The reality chapter 2: languages lost and found
"Hello, their Kyoga it's nice to meet you." Said the man dressed in a black suit. "my name is Ren Fairview." He said moments later.
"Oh my god, someone who can speak English, just when I thought I was going to forever doomed of no one knowing!" I said happily I almost could not keep the excitement in.
A man followed him into the room and sat down two chairs one the size for a normal adult and one sized for a child of my age, Ren took his seat and then put down a few folders on the table. I took the seat that was opposite of him and I gave a good look at him he seemed to be a fox like me, but just red with a red tail black ring with a white tip the average looking red fox. I was quite curious as what was in the papers considering the one of the words on the front stated English. The man opened up the folder and sat it down in front of me and pointed to a picture of me.
"I believe that is you there in the photo, I apologize no one has been able to speak to you since you have first awoken, it had taken me awhile to travel here after the word that they needed me came," said Ren.
I replied swiftly. "That's fine I guess the doctors helped me regain the basic motor controls after I first awoke in this new body would you be able to explain to me what happened to me and why I am like this though, I have been craving answers for quite some time now and to be honest I could not come up with an answer myself."
Ren stated. "Well, we found you in cryostasis, each cryostasis container is dated of when they were put under, your pod was dated on 2055, when your body was put into the stasis it just felt like you were sleeping 1945 years later the apocalypse wipe our your kind the humans three hundred years later us Henoids came into existence sentient animals, since you had nothing to do with the apocalypse those you don't need to know much about it if you want to know more you can read a book. As well I believe you have noticed that your limbs and paws do look quite a bit different from the rest of us during the gene therapy the changing had a small amount of differences making your appearance to be a bit more feral to us."
I definitely had a lot to think about there was one more thing I wanted to know something I needed to know. "Did I have any personal belonging in the cryostasis, like jewelry a wallet pictures?" I asked.
Ren nodded that I did he put down the wallet that belonged to me so many years ago, I opened it up there was my credit card about $1000 dollars in my wallet, I thought to myself who carries that much money on them I searched through every compartment of my wallet until I found what I was looking, there was the picture of me and my best friend Lex sitting right next to me was my girlfriend Kiara. I turned the picture around to find that there was something taped onto the back it was my gold necklace that I used to wear and words written on the back of it saying. "My dearest Kyo, I know having cancer is hard on your body but I want you to know I will always be by your side, no matter what happens to us because as your song goes we still have not done the things we promised to, I told you I would always love you, now take my hand lets make our final stand, Love Kiara." I smiled a bit and tears welled up in my eyes cancer yes that was the reason I paid to have myself into cryostasis because it was incurable at the time and I did not want all the chemotherapy, I was really selfish. Ren moved over to me and patted me on the back.
"Ok, enough reminiscing now we have to start studying." Ren said as he was pulling out some large books.
I opened one of them up and looked what was inside it was a dictionary with English and the now spoken language known as Noi, he said something in the Noi language to the person who had been standing there and they came over to me and attacked a collar around my neck with a speaker on it by the looks of it and a small tablet that I could easily carry on my person, that were if I had pockets. I began to read over some of the other pages he had given me using the tablet I was provided I typed in thank you on the screen and soon after the collar had spoken it in the Noi language. Ren stood up and nodded his head to the other person as they had left.
"From here on your my student and I will be helping you learn our language and our customs until then this is your room and you need to learn how to use that device there I made sure to list a few phrases to get peoples attention for certain things so don't be afraid to use it." Ren said as he left the room.
Awhile later my final meal of the day was brought to be and I was practicing using the device. I said thank you and asked for assistance with the now soggy diaper I was wearing. Once they were finished they patted me on the head and left. They really did know how to make people feel small instead of treating them their actual age. About an hour after I was done eating I finally memorized how to input all the words and phrases he gave me into the device, right after I had felt so accomplished someone came into my room and turned off the lights. I sighed I guess it was bedtime already just when things finally started to get interesting, I laid there thinking of what was going to be next where was I going to be going from here I reached the old wallet of mine and grabbed the gold chain, staring at it for a few minutes gazing at its beauty I then put it on, it had a strange feeling to it, I was no longer used to wearing it. A few moments passed by my eyelids had begun to get heavy, and I began to drift off to the world of dreams my paradise.
