Chapter 1: Prologue of Evolution
(Welcome to the new story. As most of you are aware, I have started a brand new story due to the old one causing me migraines and going through way too many edits and rough drafts just made the plot I was going for shatter and so I just scrapped it all and made anew. Ah, yes. Disclaimer, I do not own any characters of their signature industries except my OC and plot.)
Evolution.
The process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth. The gradual development of something, especially from a simple to a more complex form. However, evolution is a mystery, full of change that no one sees and makes a fool of history. Yesterday's too long ago and don't agree with what anyone knows. This is about being who unlocked the true power of evolution and only this being will take the answer to their grave and beyond. A power that when trained and mastered can equal primordial forces that flow throughout the universe. It begins the galaxy called, "The Jericho galaxy." In this galaxy was a solar system named "The Tarkata System" which consists of 1 blue sun and 14 planets. It begins on the 7th planet of the tarkata system, a planet the size of the milky way galaxy's solar system's sun named "Sol." A planet with three moons the size of earth with a revolution period is 420 days which equals 1 year, its rotational period is 36 hours which equals 1 day and 1 month equals 5 weeks or 35 days.
A planet named "Hadou."
This planet is the home to all types of supernatural, natural, and spiritual lifeforms. Examples include deities, monsters, spirits, demi-humans, and of course, mankind. However, mankind was considered the endangered species on hadou as endless war consumed the planet. Mankind may be the weakest race but their level of technology and limitless potential kept them alive. So, mankind had gathered every brilliant and talented minds that were left in the world to hide from the outside world and begin trying to create a weapon to fight back and created an organization called "The Humanization of Evolutionists and Leading Logistics" or "The H.E.L.L. Foundation. The weapon they were creating was designed to hunt, kill, consume, and adapt to anything beyond its level of power and cause a massive plummet in the population and then mass produce the weapon and become the only species in the world.
In other words, Commit Borderline Omnicide.
Decades of testing and 665 failures and soon enough, subject 666 was born as a human male but not with a mother and father type birth, more like a test tube. In other words, he was created and dubbed "The Efficient Readjusting Mass Assimilating Creature" or "Project E.R.M.A.C." The first three years of his life was spent inside an isolation chamber suspended in some type of stasis liquid that kept his body from contamination, a rebreather to give him air to breathe, and a nervegear connected to his brain to teach him the vocabulary needed to understand their language which was English. During the 3 years in the chamber, he was released and went through a year of torturous experiments then put right back into the chamber each time the experiments were over.
Due to the insane amounts of experiments the child had suffered pain beyond anything imaginable and programmed to have an intense hatred for anything that was not human. The experiments were unsuccessful but the subject was still alive, scientists continued to take samples and the tests always came back 100% human and the subject was always in a docile state no matter how many times they tried to encourage him to follow orders to see if their experiments had paid dividends. What they weren't aware of was that all that tampering and experimenting on his DNA caused it to unlock a hidden power that laid dormant inside the child advancing his body, mind, soul, and the foreign DNA to suit the child and stabilize the body but since it laid in a docile state, the child could not unlock the full potential of the hidden power.
This power was called "Evolutionary Energy Manipulation."
4 Years of never eating, programmed with a toxic hatred to all but human life and endless pain caused the child to physically, mentally, and emotionally snap causing the child to develop omnicidal tendencies of all life in his genetics and soul. His very first victim was a leading scientist that was testing another subject which was the last of its kind and was very close to figuring it out until him and the subject met a gruesome end when the foundation alarms blared that subject 666 has breached its containment cell and was now in the ventilation system...Which he was standing right under and eyes was staring right at him. The guards were deployed and ready to re-contain the weapon when they heard a blood curdling scream. By the time they made it, the scientist was nothing but a lower body and the important subject was currently being swallowed by the new subject. The guards looked on with horror and disgust as some of them vomited while others steeled their nerves and got ready to detain him.
10 guards lost their lives and hearts but they were able to damage the subject to the point it put him in a coma. A month later the subject woke up seeing that he was back in his cell but not his isolation chamber and chained heavily to the wall and judging by the expressions on the scientists faces, they were enraged. Seeing that they lost a very valuable scientist and their prime subject, they labeled project E.R.M.A.C. a failure since he wouldn't obey orders, they tried to terminate him and start anew. Keyword being tried. The subject tore apart and ate all those that were sent for him to be terminated. They found out that he had a healing factor and that his body was highly adaptive and that if 87% of his body was damaged or ripped apart the healing factor will slowly heal him but increases immensely from anything he ingests, organic or inorganic.
