I'm Connected To A Glowing Pod(1)

I stared at my old wall clock as I sat on my old bed. Nothing had changed except the room felt smaller. Not because it was bigger than my room at Jack and I's rented apartment, but because I had noticed that things had changed the moment I got sent out of the mansion. I wasn't the old Po anymore who relied on hiding my powers from the world and keeping shut when I was insulted. I was the new Po that killed innocent and non innocent people to save the people that were close to me.

"We'll be going out now," I flinched when I heard Aunt Rory's voice and I glared at the smug smile she had on her face as she peeked into my room. "Behave yourself till we get back Aye? Your new parents will be arriving with us." She shut the door and I sighed in tiredness. I heard noises outside and I stood up and went to my window. The whole view of the compound was right before me. I remembered when I would stand here and daydream about having a big party in this mansion, with all my friends. Leroy would be the host and I would be the entertainer. I would pick up my mini microphone and sing my favorite rock music by my favorite band.

I stared down and watched as Uncle Brodie helped Gran Leith to get into the car and Aunt Rory getting into the driver's seat. He entered the seat next to Aunt Rory and she drove away, the noise not as much as her old car. This was mom's favorite car she was driving. My hand drew into a tight fist and I pushed myself away from the window. Behavior my foot. All I needed to do was to find the papers and burn them, then get the hell out of here and find Kai. I wanted him to pay for what he did to me. First Leroy who survived and now Jack who didn't.

I shut my old room door behind me and made my way to her room. I was surprised she didn't take mom's room too. Was she guilty? Prolly not. I got in front of her room and stopped when I noticed mom's room on the floor below this. I wanted to see it one more time. To feel her presence again.

And so I did.

Fuck the stupid papers. I'd be long gone before they get back.

They were so stupid to have left me alone in the mansion. The door to mom's room wasn't locked surprisingly so I invited myself in. Nothing had changed, everything was the same before she died. I went forward to her nightstand, where she always kept the family photo of her, Jack, and I. She never hung it in display, she kept with her saying it was very dear to her.

The main reason why she did it was because she knew Jack would destroy it the moment he laid his eyes on it. Just like he did to other photos. I opened the drawer and sucked in a breath when I saw the picture. Mom was smiling, Jack had a poker face on, and me, the blinding flashlight made me squint left eye do I looked horrible. Just like I always do.

I picked up the picture and my eyes went to the single key I found under it. This was the key to the basement. I remembered when she would always go into the basement alone. She would never let me step my leg in there and today, I was gonna find out what she had been hiding. I picked the key and shut the nightstand. The picture was already in my pocket.

I left the mansion and walked over to the back of the building where the basement was located. It was an underground building so I could easily get inside from here. I put the key through the keyhole of the padlock and removed the chains that were tied around the handle roughly. Once the chains were lose, I threw it on the ground and opened the two red metal doors. There was a visible staircase that led to darkness so I turned on the flashlight of my phone, and got in.

The bedraggled staircase creaked in complaint as my feet came thumping down slowly the ageing stairs. I wiped the cobwebs off my face with a surpressed groan and observed the basement. It had only one open window for ventilation and the rest of items were covered with white or black fabrics.

"Ahh-fuck!" I screamed as my left eye began to hurt deeply and so did my vision become blurry. The pain was so much that it drew my feet closer to a material that was covered in a white fabric. Once I got in front of the covered thing, the pain stopped. I was left breathing hard in the aftermath of the pain until I decided to know what was under.

I raised up the white cotton fabric and it fell to the ground from my shaking hands once I saw what appeared in front of me. It was a rainbow colored pod in shape of an agg and it glowed mostly of the colors violet, red, and yellow.

"What the fuck is this?" I found myself asking and tried to run my fingers on it. I gasped when my hands got inside the warm slimy pod. Pain flashed through my head and I found myself seeing different faces across my mind. A very important picture of a man stabbing a woman made me fall on my knees on the impact.

Slowly, with my left hand clutching my hair tightly, the world around me turned around in golden swirls until I was in a room. A room where a naked baby was laying on the bed with her tiny fingers in her mouth. The pain had stopped and I checked myself to see if I hurt but all I noticed was, I was transparent.

I winced in fear when the door slammed open and a woman ran into the room in fear, with tears streaming down her face.

What the hell was I doing here?

Ooh don't you think things just got more intense.