2023-09-20 17:52:42Levi was surprised to know that 626 was pregnant. He never knew the children he once kidnapped from the orphanage and streets had grown to the extent of testing the forbidden fruit.
"Who is the father?" He asked, but got no reply. "Would you prefer their heads to explode?" He asked as he touched the device hanging on his necklace. 626 noticed the action, which gave her the answer to one of their biggest questions. They had always wondered how Levi was able to make their heads explode. So she had just realized it was the device he attached to his necklace.
"707," she lied and called the one Levi killed earlier today.
"Well, it doesn't matter. Maybe this child will be the key to everything." Levi's eyes glistened.
From then onwards, Dr. Levi started taking care of 626. He never allowed her to have any encounter with the others. So, even though 626 had discovered the device that makes their heads explode, there was no way to tell others. Also, her health kept deteriorating. Days turned to weeks, and weeks turned to months. Her stomach kept getting bigger, but her health kept getting worse. It was as if she was exchanging her life for the child. Mr. Tilo would always visit to check up on the experiment. His wife had just given birth, and he hoped to make his child an awakener. Nine months later, 626 gave birth to a beautiful, healthy boy. He was already an awakener from birth. Awakening occurs from 13-15 years. Sometimes it can come earlier or later, but it has never occurred by birth.
"It is a miracle." Dr. Levi laughed as he took the baby from one of his assistants. He didn't care about the mother who was longing for her child.
"Take her to the others." Levi muttered as he placed the baby inside a pod.
"That will kill him." The assistant who had just handed over the baby said. She was a B-rank healer.
"It doesn't matter, Abigail. He would make way for others to come." Levi replied.
Abigail had started working here over a year ago. This wasn't what she was expecting when she first started working here. She thought it was a facility that was trying its best to develop drugs that would help humans. She was surprised at the inhumane experiment going on, but she knew she would die if she ever leaked it out. She looked at 626 with pity as they dragged her away. Abigail is mainly the reason 626 was able to survive this long. Abigail would always use her healing abilities to ease the young lady's pain. Dr. Levi grinned as the pod exposed the child's DNA and revealed the secret behind his potentials. Finally, Dr. Levi was able to see the reason why his experiments had been failing.
"Who said science is not the greatest? The world shall watch as I create better humans. Humans that would see me as God." Levi laughed maniacally. With everything revealed, Dr. Levi went ahead to alter the pod and the serum in order to create a perfect awakener.
"626," 745 said weakly as 626 was thrown together with them. It had been 9 months since they last saw each other. 626 looked at her lover, and he wasn't any better than her. Only 745 and 755 were still alive, and their conditions were bad.
"They took my boy." 626 cried, and 745 tried to console her. "He was crying, and they didn't even let me console him?" She kept crying. 745 felt powerless since he couldn't protect his son or the woman he loved. He could only console her.
Upon hearing the news of the success, Tilo brought his son over to have him awakened. He didn't care if the process failed and the boy died. He could no longer endure the shame of being looked down upon.
"Place him inside the pod; this serum will alter his DNA and turn him into an awakener. Too bad it can only be done to babies." Dr. Levi explained as he prepped up the procedure.
"So, will my son be just like him?" Tilo pointed at the baby in the cradle.
"No, he is the original. No one will ever be like him. He is a god." Dr. Levi spoke highly of the baby who was just two days old. Tilo didn't like the idea of another person being stronger than his son, especially when it is a strength that came from the project he funded. It didn't matter though, for he had made arrangements to destroy everything and everyone here.
"It is a success." Dr. Levi said as he carried Tilo's baby out from the pod.
"How did you know? It is a success?" Tilo asked.
There are two ways to know an awakener and the element they awakened. The easiest way is for them to conjure their element. The second way is through a power crystal. Once an awakener places their palm on a power crystal, it will change color. Originally, the crystal is white; if it changes its color to red, that is fire. If it changes to blue, then it's water; if it changes to green, that's earth, and if it changes to yellow, that's air. But if it is black, that's all elements. Dr. Levi placed the little baby's palm on the crystal, and it turned black. Dr. Levi chuckled as his experiment was finally a success.
Tilo's eyes glittered with joy as he had gotten the opportunity to get his family to the top. He carried his son happily.
"There would be no aftereffects?" He asked.
"None, this is the perfect creation; even God will be jealous of me." Dr. Levi bragged.
