Draqus Right Shaky Road To Humanity

Draqu's Right Shaky Road To Humanity

Once upon a time in a huge metropolis called Danville, Va. there lived a young 15 year-old boy who was named Draquadney. His parents chose that name for him because they wanted him to have a unique name that none of the other kids had. Well, they succeeded. His friends called him Drack. Since his folks had such high expectations for him, they kept getting disappointed with his behaviors, so he became primarilly a loaner shunning all of his friends.

Then one fateful night while he was coming home from his neighbor, Frank's house he had a really unfortunate thing happen to him. As he cut behind his next-door neighbor's house getting home, a bat chased him since he was so close to it's nest. Yet he tripped on a log he didn't see since it was night-time and ended up getting bitten. That wouldn't have been so bad, except that it was a vampire bat. That meant he would become one himself since that's the rules of the game. Now, the silly animal had gotten lost since it was exiled from his flock because he didn't like being a meet-eating mammal that flew instead of running on the ground like all the others. He also had lost his only glasses his optometrist had given him, which was rare since bat optometrists are quite hard to find. It's not a good field to be in since most of them are, as they say, "blind as a bat." Yet he loved playing baseball which was the only way he could be, "outstanding in his field." He also had a hard time, in spite of just wanting to be, "the bat-boy." That was how his life went.

Draqu lead a lifestyle which was quite different from any of his friends and family. For starters, he could only come outside at night-time so he got a job as a custodian in a nightclub called 2 Witches then, "which-is" located on Old Riverside Drive. His best friend, Laurence, happened to have his own weird behaviors. For starter, he didn't like being out on any full-moon and he hated seeing anybody with clothes made from wolf skins because he didn't like them to, "were-wolf." Still, Draqu had his own problems.

His parents noticed his odd behavior when he started not wanting to sleep in his bed. Rather he began sleeping in a box, when he didn't even like watching any kind of, "boxing matches" on t v. Yet he had begun lighting a fire in the big fire place for light with matches because he could not find anybody who had his problem who could, "match-'is" lifestyle. He also was more tired then usual during the day and kept wanting to take naps after school, which was something he hadn't done since he was a baby. The difference was that he was staying up later at night after everybody else in the house had gone to bed then wanted to sleep during the daytime. That wouldn't have been so bad, except that the way he took naps was to hang upside-down in his bedroom. His daddy was quite perturbed at how his son had been behaving, but his mom said, "Don't worry, dear, it's probably just a phase he's going through. You know how teenagers act kind of peculiar sometimes."

Draque was questioning his own humanity about how he would continue living that kind of lifestyle every night. He hated hearing any kind of wolfbain, or wolf-baying at the moon any night time. He had also been telling his parents that he had been studying so hard to get good grades in school he said Sunday mornings and Wednesday evenings were the main times he could take to work on his thesis and then studying for his tests. That might have been a little more believable if he wasn't getting Es and Fs in all his subjects. He told his parents they were for Excellent and Fantastic. The As stood for Awful, B was for bad, C was for could do better and that D was for dandy. Yet that raised their eyebrows way more then a little bit.

His parents questioned his humanity when they heard him tell them those words. Besides that, his nose kept on growing so big he couldn't get his shirt off to bathe which meant he was becoming more then just a little bit stinky to say the least. When he sneezed the mucus in his nose bathed 3/4s of the room since he couldn't cover it all.

His parents were so disappointed in him they both just shook their heads and then sadly walked out of the room while sadly shaking their heads since their hearts had been broken. His older brothers and sisters were all honor role students who had made something of their lives by becoming doctors, lawyers, college professors and business executives. Then there was Drac. The saddest part about him was he kept on smiling as if he'd also been quite successful in life. His parents didn't say anything, but the expressions on their faces said more then any words could have ever expressed verbally. If looks could kill, they would have definitely both been 2 murderers.

As Drac walked out of the room, he tripped over his lower lip. That caused him to fall on the floor. Yet neither of his parents offered to help him stand up. Their mouths had both turned from u shapes right into n shapes. You could say the corners were facing South instead of North.

As he sadly walked out the front door, they said in unison, "I wish Drac was smart like all the other offspring in our happy family!" then they sadly went upstairs to bed.

Yet as they slept, the weirdest thing happened. A bolt of lightening struck Drac. That was kind of odd, especially considering the fact that there wasn't a cloud in the sky. What made it even more unusual was the fact that it hit him inside of his bedroom right in his bed. That kind of thing doesn't happen very often. In fact, the last time was, well, never. Yet for whatever reason, it happened to him.

His parents felt the electricity flowing throughout the whole house. In fact, they were positive Drac had been zapped by it and that he was most certainly dead. His mom stood up to go check on him, but then his daddy stopped her by saying, "There's too much electricity in the air. The radio active power is not safe for us to go there."

Then she said, "Yeah, but what about Drac? Maybe he got struck by that lightening! Uh, well, on second thought, it's probably too dangerous to go there like you said, dear."

Drac was knocked out-cold by the bolt of lightening. It took a while for him to come to, but when he finally did, he could tell there was something weird in the room, even though there was no telling exactly what had changed.

The next morning when they were getting their kids up for school, Drac looked somewhat different. His skin looked like it had been burned to a crisp. His hair was glowing brightly and stood straight up, but nobody said anything to him about any of that. As they dropped him off at school, his sivlings went to their classes, not paying Drac any mind whatsoever, but when he got to his first period class, which happened to be calculus, which is the hardest kind of math to learn, he aced every problem. The same thing happened in every other subject. He got all 100s on every test. Then he amazed his history teacher by quoting he whole chapter with no pauses. He did the same with chemistry and all the others. He also did them in 3 minutes. It took everybody else almost 40 minutes to complete the test. At the end of the day, his last period sociology teacher took him to the principle's office and told him how much he knew. Then he gave the principle some advice on which stocks to invest his money in and several ways to deal with his family-problems. Within 2 weeks he'd skipped 3 grades and was at Princeton, University, one of the finest colleges in the country, making straight As. All the professors said he was a phenomenon. He ended up graduating and getting his p. h. d. in a class called Thinkollogy, which hadn't even been invented until he got there. Needless to say, he had girls flocking to his dorm every spare moment. He eventually ended p marrying one of them, who later blessed the Earth with some extremely smart, athletic children who were also not only whiz-kinds, but really strong and won several Olympic meddles, and so, like the best-written stories of all-time will officially finish up with,

"THEY ALL LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER !!!!"

----------------------------------------- By, Cuz Roye.