Chapter 7: Percipience

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              We arrived home quickly.

Fabian ran off to go talk to Thomas and left me in the clutches of my mother-in-law, who had me surrounded by several of her friends. All of them fawned over me, giving me compliments through their teeth.

Much of their conversation was comparing me to daughters of other royals and saying that I had inherited my mother's beauty because I looked nothing like my father.

"Aren't you excited!" A pink haired woman who's name I learned to be Karen squealed to me.

"I am sorry, I am not sure I heard you right. Am I excited for what?"

She huffed and placed her hands on her hips.

"This year's new year's ball of course! You being the queen to be and all, you should know better than anyone that the ball will also be part of announcing your official wedding to Fabian!" I nearly groaned, I had forgotten all about it.

"I heard you've been planning it for years Elaine." My mother-in-law brimmed with happiness at the mention of this ball.

"Oh, indeed it will be the ball of all the millennia to come." Obnoxious laughter filled the garden but I somehow my only thought was to leave this place.

"How does it feel being a queen? I have always wondered how it felt, may you tell me?" I turned to little ole Connie Vlore, she was a dark-skinned beauty who had a mane of dark hair braided up in an intricate bun and amazingly she had striking blue eyes that gave her a mythical look.

"To be honest; it feels like a normal life, I would say I was more immersed in it back when I lived in the UK but for now my other family runs it. I am still taught about it and it is my intended profession, but I am not sure it's as grand as you make it seem." They all giggled.

"Oh, but it has a few perks I am sure." Connie said nudging my arm.

"Like a certain tall dark and handsome husband, may I ask when is the baby shower?" They all began to laugh hysterically, and I began to blush.

"We've done nothing of that sort!" Everything went silent and I looked at several shocked faces.

"She is kidding right?" Connie said breaking the silence.

Elaine laughed.

"I am afraid she is not. You see this one here takes after her I don't know how many great grandmothers, but she is the futures virgin queen Elizabeth the first." Elaine took a sip from her white wine and played with it on her tongue.

"You're kidding?! A girl this pretty a virgin! Ha! Tell a better joke Elaine." A purple haired woman named Genevieve; who I learned lived to throw shade in everyone's direction, was the one who scored that statement.

"No; Gene dear it's true, she has never even had a solid crush. It's a shame; really, but for my son it's like savoring the sight of a real treasure trove. He will not touch her till she's bound to him with proper vows." Elaine sipped another sip of wine while the girls went hysterical.

"I don't see what's so wrong with a girl being a virgin in this day and age? After all isn't she just protecting herself, also lord knows what men would come after a loose queen?" Karen shuddered.

"Karen dear lets not speak of the marked ones, you know we are safe within the sceptors." The conversation fell away leaving the grim subject behind and ignoring it.

The danger outside our heavily guarded walls.

"To the new year's ball!" Elaine said holding up her wineglass and all the ladies followed in suit...

"Yes! To the new year's ball!"

              That night I went to bed reflecting upon my day and I cringed.

Never in my life have I been surrounded by so many arrogant people.

People who showed off their status to the lower to show them that they are indeed lower.

People who immerse themselves daily in indulging to erase and ignore what is really going on right outside the safe land of our sceptors.

People who hide from our reality and choose to let people who are just as important vanish.

Making their importance greater simply because of the paper in their pockets and the status they portray. Sadly enough I realized I am not exactly exempt from this way of thinking because everyday I follow these people.

I cower behind them and hide as everyone else does, and soon enough I will be placing a crown on my head and accepting the fact that I lead these people.

I lead them with the same mindset that I am greater and the lesser are less and that I am forever safe from the outside.

This is the world I live in, planet Earth. Month December, day the 12th, and year 8998.

                The planet went into a mass hysteria when global warming started making itself dominant in the early 2000s and since it's gotten better with technology improvements.

In year 2800 a disease globally known as Mrx which in current times is known to be the result from a flaw in a popular genetic mutation serum called Cam.E.O.

The wildly popular serum quickly replaced the previous fad of bionic tech enhancements in any living organism.

The serum combined the genetics of a single human with whatever animal, insect, or species genetic traits they wished to inherit.

Cam.E.O. achieved creating an abundant of species that always were thought to be fairy tales. Real life pixies, fairies, mermaids, and even whole new genetic species walked the planet.

