The beginning of a new world.

It was a normal day for me as I was waking up from a long-needed Sleep from working overtime. I Groggily make my way to the living room of my small apartment switching on my tv and turning it to the morning news and making my way into the kitchen to grab some orange juice from the fridge. Half-heartedly listening in on what the news anchor was saying. " Still no word on the mysterious disappearance of animals across the world as all scientists are dumbfounded by what seems to be a mass migration of all Animals from small dogs and cats to the largest of land animals. As well as the odd behavior of Pets and zoo animals alike becoming more aggressive as they try to leave their confined Enclosures and homes. There are many reports of animal owners being attacked by their once beloved pets and in some cases leading to the death of the owners. Officials are urging people to stay clear of all animals until a time that scientists can find the cause of the strange change in the once docile Animals."

Apparently, animals across the world are acting strange attacking people and running off into the wild and disappearing. Kind of makes me glad I don't have a pet, I work too much to properly take care of one. Making my way to the shower to prepare for another long day of work I suddenly felt my body burning up from within like someone shoved hot metal into my stomach before eventually passing out from the pain. All around the world, the same thing happened to all living creatures causing mass accidents for those driving killing many around the world.

A few hours later, I slowly open my eyes with a groan feeling a dull pain in my head where I slammed it into the sink I push myself off the ground looking around wondering what happened. Once I get my bearings and the dull ache in my head slowly subsides I notice that I feel a lot more energized than I usually do. I haven't felt like this since I was a kid. I could barely hold myself off from jumping around like one just to burn this newfound energy within me. Shaking my head and looking into the mirror what I see surprised me.

While I may not be old only at the age of 23 soon to be 24 I did have signs of gray hair in my dirty blond hair from the stress of life and work. But now staring at myself I looked to have grown younger. My hair no longer had any gray in it, it once again shining almost silk-like in texture instead of the dry frayed look it had with how little I took care of it. Also noticing that my hazel eyes seem to almost glow with how bright they looked. Examing my body I'm startled to see that almost all my fat was gone as well. While I may not have been considered morbidly obese with my stocky build I definitely was considered overweight with my oversized gut. Now it seemed as though all that burned away while I was knocked out.

looking at my slightly muscular build now I was excited I haven't looked this good since high school as I never have time to work out properly and to eat healthy meals with my constant workload and having to settle with fast food. Not that I'm any stronger this seems to be the muscle that was under the fat And with it gone is now visible. While I was observing myself I was suddenly assaulted with major hunger pains as my body screamed out for food. Rushing to the kitchen I hurriedly pull out cold leftover lasagna from the fridge and start eating it from the pan not even bothering to heat it due to the feeling of severe hunger assaulting me. Once I polished that off my body was still yelling for food so I hurriedly pulled open my cabinets and pulled out canned pasta that I had and ate them straight from the can. After downing 6 of them did I finally start to feel the signs of starvation stop assaulting my mind.

Confused about why my body needed food, I wondered what the hell is going on with me when it suddenly hit me. my body burned through all my fat stored on me. My body needing the energy for something and when it ran out of said energy it was starting to look elsewhere for that energy. luckily I have food at home otherwise I'm sure my body would have started to eat itself to sustain the energy it needed. " Just where did all that energy go? Am I sick with some new disease that is causing my body to burn away all my stored energy?" I spoke to myself out loud. Once again taking a moment to inspect myself I start to notice something is different about myself. I start to get a slight feeling of some kind of movement inside of my body like a small stream flowing under my skin. It's not bothersome if anything it feels amazing focusing on it I try to manipulate it having a feeling that I could if I tried.

Suddenly I feel the Stream start to speed up and my body starts to get lighter with the faster the stream goes. Curious I punch forward hitting my cabinet with my fist causing the wood to splinter apart from the impact shattering the wooden door. Shocked I look at my fist not seeing a scratch or feeling any pain. Wondering what the hell is going on with my body I start to panic a bit. I don't want to be taken away to be experimented on by the government trying to figure out what this energy is. If there is one thing to be known about the human race they are willing to kill for the slightest advantage over someone else, so when it comes to a person who has the ability to have amazing strength you know they would do anything to get that power for themselves.

