It hurts!.... It hurts.... It hurts.... It hurts....

  What is this feeling. It's so much pain, what is going on. My body's on fire, why won't it stop, take it away.

  "Aaaaaaaaaargh!" A roar of pain left my throat, everything hurts, worse of all the pain. It's the one coming from my head.

  "Papa! Come here, see it's a butterfly" who are you, what are these flashes going through my head. What are these images.

  "Hahaha, honey slow down" are these... Memories.... Whose are they?

  "Papa! Papa!" What am I seeing, who is this girl, I don't know this human child. Why do I feel like I know her?

  What is this feeling?

  Why do I feel like I'm missing something? Are these memories.... Mine?

  "Aaaaaaaaaargh!" Why the sudden spike in pain, what is going on with my head?

  'KILL THEM ALL!' whose there?

  'KILL THEM ALL! ... KILL THEM ALL! .. KILL THEM ALL!... KILL THEM ALL!... KILL THEM ALL!... KILL THEM ALL!.........

  No! No! No! No!... Please stop! My head hurts, please stop being so loud, I shouldn't, no I can't..

  The voices won't go away, please go away... I don't want to.

  Clack! Clack! Clack!

  What's that?

  Sound? Was that in my head too? Anybody there?

  "Wow, this is a suprise" I heard a voice, the voice sounded female. Carrying with it a sultry yet condescending tone to it.

  "Well there was always the possibility of a mutant, but who would have thought something like you would awaken from such defective products" the voice spoke once more, as I heard the source walk around me.

  Forcing through the pain and opening my eyes I turn to the source. The moment I froze in place, as if the pain I was feeling a moment ago had disappeared temporarily.

  "Oh don't mind me, carry on with your evolution, you won't want to be the one to have wasted my time. Trust me, I I came to the this dusty planet for your sake and disappointing me would really piss me off...

  Hmmm, thinking of it, I wonder if my precious student will appreciate a pet like you if you fail" I watched as she casually chatted. Still I could sense it, looking at her he was like the group of people that attacked me earlier.

  She was like me, I could sense our similarities. We were more in common even more than that man that injured me. My thoughts were interrupted as the pain intensified once more.

  "Please... Help me" I forced myself to say, I couldn't bear the pain anymore. She was like me, so hopefully she'll help me out.

  "Huh? You can even form sentences now. Interesting" she bent her upper self forwards as she placed her index finger on her lips and smiled. "Tell me, are you learning that from your hosts memories? If so I wonder if that has somehow contaminated you. Maybe I should just get rid of you"

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  Hearing her a cold sweat washed over me once more as she released a wave of aura that pressed me against the ground, I could hear the ground around me cracking alongside the bones in my body.

  "Then again, I would be scolded by higher authority if they knew I eliminated a potential awakened citizen " the moment she said that she straightened up as the pressure around me disappeared. I felt air rush into my lungs following her straightening up.

  "Given we are of the same race I'll lend you a hand, though I should let you know. If after I help you out you do not awaken an innate ability" she paused as she stared at me dead in the eye her aura intensifying once more" consider yourself dead" she concluded her blood red eyes conveying her seriousness to me.

  "Well, while our species do have a ray of advantages on our side. We generally consider three of them the best, that being: our insane regeneration ability, adaptation and finally, our ability to all easily tap into the aether of the universe." She spoke like she was before an audience as she walked back and forth even as I struggled to focus as pain racked my body.

  "With that we are able to tap into aether and form a quasi aether core the moment we take over our hosts" she paused mid walk and turned to look at me as if she just realised something" oh, that's right, look at me explaining all this while you are in extreme pain, how insensitive of me" she laughed lightly after her statement.

  "Well, let's get your awakening on the way " she said as one of her nail grew out and she slashed her open left palm and she stretched out her hand over me, she folded the bleeding hand over me and squeezed the palm.

  A droplet of purple blood dripped from her hand and fell on my head, the moment it did I felt the impact immediately. The pain racking my being disappeared, the voices were silent and most importantly my head was clearer now. Turning up to her I spoke "thank you"

  "Oh don't thank me yet, all I'm doing is seeing what comes of you" she replied with a smile that yet carried no warmth to it " you don't know this but the reason for your pain is because your host body has reached it's limit on aether absorbtion and refinement, the quasi core you formed can no longer contain it so you are forced to evolve" she explained as I could now better focus and got up to seat down.

  "So now with a clearer mind, you can go on an form your core, and while other races in the known universe typically find it hard to form a core. We find it actually instinctual" she continued as she took a few steps back from me. "So, its all up to you. Let's see if you'll be welcomed a high caste member of our race, or" she paused an burst into a small laughter.

  "Well normally without an innate ability we'll welcome you a numbered member of our society slightly higher than these... Well what you were before " she pointed at the member of my swarm that I could sense were outside the underground hole I was resting in

  "I understand your...?" I wasn't sure how to address her but even as I looked at her to get a response she just smiled as if that didn't concern her. Nodding in understanding I closed my eyes and dove deep within me.

  Just like she said I felt it, the aether around me, the one in my "quasi core" as she called it and trying to form an aether core came instinctually to me. I drew in aether from my surroundings and began refining it within me, my quasi core began to spin and as it did more energy gathered in me.

  I could feel the aether in me purify and multiply in supply as it spun almost out of control, the pain felt like it'd return but it never did. My core revolved as it shrunk in size in comparison to my quasi core previously.

  I felt a euphoric feeling wash over me as well as feeling of enlightenment. The memories that I saw earlier became clearer.

  ' so that was what it was about'

  was all I could think as the memories streamer through my head. As I watched the life that belonged to my host flash before my eyes

  'papa!' I paused again. That voice, it belonged to my daughter, listening to the voice call on me made me reconsider forming an aether core.

  I didn't know why but I felt like the moment I formed the core I'd lose something.

  THUMP!

  My heart skipped immediately as I felt a pair of eyes staring at me, looking up I saw the passive look of the lady before me once more. She didn't speak but her aura spoke her thoughts.

  ' she's not my daughter ' I thought, she did belong to me. Besides... She was dead, I'm alive, this is my life now. I must abandon all attachments to my hosts life, I must fulfill my purpose... And KILL THEM ALL!

  With my heart set I closed my eyes and focused on forming my core. Yes, I am not human, all of that is my host distracting me, I must embrace who I truly am.

  A member of the greatest race in the known universe, I must serve my purpose.