Dead But Still Alive

Immediately the contents of the syringe was empty, the man stepped back and Jeremy immediately began to jerk.

His skin paled, becoming almost as white as snow and he began bleeding from both his eyes and even his nose.

The man stood from a distance and watched while the boy's body went through painful yet devastating changes.

The mutagen that had just been injected into his system, was supposed to mess was his DNA and give him superhuman abilities so he could be recruited to serve under the master.

Master Xersius's plan was to create people with superhuman abilities that would be solely under his control, with which he could take over the world.

They would serve him without question like brainless robots because he had mind control powers,he was an extraterrestrial after all.

He had taken a mad scientist, Dr James Hogwarts into his control and was using the man to create the mutagen which would build him superhuman weapons and Jeremy unfortunately happened to fall prey as the first human guinea pig.

Dr James's plan was to test it on Jeremy and if he survived and they acquired the desired results, he would make more and Jeremy would be taken to Master Xersius to be the first human weapon.

Afterwards, they would kidnap a few more teenagers and young adults to mutate them too and not too long after, Master Xersius would have an army to destroy and take over the world.

But if things went contrary to his expectations and the boy did not survive, he would dispose of both the boy's body and the mutagen without a trace and commence coming up with a new formula, for Master Xersius was not a patient creature. Another possibility was the boy turning out to be a monster, well that too would be no much hassle as both his fate and that of the mutagen would be the same as when he did not survive.

Jeremy's blonde hair soon turned purple and his eyes and nose continued to bleed. About ten minutes later, his jerking stopped and he stayed still. Dr James cautiously approached the seemingly lifeless body of the young boy and touched him. His body had grown cold and so, the older man searched for a pulse and when he could not find one,he shaked his head and ordered the men to dispose of the body.

The men untied the body from the chair and put it in a sack. They went to a river and threw the sack into the river, watching it float away, being carried by the water current.

They left when they felt the job was done. The water waves continued carrying the sack containing the lifeless body of Jeremy down the river until it was washed upon the banks.

The sack was soon found by a resident limnologist, a woman named Gerda. She saw the sack dangling in the water by the banks and grew most curious during her study of the river. She drew the sack to land and went on to open it, she screamed at what she saw, the lifeless body of a boy. She contemplated on calling the police but feared she would be accused or at least questioned about the murder.

She tried to search for a pulse but it was very weak,almost nonexistent. She decided asking for help from her friend who was a doctor, would ease some tension. She brought out her phone and was about dialing the number when a voice stopped her abruptly.

"What's going on? Where am I?" She turned back to see the boy in a sitting posture, looking as if he wasn't half dead just a while ago.

She pinched herself to ascertain that she wasn't just hallucinating. "H...... How are you alive and looking so well?" She couldn't help asking while the boy threw her a questioning look.

"You were in a sack that must have floated down the river for a mile and you didn't have a pulse a minute ago, so how are you alive?" She questioned again.

"I...... I don't know. The last thing I remember is being injected with some strange substance and after that, everything went hazy. Apart from that, I feel completely fine." He said and Gerda tried to relax a bit.

"Well then,you should go to a hospital because what's going on feels very unnatural." Gerda suggested and then he remembered.

"Oh shit! The hospital, my mum. I gotta go." He said and before she could say another word,he was gone. She blinked twice and didn't see anyone, he like literally disappeared. Gerda felt goosebumps overtake her skin,had she really just been hallucinating?

She looked by the bank and still saw the wet sack,she couldn't have been,right? She tried to assure herself.

Meanwhile, Jeremy got to the hospital quicker than he anticipated but he didn't give much thought to it,all he cared about right now was the safety of his mother.

Arriving there, he learned that the operation had already commenced, his mother's coworker had lent her the money,he felt his heartbeat return to normal.

The operation took about two and a half hours, during which Jeremy was constantly restless. He felt really different within but didn't want to think too much about what could have been done to him,he told himself that what mattered was that he was alive and well and soon, he would be living with his mother happily again and would forget that any of this ever happened.

But boy,how wrong was he? Little did he knos that nothing would ever be the same again. In fact,all the things that had taken place would be the beginning of a new chapter in his life. One that was much more dangerous than he could ever imagine.