I looked outside the train's window at where I was sitting, eyeing the city lights of Ikebukuro that shined in the night, like stars.
A small smile etched on my lips as I heard a distant motor engine...or horse neigh somewhere within the city.
'She must be out on another job and checking up on Masaomi.'
I didn't notify anyone of where I was going except for Celty and it took me a day to pack up what I needed: clothes, my sword and katana, and my phone unless Celty needed to contact me.
As for Izaya, he left as soon as I got back home that same day after meeting up with Masaomi. I was suspicious of him leaving so quickly, but knowing him, he had a job to do.
'He says he loves humans and yet, he ruins them. How ironic. If what he says is true, and he despises inhumans...Shizuo and Celty aren't the only ones.'
I'm not human...but I used to be one.
When I was around eight, a time where my parents was still around, there was accident with the very chemical I carried on with my parents research.
-Flashback-
"Sonali, dear, Mister Yagiri and Namie came to India yesterday," my mother informed me with a smile.
"How about you go and meet Namie on the floor below in room 174 while we talk with Mister Yagiri?" My father asked of me.
"Okay," I said with a smile and ran off to the stairs instead of taking the elevator since I was full of energy.
When I got down to the 35th floor, I saw a man with brown hair, dark brown eyes, and had a lab coat on along with a suit, who seemed ominous, but I was not phased at all.
When I passed by him, I felt his eyes pierce me and I narrowed my eyes, 'I better watch out for that man. What's his name again?..Yagi...no, Yagiri...'
For a young girl, I was very observant of the people and surroundings around me. Both of my parents taught me that. They even spoke about some of their research to me.
Knocking on room 174's door, which was a waiting room, a young girl's voice hummed from the other side.
I walked in and saw a girl, who was probably a year or two older thab myself with long dark brown hair and dark brown eyes in a dark green sweater dress.
"Who are you..." She asked, seeming bord.
I smiled gently, "I'm Sonali Tommii. May I ask who you are?"
"...Namie Yagiri."
"It's nice to meet you, Namie-san," I said with a ninety degree bow.
"Hm? You know Japanese?" She asked, seeming interested.
"Yes, I take it you assumed because of my bow and adding -san to your name. Because of my accent and skin color, you thought I was native and didn't know your language. I could tell where you're from just by looking at you. Actually, my mother's Indian and my father's Japanese, so I'm Japanese-Indian. Also, you probably don't want to be here with me since your...eleven, I take it?"
She seemed surprised, "Y-yes, I am. You're very observant...*Blush*..."
I tilted my head in confusion, "Namie-san? Do you have a fever?"
"Ah, n-no...Um, I'm bord here. Let's go and find something interesting to do, shall we?"
"Sure?" I replied a bit unsure before opening the door and stepping out with her behind me.
She closed the door behind us, "Is there anything interesting you know that's in the Aurora Oriana facility?"
"Hmm...my parents told me there was a life-changing test experiment going on in the 23rd floor in the first room. Wanna go there?"
"Yes, let's use the elevator since it's so far down," she said and pressed the button on the wall for the elevator to come.
'At first, Namie Yagiri was bord with me, but now that I gave her more info about me, she has taken interest. Well, I guess that's how friendship starts...'
As the ding noise sounded, we stepped into the elevator and I pressed floor 23. Then, the doors closed and the elevator descended down.
"Say, Sonali...what do you plan to do when you grow up? With how smart you are now, you should know," Namie-san began a conversation.
I placed my right index finger on my right cheek, "...I plan on helping my parents' with medical and scientific research. Why?"
"I was..just wondering. I could help you since I want to become a scientific doctor..."
I narrowed my eyes, 'What is she trying to gain? She wants to help me for a reason. If I let her help me in the near future, she would want something back from me. Did her father--no...uncle put her up to this?'
I turned to her with a smile, "If you want to," I gave her a confusing reply.
The ding noise sounded again and the elevator's doors opened as we walked out to the first room's door.
