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The Shadiene family, hundreds of years in the past, were once part of a society of Arcanists, and powerful ones at that. The Arcanists specialized in controlling elements to study and make their lives and world a better place. However, their utopia slowly began to crumble, as some of them grew corrupt under the power they had gained.

To fight against these corrupted ones, Amon Shadiene sacrificed himself to awaken the Leviathan, a beast that had lived since close to the beginning of time. Partial to no living being, the Leviathan not only wiped out the corrupted Arcanists, but sunk the entire continent, once known as Atlantis. Several of the families survived this, and began to battle the ancient monster, eventually sealing it into an orb. The orb was then sealed away in the ruins of their old utopia undersea, never to be seen again.

The year is now 2028, a slightly more futuristic world. The economy of most nations has collapsed. A global war now engulfs many countries, wiping smaller third world countries off the map as larger ones claim them. Now Japan, the United States, Russia, and England are now the powerhouses of the world, and are warring over territory and resources, trying to outdo the others as well as keep their country intact. However, the states have a plan they intend to use to wipe out the other world leaders, with help from biological engineering, three decades worth of research, and an orb uncovered from rubble at the bottom of the sea.

Zephyr Shadiene~
Hundreds of years later, Zephyr Shadiene was born to Alexander and Victoria Shadiene, the last remnants of the Arcanist lines. He was a very bright child, excelling in history, science, and literature, although lacking in math. Once his sister was born, he was excited, and did his best as part of the family to aid in raising her, and becoming her best friend.

Throughout high school, Zephyr continued to stay in the top of his classes, Ceireia aiding him with math, while he helped her out in science. An even trade off for the two siblings. However, stress and the upcoming college year pressured Zephyr greatly, and after graduation, he left for a road trip after telling his family he was going off for a while to explore. Several days later, due to a sabotaged car, he wrecked, and was pulled out of the area by government officials, whom had been watching him for years. The time had come to put their experiments to the test.

Two weeks later, after a horrible nightmare where he had been suffocating in darkness, he awoke after hearing a strange voice, and was shocked at his surroundings. It seemed like a hotel suite, equipped with bathroom, bed, and such, if not for the glass wall and door across the front of the living room, where a scientist was sitting, taking notes. Something in him told him that he need not be caged like this. He could be free. He could fight. After a moment, he realized he was stronger, faster, and looked different than before. Slowly, he began to manipulate the darkness around him, and then he blacked out, hearing random bursts of noise for hours. One of them being that a subject named Ceireia Shadiene hadn't survived.

When he awoke again, several hours later, all he could remember was brief flashes of the lab, the room, the dream, and the statement of his sister's death. He was shocked, scared, and depressed, but the voice in his head refused to let him rest, stating that there were things that had to be done. It was then that Zephyr first created his dual katanas, and began practicing their use. Still wearing a super-soldier bodysuit, he heard a somewhat familiar voice through the transmitter on the extended shoulderpad. The voice of his best friend, Kevin Ceres.

After a few minutes of deciphering where Kevin was, and explaining the situation, a female voice spoke into the tranceiver, a younger male voice also present in the background. Ariana and Steven Vespers. They too, had escaped from a different lab, and were searching for other refugees. Only about thirty miles away, Zephyr made a beeline towards their coordinates, only to walk directly into 001. Ceireia Shadiene, his sister he believed to be dead. Now able to control plant matter, and a variety of toxins, she fought against Zephyr under control of a nearby psychic, a member of the T-Unit. Refusing to harm his younger sister, Ceireia nearly succeeds in killing Zephyr, only to be thwarted by another presence in his body, as the voice takes over, turning the tides in their battle in a brief moment. The psychic, seeing this, fled for his life, leaving Ceireia to snap out of his control. After seeing Zephyr and trying to talk to him, he reverted to normal, remembering that a voice offered to help him.

Reunited, Zephyr and Ceireia meet up with the other three, Kevin, Ariana, and Steven, and begin to plot a course of action. Rather than hide, they decide that these experiments need to be stopped, and select one of the labs as a target, Lab T, or Telekinesis. Lab T is the home of the T-Unit, the government's special squad of elite soldiers that have ESP. After destroying many of their records, and hacking into information they wish they hadn't discovered, such as the entity implanted and combined with Zephyr's DNA, a force hits them that leaves them stunned, a teenage girl standing in their way. Illina Crius, the head of T-Unit. After speaking with her, they can understand. She was not a normal child, a test tube baby created to harness extreme ESP potentials. With their offer of freedom, they welcome Illina to join them, and she agrees.

It is then that Zephyr loses control once more, this time heading in a familiar direction after abandoning the others. His hometown. The other arrive too late, to find most of the small town eradicated, houses and complexes still aflame, a dark figure standing over what appears to be a large symbol in flame. Zephyr snaps out of it and pleads for the others to kill him, before the Leviathan could regain control and kill them instead. Extremely reluctantly, they do as he asks, and believe to have killed him, his hair returning to its black color, and a stream of darkness flooding out from his body to swirl into the flames.

A voice rings out from the shadows and flames, taking the shape of Zephyr, but with silver hair, but the voice was not Zephyr's at all, raspy and menacing. Just before the Leviathan would have struck Ceireia down, a katana intervenes, an uninjured Zephyr blocking the attack and a determined, infuriated look in his eyes. He and the Leviathan do battle, matching eachother's swordwork easily and both become exhausted. The Leviathan gloats, and in that brief moment, Zephyr shoves his blade through the abomination's chest, the beast in human form dissipating again, it's last words stating that it will never die.

The group of friends then begin their run across the country again, now attempting to find a safe place to hide from the government, without revealing their identities or abilities. Which happens to be nigh impossible. Steven performs one of his cyberkinesis net dives, only to receive a code from the government, stating that if they come back, their lives will be spared. Steven, being only 15 leaves the group and makes off for the most infamous lab of all. Area 51. Ariana, stricken by her brother's choice, still remains with Zephyr's group, and pleads them to go after him. She explains that their parents were scientists and had volunteered them for the project.

Zephyr and the others make for Area 51 with haste, infiltrating the underground base's defenses with quite some difficulty. Shocked by all of their findings, suddenly a familiar voice rings out, a black cloaked figure blocking the door in front of them. The Leviathan in human form takes off his hood, his blade already in his hand. The group fights fiercely, and manage to destroy several small labs in the course of the fight with it, finally being backed into a larger lab with a sealed container. On a whim, Zephyr smashes the container to reveal an onyx orb, and remembers something he had never previously known. The song of sealing. Quickly, he repeats the lines, which Ceireia manages to sing, the beast, even though fading continues to try to attack them, but is ultimately sealed away, its last words following. "I will never vanish. You will never rest."

Ignoring the creature's words, Zephyr takes the orb and sets off with the others, still fighting off and evading government forces, to find a secluded place in which to set the orb to rest. Off the keys of Florida, they find what must have once been a small island, a lagoon and a dense forest upon it. After sinking the orb in a deep pool in the center of the island, Zephyr and Ceireia return to shore to their comrades, to discover Steven, Ariana, and Kevin beaten and bloody, agent bodies scattered across the beach. One thing is apparent. Illina is missing, taken by the soldiers. The group rushes off, having Steven hack into the government's computers to find out where she was taken. After arriving at the base, the group waits until nightfall to launch their rescue, split into two teams to infiltrate. It is here that Zephyr is pulled into Adstringendum.

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