Volume 1: Chapter 1 - The yellow orb.

Bolts of lightning continuously flashed throughout the menacing dark clouds in the sky.

Rain is destined to fall on this day. A day which will be remembered in history. No, not the history of this world but in another, a world that is more complicated than earth.

To this world earth is like a marble out billions of planets and stars in the constellations. However this once tiny planet will birth an individual who name will resound throughout the universe. Mythical beings will fear him, ladies will want to have his child and men will be envious of him.

Today the legend begins.

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Mars High school, the top highschool nationally and international, the heart and soul of it's country. A school that only pure geniuses are only allow to attend; they can be poor or rich as long as one fits the requirement they can enter. Of course many rich families tried to persuade the school with money. However, why would the top school of any school need money? They don't, leaving  those rich families hopeless.

Although  the school hasn't been open for five years  it was already the top school in nation, why was that? Well it was rather one individual that caused this, Morgan Modax. Not only was he the face of Mars High school but also the top student in the international ranking.

He's the apex of students.

His looks cause riot among the  female populace and because of his athleticism the male populace admire him.

However there are many things the people around him don't know about him with the exception of the principal. Morgan is severely poor with only a single family left with him and that is his hospitalized grandmother. Morgan never really knew his grandmother before the incident that took his parents and older sister life.

Though Morgan never meet his grandmother before he still cherish her like a true love one. But without any money how could he pay for his grandmother hospital bill? This is when the principal of  Mars high school offer him a deal.

A deal that's states that the school will cover Morgan's grandmother's bill  as long as he continue to be the number one student internationally. Of course if anyone seeing this chance would automatically accept it,  Morgan wasn't a exception.

Morgan can be seen laying his head on his desk sleeping peacefully in the dream world. He visited his grandmother yesterday at the hospital to be only almost shock to death. When he visited the hospital he got the news his grandmother ill took a turn for the worst and now is in a deep coma. Fortunately her body systems and brain remained in good shaped.

But he knew that it was only a matter of time before his grandmother will perish from her severe illness, he was without hope , which kept him from sleeping at night. If one look closely at him they can see bags under his eyes that showed proof that he wasn't able to get any sleep.

However the surrounding students and teacher thought that he already knew the current subject they're learning and caused them to admire him even more.

The end of the day quickly arrived, and the final bell rang it's familiar tune, causing Morgan to jolt wide awake. His eyes immediately scan around the room and he found the students in the classroom was packing up and leaving cause him to sigh dejectly.

This situation was in all too familiar for him, Morgan can't count on his hands how many time this week he slept in class. With the way he has been sleeping in class lately it wouldn't come to a surprise to him if his grades drop.

Once again he sighed, then gather his belongings and immediately right after, he left the classroom.  In a instant a female student suddenly rushed up to Morgan in a embarrassing manner and in her hands was a wrapped box with a little red bow on top. Her shivering body and lowered head make her look like she was frighten to death.

"Why are you lowering your head Arina? And what with this box?" Morgan asked while looking at her strangely.

"U-uuh, th-this is...p-p, please a-accept this g-gift!" Arina replied with a stutter which caused perplexed emotions in Morgan.

"Please raise your head," Morgan said. She raised her head, then looked at Morgan for a split second right before adverting her gaze elsewhere out of embarrassment.

He couldn't help but smile wrly, this situation was all too familiar to him. Once every week or so his fellow female schoolmates would give him presents for unknown purposes. No matter how much Morgan think, it was impossible for him to guess why, therefore it was useless for him to drive himself crazy trying to find out the reason why. It wasn't like if they was asking him out or anything, they just give him a present then leave.

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"Alright I'll accept it, thank you" Morgan said he then took the box out of the female student hands with a smile. This was the only thing he could do in this kind of situation, if he was to decline it was surely break the girl's heart and would cause an undesirable situation for him.

After taking the wrapped gift, the female student quickly left with a giggle, then left with a group of her female friends who was also giggling.

"So troublesome," he mumbled as his smile vanish completely.

He put away the wrapped gift inside his backpack and quickly left the scene. Today, he was going to visit his grandmother's hospital room but with this disruption will cause him to fall behind on time.

When he left the school building it was already almost time for the city bus to arrive at his usual spot. The sky was looking menacing as it did earlier however he didn't seem to notice it. The only thoughts he have was 1: to capture the bus on time and 2: visit his grandmother before the visiting hours ends, anything else was just trouble.

In long strides he took his usual route where he goes to the bus stop. Fortunately, the bus had yet to arrive which caused him to breathe a gigantic sigh of relief.

After a while of waiting the bus still didn't come and it brought great uneasy feeling in him. He knew the bus should be here already yet it didn't arrive. In fact for the last two minutes he didn't discover any passing cars or people, it was as if he was in a deserted city.

While Morgan obediently sat at the bus stop a sudden low humming echoes emerge from his bookbag. Of course he notices this and immediately rummage through his bag to find the cause. However unexpectedly he find that the humming noise coming from the wrapped gift box the female student gave him.

Morgan didn't really know what was in the box, usually the present he would get would either some chocolate or jewelry. There were even one time he got a pair of panties as  a gift which he immediately threw away when he got home.

He ripped the wrapping on the box in a unorthodox fashion , then he open it. Shock filled his face as he stared down at the objects in his view.

It was a fist size golden orb that had beautiful inscription on it that seem to be a ancient language. Naturally he couldn't recognize this object, but he knew that this something authentic.

Unexpectedly, the orb suddenly started to shine and the humming echoes increase in pitch and frequency. The humming noise was so high that it cause Morgan to instinctively cover his ears.

The orb  slowly floated at eye level towards him, it then begin to quiver violently which cause the pitch to go another octave. The inscriptions on the orb like hologram floated off the object, and like a rocket it then flew and penetrate deep into Morgan's head causing a indescribable warmth feeling to emerge in him. However the warmth feeling went from being indescribable to unbearable pain. Veins bulge on his forehead, arms, and legs.

Lightning streaking across the menacing clouds coiled around each other like ancient dragons and descended upon the earth. With a flash the lightnings continuously struck the orb and cause more unbearable pain to crawl on Morgan's skin.

The pain was too unbearable for his body and it began to shed like snake skin. First it was the arms, then the rest of his body. While all this was a happening a yellow glow cloak his shedding body getting denser and denser with each passing second.

There are only so much a human can take and Morgan's body long since pass it's limits. His kidneys shut down, then his nervous  system, then his circulatory system failed, and lastly his heart popped like a balloon instantly killing him, however from Morgan's relief expression anyone could tell that he is happy that he died, the suffering he was going through is something other people could never imagine. If it was one word that could describe that torturous feeling it would be "hell".

Seconds after his death, the yellow orb swallowed Morgan's deceased body then flew up in the sky creating a loud boom,  breaking through the sound barrier and exited the earth's atmosphere.

Left behind was a scathed black cement with huge bulging cracks emerging from the it. To other people it seems that a water pipe must've destroyed the cement from underneath, however this place is Morgan's grave.

Though this is his grave doesn't mean that is the ending of Morgan's story, rather it's the contrary, this is his beginning.