Digestion seems to be aided by a set of filtering gills which adapted to the child from the mutations inside of his nose and mouth which were able to remove usable matter from any liquid, solid or gas solution, enabling him to constantly regenerate and giving the child the ability to heal by just merely breathing air since it is a gas solution as well when they tried other uses of termination. It is truly a terrifying sight to see a child with only a torso and arm suddenly spring at you and begin eating you until his body grew back minutes later. The child had performed 7 containment breaches and over 1,000 fatalities, the costs to the facility were almost over the budget and morale was low as some of the greatest scientific minds were butchered and eaten by the subject and those that tried to take retribution met the same fate.
They tried all types of terminations like; burning him alive, dunked him in acid, frozen, suffocation, and electrocuted him but the subject still survived because of its adaptive ability and advanced resistance. They even tried to go for decapitation but were afraid that if he survived, he would build an immunity to it. Fortunately, the adaptations only lasted for a week before breaking down rendering him vulnerable again, but the major drawback was that the adaptations would activate immediately after something damages the subject's body and without the adaptations the subject's strength, speed and durability was off the charts. Another year goes by as the remaining scientists noticed something strange about the child.
The subject had started growling when no one was there in its docile state. It never talked even though it could understand their language, it just hissed and growled every three seconds. There was a time when a new worker accidentally got trapped in its containment cell, the worker was screaming and banging on the cell to be let out but the subject took no notice to the worker. At first, they thought that their weapon had calmed down and its hatred was cured but as soon as the subject stopped growling and looked at the worker...Well, at least they could say that the money they paid workers to continue on did cost an arm and a leg...and a heart. Anyway, the point was that the subject just kept making noises to itself, almost like it was...thinking about something which was impossible because it was a mindless beast. What they weren't aware of was that the docile power inside the child's brain was once again mutating his body but not physically.
When his mind snapped his IQ drastically shot from 150 to 50 but once he consumed the scientist's brain who had the IQ of 270, not only did he take the man's brain, he took the man's sanity, intelligence, memories and experiences. While it healed his sanity and IQ level, it massively increased his IQ to 420 which explained why he was in a coma for a month. Throughout the year, the child stayed in a docile state and only attacked when termination squads were coming for him or reckless fools came seeking revenge. The year was spent sorting through all the memories about what was going on in the world and what the outside world looks like. The majestic beauty of the dark blue sun, the majestic darkness of the night with the endless stars in the sky and the 3 moons that balances the giant planets tides and rotational period. He also learned that the scientist he ate was one of the scientists that created him.
With that first kill, he learned what he was, what he was supposed to do and what he could do. He also learned that the subject he had consumed was genetically modified with the DNA of a hellish octopus, storm eel, and the deadly dunkleosteus. Hadou was home to the most dangerous species in the galaxy. The hellish octopus is found not only in the ocean but in active volcanoes. They are immune to 7,000 kelvin levels of heat and flames and were masters of camouflage. The storm eel does live in the ocean however it gets its name due to its ability called "Storm manipulation." These creatures could live in average water temperatures or close to sub-zero temperatures due to their resistance to the cold. They were also resistant to lightning, paralysis, and ice. The dunkleosteus is one of the most dangerous sea creatures on Hadou. This chrome colored fish had the most durable armor in the world. It covered 100% of its body including its organs and teeth giving it the most powerful bite force on the planet.
The only thing that is able to kill a dunkleosteus is another dunkleosteus, 5000 kelvin levels of heat or weapons made from its armor. The most terrifying thing about these creatures was that they were the size of blue whales. How were humans able to get samples? With luck, technology, and a whole lot of casualties. Why were they fusing the DNA into the subject? Because it was no ordinary subject. It was the jellyfish leviathan. This species of jellyfish was always born genetically perfect in every way, they have attained the pinnacle of biological and genetic enhancement. As such, their genome is totally flawless, making their entire biology perfect, which grants them any/all powers activated/hidden within their genetic code/genome to their maximum capacity and potential immunity to any/all kinds of outside genetic alteration and assimilate and adapt other DNA and enhance the foreign DNA and are semi-immortal.
However, it was probably the last of its kind due to its species being hunted and eaten by other animals and people alike as they were extremely delicious but very hard to find even though they are the size of a great white shark. The scientists found a jellyfish leviathan's egg by an insane amount of luck, they took special care of it for it to hatch and was about the size of an adult's arm and was compatible with almost any genetic material and were about to test its compatibility with humans but it was consumed by subject 666. Now the subject has cost them the key to semi-immortality unaware that the subject's evolving power was assimilating all the foreign DNA and burning a lot of energy and causing massive pain to the user until the user goes into a death-like state which is one of the reasons the subject went into a coma. Once he woke up, the subject was completely healed, his was enhanced beyond superhuman and his energy reserves were increased immensely.
