I didn't always know what I am. But I always knew I was different from the people I lived amongst. I grew up in an orphanage, an outcast by outcasts. Then when I was in junior high I was adopted by kind parents, but even they did not quite know what to do with me. I often woke in the night from nightmares I could never remember, and sometimes in the midst of the day I would space out and just stand still, as though my mind was somewhere else. Another strange thing was that I never came down with anything, like the chicken pox, measles, or even the cold. I was a creative teen, given that I didn't fit in with society I wrote and illustrated worlds of my own. Then when I turned 18, everything changed.
In senior year I started having dreams that were more realistic than the waking world. It was only later that I learned that these were genetic memories. You see I wasn't sired by a man, but by something else. My mother was seduced by a being from elsewhere. More accurately, a multi-dimensional entity. They are what primitive cultures called gods, spirits, demons, or faeries. My father was one of these, and had once been known as the Etruscan mountain god Albinus. How could a nonhuman breed with a mortal? My memories tell me that the energy of a god can alter matter, thus modifying DNA to allow conception. So that makes me a demi-god. I know you've heard of others that sound like they had the same origin; but I'm not Jesus, because I have a different father. I was named John by the people who took care of me after my mom died in labor, but my true name is something I inherited from my sire: Olodarin.
When I look in the mirror I see what everyone else sees, a rather ordinary face, my Caucasian skin scattered with freckles, and my long curly hair hangs in a brown ponytail below my shoulders. But when I open my third eye, I perceive my essential nature, which is quite different. My skin is olive marbled with hints of green, my hair auburn, and perhaps strangest of all, amethyst eyes. That comes from my godly father. I only look that way when I express my genetic heritage. That is when I begin to do things no human can.
Soon after I had my dreams, I was taken by surprise one day. Walking across the main street I saw a food delivery van rolling from the right, and at the same time two ten year old kids stepped out from between parked cars into the lane. I knew the driver wouldn't have time to swerve. With a flash of instinctual thought, I somehow appeared right in front of the vehicle with my arms outstretched. The barreling van ran right into me, but I hardly felt it, and it was as though my feet were melded with the pavement. There was a crunching sound of the metal of the grill under my hands as the huge vehicle ground to a halt. The kids were dumbstruck, and so was I. Then I realized how I looked to them and the driver. Without any further thought, I ran away from it all. I did not want to be different. But I could not fight the fact that I was inhuman.