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The man in the black suit stood silently, his eyes hidden behind reflective sunglasses. “It’s time to come home,” he said again, his voice calm but firm.

“I am home,” I replied, backing away.

He pulled something from his pocket—a card with a strange symbol and my full name printed on it, along with a date and location I didn’t recognize. Then he whispered, “Project Aurora.” That sent chills down my spine.

That night, I searched for the phrase online. Nothing. Not a single result. So I asked my mom again. At first, she refused to talk—but then, her expression changed. Like she knew this day would come.

She told me I wasn’t just part of a genetic experiment—I was the experiment. Scientists had created me using DNA from multiple sources, not just one man. I was part human, part synthetic. That’s why no father matched my DNA. I was literally one-of-a-kind.

But here’s the real shocker—I wasn’t the only one.

She said there were others. Children like me. Some with incredible intelligence. Some with strength beyond human limits. And one… who went rogue. That’s when the project was shut down. The government erased all traces of it. And they made my mom sign a contract to raise me in secret—until I turned 17.

Guess what? My birthday was in two days.

I couldn’t sleep. My dreams were filled with visions—strange places, people I’d never met, voices calling my name. Was someone trying to reach me?

The next day, a letter showed up at our house with no postage, no address—just a symbol. The same one from the card.

Inside was a photo. It was of a girl… who looked exactly like me. But it wasn’t me.

My heart dropped.

I showed it to my mom, and she fainted.

When she woke up, she said, “I lied again… You had a twin.”

A twin who was taken at birth.

Now everything made sense—the voices, the dreams, the visions. I wasn’t just feeling things. I was connected to someone. Someone like me.

Suddenly, the lights in our house flickered. A loud bang echoed outside. I looked out the window and saw two black SUVs pull up.

They were coming for me.

I had a choice: stay and be taken… or run and find my sister.

So I packed a bag, grabbed the photo, and slipped out the back door.

As I ran into the night, one thought kept racing through my mind:

If they created me… what else were they hiding?

And if my twin was out there… was she running too?

Or worse—was she working for them?

I ran for hours, adrenaline pushing me forward through the woods behind our house. My phone stopped working. GPS—gone. No signal. Just static. It felt like the world was closing in on me.

That’s when I saw her.

A girl standing in the clearing. Long black hair. Pale skin. And eyes—eyes exactly like mine.

My heart nearly stopped. “Are you…?”

She smiled faintly. “Yes. I’m your sister. But not in the way you think.”

Before I could speak, the ground beneath us began to shake. Trees creaked. A low hum filled the air, almost like chanting. She grabbed my hand.

“We don’t have much time,” she whispered. “They didn’t just experiment on us. They summoned us.”

“What?”

She pointed to the sky. The clouds above us swirled unnaturally, forming symbols I’d seen in my dreams. Ancient ones. She explained that Project Aurora wasn’t just a genetic test—it was a ritual. The scientists were part of a secret order trying to create vessels for something... inhuman.

We weren’t just born.

We were called.

Each of us was a key—tied to a different force beyond this world. My sister? She was tied to shadows. She could disappear into darkness, move through reflections. Me? I was connected to memory. I could tap into people’s thoughts, feel echoes of the past, and sometimes… rewrite them.

“I’ve been watching you for years,” she said. “They sent me to track you. But I turned against them. I remembered what they did.”

Just then, the forest went still. Too still.

“They’re here.”

Out of the trees, the men in suits returned—but now, their eyes glowed silver. Their shadows moved faster than their bodies. One whispered a word, and I felt my legs lock. My sisterraised her hand and everything around us went pitch black.

In the darkness, I heard her voice inside my mind: “You have power. Use it.”

I focused. And suddenly—memories hit me like a wave. The lab. The symbols. A giant stone door buried underground… sealed by seven keys. Seven like us.

And then I saw it: something behind the door. Something ancient. Watching. Waiting.

I snapped back just as the darkness lifted. The men were frozen mid-step—caught in a memory loop I had created. My power had worked.

My sister turned to me. “You’re waking up. But that was just the beginning.”

She pulled a small, glowing stone from her pocket. It pulsed when I touched it.

“There are five others,” she said. “If they find them first, they’ll open the gate. And we’ll all be gone.”

I nodded, heart pounding. Our whole lives had been a lie. But now, we had a mission.

We weren’t just science experiments anymore.

We were the only things standing between this world… and something far worse.

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