Born Bloodless

When you're born

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   We all live together. We live with different blood types that give us enhanced abilities. My people are given mental, emotional, and physical enhancement blood infusions when they are born. My name is Waverly Winters, but everybody calls me Waver. All the other fifteen year olds that I know are normally enhanced. Better yet safe. I guess my age range was gifted with emotional enhancements because most have higher levels of love, they know how to love before they can even walk. And the others are more presented with help towards anger and sadness. Only if I was like that.

   Four hundred and thirty eight years ago the leaders founded our society. We were promised a beneficial society with no flaws. Our leaders witnessed worlds that were rebelled against, the people turned to slaves that produced different goods for their leader. They witnessed the same world in ruins, except one city used as an experiment that crumbled. Our leaders came together and agreed on a society that could get by with the technology that came before those worlds. But they came up with their own way to have the most progressive society. They genetically mutated children to grow up and produce bloodless babies. Thus creating the world I have grown up in.

   Over the years, the technique to change the make up of blood cells, to enhance the receiver, has been perfected. So they thought. Each baby, the enhancement is different until the infusers round the circle of blood types. This has given our leaders, followers they know will change the future. Generations of families have shared children, grandchildren, cousins, etc. with multiple different enhacements. More children and generations have already been planned to come. Along with better techniques.

   Now on to the story of my blood infusion. I was born to my father with an Endurance enhancement and my mother with an intelligence enhancement. After I was born, it was my turn to receive my blood, my life, and my future. I was taken to the room where the procedure happens. The blood was brought in and prepped for the insertion. As the needle passed through my skin and into my empty blood stream I became able to see clearly, I could hear the doctors speaking about how they could always tell when the blood was taking affect in each baby. That was the last thing I remember from that day. I'm now fifteen waiting for my celebration of when my enhancement comes into place.  I grew learning about how to use my enhancement when it came, my parents enhancements, and the history of the world I live in. It all seemed calm and normal at that point in my life. I watched the older kids use their enhancements once they learned how to use them. Some Playing ultimate leap frog with trees, a few growing grass in quadruple the normal speed with lab equipment, and others finding any sadness they can to relieve them. It was only a week until I would live with my enhancement for the rest of my life.

   Today was my day, my Mom and Dad kept me home from school so I could figure out my enhancement. It was time, you never know what it feels like when it begins and settles in. So I had to wait.

Later that day, the doorbell rang. I definitely didn't have boosted hearing because I couldn't hear who or what my parents were talking to or about. Finally I could hear my one of them call my name. It was my dad, "Waver, can you come to the door please?" So I stood up and walked towards his direction. As I came closer I could see some of my friends from school standing there waiting. I knew they had learned what they had been gifted with earlier that day. "They came to congratulate you on your enhancement, and see if you wanted to go test it out!" My dad said. My parents knew I hadn't figured it out, but knew I would come home and tell them all about what I had figured out. So I grabbed my phone and stepped out the door. "Have you figured out yours yet?" I could hear Mavis ask. "Yeah, I've got boosted vision. What do you have?" Replied Raleigh. I could hear her mumble, and he started laughing. "Shut up Raleigh. I didn't ask for super taste, gosh. I can't even have fun with that!" I could hear the disappointment in her voice.

   We reached the bridge leading out of town that hasn't been touched in years. We were careful not to fall off the crumbling edge as we sat down to exchange and show off our new abilities. Raleigh went first, he inspected all of our pockets talking about what was in each "keys, gum, thirty bucks and a phone." We laughed when he was done! Mavis passed, wiggling her tongue sarcastically. Now Toby wanted to share his. He pulled out his phone and turned on his flashlight. "I need someone else's phone, to take a picture." I pulled out mine and handed it to him nervously. He placed his hand on his flashlight, pressed my phone against the top, and click! He handed me my phone back and said, "Here. I have like super medical abilities." I looked down at my phone and saw a clear X-Ray of his hand. I knew my mouth was open. Calum went next. Nobody expected his, but sure enough he presented a show. He could bend in any direction, it was incredible. "So I guess you could tell what I have?" He laughed, as he pushed his head through his legs, with his back bent. Raleigh stood up and pushed him over. He laughed as Calum punched him in the arm. They settled down finally.

   Everybody turned their heads and looked straight at me. I grew nervous not knowing what I had gained from my blood. I flexed my hands. Open. Close. Open. Close. Out of no where the wind started to pick up. One by one we shielded our eyes from the rocks flying towards us, carried by the wind. The weird thing is as my hand was raised, no rocks hit me. I closed my fists. The wind died down, and I saw my friends wiping off the dirt. I looked down, I wasn't even touched by dirt, rocks, or any debris that my friends were hit with. I looked at my phone and faked an excuse to go home. We all congratulated each other and I was comforted about not knowing my ability yet. I walked away upset, I turned, smiled, and waved. I left my friends on the bridge.