It was a rainy day ,the rain fell hard as ice on the young boy's body as he laid there unconscious in the woods, he tried to remember what exactly had happaned to him.
All he could remember was bits and pieces, he remembered yelling, fighting, the sound of something like glass being broken, screaming and then darkness.
The boy raised his hand to his nose and felt something flowing out,it was blood his own blood the realisation of that fact drove him crazy.
He started screaming and that attracted a crowd, black lightning started shuttling across his body Members of the crowd started taking videos, and then suddenly everything stopped, the screams, lightning even the rain hovered there as if time had become absent, silence enveloped the whole town and in an instant the town was gone leaving only a crater with a boy lying there as a testament to the fact that something existed there originally.
When the authorities came they found
him dead in the crater no one knew where he came from and there was no record of him In any database on earth, he was found dead on June 28 2012 In the small country town in texas.
This was the day the world began to
become strange, the day the world began to
change because stagnation meant destruction.
"Epinephrine or commonly known as adrenaline is a chemical which is secreted in response to one flight or fight instinctual action.
Natures very own doping drug to give a much needed boost when in danger or in a state of being threatened.
In a normal human, it can increase ones reaction and reflexes to extremes in a short period of time".
The researcher paused and looked at the camera as if he was able to see those watching him from their homes nodded and then continued as if he was seeing them and was satisfied their attention was undivided.
"when this compound is present In certain individuals the reactions create a rather peculiar phenomenon.
Recent research result show that this phenomenon occurs not only as a result of epinephrine but also because of the presence of an extra genome in the gene chain. once the special phenomenon has been caused once it's almost certain that the phenomenon would occur again even without any cause. I have recently mapped out the certain Genes that create these marvelous humans and ...."
The video abruptly went black but one could clearly hear the screech of lightning and screaming in the background.
Mike always watched this same video every year on June 28 by Mike Langley in honour of his dead father who had died on that day and whose life work was destroyed by leaving only one video tape of his show in his sons hands.
Mike remembered the first time he
had seen the video tape,it appeared in
a box in his room, with nothing written on it, curious and bored at the time he put it in the player in his room to watch.
Mike was only fourteen years old at the time when he got the news, it was also the time he killed his mom and burned their house down, The police found him unconscious in the ashes of the house and after an investigation occurred the cause of the fire was determined as a result of faulty wiring, but Mike knew what happened, he had burnt down the house with his powers that had just awakend because of his anger and grief he felt when watching the video.
Three years later when Mike had began to think what happened years before was just an illusion, reality slapped him hard in the face as he had spontaneously ignited his surroundings during a fight with his abusive foster parents.
Mike Langley had been on the run ever since, he cut himself off from the world, avoided using any electronic devices,he stole when ever he needed something and slept in abandoned houses and dark alleyways, his only possession was the video tape showing his father's last moments.
Mike took the backpack he had found in the garbage a week before and walked out
off the soon to be demolished building he had spent the night in and walked three street away to the bus stop, he sat down on a bench and started picturing the image of the building he had just left.
A few minutes later smoke was seen clouding the clear skies and fire trucks were rushing towards the burning building.
Mike leaned back on the bench disgusted with the feeling of happiness he had when ever he used his powers but he had to use them at least once a month or else he would lose control and once that had happened it would be like that time at the airport.
Mike shut off the painful memories of the event as they were about to continue tormenting his already unstable mind.
The bus slowly drove up to the bus stop to pick up passengers moving into a new city, Mike stepped on with his backpack hoping to get some rest as the bus started its journey, the moment he walked to his seat the vehicle exploded ,The blast having failed to kill him succeed in knocking him unconscious.