For a while there was peace between humans, bionics, and geno-humans.

Until the outbreak of Mrx, fully known as Medically Ruined Ex-species.

There were two ways to trigger Mrx, both required contact with the first geno-humans bodily fluids. Fluids such as saliva, blood, and semen.

The first way to contract Mrx was when a human or bionic came in contact with the bodily fluids of an original geno-human; who were the carriers of the beginning strands of Mrx otherwise known as Gmhi virus, then undergone a Cam.E.O. mutation of their own.

The other way to contract Mrx was when a human came in contact with one too many bodily fluids of the first geno-humans contracting several strands of Gmhi.

Gmhi otherwise known as Geno-human Mutation Harvesting Immune System Virus could be contracted when normal humans came in contact with the original geno-human fluids.

The original Geno-humans mutated fluids completely fused itself with human white blood cells within the immune system.

These human fused geno cells still acted and appeared like regular white blood cells. Though when the human came in contact with another strand of geno human fluids those two strands fought for the rights to the humans immune system.

Most of the time whichever strand was there first was able to use the fused white blood cells and antibodies to be rid of the new cell. The human would experience something similar to a normal cold, which drew no alarms.

Though when the geno-fused immune system came in contact with more and more geno-human strands the stands evolved. Some strands even merging due to similar DNA of their former hosts.

Though this meant when the geno-fused white blood cells were overcome by the new strands who desired to fuse with their immune system in order to thrive, the body became vulnerable to already outside disease.

The Cam.E.O. serum had been proficiently made to always preserve and work with the human body to enhance and become one with its features, but it was never meant to have any interaction with the human will or control.

To ensure this, the serum only allowed certain traits of certain genetics to become pieced together in human genes to make a whole new perfected being.

When faced with imminent death and now having several various genetic strands to work with, the genes which were formulated to enhance the human body began evolving to preserve the body in which they needed to live.

In the process of destroying the geno-fused white blood cells to claim the immune system and body, there were no longer any white blood cells to fight infection and disease.

Forcing the geno-strands to band together to create its own immune system within the reproduction organs of the human body.

The strands merged each other's strands the same way cam.E.O. formulated them to enhance human features.

Though in this process whichever property was weaker within the genetics had been eliminated to create a reproduction cell, this included non-dominant traits in the original human DNA.

When the cells created the perfect genetic code and successfully fused it with human reproduction cells such as sperm and eggs, the outside humans were severely sick with various infections.

Doctors had no choice but to pump various medication in their systems curing the illnesses while trying to find the cause of their decimated white blood cell count.

Back then the technology to tell the difference between infused geno-human cells and regular human cells had yet to be invented leaving doctors clueless and guessing what other disease could be the cause of the missing white blood cells for such minor infections.

Doctor's first lead had been in women because once their eggs were infused with the new geno-mutation reproduction cells they begun to experience minor symptoms of pregnancy, but their stomachs would never protrude.

Though as new cells formed for what was supposed to be a geno child, the strands were hard at work fighting disease with the cells created from the womb.

Forcing several of the woman's eggs to become fertilized with the new perfect reproduction strand called Mrx.

The newly made Mrx strand would be heavily duplicated and used to replace white blood cells with in the human body. The human woman would be seemingly cured.

Doctors only realized something was horribly wrong when it came to men. Women who were designed with a womb had the perfect harvesting place with little disturbance to the body though men had no such thing.

The geno-strands using their genetic enhancements, created a womb to duplicate and replace the lost white blood cells. The newly installed genetic womb caused a noticeable black swelling of the male abdomen.

Doctors finally had a lead on what was happening but no clue how it started or how to reverse the effects.

The final stages of Mrx takes its toll when the new enhanced immune system is completed and the human's body is free of outside infection and disease.

The Mrx strand now completely upgraded the human immune system though now that it knows what it can do, so it does not stop there. Noticing the many flaws in human DNA which makes it vulnerable, it replaces all of the human genome making it all enhanced...

Even the human brain who ultimately will treat the Mrx immune system as a threat but with nothing to stop it the brain is left vulnerable and the human will unknowingly become consumed and replaced.

During these stages the human will slowly become forgetful experiencing heavy symptoms of having alzheimers, dementia, even bi-polar disorder because the Mrx strand is creating cells of a new brain within the womb and slowly destroying and replacing it with the new genetic code.