I awoke from sleep to the curtains in my room being open I did not even realise I had them until now. A big man who seemed to be a bull put down a dresser in the room, I was excited to finally get to wear clothes instead of just being in a diaper the whole time. After the man left I ran over to the dresser and opened up the first drawer, It had a bunch of shirts in it blues ones, green ones, even a light yellow even though I was not so fond of it I just wanted a plain black shirt, but I guess the blue one would have to do, I grabbed the blue one and put it on my bed. I opened the next drawer up and there were pants and shorts in there, I grabbed the matching blue ones and set them onto my bed as well. I opened up the last two drawers, which had 3 things in them thin daytime pull up diapers thick nighttime diapers and socks. I smiled new that I was finally getting some privacy with being able to change myself for once instead of having someone else doing it. There was a light knock on the door, I looked over and waited no one came in. Then they knocked again I got dressed quickly and grabbed the tablet, I quickly typed something in on it saying that it was ok for them to come in.
Ren opened and stepped through the doorway holding a tray with my morning meal on it. Ren seemed happy today yesterday he looked like he was having a hard time. He sat the meal down on a small table that was there for me. I quickly devoured my meal, Ren shaking his head as if he were disapproving of me doing it so fast. We then began the lessons for language as well as a small portion of history and some laws for the outside world. Later after my lessons were finished for the day Ren had told me about how my tablet also had a shopping application on it, though I did know I had no money he also told me the current government had set aside a large sum of money for me, but anything I wanted would have to be approved by the certain members of the faculty. After he had left I jumped right onto that application and began browsing it.
I was looking in there for a few hours I had a decent list of hair care products, body washes, a claw trimmer, scissors, and I could not find the last thing I wanted so I put the list aside and went for a walk. I went down to The floor I had first awoken in and looked for the nurse that I was always around on that floor, she looked and me and smiled.
"What do you need hon?" said Suzy as she tilted her head a little.
I replied by typing in on my device. "I was using this shopping portal, its kind of hard to understand with my little vocabulary, I'm looking for an instrument."
She then opened up the exact same screen I had on my tablet and with a few clicks of her mouse she was on a giant selection with a bunch of instruments on it. We searched for a few minutes until I spotted the perfect acoustic guitar, she looked at the rest of my list and she checked everything off smiling happy she got up from her desk and kneeled down beside me she said something I could not understand It was only my second day of learning the language so I gave her a puzzled look she hugged me and lightly pushed me out her office. I got the picture she wanted me to return to my room so I went back to my room and sat there for an hour or so there was scrap paper and pencils in my room so I was taking my thoughts turning them into lyrics and attempting to compose a new song that I could sing to occupy myself. Then a few moments after I had started the door opened and everything I had ordered was already here they unpacked everything for me after they were done I set all the boxes and garbage by the door. I picked up my guitar for the fist time and plucked every string one by one, it was already tuned I was excited. I grabbed the pick that came with it and started to play one of the songs I wrote long ago. It was not soon after that a lot of the doctors and nurses gathered outside of my room, at this point I had not even started to sing yet I was quite surprised at that fact after I finished my I could hear quite a few of them praising me for playing so well. I could not help but blush at the fact that they loved it so much it just made me want to play more. I continued to play for a few hours ate and then went to bed. My next few months went about the same routine, my speech started to get better and then I was able to make a few songs in the spoken language, though he still could not speak it without the voice box, One day though a new face peaked its way into my room it was a man who seemed to brim with authority, he came in with Ren one day while I was doing my studies. Ren left afterwards and he remained there I sat there and waited for him to do something.
"Are you without something to do?" The jet-black wolf said in a deep voice.
