"What is going inside of your head, Zene?" "..." "Don't you think you are getting too touchy with these men?", he inquired. "And how does it concern you, exactly?", she grumbled. "It does concern me" "What if you go missing because one of them ended up being a serial killer?" "Zene, don't get on my nerves since we both are fragment users", Aren massaged her temples which started to ache because Zene was speaking utter nonsense. "It's not just that but what if they found out you are a fragment user?", Zene inquired curiously. "Zene look into a mirror those eyes of yours are glowing pink", Aren stated while it signified that Zene was losing control over his fragment on the most mundane of reasons that a fragment user shouldn't bother using their powers on. Zene composed himself as his eyes turned brown once again. "You talk about me losing power while you are the most restless and outright impulsive out of the both of us, Zene", Aren moved further away from his grasps as
"Sounds like a plan!", Zene exclaimed. "So when and where do we begin?", Zene inquired while staring at the sky keenly awaiting for Agent G's answer. Sigh* Next day (We were inside of an old apartment complex sandwiched between two large buildings making it almost unnoticeable by a bystander), Zene narrated. The Agent rented a large room inside of this apartment. A white board was hinged onto the wall while pictures of several men were pinned onto the board. "Who is this woman beside me?", Zene inquired while pointing at a young lady in her 20s sitting beside him. "She is an asset of mine just as you are", Agent G responded. "And we do not share information of different assets to one another", he added. "I see, so she is going to work with us isn't she", Zene asked. "Yes", the lady stated in a Spanish accent. "Shall we get on with the plan first", Agent G remarked while trying to gain their attention. "Go ahead", Zene replied. "So, our objective is to find V
On one side Zene and his crew were all set to leave to Gubkin while on the other side Aren was searching for Zene who was nowhere to be seen in college. (Where the hell is he anyway?), she thought while looking for him around the hallroom. "Are you looking for something?", Mickey inquired while sitting on Zene's seat. "Yeah actually, Do you have any idea where Zene might be?", she inquired. "You didn't know?" "Didn't know what exactly?", Aren asked out of confusion. "Zene was suspended for breaking college property" "Ah shit", Aren got up and left the class while pulling out her cellphone. Ring* Ring* {The number you are calling is not answering. Please Call again later} "Damn it!" Ring* Ring* (Pickup! Pickup, damn it!) {The number you are calling is not answering. Please Call again later} Aren got fed up and went back to the Lecture Hall. "Did you find anything?", Mickey inquired. Aren glanced at the boy while trying to calm her frustration which was e
Chatter noises intensify* Aren made her way through the crowd while her eyes gazed over the bulletinboard. Sigh* "Guess today's the day, huh", Aren looked anxious as she stared at the name of her mentor. She searched the hall in hopes of finding Zene but then she was quickly reminded of his recent suspension. "Hey!", Mickey appeared from behind and caught Aren by surprise. "Hi", she said while her faced looked dull. "You look gloomy", he said. "Do I?" "Yeah, but you look better with a smile on your face", he added. "Any reason behind you appearing behind my back?", Aren inquired in anticipation of ending the conversation. "Uh huh, you are heading off to your mentor's cabin aren't you?", Mickey inquired. "Yeah" "Great, my mentor is currently present at the same exact spot so why don't we go together?", he inquired. "Sure" Knock* Knock* "Looks like nobody is inside the cabin", Aren pointed out. "Doesn't matter we could just wait for them, can't we?", Mi
Moscow State University, Russia Professor Trotsky showed the mentees a circuit board with a EMF configuration. "How much time, do we have left Ivanov?" "Around 45 mins, Professor Trotsky" "So tell me students, why do you think I want to isolate an atom?" Their blank faces gave rise to a brief silence before he resumed. "Quantum entanglement" "We study these isolated atoms to observe this very entanglement", he added. "Tell me what is this, quantum entanglement?", Trotsky inquired. "...", Aren stared silently with a clueless expression. "Ivanov", Professor Trotsky pointed his finger. "Superposition of electrons is a prime example to this phenomenon, where two distinct far objects interact with one another which is otherwise physically impossible to interact with", Ivanov stated. "Does this ring any bell to you, students?" "So, unless an electron is observed we will not be able to calculate it's state", Aren replied. "And why do we need to know about this? Ar
(Zene) Huff Puff While the jets flew past his head, Zene was having the same nightmare every single day. The same nightmare that told him a tale of a destined future. But, Zene was not the one to mingle with stupendous stuff such as fate and destiny. He woke up to a call from Agent G. And now here he was, in front of numerous mercenaries that went beyond the counting of fingers. His fist glew pink and his eyes set dead on his target. Swoosh* Zene lept forward as he closed down on the distance between him and the mercenaries that were unaware of his presence. Bam* Zene slammed one of the soldiers down to the ground as the remaining pointed their rifles at him startled by his emergence from thin air. "We have an intruder! Open fire!!!", Yelled one of the mercenaries before he began open firing at Zene. Bam* Bam* Bam* Zene dodged the bullets fired at him as he grabbed the neck of the mercenary and snapped his neck with little resistance. "Fire!!!" Argh* Zene dashed from
