The world was a weird place, having massive threats to its very existence. The biggest of these threats started appearing just 30 years ago, when the Eurasian continents were hit with a catastrophic event. A massive earthquake that destroyed practically everything around it, over 150 million lives were lost during this unprecedented event. Because of the unknown nature of this event, it was given the title of spacialquake, a quake of unknown origins.
Ever since then, smaller spacequakes started appearing all over the globe, but they were mainly focused in certain areas of Japan. The most popular site being Tegu City, which has had more spacequakes than all of the rest of the world added together. The most recent one being 5 years ago, it happened so suddenly when a flash of white light enveloped the city. Ironically, this is also the date of another big event. The Tenguu Fire.
One boy was trapped in the middle of these two events, a 10 year old boy by the name of Peter Parker. He had moved here to live with his Aunt May and Uncle Ben after his parents had died in one of the very few spacequaked in America. The kind people didn't want to send him here, but they were the only other family he had. They had sent him off with a heavy heart, knowing that he would probably be killed by a spacequake there.
The day was alright at the start, he had gone to school and met a girl with white hair. The girl, who had introduced herself as Origami Tobiichi, had started talking with Peter and they had become friends. Origami was a maths genius and Peter was a science nerd, they just seemed to fit. Peter had suggested that they walk home together, because his aunt had always told him to be kinder to girls. Turns out they lived pretty close to each other, neither of them could have been prepared for the horror they would find walking home.
Fire. Smoke. Death. That was what was located near Origami's home, they both saw her parents. Origami was blinded by her parents that she didn't see the blast of energy coming from the sky. Peter, being the hero he is, pushed her out of the way of the blast but got hit himself by the tail end of the energy. It didn't kill him, but it sent him far away while also knocking him near another set of buildings, out of Origami's sight.
When he came to, he was still surrounded by fire, but he seemed to be protected. It was then that he heard a voice in his head, "Are you okay?" It asked. The voice was broken, glitched but also had a childlike tone. Peter didn't know how to respond, so he just shook his head. "You do seem pretty busted up. Tell you what, I'll heal you if you promise to hold onto something for me." Peter couldn't talk, so he just nodded. What appeared in front of him shocked him.
It was a crystal, a red and blue crystal, one that had a small spider in it's center. To anyone, it would have looked ugly, but at the angle that Peter saw it at, it was beautiful. The voice then started up again. "Hold onto that for me, keep it contained and out of sight of everyone except you, okay?" Peter could now talk, "Y-yes. T-thank you." His voice was hoarse, like he hadn't drunk water or talked in days.
He had been taken to a shelter after the authorities found him, he clutched the crystal in his hands, wondering why the voice had healed all his injuries. His Aunt had come and picked him up, frantically checking him over for anything broken, the doctors told her that it was a miracle that he survived that debacle unscathed. Peter didn't tell them about the wispy voice in his head or about its mysterious ability to heal, he did this out of respect for the entity that had saved his life.
The next five years had been a bit of a hot mess, Peter had rejoined school after a few weeks, Origami had been so happy to see him alive. He was happy to see her as well, until he heard about what had happened to her parents, they hadn't made it. He was, however, happy to hear that someone called Shido Itsuka had shown up and had comforted her when Peter had disappeared. He didn't tell her about what had happened, he felt terrible for having to lie and say that it was a miracle, but that entity had saved his life. The crystal had stayed in Peters room, he had lied to Aunt May and Uncle Ben by saying it was a present from one of his friends but he felt that he had to do it. He knew that it was wrong, but there was a certain loyalty behind it and keeping his word.
If only he knew the paradigm of power that was located inside of the crystal, maybe he could have saved his Uncle Ben.