Shade's Origins

This article was written by shade000 on 2011-10-09 under Member Pages.

All right, fellow users of the natural and unnatural energies.

 

The story of my upbriging:

 

I was born in Oklahoma, in 1997. The exact date is not important.

The important part is that I was born, and I was born next to a man named John.

John was a kindly old man, about, oh, 70 years old perhaps, and had two great-grandchildren at his house, I think they were orphaned or something like that. The point is, my parents would send me and my older brother over there all the time.

At age three, I walked into John's bedroom to discover him sitting on his bed, eyes closed, with glowing spheres floating around the room. His eyes opened, and the spheres dissolved away into nothingness.

"Hello there, Shade."

This was the first time in my life that I had ever been called that, and even at age three, I had a fully developed logical mind, and I asked the only logical question:

"What were those balls, and why did you call me Shade?"

"Because that is what you are."

I was somewhat bewildered by this.

"How can I do what you were doing?" I asked.

"Do you want to learn?"

"Yes!" At this point, my young age showed through.

 

From that day on, every time I would visit John, once a day almost, he would teach me.

By the time I reached age five, I was astral projection all over the Universe, and I had learned many things.

At age six, John told me of the Order.

 

History Lesson:

The Order of Psi:

Founded nearly twenty-five years ago, The Order reached its peak right about when I joined, in Spring 2003, and it's membership exceeded seventy-five thousand.

The Order was organized with a three tier rank system; apprentice, warrior, master.

It functioned through the Deep Web (Any adult here with reasonable computer skills knows what that is), and thus was anonymous, except that each member was telepathically linked to the others that were in the Order. This was perhaps the largest telepathy link ever to exist.

The Order ceased to exist in late 2007, when a master by the name of Slade misused the link to drive thousands of the members to suicide, murder, rape, you name it.

The Order's physical headquarters in Germany (Munich, I think), was burned to the ground, after the artifacts there were taken.

The Order's possesions included all four Elemental Keys, powerful Earth-bound objects of interest, several soul prison talismans, and a Key of Solomon, as well as the Stones of David.

Slade escaped with the Key of Water, which is useless to him, because his natural element is earth, not water. The Key of Air was passed to John, and later to me. More about this later.

Slade is still at large, and rumor has it from the few surviving members of the Order, he is trying to find the Keys, so he can use their powers. Who knows why, but whatever it is, it can't be good.

 

Now, back to the story.

I joined the Order, and was granted the rank of apprentice, and six months later, warrior.

They also started a project called Invictus.

The goal of Invictus was to make four warriors, all modified with biokinesis, and trained in psionics, as well as physical combat skills, plus given knowledge on every topic under the sun. The point would be to have four soldiers that were unbeatable and deadly.

One of these students was yours truly.

Unfortunately the Project was canceled due to Slade's depredations, and the overall demise of the Order itself. The psionics and knowledge portion was never finished, although the biokinetics part was, and gave me some interesting skills, including:

Limited night vision (almost as good as seeing in daylight)

Energy Sight (I see energy with my physical eyes, allowing me to instantly know if someone is lying about how powerful they are.)

Synaptic Enhancement (Reflexes reduced to 1/3 human norm)

Erythrocytal Enhancement (Red blood cells carry 40% more oxygen)

Immunity to many afflictions.

Unfortunately, as I said, Slade was linked to everyone, including myself, and as a parting gift, my superhuman abilities were binded, with the catch that I could activate them...at the cost that I would become human.

So you can see why I am not in a huge hurry to activate the changes anytime soon.

in 2006, at age nine, John died in a freak car accident.

By this time, I was nearly as skilled as I am now. John was far and above the most powerful human I have ever known.

 

The downfall of the Order is indeed a tragedy, seeing as in their R&D department came up with some very interesting things including physical teleportation. All that is lost however.

 

When he died, a sealed box was discovered, with my name on it. Inside was the Key of Air, and a note.

The note had some kind of subconscious message on it, it must have been, because looking at it was all it took to unlock my memories. I was immediately knocked unconscious, and remained that way for several hours. The note also activated my ESP abilities, allowing me to communicate with the beings from Verse without actually going there, among other things.

 

All this aside, my current occupation is a hunter of the supernatural.

I live on the edge of millions of acres of largely unexplored forest, of which I spend entire days exploring.

You want adventure? Explore the wildernesses of Earth. The creatures that I have encountered are many.

Zombies, sentient ki balls, astral spiders that somehow slipped onto Earth, you name it.

 

My parents, yes, they accept that I am somewhat crazy, and go wandering off into the forest. I think they are OK with it, though.

 

So, that's about it. Im sure everyone else here has just as much of a story about their upbringing.

Till next time. (tips hat).

-Shade

Et Ducit Mundum Per Luce

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