Chapter 1

I felt my heart rate increase rapidly as my eyes jerked open, I wasn't fully aware yet, but I knew that the loud bang had come from very close by.

"Mr Williams, I'm sorry did I wake you up?" the voice asked. As my awareness increased, I managed to look up, and saw a gray haired man looming above me. I knew immediately that something was wrong. The information in my mind was still jumbled, but I could tell that it just wasn't right.

A few seconds later, the information in my mind started to organize itself properly. This man was Professor Blayard and he was one of the lectures at the college. What was I doing at college though? I had no time for college today. Something had really gone wrong, but I still had a mission to complete, and that was what I intended to do. At least I seemed to have control of my body, that was always something to be thankful for, after things had been messed up this badly.

"Well actually you did," I replied back to the Professor. "I don't know what the world is coming to, when someone can't get a bit of sleep in peace. I just guess I'll go somewhere else and sleep."

With those words, I stood up and walked out of the room. Ignoring all the gasps and giggles.

Leaning against the wall in the hallway, I tried to collect my thoughts. How was I going to complete my mission now?

"That was so cool," a new voice laughed, as the door that I had just came out of, opened again and a blond haired girl stepped out.

"What?" I mumbled. I really needed to work out a plan, not waste time providing entertainment to the other college inmates.

"I never thought you had it in you, to talk to Blayard like that and then to just walk out," she continued.

"Yeah well I feel like a new me today," I told her, before turning away.

"So what are we going to do?" she asked. What was it with this girl? Didn't she get it that I wanted to be left alone.

"Well I have things that I need to do. So you are going to walk your pretty little butt back into the class room and learn whatever your little brain can soak up," I ordered.

"Wow! Insulting and forceful as well. How come I never saw any of this in you before? We could have been having so much fun," she laughed

I could hardly believe what I was hearing. What was it going to take for her to realize that I wanted her to leave me alone. I didn't have time to waste like this, I had limited time to complete the mission in. I had never failed in a mission yet, and this wasn't going to be my first time.

"Look, I have a lot to do, and really don't have time to have fun today. So could you please just go back into the classroom. I'm sorry if I was insulting," I tired.

"Ah Eric, and just when you were doing so well, and then you have to go and be nice. You still have potential though, so I think I'll tag along with you. Don't think Blayard will let me back in, anyway."

"Well can't you tag along somewhere else with someone else," I shouted.

"See I knew that you could do it," the girl grinned back at me.

"Is there a problem out here?" I heard that other voice from earlier call out, as the classroom door opened once more.

"Well apart from everyone disturbing me, and asking stupid questions, I don't think there are any problems," I answered back and then walked off once more. I knew that I really should have been nicer to these people, but I just wasn't in a good mood. I was never in a good mood when they messed up a mission like this.

"Too cool," the girl called out to me as she ran to catch up me.

What was it going to take for this girl to get the message that I wanted to be alone, I wondered. I then decided that as long as she kept quiet then it wouldn't hurt for her to tag along for now. She might even end up being useful. She was cute as well, with the amount that she had been laughing and grinning at me, I couldn't have avoided noticing the twinkle in her blue eyes or the small dimples that formed in her cheeks. She looked as if she was about 18 or 19, which was a few years younger than myself. The memories told me that her name was Julia.

"Okay, you can come with me for now, but you have to keep quiet unless I say that you can speak," I said in one of my more forceful voices.

"Sure," she grinned back at me. "Do I have to call you Master? And if I want to talk, do I have to say 'Please Master, can this girl talk'?" she continued with the laughter clearly displayed on her face.

I couldn't stop myself from letting out a groan, as I realized that she was one of those girls. Why did those type of girls always seem to be so common in these places. Why did I have to meet one today? They could be lots of fun if I had the time to spare, but I had no time to spare. I knew that I had a better chance of getting rid of her, if I was nice to her, but I just wasn't in the mood to be nice today.

"What have I done to deserve you?" I groaned again and then continued, "How about you just don't say anything, unless I tell you to."

"Well I really didn't feel like taking classes today, so was looking for some excuse to skip them, and well I have always thought you were cute, but you just seemed too much of a mommy's boy for me. But I'm seeing a different side of you today, one that... ," she replied and then stopped when she noticed the stern look on my face, at which point her face broke into another grin. "Sorry Master! I will try better from now on. No talking without your permission."

I was finally starting to form some kind of plan in my mind, so I continued out of the college. I was going to have to find a way to make contact with our tool. We called the person who had been recruited to help us complete our mission, the tool. Of course, he wasn't going to be expecting me to contact him in the way that I was going to have to.

"Wow, what's happening," the voice in my head shouted as we made our way to the subway station.

This was just what I needed. I had expected him to remain asleep for at least another hour or two. I knew from experience that he wouldn't just shut up, but talking to him would just make things a whole lot worse.

"I can't control my body! What is happening?" he continued to shout, which then turned into a whimper.

"Just shut up. You aren't real. You are just part of my imagination," I told him, thinking it was worth a try as sometimes it did work.

"What? Who are you? Give me my body back."

"I'm me," I told him. "It's not your body, it's mine."

"Get out of my body," he shouted once more. I could already tell that this approach wasn't going to work, but I decided to continue trying it for a bit longer.

"It is not your body. My shrink has already told me that I shouldn't talk to you, so just be quiet," I shouted back in a firm voice.

"No it's my body," he cried, "and I've never seen a psychiatrist."

"Just shut up," I shouted back at him, once again.

"You can't steal my..." he cried back. His voice was already starting to break up before he was interrupted by the girl's voice.

"Sorry Master?" she said, and then as I turned to look at her, she continued, "I didn't say anything. Or at least I don't think that I said anything,"

I quickly realized that I had shouted that last sentence out loud.

"Okay, well make sure you don't," I ordered her, quickly covering for myself.

"Masssteeer?" the voice is my head whispered. "What is she doing here, and why is she calling you master?"

"She is my slave. If you start doing as you are told, then maybe I will share her with you," I told him.

"Slave? Julia would never be anyone's slave. Especially not mine."

From the way his voice had gone all shy and nervous, since he had first heard Julia's voice, I decided that a new approach might be worth a try.

"Well she is my slave now. I decided that I needed a slave, so I took her as one. Now as I said if you start being quiet and not bothering me, then I might share her with you. But if you keep annoying me, then you will put me in an even worse mood than I already am. If my mood gets too much worse, who knows what I might end up doing to her."