Using my tablet, I replied. "Well, I do have things I could do but I was not sure if I should ignore that you are here."
"I am the headmaster of Udatain Academy, my name is Rolf Jones, I would like to see what you do in your spare time." He said quite politely.
I nodded and then went over and grabbed my guitar strummed a few notes and then began to play the song. The notes flowed through the air I began to hum with the tune about thirty seconds went by and then I started to vocalise.
"I have never felt this way before, not until today the blowing through my hair, the adrenaline pump I took my leap of faith I never thought I would see this day, now come on let me hear you say it please, spread your wings and fly with me jump come on and skydive with me, come on by now you should know that you bring me to my knees." I stopped playing set the guitar on the stand carefully and took at the paper and pencil I was using to write a song. I looked at Rolf
"The song is not yet complete, it's also in English but I have been writing a rough draft and from there ill be doing some changes to the lyrics and chords, after that I'll have another song to add to the list of the ones I have written." Typing all that in swiftly on the tablet.
The headmaster had beckoned me to stand in front of him I did as I was told did not want to leave a bad impression of myself
"Stand straighter, paws behind your back, head up, eyes on me, in the upcoming months, I will be the one in charge of your well being and I expect you to be well behaved we have very strong discipline at the academy, breaking any of the rules you will be punished for it." He told me in a stern voice.
He turned and walked out of the door leaving me to my own. I could not believe how nice he was when he first started talking to me and then he ends up being a jerk, I guess when you have power you can afford to be two faced like that. I began to put the pen to the paper and continued my work on the song, after giving a sigh I put the paper away and brought out the workbooks for my speech and vocabulary and began to study, even though I hated to be the one to be a good student I had no choice or else I would ruin my own life this time instead of some disease. A month or two had passed since I first met that the headmaster of the academy I was wondering what kind of place it was if people would accept someone like me. When Ren came in to help me with my studies today he took my tablet and started to change the settings the keyboard on the screen was now in the Koi language setting, Ren had completely stopped speaking in English to me except when I was having a hard time understanding him, because now and then he would talk fast, I notice he would also be very strict now of my behaviour if I were not perfect and proper he would end up yelling at me. It was quite a drag for everything to have to be going so serious for me now, after all I was still a child in body but not in mind although the younger side of me did have its moments. I finished everything up for the day and went to sleep it was good to relax.
Tonight was the last night I was going to be here, for tomorrow I would be off to that new school to further my education in the new society what was ok to do and not ok to do. I could say that I was pretty excited I heard from Ren that they did have a good music program even though I was already pretty adept in that area. I was finally able to start to speak the Koi language to without the tablet and speaker just small things though and even then I would stumble over some of the words, but when I did the nurses just giggle or say aww at me and rub my head because I was just "too cute" for them. My last meal came and I thought back to when I first woke up which was I could say a good 10 to 11 months ago as I was eating though I remembered how nice and helpful everyone was to me even babying me quite a bit although I did not like it the food here was pretty good too although not like I had gotten to try the food from anywhere else. After I finished eating I began to snip away at my hair it had gotten long enough again that it was getting in the way of my eyesight, not being a professional hair dresser and all it looked like I'd done a good job. I began to pack my things leaving out a night time diaper and a daytime one as well, as well as a set of clothes, I made sure to get a guitar case so I would not have to carry the bulky thing in my arms the whole time it even came with a place to, but a guitar stand for the case it was quite awesome if I do say so myself. I played a few notes on it hummed a tune and got lost in the melody, it was quite nice to be lost in music time just seems to fade away when I did it. It felt like only a few minutes later till the knocking on my door and the words that it was bedtime till I put away the guitar and laid down in my bed. My head was racing with what was going to be going on tomorrow, just thinking of what was happening was making me nervous and excited, going to be in a new place but finally getting a chance to see the outside world, I heard multiple times that hospitals were the only place with technology like this everything else was very downgraded or so I was told. I did not get much sleep that night due to all the thoughts that were going into my head.
