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1st Person's POV
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1 day after
"Bakit hindi mo magawang makailag? Sa pagkakaalam ko mabilis ka?"(Korean), Yuan said as he attacked me.
"Anong nangyari sa'yo kahapon? May ginawa ba ako? Natakot ka ba sa mga mata ko?"(Korean)
I dodge the attack.
Ang lakas niya.
"Hindi ko rin alam, ikaw. Paano mo ginawa yun?"(Korean), I asked
Bigla niya ako sinugod, sinipa niya ako sa binti kaya napatumba ako.
"AAh", malakas ang impact ng pagkakabagsak ko. Tinulungan niya akong tumayo pero bigla na naman niya akong siniko. At ngayo'y nasa leeg ko ang dulo ng patalim. Naplunok ako. Tinulak ko siya at ngawa ko naman ilayo ang sarili ko sa kaniya.
"Anong ibig mong sabihin? Anong ginawa ko? Ikaw, bakit naging pula ang kabilang mata mo? Nagulat ako. Kung… HA!.. nice attack"(Korean)
"Saan nga ulit ako?... Stand!"(Korean), he continued.
Nagawa niya ulit akong mapatumba sa halip na siya sana.
Ang bilis niya.
"Ikaw ang unang nagpakita ng pulang mata Stellar. At nakakagulat pa dun, asul ang kabila. Sino ka?"
Ako?
"Ikaw ang unang naging pula't asul ang mga mata Stellar. Dun ako nagulat.. nagulat ako ng sobra dahil pakiramdam ko, pareho lang tayo. Ilan ba ang mutation mo?"
Sorry idol. I can't tell you about me yet. Its hard to trust.
Since I woke up, Yuan already dragged me to fight with him. The others did not even say anything and Mr.Crawl even told me to be strong .Pumunta kami sa isang bundok na malapit lang sa maliit na bayan kung saan ang apartment. Ang init at wala pang masaydong mga puno. Wala kang makikita dito maliban lang sa mga damo. Wala ring tao pero may ilang puno na nasa di kalayuan. Tanging isang puno ng mangga ang malapit sa kanilang kinaroroonan na nalalagas pa ang mga dahon
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I removed the concealment revealing my real face that made this guy really surprised.
He gave a blade and I don't know how'd he made it in such length dahil kasing haba nito ang braso ko. And it was amazing how he made a twin blade. His blade was crystalline like at parang mas matatag kesa sa ice blade ko.
Pero hindi ako sigurado kung paano niya nabuo ito, ginamit niya ba ang kaniyang dugo o nilabas niya ito sa sarili niyang mga kamay. I remember the video where I unconsciously created a blade not with my blood but with my flesh.
Ilang beses na akong napaluhod at napatumba dahil sa lakas ng pag-atake niya kahit nagagawa ko itong sanggahan. Palagi akong umiilag sa bawat atake at hindi ko siya magawang itumba. Awtomatikong gamit ko ang FLEXIBITYY ko pero mas mabilis siya. Lalo akong namangha kay Yuan.
Like any other Korean pop idol, Yuan is lean and handsome but you can't tell that he was tough behind his cutesy. To be honest, naiilang ako dahil isang K-pop idol ang ka-sparring ko.
Nalaman lang namin yun ng sinabi ni Doktora na sikat siya, Larrence even googled it to show it for us and it is indeed, that this guy who was attacking me for several times without getting tired is a Star.
3 hours later.
"Anong ginawa niyo sa bundok?", (Japanese), Miko said ng pumasok kami sa apartment na nadatnan naming naglalaro ng video games sa kanyang c.p.
"Doktora...", tawag ko dito ng lumabas siya galing sa maliit na kusina. Lumapit ako sa kaniya at sumunod sa akin si Yuan.
"Lets talk"
"Of course.."
>>>>
"When the first time I see you, I felt the same when we discover Stellar.. And somewhat, my instincts say's you're no difference with her… tell us Yuan what are your mutations?", doktora said.
Mr.Crawl was in the other chair and we are facing them both. Miko was here to, Larrence was around and he was happy when he's back to normal.
Few silence occurred when Yuan started to tell his story. I was shocked by it and everybody is. He is a shifter with multiple-mutations, too. He has 6 but his the complete opposite of me, despite of being aggressive when he transformed reflected by his bloody eyes, he manages to control it , and i… the opposite who is always at risk when my highest mutation takes place.
Everytime he goes berserk, he overdose himself with heroin, morphines, glyberas and other illegal drugs that weakens his body. He's fast at recovering because his not just a mere human and after the recovery he could perform at stage or wave to the people because the possibility of his transformation was weakened.
Controlling his emotions was not easy which is the main reason why the mutations where triggered, his a celebrity and he works day and night which is stressing. He hates it, and decide to quit when he was 18 after his debut as a young solo-artist(Music producer, actor, commercial model and etc..) bloomed. His career had taught him few things to handle his other self. But he always hide his feelings towards the people even his friends in the industry in order to protect his fame and sanity. Not until his stressing reality totally jammed his life and all he can do is to let it all out by transforming, releasing his energy and stay hidden. His other self being a psychomutant was unknown except where he inherited the genes of becoming one, his grandparents.
He can only control himself even at the outburst of his emotions, perks of being an actor. And to be able to cope with it fully, his grandparents give some pieces of advise where he can learn from it to be able to continue his career without a paparazzi advertising stories and pictures of him having red eyes like a monstrous being.
Then he said ,"im good at handling myself, alone".
