Boundless
#1 of Boundless
A quick something about me, my name is Ken James, I'm a 17 year old male, with dark brown medium long hair, green eyes and a 5'10" average build, and a metal dog collar that I've never taken off my neck since I was 11. My life is an average normal boring life, but it's cool because I enjoy relaxing throughout life. But it seems fate doesn't want to keep it that way.
"I'll be back in the morning, I'll pick your brothers up on the way home." Said mother. "Oh and don't forget to lock the door ok?"
"Don't worry mom I won't." I replied walking her to the door shutting it as she exited out of the apartment, locking the door behind her. "Ugh... Finally some peace and quiet. Well peace at least." I said to the empty room as I blared on some Pink before grabbing a piece of ham and walking to the computer. After a few clicks and an input of my password I was logged into msn. Only to find no body on, except for those random people you don't remember, but don't feel like deleting because you think you're their friend. But I wasn't going to talk to someone I couldn't remember unless they sent me an IM. So I decided to keep myself logged in as I walked to the couch plopping down, and relaxed as I jammed out to the loud rock music being played. Ah this was great, home alone, jamming out to awesome tunes.
I heard a knock on the door as I got up grumbling to myself "c'mon what in the world could you have forgotten mother?" I asked myself as I opened the door. I looked upwards at the manly figure, my eyes meeting with his before I seen the edge of a blade appear at my throat.
"Well now, you're not my mother?" I questioned with my instinctual smart assed comment.
"Aren't you cute, where's mommy and daddy?" he gave off a light chuckle.
"Awe you think I'm cute, how sweet of you." I said in a sarcastic tone. This of course was the wrong thing to do. He didn't take to kindly to my joke and instantly pressed the blade harder against my neck, cutting the skin making me bleed. As reflex took hold of my body, I backed up with the blade letting him inside as I did. I was quickly backed against a wall.
"If you co-operate I can try to keep this as painless as possible" he said before taking his free hand to the bottom of my shirt rubbing up my bare stomach making me cringe a bit.
"So" I paused. "What, your some sick pedophilic rapist?" I tried to keep my voice from trembling, but failed.
"You should really stop being such a smart ass kid." he said running the blade down from my neck over my left shoulder.
"Yea, well you should find a better occupation." God how I hated myself for saying that. I let out a loud scream, before having the other males hand cup my mouth tightly. I dropped my head down in agony as I felt the sharp pain inside my shoulder. The blade had been shoved all the way through my shoulder and a good amount of the blade was jammed inside the wall.
"Humph, I told you kid, now do you want to do this the hard way or the easy way?" he said chuckling before ripping the blade carelessly out of my shoulder. Tears were flooding over my cheeks as pain was passing over my whole arm and half of my chest. He wiped the blood that dripped from the blade onto my lips. My vision began to get blurred as I felt the pain starting to feel distant. My mind went blank as everything was covered in darkness, and I blacked out.
"I was just about to ask you the same thing." growled a voice. [Do you want to live?] Asked the same voice, this time it was in my head.
[Yes, I..I don't want to die.] I said into the darkness of my mind.
[Then you shall not, I will protect you.] His words wrapped around my body like a blanket of comfort, I felt strange as he said this.
[Who are you?] I questioned.
[I am Shadow.] He replied, feeling the warmth of safety in his words.
~~ "Sweetie, it's time to get up." mother's voice called out as I slowly opened my eyes.
"What time is it?" I asked with a splitting headache. "Can you get me some Excedrin or something?"
"Yea, are you ok?" she asked in a worried tone. "You don't look so good, do you want to stay home from school today?"
"No its cool, just had the weirdest dream is all, guess I didn't get much sleep cause of it." I said taking the two pills she handed me and swallowed them with a glass of tea. "Thanks."
I didn't pay too much mind to that nights activities, I guessed I had simply fallen asleep on the couch and ended up having some weird nightmare, so I decided to just put it behind me and focus on getting ready for school.
"You heading out?" mother asked as I finished putting my shirt on and grabbed my backpack.
"Yea, love you, see ya when I get home I guess." I replied walking outside the apartment as I headed towards the bus stop.
"Hey Dog!" a familiar female voice called out to me before being hugged from the side. "Bout time you got out here, thought you were going to miss the bus!"
"Sorry Lauren, guess I over slept a bit." I said giving her a little squeeze. Lauren was small, in size and weight, she was about 5'5" had black wavy hair to go with her dark brown eyes. She was very pretty, but I never really seen her as more than a friend.
"It's cool, at least you made it here in time." she pointed to the bus as it was pulling into our street. "Barely." It wasn't too hard to find an empty seat to sit at, we were one of the earlier pickups, which meant we had to wake up earlier, but we also got good picks on seats.
"Hey Kyo!" said another friend running to sit beside me.
"Hey Josh." I smiled. Josh was another friend of mine; he was about 6foot even and had a smaller build then me, with lighter brown hair and hazel eyes.
