King's ascending

We were hopeless, in a wasteland full of death blood and tears where no life could exist, a world depending fight was played. The terror has passed through us because we thought our biggest nightmare came true. I was sure the darkness would win but then he came injured from the last fight in an agony of a burden that he carries. The one whose punch would end it all. As I watched him bleed, exhausted of all the things he had to do. We thought of him as our enemy it turns out he was our ally. All along a man I hated more than anything in this world sacrificed himself for us and the worlds sake. He used the last bit of his strength before perishing into nothingness and ending the fight.

It was a normal peaceful day in my life, i was 12 years old I always knew I was different from others and I had a feeling this day would be the day I will finally discover why and it was. I was playing by myself in my yard when I heard a voice, a dark evil voice. It sounded like the monsters you could only dream about I thought I was crazy but no this disgusting feeling that send dread running through my veins I knew that there was something inside me, chained, waiting to be released. I felt dizzy then I fell unconscious, I woke up in the dark place all I could see is infinite nothingness and then I saw him in the distance appearing from the darkness, a huge bluish being. He was about twice my size, its face was straight up from the worst nightmares like the ones that you would remember your whole life. He was trying to speak with me, but I couldn’t understand him because he was far away from me. As he was approaching I could hear him a little bit better. That monster was demanding I let him control my body. Immediately I felt sharp pain around my chest, I fell to the ground in an agony not being able to move any muscle in my body, I knew I was losing control but I wouldn’t just surrender like that, at least not without a fight, I was trying to move, screaming from fear and anger of just thought of death, I looked at the monster and saw him getting tired. He fell on his knees from exhaustion, i managed to free myself from that pain and took control of my body again and then I realized that thing whatever it is isn’t strong enough to beat me. I fell unconsciousness again and moments later woke up in my yard thinking it was all a dream till I heard that evil voice again that undoubtedly change my life forever.

Fast forward 2 years later

I haven’t heard from that thing at all, it’s like he is still exhausted from that day 2 years ago. It was my last day at school before the summer break, I felt really odd the whole day like someone was watching me I thought I was imagining it till I started walking home when I noticed a strange man was following me, I started panicking so the first thing I did was to start walking really fast almost running. I did manage to lose that strange man, but soon I found out I was alone, I turned the corner i saw two more men, one was younger man probably few years older than me and the other one was older tall black man I guess in his late twenties, that was also first time I saw man other race, they dressed exactly like him standing near my house looking like they were waiting for someone but soon I realized that someone was me. I just stood there in fear and then a strange man appeared behind me and shot me with something that looked like a dart, the next thing i know is that I’m lying on the cold ground trying to remember how I ended up here, I opened my eyes and saw I’m in a small white room, the only thing that was in that room was a table and two chairs. As I started to panic trying to understand what is happening I heard someone entering into the room through the door I didn’t even notice. it was the same strange man that was following me. he didn’t even introduce himself just started to question me. I couldn’t focus on him from my thoughts of what’s going to happen to me next and I just stood quiet there with a blank stare at him, I managed to calm my thoughts and finally started to listen to him, when he saw I calmed myself down he asked me if he can continue with the questions. I thought that this man was crazy, how can he be so calm and expect me to answer his questions like he didn’t just kidnap a child, but I knew it would be better for me to do whatever he wants me to do.

“First question, have you ever felt different from others or like something is wrong about you. Precisely did you feel like something is within you?”

I couldn’t believe what he asked me right now, how does he know, maybe he really is crazy or maybe he really knows what happened on that horrible day.

”Listen to me, I know it sounds really strange but I need you to answer me because maybe I can help you with that”

I was still in a disbelief that this was happening, I thought that I was the only one that knew about that. Maybe there are other people experiencing the same thing? For these 2 years I made myself think that I imagined that, I didn’t want to think about that even though a part of me knew the truth.

“How do you know about that? Please explain to me what is happening and what is that thing that I saw.”

“I would like to explain it to you but could you handle the truth.”

I didn’t know what to think when he said that but I had to know what is that all about.

“Listen boy, that thing you saw, it was a creature from other world, you probably heard something like that. Those creatures refer to themselves as Demons.”

My thoughts went wild again, what is this man talking about, why am I even listening to him, he must be insane. He kidnapped me and now he is talking about fairytales and expects me to believe him.

”what are you saying, I’m little kid anymore, I can see that you are just trying to make me crazy like you.”

“Stop, just listen to me, I know it sounds crazy and hard to believe it, but we can prove it to you, just come with me.”

