Chapter 3

Half an hour had passed since General Aera left the office, when Dr. Julian received a call from his laptop, the ID caller reading Major General Leo. Julian put out his cigarette before answering with a yawn. ¨What is it that you need Major General?¨ On the screen a middle age man with a stern gaze appeared.

¨Still working on your experiments at this time?¨ Seeing Julian still in his office and lab coat. Leo looked at his wristwatch. ¨Its a quarter to 7. Still not done yet?¨

¨No, that's been done for a while now. Finished it yesterday night.¨ He looked up dropping a few eye drops into his tired eyes to ease the dryness. ¨Right now i'm on baby sitting duty Major General.¨

¨Baby sitting duty?¨

¨The level A awakened sir.¨

Leo tapped the bottom of his chin in thought as if remembering. ¨The incident that happened this early afternoon.¨ Julian nodded. ¨How is he?¨

¨He's stabilised thanks to General Asura and recovering really well, he should be waking up at any moment now. Other then that I say he´s perfectly fine physically. Mentally we´ll have to find that out when he wakes.¨

¨Did you test him yet?¨

¨Yeah, I did.¨ He reached to his side grabbing a folder and opening it. "The results are pretty great along with some other things."

¨Some other things like what?¨

Julian smiled. ¨Like the fact hes been off the grid for 19 years. His I.D code was also miss coded as human instead of an Elite.¨

General Leo was a bit doubtful hearing the news. ¨There's no way of such things happening.¨ It was hard to believe, everything he just heard was unheard of. Who could hide from The Tower Association for 19 years how could there be an error like this and go unnoticed. No Doctor had ever miss coded even if they were close to the family or was paid big money. The risk of being found out was just too high. Yet here Julian sat telling him that someone did miss code, that a person escaped the eyes of The Tower Association in there own city, their own country, their own continent.

How many more were like this? And was there more out there in hiding like Esper?

Rather Major General Leo wanted to believe it or not everything said was the truth. And having known Julian for years and knowing his personality enough to know he wouldn't joke nor lie about such things. He had to believe it. ¨This is...¨

¨Quite shocking. Yes, yes, I know.¨ He waved his hand. ¨The best part is that he's an omega level.¨

¨He's amongst the rare. His abilities.¨

¨Telekinetic.¨

¨Just like Asura his powers are dangerous.¨ Leo paused before continuing. ¨When he wakes send him directly to my office.¨

´What a paranoid old man.´ Julian frowned. ¨There isn't a need for that.¨

¨Are you questioning me Dr. Julian?¨ The Majors voice suddenly became cold as a glacier.

Dr. Julian scrunched his nose up and ruffled his wild curls before answering. ¨Yes.¨ He nodded in absent thought. ¨I guess I am.¨

¨With me in charge don't you think that isn't a wise choice.¨

¨What I think?¨ Sitting back in his chair leisurely, he crossed his right leg over his left. ¨I think your blowing this a bit out of portion here, Major General. He's just a boy who has just awakened. He'll be here from now on under the facilities supervision.¨ Julian spoke his mind freely not in the least bit scared of angering the other.

¨....¨

¨I'll do the questioning and bring him in the morning for you to get him settled down. He's not a threat neither is General Asura unless you push him.¨

Leo sighed. ¨I'll let it go for now, but I want a close eye on the boy.¨

¨If it makes you sleep at night I'll keep a close eye on him. Anything else?¨

¨Your experiments.¨ General Leo responded his tone a bit calm.

¨My experiments.¨ Julian lit his unfinished cigarette taking a small inhale before blowing out a puff of white smoke, blurring the camera and obscuring the cold glint in his eyes. ¨All of them are ready.¨

¨Good. Deliver them to me tomorrow afternoon.¨

¨If that´s all i'll hang up now.¨ The Major nodded and the call ended. Julian sighed, stretching his back muscles. ¨What a busy weekend.¨ he mumbled.

~*~*~*~

When Esper woke up it was half passed midnight and his head stung giving him a small dizzy spell as he sat up. Everything looked foreign, a white room with bright lighting. Tubes, needles, surgery tensile's, gadgets everywhere. Even colorful liquid jars filled with small body parts. Everything he saw freaked him out. Where the hell was he?

"I see you finally woke up." A soft feathery voice vibrated through the room. "You were out for 7 hours."

Esper quickly looked over his shoulder his sight landing on a male with glasses, reading a novel. "Do try to stay calm. I wouldn't want my office crumbled into dust." The male joked halfheartedly.

"I-I don't understand." The younger asked. Turning towards the man to face him fully.

"Of course you don't." Julian spoke matter a factly closing his book shut and lifting his gaze upward, his summery emerald eyes meeting Espers puzzled expression. "I bet you have a lot of questions. So ask away."

"Where am I?"

"Your in T.T.A Bureau facility. Next."

"Who are you?"

"Dr.Julian. I watched over you until you woke up."

"What happened to me? W-what happen to those people... why did I hurt them?"