I knocked on the door and when no one answered for a full thirty seconds, I opened it.
In the room was a white table with a glowing gold colored stone that was shaped like an octagon on it, covered by safety glass.
The rest of the room was white and a had bookshelf of books, folders, and binders lined up neatly. It was the notes, experiments, and outcomes of the odd stone.
"What is it?" Namie-san asked me.
"It's a new experiment the doctors here have found, not created. They say they don't know how it came to be, but my parents found it in the desert of India. It gives off high energy that can last for years."
"Does this experiment have a name?" Namie-san asked, looking in the books that were related to the stone.
"Yes, it's called EL-Infinity or...Eternal Life-Infinity. I'm unsure why."
"I think I found out why. In this book, it says they tested this on a dying hamster and the hamster became well in a matter of time..."
I lifted an eyebrow in curiosity, "Does it say when this test was performed and the hamster's condition?"
"Year: June 8, 1992...Condition in June 8, 1993: Well so far and...Status in June of 1995: Alive."
Both of our eyes widened, 'What? This component made a hamster live for three years and it hasn't died? Maybe this shouldn't be messed with so carelessly...It's something humankind hasn't heard of...'
As I circled the mysterious, glowing, golden stone, the light reacted tremendously every time I so much as got a inch closer to it.
"This notebook says it doesn't react to unliving things, but only animals and humans...cats for animals, specifically."
I stopped circling the table, "Hmm, what about specific humans?"
"...5% reaction, but any time Dr. Aadhya Tommii came near EL-Infinity, it's energy would go rapid and...swirl around her body...but no other reaction happens. She says she would feel 'warm inside' and 'comforting nostalgia'."
"What do you think will happen if-...it is best if I don't get close to it. Something bizarre might happen."
She restacked the notebooks, "You're right, though this is interesting research, but it's best if we don't cause a bad reaction. Let's go explore somewhere else."
I nodded, "Yeah."
When I was about to walk away, something held me back by my medium short hair. I looked back to see a string of colorful light coming from the golden stone under the safety glass.
"Namie-san..."
She looked back, "Hm? What is it?"
"...It...it won't...let g--aghh!"
The thin light wrapped around my body and red sari garment decorated with sapphire jewels.
When it fully wrapped itself around me, it glowed brighter and tighter, then entered places of my body where pulses are common.
I began to scream since the feeling felt like a cobra or a rattle snake squeezing you to death and releasing venom in your veins.
"Sonali!" Namie-san yelled in worry and tried to get close, but she would get burned by stone itself if she came closer to me.
"AHHH!! N-Namie-san!!! G-get...doctors, n-no--AGHHHH! IT HURTS! IT HURTS!! IT HURTS!!!"
Namie-san did as I told and ran out the room. I didn't take her action as leaving me to suffer, but rather leaving me to go get help.
This feeling also made me feel...I couldn't describe it, so powerful, too powerful, powerful enough to even corrupt myself.
Suddenly...everything turned black.
~Tiny Time Skip~
Muffled voices...that's all I could hear.
When I opened my eyes, the two figures over me were blurry...so blurry that it gave me a headache, which I had.
Slowly raising my right numb hand above, I saw a glowing vein.
Then as if the last sources of energy from the stone was conserving, my vision cleared and my nerves got back their feeling.
The thing was...I could see sharper, I could smell better...the toxins that the stone left didn't help, and I felt like I could feel anything and tell what it is.
"-Nali! Sonali, can you hear me?!" I heard my father's voice.
"Sonali, sweety, say something!" My mother panicked.
Both of them were supporting me by my back and I slowly sat up, trying not to wince at the hot injuries that burned on my skin.
'Wh-what...what happened? A-are those...th-third degree burns? Wh-why do I-I feel...re..reborn?'
"M-mommy...D-daddy...am I..I okay?" Was all my weak voice could say.
They didn't answer. My mother only embraced me and began crying, saying 'Thank God!' over and over.
