Chapter 1:
As my memory was being sealed, my life flashes through my eyes.
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As long as I could remember I lived in a research centre., but I never knew what type of research centre until I grew up. Two of the many researchers took care me the most and they called themselves my parents. Back then I was a naive child, and I used to believe they were my parents even though we had no similarities. They named me Zeke Crestfallen. My hair was black and my eyes were a vibrant blue. The research center was different from others, they made the test subjects feel like they are living in a house. It was exactly the same as those from the outside but it had no technology.
Until I was 6, I did nothing but mundane activities such as studying and working out every day. My "parents" told me it was good and healthy for me. Even though I hated having to study and work out in very harsh ways all the time, I still did it because I wanted to make my parents happy.
When I turned 6, I was happy to find out I didn't have to do these mundane and tiring work as much now as my "parents" said they will spend the majority of the time with me, which means experimenting on me. At that time, I didn't know what they were doing, but I believed they were doing it for my cause.
Before they started experimenting on me, I had to finally left my containment area which I lived in for my entire life to go to the experiment lab. The outside was really different as it was like a soccer dome which had many different corridors and doors. I saw many other kids, but all of them had bad complexions ranging from being extremely pale to a terrified face to a crying face. Back then this scene has cause a frown on a face; I curious to why they were like this, so I asked my "parents", they said their "parents" died protecting our "home". At that time it seemed like a legit excuse so I believed it.
Some of the experiments they performed on me was injecting various unknown substances inside of me or sending lightning, which went through a pole that is a massive resistor, to my brain. The first experiment was inject a green fluid inside my body, it caused me immense amounts of pain. I felt my body growing with each second, but when the pain disappeared the feeling of strength also disappeared. The lightning experiment was even more painful as it when through needles that are connected to my brain, my perception of time slowed down which also meant I felt the pain longer. But all these experiments paled in comparison to the experiment that terrified me the most, the Brain Awakening experiment. This experiment was basically closing off the whole nervous system from the brain. I only survived because they hooked up machines to me that kept me barely alive. This experiment cause me to lose all my 5 senses. Later, they attack my brain causing it to defend against it, after defending against the attack, it will try to open the nervous system, this rips apart the nervous system before it gets healed by the machines of the experiment centre, causing the nervous system to get stronger and thicker. This will eventually cause the brain to awaken more of its power and potential. That was not the worst part, the worst part is when the experiment finishes as when I wake up to a headache which makes a migraine feel like nothing. A migraine pales in comparison and whenever I get one, I feel it's a gift compared to the pain from the experiment. Although these experiments brought me massive amounts of pain, I held back my tears so that me "parents" won't be disappointed. After my first day of experiments, I found out the true reason why the other children were crying. I only found out what they were trying to create after the institute/centre got destroyed.
Then, unfortunately, came the event which made me into what I am now, an emotionless monster. One day, when I was 10, I accidentally eavesdropped on my "parents". They were talking about how none of the experiments were not doing anything to me and that I was a failure. My "mother" then changed the subject to my real parents. They were complaining about how they shouldn't have killed my real parents, who were sadly in poverty, to get me. They talked about how they went to the slums and found my parents holding me while walking down the road. According to them, my parents were thin but not malnourished. It seems they made even money to barely get by. It was then they saw I was perfect for being experimented on, so they attacked my parents in the night and assassinated them. This angered me to the point of almost bursting since all I did was to make my "parents" happy, but it to only find out they are not my real parents, and that they killed my real parents to use me. All this anger than disappeared and was replaced with indifference, indifference to myself, to my "parents", to others, and to the world. The reason why my anger was replaced with indifference, was because my "parents" said if the next experiments did not work, they will dispose of me. I knew I could not do anything, so I just resigned to my fate.
