Tears filled his eyes as he thought about all his dreams and aspirations. He began to recall all the memories he could of his somewhat sorry life.
If only he could, he'd go back in time and make at least, one of his dreams come true.
After thinking that, he immediately let out a hard laugh of self - depreciation, coughing up blood halfway through.
"What am I even thinking? People like me have no right to dream."
You see, Victor was born into an age where gene was everything.
His parents were Altered - Humans who could use their super genes to perform superhuman feats. However, their genes were low-ranked ones, solidifying their status as average in society.
When Victor was born, his parents believed he would awaken a high-ranking bloodline because Altereds coming together to reproduce always brought about an evolved Super-Gene, which, more often than not,
Were high up in the ranks and very, very powerful.
Since Super-Genes determined a person's fate and status in society, Mr and Mrs Talison had high hopes for their first and only child.
Unfortunately, Victor awakened an evolved bloodline that was one of the most useless in the history of evolved bloodlines. He could only manipulate the colour of his hair and eyes.
His parents were extremely disappointed when he awakened his bloodline. Victor, who was only six years old at that time, noticed the attitude change from his parents towards him.
All the love and care that they had been displaying since his birth ... gone.
Sometimes they would not remember to feed him throughout the day, and whenever he complained of hunger ... "YOU GODDAMNED USELESS TRASH! ALL YOU KNOW HOW TO IS EAT??!"
His parents would shout at him with contempt. Sometimes, even reign abuses on him as they crown him with curses and vulgar words.
It was hard for him to understand why at that age, but he noticed that as he grew, the people around him in the society began to treat him the same way.
He couldn't make friends in school and was always bullied repeatedly. His peers and teachers would always point fingers and laugh at him, finding fault with every little thing he did.
No one gave a hoot about him because his S-gene was amongst the trashiest. It got so bad that other people who faced similar treatment, other trash called him trash.
Victor's dream of joining the ABC, the Altereds Bureau Corps, and exploring the stars and different parts of the galaxy died with his S-gene awakening.
Victor's mother took in and conceived another boy the day he clocked seven. Victor's parents name the new child Famous.
To the surprise of everyone, Famous awakened his S-gene when he was only 3 and it was a high-grade gene at that.
Victor's parents were so joyful that they totally ignored Victor and gave all their love and attention to his little brother. He loved his brother too, so he never hated or did anything to hurt him.
Unfortunately, the love didn't go both ways.
As his little brother grew, he displayed the same contemptible attitude everyone in the society showed to him.
His brother became more appreciated and famous in society, staying through to his name, especially in school, where he was known as a genius, while Victor was shown the exact opposite.
Victor was hated, treated unfairly, and bullied every single day without fail.
When it became too much, He would often escape to the mountainside located west of Suicide City and try to commit suicide, but he was still scared of death no matter how hard he tried.
He could never go through with the suicide even if he knew that no one would notice that he was gone.
Whenever he stared at the bottom of the cliff, he would gulp down massive volumes of saliva as he imagined how his bones would be broken to pieces after making contact with the hard ground,
"My head will be turned into mashed potatoes,"
He would always back away and come back the next day with a newfound zeal for committing suicide, but the same situation would repeat itself over and over again.
But today he had decided that he would definitely jump down that cliff and end his pathetic existence.
'Meow'
The black cat in his arms cried softly when Victor placed it gently on the floor and walked further towards the edge of the cliff.
He stood a few centimetres from the edge of the cliff and stared down, looking at the forest and the ground below.
The ground was more than a thousand feet away from the cliff.
'Gulp!'
"This is where the story of Victor Talison ends!" He raised his head to the sky and shouted out. His voice echoed across the vicinity as a little dot appeared in the sky and glowed brightly as if it was replying to him.
"Eh?" Victor noticed something and gazed at the sky intently.
The little dot that glowed brightly was increasing in size, slowly but surely.
"What's wrong with that ... star? Why does it keep getting bigger?"
For someone who was about to die, Victor was very observant.
The stars in the skies were countless, but this particular one located in the northwest kept increasing in size.
Victor's eyes widened as he realized something, "Fuck, it's not increasing in size. It's headed towards my location!"
Victor turned around to run after realizing this, "No! I don't want this kind of death. My body will be blasted to pieces!"
He screamed in fear as he turned his neck to stare at the projectile headed towards the cliff but there was nothing.
Not star in the sky, nothing.
'Near-death hallucinations?'
Just then -
'BOOM!!!'
A deafening, ear-shattering crack of thunder exploded through the air, making it vibrate with its intensity. The sound was like a massive drumbeat, pounding against Victor's eardrums and making him stumble backwards.
And when he looked up, all he could see was a flash of green and -
'Blam!'
An overly large bolt of green lightning slammed into the side of the cliff Victor was standing on.
Crumble! Crumble! Crumble!
The impact caused cracks that surrounded a space of more than fifty feet. Victor had only moved about seven feet away from his initial position, so he was still within the range of the impact when it started crumbling.
"Kiiaarrrhhh!"
Victor screamed like a pig being slaughtered as he fell along with the pieces of the crumbling cliff towards the bottom of the mountain.
Victor fainted in mid-air due to fear and shock in the process of falling and screaming like a pregnant woman in hard labour. That was the reason he didn't notice a small green glow fly into his mouth, which was wide open from all the screaming.
...
'Goddamn!'
"Since when did transversing dimensions become this tedious?" Graham complained as he dusted himself off the sandy ground.
I mean, as he tried to dust himself off the sandy ground but failed miserably at it.
'What The fuck?'
He tried to stand but kept on falling on his stomach.
He looked left, he looked right, he looked up and finally, he looked down.
Honestly speaking ... he shouldn't have done that at all, like -
"What the fuckkk???!"
Graham gave a scream, probably the loudest shout he had ever let out from the rounded non-existent corners of his oesophagus.
Why did he scream? You may ask
Well ... "Can someone please explain to me why I'm in the body of a cat?!"
"GiGi ... GiGi!"
'Shit, she's offline!'