Mutant

Their glow almost seemed enchanting. I wondered how my own eyes could have an effect like this, it was like it was trying to draw me in. I had to close them before something else happened. It took a couple of seconds but my eyes returned to normal.

After the whole ordeal in the bathroom, I made my way to my room to finish up for bed. "Man, these past weeks have been crazy. At least I'm not alone with this, I wonder are there more who are like us." I pondered "I should do some research into people like us." after the thought I grabbed my blanket then laid down to sleep.

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when I opened my eyes, immediately I noticed that I was not in my room or in the darkness with my other-selves. No, I was in a dark cave. I waited a couple of seconds so my senses could adjust to the new surroundings, each step I took echoed throughout the cave. Every now and then I would notice shadows scuttering along the walls and that I had the sneaking suspicion that something was watching me.

"This cave doesn't seem to end," I said out loud to no one. I kept on walking keeping an eye out for anything different or for a way of escape, I've caught a glimpse of a couple of spiders. They were quite large the biggest I've seen so far was the size of my hand. I decided to spot and start searching my surroundings for anything that could give me a hint for a way out.

Midway through my search, I heard someone yelling for help I know the voice, it was Peter. His voice was coming from the other side of the cave behind a rock wall. I sped over to the wall to see if there was a weak point, I had to find out why he is yelling.

I managed to break my way through the rock wall to see Peter in a fetal position. I ran over, the closer I got the more spiders I noticed climbing on him. Once I got to him everything changed, I was in a long hallway that seemed similar. I believed they were the hospital's hallways.

I started a slow jog through the halls, I would take turns and go upstairs but nothing would show me that I was making progress to any destination of sorts. Even the doors had the same repeating numbers, at times I would try opening them but they were always locked.

After what I guessed to be 5 hours I heard May's voice, mixed with both surprise and relief. "Kazuki, you're here too, that's good." Just as I was about to reply my surroundings changed again. This time I was in the dining room seated in a chair in the far corner. At the table seated Ben and two others. One was a man the looked kinda similar to Ben and Peter and another was a woman with very similar eyes to Peter.

I tried to listen to the conversation they were having, but I got nothing from them, all I heard was messed up gibberish, but the looks on their faces showed that what they were talking about was something very important. Tears slowly started coming out of the woman's eyes as her gaze shifted from Ben to someone in the other room. It was Peter, but he was much younger than before. He was closer to 7 or 8. He red puffy eyes and he was sniffling. I concluded that he was crying earlier. Both the man and woman got up and hug Peter, then they let go of him turning to the door and leaving the house. Then everything turned to black.

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I got up right away to check my surroundings to make sure I was in my room and not some other place. "what the hell was all of that, that was a super weird dream." I said to myself.

I have gotten ready for the day, getting my hair combed to notice that there were more white streaks than before. Actually, there were a lot of new things across my body that seemed to appear overnight. A red highlight appeared around my pupils, multiple markings across my body, two small horns, and my ears became pointed. It was almost as if I was becoming some fantasy creature.

"Kazuki, time to eat." May yelled as I was inspecting my body. "Kay, just wait a sec so I can get my stuff on!" I hollered back. I screwed around with my hair so the horns were hidden away, my eyes I did not need to worry about the red rings are hard to notice.

After finishing dressing I ran down the steps to hear Ben asking about Peter's dream, I slowed down my descent when I heard him talk about the contents of his dream "It was honestly scary, I was stuck in a dark cave filled with spiders. I yelled for help and then I heard footsteps coming my way then they just stopped. Nothing else happened after that." He finished 'The fuck, how is that possible.' I thought

"Oh, well I had an odd dream as well, wouldn't say it was scary but I was spooked. I was in the hospital, but the hallways seemed to go on forever, and the stairs never stopped going up or down. Towards the end, I saw Kazuki. But he had horns! pretty big ones at that, when I was about to comment on them he vanished and soon after I woke up." As she described the contents of her dream, it all aligned with my experience with the dream too. My eyes landed on Ben to see what he was gonna say.

"My dream wasn't all that odd, it was of my last talk with Richard and Mary. Nothing out of the ordinary happened, it was much more of a memory than a dream." He looked slightly down after saying that. Peter also showed a slight reaction to that too. It was evident that he had a very close connection with the two, I'm pretty sure it was his parents.

I came down after a bit from processing the information, we talked about a couple of things, they also asked me about my dreams I told them that I didn't really dream of anything. Peter and I did not have school today so I decided it was time to look up some things for myself.

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After managing to get a computer off of May I went into deep research for other individuals who also had powers. After a couple of hours, I found some documents. A lot of them went into weird mystic stuff, one thing kept appearing "Sorcerer Supreme". I did not pay any attention to it. but one thing did ketch my eyes, the word Mutant.

When doing related searches with the word, individuals came up such as Charles Xavier, Nathaniel Essex, and minor cases of the name James Howlett.

The description I managed to come up with went along the line of: Individuals with a gene that sets off one or multiple abilities that are almost supernatural in nature. The next thing I should do is probably trying to find out the limits of my powers.

As I sat in my chair blood started to pour out my nose than my ears, the light in the room seemed to be getting brighter and the noises louder. All of my senses started flaring up, I used up the last bit of my strength to call for help before I passed out. The last thing a saw was a worried Ben picking me up and rushing downstairs.