Manehatten Blues

When your life is based around the wants and expectations of your superiors, you begin to understand that life is an absolute waste of energy and start to blame others for your own misfortunes.  After barely graduating high school, I was BOMBARDED by endless questions of 'When are you going to college', 'Have you applied for college' , or listening to enough stories about college to the point that I could have made an entire vocabulary about college.

I've even had to sit through a pointless lecture from my mom about her not even being able to finish college, I often wonder what would have happened if I told her "Well, that's your problem", to see if she would lose her mind because her younger son started developing the free will to figure shit out on his own.  Sadly I didn't have the spine to tell her I knew life would throw me in a meat grinder so I simply told her the only sensible words to live by "Respect is earned" and when she demanded where I heard it I played dumb and said I didn't know.  Have I mentioned that when I started to drift apart from her (as most teenagers do)  she sent me to a shrink?  It's almost sad I could see her doing it at the tender age of seven then when I started high school, I just stopped caring about anything that made other peoples  life better than the person sitting next to them plus being a depressing outcast gives you a certain perspective in high school.

Fast forward the boring assemblies that insulted everyone's intelligence and rules that treated everyone like they were still in middle school I was able to graduate while saving up on reasonable funds, however a strange event happened that still makes me wonder if I'm high or dreaming.  On September 25th 2015, a portal suddenly appeared ripping apart half of L.A. and sending the U.S. into another state of mass panic.  Were we being invaded by aliens who were going to sue NASA for using their spaceship designs?  Was it another earth were our evil twins dwelled?  or perhaps the future United States wanting to warn us about an impending nuclear holocaust?  Even my eyes were glued to the TV as a group of "People" walked through the bright doorway, declaring peace and apologizing for  the disturbance as it was miscalculation from their scientists. Just when I thought I had a complete understanding of the human race,  another race wipes out half of a cities inhabitants an apologized for it.

Though the seven manned group walked on two legs, they weren't exactly human, for starters they had tails, they weren't reptilian but were made of actual hair!  And since they didn't have hazmat suits,  they each had their own distinct features but I'm no good at describing shit so I'll settle for the crash course.  Three had wings and were wearing the type of leather armor you would wear in Skyrim, the other three had horns on their foreheads and wore what seemed to be wearing lab coats but the striking figure of the group was the seventh member who was surrounded by the six but taller, had both wings and a horn but was paler than snow.

On the top of her head was a gold tiara with a diamond shaped amethyst in the center, she also wore a white dress equivalent to a wedding gown that hugged her slender figure and stitched in the center of the dress was a tribal orange  sun, my guess she was the big cheese of whatever civilization that made the portal.