He was now genetically perfect.
After attaining genetic perfection, the subject had experienced a year of terminations with no luck of ending his life. While he was being detained, he was sorting through the memories he assimilated from the scientist and learned that the scientist wasn't an ordinary scientist. He was actually a criminal that was being hunted by warriors called "Samurais." from a village called "Kagemori" which stood for "Shadow Forest" or "The Village Hidden in the Forest's Shadows." Apparently, the criminal was a civilian who wanted to be a Samurai as well but was too weak due to a genetic defect of not having the ability of tap into neither power source of what the child learned were "Chi" or "Soul Force." Blaming his family for his problem, he killed them in their sleep. The only thing he had going for him is his intelligence. The criminal had learned the language of the village that was called "Japanese" in a month and ace everything in the civilian academies and landed a job in the villages research and development center.
He was so good at his job he gained an audience with the village leader who was the emperor. The emperor had found out what he had done and who he killed which turned out that his parents were the emperor's personal guards. Instead of executing him immediately, the emperor insulted him, humiliated him, sliced his foot off and exiled him while giving him a head start to be hunted and killed. After somehow escaping and surviving being spotted by the supernatural he was picked up by the H.E.L.L. foundation and has been working with them for years right up until his death. That child also learned that although he couldn't use chi or soul force he did have a power he called "Psionics." Psionics give the user the power to use mental and psychic powers. However, the criminal only used his power to read minds of people with ideas to get rich and sense energy. Now the child had the power of psionics.
When he was somewhat alone, he would train on his psionics and achieved marvelous progress, he was able to surpass the scientist level of proficiency in just three days when it took the scientist a decade which told him that the man mainly used his power just for profit instead of seeing how far he can go with it. The subject mastered the basics of telepathic techniques such as Mind Reading/Thought Detection: The ability to read or sense the thoughts of others. Visual Mind Reading: The ability to see the thoughts of others. Psychic Communication: The ability to open up secret conversations and relay covert information. Empathy: The ability to interpret the emotions of others. Telempathy: The ability to communicate through emotions. And finally: Telepathic Speaking: The ability to speak aloud using only the mind in just 2 months of training by manipulating the scientists minds against themselves and others. As his psionic energy grew, He unlocked a new power called "Telekinesis."
After unlocking another power, he mastered the basics of telekinetic techniques in 2 months as well such as Binding: The ability to keep object/being from moving. Levitation: The ability to lift an object, e.g. raising a pitcher several inches into the air. Orbital Field: To make objects and possibly energy orbit around the user. Telekinetic Choking: To choke or strangle others without physical contact. Telekinetic Grip: To grasp an object firmly in place, e.g. keeping the tides from washing a friend away. Telekinetic Maneuver: To alter an object's directional course, e.g. changing what number a dice lands on or deflecting an opponent's attack. Last but not least is Telekinetic Pull/Push: The ability to pull objects towards the user or to push objects away from the user, e.g. yanking a book off a shelf or sliding a cup across a table. He also learned about his evolution energy when he was training to sense energy with his telepathy.
He learned that the core of this energy is located in his cell nucleus which is what he learned that every living being had one but did not know the full potential of the cell nucleus. The energy takes 3 days to recharge passively but the time is decreased to hours if he consumes living biomass. If he eats someone else's cell nucleus which is located in the heart, the energy's reserves are charged instantly and increased immensely. Out of the 7 containment breeches and 1000 fatalities, he's consumed 100 hearts which gave him the needed energy to create the mutations he had and the last 6 months of torture from the organization went from unbearable to tolerable then to the point where the pain is equivalent to getting hit in the face with a pillow. The limitations were that some of the adaptations he made were temporary and he felt that something was missing.
To find out what was missing, he decided to find out by meditating which he learned from the scientist brain he ate and with the help of his telepathy was able to dive into his subconscious and search his mind, body, and soul unaware of the danger that was heading his way. The workers of the facility appeared to be in a good mood since one of their scientists had created a mind control machine to finally get their weapon under control. So, with glee, they carefully carried the sleeping subject to the laboratory and strapped the subject to the machine. The machine they strapped to the child to was designed to destroy every emotion to create the perfect weapon to mold in their image, but they should have paid attention to what they were doing. Due to faulty wiring and miscalculated blueprints, the machine did something unintended to what it was designed to do.
