Sorry for the late chapter, school really got me busy this time, so it took longer to make the chapter.
But for all who were waiting, here is your chapter and enjoy it, because the real story starts in the next chapters.
Ah, leave ideas of how Adrien should awaken his powers and which power he should get first. You know I like to hear your ideas.
Soooo, enjoy the chapters and quick questions: who is stronger, superman or Adam warlock?
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It's been 5 years since I came to Jump City, and I must say, my life has been... a little complicated since then.
Let's start with the normal side of my life.
My mother and I managed to get along well during these years. I've never had contact with my uncles or grandparents, for very understandable reasons actually, but I really don't care.
We moved to a bigger apartment when I was 3 years old because she got a promotion at the hospital, and we have lived here since then.
As for me, well, my mother gives me almost everything a child of mine could want, even if I don't want it.
My room is a sanctuary of toys that I would very sincerely have donated to charity if it weren't for my mother thinking I like them. I'm over 30 years old (mentally in this case), so toys are no longer for me.
Not that I'm going to say that to my mother, she probably wouldn't understand and I don't want to be confused with some "special" child right at this point in my life.
I have no prejudice against any real special child, but I consider myself too normal to be confused with one.
Another thing about me is that I started going to school recently. Primary education, the basis of academic education.
Or as I like to call it, a hell full of children.
I never liked school very much in my past life. Not because I was lazy with my studies or because I didn't understand the subjects, but because it was always easy for me to understand what they taught in schools.
Obviously, of course, I'm not a genius or gifted, there are still things that I have difficulty understanding and subjects that made me have to think and a lot to understand. In summary, I am what you can call an intelligent and dedicated student.
But now, imagine getting younger and having to repeat all your years of study, starting over right in the one that requires less or practically no effort, while being surrounded by a lot of people far below your level and who only know how to scream and cry. This is basically my situation.
Every day, I have to deal with angry and spoiled children, teachers who think I can't go to the bathroom alone and a lot more shouting before going home.
After that, I came to understand why many people don't remember much from before the age of 5 or 6. Remembering that we've already done such shameful and ridiculous things would destroy anyone.
In practice, my days at school are coloring, "learning to count and spell" and from time to time, sleeping.
Oh, how I want this phase to end soon.
My luck is that the adults around me don't treat me as if I still couldn't think without my parents around. Some teachers, those who notice that I am clearly above the level of the children around me in the matter of learning, usually have some simple conversations with me, but that help me distract myself from this horrible elementary school scenario.
It's also not like I'm trying to hide that I'm better than my 5 or 6-year-old "colleagues". My hope is that they see how advanced I am in relation to others and that they skip a year to shorten the torture of repeating the entire academic teaching cycle.
Again, I'm not a genius, but I'm a trained and well-empowered adult, so elementary school really isn't for me.
Well, as for my mother, she has a much nicer routine than mine.
She works night shifts at the hospital, so she takes care of me during the day, goes to work at night and only comes back around dawn, with her having an average of 6 or 7 hours of sleep a day. Apart from the weekends, which are her days off.
Obviously she leaves me with a babysitter before going to work, but I prefer not to mention her because she is not relevant to me, just a teenager wanting quick money while pretending to take care of her, when in fact she is fiddling with the phone almost all the time.
I think I've said that at some point, but my mom really likes me. Not only for the toys, but also for the affection and love she shows for me.
And I'm grateful for that. Especially due to the circumstances in which I was born. I've seen cases where women who betrayed their husbands abandon their children of betrayal or give them to a family member or close friend, simply to not have to look at the fruit of their mistakes.
My mother didn't do that. Even though she was abandoned by her family and husband, even though she was shaken by everything that happened to her during the divorce and even though she was in a situation where anyone else would have chosen to abandon the baby, she chose to stay with me and took care of me until today.
I consider her a strong and kind woman because of that. I don't deny that she made an unforgivable mistake and that I still feel some aversion to her because of it, but people can change and regret as she is doing now.
Well, this is my life so far, kind of strange but stable. That's what I would say if I had nothing else to say. Believe me, there are a lot of strange things in this world where I am.
After finding out the year I was in, I was more attentive to national and international news to see if future events would be the same as in my old life. In this case, I was born in 2001 and now we are in 2006.
About what I found out, well, I'm no longer in my world. Now, I'm in a world of superheroes and super villains. In DC, to be more precise.
I discovered this in my third year of life, when I saw a live broadcast of the Justice League facing some alien who was trying to invade the earth. At that time, I discovered that I was no longer in my original world.
After doing some more research, I discovered some more things about the DC world where I am, information extracted from news, websites and some wikis on google.
The Justice League has existed since 1998, having been formed after the first invasion of the Dark Side in Metropolis, where it devastated much of the city and was only stopped by Superman.
After this invasion, some heroes decided to join together to protect the earth from other threats and face more dangerous villains, thus forming the justice league with its original members being: Flash, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) and Batman as an occasional member. Superman was also invited, but politely refused because he preferred to work alone.
Humanity has been aware of the existence of meta-humans and aliens for some time, but magic remains hidden from normal people as always.
There are also some villains that I won't mention because it wouldn't be worth the effort.
Well, that's all I have at the moment. It's not much, but it's enough. Honestly, I should have already noticed as soon as David said he worked at LexCorp.
Now, I wonder what this world of heroes and strange things has for me?