Los Angeles, 2022, Approx. 2130
Radiance of golds and purples broke through the evening sky as the sunset gleamed in the darkened biome - The scene came to life, it was a strikingly beautiful yet nearly identical modern Earth. Footsteps into the empty garage echoed as the lights were switched on, Kova had finished up his classes for the day and decided to head into the city to hang for a bit with his Sister.
He suited up in a hoodie and sweatpants with some basketball shoes, comfortable yet flashy in its own way as gems attached to his pockets gleamed under the lights, the patent leather shoes he wore were reflecting the brightness of the room. Fourteen years of age, he wasn’t exactly mature but carried himself visually as if he were an adult, dressed nicely with his hair cut clean and tan skin. As for his sister who walked through the door in a purple-ish blue, starry dress and high heels - a feminine, short and considerably skinny figure, with jet black hair, and much like her brother sharing soft, hazel eyes. She wore a necklace that he bought her to match the designer theme they shared, expensive no doubt, solid gold with her birthstone.
He hopped in his Dad’s Sports Car, pushing in the key and turning the ignition over - Late at night, around 2:00 AM, calling his sister to come to the garage. He dropped the convertible top as she opened the aftermarket installed scissor-doors. Flipping on the underglow and halo lights, they were off
“Where you wanna go, Ellie?” Kova asked, holding his phone open on the maps app.
“Uhmmm..” Elide pondered, for a moment “I dunno… Let’s just drive around and see where it goes?” She questioned.
“Fuck yeah! You got it.” Kova said excitedly.
He clicked the gate and put it in reverse, beginning to back out his driveway - looking over his right shoulder when he started to notice Elide frantically shouting his name. But before he could look over to see what was going on, there were high beams in his window and it was too late to react; The car’s tires were skidding across the street and onto the sidewalk as the drunk driver behind an eight wheeler slammed into his driver side door, the chassis completely shattering as jagged pieces of metal and glass dug into his thigh, side and face. He shifted the wheel to the side in order to pull them off of the road, the force of the semi truck pushing against his car.
The added momentum of the turn allowed them to spin out of control, out of the path of the massive vehicle. He held onto consciousness, at least for long enough to slam into the house of the neighbors and assure her safety. His sister had kept her seatbelt on thankfully, unlike him, and as a result he slammed his head into the steering wheel as the car came to a sudden stop.
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His headspace was fogged up as the landscape around him got dark, hearing his twin sister screaming his name, along with his hysterical parents coming out of the house. All those neighboring around came to see the commotion, watching as the eight wheeler pulled off, leaving two teenagers for death. Blood dripped into his eyeball, burning it and forcing them shut, his consciousness drifting off as sirens blared in the distance, adrenaline and natural painkillers flowing through his bloodstream to keep him from feeling his broken body.
“KOVA!! KOVA!!! KOVAAAAAAAA!!!!!.......” Elide screamed his name
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It was pitch black, and he could hear the voices of the paramedics as they pulled him into the ambulance bay. Clinging onto life, he could practically feel the pain shooting through his body with each breath. Every movement felt like a sharp blade digging into muscle, dragging against bone, or puncturing an organ - by all normal possibilities, he should be dead. Deep from within his mind, he knew that fate led him down the path to his untimely death. But for whatever reason, he wouldn’t pass on to the next life. He was In some sort of stasis, it seemed.
He refused to go, it wasn’t his time. A faint, cosmic light broke beyond the darkness, a figure beginning to form from the nothingness around him. Something incomprehensible by human perception, it took the passing into a new world to visualize what was before him.
“Kid was in a serious fucking crash - Pulling out of his driveway.. didn’t even make it onto the road. I need a Doctor, Now!!!”
The figure was formed in the likeness of a nebula with the universe within his grasp, markings on his forehead and hands. What looked to be cosmic chains were wrapped around his torso and biceps, trailing up to his wrist. His eyes and mouth were entirely blacked out, giving a perfect picture of stars within the void of his eye sockets. He must’ve been the size of an entire Galaxy, Kova thought to himself.
“Yo, Uhm.. What’s going on? This doesn’t seem right at all..” Kova mumbled, in a haze
The being was mute, it had nothing to say to the young one before him. Kova’s eyes fixated on him - and he noticed that, in this world, his own biochemistry began to change. His skin started changing from the melanin abundant fibers to a ghostly pale shade - with a red hue taking over his optics. Scared, he looked at his hands, shaking as he floated in the static, unmoving lands.
The first changes to his very being began, a mark of meeting this deity etched onto his body in the form of a transmutation circle, situated at the bottoms of his feet. There was another mark radiating off his chest, a star with a shade of scrolling purples and sparkling whites like stars in the night sky.
The mark somehow deterred the massive being, and Kova was casted away from him - Sent back to his body. This whole experience left him in shock, and his mind had to recover from what he’d just seen.