“The one ring to rule them all.”
Kay Jewelers* #quote
Today father and I continued to discuss
the armor costume. It looks like it will be feasible even price wise
so woo! Though with my seizures I can't help set the resin with the
fiberglass I can probably work with him with shaping the wire mesh
that we will be putting the resin and fiberglass onto. Anyway onto
the flash fiction!
A Collaboration Of Magic And Science
My brain couldn't think clearly enough
to remember who I was before. Correction. My brains couldn't
think clearly enough to remember who I had been. I moved multiple
neck bones and felt pain through multiple joined spines. I saw
through eyes of many heads.
Five of them. The nose of one being
human and a nice dusty brown. The next head peered down an ugly green
head with pointy nose, while my third saw a row of tentacles. The
fourth saw some metal, robotic cyborg nose that I could twitch. The
mechanical nose and face possessed some sort of artificial nerves
that could feel just as well as the biological faces. The fifth
head's nose truly resembled that of a dog's or wolf's snout. Then after I
panted from the mouth connected to that nose I knew that it didn't
simply look like one.
I looked forward. At first my vision
blurry. Very blurry. But things cleared up and I saw many men and
women in the room. Some of the men and women dressed in bone white
lab coats and carried both clipboards and laser guns. The other men
and women dressed in storm cloud blue wizard's clothes with books of
spells and wands ready.
Sterilized white tile covered the
floor leading to an equally sterilized stone castle wall. They used a
clear magic substance instead of glass for the windows. The substance
looked like water and would ripple in place. I saw one solid steel
door in the distance with a pass code lock and scattered tables
covered in computers, chords, beakers, glowing magical artifacts, and
enchanted tomes.
A beep sounded from the steel door and
a woman in a flowing red dress walked into the room. The flip-flop
clank-clunking of high-heels came from her as she walked towards me.
She looked forty with plastic surgery to make her look twenty with
several magical enchantments to give her skin the youthful glow that
a knife or makeup just can't make.
I shook my heads trying to figure out
how I knew about my surroundings without knowing anything about
myself. Or... myselves? It seemed to surreal to be true but it was
the only thing I saw. I looked down to see my heads attached to a
body of massive multi-colored flesh and mechanical parts. One felsh
arm, one mechanical arm, and tentacles instead of feet.
The woman spoke to me. “Oh, I'm
sorry, you weren't supposed to wake up this early. My name's Mrs.
Vel. I run this place.”
“What is going on? What's wrong with
me? Why do I have five heads?”
Mrs. Vel smiled. “Oh good. You're
sane. The other ones didn't do so well...we had to put em' down. Well
that's not a very nice way to put it.”
Once the initial shock of everything
started to wear down a little and I thought of the woman in red's
statement I realized my circumstances. “You all changed me into
this didn't you? As some sort of experiment! I'm not an idiot!”
Vel laughed. “I hope you wouldn't be
an idiot. You should be smarter than any of us. You've got five
brains of several different kinds. And every single moment they
should be bonding better and compensating for each one's failures.”
I then said to her enraged, “What
kind of crazy people are you? Doing this to someone without their
consent?”
She then rolled her eyes. “Oh, this
is sad thing. Though you're sane and coherent unlike some others you
don't remember. You're five different people from five different
species of beings that admitted yourself to a process. The first
person a human, the second a goblin, the third an octopian, the
fourth a cyborg, the fifth a werewolf. All of you wanted to be fused
into one being that would get incredible strength, increase your
intelligence, retain your consciousness, and extend your lifespan.”
“I agreed to this?”
“Oh yes. Your the result of the
world's best collaboration of magic and science. If I hadn't been
beaten into a life of professionalism through my life as a business
woman I'd be jumping for joy. You're my life's work. And you'll be
living long after I'm dead if nothing goes wrong. The amnesia is a
bad side effect though.”
I turned my heads down to the ground
and nearly began to cry. With the heads that could. I managed to stay
calm at first. But did I want to live like this?
Mrs. Vel then walked up to me and put
her hand on one of my grotesque arms. “Now don't be like that. Are
you going to whine about being granted increased life, strength and
intelligence, or are you going to come down to our lobby and watch a
DVD?”
Something told me I wasn't her first successful creation. I agreed and followed her to the lobby.
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