Once the body has undergone, its complete Mrx transformation most if not all humanity is lost and replaced with a whole new perfect but abominable being that desires nothing more than to replicate itself with other perfect beings of its kind and humans. To completely erase all imperfections off the face of the earth.

Humans were being eradicated at alarming rates. The Mrx completed humans otherwise known as the Criers acted as ring leaders to the Gmhi infected humans otherwise known as the marked.

The Criers and their linked Marked attacked humans and bionics. Harvesting the original cam.E.O. serum honing in on more perfect strands.

The Howlers discovered when Gmhi humans decided to get their own genetic mutations the two perfect strands mixed with a different humans genetics created an even more refined strand and Mrx that didn't require the lengthy process of replacing all  humanity.

In fact, they'd be enhancing it the way they were always meant to do, which drew many desperate Gmhi humans who had yet to contract Mrx and didn't desire being replaced to undergo the original Cam.E.O. mutation for their already partially mutated systems,

Ultimately Ghmi Cam.E.O. enhanced humans were in league with the Criers becoming the intelligent entity which the Howlers thrived off of.

Criers treated them as their deities and their strongest beings of the Mrx. Known to this day as The Helion.

Over the years there were several classifications of Mrx infected geno-humans but the only classifications that mattered were.

Human.

Bionic.

Gmhi Human/Bionic.

The Marked.

Criers.

The Helion.

As a last ditch effort to save humanity, the world combined under one ruler.

His name was Joseph Herald Vignette; my late grandfather, he was a rich man who practically owned the world in its falling.

He was working on developing a program that would change the world as they knew it. He called it The Sceptors, what he proposed was to take all the women and children who were unmarked by disease and house them in a filtered land that would be blocked off and protected from the outside world.

Not everyone was on board with being under one ruler so The sceptors filtered land would end up covering more than half of Europe and Africa in its development.

Eventually by the year 4000 the sceptor began to over crowd so it was time to expand, and the outsiders where considered again.

Desperation from many forced their hand and countries begun pledging loyalty to my grandfather.

In return for their loyalty medicine and many other resources that were developed by my ancestors within the sceptors were distributed worldwide.

The technology of how to build and maintain the sceptor was distributed.

The only way to receive this information, power, and resources was to strip the land of its former form of government and join the Vignette Monarchy.

Also because it was agreed that preserving humanity was the first and only priority fighting over preferred government, race, and religion had to end.

There was no being picky when the need for men women and children was an absolute must in order for humanity to survive.

Which meant everyone was needed.

If you opposed this ideology; which there were several new ways to see your loyalty through vignette invention, you remained outside the sceptor.

You also remained outside the sceptor if you could not accept being human.

Which meant humans who were surgically enhanced with various technology known as "Bionics" were prohibited from the sceptors.

Leaving bionics to fend for themselves against The Helions horde of Criers and Marked.

There were many wars to get into these sceptors but Vignette technology and man power kept the diseases out.

There were strict rules in place for sex and marriage.

Sex between partners would have to be consented by a family representative who will cosign with the government who monitored various partner interaction.

Lovers if not married would be tested for various disease and it was a must that they use contraceptives and no oral play.

These were the rules if you were caught breaking them you could risk being thrown out from the sceptor or worse contracting disease with in the sceptor.

People of high status with in the sceptor let their children romp amongst the other higher powers other wise daughters and sons were kept as virgins till marriage.

I on the other hand being the queen and ruler to the royal Vignette sceptor could have any man I wished, but I held myself reserved for my husband. Respecting his body enough to not risk it any harm or having to deal with knowing another man has claimed me in his arms.

Being a virgin for my husband was my one sole rule, I wanted to find a man who I could marry that deserved me; but it seems it was already chosen for me.

In my opinion Fabian wouldn't have been my first choice, but it's not like he would've been my last either, so I sucked up my fate and allowed the pieces to fall as they were meant to.

Is this even what I wanted? To be married to a man who my father thought was right...

Why couldn't I be born in a more normal world? A world where I would not be queen of the world.

I wouldn't have to ignore the people on the outside where everyone just got along no matter what and no one is fighting to stay alive...

What would I give to live in that world..........................

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