Chapter 02: Another World?

I opened my eyes, and there it was.

A completely new world to explore!

I thought even though the gods had been clumsy to day the least... I at least had gained a second chance at life. But as I woke crying in the arms of a docter the first thing I remember was them shaking their heads as the woman, my mother had given her live to birth mine...

To top it all off, my father wasn't preset to retrieve me as a baby, having abandoned his wife to fend for her own. Being all alone in the world the doctors didn't know what to do, until I got taken in by one of the assistants. 

For a while I seemed to have gained a guardian who fed me and even watched over me, only to soon find out that they to abandoned me, not like my father, whom I had never seen before. No...

The assistant didn't know what to do, hoping to gain a small profit selling me to the slave market...

A young boy, all alone in the world, without someone to take care of him, to show the right examples or even show the right path to take... 

One day at the slave auction people began bidding on me, I don't remember much... only that I ended up in a brightly light room with an unfamiliar ceiling as I woke up...

Day after day, I got observed... needing to fulfill small experiments, given food and shelter after clearing the trails... unaware of the observant eyes of the mad...

One day one of the scientists who took care of me noticed something strange as huge readings of energy spiked the equipment around me from time to time. 

That was when I was six years old...

Not much has chanced since then, only that I came to understand what the erbergy surges represented...

Their sience described it as high voltage outputs, energy bursts better known as magic. 

In the kingdom sience came hand in hand with magic as understanding the magical ways were known as science, implementing this was known as alchemy which the scientists used to make everyday life for everyone easier.

I was told that the amount of high output bursts seemed abnormal which was why I was kept in observation, but as a young boy I didn't really care what it all ment... the important thing was that I had a place to sleep, food and water...

As the years went by the experiments became more extensive. For the reason why they were conducting experiments was all because of research that had been found about a potential unknown element within the magical aspect.

The World had his fair share of elemtal magics such as Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, Lightning, Ice, Darkness and Light. 

One day as I was in a state of fuzziness I overheard my caretaker talking to one of his colleagues about something called Chemical V, beter known as the otherworldly particle.

"Did you know why they took the boy in?

Apparently it was because the boss overheard the seller that he was an otherworlder."

"Seeing as he is obsessed with the otherworldly particle theory this must be while we keep conducting experiments right?"

"I mean... we haven't seen much out of the ordinary thought. Like how we thought him how to walk, read, write... even how to apply magical force and the like... But still... no signs of the particle to be found..."

The scientists left the room making it unable to follow any more of their conversation...

Even if I was now 8 it was clear why I was being held here...

One day at my 10th birthday the head scientist herself personally came to me, telling me she wanted to begin different kinds of tests.

The room chanced, giving way to a table with rats as they commonly used them for experiments. But what they asked me to do, shook me to the core.

"Subject #1698D please proceed with the experiment. You are to kill the rats in front of you, without touching them. Please proceed with the experiment."

I couldn't believe my ears, when suddenly pain surged throughout my body. As if struck my lightning I fell to the ground like a ragdoll, but it wasn't enough to make me lose consiousness.

"It is you or them Subject #1698D, please do what you are told, proceed with the experiment."

Not wanting to live through that hellish pain again I complied holding up my hand hoping to crush the rats within. As they stared at me, knowing what was about to happen they prepared themselves for the worst. When suddenly pain surged through me once more...

Unable to bear the pain I lost consiousness only to find that they wanted me to do the same when I woke up. This time without hesitation I raised my hand and balled a fist instantly exploding one of the rats in a fountain of blood. 

The scientists were astonished by this and demanded me to proceed with the experiments.

The second rat suddenly fell to the ground like a ragdoll as if devoid of live, as nothing happened after that they allowed me to rest.

The kind lady who took care of me was ordered to make sure I was fully rested. But when she came into my room she stumbled onto something extraordinary.

She caught me playing with the rat whom seemed devoid of live only moments ago, as it was now running around... Almost...

Almost like it was still alive!

She then proceeded to inform the rest of the team.

She left me along for what felt like an eternity when suddenly a group of scientists rushed in all excited at the sight of me.

"Finally after all these years!"

"Have we finally found a lead?"

The group kept talking to one another when the head scientist rushed towards me.

"I knew you were special! Oh Subject #1698D,

as of today you are known as Shine Ketsueki!"

It appeared I had done something extraordinary although I didn't know what... I wasn't a number anymore!

"Shine-kun as of today I have inexplicable proof that the particle exists. The Otherworldly Particle!!"

The discovery made the news, as the lab had received unlimited funding for their research now that it was real, there was nothing stopping the man.

I didn't know it at the time, why they gave me this name... for the experiments continued without end only becoming more extreme over the years.

Seeing as how they wanted to see how far they could take it I was to obliterate all kinds of live forms, mostly animals, until the inhumane experiments began...

Now 12 years old they hooked me up to all kinds of machinery wanting to analyse my blood, flesh and DNA as the man behind this operation was determined to find where this particle came from.

One day I heard it... They called it... Death...

The element they had discovered had to do with death, quickly deciding to call the unknown particle the death particle as it appeared to be something related to my powers.

Everyday left me exhausted... only living on water and dry bread... I didn't even had anymore sense of time and place... for now they began to chip away at my body observing any effects the particle could have on me.

Skin got peeled of, only to regenerate shortly after.

As it became apparent that my regenerative capabilities began to deteriorate, an ourage soon followed. 

Splitting the group in two as how to treat their subject, now having a name and all. Quickly they came to an agreement that if the experiments were to continue that I had to be kept in tip top shape. 

Meaning the following days I got a cocktail of just the right amount of vitamins and minerals injected in me, feeling revitalised they locked me onto the table once more. This time cutting my arm to see what would happen. Moments after it started bleeding the wound closed and began to heal.

After that the experiments began to go out of hand as it wasn't only cuts, but also breaking my fingers, legs and even stripping the nails of off them...

The hellish pain they put me through was unbearable, leaving only one way to coop with it... Ahutting myself off from the world.

When finally they went to far...

Wanting to see how far they could take it,

they excessively cut of my limbs seeing as I kept regenerating... eventually finishing me off by ripping out my heart... 

My remains lay there without a sign of life...

Years must have passed after my 12th birthday as I had lost count... but then something unexpected happened... I regained consiousness... I wasn't dead?!

Rage flowed through me as the pain had made gone beserk, I wanted to get out of this hellhole, away from these people, out into the free world.

My resentment towards the sietists soon gave way to madness, as I was unable to coop with all the pain that had been inflicted.

I wanted to get out, trying to get help...

Hoping to find the others...

The scientists rushed into the room to find me alive and well, shocked by this quickly they wanted to rush to their colleagues and tell the news, but before the could I flicked my fingers up, making their blood boil up to the point were their bodies spontaneously combusted.

First I broke free from the shackles, jumping from the table I went on my way. Slaughtering all inside until I found the exit of the facility...

At the other side a total 15 people were waiting for me, in my blind rage I regocnized them all as I stopped dead in my tracks.

It where the others who were summoned to the world as heroes! Wait... they got to be heroes?!

I tried shouting to them, yet nothing but gargled noices came out of my mouth... their leader stepped forwards which I regonized as the other Jonathan whom had inherited not only his own, but my powers too...

But instead of saving me, they launched an attack on the building, completely obliterating not only me, but everyone inside it. And as nothing was left... I had died once more...