The Change by Adam Russo (books for 20 year olds .txt) 📕

Pain. Pain is all I feel apon awakening. I open my eyes, and all I see is gore and bloody carnage. It's horifying. I would have ran and never stop, but I was in to much pain to move, and I felt like my body was made of lead. The dead men and wemon around me were the scientists who were putting through hell, but no one deserves the painful deaths that they had. Another problem I was having other than throwing up from the smell is I couldn't figure out what happened. The last I remember was being in tied down in the middle of a magic circle. They started the experiment and then I passed out. Wait there was another circle intwined with mine. There was a.. a dragon strapped down in it. All I could think was,"oh god what the hell did they do to me." I lay there trying hard to hold onto consciousness. Then all is black.

I wake to the sound of humans yelling. Well I believe they were human for that is the only race of humanoids that I know live in the area. Well unless they moved me in my sleep sometime. I try to get up again and when I do the world spins around me. My body isn't as heavy so I hunch over with my hands on my knees I slowly make my way over to the wall. I hear the voices getting closer to the room in in. I think,"well it's now or never". I look out through one of the holes in the wall and I see both my excape and my demise. It's the "Everdark Forest". Not many go into even the outskirts of it. The only ones who do are loggers and the gaurds protecting them. Once three entire batallions went deep in few came back hauling a beast that they thought they killed they were proud. Sick bastards it or mabye they kill more than two and a half battalions. Worst still they brought to there city and it woke up. Well that city doesn't exist any more. Well that happened with just a child. There have been reports of much larger ones seen flying close. I hear the voices enter the room. I steel myself up for the pain I knew I was going to feel and the started running into the Everdark Forest.

 It was light out and the sun was so warm on my cold flesh. Although I could only enjoy it for a secound for as I was running two thing were yelling. I heard the men behind me yell,"I see his tracks going off this way." Then there was my entire body yelling at me to stop running for it was excrusiatingly painful. I couldn't stop though or I would be captured, and I was about to let that happen. It was getting dark and the forest was much thicker bye the time the voices had faded. When it was getting to hard to see I decided to walk a little ways more then lightly back over my footprints. I walked back untill I found a nice size tree to sleep in untill morning. I climbed up it and to my luck there was a nice place to sit down. I sat down and closed my eyes. All I saw was the dead mangled bodies of the scientists. I could get it out of my head "What could do something like that." It took some time, but I was able to get some sleep. Although I knew it was going to be filled with nightmares I still needed it.

I woke to the sound of a heated battle between humans and some form of beast. I get down from my tree and fallow the sounds. I get to a crearing where there is a gaint flaming cat I think standing of a woman I gaurd armor. All of her other companions are dead. It's getting ready to pounce at her an I come charging out from behind my cover with a battle cry. I ram into the cat and send it flying into a nerby tree. I plant myself between the can and the female gaurd. I look a the cat and I grall at it. It was deep and rumbling. When I did the cats hair stood on end and it just started to hiss at me. It backed up slowly and when it got to the edge of the clearing it turned around and hightailed it out of there. When I turned to look at the woman she was on her knees next to one of her fallen companions.I ask her,"so are you dragging all these bodies back or do you want help barring them?". After saying that I felt really bad because it didn't sound as nice as I ment it to be. She looks up at me and says,"how did you scare that thing away like that." I just look at here shug my shoulders and say,"do you want help or not." She shakes her head yes. I pick up one of the fallen's blade and start digging a grave. The lady soon joins me. I spent the rest of the digging graves. After we are done I sit down and the lady looks at me. I say,"so what happens now I mean I am the one your looking for right." She just stares and says,"what do you mean we were fallowing a person who ran out of a building with lots of dead bodies in it. We fallowed him into the Everdark Forest where we were attacked by one of the many unknown beasts in here and I was the only serviver." A smile spread across my face. I get up face as north as I could tell using the sun and started walking. As I'm walking away she yells at me and asks for my name. I yell back,"IT'S SKYE." I turn back around and contine walking away. 

I decide to walk through the night because I wasn't really tired. Even after digging graves all day. What startled me though is that last night things got pitch black, but tonight I can seen fairly well. As I walk deep in it fells like the forest is closing in on me. The giant trees keep getting closser as the under brunsh continues to get thicker. The walk all night and the brush is so thick I can't see what is in front of me. Then "BANG" I ran into a rock wall. I fell backwards and laughed. I laughed becasue I was walking for around twenty for hours through a thick foresrt with almost no change. Before the forest got to thick I saw so animals here and there and they were large, and all I saw in there eyes before they ran away was fear like I was going to eat them. That started me and thats why I kept walking deeper in, but that arn't words to dercribe how happy I am. I get up and start climbing the wall I grab onto a ledge which I think is the top wich was at the tree tops about forty or fifty feet up. I''m up on the legde and look up and all I can do is string together a long line of curses. There was still around a two hundred foot climb to the top and it didn't apear to be anymore legdes in between. I decide I got to go up, and start once again climbing up. Other than loseing my footing a couple of times and the rocks I grab onto fall out everything went pretty well for a two hundred foot climb. Well other than a pain forming in the area below my shoulder blades. I look at my hands and up hy arms. I see more of what I noticed earlier but desmised. It looks like scales forming along my arms. Well that or some kind of rash. I'm at the top so I just continue walking. There is a forest up here, but It is much nicer there isn't vary much under groth and the trees are spead apart. As I walk the pain in my back gets worse. I hear a crash and go to check it out. The closer I get to where the sound came from the greater the pain. I don't travel very far through the forest. The pain is getting so great that my vision stgarts blurring. Then I fall down a dirt slope to a rocky area with rock on three sides and caves leading in. I'm on the ground in pain. I'm thrashing around screaming and yelling. I'm clawing at my back trying to get what ever is in there out. My back is buldging out. Dragons start cooming out of the caves looking in my dirrection curiously. Not all though a few looked enraged. I'm guessing that a human is in there territory.They serround me and I notice some look almost human. They have wings, scales and claws,but they are humanoid. They were all colors almost like a rainbow with more colors. Although I didn't have time to admire them because I was on the ground screaming in pain. One of the big ones sniff at me and then growl. I continue clawing at my back and thenI feel something rip out of my back. Blood is everywhere now. I'm lieing on my bellie and look the best I can at whzt is lieing on top of me. To my horror I saw a pair of wings coming from my back. Once again I'm on the ground and can't move. The change is there are dragons all around me this time. I so pass out while watching that dragon that have made a circle around me. I either pass ed out do to blood loss or fear or both because I had alot of both.

Apon

Text: Adam Russo
Publication Date: 03-26-2013

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