Winter's Beginning(LCT)(Book 1 to The Light City Trilogy)

1. The Bounty

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Winter's Beginning

Part i

Day one

1. The Bounty

    As he leaped through the trees. He noticed a

sparkle in the distance. He then launched himself

towards the sound. He saw a man chasing a girl with a

shotgun. He  knew what he had to do. He dove

onto a limb in the tree. The man with the shotgun

cornered the girl. He began to look behind her ,

asking himself why didn't she keep....

      Then he noticed the electric fence behind her.

Soon after he refocused his attention on the man

with the shotgun. He noticed that the guy was a lot

uglier up close. He had a nasty smile with even worse

teeth. He also had a badly cut mustache. With a nine

o'clock shadow. He had brown hair ,rough eye brows

and red eyes? Wow, his eyes were as red as a tree

frog's. Except with no pupils.

    As the man rose his gun, he made a even bigger

smirk. As he put pressure on the trigger, my adrenaline began to pump. I felt

a rush of energy that also came with increased

strength, reflexes, and the coolest sensation that

I'm not used to till this day .

    My eyes became completely silver and my pupils

became almost transparent. The bullet from the

shotgun slowed down to where it was not only

clear, but it seemed to move in slow motion. The

reason this is happening is because the increasing of

the speed and strength of my eye muscles.

Launching myself from the branch. I sliced the

bullet in half.

     What I didn't know was that this was

no ordinary bullet or even shotgun because when I

sliced it in half. It didn't just fall to the ground, it

ignited. Sending a horrific burn to my arm. Of course I

just shook it off.

    You see I'm no ordinary human. I was trained as a

child to be the government 's ultimate weapon. Then

as I became the best at what nobody else could do.

They tested this new  technology called

Quicksilver. Which is nana-bots that give you

incredible powers such as super strength, speed,

senses(which gave me kind of a radar-like sense of my

surroundings) ,and a healing factor. But can only be

activated when in danger , excited , or just in pain.

Like that Hulk guy you read in comics that would

only turn into the big green dude if he was mad,

scared or in pain . But minus the whole turning into a

big green ferocious monster . To put it in simple terms.

It is activated when my heart rate passes 108

decibels. But back to my story. After the pain went

away, I was ready to kick this guy's or whatever he

was' butt.

    When I looked at the girl. She had a horrified

expression on her face. When I followed her eyes

gaze. I saw that my right arm that was holding one of

my twin katanas was gone. (this is the disgusting part

of my powers) As I stared at my arm. A long clear

bubble formed at my shoulder where my arm should

have been. It then began to grow larger and larger.

Then it busted with a gallon of puss(quicksilver) that

splattered all over the ground around me.           

    Out of that shoulder grew a stem-like piece of limb that

began to grow out of the socket with bloody muscles twisting

on it. Then the top layer of it turned white and olive

colored pigment began to grow, as it hardened. It

began to look even better then my last 20arms.

    Testing it out I rolled my shoulder and bent my

joints. I then reached for my katana, but before I

could reach it a quick force hit me in the gut so hard

it sent me flying toward a tree trunk 20 feet away.

Then everything went dark. I could here my heart

start to race then stop. I thought to myself " well I

had a great time, while it lasted." I thought that

would be the end of me.... but it wasn't.