Chapter 2: I Am... Special
"I am special. I am the chosen one. My birth brought with it heavenly lightning and the chorus of the gods—"
*Thwack!*
"The only thing your birth brought with it was an average lower IQ for the population, so shut your mouth and get back to work, Jin!"
A rotund man with a snarl glued onto his face retracted his hand from the back of a young man’s head.
This young man, possessing a unique black-and-white hair color, was called Jin. And this year, he’d be turning nineteen.
When he was born, the home of his parents experienced the wrath of the heavens. Lightning struck the same spot for seven days straight, unfortunately ending the lives of his mother, father, and older sister.
Jin, of course, had been far too young back then to remember what actually happened. He also wasn’t sure what his parents or sister even looked like; he only knew that they were smiling when it all went down.
Logically, he should’ve died that day too.
However, from this tragedy, he somehow became the one sole survivor.
Him. Jin Stratus.
No one knew how that infant withstood the raging lightning for a full week, but he somehow came out perfectly unscathed.
Yet, as he grew older in an orphanage, the whisperings of others revealed his past. And since then, he somehow convinced himself that he was the chosen one, and that his destiny went beyond the imagination of anyone on the Pacific Blue Star.