Serenity

My name is Serenity; I was born in the Umbrella Corporation lab in the underground Hive from one of their scientists. My mother volunteered to be a recipient for a new study. They genetically enhanced my DNA to bind with viruses at a cellular level without the cause of mutation or death.

The Aristarchus Kerwer virus is a virus that gives you supper strength and speed, telekinetic ability, along with telepathic ability, a faster healing process, and an unnatural ability to connect with the elements.

The Umbrella Corporation never found out that this virus existed, because the scientist who found it destroyed any research he had. But, before he destroyed the virus strand, he injected it into my body when I was a couple years old, out of hopes that it would help out in the long run for finding different viruses and cures. He was worried that the corporation might try to sell it to the wrong people.

In 2002, the t-virus was supposed to be quarantined in Raccoon City when the nuclear bomb detonated. Before any of this occurred, the Umbrella Corporation was experimenting with Alice by infecting her with the t-virus because her cellular structure was able to bind with the virus without causing mutations. They started the Nemesis project around the same time, with Matt the only other survivor from the incident in the Raccoon City Hive; when the Umbrella Corporation team went down to disable the Red Queen. Matt was infected by one of the mutations which had the t-virus injected into living tissue, causing him to mutate into one ugly monster, like the mutant.

A few days later, the Umbrella Corporation was going to destroy the city. Alice survived along with Jill Valentine, Angie Ashford, Carlos Olivera, and L.J. Unfortunately, the corporation recaptured Alice again when the helicopter that they escaped in went down. She was taken to another facility and was retested on. Her friends came and rescued her after she remembered everything that had happened.

I was born May 13, 1991, when there was a breakthrough in the discovery of a new virus. It was not, however, the t-virus which took over Raccoon City in 2002. It was a much more complex virus, which the corporation never knew about and will never find out about. With the t-virus, your body is reanimated after it dies. So you're still "alive" but you're driven by the need to feed, the need for human blood. In the case of Project Alice, or Angie Ashford, it binds with their cells to enhance the muscular ability for more strength, or in Angie's case to give her the ability to walk.

I was born in the Hive on Midway Island out in the North Pacific Ocean, so when the virus went global, everyone was safe underground in the Hive. You could say that our little world is free of infection which is a good thing considering no one is killing each other.

My childhood was not what you would call normal as I grew up in the lab. I was experimented on, and feared by the people who worked on me. Don't get me wrong, I watched shows that kids my age grew up with, I was educated all the way up to senior year, and I crushed on guys from TV shows.

To describe myself, I have long flaming red hair and bright green eyes like Lance Bass from N*Sync (yes, I grew up with them too). They say my mother had brown hair and brown eyes. She moved back to the U.S. after having me, so I never got to meet her. If I did, I probably would ask her what was she thinking of having me in the name of science. To be tested like a rat in an experiment, to be caged when something went wrong, and to scream every time a new virus took over. I would ask her what the hell she was thinking. On the aspect of my dad, there are no details of him, like who he was, what he did, or what he looked like. He is a mystery that I can't solve.

Fast forward a few years to when I was eight, I developed the first power with the Aristarchus Kerwer virus, telepathic ability. I was able to tell what someone wanted to do next to me. I could tell if the test would hurt or if it wasn't going to. I could tell if they were surprised by the results. I was able to hide this from a few of the scientist that didn't know about the virus but from the ones that did wondered about the power and where it came from. See, the scientist that found the virus told me when I was about six to never tell anyone about it or where it came from.

If we move forward some more years, I'm just turning 13, in the year 2004. I'm pretty sure that this was the only virus free safe place to live. Anything that we needed was above on the land and if we needed it, we went to get it. That would be the first year that I was infected with the t-virus, the last power from the other virus, and the scientists freaks out some more. So much for being virus free, right? Normally when the t-virus is injected into a human they A) mutate, B) die than come back to life, or C) scream and pass out (like Alice). Or they could do what I did… which was nothing. Nothing exciting happened. I just kind of lay there hooked up to all of the machines. I guess you could say that that was not what they were expecting.

