Every living being alive felt a call of something, like a feeling in the core of their being whether it's a plant, insect, or animal to human beings from beings with a single sense to beings with six senses (aararivu). But only those beings who can hear and discern different sounds heard it clearly "NALLA SYSTEM…"
It's as if a distant call from miles away echoing in their souls but they can't find the source of it, as they heard it in their mind, not from any external source.
Every human who was awake was already panicking some due to the change in their body, some searching for their loved ones, some grieving for the death of their friends and relatives, and some even due to the loss of their hard-earned wealth. But at this moment, all these movements came to a halt because they felt what they were going to hear was going to be an important announcement that would change their lives.
"THIS IS NALLA, A CONSCIOUS BORN DUE TO THE CHANGES THAT HAPPENED IN THIS PLACE, DUE TO THE SUDDEN DISARRAY THAT HAS OCCURRED TO THE EXISTING CYCLE OF THINGS, I WHO WAS BORN IN THIS PLACE WILL BE AN INDICATOR AND HISTORIAN FOR ALL THE CHANGES THAT WILL HAPPEN FROM NOW ON AND I INTRODUCE THE SYSTEM CALLED NALLA SYSTEM. EXPLORE AND THRIVE."
All the living beings except humans had an instinctive feeling that the call was just an announcement stating to do as they always did, and was not anything harmful to them but the human who heard felt there was some hidden meaning within the announcement as there lots of things that weren't clearly explained.
Date: November -2019_
Place: South_India_
Mohan who had fallen comatose for a couple of months rose upon hearing this announcement, he stood there dazed for a few moments and after calming himself a few minutes he finally surveyed his surroundings to get an idea of where he was, as he clearly knew this was not the place he fell unconscious.
He stared at the surrounding area where the once thriving housing complexes stood, as all he could see was the devastation of the destroyed building that couldn't be further obliterated. It finally dawned upon him that he was the only one alive as far as his eyes could reach as he couldn't hear any movement from all around him. Tears flowed from his eyes without any indication he fell kneeling to the ground head down thinking about all the moments he shared with his family, all the care they had given him while raising him, just thinking about the fact that they were never going to see each other again shattered his hearts to pieces. He cried there all night clenching his shirt near his chest crumbling them feeling the pain in his heart.
Only when the mild light from the gray sun grazed upon the similarly but intense blacker sky did he rise again after digesting the fact that he didn't want to acknowledge. He carefully searched the place where his house previously was, removing the debris there he found the body of his parents and his sister below several layers of concrete smashed without any recognition. His stomach tried to throw up whatever was left in it but fortunately, it was empty after a few months of coma. Tears flowing he could only remember their faces in his mind, he raised a slab there with an R.I.P. sign and left the place.
As he felt hungry after not eating for a long time he felt malnourished but instead of feeling weak he felt much higher strength than what he had before, he searched for places that may have something edible like a supermarket or any market in general for salvaging food to eat. While he was searching he thought about his strength and the reason for him being alive as it was an enigma to him. If all the people in his surrounding area died how could he be the only one alive?
"How can I be the only person alive for as far as could see? Am I the destined one that is going to lead the people for its former prosperity?"
But this thought changed sooner than he would have liked….
After searching for half an hour where he couldn't see for more than a few hundred meters he finally managed to find a somewhat intact roadside shop where some fruits and vegetables survived without being squashed in the calamity. But what he saw appalled him.
"What are you?" he shouted at the morphed being who was also at the store and was there for the same purpose as it seems as he ravaged all the edible things he could get his hand on to satiate his hunger. He looked wholly human except for his bulging abdomen which has a strange dark hue same as the surrounding atmosphere.
"I am human as much as you, why are you screaming at me?" morphed being shouted back.
Mohan felt there was something different from him other than his deformed body as he felt like he was not behaving like a human, so quickly began to run away from this place.
"Why are running? Aren't you here for the search of food too?" shouted back the morphed as he also chased after Mohan as he instinctively felt there was something he was having that was enticing to him.
After seeing he was chased Mohan panicked and began to run as fast he could to escape from falling into morphed hands.
"You stop right there. Give me what that belongs to me" shouted morphed after seeing him fleeing in full speed.
Hearing what is said by the morphed it suddenly clicked in Mohan's mind that it was this same feeling he got from the morphed as if it had something that is beneficial to him but due to his fear after seeing him, his lucid mind made him flee at the first chance.
Before he could run for long he stumbled and fell as he couldn't control the new strength he got. He was heavily hit on his left forearm as he used it to guard his face from getting a direct hit from the ground. The morphed quickly caught up with him at this chance, he quickly neared him with a confused but fierce expression on his face as he yelled, "Give it to me" loudly.
"I don't have anything on me, please leave me I won't come here again" Mohan responded after hearing what morphed said for the second time, he got up and backed away as much as could.
Hearing this the morph became even more fierce as he felt Mohan was lying to him, as he could clearly feel he had something that was his on him. "If you are not willing then I will take it with my own hands from your body…"