Pain. It was the first thing Clarity was aware of as she awoke. Her entire body stung and her lower back felt like it was on fire. She blinked her eyes open only to see she was laying on her back on her hardwood floor. The windows banged noisily against the wall as rain continued to splash in. The sound of sirens drifted in to Clarity's loft as they all rushed about to rescue people.

"Help..." Clarity weakly called her voice just above a whisper, but she received no reply.

"Somebody...Anybody... Please...help."

Clarity rolled over onto her side to face away from the windows chilly breeze, a painfilled cry leaving her lips, tears springing to her eyes, the action causing her serious pain. Her right hand flew around to her lower back only her fingertips didn't land upon skin. Instead Clarity found herself touching something metal. Her eyebrows furrowed in confusion, but as she felt the surface more Clarity realized that it was the circuit board she had been working on earlier. It was now embedded in her lower back. She pulled her hand back in front of her face and sure enough the appendage was covered in blood.

Clarity carefully tried to sit up, realizing that no one was going to come help her. No one could hear her over the rain, and wailing sirens outside. When she went to sit up she felt a sharp stab of pain from her lower back and she was pulled back down to the floor by some kind of force a small crackling sound accompanying the slam of her body against the floor. Confused Clarity tried to sit up again, only to get slammed back down a second time only harder. Clarity cried out in pain as the circuit board was forced deeper into her skin. She wasn't exactly sure what was going on, but she knew one thing for sure. If she wanted to get up, get to her phone to call for help, then the circuit board would have to come off.

Clarity's breaths came out shakily as her hands trembled. The metahuman rolling onto her stomach so she could use both of her hands. She reached her arms around to her lower back til her fingers brushed the edges on each side of the circuit board. She took a steadying breath tears pricking at her eyes and started to pull. Clarity screamed in agony as she dug her fingers in between the metal and her raw bloody skin beginning to pry the metal up. Tears flowed from her eyes as she cried out, her hands trembling, her entire body quivering, a sharp seemingly never ending pain spreading throughout her body a clear sign that she should stop. Clarity was about to give up, the pain becoming too great until finally the circuit board dislodged itself from her back flying off of her landing on the floor by her side. Clarity laid there completely still for a few moments her eyes sealed shut.

"Okay, Clarity, you can do this." Clarity whispered to herself opening her eyes once again. "Get your phone, call 911, call your boyfriend, call Felicity and everything will be fine."

Grimacing from the pain Clarity sat up to get a better view of her surroundings. Her apartment seemed relatively undamged save for her desk and the possible water damage on her hard wood floors. On the ground near the window she saw her cell phone laying in a puddle of rain water. She grit her teeth and crawled over to it not feeling ready to stand up quite yet. She went to pick the phone up, but the second it connected with her hand it exploded as lightning momentarily crackled in her palm.

"What the hell...?" Clarity whispered in confusion. She went to pick up the remains of her phone to inspect it, but her hand passed straight through the item. Clarity pulled her hand back in shock her heart racing her hand now stinging painfully from coming in contact with the puddle.

Clarity grabbed onto the windowsill and hefted herself up into a standing position her legs trembling from the effort. She leaned heavily on the side of the window and gasped. The city was in a state of panic. She had never seen or heard so many sirens rushing about before. Clarity shivered feeling a chill. She quickly shut the windows tight.

Clarity slammed a hand over her mouth. It was the only thing she could do not to scream. She touched the window pane gently with her right pointer finger where her reflection stared back at her. Her eyes had changed, they were brighter now, so much brighter. They were freakish and abnormal looking. What had happened? Why were they like that? Clarity's breathing picked up speed. Something was wrong. Something was very very wrong.

She winced as she stumbled to her apartment door. She needed help. She grabbed her keys off the hook, opened the door, and made her way outside. She had to find help. She tripped, but caught herself against the wall on the other side of the hall. She leaned heavily against it as she clicked the elevator button fruitlessly, but it wouldn't work. The power was still off. Clarity closed her eyes.

"Cmon, please...please...just work." Clarity pleaded not confident enough that she could even make it down the stairs. Because her eyes were closed she did not see her powers at work lightning leaving her fingertips flowing into the button powering the elevator. When she heard it moving she sighed in relief. Once it stopped on her floor she stepped inside holding onto the side bar of the elevator's wall and clicked the button for the ground floor.

Once she reached the ground floor Clarity limped outside her back flaring in pain. She could feel the back of her soft gray pajama shirt dampen further as rain water mixed with blood. The street was completely empty save for a man sitting on the curb smoking a cigarette. Clarity recognized the man. He lived on the floor below her, with his two adorable little girls and his wife, his name was Trevor, Clarity recalled.

"P-please...please you've got to help me." Clarity called out to him unable to hide the pain in her voice.

Trevor spun around at Clarity's call and he dropped his cigarette to the ground in surprise as he took in the state of her. She looked completely disshelved, holes singed into her clothes in various places, blood covering her hands with smear marks from where she had tried to wipe them off on her pants. Hair disshelved and wet. He leapt up to his feet and approached her cautiously. Her eyes...had they always been that blue? In any case she looked like she was about to fall over.

"Hey, it's alright. I've got you, It's gonna be al-" whatever else Trevor was about to say was cut off the second Clarity's hand touched his arm. The man had just reached out to steady her before Clarity's lightning went coursing through his body. There eyes locked and Clarity watched helplessly as her powers killed the man who was about to come to her aid. She watched as his body seized up and the terror in his eyes reflected clearly in her own even as they glowed bright with power. Trevor's body dropped lifelessly to the ground his corpse now smoking like the cigarette he had dropped moments earlier.

Clarity dropped to her knees her hands covering her mouth in a silent scream. What had she just done?

There's ch 2! Okay so I've decided to take the origin day by day for a bit and then get into the flash episodes later in the origin story. Chapter's are probably going to be 1,000 to 2,000 words or so for the origin story unless I for some reason decide to go beyond that. Once I hit the flash episodes that will probably happen. But anyways onto the questions!

1. So thoughts on Clarity first waking up?

2. Thoughts on Clarity's first kill?

3. What do you think Clarity is going to do next chapter?

4. What character(s) are you most excited to see Clarity interact with and why?

5. Is this what you were expecting to happen? Or were you expecting something different?

6. If I make a story where the legends watch/read this book and react to it will you read it?

7. Anything else you wanted to ask, rant or tell me!