The Chosen One - S01 E13

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The Chosen One - S01 E13

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 13

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********* BEN’S VOICE *******

Am just a normal boy like every other kids, trying to utilize life to it fullness. Go to school, have fun with my friend, commit grievous acts, have s*x with girls ,play pranks on teachers ,fight with my foes, disguise with fake identification card so as to sneak inside bars to drink because am not yet 18.

But in the last three weeks, everything changed.

The impossible things started happening in my life, Victor that I trust so much betrayed me, I changed into what I don’t believe existed before, I also learnt that the woman that meant everything to me in this world is not who I thought her

to be. What more danger could this world pose to me, I don’t know what is going to happen in future but the present is already filled with shit that I don’t think the future will be able to clean.

My intuition tells me that something big beyond my control is about to happen and I have to be prepared for it.

I released a nightmare into the land I heard my real father was it protector and I’m the only one that can bring a pleasant sleep to the people of GEVAUDAN (Marseille).

I’m now the protector of GEVAUDAN, I’m the one chosen to protect it.

I am the chosen one, the new beast of GEVAUDAN.

Tho as I sat on the only available chair inside the ward my mom was placed in, I was looking at the heart monitor machine that was inside the ward attached to her heart, her heartbeat rate was normal and

the doctors did a wonderful job to stop her bleeding and making sure she is stable, tho she was still unconscious. And it’s already morning.

It was getting boring and I forgot to pick my phone when I followed the ambulance that brought her to the hospital.

I move towards the small plasma TV on the wall and switch it on,

I was shocked beyond words with what I saw. the program on air then was news @ 8 am.

The public and private mortuary is now cramped with corpse, it was recorded that the sum of 44 people were found dead last night with their hearts and some vital organs missing.

According to the report, from the day the beast has been on rampage, 154 people has lost their life and vital organs, the number keeps on increasing every day.

I felt responsible for their death and I felt tingling of pain in my heart because of this.

I was the one that release terror on my people so it’s my responsibility to avenge their death by killing the beast. To do so I have to be stronger, but how?

Then I remember the ledger my mom gave me last night before she passed out.

I want to go home and get it but I want my mom to wake up first.

I want to be the first person she wakes up to see, and I wish to know how she sustained her injury. Nobody knows how she sustained it and all what the doctors have was baseless assumption.

But I really need to get the ledger, I’ve to get stronger and I think I will find some hint on how to do so inside it.

I looked at my mom, she was cute in her deep slumber, I was angry with myself that I was not there to protect her.

Even if I didn’t come out of her down hole, she will still be my mom. I pecked her on her head and head outside as tears was already looking for their way out of my eye.

But as I opened the door, I was surprised to see my dad, ” no he isn’t my dad” I saw the man that my mom married in the door front, he was about to enter when I opened the door.

I was very surprised to see him because I didn’t remember calling him to inform him that my mom is in the hospital.

I walked pass him without uttering any word and he didn’t try to stop me.

within 20 minutes I was already home.

as I want to enter, I heard someone called my name, ”Benjamin”, I don’t need to confirm the person before I know that the caller is Mrs Peterson, her house is beside ours, and she is the only one that always calls my name in full. I answered her and went to meet her, she asked me of my mom’s health and I told her that she is still unconscious but she isn’t in a fatal condition.

”but how did she know that she was being admitted in hospital,maybe she saw when the ambulance came to pick her” I thought to myself,

Mrs Peterson : where have you been to,to make her worried yesterday

ME : a friends place

MRS PETERSON : I knew it but your mom won’t just agree, she was very worried and kept on searching for you till she mistakenly collided with a sharp metal which injured her so much and she lost lot of blood, I told her to go to hospital but she insisted that she will do so when she sees you. (sobbing ) now see what that has cost her

ME : ( ”my mom is a rare gem, going through all this for someone that is not her child, her love towards me is more than that of mother to child, truth be told, I was surprised that my mom would trade her safety just to be sure that am safe “) so that was what happened, thanks Peters ( that’s what I always call her because she refused to call me Ben)

MRS PETERSON : you really got a good mom, but I know you won’t know that until you lose her

ME : (her last word made me real angry, how can she say lose her, and for her information, I appreciate and knows my mom is good ) alright (I said leaving her )

As I entered into the sitting room, I saw the big book which I will like to call ledger and my phone which I dropped on the table after dialing the emergency number yesterday night.

I picked the ledger and started going through it, I first saw the story which am sure you are all aware of it, so I won’t go into details of that,

I also saw list of parents that I was their child, it was very funny being a child to many parents.

some photos were even attached to it, in my own opinion, I think I am their parent because am older than all of them.

After that, it was some other events that has happened through my course of staying with my foster parents.

I was not getting what I needed from this book, it does not hold any information about the beast,

So their is no hope of me getting stronger.

I was deep in thought when my phone started ringing, I checked the caller and discover that it was Becky, I have forgotten to call her because of all what happened.

I picked the call and pleaded with her not to be angry about what happened yesterday, and told her I will call her later because am kinda busy now.

After terminating the call, I saw 12 missed call on my phone, all from Becky .

I felt guilty towards her because my heart has been hooked by another girl and I felt like am cheating on her .I now have only 30% love for Becky and the remaining 70% is for Nina.

Wow Nina, I think her dad should have the answer for me on how to be stronger .

I don’t think I will be able to know the way to thier place but I know that I can try.

I took a quick shower and head out of my house going to meet the only people that I think can help me.

As I got to the place where Nina escorted me to before going back last time, I view the forest very well again before making my way through it.