THE AWAKENING: BIO-GENETICS

The dead stay dead and the living stay living

The bio-genetics were all seated with unreadable expressions. Anzai stood at the front like a homeroom teacher, his arms folded, a cigar in his mouth giving out little smoke on the air. Tori is at a corner, hands behind standing like a soldier.

All we can do is keep living

Ten's eyes were fixed on Anzai, his eyes were bloodshot from crying.

That's all we can do for the sake of the dead, to keep living

"I'm General Uchida Anzai, nice to meet you all" Anzai began with a stern look.

The bio-genetics froze when they heard those words.

"General?" Shino said puzzled.

"What's going on now?!" Kaneki said in a bored tone.

"So this is the famous bio-genetics I have heard a lot about," Anazi said amused. They blinked at him.

"I'm not impressed" he adds darkly.

The bio-genetics froze at his words.

"What's his deal?!" Asano said faintly with white eyes

"Starting from today I'm in charge of the bio-genetics affair. I'm your mentor, guardian, trainer, and lots of other shit" Anzai said in a bored tone.

The sweat drop behind their head at his tone.

"This is annoying" Sumi with a dark expression.

Mary seated beside her, for once agreed with her.

"General" Yuki spoke up.

All attention drifts to her.

"It could only mean one thing... we are about to be trained as soldiers. Because this won't be the last time we will be out on the surface, will it?" Yuki stated firmly, others heard it too as their looks darken.

Anzai's eyes landed on her, he raised an eyebrow.

"Ha I see now, despite us almost losing our lives and that of others. The Prime Minister still wanna get rid of us" Ren said pissed.

"We are still going out there?" Yumi said with shaky eyes.

"We will see those Kaiju's again?" she added as her eyes circled in tears.

"Lab rats, tools for hope, and now, soldier's" Mirai said as her fist tighten in anger. 

Anazi stared at the kids as their expressions changed. He sighed.

"You kids have no damn say in this," Anazi said deadly as he shot them a death glare. They froze at his scary look.

"Scary" Ten squealed.

Hiro's body tensed.

"If you all wanna chicken out about going back to the surface, be my guest. But you should know one thing, ever since you guys became bio-genetics, your fate has been sealed" Anzai said sternly.

"Are you saying..." Hiro hissed.

Anzai's eyes drifted to him. Hiro's ferocious looks facing him.

"Whether we die or not it doesn't matter?! We are meant to die?!".

"No," Anazi said sternly.

"You have got to be kidding me, it's obvious what you are saying" Shino said as his fist tighten. Others nodding in agreement.

Anzai removed the cigar from his lips, as he blew a smoke air. He smiled.

"In order words, you guys are the hope of humanity, the saviors of mankind," Anazi said amused.

They froze

"Hope, saviors" Haya said with shaky eyes.

"We are just scared kids, kids who lost their loved ones, why should we matter" she adds with a dark expression.

"We have never mattered," she said as her eyes grew wistful with memories of the past.

"Becoming bio-genetics must have been a pain worst than death, you hate it, you resent it, you hate you have to be used by the government," Anazi said.

Their look darken.

"But the way I see it, you guys were given a chance to save the world," Anazi said putting the cigar back in his lips.

They froze at his words.

"In order words, only you guys can stand a chance against the Kaiju's. The last time you guys went out on the surface, you were damn well not prepared at all" he adds.

"You were trained as bio-genetics, not as a true soldier," he said again.

They all stared at with shaky eyes.

"Out of 99 bio-genetics only 51 survived" he adds pissed at the number, it was evident in his tone.

"So tell me, kids," Anzai said as his looks darken, he stared at them with his scary reddish-brown eyes.

"Are you just gonna let fate be cruel and let the wills of time determine when you will go and stay, or you just gonna fight for the sake of millions of civilians on the base, paving a way for them to reclaim the surface" he state.

There was a minute of silence in the classroom hall. 

Tori observed the situation closely, his eyes fixed on the bio-genetics. 'By the looks on their faces'. Tori thought smiling. 'Anazi-san words reach them, he made them see the other way around rather than just being bio-genetics. The hope of Millions of civilians on their hands. The saviors of mankind'. Tori thought amused as he close his eyes and then opened them. 

'Dad served the country'. Shino thought with a look of determination. 'He served to protect billions of citizens in Tokyo, he was a true soldier'. Shino thought as his fist tighten, an image of Kimura Haruto flashed in his head.

'Hope, saviors'. Hiro's fist tightens. 'Ha, I see it now'. He thought remembering how useless he felt when he couldn't do anything with his eyes, he felt so left out that he couldn't protect anymore. 'I'm weak', he thought with clenched teeth. 'I don't wanna feel that way... I have to get stronger, stronger to find the truth. His eyes shake. 'And protect my comrades'.

'My family was taken away from me'. Ten thought. 'My little sister'. His eyes shake. 'I wasn't able to spend more time with them. I can't even walk the surface in peace again'. His fist tightens. 'I was always scared, I never took meaning to the full things around'. A memory of him always bullied in junior high flashed in his head, how he always cried and then a smiling Kaiyo, his eyes shake at the sudden memory of her but then it laced in seriousness. 'But that will change now because I have comrades... No... I have friends'.. His glasses shinned white.