Chapter 1

Alexander Payne

"TINNSEI was a legendary scientist who did

wonders in microbiology and found a way to

evolve the previous homo sapiens sapiens to

the current homo fastigium. This evolution

doesn't give us wings or gives us claws and

fangs, it just does a simple job of removing all

our vestigial organs and replacing them with

dark matter. A substance found by the

legendary TINNSEI 19 years before his

world-breaking evolution. Dark matter was

found in the meteor shower of 2040. The

Homo fastigium like any other human race

decided to exterminate the previous species.

After being successful in their objectives of

killing all the homo sapiens, homo fastigium

became the new emperor of the food chain.

The dark matter in their body allowed them to

share some properties with the natural

elements. All the countries decided to abolish

the government and this new world was ruled

by THE 6. Under them are the 6 continents. As

most of Europe was destroyed in the war of

existence fought between the human species

110 years ago. THE 6 played a huge role in this

war and hence they became the pioneer of

this modern civilization." A student named

Zack raised his hand and asked the professor "

Are all homo sapiens, dead Mr Frank?".  

Mr Franklin a history professor at our school was a man in his thirty who wore a royal blue shirt folded till forearms with plane khaki pants and black shoes with a nice silver watch which suited him really well. He was a person with lots of passion about teaching and he also loved to discuss and speculate about history of the human civilization before evolution. After listening Zack's question Mr Frank had a wide grin on his face and he replied "Let me rephrase that so that you can understand better , we can say that there are no homo sapiens on earth but there are rumours that a spacecraft consisting of a bunch of homo sapiens was seen leaving earth during the war of existence. So it is very plausible that there are humans in outer space." The bell rang and the history class was over and so was the school.

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After school i , Kate and Chris were on our way to chill  my home "We are the new species homo fastigium, we are better than normal humans in each and every aspect , then why the hell do we have to follow the school-college-job life like our predecessors. Can't we have something cooler like hunting the beasts and living in mountains or forests and people can do whatever they like or something like that?" I ranted my thoughts out angrily while Katherine and Christopher were listening to me  patiently . " Well first of all be it homo sapiens or fastigium or any other species each and everyone needs an order to make a society work. If this order is broken then the society will also crumble. For this society to function like its intended to you need people to play their part, like  being a student so they can get knowledge which is a great asset. Then we need people to apply this knowledge by doing jobs for generating resources and then further dividing these resources on the basis of money they get for doing jobs. As for your great suggestion Alex , you are a dumbass as you are complaining about following the homo sapiens way of living , whereas you think the ideas you are suggesting are new?"criticized Kate. "Is it not" i questioned innocently. She whacked me on the back of my head and yelled "NO!". Then Chris was laughing with Kate at my swollen head while i was agonizing in pain , later he added " well the idea of hunting monsters and living in a cave is the lifestyle of the early homo sapiens , but the monster were none other than the early pre historic animals like tyrannosaurus , argentinosaurus , dodo....".

" Ok,Ok no need to act like a smartass , Kate will not fall for you" i cut in between. Chris's face started blushing and  he became nervous and came running towards me to hit me while also blabbering" IT IS NOTHING LIKE THAT! I am  not saying that she looks awful or she is a bad person, she is a sweetheart and looks really beautiful, adorable, cute , fabulous, glamorous and sexy but it's also not that i like her, wait I like her AHH...... JUST YOU WAIT ALEX......"

After running from Chris for an hour and having lunch with Kate and Chris , i decided to complete my homework which was an acheological research paper on the findings of homo sapiens. After an hour of hardwork i completed it but i realised that I had caught cold and was sneezing like crazy. I guess it was the cold coffee I had earlier while writing the research paper. I put the research paper in my backpack and then went to lie down on my bed. I closed my eyes and let the thoughts surround me , like how the world is changed for the good now that the humans are evolved. No corruption , since everyone is so fearful and frightened of THE SIX; no cruelty on wildlife , as the wildlife which we currently have needs the same thing for survival as us. The CREATURE X and CREATURE Y  which were also formed by the fusion of dark matter with the animals and birds , the late pre historic animals. Each and everyone of us needs more dark matter to survive. But people might argue that the animals and birds and humans also wanted food, which was provided by the plants. But people tend to forget that homo sapiens, animals and birds have different absorption and digestion of food so they need food with different nutritional value. Whereas us the homo fastigium, CREATURE X and CREATURE Y prey upon the same CREATURE Z, the fusion of the plants and dark matter which has equal nutritional value to support all their modified and evolved bodies. We know the world has changed for good, but what if the world never evolved?......What if the homo sapiens were the apex of the humans?........ what if the dark matter never came to existence?......... I felt too tired from all these thoughts so I shut my eyes close and before I realised I was asleep.........

BUT WAIT! what the fuck was happening to me? I was befuddled.It was a wierd experience i was concious while i was asleep. My body was sleeping, but my mind.....My mind was fully active and the dream I had was also weird. Generally when a homo fastigium is 10 years old his dark matter starts to gathers at a place in the middle of his chest besides the heart. In which he has to concentrate for a year to form the C.O.R.E

and another 13 years to channel dark matter through it naturally. Well this is what happens on the technical side , but for the child it's like being in a state where his element is originated from. Like for a person with fire attribute to be in a volcano or a field of fire , but for person with water attributes it's like being under sea . Well it totally depends on the person's imagination . That is untill he finds his powers by flowing the dark matter to all body parts and cleaning all impurities in their way and returning the dark matter into the C.O.R.E which is also known as awakening. But what did I do to deserve this?. I was an eighteen year old and this was my last year of schooling and naturally this was the correct time to awaken my C.O.R.E and also to know my powers . But what was i even watching............ Black..., pitch black only nothingness and emptyness. Was this what my power was, that i was so excited for and waited all these years for....... NOTHING!

Wait, Alex be optimistic and look at the bright side, it can't be like this because if i didn't had any powers my C.O.R.E wouldn't have formed in the first place like the 1% powerless population of the world.Now I just need to find out what powers did i possess. But how do I find that in this vast empty space.....