Ezuko:Matriarch of Death 1

     Ezuko! Matriarch of Death

So you want to hear the story?…heh…I’m not surprised, humanity takes their naivety for granted. My name is Yamiko Katsura, I‘m a university student in Japan…and I’m cursed. I’m cursed with psychic abilities. Laugh if you wish, I’m sure your thinking of how much you could do with psychic abilities, find out if that boy or girl likes you, get top scores in every school class or what numbers are going to be called in the lottery but you have never had to live with it most likely, its not that simple…..I’ve learned that one in a million obtain psychic abilities and I feel horrible for all of the others who, like me, are “unique“. I wish I was normal like everyone else. Then maybe I could actually enjoy life. In school I can see and hear all that the other students think just by being near….from Hateful words because I’m “Pretty” to Murderous thoughts the student next to you imagines for the trouble school is causing them….ranging all the way to the most erotic acts someone like the boy behind you might be imagining involving you or a girl near you. I had nobody in the world whom I could fully trust for I knew what they were planning without saying it, whenever someone became angry with me but didn’t speak a word I could feel the anger anyway and see what they were going to say before changing their mind, its all right there in their mind, their momentary memories….that is why it is a curse. The problems in this story all began during the summer…the “O-Zone” had been deteriated to an all time low and the temperatures were unbearable… I know that is why it came that year….the heat was like a calling to it…a beacon you could say, it needed some sort of heat to be able to adapt to our world after all, of course none of us knew this before….the incident. The televisions at this time were overrun by news reporters theorizing that greenhouse gasses were causing the ozone to become even more damaged…..a silly idea…but apparently becoming much more accepted, even with gas prices ranging around seven dollars  people were still driving…..many attempts to create a new fuel source had been futile and most relied on crops….but the people knew this would only lead to raised food prices. As more people went to electric vehicles, thanks to the reports, the more expensive electricity became…supply and demand they said. The ones who couldn’t afford it returned to bikes and a few even horses but this was doing nothing for the environment. It wasn’t the vehicles and factories causing the deterioration…it was merely the sun getting hotter. This was the new news from one Professor Yuka Karusawa, a young and bright woman around 5‘3, she had hazel eyes and long black hair that came down to the arch of her back. Yuka was the daughter of the current high general of Japan…..General Hige Karusawa, the general was a short man with an even shorter fuse. Hige around his 40’s,  he had green eyes and his graying hair showed a man who was battered by stress. The general had been caught on the news arguing Japanese policy with the prime minister many times and believes various cutbacks on military funds were foolish, he was a man who was ready for a war…even when one didn’t exist. You may ask, how do I know all of this? Well I eventually got to meet these people, but that we will get to when it is important. Anyway I should start the story so let‘s begin. I first knew something was wrong during one walk home…..It was a Thursday and the sun was painting the streets a golden hue, if you looked close enough the steam coming off the ground made it feel as if you could see what had to be the very essence of the earth rising from the ground, and from that I’m sure you could guess the temperature. After I walked a bit I noticed that ahead of me was shadowed by a reddish smoke….as I entered the cloud I was surrounded by fire…the buildings were in ruins and the streets were a twisted mass of rubble, as I looked up I could see the sky was a sickly grayish black. I could hear people screaming in pain and the sounds of a city in chaos, after a while It suddenly felt like my body was bombarded by sharp stings and I looked down to notice I too had caught on fire…horrified and in pain I screamed and that’s when I escaped from that vision. I collapsed to my knees momentarily, civilians walking around the city began to approach me and ask If I was all right and what happened…it was humiliating. It was kind of them to check on me I know but…..it was my psychic abilities I realized, and their was no explaining it without being thought of as crazy, so I told the shocked onlookers that I tripped and twisted my ankle bad causing me to tumble and hurt my legs. I knew not when the hell I had seen would take place…but it would be soon, and with that, to hold the illusion, I limped onward. Thanks to the shocking experience I was terrified, once I had escaped the last onlookers view I ran home and told my parents. I got the usual reaction, “It was just my imagination, ignore it” they had always refused to believe in my powers no matter what I showed them to prove it so I wasn’t surprised in the least, after all I’ve been through I was used to not being believed at this point. They may refuse to believe their daughter is different and kid themselves that what I saw was merely my imagination but I knew it was coming….and if it was I was going to be prepared.

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By: Paul Montgomery