"Hey Dog?" Lauren questioned nudging my side. "Why is it you have like, 20thousand nicknames? How come no one calls you by your real name?"
"Don't know?" I didn't say too much, because I never really cared to talk while riding in a vehicle. But she was telling the truth, no one called me by my name. mother had always called my sweetie or hunny, and people at school either called me Dog, cause of my signature metal dog collar I was never seen without, Kyo, cause one year I had dyed my hair blonde, but it ended up a shade of orange, resulting in me looking like a character from some manga, or James, my last name. It was a bit confusing at times to have so many names, but after a while I got used to it. The noises on the bus got louder and louder as kids filled the seats, making the bus cramped, 3 to a seat was never fun, but it didn't bother me too much, I was stuck in my own world, staring blankly out the window as I thought of ideas for my new story. I never really wrote for others to see, but just to put my imagination on something so I could relive that fantasy.
"Hey Kyo, snap out of it. It's time to go." josh said pulling me out of my seat. I hadn't even realized that the bus was empty.
"Oh, right, thanks." I said wishing I could go back to my world of fantasy. As I walked into the doors a teacher stopped me and pulled me into the front office handing me the phone.
"It's your mother." she said going back outside into the halls.
"Hello?" I questioned and waited for an answer.
"Hey hunny, I wanted to make sure everything was ok? You looked really bad this morning."
"Yea, I'm cool, I'll just go take a nap in the infirmary" I said getting ready to hang up. "Alright, well I'll see ya later. Bye."
"Ok. Take care. If you start feeling bad just call me ok?"
"Kay." was all that was said before we both hung up. "Can I have a pass to the nurse?" I asked one of the students that helped around in the office.
"Yea here." she said handing me a pass, I took it and made my way to the infirmary.
"Hey James." the nurse said in an annoyed tone, she never liked me cause I had gotten her fired from her last job at the elementary school. "What's wrong this time?"
"I don't feel so well." I said as I signed the sign in sheets.
"Here put this under your tongue." she said giving me the thermometer. "You don't feel like you're running fever, but might as well check to be sure."
A few seconds passed before a beep was heard. "No fever" I said to her disposing of the plastic protecting it from germs.
"Alright, I guess just go lay down." she said as I walked to one of the beds and pulled the curtain around it so no one could see me.
I laid still for what seemed like only seconds before sleep overtook me.
[I'm sorry.] Said that same voice from my dream last night. That voice, who's was it?
[Why?] I asked.
[I failed to protect you.] He replied. [I'm sorry.]
[Please don't be sorry, you've done nothing wrong. I said into the darkness of my mind. Slightly curious as to why I was having this conversation in my head, but not avoiding it. [What are you?]
[I don't know.] He said saddened. [I'm sorry, I've put you in danger.]
[What are you talking about? I said a little agitated. [Where are you? Why are you in my head?]
[This is the only way to communicate with you, is through your dreams.] He paused. [I don't know where I am; I think I'm waving through the spirit and human world.]
[What do you mean?] It was really starting to make me mad, not knowing like this.
[I think... I'm a spirit?] He replied sounding a bit confused about what he was saying. [I have failed to do that which binds me to this world, so I'm being taken back to the spirit world to be disposed of because I am too weak.]
[Wait, what do you mean? I don't get what's going on?!] Why was there panic in my voice? I was worried? About some guy I never even met before. I don't even know his name.
[I don't know my memory. Everything is a blur.] He voice sounded weak. [Ken! Run!] He said as I burst out of my sleep only to find no one around me.
"Where is the nurse and what time is it?" I asked myself as I looked around for the clock. I found it but the hands weren't moving. "Hello?" I called out a bit confused. I had an uneasy feeling that caused my body to go into a panicked rush.
"You... you bastard!" screamed a voice. "You were with that stupid spirit who destroyed my body!" I looked around trying to find where the voice was coming from. This voice sounded familiar too, but where have I heard it?
"WH-who are you?" I asked still searching; I was too scared to move out of my bed.
"Who am I?!" he gave a loud chuckle, that seemed to echo off every wall, making it hard to tell where he was hiding. "why don't I show you?" said the voice as a man slowly appeared out of the ceiling hanging upside down, and it was then that I remembered who it was.
"y-you're the...the guy from last night?" I said unable to take my eyes off him. It was the man who attacked me. The man who had stabbed me. He looked different now; he was wearing a long brown robe with chains around his wrists and ankles.
"Yes. And now it's time for you to die!" he yelled before rushing towards me with a large knife he had grabbed from within his robe. The dream, it was all real, and now, I was going to die. "Shadow!!" I cried out in a panic closing my eyes.
"Ken." a familiar voice called my name, and I opened my eyes to see a tall shadowed figure standing in front of me, from what I could see, he had two perky triangular ears atop his head? And a bushy tail at the back of his waist? "Don't worry, I'll protect you."