Tales of the Altered star
chapter 1: Choice
The desert blinded my eyes as i just lie on warm sand,I continued to stare at the skies realizing hungry crows encircling
around my weak body,their sharp and impatient eyes hoping for me to die soon...
I closed my eyes for a moment and opened it and i saw a girl wearing a dark armor with a golden sword she tightly
on her right hand, towering above me covering a part of the sun.
"do you want to change you destiny?" she asked with her face shadowed by the light
"yes" I answered without hesitation
She smiled,more like a smirk but more lightly and radiant that left me dumbfounded and stunned on the sandy ground
suddenly i felt a piercing pain in my chest realizing her golden sword sinking into it slowly where my heart was,
I desperately tried to get up...I got up...I got up my bed and realized it was just a nightmare.
then I rubbed my eyes,cleared the sweat for my face recovering from that weird nightmare i just had,surprisingly i
caught a glimpse of someone standing beside the door.
"what the- ...Doctor? ? why are you standing there?" "Am i to be deployed aleady?"I asked with a puzzled feeling
I looked at her black soulfull colored eyes and thought of as my only family left in this armed fortress-like
research facility that houses few "bio weapons" and more armed personnels that were trained to kill not only humans but
also weapons like me try to escape...I never tried to escape once though because I thought of myself as an unfortunate
guy who had no future and with only fragments of memories of my childhood...I do remember things of how
I arrived here,how i first met and picked up by was in a middle of a war in 2028, yes i was lucky to meet yui she
was kind and took responsibilies on me eversince,even though she works for the facility she treats me like her younger brother
and i am really thankfull, She discovered my ability called "time alter" an ability of mine that accelerate things but not
time itself but to myself like my body, THAT is what i thought as i looked at yui's eyes and i never felt such relief.
"No, no missions and tests for now and everythings fine kenrou...I was just checking your room" she said with a smile as
she was about to leave my room.
"okay...but hey wait a moment" I said as I tried to stop her
"alright kenrou what is it?" she asked
"tell me a story yui,a nice one today" I requested
"oh,for your nightmare you just had?" she asked with a grin in her face
"Uhh...yes,something like that...I know,its silly"I answered while looking at her with a sigh
"alright, youre lucky i have one" she said as she took a seat
"thanks, yea im really lucky" I said with eagerness to listen and i took a seat near a table facing her.
"There was a company of angels who were interested of earth and where hovering above a hill, the shepherds were blinded
by their light, you see...the angels where glowing so bright that made them so similar in the eyes of the shepherd,the
company angels,instead of leaving the area with the large group they stayed, one angel's foot touched the hill's ground
and its light began to fade into a wavy white-haired woman
'you must come back,youve never been mortal and youve never knew free will' the lord said to the hovering angels
'we have chosen' answered one angel
The lord didnt know what to answer,because choosing was not something he knew so he took the angel's wings and said:
'your choice is in you,and choice will take you where it will,you must not come back here,but you will only follow
that star with each of your own ways you will end with the memories of that star until your story ends.'"
"What did the angels do next?" I curiously asked with an interested expression on my face
"they told their stories...you see, real angels dont have their own stories because they cant choose" Yui answered with grin
"amazing story,thank you very muuch" I said with an amazed voice
I never thought she could make such an interesting story that made me listen properly like a kid before,I thought of my
ability and looked at her.
"Yui...about my ability, the time alter...why would you say i could alter time and space,Its sound kinda...ridiculous"
I asked with dissapointment as i looked away
"I dont know...really,i still cant tell how your ability works,im sorry ive been useless to my research"she answered with
a sad voice with dissapointment in her face
"eh? no youre not useless!, im sure youll discover it one day!...youre like family to me so dont say that"I said as
i tried to cheer her up
There was a long pause for a moment that it was so quiet that i could hear the wall clock ticking before i could try to
say something, suddenly the alarms rang from every part of the fortress-like facility EEENGGG! EEENNNGG! EEENGGGGG! cried those
annoying alarms that made us both rush out of the room and made it to a wide glass window, we spotted some incoming aircrafts
coming from every position then fired its missiles to the facility's defences, wide exposions and clouds of fire pop out from
its targets , armed pesonnels rushed to protect the doors and gates one of them passed by me with fear and hatred in his
eyes like i was believed to be a burden to everyone, people started to panic as more explosions where heared as the lights
started flickering and the grounds started to shook from below,I rushed my way through to find Yui from the crowd, my eyes
searched everywhere with worry.