He brought me to a huge room that looked like some kind of a lab with a huge fish tank and in the middle of it were chains like it was made to contain something or as I thought more about it I realized it’s supposed to contain me, but I couldn’t even imagine why.

“I want you to trust me that we won’t hurt you, just enter this chamber and I will show you that I’m not crazy like you think”

That fish tank was giving me an awful feeling of a terror, the last thing I would do was to enter it, but as I was still a weak kid a strange man forced me there and chained me inside, he left me inside alone and then I saw other 2 strange man outside preparing some kind of a machine. I screamed and begged them to let me go, but I knew that wasn’t going to happen as I waited to see what will happen to me. A strange man talked through a microphone so I could hear him inside

“We will now start the procedure, I need you to stay calm, do not panic at all cost because you may lose control and we don’t want that”

“What are you talking about, what are you doing to me, please just tell me”

“We are going to put you back in that world where you saw that creature, but don’t worry, before he manages to take control of you we will wake you up”

The one of the men pulled some kind of a lever, before I could even think about it they started shocking me with electricity, the next thing I knew I was back in that dark place, and that thing was in front of me, doing nothing, just standing and staring at me, but this time I don’t know how but I wasn’t scared of him rather furious of the suffering I experienced that day

“What are you? Why me, of all people why are you showing to me?”

I started to scream at him with a wish to just rip his head off

“you will never control me, do you hear me you CAN’T control me, I will make sure that you die you fucking demon!”

I have never felt that kind of rage like in that moment, I was screaming at him for few minutes but then I just froze when I realized. Still, no reaction, just standing there motionless, looking at me, looking at my soul. Once again, I felt that pain, that fucking pain, that I had nightmares about, the pain I thought I would never feel again, but I was unfortunately wrong. Same pain in my chest started to suffocate me, I realized that it was stronger than before, that thing, is stronger, I lost all hope, my rage long forgotten, as I slowly sink to the ground, but then, in my last moments I decided I don’t want to give up, I didn’t want to run from my fears like I did my whole life, I wanted to fight my fears, to defeat them, I used every last bit of my strength to get up, as I resisted him, I saw that pain I felt was easier to handle, I slowly got on my feet and I looked at the demon’s eyes, like I could see fear and despair in them, I knew he didn’t just want to possess me, there was surely some other reason.

“you are scared I can clearly see that in your eyes”

As I saw demon’s eyes get more and more desperate, it was obvious that I have won this battle, but I knew I shouldn’t be so confident because who knows what will happen next time I meet my demon.

A few days passed after the procedure, I was locked in some kind of a reinforced room because a strange man told me it’s still not safe for me to be outside incase a demon may come unexpectedly and take control of me, I got so bored in that room, it was empty, I didn’t even have a bed nor a chair, I felt I would go crazy inside but luckily a strange man released me from that prison cell like room and took me on a walk around the building.

“first, I apologize for not introducing myself, all this happened so quickly and we were in a hurry because our agency is in a mess right now from demon appearance. Welcome to J.S.O.C., we are using code names here, I don’t have time to tell you everything about us so here are some documents so you can read them”

first file was about the guy I’m talking with right now

Code name: SandMan

Age:34

Role: Captain

Strength: Tactician

Weakness: none

The next one was that black man.

Code name: Truck

Age:26

Role: Technician

Strength: Swift

Weakness: No power

And the last one.

Code name: Storm

Age: 17

Role: Scout

Strength: physical strength

Weakness: Not experienced enough, reckless, not allowed to use weapons

I noticed whenever I saw SandMan he was wearing black glasses, so black you couldn’t see through them, and also in his file is a picture of him where his eyes are censored.

“Here are your files SandMan, can I ask you something, why are you always wearing glasses, are you hiding your eyes?”

“I knew you would ask me that, every human that saw these eyes has experienced horrible death, it’s like a curse I can’t get rid of, that’s why I’m always hiding them, but let’s talk about something more important. You will have to spend more time here, so we can train you to have more control of your demon and try to control his powers, we are also missing power user on our team, I am already power user but my power isn’t strong enough but yours is and maybe if you want you can also join my team, the Team A.”

“What the fuck are you talking about? You are saying I can learn to control demon’s power?”

“Yes, but only if you want me to train you. You also learn how to kill that demon.”

I didn’t really wish to kill that demon now, I just wanted answer from him, I still remember those scared eyes that looked at me, I just want to know why.

“Okay, I want to join your team and somehow learn how to control the demon.”

“Great, first thing you need in my Team is a name, Code name, and I have suggestion. Remember when we woke you up in the chamber, you had that cold look without any emotions, so…”

Code name: Frost

Welcome to J.S.O.C. agent Frost