"To simply put it,¨ Julian stood up and walked over to his desk grabbing a blue file of information. "You are an awakened Elite. And those people are not important right now, they'll live. When you awakened you had no control over your body. Awakenings are levelled from D to A. Yours was an A level awakening causing your subconscious to enter a trance like state do to an overwhelming amount of aura surging within you. Too much energy not enough of an outlet to release it your body went into Berserk mode. It happens to both Elite and WereBeast alike.¨

Esper expressions became more and more perplex as each word of information entered through his ears. Seeing this Julian concluded that Esper knew absolutely nothing. Not what he was, or the species power system, and surely nothing about the miss coding. "I took your test and your an omega level. Your powers are telekinetic, it's an alleged psychic ability allowing a person to influence a physical system without physical interaction. In small you can move things with your mind kid."

"Omega level? Abilities? Was I experimented on? I can't be an Elite. I'm human. I can't be-... I'm." Espers tone became frantic his pulse speeding up. ¨This cant be happening to me.¨

Dr. Julian could feel a headache coming on. Didn't he just tell the youth to control his emotions. Yet here he was, doing exactly the opposite. "Do calm down. Your situation is very sensitive. In this stage our emotions have a great influence on our abilities especially those of fear and anger. So unless your trying to kill me purposely I advise you to cool it."

Esper took in a deep breath then exhaled slowly, calming down his emotions. "Sorry."

Julian took his glasses off pinching the bridge of his nose while also massaging the left side of his temple. "I get that your confused, worried and scared right now. Believe me I really do." He sighed. "But I'm going to need you to hold all of that in. Until we see the Major General at 8 am."

'And when we get there, you can go all out and destroy his office.' He handed Esper the blue file. "In the mean time read this."

Esper looked at Julian warily before slowly taking the folder into his hands "What is it?"

"Open it."

Carefully Esper opened the folder his eyes slowly moving over the paper, each side printed with specific details on each species. First on the list were human, the species he thought he was until today.

Humans: Were mundanes with zero abilities. Mostly common through the 7 continents being 50% of the worlds population. Next in line were Elites.

Elites: Are people born with the gamma gene and gifted with special abilities since birth. They usual awakened between adolescences, early stages are (ages 11-14), middle stage (ages 15-17), and late stage is (ages 18-21)- [Which are very rare.] They are also born with above average strong bodies than any human on par with WereBeast strength in human form. They are 25% of the world population. Last were WereBeast.

WereBeast: Were beings with the power to transform into an animal form or a humanoid animal-like creature, by birth or after affliction via a bite or scratch from a werebeast, or some other means. This transformation often takes place with the appearance of a full moon, [Within adolescents stages.] They are also born with an animal birth mark. After the full moons first transformation they can transform freely any time when needed without the requirement of a full moon. The first transition is always painful do to the transitioning lasting for 18 hours. 25% of the worlds population.

Under the species file were Ability power levels each one written informatively.

(A) Alpha Level: Just as rare/really rare 3% of worlds population. Alpha Elites and WereBeast have very powerful and useful awaken abilities and they have no drawbacks such as changes in appearance from their abilities or their abilities self harm towards the body. They are the most feared species.

(O) Omega Level: Rare /7% of world population. Omega Elites and WereBeast are those with the highest level of power. They are the most powerful but due to severe heavy draw backs [harmful cell actions towards the body] they are second in power.

(B) Beta Level: Non- rare, very common/ 40% of the population. A Beta Elite and WereBeast mostly do not have control of their powers, their powers are always working which always most likely leads to them becoming a Beserker. They can also have some limitation imposed on them because of their power. When grown they are centered into helpful jobs for the economy.

Berserkers: An Elite or WereBeast who becomes furiously, violent or out of control their mind becoming corrupted with anger causing them to go into a trance-like fury.

¨I dont have to explain nor show you how the Species Birth Protocol work, now do I?¨ Julian asked.

Esper shook his head his gaze still inside the folder. ¨I'm aware.¨

¨Then you should also be aware that you were miss coded at birth.¨

¨I am now rightfully aware of this Mr. Julian.¨

¨Dr.¨ Julian corrected. ¨Its Dr. Julian. Major General will handle that in the morning. We'll be seeing each other a lot in the future.¨

Esper nodded a bit stiffly, everything seemed to be happening way to fast for him. One minute he was normal, a collage student, not a worry in the world for anything. And the next he was an awakened, hurting people, and now having to work for the government. His freedom was gone and he couldn't do anything about it. Which made the situation heavy and way on his mind even more.

Julian could see every thought process circling within the younger and chose to not comment on it as this reaction was normal. Those who awakened always fell into 2 categories. One in the same boat as Esper and the other in the same boat as him. When Dr. Julian awakened he was happy, didnt see problem with it. Coming from a not so pleasant background he didnt miss the old life he had. He was thankful for being apart of the lucky 25% WereBeast population. He didnt know where he'd be if he didnt awakened. He was far from denial and hard of acceptance.

Each awakened had different feelings but it all still came down to the two. You either excepted the change or had a hard time excepting and Esper was the latter.

Julian gestured for Esper to follow him. ¨Come with me. I'll show you where you'll be staying from now on.¨