Once Upon a Time in a village far,
far away, there lived a scientist and his name as Dr. Frankenstein. Despite the
oddity of his creations, Dr. Frankenstein loved them and hoped to teach them
how to act properly similar to the other human beings in the village. One day,
the doctor called three of his most successful creations to his lab to see if
they were ready to be integrated into society.
He decided to give them a few simple tasks that they had to act out and
depending on their response would he determine if they are ready or not.
Lilith, his first creation, acted
with acceptable and with apparent knowledge of how the barter system works.
Kiera, the doctor’s second creation, appeared as the more reasonable one of the
two and showed extended knowledge of the vocabulary that the townspeople very
known to use. As he called in his third creation, Oleander, into his lab for
testing, the doctor had high hopes that he had improved upon his technique of
building his creation and hoped that Oleander displayed a higher intelligence
than his two sisters. Hoping to please his father, Oleander tried his hardest
to formulate human words but the motor skills he needed to make comprehensible
seemingly failed him that day. Assuming he failed in improving his technique, Dr.
Frankenstein banished Oleander into the woods hoping to never lay eyes on his
failure again.
Oleander wandered for days and
nights through the woods, hoping to find some sort of shelter. When snow
started to descend onto the land, he nestled himself into a nook of a tree just
off the path he had been walking on. Just as he began to dose off, he heard
what sounded like the wheels of a cart rolling down the worn path and an old
woman singing softly to herself. Just as the woman rounded the corner, the wheel
of her cart hit a hole and toppled over, causing all of her things to scatter
over the path. Oleander watched for a moment as the woman began to feel the
ground blindly for her things. Feeling sympathy and pity for the old woman, He
crawled out of his nook and began helping the woman gather her stuff. Hearing
her things return to her cart and knowing she wasn’t doing it herself, the
woman reached out blindly for the stranger’s arm. Upon impact, she felt how
cold the stranger’s skin was and promptly offered it food and shelter in return
for their kind dead. Oleander accepted the invitation, picked up the woman’s
cart and began to follow her down the trail to her house.
Oleander began to grow on the old
woman as he stayed around her home and helped her out with daily tasks. She
began to teach him how to talk properly, how to use his manners, and everything
that Dr. Frankenstein tried to teach him. One day while Oleander and the old woman
were in town getting groceries, Oleander overheard some of the townspeople talk
about attacking Dr. Frankenstein’s house in revenge for setting his creatures
loose on the village. The villagers said that his two sisters, Lilith and
Kiera, had gotten mad at one on the shop owners and went on a rampage,
destroying goods that the villagers needed to survive. Oleander was appalled, he
knew his father and his sisters never meant to hurt anyone. He began to think
about how the villagers would react if they found out that he was one of Dr.
Frankenstein’s creations as well. That night, Oleander told the old woman about
what he heard and asked her what he should do. The pair decided that Oleander
should go back and protect his father from the villagers and show them that the
creations Dr. Frankenstein made weren’t all bad. The next morning, Oleander set
off for Dr. Frankenstein’s home.
Being that he was banished, the
doctor refused to let Oleander back in the house so Oleander waited outside until
the villagers showed. At the stroke of midnight, torches and pitchforks began
marching up the hill towards the house expecting to see the two sisters waiting
to fight off their attack and were thrown for a loop when they found Oleander,
a man they had come to accept waiting for them. When asked what he was doing,
Oleander began to explain and tell his story. He told them that he was one of
Dr. Frankenstein’s story and that because of all the villagers and the old
woman who took him in he learned how to be human. He explained to the villagers
that if they gave the creatures another chance, that they could learn how to
control their temper. The villagers saw the logic behind Oleander’s reasoning
and called off the attack. During this whole exchange, Dr. Frankenstein watched
from his bedroom above the green. He rushed down the stairs to thank his son
for saving him and his sisters. When Dr. Frankenstein offered Oleander to come
home and stay there at the house with them, Oleander replied in perfect English:
“I didn’t do it for you, I did it
for me.”
With that Oleander gathered up his
things that he brought with him and headed back to the house in the woods.
The cottage in the woods
