Broken beginnings

In life, I have learned not all things can be equal or fair. But sometimes miracles happen and in that fact is where I can begin. As I sit atop this rock I remember when I was nothing but a brittle diseased guy who had barely even seen the world outside. I was a toddler when my parents got the gruesome news that their only baby boy has a degenerative bone disease that will make me fragile and by the time I hit puberty, I will probably not be able to walk without breaking bones or tearing flesh. The fact broke my parents and they kept up the charades for as long as they could. But as time went the burden began to wear on them as did the loom in their eyes for me did. It was a simple fact that the normal functioning people and others with bodies that could take them to the stars were the ones that success was built for. I am the broken toy at the bottom of the bin. I have come to terms with the reality In the world and even though it saddens me I still find pleasure in the little things. I filled my mind with stories and made up adventures that I knew could never be. A part of me was angry but I knew it was futile to hold on to the emotion. Sadly, in the end, I thought I would go out with a whimper. I can't tell you how many times I wanted to end my life to stop the suffering I inflict on myself and others around me. For some reason despite that when people talk to me they always smile and are happier when they leave. It baffles me how people see things I never do. I missed so much in life as I sit there wondering what could be. Technology advancements and mankind pushing forward always wanting to be on the next bleeding edge. I missed school with real friends and had my high school diploma when I got to the age of 14. My parents were so happy to read and hold the paper up high "Ulysses Malcolm Bartholomew" high school grad! I would laugh it's one of the better memories I have. Missing prom sucked but I got to watch from a screen as always. I got used to not touching the world. I thought that it would be my entire existence locked in a bubble too fragile decrepit to be in society. The world outside had changed and moved on from me. A month after my twenty-second birthday the hospital staff got automated fully and I was truly alone. A few months before my twenty-third birthday I watched as the dawn of the new age was being tested for the first time in Africa as the world watched. It was amazing called a "Hexagonal Neutron accelerator" it will make travel and energy worries a thing of the past! It was amazing and it made the world new again. But as with all great things some people want to have it all to themselves. The war over the use of the machine was waged after countries could not agree on peaceful terms turning the north African desert into a Hell on earth. radical groups fought hard in between Goliath armies brandishing new and cruel weaponry that vaporized flesh and torn a splinter's bones with ease. Every nation wants independence from everything after all these years of back fighting and the illusion of cooperation. Man's ego and true nature were on display. After 2 months of ruthless fighting, a small band of rebels wanted to make a name for themselves capturing a missile silo for over an hour in China's backcountry. Inside they made demands but the Chinese government silently sent in its elite counter-terrorism squad comprised of the best African soldiers they could find outfitted with the latest in stealth and combat technology. They easily started to wipe out the rebel forces but in the last stand, the leader laughed before dying launching the two warheads inside the silo compound. The Chinese government never would have launched those missiles for they were aimed at their allies in Africa. Frantically generals from all sides of the Chinese military begged their allies to retreat to safety. Their allies not wanting to lose their homeland devised a plan to emit an EMP into the air to stop the missile is what the news would inform us later. what we saw through the live feed was a missile that went out of control headed straight for a part of the accelerator. In an instant before anyone could barely scream we watched a flash rake hold of the world. We all believed we were done for but as the light began to fade and a black and blue rift was seen for only a short time and as the world warped around us! Our world dropped into another and merged. what would be known as the great convergence years later. With this seemingly impossible situation, all of mankind found itself still in our world but made hybrid with another. Every creature we ever thought of almost was real here from Wyverns to high elves. As the moment passed we discovered here magic was real and our weapons meant nothing to these people. This was discovered when the military that was fighting ran into the desert people of the other dimension that made short work of over 12,000 soldiers with ease. Mankind bowed and as I watched from a ruined hospital bed on a cracked screen mankind heard a deep echoing voice. Speaking loudly across this land "We are both from different places but we both can help each other! I am the Grand Monarch though I am ancient I call for peace among us all. Let us all be one!" This message was sent into every human's head giving a message of hope while also showing a power like no other ever perceived. I was told this because I heard a completely different voice this one primal and grunting in between words "You..know..what..it...is to be alone! Grrr to be broken! The Monarch lies! This is my final plan I will make your greatest weakness into your greatest strength! I hope you will have this world as me and my people once did. Look for the Red in the mountains where you feel rage! Good luck!" I went into a fit the few automated health care workers didn't know what was happening my hair grew a little more and my body began to increase little by little growing in muscle until I looked to be in peak shape as my asking began to slightly become almost like layered crystal scales and my skin turning only a slight deep red hue. My face began to burn and hurt as two vents like nostrils on each side of my nose began to open. My eyes mutated into a double pupil with iris next to each other inside my mind a wonder of information floods through. Rising from my bed for the first time unassisted in years! My fingernails replaced by thick and short claws of the same size along with my toenails. The vast knowledge of something called "Flesh Magic" shows skills of blood and bone. A wild smile comes to my face as I finally had purpose to life and a silent whisper of "the fractured to be broken and remade again and again." I heard as I jumped from my 25th story window without fear for dying had already been a wish but at this moment life flew forth from me.