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Heart of Stone Chapter 1 - Forced to Adapt

There are somethings in this universe that are unchanging. Things like what water made out off. It's made out of atom, and atom joins to make molecules. So two molecule of hydrogen and one molecule of oxygen. It's a fact here in Japan, it's a fact in America. It's a fact in Milky Way, it's a fact in Andromeda. There are many things like this. And these things make what reality is. Things you accept as a truth. For me supernatural stuff like ghosts that patrol the graveyard , djinns that grant wishes , vampires that crave blood of humans , demons that set fear to human heart , angels that protect humans and the man up high in the sky that likes to be worshipped. Those things for me are supernatural therefore they are not part of my reality. And these are not facts. Sure some people believe in them but that does not make them real.

But let's say when you are coming home from school. It's around 16:00 pm so it's still bright outside. You are on your usual route to your home only there are nobody around. Weird but you shrugged it off not giving much more thought. You continue to walk with your headphones listening to your favorite progressive rock song. Everything seems normal. The usual 'another day of the endless cycle' .

But lets say...hypothetically of course...it's not 'another day of the endless cylce'. Now that would be crazy! How could such a thing possibly occur? What would be the cause of it?It must be something huge...like… like achieving something. Well no that was not it.

You are walking and your eye catches something off,something that doesn't fit under the category of usual days. A man sitting in the in black detective jacket and a fedora. His facial features are not though his face is not visible you know he is staring at you.

This man is not right. This feeling was not usual for you. Being terrified,it was just not you. So your coping mechanism kicks in and tells you that you are exaggerating, he is just a creepy old man nothing more nothing less. But you know you are wrong. You know you are trying to make this man look real just because the feeling he gaves doesn't fit to your reality. This for you was unacceptable.

You increase your walking speed.

Now your logic decides to kick in. Thinking all the possibilities... Pervert,Serial killer,Organ trafficker. Even though these were all the possibilities there are couple of things didn't just fit in. If he one of those things he was making himself very obvious. Making himself visible to you meant that you have chance to run or fight if need to be. Attacking you from behind would be much more efficient. That way you would get no time to run and less to time to fight back. He made the first mistake it seems or he has a weapon that can be affective in distance. A gun... this was also a possibility but again attacking him from the behind with a gun would be more efficient. In a possible chasing senerio you probably could outrun him. You never thought your workout would pay in this fashion but still.

While you were thinking your chances, your logic find another possibility. A scary one.

He looked like he was waiting for you while no one was around. Now your body tensed with this realization. Your muscles getting felt your legs press harder to to move at any always like this hormone in your body. You thought it was your greatest ally. It was activated due to fear it was activated,adrenaline traveled through your body.

You took out your headphones and put it into your pocket.

At this stage bit of logic return to you. Now there was only one possibility you cared. You decided you didn't care who he was. You did not care why he might be after you. You only care about... When he was going to make the move.

You breathing increased as your heart beats filling up your body with energy. Primal instincts came over to you. And at this moment before everything went to chaos you felt that this was the most human you have ever been. Now you were closing at end of the road. You were about to pass him,your eyes still focused. You were just waiting for him, inside your head daring him to make the first move.

And that he did. Right about he was out of your vision. He stand up almost instantly.

A first move has been done but you have yet to do yours. Possibility of your demise have been raised alot.

Could it be at that moment fear overwhelmed you or curiosity got the better of you. Maybe you wanted to know how he terrified you. Maybe it was both. But now you were staring directly at the man.

He had normal human face a brown hair that reached to his neck.

You estimate that you had ten meters between you and him.

You also tho-

"Hey kiddo. Sorry this is the end for you."

You also thought 'Fuck'.

Then something happend as you were waiting for him to pull out gun instead he raised his hand. You could see something was there and steadly growing...somekind of energy.

With a bright flash something apperead in his hand. It almost looked like electricity.

At that moment your flight or fight respone got activated. There was no logic for you to think anymore only actions. And your instincts decided it was time to move.

"Things that are unkown to me always scared me. But now... I know what you are."

First chapter is done. It's my first time writing a story in here. I'm quite excited for it.

English is not my first language so in my stories there will be some grammatical errors, I'm sorry for that. By writing stories I hope to improve my English.