Huff Puff All the three members of the squad united near a junction. The smell of burnt plastic and rusted Metal filled the vicinity. Zene dragged the target, Aleksandr Petrov along with him. "You knocked him unconscious?", Lisa inquired while staring at Zene. "Felt like making things a bit easier", Zene replied while he scratched his head. "Oh damn, that's one way to bring the man in question", Agent chuckled while he walked towards both assets. "What exactly happened, Zene?", Agent asked out of curiosity. "I went into the warehouse, through the front gate?" "Who even enters through the front gate?", Lisa interrupted. "So, I enter inside and see this man clench his fists" "I was already quite annoyed because of those Hagner mercenaries" "So, you took it out on him?", Lisa grumbled. "I gave him ten seconds to surrender", Zene replied. "That's so much, next time you should probably not even hesitate" "I mean it was fun, he put up a good fight. Is he a hy
"Who are you?" "..." "How did you know my name?" "Easy there, One question at a time" "Who are you?" "I am Vladamir Trotsky, your highness" "What did you mean by that?" "I don't know what you are talking about", Vladamir replied. {False} Aren pointed the gun at him. "What are you?" "Just a random visitor" {True} "What do you mean by that?" "I don't know what you are talking about" {False} "The next time you lie, I will shoot you", Aren gave one final warning. "Why did you call me, your highness?" "I can't answer that" Aren pointed the gun but Trotsky pointed his hand at her and snapped his fingers. In an instant the gun that Aren once held was now in Trotsky's hands. "What the-" "Miss Aren, what was the first lesson I told you" "...", Aren stared out of confusion. "Observation" "Although you only believe something once you have observed that doesn't mean all observations are in fact real" "Don't believe what you see, it will be helpf
"I created you, Zene", Trotsky replied. "You and Aliyonah both were my creations that I brought up in a lab" "While I never gave her any memories after her creation but the same I couldn't have possibly applied on you" "I needed you to have those memories, I needed you to be ready when the time came" "I threw the both of you in that military camp, because it was what I was supposed to do" Zene looked at him while his eyes narrowed down. "Those memories of yours, all of them were a lie" "A fabricated story" Zene fell on the cold snow, his body started trembling while he couldn't reason with the storm of emotions that ran inside of him. He cuddled himself while tears ran down from his eyes. Zene felt like a failure, he lost the one thing that reminded him that he was not just a weapon but once may have been a human as well. {Zene it is better to die as a human than as a weapon, don't you think} Natsuki's words did no better, his mind was not reasoning. {Zene, wh
Huff Puff Agent opened his eyes only for him to look at a surreal landscape. Volcanoes erupted from the ground, craters that spanned kilometers wide. Oceans that soared hundred feet high and the world that we once knew was in a state of apocalypse. Creatures that defied science, the world turned closer to fantasy than reality. His skin started sweating while the heat suffocated him. He looked around to find a giant monster stand in front of him, a being with one eye, it's span crossing hundred meters wide and standing as tall as an empire state building. He looked at the monster as it now faced him. With a single breath of that monster his body dissipated to thin dust. Huff Puff Agent woke up as he layed on the snow. He looked around as his hazy vision turned clear. There he was Vladamir Trotsky standing in front of him while Lisa herself was knocked unconscious. Agent layed on the ground with no strength left in his body to get up. "What was that thing tha
The cold winds brushed past their faces with the freezing cold that turned their lips numb. While their muscles ached on top of the lack of air made it difficult to carry forward with the luggage strapped behind their backs. "Zene did you bring the oxygen cylinders?", Lisa inquired. Zene stopped and dropped the heavy bag on the ground. "Take it, We need to move quickly before the sun sets", Zene stated while he looked at the peak that was hundreds of meters ahead of them. Huff Puff "I feel light in the head as well", Agent replied. "We need to move quickly to find some shelter before the cold gets the best out of us", he added. "Zene, you were the one that carried all the load" "How are you still standing still?", Agent inquired. "I keep my body under equilibrium while I maintain control on my fragment" "I see", Agent looked ahead of them. "Are you done, Lisa?", Agent asked out loud. "Yeah, let's go", she puffed one last time before she retracted the oxygen cy
Cling Clang A guard approached the solitary cell and opened the heavy metal door open. The place was drak with no lighting on the inside, there he was the man in question groaning at the flash of bright light onto his sunken eyes. "Dimitri Popov, I have some questions for you", Zene stated with a smile on his face. Screech* Zene closed the metal door and placed a lamp for lighting the room. "Never saw a guard like you, must be a new one", Dimitri murmured. "It wouldn't be a stretch if I told you that I came all this way for you", Zene replied. "I am but a lifer that has been serving in this prison for fifty years, what use would I be to a young handsome man such as you, sir." With wrinkles all over his face and the sunken eyes alongside his tired expressions spoke more words than any stories told by the inmates in the lunch hours. "What brought an old man such as you down into these dark rooms?", Zene inquired. "You refuse to work for the warden and he throws you
"What do you mean by that?", Aren inquired while she sat on the table. Sigh* "I will not answer any questions related to you, do you understand that?", Trotsky grumbled. "When you told my father to find his path, his purpose did you mean something?" "Your father, he wished to find the reason behind his existence and that's when he came up with an idea" "Natsuki! We did it, We discovered a new element!!!", Mokshith yelled out loud out of joy. "Guys, Guys I have something to tell", Natsuki calmed the boys down. "Now that we have finished our last project, I think I want to move on to the next phase of my life" "Where are you headed to, Natsuki?", Trotsky inquired. "I have decided to go on a journey around the world to find my purpose" "You want us to come along?", Mokshith inquired. "He meant to go alone on this journey, Mokshith", Trotsky replied. "Ah, that sucks" "We have finished all the projects that we dreamed of building, didn't we?", Natsuki stated. "..