Instead of destroying all his emotions, it lowered them immensely. What they had created was the perfect monster that knows nothing but insanity and hatred and barely feels pain. They also gave him 100 million volts of electricity through his body, which is the equivalent of a thunderstorm hitting him point blank. Meanwhile, the subject found his subconscious realm appeared to be a white void. According to a theory about subconscious manipulation, the user can manipulate everything hidden inside their subconscious, including ideas, wishes or desires, traumatic memories or painful emotions. This allows them to manipulate the hidden aspects of the mind in various ways like arranging memories as one desire, awaken secrets and information hidden deep in the subconscious, and give shape to emotions or thoughts hidden inside the mind and create a memory world. If the user is powerful enough, they can erase what resides in the subconscious like their capacity to choose right from wrong and leave only what they deem "important" making them very strong or very dangerous.
Another rare use is the capability to manipulate dreams, able to even create very vivid nightmares. In other words, they would achieve the full power of eidetic memory. Deciding to put the theory to the test, he sat down and closed his eyes focused on creating his memory world. 10 minutes later he opened his eyes and was amazed at what he saw. The white void transformed in a library and his memories in the form scrolls levitated around him began organizing and stacking themselves into bookshelves by the years he's been alive in alphabetical order.
It took 30 minutes before all his memories were put up and his memory world was fully operational and for the first time in his life, he felt in control of himself. The next thing to do was create a pathway from his mind to his body and soul to create an inner world. Once again, he closed his eyes and concentrated with his telepathic senses to find his body and soul and connect them with his mind and create an inner world for him to use. 50 minutes of intense concentration exhausted his psionic energy and caused a headache and nosebleed in the physical and subconscious realm but he was able to find his body and soul and linked it to his mind and started creating the inner world in the image he prefers. After setting things up, he opened his eyes and noticed a door that wasn't there in front of him. He walked to the door, opened it, and was amazed at what he saw.
The door leads to an open field of white grass, black skies filled with stars and the entirety of the tarkata system and its blazing blue sun. Remembering what he has to do, he used his telepathic senses to search for the adaptive energy which should be at the manifestation of his heart. 15 minutes of tracking the energy source lead him to a black tiled arena with 4 isosceles triangular pillars in the corners and in the very middle of the arena was a sliver spiral shaped like a galaxy of what looks to be plasmic energy that took 6,200 square feet out of 10,800 square feet of the arena's usable surface. This arena was his heart and the plasma galaxy of energy is the cell nucleus. According to the advance biology education the subject consumed from the scientist, most DNA or 60% of his DNA is located in the cell nucleus where it is called "nuclear DNA," but the other 40% amount of DNA can also be found in the mitochondria where it is called "mitochondrial DNA" or "mtDNA."
With this in mind, the subject wondered since the foundation accidentally unlocked half of his power's potential, would unlocking and fusing the mitochondria's true potential with the cell nucleus would unleash the full and true power of evolutionary energy? The first thing to do is find the mitochondria of the cell nucleus and judging by the dormant energy he was sensing from the pillars, the mtDNA energy was the pillars. Now, he just had to figure out how to activate them. Walking up to a random pillar, the subject placed his hand upon a pillar and began concentrating. A few seconds later, he was once again in a black void only this time the void was shrouded in smoke and a singular, 1-foot thick rope of white energy occupied the void. He followed one of the strings until the smoke started clearing and more ropes were manifesting. Soon he found the end and saw that the ropes were tangled up into a ball.
He figured that this must be his mtDNA but was confused. He counted the number of ropes connected to the ball and 1,280 of mitochondria were tangled up when it should be 5,000 of them due to the fact that the heart has the number of mitochondria. He then realized that each pillar must have had the other 1,280 organelles of mitochondria and since the ball of energy appeared blocked, he used telekinesis to untangle and organize the ropes. 10 minutes of untangling, the subject finished the last tangle and organized them into rows that were laid out. Suddenly, all the ropes began glowing brighter and brighter until the entire void was consumed in a white flash. The next thing he knew, he was back in the arena and the black pillar was glowing white and at the tip of the pillar, a beam of energy was shot directly into the plasma ball that immensely increased the plasma ball and the arena. Celebrating his success, he gets to work on the last 3 pillars. 45 minutes later, the subject had finished the last tangle.
As he was about to organize the last rope and wait for the void to fade to white a mind shattered pain shot through his entire body that caused him to screech in agony that multiplied the pain a thousand-fold rendering him 8 types of dead even with lightning resistance, but...He was able to organize the rope and activated the last pillar. The last beam hit the plasma ball which increased to the size of the mountain named "Everest." What the subject didn't know was that his energy had increased to such a point that it became sentient when sensing the pain and death of its creator, it immediately got to work to help its master and the first thing that it needed to do was to assimilate everything in a 10-mile radius. So, like a supernova, the plasma galaxy exploded into energy as it worked overtime to bring its host back to the living. Meanwhile outside the subconscious realm, scientists took notice of the silver aura surrounding his body.