As for my father, my...larger peripheral vision noticed he was staring at my glowing veins.
Before anymore could be said, I fainted from exhaustion.
From that day forward, Sonali Tommii was not able to die.
-Flashback Ends-
'What...am I...'
["We'll be arriving in Akihabara in five minutes,"] the announcer spoke in the intercom.
I sighed, 'The last time I been here was a couple weeks before I joined the Dollars...Huh, ever since then, a lot has beeb happening in my life.'
When the train came to its stop, I exited it with other people and immediately headed to the outskirts of Akihabara.
~Small Time Skip~
Akihabara is known as the "ElectricCity" and the reason why...well, it says it in the name.
After my parents died, I moved Aurora Oriana to Shibuya, but whenI 'supposedly' met my fate the third time, I rebuilt the company in secret on the outskirts of Akihabara.
You read correctly, I said 'third time'. I died three times: First contact with EL-Infinity, the night after my parents died when a group of Yellow Scarves invaded my home to kill me, and when I self-destruct the Aurora Oriana since agents from the Yagiri Pharmacy attempted to steal info.
Though all of the info wasn't gone. Thanks to EL-Infinity, I memorized all of my parents' research.
My goal now...is to get this thing out of me somehow.
I stepped in front of an old, kaki, small building that was in a wooded area and enter through the half broken brown door.
The windows were broken, leaking in nightlight from the moon. I moved a tattered, Indian decorated rug and used a brown key to unlock the hatch.
Pulling it up with the small handle, I used my phone as light to guide my way down after pulling the rug over the hatch enough to cover it, closing it, and locking it from the inside out.
'Now that I think about it...I haven't seen Namie Yagiri since I was twelve. It makes me wonderif she inherited her uncle's pharmacy.'
I walked down the dim lit hall to the steel door that had a green, glowing hand print scanner that only I could get in.
Placing my right hand on the scanner, it granted me access as always and four different types of safety glass doors opened up from up, down, right, and left.
They shut behind me when I enteredthe large, gray circular room with best kind of tech you can find. There were three bookshelves on each side of the room with fourty seven years worth of research.
On the other side of the room through more safety glass was a medium long, cylinder of goldish liquid.
When I was done building this place, I extracted as much EL-Infinity's substance in my body, which seemed never-ending, and put in a clear, protective glass cylinder.
There are 100 more different test subject liquids and solids of my parent research. Fifty are successful medications that I would give Celty to transport to people in need and the other fifty is scientific research on astronomy, psychology, historical artifacts, etc.
Whenever I came into physical contact with EL-Infinity, it would be like the process from when it first entered my body, but I wouldn't pass out or feel like I'm burning up.
I entered the code to open the door on the other side, which was digits of my birthday...a day I haven't celebrated since my parents died.
Entering the room, I walked to the giant cyclinder and a white cart that was next to it. On the cart...
Was a head similar to what I assumed what Celty's looked like.
For some reason, when Celty gave me DNA of her black blood five years ago and I mixed it with EL-Infinity...it slowly formed into a replica, but had the same DNA.
I smiled at the closed eyed head, "Well, it's been nice creating you, but it's time to see what TR-3 can do..."
TR-3 is similar to TR-2, but it just transfers three vessels instead of two together. TR stands for Transfer or Transmute Replication.
I stuck a IV needle in the middle of my left arm that was connected to EL-Infinity and placed another IV needle in my right arm that I was about to stick in the head.
I breathed in a shaky breath, "I know that...this might likely kill me, but I have to know...if this head and EL-Infinity...will turn me back into a human."
I stuck the IV needle in the head, my veins absorbing the black blood quicker than I thought.
"Ngh...mhh...ng--AHH!!! AGHHH! AGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"
It was too much pressure for my body. The EL-Infinity's light gleamed as bright as the sun and Celty's head opened her eyes, glowing a bright gold.
My vision became blurry and everything turned black, but I could hear a loud explosion, shattering glass, and my screaming.
(To be continued...)