"You should get some sleep, Mokshith", Trotsky suggested while he wiped his face dry. "I can stay up a bit longer", he replied while looking at the ward inside which natsuki was bedridden. "I hope he wakes up soon", Mokshith stated. "He will anytime now", Trotsky murmured quietly. Huff Puff Natsuki woke up from that everlasting nightmare only for him to look at the attire of his inside the hospital. His face was covered in bandages, his entire body was covered in cloth to heal his burn wounds. Natsuki gasped for air as he looked around to find a nurse stare at him with popped out eyes. "Doctor!", the nurse screamed out loud. Huff Puff Natsuki looked around as his hazy vision started to clear up. There they were men that he once knew stood in front of him with worried eyes. "Are you okay?" "Natsuki can you hear me?", Mokshith yelled out loud. Their voices were muffled and his ears were constantly ringing. He looked at the white room with bright lights fl
Glug Glug A young child was caged within a glass container, the boy couldn't open his eyes nor could he move his body. Zene gasped as he woke up from the same nightmare. "So you finally woke up, huh", Lisa stared at Zene who was gasping to get some fresh air. "What time is it?", Zene groaned. "It's 11 am and Agent drove us near to the prison while you slept all night", Lisa replied. "Where is he?", Zene inquired. "He should come back any moment now" "Guys get out of the car", Agent pulled out a suitcase that cared their essentials. "Where are you going?", Zene asked. "We will be staying inside the hotel for a day or two", Agent replied. Sigh* Lisa fell on the soft bed and began stretching her body for some comfort. Moan* "Stop making weird sounds", Zene grumbled. "Does it excite you, my boy?", Lisa chuckled. "Piss off" "Zene, shall we take a look at the jail?", Agent inquired while he brought out a file related to the target. "Right let's get it over
As soon as we arrived at the church we saw a couple kissing each other. And that's when I first saw Natsuki cry. "That's Clara", he murmured. "Who, I can't see any girl nearby", Mokshith squinted for better view. "Is she the one that kissed that guy" "Yeah", Natsuki looked gloomy while tears trickled down from his eyes. "I did everything I could man" Natsuki glared at the couple unaware of his presence. "And some random guy comes in and takes her away with little to no effort" His veins popped as he glared at them with his teeth gritting against one another. "It's unfair" "Natsuki, Listen man you need to chill out", Mokshith tried to calm him down. Natsuki went through hell day after day and not once did his fragment respond. But today, his fragment took over him. [Fragment of Origin] His body was covered in weird tattoo marks with flesh burning from within him. "Natsuki, is that you?", Clara inquired as she got a little closer for a better view from th
"How will I produce such energy, Vladamir?", Natsuki asked out of confusion. "So, first up we have to start things back from square one" "You need to remove all the knowledge that you had behind, do you understand?", Trotsky added. "Yeah explain it to us", Mokshith replied. "So, do you know what fragments both of you possess, gentlemen?" "I possess the fragment of light, am I correct?", Mokshith replied. "That is correct" "And you Natsuki" "Me?" "I don't think I ever felt this thing that you call fragments" Sigh* "That's really weird, all of your kind should be able to sense it, do you feel anything weird inside your body?" Natsuki paused momentarily as he tried to sense something within him. His concentration was all diverted towards his torso in an attempt to sense this feeling or presence of the fragments. As he explored through the darkness, Natsuki witnessed two flame orbs revolving around one another. "Do you see it, Natsuki?" "I can see flames and that's about i