That statement was full of griefs when you had sit beside Yuan and notice him clenching fist. Yeah, I sit beside him and with that few strong words.. NA ah, his acting just like what he is a pretender an actor with his eyes trying to be calm and stay hidden, or acting as possible as he can to play it surreal and that nothing goes in his ways. And for me, I think his really strong in the inside… It might be great for the person who made him really strong. I hope so.
"Emotions are free, its unpredicted. Only mindset can set everything alright.", I was touched in this lines or more like relate myself, probably fear is part of it and that i loose control when fear take its part and all I can do is cry so helplessly. Damn… I don't have a powerful mind to set everything alright from my personal histories of dark emotions… Fear.
And everything that Yuan had told us, I feel like im the complete opoosite of him. Weak.
He told us about the crystalline blade, making me wander about my blade being kept for purpose. Doktora and Mr.Crawl didn't say much about it, nor in the video documentary of me being the subject of the research. And from Yuan, I want to know more about him being like me a shifter mutant with multi-mutation.
"This is my powerful weapon. Conceiving it from my own flesh and blood, it was the half of my strength and mutation. My granpa, said… I need to release the energy that could eat myself, then this has formed. It was not easy, because you could be full of yourself with power. I almost die when I created it. And somehow, I thought I could rule the world with it, I loose control that time. I didn't think carefully. I become murderer and killed few North Korean soldiers by this. I stopped my career for a year, repenting. And this year when I decided to submit myself to the authorities, someone captured me, I just break out from that laboratory after he just tortured me. Papatayin ko siya(Korean) And im coming with you to finish my business with that bastard"
"IDOOL!!", napalingon kaming lahat sa nagsalita. Its Miko giving a round of applause
"What?.. Yuan brother, I love you. What do you sing? Or movies you know? I'll promise to buy all your albums and watch all your castings. You're great. Can I call you… Stellar ano nga pala ang Korean ng Kuya?"(Japanese)
"Hyung", I answered.
"Hyung.. Hyung, you're my idol. Thank you for joining the group. I love you. I can't believe you escaped from that island.", tahimik ang lahat na nakikinig sa mga compliment ni Miko kay Yuan.
Tumayo pa ito at naki-pagfistbump, bigla siyang hinatak ni Larrence kaya natawa kami.
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"What do you think doktora? Kaya ko rin bang kontrolin ang akin? Is that what you kept my ice blade?", tanong ko kay doktora. We are here at the kitchen cooking for the lunch.
"Yes. At first Mr.Crawl hid it because his afraid of losing the rare specimen, you. "
"How? What do you mean? I don't get it. The disc you give me to me is just like a half of all the things about me?". I said but she did not respond."And its weird.. why you did not submit me to the Intel instead, the only evidence of me being someone unique… you give it to me. Tell me Mrs. Patricia, are you planning something, What?"
"You're a family to us Stellar that's why we gave it to you. Simple. We don't want you to be there in some shitty cubicles. You won't like it when you're in there. I've seen one for the animals and Yuan told me about the torture in there. You'll be threaten like worst than animal. Im afraid, Stellar.. Im afraid to loose a family. We don't want to loose you because we don't want you to be hurt. You're like a granddaughter to me. Mr.Crawl may not show it but he changed, I know that somewhere in his heart, you're a family and we don't want a family to be hurt in worst scenarios. We care for you Stellar and now.. we don't want you to be part of the plan, we don't want you to be unsafe when we we go there. "
I feel guilty when I doubted about them planning for more about my specialty. And I want to hug her for treating me as a family despite of this tight situation in the first place. But about that… Me? Not involving with them after we made it all the way here? No.. im not turning back.
"I won't allow that, I want to help my friends. And, and… that.. we need to rescue Elamore there and help the others. Doktora, im still going"
"Stellar… Didn't you listen to Yuan a while ago? Your transformation might be your end, we can't let that happen, we don't want you to fight."
"I need answers doktora, and only this.. Finishing all of this, and I can go home. It's a must. I feel it. Im going there Mrs. Patricia wheither you and Mr.Crawl tie me right now. No one's gonna stop me, because.. because they were also my family. We've become friends even with the slightest moment. And family sticks together no matter what, and I know you're taking the risk or sacrificing for me to stay uninvolved with both of you r else I'll be easily tracked and known by the agents if I where with some researchers of pyschomutants"
Ayan nasabi ko na. All this time, nung umalis sila at iniwan nila ako without telling me the real reason? Im not dumb not to figure it out. When they called and told me they were being traced and that they need to be away. I know.. I always know, they're keeping me away from the enemies and trying to keep me unknown like I hid my identity on that filthy face of Ruzzel Mason.
"Stellar iha. You have the answers, we give you the disc, we showed you who you are and that's all you need to know. And if there's more, you can get the answers without going there. Don't get yourself a trouble again."
Trouble again?
Tss. When was that again, when I realize I was born to cause trouble? Im ready for it… Im ready to face my fear and all, by that I may find peace and home.
"Someone was hunting me, someone wanted me to be there, Max told me...It was me who they needed that's why they kidnap my friend for us to follow them. And im going to save my friend and take the necessary. Because in the first place you should have given me to them. And all these 'troubles again' won't have gotten in your place or involve any of you"
I saw pain in Doktora's expression. I felt guilty for turning their sacrifices down.
I should not have said that but im determined to end things up and as possible as I can, im prepared to sacrifice my life for these people I called my second family for dragging them into these mess.
"…." Doktora didn't respond and she's oblivious she had lost words to change my mind.
I left her and I know it hurts a lot for them that the kid they used to love us a family was not listening to their advice.
Now I feel like a rebellious lady.
But it was the last way to end it or else more and more people would be in trouble because of me 'again'.