The Homunculi

Growing up in a high school was odd. I had grown between the walls of a locker in the forgotten Z wing. No one had been to the Z wing since 1963. The vines and trees had over taken the lockers and water fountains. This environment provides a perfect place for the explorations of a 1 inch tall teenager i.e. me.

The days of my life had been spent at the locker with a fork in it on my family’s lizard farm. Although I would often leave and explore the hallway. One day, I found a vine that went so high that it broke through a ceiling tile. That was the day that my adventures truly began. You see, the doors to Z wing had been locked and long forgotten. However the ceiling linked the Z wing to the rest of the school.

The ceiling was dark and dusty when I made it to the top. It reminded me of the warning my father had told me many times. “Don’t stray from the locker because you will be eaten by a large animal.” I had decided to bring my friend Raj along with me because of this very warning. As we walked we realized that the vines and moss we were accustomed to have become scarce. Then the ceiling suddenly lifted with a bright light and an enormous man was there. Raj and I ran screaming having never seen a normal sized human before. However it was too late; he had seen us and he reached out. We had been captured.

He then gently set us down in his toolbox and closed the lid. We could tell that he was running by the bouncing of the tools in the box. When he finally opened the lid again we had been moved to a large room with lab benches, desks, posters of animals, and animal skeletons. He began to speak “I found them in the ceiling and I called you sciency types here to tell me what exactly they are.”

“We” I said “are humans but you must be the giants that built our village so long ago then closed it off from giants who would harm us.” I finished with awe.

“They can talk and even speak English. I believe we have discovered a species of miniature humans, real life homunculi!” exclaimed one of the giants.

Then one of the spoke up and said “What are your names?”

“My name is Bob and this is my friend Raj.” Was my reply.

Thy then asked us where we came from and assured us that it would remain safe and we told them about our way of life and how we constantly had to use our nail swords to kill large lizards that attacked.

They then vowed to protect us and our species so long as we allowed testing for scientific purposes and as long as we showed them how we survived in the school. This is how the Homo Sapiens and the Homunculi united.