Armageddon: Defying Fate

Blind Boy

[Ding Ding Ding]

A bell sound could be heard all around an orphanage, commotion arose as teenagers ran out joyfully out of their classes, playing and laughing toward the garden.

A dark-skinned handsome boy, wearing a neat dark blue tee-shirt and white trousers with dark shades on his face could be seen from the back of the crowd, walking slowly unlike the other student.

"Kiran!, should I help you out", Helen Smith, a tall girl wearing a dark blue shirt and white skirt asked from one of the groups in the crowd.

"no, am ok", said the boy, nodding his head.

"Seriously, you guys should stop offering him help every time, he is too arrogant to accept help from anyone", said a yellow-skinned arrogant boy called Zou Fan, from beside the girl.

"you are just angry, he beat you up during training", another girl said laughing at Zhu Fan.

"at least am not blind, I can become an Evolutionist, and when that happens we will see who is the stronger one", Zhu fan angrily exclaimed.

"he might hear what you just said, we should quickly leave", said Billy Hampton from beside Zhu Fan, as they quickly left.

The boy heard their conversation, but paid it no heed, he was already used to Zhu Fan's mocks.

Every day, after classes they were always someone offering to help him out of class, but he had always rejected, though he was blind, he had no problem navigating the entire orphanage.

The boy slowly walked towards a bench, located at the far eastern part of the garden, far away from the groups of teenagers, though he could not see other people, he saw things in shapes colored in a mixture of green, blue, yellow, red and white just like his aurora colored eyes.

He wasn’t totally blind, just that he saw things differently from everyone.

He sat on the bench looking at the sun like he had always done after classes, the sun was the only thing he saw that was not colored aurora.

through his eyes, the sun always blazed beautifully and was in a strange color he later knew as golden from asking others.

He sat there staring at the sun, thinking about what Zhu fan said. Kiran was the strongest student in the orphanage, he had beaten all the other teenagers in their class, triumphing over everyone.

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He had a strong body and had aced all athletic and combat activities in the orphanage. Zhu Fan, had been second after Kiran, and that had always made him jealous, so he always held a grudge.

But even though Kiran had a strong body, he still wasn't sure he could undergo cellular evolution, he didn’t know the intricacies involved, but everyone knew blind people couldn't evolve their cells, he had always been indignant about his situation, but he held little hope because he wasn’t totally blind, at least he saw shapes of things in mixed colors.

Around Asia, the last remaining human-inhabited continent, and every one of its regions, all high school students apart from learning basic education had to join athletics and combat lesson in other to prepare themselves for cellular evolution.

Next week their first class on cellular evolutions will be held, where they would be taught how to become evolutionists. Kiran wasn’t sure he could become one.

"Why are you brooding out here, all by yourself like an old man", a dark-haired beautiful girl wearing jeans and top, said walking towards the boy.

"Airra, aren't you supposed to be in school"

Airra sat on the bench near the boy

"am sick so, no school today"

" We all know that’s a lie, " Kiran said smiling

" enough of that, aren't you happy to see me? "

" That depends on why you are here, "Kiran said smiling sarcastically

" so, why are you here brooding again, still thinking about the cellular evolution?

That’s part of the reason am here, I talked to one of the family researchers and he said they might be hope, since you are not fully blind they might be able to work something out that might help"

A joyful smile washed over Kiran’s brooding face as he exclaimed, " thank you Airra, "

Kiran was overjoyed by the news, he had always dreamt of becoming a strong evolutionist, fighting for humanity just like the heroes he adored, and also becoming an evolutionist, held the hope of healing his eyes, but he was left helpless by his condition,

This was the first news of hope, he had heard.

"he isn't hundred percent sure it will work, but he will try his best, he told me to scan your body through the transponder and send it back to him", Airra said dragging him back from his thoughts

"ok, let's do the scan now,"

Kiran said quickly standing up facing Airra.

Airra tapped the transponder on her right ear, a holographic screen appeared in front of her eyes, she then gave it a command for a full-body scan, a light extended out from the transponder, toward Kiran, landing on his feet slowly moving upwards until it covered his entire body, after few seconds it then retracted back to the transponder,

Then Airra gave the transponder a command to send the scan to the researcher.

"Ok, it's done"

Airra muttered sitting down

"thank you once again Airra, what would I do without you"

Airra smiled shyly, changing the topic, "so what are your plans for the future"

I plan on entering an academy when I successfully become an evolutionist", Kiran said thoughtfully.