Deciding to keep this to myself I hurriedly get ready for work as I'm about to be late. After getting dressed I quickly leave my apartment. Once outside I'm shocked at what I see. the trees and grass seemed to have grown overnight to the point of almost looking like they haven't been maintained for years with grass being as tall as I am and the trees looking so lush and full of life you would think it's in the wild and not in a city full of pollution. looking around I see a few people laying on the ground asleep. Passing them off as a few of the many homeless that live in this city I start to head to work not noticing that those people looked extremely skinny almost to the point of being a living skeleton.

Looking around as I head to work I'm confused at the state of the plant life around me it almost makes the city looked abandoned due to how many plants seemed to overrun the roads and sidewalks. I also notice the lack of traffic or sounds in general around me I live downtown and while I'm a few blocks from the main road I can usually hear the movement of traffic and streetcars throughout the city. I do live in Portland Oregon and while Beautiful is still a bustling city with a lot of traffic. Coming up onto the main road I'm once again shocked at what I see. Cars wrecked into one another some turned over onto their tops from being thrown over by the now out-of-control streetcars that have no one to properly stop them. Acting fast I hurriedly run to the nearest wrecked car to start and pull people out of them when I notice something shocking. more than half of the people around are so skinny that they are nothing more than bones I'm wondering how they are even alive at this point.

Finally understanding that everyone must have gone through the same weird burning sensation and had their bodies burn through all their stored energy I was lucky to be overweight so my body had plenty of reserved energy for me to wake up in time to eat before it gets too serious. most of these people were already in great shape or at least not overweight like me so they might not have a safe amount of stored energy within themselves to sustain that kind of consumption causing severe nutritional deficiency and making them look like walking mummies. I don't want to hurt them any further due to how frail they look I start to prioritize the cars that look like they may catch fire or be in the most danger of killing someone.

But before I could get started I hear i loud screech and an explosion behind me. I turn to notice one of the sky scrappers being toppled over by what looked to be a massive bird the size of a passenger plane. Freaked out I immediately go to find cover behind a wrecked car waiting for the impending dust and debris cloud to come to wash over me from the collapse. Not even a few seconds later like a wave of destruction a massive gray wall of dust and debris come hurtling towards me with enough momentum to upturn some small cars seeing this I hurriedly run over to a storefront near me and take cover inside knowing it was safer than behind a car that would be blown away potentially crushing me.

Just as I make it inside the debris cloud rashes past upheaving everything in its path causing death and destruction along the way killing hundreds along the way. Stuck inside until the debris settles down I start to wonder why I'm the only one so far that has woken up? I'm not special in any way so why am I the only person I have seen awake so far? Is it because I was lucky and just happened to wake up first? if so does that mean soon others will begin to gain consciousness as well only to be greeted by a city that is in total disarray? Looking around I only see a few people in the store four in total and of the four only 1 of them does look like a living skeleton he actually is still fatter than I was before this all began. Maybe he was severely overweight and when this all started he had enough excess energy to safely go through the strange energy burn?

This Probably means many have died already due to their body not having the proper Energy reserves. That would be a little Drastic though if that was the case I would think that anyone who was considered in great shape wouldn't have much of a chance of surviving this. There must be more to this, Perhaps the energy was burned to create this newfound power in me something that requires excess physical energy to properly be produced. The only two powers that I know of that at least theoretically exist that compose of physical energy are KI and Chakra. One is purely physical and the other being comprised of both physical and mental energies combined.

So far I have no way of finding out what t his power even is let alone how to use it properly the most I can do is a basic enhancement to my strength like my punch earlier. But even that took me concentrating for a few seconds to do. It would be useless in a battle as 3 seconds is far too long to expect something to stand still and let me hit them. So for now while I wait for the dust to settle and that massive bird to fly away I decide to work on manipulating this energy within my body.