The Prodigy
A deep inhale.
The pale yellow eyes of the man were revealed when his eyelids fluttered open, and his breath was sharp and restrained as he exhaled. He knew he couldn’t ever be prepared for this moment, but… here it was.
“Let’s just hope my powers will really do the trick this time.” He said to himself. Another deep inhale.
As he glanced around the green foliage, he wondered if this would be the last time he’d see it ever again. All of his memories as both a child and adult were at risk with what he was about to do. Was it all worth it??
“Well.. here I go.”
At that, the man’s pupils constricted and narrowed to mere dots and the whole universe seemed to shift into hyper drive. It was as if you were sucked into the man’s mind, the vortex spinning uncontrollably and all of his memories flashing by as if they were your own. A lone, frightened dinosaur shivered in the cold of Japan, but the next, a samurai was holding a tiny boy in his arms. The samurai’s voice was loud and demanding as the memories switched to the blonde boy in training, learning to use a katana for the first time. Then, the samurai was seen in his death bed with the blonde boy much older now and kneeling besides him.
“I am not your father, Ren…. But you are still my son. And I love you.”
A passing of a soul. The blonde man stands up, and another memory of hard work and dedication to the samurai way follows. The man’s voice echoes throughout his own visions and they start to overlap one another.
“I do not use my powers for good, nor for evil. I don’t want to use them at all. No samurai should reside to supernatural things when they should already know the way of the sword.”
“If I am to die by my own hands for my lord, so be it. It will bring me great honor to have served thee. Though if I ever do betray you, I assure that you will not have to be the one to end me.”
“One thing I do regret doing: Not being able to learn the full Bushido way once you have passed, father.”
With a loud, almost bass-filled sound, the man was shoved out of a blue light into some green foliage. The same foliage. When he started to lift his head up slowly as the blurred lines disappeared, he started to wonder if his powers really didn’t work. Did he really have all of that stress for nothing? Though, when he did get a good look of the environment, it looked strangely…. different. Familiar, but still different. Some of the grasses weren’t as tall as they were before, and some of the trees were missing. Where exactly was he?
As he reached out with his arms to help himself up, he noticed that his hands were now 3-fingered claws. Eyes widening, he exclaimed out in surprise and leaped back, landing on something stiff. With a backwards glance, he saw that he had a tail lined with some blue spikes of sorts. What in the world happened?
“Was I reborn into some kind of reptile?!” He thought frantically as he started to run over to the nearest water source. He glanced down at his reflection swiftly, noticing the sleek reptilian head he now had that was lined with similar-shaped blue spikes. Or were those feathers?
Ren shook off the thought quickly as he started to look around. “I need to seriously figure this out…” He said as he started to wobble around, still dazed from the light travel and this new revelation. Has he always been able to become something like this? No… He was human his whole life… Right?
(Little did Ren know that these were just the after-effects of his time travel. He was fully aware of his saurian form as a human, but he never used it. With that said, his state of panic made him forget. XD Then again, finding out about a dragon form later on will prove to be more shocking.)