Suddenly the aura shot out like fire and began engulfing everything and everyone. Those that were close to it suffered a slow and painful disintegration or slowly burned alive till nothing was left. No one was safe. The aura was not burning everything, it was consuming all organic and inorganic mass and adapting it to the host. Since the power has been awakened, the full adaptation of his abilities will increase and be added permanently. A year goes by since the child had disintegrated the foundation, he had woken up to stars in a blackened sky in tattered rags and soot was buried all over his body that covered the soil for miles. The child was mesmerized as he never in his life thought that he would never be able to see anything like this. The air tasted different and tasted warmer than the air inside the facility. The child tried to stand up while struggling to keep balance as he looked around seeing nothing but ash on the terrain.
He then noticed one crucial piece of info. He was free, no more being a weapon or slave, he finally gained freedom. He was so happy, but there was another question burning on his mind? What was he going to do now? Suddenly, he started hearing a voice and immediately went into a rage state looking for anybody that was making that noise and gave them a gruesome death. The voice was telling him to calm down and that it was his evolutionary power talking to him and that no one in a ten-mile radius was alive anymore. After gaining control of himself, he asked his power what had happened. The power explained that everything to him about what happened and how it was born from the massive levels of energy and all the energy was used to assimilate every living thing in the foundation and had to go on standby for a year to recharge the massive reserves and made the temporary adaptations he had permanent.
After thanking his power for the information, he just started walking around. After an hour of walking he came upon a nearby river and saw his reflection for the very first time. His ethnicity was a mix of Asian, Romanian, American, English, Scottish, and Swiss, his hair was black and spiky with 4 strands, (A/N: Think Grimmjow's hairstyle from bleach) his eyes were crimson and had an open scar that started at the top of his right eyebrow that ended vertically under the bone below his eye exposing dark silver flesh and his teeth a row of platinum sharp canines and grinders. The child carefully meddled with the scar but he didn't know his own strength as he ended up damaging himself as grey blood burst from his scar hitting the ground with a really loud hiss. Seeing how fast it was eating the ground told him that his blood was deadly, but he was shocked to find out that although he felt it, he felt no pain and the blood wasn't melting his skin like it was on the ground as it began forming a small crater. Testing out how far he doesn't feel the pain he started punching himself.
Even though he felt the heavy blows, violent thuds, and the cracks of bones in his body, he found out that he felt no pain anywhere. He had every other sensation but pain and his scar automatically glowed grey as his healing factor healed him back to full health. He asked his power why wasn't he feeling any pain and why the scar didn't heal. The power told him that due to taking 100 million volts to the head, his limited lightning resistance was able to save most of his nervous system but his emotions were diminished critically and all his pain receptors were disintegrated to a sub-atomic level and when he had died he was nothing but brunt flesh and melted organs and was resurrected with the biomass of the scientists and that the scar was branded onto him at an atomic level and unintentionally making it apart of his physiology. He didn't know how to feel about that but so he just sat in silence and focused back on his dilemma. What should he do now? The world became much bigger and it was an uphill battle that he didn't think he was ready for.
Suddenly, his evolutionary energy core gave an analysis to him about the people's memories and experiences were assimilated and organized into his subconscious realm library and gave him the advice to head to the village that his first victim was from and start from there and see what's going on in the world. That boosted his morale and with that, he started his first step to freedom and enlightenment. Another year goes by and during that time the child has learned a little about the world and about himself and his power. He learned that the humans in this world were being butchered by supernatural beings and despite seeing some gruesome deaths and other atrocities he was able to stay one step ahead of them without getting caught and scavenged the remains of cadavers, human or not.
Speaking of his power, he learned that his power was a fusion of superior adaptation, evolution and energy manipulation. That meant that whatever damages he suffered from, the power would heal and adapt to the damage increasing the density and durability of the damaged area and since it is now sentient it is able to calculate how much energy is needed for the adaptations and random mutations that he or the sentient power could think of. With it, he could upgrade his healing factor that made the healed tissue and mental defenses stronger than the damage dealt permanently instead of temporarily. He also learned that his power's core was like an artificial intelligence that the foundation spent years on creating but was assimilated by his power which took on the mixed physiology of an AI and sentient power. With the core's voice being a female, the child decided to name the power and AI.
