Chapter 1: Reincarnated

That was a Monday like any other. Under the descending sun, the students were returning home. One of them, named Paul, was walking while reading on his phone.

This behavior, while totally irresponsible, was a habit he developed over the years.

Every 5 seconds he would raise his head and look in front of him. When it was time to cross the road, he would stop reading.

Like this, he never had an accident, but sadly, it was not that who saved him today.

Due to the sudden temperature change over the last days, the weather was strange and it's was that who caused a misfortune. So as he walked, he didn't take notice of the black cloud that that forming in the sky.

In just two minutes, the orange sky becomes black and thunder could be heard.

When he finally perceived the phenomena above his head, it was too late.

A thunderstrike fell on him. The pillar-like thunder was bigger than a phone pole and taken a full ten seconds to end. The electricity passed in him from the head to the foot passing by the heart.

When it's was finally over, only some ash was left over a burn asphalt.

For the other passerby, that was terrifying as they see someone die in front of them, but for the victim, for Paul, it was incredibly painful and it didn't finish after his body was destroyed.

When the thunder touched him, all he sensed was a burning hell crossing his body. The intensity of the current was so high, his muscles contracted, his clothes were destroyed and the phone he held in his hand molded. For the first seconds, he was totally aware of what his body endured and only at the sixth that he didn't feel anything more. Instead of feeling with his five senses, what becomes his new 'vision' of the world was colored. All around him were colors who moved freely. Those color had numerous shape, some were human, other unknown. Some colors moved like wires or stream in an unstoppable flow and Paul knew, while he didn't understand how he knew that what he was feeling was the energies of the world.

He sensed, that in the energetic flow that consumed him, his consciousness was melted in and carried away.

He didn't know how long this state last, but he was traveling in those energetic flow across the whole world. He 'see' so many places, some of pure white, some of pure darkness, all of them were completly naked in front of him. As time passed, he understands the laws who administer the world but one day, the energy flow he followed was devoured by somethings he never sees in all the time he passed in this form.

Darkness fell, and for what was an eternity, nothingness ate little by little the energy. When the river was nearly dry and he was about to be consumed, colors invade his sens again.

His consciousness was carried by a new flow he recognized as thunder and suddenly, with insane brutality was projected on the ground with a fall of thousands of meters. His Odyssey was now at an end as he entered the body of a woman.

Surprising, the woman wasn't hurt and he, settled in her stomach. In it, the sense he had gained in his energetic state was not here anymore but he regained his sense of touch.

He was now floating in a restrained space but he had now a body again and was able to move by his own will.

'Maybe i am reincarnated.' He thought.

In his new state, he wasn't able to see, to talk or to hear, but the simple act of moving by himself and touching thing was something he was happy for.

As time passed, his movements were more variable and he was able to hear some noise from the exterior.

One day, space becomes empty and light appeared.

'Am I born?'

Quickly, he was expelled and was able to see since a very long time, the light of the sun.

The oxygen that was coming from the navel was cut, and he started to breathe. His lungs who felt the fresh air for the first time hurt a little but it passed. In the goal of not being beaten he released a cry and ceased when he was finally laying down in the arms of his mother.

The woman was young, in her early twenties, and was weak from giving birth but she looked at her child with love.

"Your name is Yuhao." She declared.