I Am Number 10

NUMBER 002

"Start the engine."

A doctor slowly turned the button, but the girl stayed silent; no cry or scream could be heard from her; she just kept looking into the void.

"Vitals are stable."

"Changing the pace at 0.07"

As the girl felt the familiar sensation creeping through every nerve in her body, she immediately moaned.

"Increasing the pace"

A very cold sensation crawled all over the girl's body. She felt as if it was slowly destroying every organ in her body; the pain was so unbearable making her unable to speak.

A tight bite of her lip was all she could do to alleviate the pain throughout her body.

They will get tired again like last time; this will be over.

In spite of this, the matter inside her system is spreading at an exponential rate with each passing second.

The girl quickly turned around, taking deep and continuous breaths after feeling the cold sensation reach her heart.

"Phase number one has passed."

The girl could no longer keep quiet after feeling as if small needles were piercing her entire body from the inside out.

The pain was too intense for her to describe in a single sentence; she did not know what else she could do. For a child of that age, it is destructive to the point of death.

She felt something strange coming out of her fingers, but she didn't care; no one did, even the people outside.

The girl was too focused on screaming and struggling. It sounds crazy, but it doesn't even help to ease the pain.

"Phase number two is complete."

Little by little, whatever sensation she felt on her finger began to spread to her whole body until she felt a very painful thing creeping into her brain, causing the scream to become louder than before.

It was like thousands of needles piercing her whole body; even if the girl wanted to put her hand up to adjust herself, her whole body was tightly handcuffed to the hospital bed where she was lying.

"Phase number three has passed."

Gradually, every strand of her very black hair turned white, causing the doctors to become more mesmerized by the visible changes in her appearance.

Despite the pain, the girl closed her eyes tightly, trying to stop herself from screaming from the pain, but what was happening to her body only got worse.

Too much unbearable pain has caused her to scream once again. It is as if she is starting to lose her mind.

The rapid change in her eye color, which was once black but has now completely turned gray, is evident.

The people outside happily joked with each other. The rest of them hugged happily because of the visible change in the girl. They were all celebrating, perhaps too soon.

In the middle of the celebration, every light bulb inside the room started to turn on and off, causing everyone to immediately stop what they were doing.

One by one, the monitors malfunctioned, and the doctors could no longer control what was happening in their system. Someone is trying to get every bit of data from them.

All of their technical team tried to fix it, but it was useless; they kept losing the system.

Suddenly, every monitor they own made a loud shrieking sound, which was followed by an explosion of every item inside the room—every electronic device, every piece of equipment they own—exploded.

Regardless of what happened, they heard an extreme scream, and everyone turned to see what was causing it.

A female doctor was floating, struggling, and holding her neck in the air.

"H-help me!" She uttered in a dying voice and suddenly fell. The doctor's whole body hit a sharp object, which caused immediate death.

Some just held their mouths in silence and fearfully looked back inside the glass room. The child was no longer lying on the hospital bed; instead, she was standing while floating.

She faced them while staring into the void, and those inside would never forget the gradual change in her eyes; from possessing gray-colored eyes, they began to turn into a bright yellow color.

Everyone became more nervous, so all of them immediately ran to the door. They all tried opening it, but the door didn't even break.

The man with the gun quickly went to a table and pressed the red button, causing a thick sleeping gas to spread inside the glass room.

The entire room was enveloped in thick smoke. Everyone rested gently, thinking it was over.

After a few seconds, everyone expected a sleeping girl, but they were even more shocked to see her still floating in the air.

Her hands were raised in the air as she was intently observing it; it's so white that you'd think the child is a floating corpse. She was dumbfounded and not even worried about the commotion that was happening around her.

Just as the girl reached for a few strands of her hair, a bright white strand appeared before her.

The girl looked around angrily, specifically at a man who now had his gun pointed at her.

"Quid hoc fecisti mihi? What did you do to me?"

