Chapter 1

You don't know me. I know you.

You see I am the 12th most powerful being in existence.

How did this happen, well you to could reach my lofty position.

All you have to do is to Eat Shit and Die.

Back in 1994 I was climbing a mountain, alone, and really it was a big hill more than a mountain. But I was humming to myself, a little Boys II Men - I'll make love to you, as I was thinking of my girlfriend. She was supposed to meet me here and we would climb together, but her best friend had a car accident and she was heading to the hospital.

I was about 2/3 of the way up after about 45 minutes when I kicked a rock and it hit something making what sounded like a clear bell sound and ricocheted off into the woods on the side of the trail. Wondering what it hit I walked over and searched for what ever it was, because I wasn't looking very closely when I kicked the rock it was not obvious what it hit, so I started checking in an area about 5 feet square.

After about 10 minutes I thought to give up and move on when I noticed a sparkle, something like a tiny sun lit up in my peripheral vision. Bending over to look at it, I stepped on something that twisted my ankle and I fell right on top of the sparkly thing. I hit it with my mouth open because I was yelling as I fell.

When my teeth hit it, it seemed like a supernova went off in my head, a big one, not one that would be from our puny sun, which although many scientist do not think it could ever go supernova, it can, you just have to add more mass to it, which by the way we will in about 33,000 years from say Tuesday.

I blacked out.

I woke up about 12 minutes later, ok, it was 12 minutes and 42 seconds. My head was no longer throbbing but I could tell that something was different. One, I could hear EVERYTHING, a bee 11 feet, 4 inches away going from one spotted coralroot to another. Another bee about 30 feet away loading up its legs with pollen from a calupso bulbosa plant. I could hear the stream of water that was underneath my feet over 192 feet below. I could hear an airplane passing over head over 32,000 feet above me. Two, I could see as well, yes I could see before the trip and fall but now I could see EVERYTHING in much more detail, the bees I could see and watch them effortlessly loading their sacs with pollen. I could see the pistils and stamens of the plants, I could see the trees and the leaves and see the sunlight absorbed by the leaves. Looking back over my shoulder, I was able to make out the airplane and see it was a McDonnell-Douglas DC-10, I could see the rivets on it as easy as you can see the back of your hand. Looking up into the sky, just by thinking about it, I was able to look past our atmosphere into the darkness of space. I could make out the rings of Saturn and see a few of its moons b their shadows.

My hearing was far better as well, those bees? I could hear the wings flapping, the leaves rustling, no problem. The DC-10 had a bearing on one of its turbofans that I could hear from here, it would need maintenance at it's next stopping point.

Touching my hand to my mouth and then my teeth, I could detect I had chipped my front tooth's enamel, rubbing my finger over it, I felt the chip disappear as I thought about it. Thinking that I merely had something stuck to my tooth I just rubbed off, I thought nothing of it, until I rubbed my hand over my palm where I had a scratched it trying to catch myself falling. Imagine my surprise that when I rubbed my hand over the palm, the scratches disappeared, in fact with my enhanced sight, I was able to see the skin repair itself. Having a few bumps and dents from years of sports, I rubbed my hands over the rest of my body, I watched dead skin cells slough off, and clean fresh skin show up underneath. Thinking it would be nice to have a tan to help protect my new skin from the sun, I was amazed to see my skin darken as well as I moved my hands around. Stopping, I thought about it instead and was glad to see I could do it with a thought, I did not want to have seems on my skin when I tried to match the tanned parts with the untanned parts.

Looking around I thought that I should really try to find whatever it was that caught my eye, and with my enhanced sight it was easy to see, it looked like an ordinary chip of rock, however my nose picked up a faint odor. Picking it up, I was at once surprised at how heavy it was, this chip that was much smaller then the fingernail on my pinky was heavier then a large car. In fact it was about 4 tons. Looking around to see if I could see anything like it, I used my enhanced sight and smell but could not find any other pieces.