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He thought of calling his mother but he did not know how he had come to be in Italy as before he had arrived he was walking down an alleyway in the heart of Melbourne after he had got off from school and before he headed home he wanted to catch up with some mates in the city and that is when he began walking down the street which leads him here as ordinary as the street was it led him to a place he had to fight for his life and his body had evolved.

He decided to call his mum as she would have alerted the police of his disappearance by now and they would be looking for him so he could not just show back up like nothing happened so he dialled his mum and waited, he did not even know if she would pick up as it was sure to be night in Australia.

To his surprise, someone picked up

"Hello who is this," said the voice distort and weary.

"Hey mum it's me"

"William is that you. where are you are you ok. You're not hurt are you" she said as she sobbed into the phone.

"no mum I'm ok a little worse for wear but ok non the less"

"where are you the police will come and get you as soon as they know where you are"

"well, that's the thing, mum... I think I'm in Italy" as he said that he realised how stupid it sounded and was waiting to be yelled at by his mother for joking at a time like this.

he was right "HOW CAN YOU JOKE AT A TIME LIKE THIS YOU HAVE BEEN MISSING FOR FOUR DAYS, TELL ME WHERE YOU ARE RIGHT NOW"

he held the phone away from his head as he know that was coming as she could never keep her cool and who would blame her in a situation like this" no seriously mum I think I'm in Italy I'm using the phone a lady who doesn't speak any English and the houses look like I'm in Italy, please believe me I'm not joking.

"if that's true call the police and get them to pick you up otherwise how will you get home" she seemed too chill about this whole thing but then again maybe she was just latching onto any hope she could at this moment so she went with it.

"ok mum I'm hanging up now ill see you soon, love you" he wondered why he was so casual about it all after all he was in a different country and a creature from legends just tried to kill him and he had eaten it and gained powers so why the hell was he not freaking out the point of madness.

'how am I going to get this old lady to tell me the number of the police, it's not like I can ask"

Suddenly he remembered reading that because of Hollywood movies being so popular and the police always being 911 that in some countries if you dial 911 it will take you to the police anyway, it was his best option that starts breaking things and acting crazy until the old lady called them herself. 'we will keep that as plan B ha dark'.

Lucky it seemed like it worked as someone picked up which would not happen otherwise "Hello is there someone who can speak English there I need help" he repeated this no matter what the person on the other line said until someone that spoke English got on the line which was only minutes later.

"hello I speak English how can I help you," said a man

"Hello I am William Burch from Australia I am lost and I don't know how I ended up here please help me"

"I can help you what is the address you are at"

"I don't know the address I am at can you please just send someone out"

"ok sure I can see from the call log that you are calling from 1801 Via Maddel street we will send a car to pick you up with an officer that speaks English please wait outside if you can"

"Thank you ill be outside" ' I'm glad that worked I would have felt so bad having to break this nice old ladies stuff until she called them, haha but it would have been funny to see how they reacted when the cops found out I'm missing in Australia or that I can punch throw a wall HAHAHA'

Laughing out loud creeped the old lady out so much so he was pushed out the door still laughing it was only when the door slammed did he realise he had laughed so much at the thought of the cop's bewildered face that he must have looked crazy.

His face going red from embarrassment he decided to sit on the side of the road much to the old ladies unpleased look, but it was not long until the cops arrived and took him away all the time he was waiting he was figuring out what he was going to tell them and decided with someone had kidnapped him but he did not know anything from there he felt like straight up forgetting would be a good idea but it was better for the police to look for the make believe kidnappers then for them to pay attention to him after all if they looked hard enough he was sure they could find discrepancies with his fake story of waking up in a forest and walking to the village and that all he could remember and that could go either way one the cops where stumped and could not do anything or they would keep an eye on him a very strict eye on him assuming he ran away or was involved in something illegal and his parents would think he ran away or was in too deep on something nefarious where as he could act scared for a few weeks of the kidnappers and then hopefully get on with normal life.

It was not the best plan but it's all he could think up in such a short time as by the time he was in the car the English speaking police officer was asking him all about what happened where he told them of how he was kidnapped then remembers waking in a ditch not too far in the forest and that was it.

It seemed that they believed him as they called the police department in Australia and discovered he was a missing person before taking a statement and patching him up to put him on a plane the next day to go to Australia as well as officers to escort him on each leg of the trip.

In little over twenty-two hours with many changes, he arrived back in Melbourne airport only to be taken back into custody by the police officers that were waiting for him at the airport.

in the interrogation room this time it was a much more in-depth interrogation about every little detail he was so scared the truth would come out which would only get him to send to a mental asylum that he shut down effectively convincing the officers that his mind had repressed anything that had happened between the two points in time and let him go home after he woke up and wrote out a statement recounting what had happened to him.

Finally, he got to see his mother who was crying as she was not allowed in while the interrogation was happening no matter how much she petitioned the officers. " I'm sorry William I thought you were playing a cruel joke on me and I didn't believe you were in Italy I'm so sorry for yelling at you" breaking down in guilt at how she had handled the situation from yelling at him about lying to shutting down and telling him to get his own way back the guilt was wrecking her so much so she had not slept since the phone call from William.

"it's ok mum I don't blame you now can we please go home"

Williams father was not very present he was there in person sure but he did not interact well with William or his sister Claire always being distant and drunk no matter really the time he came home his dad would always get home by five and be drunk as a skunk at nine no matter what had happened it got to a point where William was numb from it not expecting anything from his drunk father and preferring if he was not around but somehow his mother stilled loved the bastard.

Deciding to ignore it for now like he always did " can we go home now I want to sleep in my bed"

with this, his mum slowly got up and nodded her head and decided that it would be a better idea and it distracted her from the fact that her husband was not here now even when their son just got home so she got in the car and drove not wanting to talk and not wanting to be reminded of what happened the entire car trip was in silence until they go to a large family home a half-hour out of Melbourne where they lived backing onto a forest they were close to nature and the city making even this large but modest house cost quite a lot.

Opening the door and standing under the threshold he knew that only a few ago he left but he truly returned a different person.