One by one, the lights exploded, and the screams of the doctors who were there got louder and louder in fear.

One of them sneaked into the room and pointed a tranquilizer gun at the child's back.

When it fired, the tranquilizer dart quickly plunged towards the girl, but it immediately stopped in the air, its thread slowly spinning towards the doctor.

"Oh, shit"

The doctor quickly lost consciousness when the thread touched his neck.

"Activate the weapons!"

Suddenly, the entire ceiling of the place opened, and various powerful guns came out of it. They quickly aimed at the girl.

The girl simply waved her hands and destroyed all the weapons at the same time. She didn't take her eyes off the man, who was now looking at her angrily.

In the blink of an eye, the girl suddenly appeared right in front of him.

She just looked directly into his eyes and observed his every action: his erratic and heavy breathing, the dilated pupils, the cold sweat forming on his forehead, and even the hard and irregular breathing that he took.

The girl slowly tilted her head while looking at the man's hands.

The man immediately raised his gun but was shocked to realize that the weapon he was holding was no longer in his hands. When he looked in front of him, the weapon he was looking for was already floating in the air and was directly aimed at him.

"What did you do?"

"What the hell are you doing? Kill this bastard right now!" He spoke angrily around, but he was shocked to see that everyone was dead; he was the only one left alive.

The girl approached him seriously, causing the man to pull back.

He slumped down and yelled loudly. He could feel his legs' bones being crushed one by one.

"Exaudi me," the little girl simply stated as she gently touched the head of the person in front of her.

He could feel the gradual crushing of his whole body.

"I should've killed you, you fucking child!" His saliva sputtered out of anger.

The last thing he saw was the bright yellow girl's eyes; they were the brightest and most mesmerizing eyes he had ever seen in his entire life, perhaps the last one. His whole body exploded around him; the man's blood was scattered all over the place, some of it even splattered on the girl's body, but she didn't care anymore.

Realizing that there was no life left in front of her, the child's gray eyes slowly returned.

The surroundings suddenly became quiet as she returned her attention to the sight of her small hands, which were covered in thick and slimy blood.

"I don't feel good."

Tears suddenly fell from her eyes. She held her cheek to feel the tears falling from her eyes.

"What did you do to me?" She asked, but no one answered.

She slowly hugged herself. She began to scratch her arms with her nails, causing her white and smooth skin to be scarred.

Not once did she feel any pain; instead, her wounds healed quickly, causing the pitiful child to become even more angry.

"Bring everything back!" She spoke loudly as her bright yellow eyes immediately returned.

Soon, there was a very strong earthquake in the whole area.

Along with the strong earthquake was the girl's gentle exit from the door, as if nothing was happening.

As she was walking, she could see how the people panicked because of the earthquake. They ran one by one while carrying various things, trying to save every bit of data, every idea, and every apparatus as they could. They give their whole lives to every experiment; no one can destroy or take it away from them that easily, not even a strong and dangerous earthquake.

The girl calmly raised her hand, and all the people who saw it immediately fell.

One by one, blood dripped from their noses until their entire bodies exploded without even knowing what had happened to them.

Due to the strength of the earthquake, chemicals began to fall inside a room, and smoke gradually began to appear from it.

The mixing of different chemicals inside the laboratory caused a massive chemical reaction, which caused the huge building where the girl was located to explode.

The child felt something hot coming from her right side, but it was too late; the explosion had hurled her small body violently into the distance.

On a quiet island, a tremendous explosion shattered its quietness. A large laboratory standing in the middle of that same small island was quickly consumed by a powerful explosion.

A lot of strange objects quickly plunged into the sky; they collided with each other again. It was like the fireworks on New Year's Eve. Beautiful yet disturbing. 

For the second time, there was a tremendous explosion in the sky, causing the strange objects to break apart from each other and violently fly in every direction.

In that brief moment, no one, not even the girl, knew how much of an impact that explosion had on changing the whole world.