SWNOVELS Chapter 12.
12. Confusion startles all around!
If someone had thought to begin a cryptozoological study on any genetic relationship between the Kamazotz nation and bats of the Americas who feed upon blood and are commonly known as vampire bats one might begin to argue that their evolutionary relationship could be analogous with a tarsier and a human having a common ancestor. They both required blood and lived in the New World…
Although they are larger, flying foxes pose little to no threat to humans or most animals in southeast Asia as they are vegetarians.
“I don’t know if it is the olives in my martini, the vegetarian diet, or our family curse…” an unknown woman with pale green skin said as she sipped on her aforementioned drink in its fancy glass said as she spoke on the telephone.
“Aunt…Dolores” the person speaking was on the East Coast of the United States of America…and surprisingly it was Harry Osborn speaking to his Aunt Dolores Ortiz…they had to speak in secret because Norman had written off his older sister since she moved to California. Norman did his best to hide his siblings from the outside world’s ridicule of their curse. Exposing the Osborn curse could ruin the Osborn empire. No one worth talking about knew about the siblings of Norman Osborn…and the same fate was pushed onto Harry.
“Aunt Dolores,” Harry interjected again in a feeble attempt to interrupt her…
It failed and Dolores Ortiz continued to speak… “I was joking but I am sure my vegetarian diet improved my health dramatically but all my skin has…” she paused and Harry almost had the idea to speak. “Harry, the good news is that I don’t have any green spots. The bad news, Harry, is that all my skin has become that accursed color…but my health has returned. Living among Zombanity in the ‘Zed’”…
“Uh…Huh,” Harry managed to work this in…
“Many people don’t look twice at green-colored people. They don’t treat us like those Green Children of Woolpit…we are not some oddities, whose skin will change to a normal brownish color. Harry, darling, try to eat less meat and you will see a drastic improvement…promise me, dear boy, give this a try…?” She said as she finished and abruptly ended the phone call.
Harry was more curious about his cousin Mike…but the business card he sent didn’t have a phone number or email…
Harry had already been following this slight change to his diet…
In the story of Jekyll and Hyde, our dear doctor Jekyll takes something to illicit the transformation into mister Hyde, Harry stopped eating beef and pork to illicit his Hyde-like transformation.
There wasn’t much to ask his aunt. The tone of her voice said it all.
Harry had been in his private gym when he first transformed…otherwise the weights he was lifting would have shattered his left foot. His foot did shatter but the same biological mechanism that caused the Osborn curse or Osborn transformation healed his left foot…promptly.
The green coloration was the physical appearance of this family curse that had grown into something else. One might mistake these growths as cancerous but they were not…upon Harry’s twenty-first birthday he and Norman found out the full scale and advantages of this curse and that if it was not a gift, it was in the least a calling. If this helps for a visual Harry, Squirrel Girl, and the Kamazotz species would have had a great many things in common.
A flying fox…
A Girl…
A flying squirrel…
A bat…
Many bats use sonar and feed on insects…
Flying foxes eat fruit and it seems that the more the Osborn family had refrained from consuming meat the healthier and more the green pigment spread throughout their body slowly transforming them into Flying Foxes…or something humanly similar and so they dawned the goblin as their mascot and moniker.
They were only bloodthirsty in the sense that retaliation would satiate their desires. Like someone who is thirsty for justice but what Harry sought was anything but justice. The genetic ailment that was passed through the Osborn family was an accident of fate. The first television broadcast and Amberson’s chemistry accident…were truly accidents. But the combination had become the Osborn family curse or calling…their reason to get out of bed in the morning…it was just something in their hearts.
Harry wasn’t Norman’s only child…
Norman wasn’t Amerson’s only child…
Harry and Norman are only worth mentioning because they helped their siblings and cousins get away…sacrificing themselves like the aged meercat lookouts.
What many people think of as a goblin’s cloak are their wings as the transformation wears off and those afflicted with the Osborn curse are left to bear their nature and to brave their natural surroundings. The one good thing about this transformation with the skin flap that quickly grew to conceal their foxy naughty bits. Can you imagine making clothing for a person who can transform into a nearly six-foot-tall flying fox? Have you seen the movie ‘Bruno’ with that yellow over-the-shoulder man-thong…maybe…
Norman and Harold hid away their siblings and cousins who were afflicted so that they might live a life of safety in isolation. Norman helped his sisters and brothers find spouses but they helped Amberson, and Norman establishes OsCorp.
One of Norman’s sisters found a vegetarian diet to be agreeable with their curse. Shortly before Zombanity established the Gravity Generator border she went to California…and disappeared. Harry heard a rumor that she began to feed on a Zed who tried to imprison her. As flying foxes consume fruits and vegetables, the widowed Dolores Osborn Ortiz, her husband insisted they both use an assumed name but because of his thick Greek accent they decided to use a Hispanic surname. Dolores had a child before her husband passed away, Michael Ortiz and his mother went to California in 2005 before Kingdom America fell. They went to America before the Zed revolution had taken place and were instrumental in re-establishing the United States of America…they were already living happily in California before the establishment of the Zombie Protected zone and the Gravity Generator borders were turned on…
Most people would call him Moe Rrain…
He even sent Harry a business card concealed within a Holiday card.