REVERSED

I ran to my mom's room then woke her up.

She was tired and confused as I kept yelling,"John!"In my new voice, which was so deep, it was almost inaudible, except for my roars and howls.

She asked what I was talking about till I said,"John! He's a level 7 anti Chromosapien, he can turn back time at a place or on a single person!"

"I don't understand."

"He can bring dad back to life!"

She widened her eyes then asked,"Son, what are you implying?"

"That this John character can reverse time on dad to the day he died so he wouldn't have to die."

"Isn't that dangerous? Like, wouldn't it have some kind of butterfly effect?"

"That's exactly the thing, there will be no catastrophic effects!"

She looked at me for a few seconds then she said,"Take me to him..."

***

John lived in the camp so we didn't have to travel far, but the people in the camp weren't used to seeing the hottest and favourite teacher as an ugly monster which looked like a gorilla, bat, warthog and snake hybrid.

John, who was a teacher, gladly met us. He was such a jolly fellow.

We told him what we wanted then he said,"It will take a few days for me to recuperate."

"We will give you anything."I said.

"But what about yourself?"He asked.

"What do you mean?"

"Do you like looking like a monster?"

"Excuse me?!"My mom yelled angrily,"My son is not..."

"Mom please calm down and... you really think you can change me back?"

"Of course I can, if I can do it for your dad, why can't I do it for you? It's the least I can do."

"Do for what?"I asked.

"Your dad has done a lot for me, but I want to help you...oh boy."

I already knew why, but my mom didn't.

Everyone walked to the edge of the camp and saw hundreds of people protesting enlightened people, and getting even more scared about the monster they were hoarding.

The people were holding signs, torches, clubs and everything that made a mob a mob.

We had to hurry.

We went to the cemetery and took my dad's body out. We told John to do it but he hesitated.

"What's wrong?"My mom asked.

"It's just, I can't reverse time for the both of you at the same time, so you have to choose which of you I should do."

My mom and I looked at each other...

***

The crowd was angry and they were yelling curses and insults at the students, till someone stepped in front of them...

The people all calmed down when they saw the tall, handsome and very famous male character in front of them; me...

They knew who I was and I used my Hydro Boom to say,"People, please, I know you don't trust enlightened people anymore because of what you saw on the news, but that wasn't their fault, they were being controlled by a man who wanted to start world war III. It's just due to the actions of some brave enlightened people that he was stopped."

Someone from the crowd shouted,"Power like this shouldn't be placed in the hands of men!"

"Maybe..."I said,"But it is, and that's why we are training those people to control it."

"But what if they decide to use them for evil?"Another person asked.

"Then we have the ones who would use them for good to protect you, please, we are just humans, like you, just because we have some special abilities doesn't mean we can't be trusted, what about the ones related to you? Your brothers, sisters, parents, friends and the like."

The people didn't speak again, then slowly started to disperse.

I let out a sigh of relief that we didn't have to kick them out, and an even bigger sigh of relief that I was me again, I loved myself but I loved my dad more, and couldn't wait to get him back.

John was unconscious at the moment and we had to give him lots of concentrated glucose to prevent his death from exhaustion, so I wondered how that boy was able to do it to Principal Phyllis without this same problem, unless the water didn't experience that part?

Now my life was out of danger, so as those around me, I could get back to my old life again, or, almost. I still needed my dad back.

There were times I wished John could bring Alex back too, but, judging by what had happened to him for reversing a month, what about what would happen to him for reversing a year? He might've even died before reaching that far.

I continued teaching and my relationship with Anneliese grew stronger, but the trust in enlightened humans grew thinner, people all around the world were protesting, attacking and wrongfully accusing enlightened humans of crimes they didn't commit.

I didn't want this to be the world that my dad was coming back to meet, but this was it.

I was most worried for the next generation of enlightened humans, the younger and most vulnerable ones, if they were attacked, it would be a lot of bad news...

The day came for John to bring back my dad, so he did, or at least, tried, something was wrong...