"Yui!" I cried as i searched everyone's faces
Soon i caught a glimpse of her waving at me like a "over here" sign and that took all my worries for a while, then suddenly
heavily armed and armored Intruders came crashing inside through the large glass windows with their guns aiming at every
person who was standing then an exchange of firing started, luckily i arrived unwounded on where Yui was.
"whew! that was close!" I said to myself with a relief
I looked at her when as i recovered back my senses from the assault, her eyes looked serious and sharp like a ferocious tiger
"hold them for a while as i open the portal" she commanded and handed me a gun
"okay...a portal?...never heared such invention before" I complained
I followed her until we arrived in a large room in the middle was a large platform with enormous-sized ancient pillars sorrounding it
on the side where some large mechanical things supported by complicated looking computers and machines
"I hope youre right about this" I muttered and cleared my throat
footsteps and foriegn languages where heared outside the room and the steel doors suddenly exploded and sent flying and three
heavily armoured intruders rushed inside and took cover, i readied my gun and took a deep breath and looked up at the wall
clock from a distance, the beating of my heart slowed but my body felt very light, the clock's second hand pointed from
35-35.5-36-36.5 now my vision turned into a slow-motion state and i pointed at the head of the first soldier and took a shot,
then to the second who was about to change positions and aimed carefully and shot his head and lastly the third who was
about to pull the triger was a perfect hit, I recovered my normal vision and watched the three tumble down, My heartbeat speed
uped but my body felt heavy for a moment until i recovered.
"your time alter has improved kenrou" Yui praised, still working on the portal
the grounds started shake and distant explosions were heared
"Yui,this place is about to fall apart soon" I said
"Its done! Ive opened it!...kenrou get into the platform" she said with delight
I rushed to the platform and looked at her direction and i saw her just standing there
"Yui,are you not coming?"
"No,i want you to live and continue"
"continue what? dont be silly,yui!"
"Continue to discover yourself, dont worry kenrou ill be fine here"
I felt so confused and sad that i didnt have the words to utter and soon the platform began to glow a light blue color and
my body was becoming so light like about to float and tears started flowing from my eyes and my vision was now blurry
"kenrou take care of yourself" yui said her farewell
distant footsteps and foreign languages are heared just outside the room and approaching near and fast,i got out of the
platform and rushed to find yui, now i used again my time alter as armed intruders began to storm in the large room, soon
I found yui crying at the corner and grabbed her hand and rushed back to the platform with her, with my time alter still
working I can see the walls of the ceiling started to collapse and intruders aiming their guns at our direction and slowly
firing and bursting some bullets that sent deadly close calls, at my back i see Yui's teary eyes somewhat confused and
we finaly reached the platform as we tumbled our way through,now realizing that we entered the portal we started falling
and heared the whole ceiling of the room just crashed,closing the portal
"waaaaaaahhhhhhh!" I screamed , realizing that i was falling from the snowy sky
Soon i felt my body numb and heavy and my heartbeat was like about to burst, realizing the other effects of my ability
I opened my eyes again and saw a glimpse of the starry sky while STILL falling, I waited for death.
"no...this isnt right...my story doesnt end here yet...i must continue my story...i must live!" I thought to myself as
i continued to fall.
I opened my eyes,cold snowflakes landing on my face and i started to get up but my body was so heavy so i started to roll at
my side seeing signs of my blood and realizing that i made a crater from my impact,I started to climb up the crater
and i found myself in the middle of a blizzard and looked everywhere for Yui and soon discovered a dark forest, trees
covered with thick snow and my stomach started to rumble as a sign of hunger.
"oh no Yui,where did you land?,I hope youre not hungry as i am" talking to myself as i staggered my way through the dark forest.