Chapter 1 - Chapter:1 The Night The Sky Chose Him:

At exactly 12:17 a.m.. The sky above Adonas Jacob cracked without making a sound ,and the world around him paused as if someone had pressed an invisible button; the ceiling fan stopped mid-spin, the stray dog outside froze with one paw in the air, and even the wind seemed to hold its breath, yet Adonas remained awake, staring through his window at the fracture spreading across the stars like shattered glass. He had always known something was wrong with reality because since childhood he had seen faint symbols flickering in the night sky, symbols no one else noticed, and he learned to stay silent about them because people fear what they cannot see; but tonight the symbols were brighter, sharper, forming words that burned into his vision: "USER ADONAS JACOB---ACCESS GRANTED." His heartbeat did not race, he did not scream, because deep inside he felt relief, as if the universe had finally admitted the truth it had been hiding from him. The fracture widened and glowing lines descended like falling code, wrapping around buildings, trees, and people, revealing transparent strings above every frozen head, strings filled with moving sentences describing choices, fears, future mistakes, and possible deaths, and Adonas realized he was seeing the hidden script of existence itself. When he lifted his trembling hand, a panel of light unfolded before him, filled with options he did not understan--Emotion Adjustment, Probability Shift, Memory Rewrite---and instinctively he touched one, and somewhere in the city a light that was meant to stay broken flickered back to life. The world glitched in response; shadows bent in the wrong direction, a distant clock ticked backward, and a whisper echoed through the fracture in the sky, low and mechanical: "Anomaly detected." Adonas stepped outside, barefoot on cold concrete, feeling as though gravity itself was watching him, and that was when he saw her standing at the end of the silent street as if she had been waiting for this exact moment; her name was Lunox, the new transfer student with calm eyes that held galaxies within them, and unlike everyone else she was not frozen. She walked toward him slowly, unaffected by the paused world, and above her head floated glowing letters far more complex than the others: "LUNOX---SYSTEM GUARDIAN." Adonas felt the air grow heavier as she stopped in front of him and studied his face not with surprise but with recognition, and in a voice softer than the wind she said, "You were never supposed to wake up, Adonas." The sky trembled again, the fracture spreading wider, revealing darkness beyond the stars, and for the first time in his life Adonas understood that the world was not breaking tonight---it was reacting to him.