calling ark genius was an understatement. he quit school at the age of 7 after convincing his parents by directly solving university level exams. he seem interested in worlds history before manifested. for 2 years straight learned everything about this world before manifested.
ark, at the age of 9 stared taking interest in his parents work and started his research on manifested and mutation that happened 140 years ago. he created an AI which helped him track his parents and Luna. it seems from his birth ark was learning everything about the world.
and rarely behaved like children's do. and he seems over protective of his parents and Luna. just last year ark went to Luna's school and beaten some older students at school. later it was found that they were bulling underclass students and among them was Luna.
even school teachers didn't know about it. but some how ark found out without asking Luna or visiting school. even his parent couldn't make ark answer there questions. from then it sums up as ark had the last say in this house from age of 10.
it was clear that ark was abnormally intelligent and mature.
Novella only ever noticed this kind of behavior in recently manifested but even they didn't have this abnormal behavior beyond their age. And ark hasn't even gone though manifestation yet.
"even though they are both kids…"
But what surprised him more was unlike what you expect from such genius. Ark seems to make time for his family and even forces his parents to go out on weekends together.
"it seems ark made sure that everyone in the family was happy and taken care of and made it look easy. This kid.."
Novella didn't know what to say. But after a some time a smile formed on his face it seems his son and daughter-in-law had a happy family and he missed out on a lot of things.
Novella then looked at the lady in suit and said
"get me information Kenji's son."
It seems she was already expecting it as she said.
"it is already sent to the tablet sir."
Novella nodded and went though the his best friend's son information. Kenji's son name was Ryu takeshi. It took him by surprise a little as Kaito Kenji his friend's last name was Kenji which he always called him by but it seems Ryu didn't have this last name Kenji
As he continued reading he found that takeshi was family name of Kenji's wife akira. As both Kaito and akira were always by his side they didn't even spend time with Ryu.
Ryu grew up with his grandfather Baihu takeshi, Father of akira. Baihu is a draconid manifested. Who was very popular for his strength and Novella know him very well as he single-handedly wiped out most of the outlaws and helped in formation of collective Asia.
Baihu was once said to be strongest manifested in collective Asia. Baihu inherited a family dojo which is later converted into a manifested trainging and fighting dojo.
Ryu takeshi grew up with baihu form age of 2. unlike ark, Ryu never went to school but everything was taught by his own grandfather. And his grandfather always made Ryu fight with those older then him.
And just 2 moths ago 11 year old Ryu won a fight with a 2 level manifested. which lead to most manifested institutes to already sending invitations for Ryu, among which is his own ark of nova.
And it seems Ryu's grandfathers kicked out Ryu out of dojo and the house for some reason. It was rumored that Ryu beat up head disciple of dojo who was supposed to be level 4 wolf manifested(not werewolf).
And 11 year old Ryu seems to hate his parents and was kicked out by his grandfather is living alone in an apartment.
".…."
Novella was again didn't know what to say he would have never imagine a 11 year old beating a manifested. where even an adult wouldn't able to beat a level 1 manifested. He can't even imagine what kind of training Ryu went though.
he thought no one can beat ark in being abnormal for his age but it seems Ryu was even more abnormal. Surprising thing was Ryu didn't take money from his parents nor anyone but he became a trainer in a gym to earn for his living.
"i made haste in making my promise. He doesn't seems to need an adult to take care of him"
Thinking back Novella remembered how Kenji couple insisted that there is no need of taking care of Ryu and him giving his word that he will look after Ryu along with ark and nova and that was what he must do for their sacrifice they made for him.
"how do I even go around to make him listen to me?"
with all the information in hand he started to make some plans. As a man who made ark of nova from scratch and made it into a biggest and the world no 1 manifested institute. Taking care of some ki…. two abnormal kids and one sweet child is not that hard.
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Ark's p.o.v
Time passed and the sun rose up.
Ark got up and woke his sister as they got fresh. Ark remembered last night meeting his grandfather for the first time. He knew more about the incident of how their parents died more then Novella could ever imagine.
Ark even though not a manifested. His soul is different from others he some time have flashes of visions more like someone's memories. For as long as he could remember. When ever he was about to make bad or wrong choices he gets a vision like a memory of someone which is almost as he was the one experiencing it.
This visions helped him now how much family matters and the power of knowledge. he knew he was different from others. He kept track of everything that happening around his family using technology he created an AI. which helps in collecting information and making reports daily.
2 weeks before his parents death, he got a report of project his parents and grandfather were working on it was about source of manifested. How manifested get their powers. it was not harmful project at all. But one day his fathers friend akito found the soul aura frequency of a manifested is always growing slowly but surely.
And it was found that this growth of soul aura lead to mutation of manifested. And in future when it reaches certain limit it may further mutate once again. Ark himself was interested in this more then anyone. So he logged into the arks research database and looked into the research.
1 day before the incident his father and mother found a way to fasten this increase in soul aura frequency. As the it was found that a manifested soul seems to resonate with something.
On the day of the incident there was a vote on to conduct further live experiment on a manifested. And that day the voting was canceled by his grandfather as he has the final say in everything. The experiment carried on.
He didn't know the specifics on what exactly happened but he knew it was sole decision of his grandfather. All the records were wiped out after that incident. He hated his grandfather to the core when his found out that his parents died that day.
He was about to consume by anger when he got a vision again but this time it was different from previous one's. As he also heard someone voice…
Ark's p.o.v (the vision)
"we were once at blink of extinction "
In the vision, he saw war and death. Even though it was all blurry he felt pain and unwillingness inside him somehow even though he didn't know any of them.
"we had to change and break our race principles/rules which we followed from beginning of our tribe just to survive."
Ark saw how the loosing few used some kind of magic which made the other side sick and deathly after which the losing side retreated while people of opposite side started to eat their fellow soldiers. It was all bloody.
"we survived and world stated to fear us that day we broke out oath. We started to expand. but war never ended."
He started see people conquering kingdoms and establishing an empire. But the war never stopped both sides fought for centuries. It was cruel, bloody and unending war.
"one day I found a way that might stop the war. A scroll containing a forbidden magic. Which said when used will lead to eternal peace. Even though it may lead to disaster and everyone near me might not want to do it. I decided it is what must be done."
When words ended he saw an mighty looking person issuing an order. Then people using a forbidden magic which opened a portal and from which came beast so powerful that only a few could fight.
Then he saw the might person who issued the order fighting never ending beast to save his love...