"Levi, I am grateful for everything you have done. Truly I am." He smiled before grabbing the device on Levi's necklace and destroying it. "But you see, you and I can't exist under the same sky." Mr. Tilo's smile turned to his bodyguard. "Kill them all, including the baby." Mr. Tilo left them while singing a lullaby to his baby.
"As you command." The bodyguard, who is an A-rank earth awakener, responded.
Dr. Levi couldn't believe his ears. He never knew that his partner would betray him. Thinking that only the earth awakener before him was the only one here. Dr. Levi quickly grabbed the baby to run, but another stopped him.
"Don't be too fast." The awakener that blocked Levi used water magic to take the baby from him.
"You are killing him," Abigail barked as the awakener used water magic to drown the baby.
"Don't hate me; I am just following orders." He smiled as he watched the baby take his final breath. Just as the baby drew his last breath, they heard a loud explosion. The Awakeners who were brought by Tilo to kill the numbers couldn't believe how strong the numbers were. Even with only three of them remaining and their health so bad, they were still a force to reckon with. The numbers easily killed the people who were brought to kill them and rushed straight to where Levi and the rest were.
"Give me my son!" 626 yelled.
"Did you hear that?" Dr. Levi smirked. "That's the fury of a mother." Just as Dr. Levi finished speaking, the door burst open, revealing 626 and 745.
626's eyes widened as she saw the lifeless body of her baby on the ground. She felt her world crumble. She slowly went over to her son and carried him up.
"Wake up, please." She wailed as she begged her son to wake up. With tears in her eyes, she looked at Dr. Levi and noticed the device was gone.
"Kill him." She said, and 745 raised his arm.
"Guess what?" 745 started to speak. "Your experiment was actually a success. I was just a late bloomer." He used fire to burn Levi to oblivion. Killing Dr. Levi destroyed any chance of the experiment ever happening again. With everything Levi had achieved, he never expected that his death would come like this.
"They are the ones that killed him." Finally, Abigail could say something. "You can kill us all, for even I stood by as all this happened." She cried.
"No, you're the only one who showed me kindness." 626 replied before turning to the two awakeners. They had killed their comrade and everyone else in the facility. Mr. Tilo was lucky he left before all this started.
"What did the little baby ever do to you?" 745 raised his arms to kill the two. The two awakeners knew they had no chance. Before 745 could conjure any element, he lost his balance and fell down to his knees. His body was starting to give out; 755 was already dead, and 626 was barely holding on.
"Let's leave; they will all surely die." Said the one that killed the baby. Before he could run out the door, 626 used water magic to freeze his head and exploded it. With only one remaining, 745 used earth element to bury him alive. Though their bodies couldn't hold on, their rank was that of an S-rank awakener, which is the highest class ever recorded.
"Please, wake up." 626 cried as she hugged her son close. Her life was ending, but she wanted her son to live on. She kept crying. Coincidentally, the soul which had been traveling the universe for over two centuries looking for a body strong enough to contain him finally saw a body. The demon Lord's soul entered the body and brought it back to life. The formal soul had already moved on to the afterlife, leaving the demon lord as the only owner of the body. The baby coughed as he came back to life.
"He is alive." 626 said happily as blood gushed out of her nose. She was barely alive, but she had never been more alive than she was now.
Abigail stepped closer and was also happy.
"My Son." 745 managed to hug his lover and his son. He too was dying. They knew their lives had come to an end, so they needed to think of the baby's future.
"Please take care of our baby." She handed the baby over to Abigail. "Tell him about us when he is old enough; we don't want him to avenge us or anything like that. We have already done our vengeance. We just want you to tell him we love him. Let him live a normal life and be happy." 626 cried, but her heart was filled with joy.
"His name shall be Dante, for he is enduring." 745 named their baby after a hero from the book he read while he longed for 626.
Even for the demon soul who had forgotten his past and who he was, he couldn't have asked for a better name.
"I will do everything you asked for." Abigail accepted the baby.
"Leave here; we will destroy everything." 626 said, and Abigail bade them goodbye as he carried the baby out of the facility. Once the lovers were sure their baby was out of the facility, they used the last of their strength to crumble everything and buried everyone together with them.
"Come now, child; let us leave this place." Abigail carried the baby, thinking she had just saved a new baby, not knowing she had actually saved a thousand-year-old demon lord.
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