Chapter one : Blooming Winter

4 May 2135, a hundred years after the "mutation", the millions of humans barely surviving, were once again witness to the harbinger of doom crashing towards them in the form of thousands of smalls comets heading towards earth.

The few humans aware of the meaning, after looking at history braced themselves for the end of humanity.

But, perhaps fortunately, even after weeks nothing especially bad happened.

Instead, it was discovered that 80% of newborns under 2 (and maybe even the fetuses still yet to be born) were graced with different abilities, every one more intriguing than the other; physical changes, elemental control, shields producers, ghost's possessions, seers ext...

Giving citizens the hope, they needed so much.

After countless hours of deliberations, the leadings figure of society, for fear of future change in power, decided to isolate the many babies in smalls groups to brainwash or research on them.

The idea surprisingly didn't have as much opposition from the public as one would think.

The population didn't want people to misuse children and their power in the cities, it was clear that it would be more useful to have them trained appropriately.

So, they released the 20% that were seemingly normal in the standard training facilities, keeping an eye on them for any undiscovered capacities, taking a few of them to examine, and hopefully discover the reasons for the difference in their generation.

Those and the rest were taken to research centers who had nurseries included in them for this purpose.

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Future 666's POV:

November 23, the day I was born, but not the day my sufferings began. 29 weeks before I was born, the day those meteors crashed on earth. That's THE moment I started my journey.

It began when I started to feel the uncomfortable emotions and hear the unpleasant thoughts of all beings.

A real miracle would be that the little fetus that I was survived the onslaught of desperation, anguish, dread, hatred ext. … That the people felt that day.

I guess the fact it happened while I was in development permitted a better adaptation. I would think that's how I avoided an untimely death.

Fortunately, I was semi unconscious when it happened, as I was still in the belly of that woman, so I could neither understand nor comprehend the meaning of anything.

One of the only things I remember clearly, was the pain I felt at that moment despite all my unconscious efforts to shut it down.

Background details: colored hair is deemed normal, since after the mutation all surviving humans started to feel minor and useless changes, like in hair and eye color, sometimes blood would become gold and tears would become diamonds, so both lost their monetary value.