Aadi was born 5 years after the tunnels appeared during a time of turbulence, his mother and father had little care for him and only had him because of the support the government (what little remained) provided for those who increased population to make up for the rapid loss caused by the tunnels emergence.
99% of all people of the country of Lilin died, with 1.3Billion citizens before now only 12.8M citizens' left. With 10 cities all citizens were expected to increase population with incentives given and guaranteed jobs provided it was a no brainer to have at least one.
However Aadi was born with low potential and to two people who only married to make obtaining government aid easier, meaning when his parents learned of the chance to increase ones aid and social standing by birthing a high potential child, the only reason he wasn't thrown away or given to an orphanage was because his parents would lose right to government aid if they chose to give up a child, this was done to prevent an increase in already full orphanages.
As his parents relied solely on government aid to live, his childhood was spent with nothing but taking care of the kids while his parents kept having more, basic education that the government made all go to starting at age 5. Learning how to fight, cook, clean, and grow food from his afternoon work at the farms made by the government at the age of 5 meant he had no childhood and little actual joy beyond an increasing tighter home. As they lived in a three bedroom apartment, nutrient packs provided for free by government and 2 pajama sets, 5 summer outfits, 5 winter outfits, and 5 workout outfits that would be given to his little sibling when he out grew them, and new one provided by the government.
The only upside being his parents can't touch his paychecks given by the government, the only downside was neither could he until he was fifteen and legally considered no longer under any other person but himself and lost government aide. As life continued on he began to plan for when he would leave his parents and start life on his own as schooling was only guaranteed to those below the age of fifteen. Unknown to him his life was going to take a horrifying turn when he turned ten.
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P.O.V Aadi
I wake up at 4 o'clock and get dressed in my winter clothes, as the end of winter draws near I know I won't have to wear them much longer. I wash my hair, brush my teeth, and put on hygiene product I leave the bathroom and begin to wake my 6 other siblings up.
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I get out all nutrient packs and bags we require and set them up around the table in the kitchen in the different places that they have claimed, as well as setting up food for those not yet five to eat when they wake up.
The first to come are the twins as they get ready together, next is the second oldest and the first born girl beside the sixth born, who is another girl, next are the 4th born, followed by the final one the 5th born. We all head down to wait together as the government run tram picks us up at 5 o'clock in the morning and it takes all 7 of us 50 minutes to get ready in the morning.
My sibling's names starting from the second oldest to the youngest are Izel, Nagid and Masahi, Shiro, Carmelo, Aulani, Sora, Sorrell, Baqer, and Alberic.
Mom and dad are still sleeping despite just laying around and doing nothing all day everyday, as the tram pull up we all get on and head to the only empty places still available on the already full bus, the edge of the already full seats. We are the last stop for this tram before it returns to the school.
Five minutes after getting on I am one of the first off, grades are sorted by age and I go to the area of the school for 10 year old's and begin to stretch in the practice field as I wait for the other students to flood in over the next 25 minutes. Once everyone is there the instructors come in and we begin our daily training from 5:30 to 7:30 we spend one hour exercising and another practicing combat.
After training we go to our separate classrooms to begin classes at 8:00, they are language, math, history, science and basic survival knowledge such as first aide and what to do in what situation.
We get out of school at 2:00 and me and my siblings take a tram to the farms to begin preparing the area for planting which mean a large amount of new soil being brought in from outside and seeds that you must begin to germinate before transplanting them to their soil beds.
As I'm helping move dirt into different planting beds the siren for tunnel appearing blared and people begin to storm the exit leaving me stuck in the planting room as to attempt to leave would see me run over and injured.
This is far from the first appearance of a tunnel while planting but it is uncommon happening usually only once a year at most as the government made sure to build the farm in a low energy location.
Suddenly I feel a tug and subconsciously latch on to the gardening bed in front of me as screaming begins, watching as objects fly by me has terror running through me like never before. Behind me. The tunnel had opened up behind me.
However there was little I could do when a large plank came burling at me smacking me straight in the head and was the last thing I saw before darkness took over me.