The AI would be named "Annaisha" which stood for "Helpful guide." Annaisha had thanked him and asked what his name would be since she would need a way to address him as well. For as long as he could remember, he was always called "Project E.R.M.A.C." by the scientists so he had no idea what his name was so he decided to make his own name. He wanted his name to spread fear to his enemies. A name no one would expect to have. A name for what he truly is and what he can truly do. Making up his mind, for the first time in 4 years of being experimented on like a lab rat, repeatedly almost getting terminated, a year unconscious and another year surviving and starving, raspy, and scratchy voice from growling, hissing, crying, and screaming but still a child's voice nonetheless, a name and was born. A name that would spread around the planet of Hadou and beyond the realms of fiction and non-fiction. This child is now, was, and forever will be named.
"Komodo-Ryū no Kage. Komodo Dragon of the Shadow."
During the year of hiding from predators stronger than himself, Komodo continued on his journey to the Kagemori village while surviving 4 months of hazardous obstacles such as lycanthropes, a basilisk attack and almost consumed by a sand worm. However, he was able to survive and consumed them to gain their abilities and increased his enhanced senses to supernatural levels like the lycanthropes sense of smell and speed, the basilisk's fast acting toxic bite, and the sand worm's incredible seismic vibration sensing. He was now in a desert and was in the fatal zone of starvation and dehydration due to no food or water showing up for 5 months and was now just lying in the sand. As the child had collapsed in a catatonic state, he began roaring his hate and sadness knowing he was going to die alone with no purpose and no food. It just wasn't fair, curse these humans, curse these monsters, curse the gods, curse them all! Suddenly, he picked up vibrations and the smell of organic flesh coming from 800 meters northeast.
He could taste the biomass in the air and it empowered him just enough to stand. Looking in the direction, he saw a giant scorpion that appeared to have a hut on top of its back meaning there were people living on the creature plus he could taste the air molecules and smell the blood and pain the creature was in and it was delicious. With hunger in his eyes, he immediately tried to run after it but each step it took would be farther than he can run with the little energy he had. Luck appeared to give him more leeway as the scorpion suddenly stopped and collapsed and appeared to be dead enabling him to finally catch up to the scorpion and rapidly began consuming it, tail first. Meanwhile, the hut on top of the scorpion exploded as four figures flew out of the wreckage before landing on the sand.
The four figures appeared to be three males and one white-haired female in a 3 versus 1 battle. The woman put up a decent fight as she was able to take two of them down but the leader had skill and power above her own. Beaten and tired, the woman knew that she would not live to see her people again but the look on the man's face told her that he was about to do more than just kill her. As the male began to rip apart the female's clothing, he was unaware of his death right behind him. Meanwhile, Komodo just finished eating about 90% of the scorpion leaving only its claws and a pool of blue blood. His mass had stabilized and his hunger was full for the next 8 months. As his power activated, he felt it stabilized and had grown more powerful as he felt that another adaptation was needed to be made. A silver and black tail that looked like a daggertail took form, (A/N: Think of James Heller fully upgraded whip fist from prototype 2) swishing and swooshing from side to side with a range of 30 meters.
After admiring his new tail, he took notice of the battle between the four humans. Looking at them in pure disgust and hatred but also in curiosity, he was under the impression that humans were weak and being exterminated, but these humans were anything but weak as they moved at speeds faster than him. He could barely see them and every time they collided, little white balls of sparks would fly around and shockwaves would erupt from random spaces. He took notice of the three males that were ganging up on the only female. It looked like the female would win as she had already killed two of the males but the third male appeared to be too much of a challenge for her as he injured her with multiple slash marks. He thought that as soon as the male killed her, he would kill the male while the male celebrates his victory thereby killing two birds with one stone and gaining extra food. As the male began ripping the female's clothes off, Komodo asked Annaisha what was he doing since he thought that he would kill her immediately.
She explained that he was planning to rape her which causes massive psychological and emotional trauma and torture. The madness of his cracked sanity started to make static-like noise Just because he couldn't feel pain anymore doesn't mean he can be driven more insane than before and he doesn't want to go into madness again. Letting things that he hates live longer than 10 seconds seems to be driving the madness of his disabled psyche chaotic causing a static-like noise and in a way, cause him pain. So to calm the madness down and growing enraged at them causing him technical pain, he planned on just killing the both of them now. Suddenly a loud whooshing and squelching sound erupted as the child's daggertail-like tail pierced through the male's left pectoral and missing the woman's head by two inches and slammed into the sand.
