Sempiternal

When the plague known as PAX-12 went from a local outbreak in Europe in 2035 to a full blown global pandemic people began to lose hope as millions died from internal bleeding. In only a few months after its discovery it had already killed 3.5 billion people worldwide. The worlds best scientists took drastic measures and removed any safeguards and regulations on medical research to find a cure.

The United States was the best chance for humanity as their top scientists and doctors were working diligently on a project known as Genesis I to manipulate human DNA to hard wire an immunity. It was only months later they had mapped out the entire human genome and made the breakthrough the world had been yearning for. The cure they labored so tirelessly over was available worldwide in days and within a couple of weeks the disease was all but eradicated.

Soon after the United States realized that this power in the wrong hands would be worse than any plague that mother nature could conjure and ordered the complete destruction of all the research labs that took part in the discovery nationwide. The scientists that worked on the project rioted and were enraged to see their work tossed away like garbage and set out for the remote regions of the world to perfect the art of creation of life.

They found refuge in Russia were they were welcomed with open arms by the highest tiers of their government and given access to unlimited funding to continue their work in secret. Their experiments focused on creating cloned human beings with god like abilities. They had the knowledge and many different strains of DNA available to begin harvesting human embryos from women volunteers all over Russia and splicing the new DNA material within them.

Out of the 100 women who volunteered and were inseminated with the modified embryos only 5 of the fetuses survived incubation and birth. I was one of three males and two females that survived these madmen playing god. We were deemed property of the state and taken away from our birth mothers at the age of seven and sent to various military academies to be trained by the countrys top advisers.

The other childrens talents was apparent immediately through either through incredible strength or unprecedented reflexes and agility and received specialized training to hone their skills. I was actually quite ordinary compared to them until I reached the age of sixteen and realized the gift I possessed within my body. When I started to get these debilitating migraines and couldn't perform my duties they sent me away for routine CT scans in Volgograd city hospital.

The doctors there were amazed by the activity going on inside my brain and requested to exclude me from my training to take part in Neurological tests. At first I was apprehensive and just wanted to return to the only family I've ever known since I was ripped from my parents but I never did have a choice in the matter. They kept me there at the hospital and had me sit in a sound proofed room with a helmet to detect brainwaves as I would meditate for hours at a time.

After a couple of weeks of relaxation my headaches were becoming much less frequent and the deeper that I would reach in to my thoughts the more I would have strange and distant visions. They were hazy at first but became much clearer over time as I grew stronger. When I told the doctors of the strange hallucinations I was having they were shocked beyond belief.

These visions I was having were the thoughts and memories of the doctors keeping me under observation. They then doubled my meditation time and before long I had realized the full potential of my curse. The Russian army at that time was desperate for men as the war with America overstretched our military they saw the great value in my abilities and as soon as I turned 18 they gave me an officers commission in military intelligence.

I stayed at base most of the time and was usually in charge of the high value prisoners and extracting information out of them without any effort saving many of our soldiers lives. I was however reprimanded many times for killing the captives after interrogation due to the fact that they had done unimaginably evil things and I had to witness those terrible events as if I had seen it with my own eyes.

I was starting to crack under the pressure and started to lose my own mind. I then requested a different assignment so I could keep my sanity. After many more requests and pleading they finally submitted and allowed me to take a job in the armys prestigious and very exclusive police force. I couldn't have been happier than the day I got my reassignment letter and away from the torture and pain of the interrogation rooms. That same day I on my way to Kiev for my first assignment.

It was absolute serenity for the first couple months I was stationed there. I would stand at a guard post for 10 hours a day and look for anything suspicious or out of the ordinary and return home to my private trailer at our forward operating base. We were at war but any one coming into major cities at that time was suspect and I had no problem differentiating the good people from the bad. I didn't really socialize with the other soldiers too often and was quite reclusive and shy and spent most of my time alone after my shift.

I did however have a friend in a stray Huskie puppy that instantly stole my heart when I found her curled up sleeping in the woods by a Pine tree just feet away from my checkpoint. She was absolutely adorable with a Snow White coat and a smoky Gray nose and with stunning Blue eyes as bright as the full moon.

Her fur hadnt grow in yet and was left shivering with the hostile and unforgiving environment she was abandoned in. I couldn't just leave her out there and took it upon myself to wrap her up gently in my winter jacket and took her back to my dormitory to feed her and keep her safe from the cruelty of the frigid weather.

Pets were restricted on base and I did my absolute best to keep her hidden from my superiors and only let her outside after dark. I had given her the name Venus after the Greek god of beauty. She was no bigger than my head but kept me company for many months as she grew bigger by the week and gave me something to look forward to after a long boring shift at the checkpoint. She couldn't say anything but I knew everyday I went home to a such a wonderful and innocent creature that only required my love and attention.

It was just another day at the booth when I saw a routine supply truck heading towards the checkpoint a hundred yards before mine. The war with America had reached its boiling point and any vehicle was subject for search even our own. I could sense there was something not quite right with the driver. He wore his nervousness like a thick jacket and I couldn't help myself but to pry deeper into his mind. It was then I realized why he was so shaky. He was an American driving one of our fuel trucks with a bomb powerful enough to wipe out 25% of our base.

I abandoned my post and sprinted at full speed towards the other checkpoint with my gun drawn and screaming at the top of my lungs for the other officers near the truck to get back. They looked at me with confusion when they finally heard me running and screaming wildly. When I got about halfway I could only watch in horror as the truck detonated and engulfed everything in fire. The concussion knocked me down and I could feel the the heat off the fire as pavement below me shook with the power of the explosion.