"So boring..."
An 11-years old kid lament on his life. It is not on the life his living. His thinking that his life are not simulated enough. Living an ordinary life, with ordinary family, with something that he had expected. He wanted more. But never will he doubt this thinking might bring him to a something out of the world experience.
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Year 2010, Area Earth(78252)
My name is ###. 11 years old starting this year and already one of my tooth came out. Great... I am living a normal life, with normal family in a normal school, surrounded by normal neighborhood and society...Everything is great except it is boring. The life is boring. The so-called entertainment, well at first it's great. But after that it started becoming obsolete.
"La la la la..."
I was thinking with that mindset while walking through a park near a school. To bury my teeth. Well I wanted to keep it but my mother ordered me to bury it. Not I remember why.
The park was not far. Less than a minute and you can arrive at the park. It is close and also my destination. Walking with my tooth and arriving there, I started to slowly digging and making sure no one saw shit of my activities.
I started to dig further until I saw something shiny. The shiny thing then make a light bright enough to blind me for a while and then it happens.
The shiny thing was floating in front of me. It was really a mystified experience. I don't even know something like this exists. The shiny thing started to become something familiar to me. I saw the shiny thing turned out to be a crystal. A shining crystal.
Suddenly, while mesmerized the crystal, the crystal went flew inside me like I am absorbing it. I was overwhelmed by the sudden feeling of powerful in my body. An entity then came out.
"So, you are the sacrifice? You seems like a normal boy everyone can find. I hope you can entertain me until the end of time"
I was shocked for a moment since the entity had a ghostlike appearance. Timidly, I asked her
"W-Who a-a-are you?"
Chuckled a bit, the ghost came closer to me,
"I am a soul crystal and I am you as you are me. We are one entity."
I was still feeling a bit mystified and wanted to ask many things from her but she might realize my thinking and put her finger on my lips.
"Shh. I know you have many questions but we don't have time."
I was bewildered and thinking what is she talking about while she continued speaking,
"I am a no name soul crystal. Right now, every crystal you found will give you ability or skill. Some called it skills while some called it abilities. Either way, the skills are usually related to the crystal. So, I am just gonna say this real quick. Before I tell you the skill that you got from absorbing this soul crystal, do not reveal your skill to other people unless necessary, is that clear?"
I quickly nodded my head while understanding nothing at all.
"Good. Then, I will tell you now. Your skill is..."
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A few seconds after the ghost
went away, a huge spaceship came. It came floating above my head. I was scared I immediately fall while the ship slowly came down and stay afloat until a door opens.
Behind the door lies a man. Looking like a 40-year-old man, the man silently gazed while walking toward me.
Thud
Thud
Thud
His shoes seem to make hard sounds. I wonder what it is. I was thinking while observing the man. Surprisingly, I was able to calm myself down while watching the man in front of me. With his almost white short hair and clothing that looks like a tail jacket and black collar t-shirt, he opened his mouth.
"It seems I have hit the jackpot."
I could never understand why he said those words. Then, he continued.
"Kid, do you know right now you have talent?"
I quietly shake my head and he chuckles a bit before continuing.
"Do you want to change your world, your viewpoint, your life? Do you want to hold the power to crush everything, to save everything, and to decide the fate of everything?"
Change my world…Control fate…Can I do that? I looked at my small hand and he added more.
"Your hand might be small now but in the future, under my tutelage, you can even destroy multiple planets with a single finger or even gaze. If you want, then take my hand."
He offered his hand to me while I am still contemplating my decision. But then, my whole life was flashing past me and I made the decision.
"Ok, I will follow you."
The man smiled once and when my hand took his hand, he introduced himself while grabbing my shoulders.
"My name is Q, and your first lesson for today is…"
Rip
He made a split motion from my shoulders and it was hurt. Very much. He seems like tearing something from me and I lose my balance but Q grabbed me. What I saw then really showed me that power in physical form truly exists in this world.
"Forget your past to become stronger"
I saw another me lying on the ground and slowly I touch him. It was warm. Meaning another me still breathing. I then looked at him and he beckon me to follow him. I took one last look at another me and left the place, riding the spaceship.
Every feeling of fear, guilt, and sadness went down the drain as I board the ship. It was magnificent. Truly futuristic and more modern than what I have watched in various movies.
"Here."
It seems that I am not alone in learning. There are 5 more children, 2 boys and 3 girls that are probably the same age as me in the main room.
"Now, everyone. This is the last of your friends that will be learning together with you. He is Six."
Six? Is that my name? Q said that I need to forget my past and that the new name was the first step in forgetting my past. I suppose that while learning with these fellows and my new teacher I can become someone that I visioned before.
Never did Six realize that the gear of fate had already turned and he will need to face the uncertain future with knowing nothing.