"We've got to stay alive"

Those were the last words I heard from Ma as she pulled my hands running through the street. All around us people were running. 

The world was in chaos. A strange gas was in the atmosphere and people were developing supernatural powers. 

Some had telepathy, they could easily read your minds, some had telekinesis, they could easily lift you up from the ground and leave you floating. 

These mutation caused a change in the earths surfaces. The ionosphere, the biosphere, the hydrosphere, the atmosphere was affected.

The water became too hot to drink, the air became to thick, oxygen was gradually depleting.

As long as you are normal, surviving becomes difficult. You are hunted down down everyday. 

Surviving becomes essential and we have to do all we can to survive. 


 ••••••••

Everything changed for Keturah, when her Mum was taken from her. 

As a scientist, and the best the town ever had, her Mum was suddenly wanted when an accident happened and a strange gas was released into the atmosphere causing genes to be mutated and people suddenly having supernatural powers.

Her Mum was taken as she was believed to have the cure. 

For eleven years, Keturah searched for her Mum, hiding in the woods.

She could feel the change from within. She needs her Mum, She needs the cure.

BEYOND THE ORDINARY

A week to the deadline, no anti-aging gas. 


I was still hunched over my notes trying to figure out what we were doing wrong. 


Kay was doing her homework on one of the tables behind us. 


She let out a loud groan and curled herself into a fetal position right there on the table top with test tube racks and bunsen burners. 


I placed my forefingers on my temple and rubbed. I was already feeling a headache brewing. 


"Kate, you know acting like a child throwing a tantrum is not going to magically make the gas appear" 


She uncurled herself and slowly climbed down from the table, more like crawled down. Kate was not one to take corrections, which was one of her biggest flaws. 


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