If they would have waited a few days, they would have noticed my DNA reorganizing and changing to fit the virus, changing into T's (haha, get it? The "T" virus). And if they looked even deeper, they would have seen that my blood would be the cure that would fix the problem without keeping them hostile. See by using Alice blood, you have to use a lot to make a difference, but if you used mine a couple drops would fix things. How could I know that? Remember when I said I had the telepathic ability, well that had something to do with finding this out. I am not just able to read minds I can also tell if something is wrong inside my body, like where a sliver would be. See, I did some tests of my own when I was supposedly showering. That is the only time that they are not monitoring me is when I am in the bathroom. That would be totally rude and wrong.

I took one of the rats that they use in the lab and infected it with the virus and waited a few minutes. Then, I took the cure and injected that in the rat. Finally, I re-affected the rat again and when it was showing signs of the virus taking affect, I gave it a drop of my blood. The result was that the rat was no longer affected. Grand. So there is another thing to keep secret.

This Hive was able to get reports from other Hives around the world, on Alice and the virus affects, but this Hive was not giving any out. When the Umbrella Corporation built this Hive in the late 80s, they kept it a secret from the world. The research that went on here was at the highest level of clearance, higher even then Raccoon City in the supposedly "Dining Hall". The Hive was only known to the top Umbrella Corporation owners and scientists. And only a few of them knew about me, while everyone knew about Project Alice. Why wouldn't you, if she went around killing the entire group of scientists that worked on her.

Now, it's the year 2008 and things are going well, as well as they can go when you stuck in a lab. Did I mention before how totally annoying these younger scientist are? Everyday it's something knew with them. YAWN! My normal routine starts at 8:00 a.m. I'm awakened by Dr. Max Demas, a 27-year-old dumbass, and new scientist on the team for Project Serenity (hey, that's me!). Normally this wake up consists of me yelling at him to…

"Get the hell out." And he normally has some smart ass comment back and I throw my pillow, book, or whatever the hell I can reach at him. Today he didn't say anything back; he just stared at my eyes.

"What are you looking at?" I asked. "You could take a picture, it would last longer you know or better yet, you could leave and I could get ready for the day." Today was another round of new tests, and later some homework… gag. Yeah, homework at a time like this. When the whole rest of the world is trying to survive the attacks from the undead or whatever the hell you want to call them. Most people are on the run and living in convoys or living in an up kept building. Yeah, I know, I'm flipping selfish. Anyways, so Max just kept on staring at my eyes, right, and I could not for life of me figure out why. So I do what any rational girl would do, looked in the mirror.

"What the F**K?" I couldn't believe it my eyes where pink… they weren't just pink they changed into other colors, from pink to baby blue to the most unusual colors that were not normal for an eye to be.

I turned and screamed at Max: "What the hell? What is going on? I need answers now." Not only was I totally freaking out about my eyes, Max also had to bring up the fact that my hair was now turning different colors and mimicking that it was on fire...

"Well then I guess you don't want to look at your hair." Max stated "because I have no f*ing clue as to what is going on."

"Great, just what I needed a scientist that couldn't give a shit about their subject. Whatever… leave now before I have to kill you. And trust me it WOULD hurt a lot."

The look on my face must have been enough, because he just left without a word. He probably went to get some other scientist that could figure out what was up. Once that was all over, I ran to the bathroom to stare at my reflection. My eyes were no longer pink they were yellow and they kept changing from blue, to gray, to red, to purple, and back to my green eyes. The green eyes that would make anyone stop and stare. The green eyes that where the only thing that connected me to my father. Now even they were affected by the viruses and the experiments. My hair was back to its normal flaming red color. I couldn't say anything, I couldn't even think. All I wanted to do was scream.

I sank to the floor a few minutes before the scientists broke in and sedated me. As the drugs took over, I was able to get one more look at my eyes which were white, and then I blacked out.