Chapter 12: Mutreph, found a story to make a choice (2)

My mother was pregnant, she should follow a diet adapted to pregnant women.

But strangely, my mother was a mutant so she didn't really need to do exams and other things to keep me healthy, humans do 9 months before giving birth, for mutants it's only 5 months at most!

My mother had done a check-up and she had one month left before my birth, I was already very well formed and healthy.

Even when she had done pregnancy exams she was told that she was 8 months pregnant, yet it was wrong, it was only 4 months.

But for mutants, this process goes very quickly.

My mother went to my father and told him the news.

My father was happy, he kissed my mother's belly and asked when my birth was estimated, my mother told him just 1 month.

My father didn't believe it, a normal pregnancy is not that short.

He believed that my mother had cheated on him since then and was therefore pregnant since then, and that she was just looking for someone who would endure this pregnancy and raise a child that does not belong to her.

My father got angry, he talked about it to my mother by yelling at her, he said horrible things to her and called her all the names and then chased her out of his house.

My mother was sad, broken, devastated, how could the one she opened up to, whom she loves deeply, say such abominable things to her? It's injustice yet she was telling the truth.

When the time came I was born, I was 50% human and 50% mutant, I was a baby in normal human form like all human mutant babies.

She started to take care of me alone until I was 2 months old.

She and my father still continued to see each other at the laboratory but the atmosphere was different, they no longer greeted each other, no longer spoke to each other and acted as if they did not know each other.

One day while my mother was coming home, her phone rang and there it was my father, she left the phone and did not answer it.

But as time went by, the calls poured in for over a month, my mother was fed up and she blocked him.

From everywhere, even on social networks.

One day while my mother was walking with me on the beach, she came across my father, she turned around and did an about-face, my father who had seen him ran straight towards her and cut her in front.

My angry mother yelled at him, she asked him what he wanted and he said he wanted a second chance with her.

At these words, she cried, she called him everything and nothing at the same time, because she had given herself only to him and he had rejected her while she was pregnant with his child, my father apologized and said several times that he would make up for it and that he promised.

My mother let it happen, he took me in his arms and hugged my mother.

She forgave him because she loved him deeply despite what he had done and because I was their child for both of them.

He asked my mother to come and live with him and there it was paradise for them, for us.

My mother lacked nothing, not even me.

He looked at me several times and could not help but recognize himself, he had directly affirmed alone that I was truly his child and that he did not know what had gone through his head to have refused me once.

For 2 years, they lived in happiness.

One day while my mother and him were walking near the sea, they saw falls from above, it was beautiful to look at, with the grass around and the sun in the distance.

My father asked my mother to go there and that they would take souvenir photos there. No sooner said than done.

They were very much in love, then without meaning to, my father slipped and fell into the salt water, the falls were only 10 meters from him, my mother dived and my father lost sight of her, he reached the falls and fell into the void.

He loses consciousness.

He wakes up in the water again and sees a humanoid figure with scales everywhere like a sea monster or a mermaid, he was so scared that he loses consciousness again.

A few hours later, he wakes up by the sea with my mother by his side soaking wet looking into his eyes.

She asked him if he was okay, he didn't answer right away, he was like anywhere else, lost in his thoughts.

My mother gave him a hug to comfort him and then they went home.

That night, my father hadn't slept well, he couldn't stop thinking about what he had seen in the water and assimilating it with my mother.

There was one thing my mother didn't know, it was the fact that my father despises mutants, he hates them like never before.

In his head, he imagined all sorts of things.

What if his wife was a mutant? How should he take it?

He wasn't really the same anymore, he was empty and my mother didn't understand what was happening to him anymore.

One day, my father came home from work and saw my mother in the bathtub.

He smiled, you know a man who sees his wife naked and everything.

My father put down his work bag and took a glass of water then came to look at her.

They also talked about everything and nothing.

His good mood seemed to return.

My father was so carried away that he had forgotten his worries.

In a playful tension, he poured his glass of water on my mother and there.

He thought he had seen wrong. He had thought he saw scales on her for a moment.

But it was so fast.

My mother's body had this particularity.

Scales appear on her skin when a considerable amount of water touches her body at the moment, but as soon as this amount is exceeded, she instantly takes back human form. It was much too fast.

The part submerged in the water is covered with scales but not the part out of the water.

So if my father wanted to see my mother in her mutant appearance he had to submerge her in a huge aquarium.

But for the moment my father was not there yet, he was still surprised.

My mother asked him what was happening and he explained to her what he thought he saw.

My mother told him that it was not an illusion and that it was real.

She loved him so much and could not hide anything from him.

She took a quantity of water on her hands and there my father could see that my mother's hands were suddenly webbed.

He was scared and yelled at her.

He couldn't believe his eyes, his wife was a mutant.

My mother tried to calm him down, but she couldn't, my father was touched, he thought he was living in a dream, he ran out of the house.

Tonight he had slept out.

The relationship between my father, my mother and I was now different, he didn't know if he should continue to like us but logically it was the right thing to do, this mutant never wanted to hurt him, she even saved his life once but that....he didn't give a damn.

After a few days, my mother couldn't stand all this anymore and wanted to leave my father's life for good.

He had decided that she and I were going to live our lives elsewhere since my father didn't like us anymore.

