Desperation (Substitute #1)

Chapter 1

"Help me! Help me!" "Somebody please help me!" I begin to start hearing a voice calling out to me as if it that person is drowning, but I don't see anything at all. All I see is the sky and sounds of water slowing moving. "Help! I can't swim!" The voice keeps calling out to me but I still don't see him. My body starts going numb and my vision begins to go blurry and dark. As I hear that voice scream one more time I blacked out. I thought I was dying but I soon begin to hear muffled voices. They sound worried and sad for some reason. As the sound of muffled talking starts becoming clear, I begin to regain my vision. As I open my eyes I see a mother and a father talking to a doctor about someone. I didn't know who theses people are or why I'm here, wherever here is anyways. "Hey.." I said to the worried parents, "Where am I and who are you people?" The doctor looks at me with a faint smile, "You're at the hospital, son." "Your parents saved you from drowning and brought you hear as soon as they could" I looked at the parents, they looked like nice people but I don't know who they are. "These aren't my parents, in fact I don't even know these people", I said to the doctor. The mother then gasped and begins to cry, "Tyson it's us!" "Your mom and dad! Don't you remember us?" I took another look at them and shook my head, "I'm sorry but you people don't look familiar at all to me.""Tyson! Don't talk to your father that way!" The mother yells at me with tears. "My name isn't Tyson!" I yelled back. "Son, if you don't mind we'd like for you to lay back down so we can see if there's anything wrong with your memory" the doctor said to me in a calm voice. I didn't want to stay here any longer I just wanted to get out of here and see where I am. There was a window open behind the parents I knew that was the only fast way out of here. I began to run as fast as I could to the window but my legs began to feel numb. I began to fall on my knees aching with pain in my stomach. I began to yell with pain and sorrow. Why is this happening? What's going with me? As I begin to feel more pain I start to black out again as I lay on the floor hearing nothing but white noise. Why does this keep happening to me? My stomach begins to stop aching once I begins to regain consciousnesses again only this time I'm not on a hospital bed but in a bedroom. I look around the room and nobody is here. "Hey you're awake" a voice says in a soft and calm way. I look around the room and finally I see a little girl standing outside of the room with a tray full of food. She looks at me with a blank and boring expression on her face as if she'd never smiled in her life. "Must be a real pain, huh?" She says as she walks towards the bed laying the tray on my lap. I looked at her as if I've seen her somewhere before. "Well? Aren't you gonna eat?" She says as she sits on the bed staring at me. "Um, yeah but who are you?" I said to her. "I guess you don't have his memories huh?" She said in a clam voice. I begin to have chills up my spine. His memories?! Who's memories?! What is she talking about?! "Judging by that shocked look on your face you don't know yet huh?" She says calmly. I begin to get angry, I'm tired if people leaving me in suspense and confusing me. So I grab her by the shirt and pull her to me, "What are you talking about?! Who are you and who's memories are you talking about?! Answer me!" She looks at me unphased my yelling and speaks calmly, "My name is Uxie I'm an archangel who's here to help you." An archangel? Is this some kind of joke?! "You're kidding" "Hardly" she says interrupting me. I begin to let go of her shirt and becomes in shock of all this. "Even though I don't believe that tell me this who's memories are you taking about?" She then sits back down on the bed next to me and looks at me with a serious expression. "Tyson Cloverfield's memories" My stomach begins to ache again and start to feel pain in my head. I start to hyperventilate and I feel like I can't breathe. Uxie comes up to me and starts giving me a hug, as weird as I thought this was it began to help my breathing problem as well as my body. Then I see my body glowing along with Uxie's body as well. I felt scared from all this but I enjoyed it a little and noticed that I felt better. "Does this help prove it now?" She said looking up at me while hugging me. I was confused from what she was talking about. "Your pains went away because I healed you" I was suprised from what she said I almost believed it. "So you really are an archangel.." I said with shock. As soon as she lets go of me I begin to focus my mind on that name again. "Tyson.... that's what those parents kept calling me!" "That's because you are him" Uxie said calmly. It was making sense now. The parents and doctor calling me Tyson. The reason why I was at the hospital. The pains from my body. I'm Tyson Cloverfield! Wait! No! No I'm not! I don't even know who he is or who those parents are! My head starts to hurt more as I begin to yell at Uxie again, "What?! What are you talking about?! I'm not him!" "Oh? If you're not him then who are you?" She asked calmly. "I'm-" I begin to think for a moment and I suddenly I realized it. I don't know who I am. I look down and stare at Uxie. "Just as I thought you completely forgot who you are" she said looking at me with a serious face. "I'm...Tyson Cloverfield?" "Wrong again" she said interrupting me. "You may have his physical appearance and his life but you're not him" "then who am I?" I ask calmly. "You're his substitute" I nearly jumped out of the bed with shock. "A substitute?! Okay okay one crazy thing is enough for today!" "Oh? You don't believe me again?" Uxie said calmly. "Look it's not that I don't believe you it's that I don't want to believe it." "Hm. I see. Well then" she says as she get off the bed and looks at me. "Like I said before I'm here to help you so whether you believe me or not I'm still an archangel and it's my job to help you." I look at her as if she was dead serious. "Just tell me when you're finished eating and I'll be back here to take the tray back" she said as she walked out the room. I looked at tray of food in my lap and felt uneasy. I sighed and decided to pick up the apple that was on the tray and began biting into it. "This isn't happening..." I said softly.

