15Hi everyone. Sorry it has been almost a year since I updated but, once again my health and writer's block got in the way. If there are any fans of the story left here is another installment.
And now the usual disclaimer:
I do not own Static Shock nor any of it's characters. I do however, own Melisan.
Chapter 7
The Darkness in the Heart
Melisan was glad to finally be home. The fresh smell of clean sheets filled her senses and the
cool hum of the air conditioner soother her troubled mind. Her room felt like her only
sanctuary these days. It felt like every time she left her room she got screamed at from every
angle. The only problem was… no one was ever talking. She heard things…things she
shouldn't. Things that bothered her immensely. Thoughts…that's what she was hearing…
thoughts. But the question is why? She thought to herself as she stretched and got out of
bed.
"They're must be a way to block them out. There has to be." She said quietly to herself as
she tip-toed across her room and got dressed. She really didn't want her family to know she
was up yet. She'd been prone to sleeping in as of late. Mainly to keep the voices out just for
a little longer. She needed to get help and some how figure out how to control this… I don't
know power? She thought mesmerized at her realization.
"Oh damn it all! What am I gonna do!" Her exasperation and anger seemed to radiate
around her and suddenly the window cracked. Melisan Gasped and rushed away from the
window as hurried foot steps were heard outside her door. "Melisan! What's wrong? Are
you alright dear!?" Said her mother as she ran into the room out of breath. "The window,"
Shouted Melisan with fear in her heart. "I think something got thrown at the window." In a
flash Melisan and her mother ran outside to see what had been bludgeoned at the window.
Searching far and wide through the yard they could find no object big enough to make a
spider-web crack like that. "Maybe it was a bird." Said her mother in a helpful voice. "If it
was it was one big damned bird Mom." Said a rather doubtful Melisan. It was then that the
truth occurred to her. She had cracked the window somehow with…her mind.
"Telekinesis?" she whispered.
I thought that stuff only happened in comic books and galaxies far, far away?
She was going crazy she had to be. She hugged her mother tightly and went to the bathroom
to wash her face and clear her head. As the cool water flowed over her hands and face the
stress seemed to melt out of her. Sighing she decided to try an experiment. She looked at
her old wooden hair brush on the other side of the bathroom counter and concentrated.
She thought back to the old Star Wars movies her oldest brother had made her watch as a
kid. Focus. She thought. Let the Force flow through you. Strangely enough the memory
worked and the brush slid gently across the counter and into her waiting hand. Terrified, she
dropped the brush and backed up against the door. "What am I? What has happened to
me?! What did Static make me!?" Anger rising in her voice. Her eyes turned dark as she
thought back to when that…monster just grabbed panicky people not even thinking about
his actions. She came to find out after her hospital stay that five people had almost been
trampled to death because of his meddling. If it hadn't of been for his sidekick Gear saving
his ass those people would have died.
Melisan's anger seemed to burn through her every pore. A kind of clarity came upon her.
Static! She mentally spat. He is the cause of all this! He is the one who turned me into
this… FREAK! Tears began welling up in her eyes. He is the one who didn't save me!
He! Is the one who separated me from my parents and almost killed me! "He is the
cause of it all." She said in an angry whisper. "I will make him pay who what he did to me
and my family and, what better way than to destroy him with the new "powers" he so
generously supplied me." She said with a dark grin. "I'll train hard and hopefully be able to
control these powers long enough to destroy him!"
With that dark thought she concentrated once again on the brush that now lay on the floor
and it smoothly flew into her hands. With a smirk she said triumphantly, "Well, maybe this
won't be so hard after all." Her dark laughter echoing through the house.