The female watched in shock as the male screamed bloody murder as the tail wrapped securely around the male causing the barbs of razor-sharp spikes to hook and lock on to his flesh causing agony and began dragging him towards what appears to be some mutant disguised as a toddler. As Komodo dragged the attempting rapist closer to him, he proceeded to bite the male in the neck and a horrific crunch echoed. As he did, Komodo felt something eject out of his teeth and into the man's neck as he was poisoning him with his newly adapted venom and neurotoxin from consuming the basilisk. The man hit the ground with a thud and started shaking violently as white foam spewed from his mouth with the child still latched on. Fifteen seconds later he stopped shaking and was dead and the toddler untangled his tail from the dead corpse as it dissolved into his back and began eating him. Two minutes later, the child finished eating the male he killed, leaving absolutely nothing but bones, he then went to the other dead bodies and ate them too.
The female watched on in disgust and horror but also in fascination and curiosity as Komodo ate the males like a school of hungry piranhas. Her mind was running wild that a yōkai had actually saved her from getting raped, it was unheard of. She wasn't sensing any power from him but she was downright disturbed as she saw massive amounts of insanity and hatred on the monster's face and what made it worse was that the creature looked to be a 7-year-old child. After finishing the two other dead males and was completely full of extra biomass and the noise was silenced, Komodo turned his unnatural eyes to the female who starred in fear and wonder of those eyes. The child stared back at her in hatred and confusion. She showed the fear of what he is and what he did, but she wasn't trying to control him or trying to end his existence like the other humans were. All he saw in her eyes were unknown emotions and expressions that he did not understand.
The woman started speaking to him asking him if he understood her in a language that he understood thanks to the people he's consumed and assimilated and learning every language they learned and was able to speak it fluently but he didn't respond verbally so he just growled nodded his head. Her hand started glowing white and he immediately got prepared to fight but she merely put her hand upon herself as some of the wounds she suffered were starting to heal. Komodo's expression was stoic but internally he was shocked. this was not scientific in the least. What was she? Was she really a human being? She smelled like one but her power said otherwise, it was all so confusing. Then he remembered about chi and soul force. Could she be a resident and one of those samurais of the village he was trying to find and learn the way to gain both chi and soul force? After she healed a little bit, she turned back to Komodo who now stared at her with just curiosity.
She still showed that unknown look as she seemed to giggle at him but he wasn't feeling any hostile intent which was very strange to him. Although the madness in him whispered to kill her, Annaisha told him to look at this logically. He was stuck in this desert and she might be the only one who knows the way out. Following her suggestion to throw a little trust to her, he settled down. She asked him what he was doing in the "desert of illusion." He shrugged saying nothing but now he understood where he was and why he was trapped here for so long. She asked if he was a supernatural being to which he shrugged not knowing himself but then started hissing in a way to state that she needs to change the subject. The lady spoke again about how he seems to have gone through horrible pain and he was shocked that she read him like a book. She gently asked what happened but veins around his face pulsated as he growled at her with a warning of treading on thin ice.
She realized her mistake and apologized telling him he can tell her when he's ready. After calming down from her pestering, she asked him now that he was away from whatever made him this way what would he do now? This time he spoke but in short sentences since he didn't feel like speaking that much and said 6 words that will forever be his directive and eternal mantra.
"Evolve. Survive. Get strong. Stay Strong."
Although the words sound as simple as it seems, the female could feel the indomitable willpower in his speech and she couldn't help but be impressed and somewhat inspired by it. She asked him that if he wanted to, he could join her village and get strong there and maybe find a purpose in life and learn to live instead of kill, eat, and survive. Without hesitation and finding out she was from the place he was heading for, he nodded his head and joined her. The little toddler had learned that the woman was actually a 15-year-old princess of a village of 100 clans and a population of 1.8 million people with 20% or 360,000 of them made up of samurais. After exiting the desert which was 15 miles away from where he collapsed which told him that he was almost out of the desert which caused a sickening feeling to envelop him which he knew that what he felt was shame and embarrassment, she had taken him to her village that was hidden between endless amounts of trees with black leaves and a sapphire mountain covered in white snow.
As they got closer towards the village gates, two male samurai stood guard as they saw the princess approach. They greeted her, bowed and sent a message for a large palanquin for the princess. Komodo looked on as the village gates opened and 4 more people appeared holding what appeared to be some extravagant tent. As the woman entered the palanquin, the child came close to her but immediately sensed hostility as the two gatekeepers had swords directed to his neck telling him to back away from the princess and warning him that if he made one more move, his head would be sliced clean off. Komodo knew that he's been stabbed, burned, crushed, broken, nearly decapitated, hung, shocked, and drowned before, but he did not want to be fully decapitated and find out that this would really kill him.