As I finish the food on the tray I hear a knocking on the door. "Son?" A female voice says softly as I turn to see who it was. It was the mother at the hospital, she seems to have a faint smiles on her face. "Is it okay if I come in?" She said. She looked like she'd had lost something deep to her. I knew that I had to be gently with her and play along as her son. "Yeah it's okay...mom" As soon as she heard me call her mom her face smile a little brighter. She then walked to me and sat next to me on my bed. "Tyson, I'm sorry." I looked at her confused maybe she was apologizing for yelling at me or something else I don't remember. "No mom I'm sorry, I don't know what came over me. I'm sorry I yelled at you and dad and I'm sorry for saying some things I regret saying. I guess I was just scared and I woke up from a bad dream. I'm sorry mom." She smiled more as she hugged me tightly, "it's okay Tyson it was just a bad dream that's all." Yeah if only that was true I thought to myself.

The mother then left the room after comforting her hollow shell of a son. The empty room once inhabited by the mother's son now comforts a forgotten child without memories. "It's sad you know?" Uxie said, standing outside the door, catching me by surprise. "Tyson, the one who's body you now substitute, died because of his mother". Those words gave me shiver and I began to think. "Wait" I turned to Uxie while I was laying on the bed, "Are you saying she killed Tyson!?". She looked at me with annoyance in her eyes. "Why must humans be so ignorant?". She walk towards me and took the empty tray that was laying on my lap. "Wait Uxie!" "What is it?" She said stopping in front of the door. "You said you're here to help me right? That you're my archangel?" I said as I got out of bed. "Yes" she said as if she was interested in what I was going to say. "Then help me find out who I was before, before I became Tyson's substitute and also.." I hesitated. She looked at me with patience, waiting to hear my next plea. I looked at her clenching my fist and gulped, "... I want to know why I'm here, why I was chosen to be a substitute for another human being". Her facial expression didn't change by my worried questions instead she walked up to, flicked my forehead and said, "Ignorant human". Then she smiled softly.

It had been a week since that day at the hospital and a day since my first encounter with my archangel, Uxie, and today as my first day of school being Tyson Cloverfield. Uxie came into my room and woke me up. "Wake up. Your first day of official being Tyson starts today." The sunlight from the window began to brighten the room as well as my face. As she said the word school, I started to remember something about school. I of course knew what school is and what happens at school but I had forgotten what my school was like. I had forgotten what classes I had, what school I attended, who my teacher was, how I behaved and most importantly who my friends were. "S-school?" "Yes, school." she said mocking me in a serious tone. " You or better yet, Tyson Cloverfield, attends North West High. You are a junior with average grades mostly A's and B's and you should be eating at the moment." She looks at the digital clock next to my bed, hinting that I should get dressed and ready. She left my room and I began to get ready and eat breakfast. As soon as I left my room to go to the kitchen I began looking around the house. Funny how I've been bedridden for a while and never once have I been outside of my room. "Hey sport howya doing? I hope you're ready for school today. After all you have been absent for quite a while." The father said coming upstairs to greet me. This was the first time the father had spoke to me ever since that day at the hospital. I guess he was still hurt from what I said that day I couldn't blame him it was my doing after all. "Yeah Dad I'm ready for school. I'm just on my way to eat breakfast." His face began to smile after hearing me call him dad. "Well you better hurry up. You don't want your sister to eat everything again, do you?" S-sister? Since when do I have a sister? Uxie never told me that! "Um.. yeah I guess I should." He then pat my shoulder and went upstairs.

The smell of pancakes and bacon began to expand in the air and I was lead by its aroma all the way to the kitchen. "Tyson I see you're finally up! You don't usually wake up this late." The worried mother said as she continues making breakfast. I looked around the kitchen to see where this so-called sister is but all I saw was the mother cooking and Uxie siting at the dining table. I sat next to Uxie to ask her about my mysterious sister since they never mentioned her ever since the day at the hospital.

"Hey Uxie?"

"Yes?"

"Since you know all about Tyson's life then tell me who's my-I mean Tyson's sister?

Uxie sighed and pointed at her chest. "This is his sister, Natalie Cloverfield." I was speechless and never realized it. I had a lot of questions to ask her but I began to match the puzzles together. "In case your human brain can't process fast enough then I guess I'll explain it." She said with grief, "Since I'm your guardian angel I have to be wherever you go. We guardian angels have the ability to take over a body and make contact with the human world." "Whoa! Wait! What about Tyson's sister? Is she dead too?" I ask her worriedly but she continues to explain without looking at me. "At the moment Natalie is currently in hyper sleep while I inhabit this body. After I fulfilled my duty as guardian angel I will ascend back to Heaven and Natalie will wake up from her sleep and believe that it was all a dream."
The power of an archangel must be pretty impressive to do something like that. "I guess that's good to hear."

"Well I guess I better be heading out school now" I said giving the mother my empty plate. "Alright have fun at school sweetie" she said kissing my cheek. "Oh and say hi to Lucy for me" Lucy? Is that someone I'm suppose to know? As we went outside Uxie stop a couple of feet before a girl. She looked about the same age as me. She was wearing a green sweater that was covering her whole body, boots and a beanie. She looked really shy to see me as if I'm a stranger to her and she's being forced to be here. She came with a little boy about the same age as Uxie well I mean Natelie. I tried introducing myself to her since she didn't say anything. "Hi I'm um...Tyson..."
"Um..Hi..." The girl before me said in a shy and soft voice. Uxie looked at me and pointed at the girl."This is Lucy Poleman, your girlfriend."

End of Part 1