BLURB:
Lost and alone. After an accident that left Zander's family dead, he has no where to go. He was on the streets until he was found and brought to an orphanage.

But he soon sought to escape. That's when things started going downhill. Voices and thoughts that aren't his own began invading his mind and hallucinations of things of a child's mind plagued his vision.

When someone offers to help train him in his new power, is it really for better? Or for worse?

PROLOGUE:
"Mom?" A boy called out, lost and staggering through the pitch black halls of rock. "Mom where are you?"

Tears began tricking down his pale face. He cried out in fright as he brushed against another person, just as blind as he was in this gas that was thick as smoke. And just as deadly.

The screams merged with his own pleas for his mother. Some cried for help, other were searching for family or just plain screaming. Slowly they stopped, but what it was replaced with was even worse than the screaming.

People were choking. Mass groups of adults had dropped to the floor, gasping for fresh air. Still the boy struggled on, not yet as affected due to his shorter height. His dark hair was impossible to make out.

The gas bombarded his senses. He did not know what was happening, but he knew it wasn't good. It overflowed his lungs until there was barely any oxygen there, every breath reeling in more, it stung his eyes, like someone had sprayed his face with worse than salt water. The taste itself was less horrendous. But still he coughed on it.

The boy leaned forwards to far and tripped on the uneven ground. His hands though, did not stop at the wall. In fact, it lead to a whole other room. Maybe his mother was in here, hiding with his sister. He crawled in and took a few unsteady gasps, the air was much clearer in here.

"Mom?" He croaked one last time. He thought he saw her sitting in the far side of the cavern, cuddling his sister Lisa as they tried to breathe through the poisonous haze.

The boy finally let out a scream that carried on as an explosion shook the whole caving system. A flash of red and orange flames raced past the gap he'd fallen through. The heat was immense. Brief and strangled screams lingered in the air. The boy sat back, his vision reeling as his eyes slowly closed.

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No idea how accurate any of this is about the gas and whatnot. But anyway.

Peace,

BTSWD
Borntosingwithdrama