The Edges of the World {sci-fi apply fic closed}
Description
Seoul was such a massive city that it was easy for a small group of scientists to secretly conduct a study on 20 children – 10 male and 10 female – in an attempt to ‘open’ the human consciousness to its full potential. These scientists believed that society inhibited the ability to use the full consciousness we were given.
They called themselves the Cognizants.
Their tests involved psychological torture, narcotic stimulants, and all manner of other things. Some of the children ‘broke’ and had to be replaced. A couple even died.
But, finally, the scientists managed to get a satisfactory set of results using a drug called Genoserum – children with abilities, powers that had been declared science fiction and fantasy.
A particular girl was a part of this experiment. She revealed to the scientists that we are not alone – that there was ‘another world’ divided by a thin veil of space-time. She was able to see through to the other side, even reach out and take things from the other side if given the right conditions.
Luckily for that special girl, she was set free from the experiment by the Korean army before the scientists could abuse her power. She went on to live a mostly normal life – she married one of the boys in the program who was able to move objects with his mind. They lived quietly and, after trying for years, had a lovely little daughter.
That little girl had her parents taken from her when she was 4. She knew nothing about the experiment and went to live with her uncle’s family for fourteen years. She was put into therapy for the loss she had suffered, but that did not stop her from slowly being able to see that she really was not normal. None of her classmates could do the things she could.
When a young man appears before her, claiming to know what happened to her parents and to know how to help her get them back, what is she supposed to say?...
CAST Official
Main: Choi Songji by xsnmae; advanced abstract reasoning/puzzle-solving/glass-breaking vocal/good luck
The Chaser: ???; the hunter-type experiment
Daesung; the reporter’s son
Seungho; the telepath who brings them into the craziness
Supporting Cast:
Choi Sunmi by awesomeninja771; the telekinetic telepathic teleporter
Song Ranae by Moony_Kat; the clairvoyant telepath
Kwon Eunae by YukiBoo; the telekinetic, pyrokinetic, and umbrakinetic musician
Yoon Yuki by whutever09; the manipulator telekinetic telepath
Jung Mira by AmyL09; the phasing medium
Kevin; the grandson of a Cognizant
Xander; the elemental
AJ; the electrokinetic clairvoyant
Jonghyun; the cryokinetic telepath
Minhyun; the hydrokinetic
Soohyun; the dream manipulating super-empath.
Foreword
I’ve been having dreams about the day my parents went missing.
The dreams are really realistic despite the fact that my actual memory of the event is a little fuzzy (being four and traumatized will do that to you). I’m in my little blue sailor jumper and am holding onto my backpack straps as tightly as I can.
Uncle Youngsik pulls onto my street and the car slows to a crawl. I’d never come home from day care to find the lawn of my home crawling with cops before. In my dream I’m calm, which I know is the main difference from the real thing. I had started crying before the car even stopped, I was so scared. I wanted my mommy and daddy to tell me why there were strange men and women all over our house… why everything was smashed up.
A lady takes my uncle aside once we're parked in front of my destroyed house and she tells him something. I’d never seen a grown man cry before, but he does. In my dream, he turns to me as if to comfort me… no, as if looking for comfort. He tells me:
“I’m so sorry… I’m so sorry…”
I still don’t know what he was apologizing for.
It’s not his fault that the police found a hole in the kitchen floor, a perfect circle, amidst the carnage of a gun-fight. There were strange bodies in the house that didn’t belong to my parents, but there was plenty of blood that did.
Everyone told me they were dead.
To this day, I know better. Something happened to them, but I know that my parents are not dead.
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