The fact that these supposed "Lowest weaklings on the food chain" moved faster than he could blink with swords on the front and back of his neck caused Annaisha to tell him not to make any rash decisions. Even though his emotions were numb and he can barely feel them, he remembers the experiences of all the negative ones and the one he should be feeling right now is fear. Thankfully the woman had stopped the guards from taking his life as she stated that he saved her and like a switch the hostile feeling disappeared and they apologized. The child was shocked beyond all reason. Are humans truly this mysterious and dangerous? He didn't know what to think but seeing this had humbled him. He will never again underestimate anyone or anything again and to always overestimate everyone. After the debacle, the female asked Komodo if he wanted to ride with her which he declined as he motioned that he would walk beside her.
As everyone who watched the group enter the village gates, the female was welcomed back with praise and greetings. The child was mesmerized by how beautiful the village was. It was...new and refreshing to be in such a peaceful environment. As they made their way to their destination, Komodo was amazed at how big and extravagant the palace was as guards knelt, welcoming the princess back to the village. As the female exited the sedan chair, Komodo followed silently behind her. As they entered the palace heading into the throne room, sitting on a throne with all kinds of extravagant jewelry and a crown appeared to be the Emperor. Komodo could see that the male was looking at him like he wished to slice him into pieces. The girl bowed and greeted the man that she stated was her father even though his hair was black but the man told her to address her as emperor and had demanded why she brought the child which he called "Immigrant" to his land. The girl nodded before correcting her mistake and addressing him as "Emperor Matsumoto."
Emperor Matsumoto ordered his daughter to give a mission report as the white-haired female explained to her father that her mission was a success. She also reported that when she was on her way back, the samurai that were sent to protect her, betrayed her and wanted to get rid of in their words the "wannabe samurai trash." She explained that they were committing treason and she was merely defending herself. She was able to kill two of them but the leader was stronger than her as he injured her and prepared to rape her. Komodo saw that the male showed no concern nor care of what she went through and felt no emotion coming from him. She went on to explain that before the leader could have his way with her, the child had saved her and killed him.
The emperor narrowed his eyes in suspicion and contemplation before sighing and stating his decree. Stated that since he entered this village without documents he would have been imprisoned, interrogated and if labeled a threat, executed, but since he unintentionally did him a minor service, he would spare his life and told him to be grateful. Then he turned to his daughter and ordered her to leave and take the child to an orphanage or get rid of him before he changed his mind and that she should be expecting harder training with her teacher when she came back. Komodo sensed the feelings of sadness, hatred, fear and depression spew from the white-haired girl's body but her expression remained neutral as she replied that she understood and obeyed his will. After escorting Komodo out of the throne room, 10 minutes of tense silence passed before the white-haired female began talking again and introducing herself as "Ami Matsumoto" and welcomed him to the village of Kagemori and he introduced himself as well.
Despite his manner of speaking, Ami accepted it and took him on a grand tour around the village showing him stores, playgrounds, spiritual gardens, academies, and warrior clans where many looked at him in disdain and caution and a few welcomed him with open arms and smiles. The negative emotions are something that Komodo can deal with and something that doesn't affect him as much as it did in his infancy but the positive emotions that he felt from others hit like a freight train. For all his life, all he ever felt was pain, insanity, and hatred since he can barely feel his own happiness since going through that machine that numbed almost all his emotions and destroyed his pain receptors. However, feeling someone else's positive emotions was like a drug that he refused to stop taking. The people that gave kind, genuine, emotional feedback to him made him wonder if this is what humans were supposed to be like or was it some kind of ploy. To learn about it, he decided that he would learn to control his hatred and insanity and learn how to be human.
After the tour, the Ami dropped him off at an orphanage bidding farewell and hoped he finds purpose in his life. Before she could leave Komodo grabbed her hand and said something that he would never in his 7 years of his life would be able to say to any life form besides Annaisha. "Thank you." That single thank you had made joy in Ami's heart explode with gratitude and as she said he was welcome and wished him good fortune on his dream to evolve, survive, get strong and stay strong. Now that he was alone, Komodo looked towards the skies above in bliss before speaking a haiku that would define his entire life.
"Looking back to see where I stand/I see the line in the sand/Time to find out who I am."
And thus, the beginning of evolution.
(End of chapter 1)
(And done...I had to reread and revise this chapter a total of 17 times just to make sure if there were any sentences I missed were fixed and my grammar and punctuation is proficient. By the time you finish this chapter and my view count is in the the double digits, the second chapter would already be finished. Until then, farewell and never let your imagination be caged by cynical drivel.)