"Edith!"
"Edith, wake up!!!!!"
I slowly made my way upstairs, shouting at my niece to wake up. Usually I don't do this and let her have rest but today is different.
I heard some rustling noises within her room, she might have woken up. I knocked on the door before entering.
"You can come in uncle, I'm ready."
I entered the room to check on her. She is a fine lady with medium build, fair skin, raven hair and eyes, she always wears her casual clothes. I would have been the 'popular girl' if she was just a little more 'friendly'.
"Sorry, I woke you up so early but I have some urgent work at the facility, I need to be there ASAP and I won't have any time to drop you to the training center otherwise."
She casually shrugs her shoulders having already been ready within seconds because of her ever so convenient abilities.
"Np, are you going to the scientific facility? What are guys even doing this time? Inventing something, new training programs, gadgets or armors perhaps."
I gestured in denial.
"No, it's actually different. We are trying to open spatial portals with the help of Junia 'the mad scientist'."
Edith nods.
"Makes sense as she is one of the strongest in the first generation and the biggest inventor."
Edith wears her spatial watch to store her necessities, she goes down to eat her breakfast while i go outside to get the sportscar out.
I opened my pocket diary, it contains the details of the crimson mist which changed our lives and all the things that we know, maybe today a new page will be added within it.
15 years ago, the world…No, the universe we knew changed some kind of crimson mist shrouded the universe transforming every organism and things to atomic level giving them magical properties, making them capable of doing things which were once considered insane.
It might have been fun if that was the only thing that happened but nothing comes without a prize when the crimson mist subsided, the space cracked spatial portals started appearing everywhere and consumed anything of 3m in radius.
Many people lost their family, friends and loved ones because of this….even me. But that was not the end, 5 years later when the crimson mist arrived, those previously stagnant portals activated again and this time it didn't consume but omitted hideous, rotted and grotesque creatures. They started destroying the planet, decimating continents in their wake.
Their era lasted for another 5 years they destroyed Antarctica and Europe, after that humanity learned to harness the miracles casted by the crimson mist. People with different abilities came forward to fight these monstrosities.
We still don't know how it actually works but the people who harnessed abilities first are called the first generation(like me). We just know that by staying besides the spatial portals we get nourishment and the more we stay there the stronger we get. People of the first generation harnessed the abilities of the celestial bodies and concepts such as the planets, stars, quasars, space and time, etc.
But unlike us the second generation which consists of just kids(12-20), they for some reason gained the ability to use the energy which comes from the spatial portals to control various aspects of the cosmos as long as they practiced it proficiently.
The most widely accepted theory given is that we are mutating because of the energy, crimson mist or the creatures.
The energy which they use to conduct their prowess is named Cosmic energy cause it came from some part of the cosmos.
I stop brooding and hurriedly put the diary back when Edith taps on my shoulder.
"Let's go, uncle."
She enters the car. I drive the car to sector 15 where the training center is, it's about 1:30 hr drive from our manor. The training centers are made across several spatial portals, it's a hexagonal shaped building, white in color and about 20 m in height.
"Take care and don't over-train yourself, ok, your safety is more important."
I remind Edith as she makes her towards the entrance nonchalantly.
She nods.
I sigh and drive towards the science facility, "I really hope it could work".