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Chapter 2 : AMNESIA

JASON NOOO! Elera screamed as she ran over to him. "Don't touch him" the cafe keeper warned, "look, the lightning storm has stopped and that Implies that what just happened now, was because of him. Touching him and getting yourself involved is not a good idea" he explained. Elera replied him "we can't just stand and do nothing" "we have to, at least until all these weird sparkles of electricity stop coming out of his body. none of us would be any good to him, if we died trying to touch him in his current state" he said as he watched another jolt of electricity, surged out of his body. Eight hours later the surging of electricity stopped and he was rushed to the hospital... On getting there Elera called Jason's family, when they arrived, they asked her what happened and she told them. Twenty-four hours later the doctor came out looking confused. That's not a good news face Elera thought as he approached them. "Doc tell us what's going on, has anything happened to our son?" Jason's parents asked. "I don't know" the doctor replied. "he's waking up, your faces should be the first he sees. if he suffered anything in his brain as an effect of the excess electricity, seeing familiar faces would serve as a reboot for his brain" "OK So, why the confused look on your face" Elera asked him. And the doctor replied "well he's waking up" the doctor said but seeing that they didn't understand the doctor then proceeded to explain, "if I hadn't treated patients who said they were injured during a strange lightning storm attack myself, I would not have believed. Because for someone who was reported to have been actually struck by lightning, he doesn't look the part. He should be charred beyond recognition but instead if at all this is possible, I would say he got more healthy than he was." The doctor said. They got to his bed minutes before he woke up and when he did he asked "where am I?" his mother answered "you are in the hospital, dear. Am glad you're all right". "A hospital... what am I doing in a hospital and...." Jason was saying as his mother walked up to him to sit by his bed side and stretch her hands to hold him. He withdrew from her then completed his sentence.. "Who are you? All of you?" he said and everybody's mouth, including the doctor's dropped wide open. Elera rushed forward and grabbed him .. "Jason it's me, it's me your angel, I was with you earlier today.... Please tell me you remember me" she pleaded with tears rolling down her eyes "I cannot, untop of all this handle you forgetting me." she said. And Jason replied "I'm sorry, I really am but I don't remember any of you" "doctor did any of the other patients struck by lightning show any signs of memory loss?" Jason's father asked. "so far mister Orji, your son is the only patient brought in here today who is reported to have been actually struck by lightning. The patients here sustained their injuries from stampede, falling debris and other common ways you would expect in a situation like that" the doctor replied. "You said you ran test, and his results where clean" Elera in frustration, yelled at the doctor "I did, I ran every test, I can assure you he is clean. As a doctor and a family friend I am telling you that there is nothing medically wrong with your son" the doctor assured "but there is something obviously wrong, the boy doesn't remember his family! I believe that's called amnesia, which means something is wrong with his brain, did you test his brain?" Jason's father asked "this is his CAT scan results on my computer.. . It shows nothing, no sign of any abnormality in his brain activity" the doctor said calmly, as he showed them his computer. Then something crossed his mind, he turned to Elera and asked "tell us again Dear.... What exactly happened, don't leave any detail out". Elera reluctantly told them everything from when she called till when they got to the hospital, Jason listened too... It hurt him to see all this people hurting, because he couldn't remember them. When she finished the doctor asked "so the storm stopped exactly after he was struck?" "yes" Elera confirmed.

The doctor took a deep breathe then addressed Jason's parents "Mr and Mrs Orji" he said then continued "as a medical practitioner I swore an oath to save lives to the best of my ability, however way I can. And sometimes that involves going out of my comfort zone to do it, I know you're not religious people so it will be difficult to explain but I have to, for Jason's sake. last year, my daughter broke her spinal cord in a fatal auto accident, I myself diagnosed that she would never walk again, last week she won the award for the best female athlete in her school." "how is that possible" , Elera asked "good, question" the doctor replied, then continued "a month after her accident we were at a mall shopping, when we met this man... Ezekiel he called himself ; he knelt down and grabbed my daughter's hand and to my utter Amazement, my daughter stood up right before my eyes... I told him to name his price for what he did for my daughter but he said to me 'I am a prophet and freely I was given, so freely I will give in return... Even if I wasn't giving freely, for this little princess I would make an exception' I collected his contact and I invited him for dinner with my family And that evening Ezekiel opened my eyes to a whole new world, where the spiritual which is superior to the physical is as real as any of us standing in this room. He told me that something has happened that will make the world a whole lot stranger than it is, that he was here to help, and that if I come across anything that is beyond what I can handle, I should reach out to him. I think your son's problem is spiritual and with your permission I'll ask him to come and help." the doctor concluded. Jason's father thought about it for a moment then said "I don't trust this ezekiel character, but I trust you with my son's life doctor, please do whatever it takes." so the doctor contacted Ezekiel the prophet and They all left the room to let Jason rest before the prophet arrived. As Jason was about to close his eyes to sleep, he saw a hooded figure emerge slowly from the ground, till all of his body was visible. Jason sat up, In fear stuttered as he asked "Who are you?" the figure replied "you know, you've been asking that question alot today... I am the reason you don't remember your family and I have come to warn you, about their plan." Jason's heart pounded in rage... "why would you take away my memory, do you know what you have done!" Jason asked him "trust me boy" the figure said as he pulled back his Hood to reveal his face... He was an old white man with an unnaturally blue eyes "it's for your own good, what you're meant to do will be made a whole lot easier without your past holding you back" he said. And Jason replied "this past you speak of, are my family". The figure pressured "then if not for your good; think of their own good, their safety.... If you love them... Or think you do, you will not go through with their plan to restore your memory, because if you do, I will kill every one of them slowly and painfully. Consider your choice carefully : get back your memories and lose your family or stay as you are and ensure their safety. Decide quickly, the prophet arrives soon, your time is short." the figure warned as He melted back into the ground and Jason woke up. He had been dreaming, he exhaled as beads of sweat rolled down his face, he lied back down and thought of what had just happened.


To be cont'd.