The Unprevailant | Book 2 | The Irangel arc trilogy

Chapter 15 ~ The Sparkling Offset of Gemini's Gemstars

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~ Gemini Industries
Boston, Massachusetts
Planet Earth ~

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Gemini held a cup of mahon tea as he lay in bed, looking at the brightly lit city from the window shaped like a diamond. Mahon was a blend of oolong tea, vanilla, rosehip, cardamom, and black currant. The tea was warm, gilded with glitter naturally formed in the Iredescent imported ingredients.

He slept during the day and stayed up at night, keeping a nocturnal lifestyle while working his abbhorent business. He loved nighttime, loved the city lights, loved the creativity that came late at night, after the chaos of the day.

As he continued watching Geminangels fly around, enjoying their new wings and shimmery bodies, Gemini recalled the night he first saw irangels. He was jealous and wanted to become an irangel. He kept going in random forests, frustrated when he didn't turn into an irangel. He was envious of the lucky ones who became irangels, wondering why he wasn't chosen to become an irangel.

After the creator of irangels was revealed to the world, Gemini's envy increased upon learning a select few irangels were given the knowledge of turning humans into Iredescents. He felt it was unjust that only a few people were given the chance to become an irangel.

When travel was permitted between planet Iredescent and planet Earth, Gemini was the first to volunteer to go to planet Iredescent.

Gemini was a perfume chemist with a vast chemical engineering background. Like most perfumers, he was able to identify hundreds of ingredients by smell alone. His heightened sense of smell increased when he became an irangel, though he didn't gain any special ability.

In his desire to become an irangel, Gemini studied as much as he could about Iredescent. He brought Iredescent plants and flowers to Earth and studied them, but he couldn't find the answer on how to turn himself into an Iredescent. He made several trips to planet Iredescent, picking up wing feathers from the ground and pocketing them, making sure nobody saw him take them. He studied the Iredescent wing feathers in his lab and learned about the n-r element for the first time.

Realizing he was close to discovering the secret of how to turn humans into irangels, Gemini constructed a place, the building he called Gemini Industries. Disguising it as a perfume laboratory where he created perfumes, Gemini built a secret transformation room where he replicated the cylinders used to turn humans into irangels.

Once the building construction was completed, Gemini returned to Iredescent and posed as a surgeon, stealing vials of Iredescent blood, wing feathers, and fins. Only then was he finally able to uncover the secret and use the blood vials to turn himself into an irangel.

He had dozens of trusted scientists and chemists at work. Using the stolen vials of Iredescent blood, Gemini was able to successfully turn himself into an irangel. He didn't have Demian and Cole's co-operative knowledge of cloning Iredescent blood, so he resorted to thievery and Iredescent trafficking to gather more blood.

Hospitals grew suspicious from increased numbers of stolen blood. Families searched for missing loved ones. And Gemini's business developed once he allowed the public the chance to become what he always wanted: an irangel.

Gemini was aware the Iredescents and irangels would eventually find out about the missing Iredescents. He knew they would come for him, so he set to work creating perfume weapons to combat their abilities, since he had no superhuman ability.

He used his extensive knowledge of fragrances to create perfumes that could be used as weapons against Iredescents and irangels. Fragrances and chemicals tampered with individual abilities, either hindering or killing.