She had packed our things that night and we were ready to leave when suddenly my father surprised us and stopped us.

He asks where we were about to leave and my mother explained everything to him.

My father seemed to have recognized his mistake and said that it was over, he should not behave like that anymore.

He managed to convince my mother and she gave up on leaving him.

Life seemed to be going back to normal but no, my mother's mistake that day was to have forgiven him.

They spend a night between lovers, and are happy and then sleep.

The next day, my mother wakes up in a cage with me also inside.

She didn't understand anything and was just calling my father to help us.

My father arrives and asks my mother to shut her mouth and that she was a manipulator, that she was a mutant and still mixed with him.

He had said monstrosities to my mother, she didn't even know what to answer, her tears were her only consolation.

He took us for lab rats, injecting strange products into my mother and me to make us suffer like never before.

My mother had offered to make her suffer but not me, since I was her son, I was innocent, I had never wanted all that but my father said that I am as complicit as she is.

10 years pass and we were not the same.

10 years of suffering, my mother was no longer human, her appearance with too many chemicals had changed, she looked like nothing that existed, her beauty, her humanity... everything had disappeared.

She was similar to a creature that had mutated with a dog, a human and a humanoid frog.

Despite all this, she still had her mother's conscience towards me, she had protected me as best she could but still felt like a failure.

My body had undergone mutations too but not as much as hers, I had burns all over my body but I was still a little boy, I hated my father but she told me several times not to blame him and that she would find a way to get me out of here.

Then, there was that night.

My mother was sleeping and my father took me out of my cage.

He tied me up on a table and injected me with drugs.

I don't know why he did that to us, was it because he really liked seeing us suffer? It doesn't matter.

Tonight I couldn't scream because he gave me a paralyzing drug.

After injecting me, he cut me up, dismembered me, decapitated me and left me like that.

He kept saying (let's see what happens tomorrow)

Then he left me like that.

The next day, my mother wakes up and panics when she sees my condition.

She screams with anger and sadness, she was torn apart, for her it was the straw that broke the camel's back.

She uses her superhuman mutant strength for the first time and bends the iron bars of her cage.

She frees herself with her monstrous appearance and walks towards me.

She looks at me, tears in her eyes and keeps saying that she was sorry for all that.

Looking at me more closely, she notices that I may have been cut into several pieces with organs scattered but I was still surprisingly alive.

She smiles and tries to put my organs back in order.

She did the same with my upper and lower limbs.

She then used thread and needle to sew me up everywhere.

Although she had done all that, I was devoid of movement but I was alive, I was even able to talk to her.

She told me it was nothing.

Mutans are able to regenerate parts of their bodies after at least 1 year if the essential parts like the heart and brain are not damaged.

So I must have been paralyzed for that long.

She said we were going to run away and go live somewhere else but as she lifted me up, the door opened and it was my father.

He screamed, wondering what she was doing.

My mother for her first time attacked him with murderous intent.

She takes out her huge claws and attacks my father who reflexively ducks and takes the shock while suffering less damage than what could have followed from this attack.

He ends up with a broken arm and a lot of bleeding.

(why are you doing this?)

He said to my mother.

(Your question is so stupid, I was too patient, how could you do this to our child, no... my child, he doesn't deserve this, he never wanted this so why?)

My father was scared, my mother's first attack could have killed him, she has the potential to kill him now and he knows it.

He should be careful with every word that comes out of his mouth because one wrong answer and he could lose his life.

(Honey, I'm really sorry for all this, but it's for a good cause everything I do, it's for a project!)

He said.

My mother was even more furious. She attacks him a second time and pierces his stomach with her claws.

My father screams in pain.

( I don't even know why I should listen to you, you're a monster, just look, look what you did to your own wife and son, you bastard!!!! )

My mother said angrily.

She was about to use her left hand to cut off his head.

My father is sweating profusely, he is also losing a lot of blood.

My mother tells him for the last time.

( To God, monster!!! )

She wanted to cut off his head and the sound of a rifle bullet stops her in her tracks.

They were soldiers.

My father was not alone in the house, he had invited people from the government that day.

The police officers stand in front of the door and a bald and mustachioed man shows up.

He tells my mother that if she makes a sudden move they will machine-gun her with rifle bullets to kill her and that she must let go of my father if she doesn't want an accident.

My mother remains calm and lets go of my father.

Two soldiers hurry to take my father and lead him to the others.

The bald guy asks my father how he is.

My father then answers (more fear than harm, I implore you, kill this monster!!)

He said while pointing at my mother.

The bald guy nods and the police officers all shoot at my mother with their rifles.

My mother is getting bullets everywhere and is bleeding profusely.

She lifts me up and smashes the basement below.

She slides into the ground and smoke disrupts all this chaos.

The police rush to the hole that my mother made and she had disappeared.

The bald guy then says.

(Don't stay planted like that, look for this monster and kill her and quickly!!!) the police put the order into execution.

My mother in the ground, produces a lot of mucus that she mixes me with, which makes it easy to slip everywhere even in mouse holes.

We reached the pipes and we let ourselves be carried into the sewers. Once in the sewers, we reach the sea.

My mother then heads into a dense forest where we were able to spend the night.