simply beautiful. She was dressed in a white flowing gown, and I could see the outline of wings. I tried to talk but found I had no voice.
\"Good, my child.\" Why was she calling me her child, I wondered... \"It is vital that I help you for the sake of the entire mortal plane. Do not try to talk yet, simply listen. When you were still unborn, prophecy dictated that you would one day defeat a great and powerful evil. This evil knew of the prophecy, and changed you in the womb, so that you could not oppose him. He tainted you, in other words. Try now to speak.\"
\"...h-how\'d he taint me?\" My voice sounded odd... softer. \"I\'m one of t-the most powerful entities in Creation. How did he change me? What did he do to me?\"
\"My child, he tainted you in three ways. First, he supressed your Angelic DNA. Second, he ensured you would be born male.\"
This response shocked me.
\"Third... he insured that I would not be there to train you. Once you were born, I died. I didn\'t even get the chance to hold you in my arms.\"
\"...you? M--Mother? Is that really you?\"
\"I\'m glad you remembered, Rachel.\"
\"Rachel?\"
\"Me and your father were going to call you that when you were born. It was fated. You were supposed to be born a girl.\"
What I had heard was unbelievable. I was cosmically fated to destroy a great evil, but also cosmically fated to be a different sex. \"Why now?\" I said. \"Why not try to reach me while I was still young?\"
\"I was forbidden to by the curse until \'you awoke in my realm\'. This was a failsafe for the devil that did this, to ensure that I could not interfere. But...\"
\"But the curse didn\'t account for near-death,\" I quickly finished. Mom nodded. This was unreal. \"So what now, then?\"
\"As you have noticed, your spirit is now fully healed. When you awaken in the mortal plane, your body will be entirely healed. This includes undoing the curse.\"
\"So, if I choose to live, I have to do so as a girl.\"
\"There is no choice in the matter. You will awaken soon. Rachel... I am glad I got to meet you.\"
\"Mother... Goodbye, Mother... I\'m... I\'m glad I got to meet you too.\" I noticed my form begin to shimmer and fade.
\"This isn\'t goodbye. Death comes to us all eventually. We will meet again.\"
She smiled at me, and as my view disappeared around me, I could swear she was crying. Of course, at this point, I was crying as well.
[edit] Newfound Potential
I awoke where I had fallen. Powerkeg noticed this as well.
\"You\'re still alive, I see. Good. I want to make sure I give you as much punishment as possible before I send you to the Underworld.\" He fired an extremely powerful blast at me, and all I could think of was a shield. I closed my eyes.
And heard the sound of an explosion around me. Somehow, I was completely unharmed by a blast that could have destroyed the Moon.
\"What?!\"
I opened my eyes and saw exactly what I was thinking of - an energy shield. At this point, though, my body armor was in tatters and without power. \"Armor release!\" I shouted, the release code for the armor. My voice really was a girl\'s voice! As my armor fell to the floor beneath me, what I saw was truly incredible.
Before my change, I was at best, stocky, but now, I was long and lithe. I must have shed 125 pounds. My height was unchanged, I still stood my customary 5\'6\". My hair was now down to the middle of my back, and it was a shimmering blonde, compared to an ordinary brown before. I looked down and saw small, but proportionate breasts where once there was a rock-hard, sculpted chest.
Powerkeg looked at me with a visage of pure lust. \"Wow. If I\'d\'ve known I was fighting a skirt, I\'d\'ve tried to keep you alive so I could have you to myself! But, business is business and I gotta kill you or I don\'t get paid. Pity, too. You\'re one fine--\" I punched him in the face before he could finish that thought. He flew across the room! Before, my physical attacks were doing next to nothing to him!
\"This hot piece of ass just knocked you across the room like the pathetic little bitch you are. Now, are we going to finish this, or are you going to keep thinking with your dick?\" Muy unreal. I was even talking like a girl, as though it were second nature to do so. Never mind that it was exactly that.
He spit up some blood and a tooth. He screamed, then yelled \"NOBODY DOES THAT TO ME, ESPECIALLY A BITCH!\" However, he soon looked scared as he looked over at me.
I allowed my power to well up. This was more than I had ever unleashed before at once, but my body was telling me that this was only the beginning of what I could do. I was hovering about 2 feet off the ruined floor... no, not hovering.
I was flying. I could feel my wings on my back.
\'\'Contributed by Melissa (9/30/2004)\'\'