The next day I did my normal activities, but with no enthusiasm. When the experiments came, the lightning which went to my brain sparked something. It unlocked all 100% of my brain and allowed me control of 100% of my muscles. It also boosted my reflex. senses, body, healing and reaction time as well. I now had 2 times the reaction speed of an athlete, 4 times the reflexes of an athlete, my 5 sense (plus 6th sense) were 2 times the limits of a human, my wounds healed at 3 times the speed of a human at their limit and my body was 4 times stronger, faster, flexible, etc, than the limits of a human. As I grew up, my reflexes became 2 times the limit of a human and my reaction speed became 2 times the limits of humans. The experiments also made me more resistant to lightning. But everything has to come with a cost, I became even more emotionless and it was next to impossible to regain my emotions again. It also turned my black hair to white as it destroyed all the pigments in my hair.
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At first, when the researchers found out I succeeded, they were overjoyed. They then took samples of me, and tested my abilities. One of the tests was the Brain Awakening experiment. All my tests showed that I was beyond a normal human, and they hailed me as their success. The called me the first ever "enhanced" human in history and the world. After a few days, they realized I was emotionless, so they condemned me as a failure. They still kept me around though, they wanted to use my samples to create another successful "enhanced" human. They were never successful, and I never found out why I was.
One day, when I 14 years old, the police barged into the institution. They called the institution illegal and that they did illegal experiments. There was massive fight, and all the kids went into a riot. I also participated, but I beat up only my "parents". I broke both their arms and legs while listening to them cry and beg. As I lifted up my hand to deal the finishing blow to the both of them, a police officer stops me and warns me not to, as I will regret it afterwards, or it will haunt me for the rest of my lives.
All the kids of the institution were taken to an orphanage were they can wait to be adopted. Being emotionless lead to me never being adopted. Even though I wasn't adopted, I still went to school. I never made any friends because of my attitude, and all the subjects in school were too easy, be it math or gym.
Living in the outside world for 2 years, I learned all about the world and common sense. It seemed the institute which I was experimented in, was a notorious place which the police were trying to find for years. The institute wanted to create "enhanced" humans and create an army which will they will use to take over the world. The subjects were usually babies younger than 1 year old, who can use more than 10% of their brain. They killed all of the baby's parents, which didn't really change my emotions, though I knew it would have disgusted me if I had emotions.
That was not all I learned, as I found out about all the different technologies in the world and how to use them. The only thing which made me confused for a few months virtual reality games, also known as VRMMORPG. There is flying cars, trains and other stuff like that.
I also learned new thing about my "enhanced" body, I was double jointed everywhere and I had both photographic memory and perfect memory. Not only that, I'm also ambidextrous and can use half my brain while the other sleeps like a dolphin. The most important part is that I learn 4 times faster than then I did before.
My life did not change that much, other than the fact that I wasn't experimented on anymore and that the outside world wasn't as mundane. But that all changed one day.
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One day, I was doing my normal thing, doing homework then going to the library to read books then working out. As I was walking to the library I felt a little dizzy and leaned against the walk. Then I felt my consciousness trickling away. When I woke up, I noticed I was in a different place and surrounded by 29 others. Some of them were already awake, while others were starting to awake. Most of the people who were awake had confused looks on their face, while others had cautious looks. Then someone yelled "Who are you, and why did you kidnap us!?" No one answered, so I just shook it off as I had something more important to think about.
I felt something was unusual about me, so I tried remembering back to what happened, and that's when it struck me. I had no memories. I still had my common sense and knew about my body, which means I know how to use 100% of my brain. So I tried opening about the section of my brain where my memories are stored. My memories flooded back into brain, but that's when I hear chuckle.
"Hmm, it seems one of these humans knows how to use 100% of its brain. It seems I have to use something else to seal his memories."
That voice sounded loud and imposing, surprising everyone but me. All the people awake got cautious, while the ones sleeping immediately woke up. A cryptic symbol overlaid over many other cryptic symbols to create a complicated design or rune which then sped to my eyes. I tried closing my eyes to block it, but it passed through it like it didn't exist. My memories than started disappearing, and now is the present time. All my memories got sealed again, but before I tried finding ways to regain it, I heard the same voice from before.
"Hello humans from Earth, I transported you all to a planet called Ergon. I'm sure most of you realized by now that you have no memories. Don't worry, I sealed it, the only way to get them back is to get stronger. But how? Well Ergon has what Earth calls magic. Well I'll get on with explaining."
To be continued.
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