Chapter 1: The Awakening
The forest was quiet.
Not peaceful — just quiet.
Moonlight filtered through the tall trees, casting long shadows across the clearing where six students stood in a loose circle. The air felt heavier than usual, like something unseen was pressing down on them.John was the first to feel it.
A strange vibration pulsed through his chest, subtle at first — then stronger. He clenched his fist, and a faint white spark flickered between his fingers.Harshil stepped back."Did you guys see that?"Before anyone could answer, Ashish inhaled sharply. A glow shimmered around his hands, forming an unstable outline of light. It hummed softly, like electricity trapped inside glass.
Godly adjusted his glasses, eyes sharp and analytical."This isn't normal."Punya stared at his own palm as threads of white energy coiled around his wrist. Unlike the others, his glow was steady — quiet but powerful.The clearing brightened.White resonance energy rose from each of them, swirling upward like mist turning into light. The ground beneath their feet cracked slightly, thin lines spreading like fractures in stone.They weren't imagining it.They were changing.
John stepped forward, testing the energy. It reacted to his movement — sharp and aggressive, snapping like lightning ready to strike.Harshil tried to control his, but his power burst outward in a sudden arc, cutting through a nearby branch. The branch fell with a heavy thud.Ashish instinctively raised his hands, forming what looked like a translucent shield. It shimmered, then stabilized.Godly's energy behaved differently. Instead of exploding, it condensed — forming a precise sphere between his palms. Controlled. Measured.Punya's power tightened into a concentrated pulse, vibrating with contained force.None of them understood what was happening.But one thing was clear.This was not coincidence.
A cold wind swept through the clearing.From a distant ridge, a lone figure watched.Arms crossed, expression unreadable, his sharp gaze studied the six students below. The resonance around them wasn't random. It wasn't natural.It had been triggered.Back in the clearing, the energy flared one final time — illuminating the entire forest.
Then it settled.
Not gone.
Just waiting.
They didn't know it yet.
But this was the beginning.
Chapter 2:The Kidnapping
The silence after the awakening did not last long. The wind stopped, the forest froze, and even the insects went quiet. John felt it first — not energy, but presence. Shadows moved between the trees, and figures in dark cloaks stepped out one by one, surrounding the clearing in a perfect circle. Their faces were hidden, faint red glows visible beneath their hoods. Before anyone could react, symbols burned into the ground beneath the students' feet, forming a massive glowing pattern. Ashish tried to raise his shield, but it shattered instantly. A pulse of dark energy slammed into all five of them at once, their white resonance flaring in defense before being forced back. John charged forward, but dark chains erupted from the glowing symbols and wrapped around his arms, slamming him to the ground.
Harshil attacked next, unleashing a sharp arc of energy, but it passed through one of the cloaked figures as if it were smoke. "Illusions?" Punya growled. "No," Godly said calmly. "Suppression constructs." The circle brightened and pressure increased. Invisible force pushed them downward. Ashish fell to one knee, his shield flickering weakly. Punya struck one of the agents with controlled force, making brief contact, but chains snapped around him instantly. Harshil tried to break free with raw power, light exploding outward before a massive suppression wave detonated from the center of the circle. It slammed into all five of them, crushing their resonance inward and sealing it. They tried to stand, but their bodies refused to respond.
More cloaked figures approached, this time solid and undeniable. Heavy metal restraints locked around their wrists, engraved with glowing dark lines that pulsed whenever they resisted. The forest began to distort around them, bending and stretching unnaturally as the ground beneath their feet dissolved into darkness. For a brief second, there was weightlessness. Then they crashed onto cold metal flooring. The trees were gone. The sky was gone. They were inside a massive steel chamber illuminated by vertical beams of pale white light. Transparent energy barriers snapped into place around them, locking them inside an energy containment field.
A mechanical hum filled the chamber as panels in the walls opened, revealing shadowed observers behind reinforced glass. One taller cloaked figure stepped forward, presence heavier than the others. John forced himself upright despite the restraints pulling him down. "Why us?" he demanded. The figure tilted its head slightly before answering in a distorted, controlled voice. "You were never meant to awaken. You are anomalies." The containment field intensified, forcing all five of them to their knees. Godly realized the truth immediately — the facility had been built for people like them. They were not randomly captured. They were expected. And this was only the beginning.