"How come you are so sure u would enter an academy, after becoming an evolutionist" Airra teasingly said

“I have a photographic memory, the test for the basics will be child’s play, and I doubt I would fail the combat test, even without sight I can beat anyone who isn’t an evolutionist," Kiran said proudly stated

"you know I don’t believe you have a photographic memory, you are just good at remembering sound until u can see, I refuse to believe you have a better memory than I do", Airra muttered jokingly

"Since you say u have a good memory let's test it, we will start with my favorite, history, are you up"

"ready whenever you are", Kiran confidently said

"when and how was the world government created? ",

"When the aliens descended to earth in 2050 and started an invasion, an alliance was formed between all the countries on earth, in other to fight the aliens, the alliance kept on fighting until 6 of the 7 continent was lost to aliens causing the death of more than 70 percent of the human population, the human survivors left, gathered themselves and moved to the Asian continent and in 2055 created the world government"

"well anyone could have answered that", Airra teased

"after the aliens descended, what was the second human catastrophe",

"that’s easy, shortly after the alien invasion started, animals on earth started absorbing the invisible energy, this caused them to mutate, evolving into stronger, bigger, and ferocious monsters that attacked both the human and aliens",

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"who drove the aliens from Asia and when?",

"in 2054, the masked double sword hero single-handedly destroyed the alien wormhole that was above the sky in Asia, driven the aliens out and stopping more from descending there",

"well I guess u do have a good memory, I think it's time we test your combat",

"Airra, you know you can't win against me", Kiran said smiling.

I have been training hard these days, I don’t believe you can still effortlessly win",

Kiran had always effortlessly defeated Airra whenever they had fought.

"Are you scared?", Airra asked challenging Kiran

"ok, we will have it your way",

Kiran stood up walked a bit of distance and then turned facing Airra,

Airra stood straight facing Kiran, clenched her fist slowly gathering power in her hands, then instantly appeared in front of Kiran, throwing a punch towards his face, Kiran calmly dodged to the side, moving a step back, Airra's left leg came rushing toward him, he quickly used his hands to deflect the kick, the strength from his hands pushed Airra to the back, a little.

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Airra thought in her mind "am still not fast enough", she had tortured herself and trained hard all week, just to defeat Kiran.

Though Kiran could not see, he could hear the sound of rushing wind, and the shape of hands as she attacked.

She adjusted her stand, zoomed towards Kiran, and attacked again this time, she used both her fists one after the other speedily attacking his face, she threw punch after punch, but Kiran dodged and deflected her punches with his palm, none of her punches seemed to hit the target,

She drew back panting, as her chests rose and fell exhausted from the previous furious attack, she had made.

A few seconds later, she looked furiously at Kiran, then came rushing towards him again, throwing a punch with her right hand toward his face, Kiran, quickly dodged to the side, but she quickly retracted her hand and quickly used the left hand to punch his face as he moved to the side, he dodged halfway, but her punch still landed beside his ears, he wasn’t bothered much with the punch, his body was strong enough to withstand it.

She lost her strength, after the last and only successful strike, her body falling toward him, he caught her by waist steadying himself, her face came directly close to his, he could see the shape of her beautiful face and felt her breath on his face, his heart started beating fast, she looked at his handsome face, blushing and breathing quickly,

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He quickly came back to his senses, steadied her body, then held her hand, and dragged her still stunned body towards the bench, trying to get away from the awkward moment, her face was glowing pink as she followed him to the bench, they both sat down.

Before any of them could say anything, footsteps could be heard from their back.

A stout looking man, wearing a black suit, and black glasses walked towards them and said

"miss, the madam asked us to bring you back",

"Kiran, I have to go now, I will come to see you again when I have news from the researchers" Airra slowly said.

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Kiran quickly released her hand slowly,

Raised his hand bidding her goodbye, Airra Star, was the only friend he had since he was brought to the orphanage, six years ago by his dad's cousin Mr. Turgut, when his father mysteriously disappeared, he hated all his father's family because they all left him when his dad disappeared.

They took all his dad's money and dumped him here in this orphanage.

He had always been indifferent to everyone in the orphanage from the first day he came,

The orphanage was created by Airra's dead grandmother, Airra would always visit with her mother bringing gifts, food, and clothes for everyone in the orphanage,

They met on one of the days she came visiting with her mother when he thought about that day, he smiled, they had fought because he refused the gifts from her, she nagged him until he collected it.

He turned his face towards her moving body, listening to her footsteps as she walked away, with expectations on his face, for the day she would come to visit him again.

Airra walked until she was outside the orphanage, she turned and looked toward the eastern part of the garden where a handsome boy could barely be seen, she waved smiling, and then entered the car.