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And that was just our first mission we had many more that were just as adventurous if not always as complicated. Throughout my time on the TTT I got to see so much of Earth’s history. I saw Ancient Egypt, Rome, the Victorian Era, the Medieval Age, Colonialism, the Dark Ages, the Renaissance, the Shogun Era and so much more. And I got meet all sorts of famous people from the past such as George Washington, Merlin, Caesar, Queen Elizabeth, Genghis Kon, the Dalai Lama and so many more. I got to see Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas.
I saw life in many different cultures in different countries and time periods I even got to experience it. I was more than one kind of royal, peasant and worker. I experienced many other modes of life including a pirate. I saw amazing things. I received council from Native American Shamans and Amazonian Medicine Men. I saw many wars, great legends coming to pass, the building of the Great Wall of China. I even got to see the future. And a lot of interesting things happened to me.
I think one of the most spectacular things I got to do was go to the future. I had my own obsession with observing the future because of my power; I had the kicks in the brain but never anymore than that except for Mission Death Wish. I never even imagined that I would be able to go there any way but the slow way. The first time I got to see the future I was dragged there without my team by the Anti-Christ himself, his name was Seth. He was charming guy and he’d summoned me so that I could kill him. Seth didn’t like being the Anti-Christ; he happened to like Earth and didn’t overly fancy destroying it. He was kind of nice, considering, in fact he stole my first kiss, something that not even Kahotep had done.
I did as he had asked and killed me to do it after he sent me back to my own time. I was a lot like Seth in so many ways, a scaring thought considering who and what he was. I remember cradling his infant body in my arms the day he was born after I took his unrealistically short life from him with my own hands. I remember Ty finding me after I’d done it, rocking with the small bundle in my arms sobbing. I remember him helping me up and taking Seth’s body from me. I don’t remember what he did with it.
So I guess that brings me to Ty. At first Ty and I hated each other. Well he hated me and I responded like the pathetic preteen emo that I was. When Ty had learned that he was to be placed on a team of all newbies he had of course expected to be made team leader. He didn’t like that I was put in charge instead of him. He fought me for control and lost. Sure Lizzy prefer to take orders from the man she loved over the girl who terrified her. But I was never going to loose my status to him. And man was he pissed.
He didn’t like taking orders from me and I honestly don’t blame him. At the time I wasn’t exactly leadership-material. But then he learned about situation, about Richie and Nathaniel. I hadn’t planned to tell him but the b*****d showed up on our second mission back in time and well they learned the truth. Before that with my powers so out of control because my emotions were so confused Ty had thought of me as weak. But once he learned the truth he was able to sympathize with me.
Surprisingly enough he was able to understand my situation. Two years ago, before he’d even learned that he’d had magic his parents were killed by demons. He was told that it was car accident and went to live with his uncle. Once there he’d realized that he was a magical, his uncle was a magical and his mother had been one too and that their deaths had not be the accident he thought they had been. His uncle was a freelancer and was in no position to teach his nephew the craft so he sent him to GMT to learn. On his first day he arrived with many other newbies, just as nervous as he was. It was then that he ran into his next-door neighbor, Lizzy.
Lizzy had her own way of understanding my life because like me she came from a mortal family that knew nothing about her after school activities. She was recruited into the GMT by a scout at her school. Apparently she’d never had any aptitude for controlling her powers. She was incessantly nervous and so when she came to the GMT running into someone she knew calmed her down immensely. The two of them latched onto each other and eventually and not so surprisingly it became more than friendship.
Lizzy had just as much trouble as I did when it came to our parents. Keeping the secret was hard but we were both determined to do it. Together we came up with many lies and alibis, provided each other with backup, saying that we were doing something together that gave support to the stories we made up to make them more believable. Tyler’s uncle did wonders for us in that department. Our two sets of worried parents would call him and he would lie flawlessly to them telling them that we were at his house hanging out. But unlike me Lizzy told her parents openly while we were on the same team. It took me much longer than her and I didn’t deliver the news so calmly.
At the time it was a complete mystery to me why she would tell them. Maybe it was because although we shared this common link Lizzy and I had very little else in common with each other. Her parents were her parents after all, a bond that I foolishly thought that I lacked with mine. I guess that being adopted part of me always felt that if my parents found out the truth they would do what my biological parents did and leave me. Of course I know now that that is completely retarded but I can’t change how I felt back then just like I can’t change a lot of the things that I did because of how I felt.
 Zegwarian310 · Sun Jun 29, 2008 @ 05:12am · 0 Comments |
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