Oni World

Now, some of then are eating their on newborn babies! In full Ancient Greek Mythology fashion. As if we didn’t had a serious enough problem with collective image. You will excuse me, I hope, if I neglected to give you the necessary information for you to form your own opinion about this subject. Mayhappen that, after knowing more, you will side with the baby eaters and sediment the believe that I am the unreasonable one in this situation.

In the year 2088 the world was recovering from Nuclear War 3, which had happened 3 years before. Chinindia was the greatest Global power, both militarily and economically, since after NW1. Followed by distance by the Islamic Alliance, which ruled Europe, the Middle East and the North of Africa. The State of Israel had been completely destroyed, and the survivors from the Purge had rebuild it 8 times larger in what used to be the East Coast of USA. Technology to clean radiation, and medical procedures to deal with its effects had allowed the recover of most the areas contaminated by the recent war. Except for the very ruins of cities targeted by the bombs.

New Israel was an entirely Jew nation, with a population reaching half billion citizens. Mostly orthodox families.

South American Union was the third economic power in the world, after the IA, and the third military power. After IA and NI.

Chinese was the most spoken language in the world, with Indi serving as the “Academic Language” for most practical purposes. The Republic of Texas was one of the last Cristian Nations outside SAU.

Despite the lines of tension, and local conflicts, the world was mostly in peace. Prosperity was in the air and quality of life was slowly but surely going up almost everywhere on Earth.

Old projects of Colossal Engineering, like the Space Elevator and the Marcian Cities, were back in debate and general opinion was that humanity was finally ready to finish the habitat cylinders in orbit. Interrupted by Nuclear War 2 those eleven orbital stations would have artificial gravity generated by rotation and each one was intended as a Wild Life reservation, to preserve species resurrected from extinction by geneticists, and protected others from the same fate. Other stations were in project, but those in early stage of construction should suffice to reproduce most the natural habitats on Earth. Most the materials should come from mining stations in space, avoiding the costs of bring cargo up from the surface of Earth.

That was the world when I was born. Humanity healing well, high hopes, year 2088.

Ten years later, things still seemed to be going well for the most part.

The Islamic Alliance accused Chinindia of show signs of the same moral degeneration responsible for the fall of US, and EU, decades before. New Israel would likely agree, if was not for the fact that too much bad blood existed still between them and the IA. While SAU was inclined to follow the social reforms started by Chinindia.

“Always the vassal in search for the mightiest master it can find” said some Texan diplomate about the South American Union.

Texas was a religious Christian nation, like South American Union was, broadly speaking. However, they where a lot more “religious” in their religiosity, so to speak. In part that was due to the close influence of their powerful regional neighbour New Israel. Which was in full and unapologetically a theocratic nation.

The year was 2098, and that was the year when everything changed.

When those distinctions and lines of tension became for most practical purposes all but entirely irrelevant. When not meaningless.

Some cosmic event produced an explosion of unknow nature, a quarter of billion years before. The energy reached our sun in Jully 7 of 2098, changing its visible light for a dozen minutes into intense green, as if a filter had been applied. The wave reached Earth hours later, and worried everyone.

No one knew what would happen, if anything.

Most the blades of grass, and the leaves of many trees, turned blue after little more than one hour. Not only in the face of Earth touched by the light, but all around the globe. Proving that energy moved through the core of the planet without being affected by the obstacle.

Under most circumstances this change, and the ecological catastrophe caused by it as blue plants died for not being able to absorb light as efficiently as they used to, would have attracted a lot of attention. As things happened, this change and a million others, smaller ones, affecting different species, passed almost entirely ignored.

Because that same day, Jully 7, 2098, while the grass and the leaves changed colour, 99 of each 100 human males died. Melting like wax statues inside an oven.

The Y chromosome was affected, in our specie. Leaving women unchanged, but seriously affecting the men.

Those who didn’t died, like the old saying states, “became stronger”.

Among each 1000 survivor men, 999 gained 100% more strength. An improvement of 33% in reflexes, 50% in stamina, 70% in both short and long terms memory, and 25% in verbal intelligence: on average. About every function improved, and most degenerative diseases disappeared. The miracle gave blind men the ability to see, and made some men who had lost the use of their limbs in accidents regain it.

The “miracle” was all anyone could think about for many months. News of bodies of war veterans expelling their prostheses spontaneously and regenerating fully after that occupied all news channels in internet. Massive starvation would caught the attention it deserved only after a couple of years, when the global stocks of food for emergency reached their limit.

Well, that and the generalized economic collapse caused by the subtraction of almost half the human population in a couple of hours. Avoid mention the horror of those deaths was important for public mental health during the first years, but was impossible not to address the consequences of all those absent professionals.

No one realized for the next 4 years, but there was another group. That 1 left in the 1000.

At first those men seemed to be among the less affected by the “blessing”. In reality, they had been more deeply changed than the others, but the changes would reveal more slowly in their case.

We gained a level of control over our bodies beyond anything previously know by humanity.

By exercise we can learn to heal any wound instantaneously. Just by focussing our attention. We can develop in all aspects far beyond the improvements possible to other humans. We can change appearance, grow talons and fangs, what have you! Imagination is the limit, it seems. No one knows how far we can go in any given direction, with enough will and dedication. In theory we can have eternal life, and possibly also became invincible.

In a world where most nations collapsed entirely, and criminal syndicates stepped in the empty space left by them, most people don’t want to find out how far we can go.

Almost everywhere we are hunted and killed. Any time they find out what we are.

Since the middle of 2103, when speculations about our existence turned into fact by accumulated evidence. And cheer stupidity from the part of some of us.

I reached 18 last week, and for the last 8 years I have been hiding my real capacities.

Everyone believe that we are all psychopaths, murderous cannibals. They call us “Oni”, and make genetic tests in suspects as often as the still limited resources of economy allows them.

Would be dishonest of me not to admit that they may not be entirely wrong. Just partially.

Because our powers are scary. With our voice and pheromones some of us can influence men, and specially women. Silencing their critical minds. Our sperm naturally causes an increasing state of canine loyalty in any woman. With time even the most ferocious enemy will turn into a docile puppy in our hands. And that time is not more than a couple of weeks, with perhaps half a dozen nights of sex in that period.

Only 8 years have passed since 99% of all men died. Humanity still remains almost entirely feminine.

The human male has always been stronger, faster, and more ferocious than his females. Statistically speaking. The deep transformation caused by the wave of energy added to that advantage, immensely. More importantly, it also gave men a consistent advantage in mental tasks that was not present before. All distant but still realistic hope anyone could have still_ in the territory that used to be the now almost irrelevant South American Union and Texas, mostly_ for equal distribution of power between genders, is gone for good now.

Men will rule society, inevitably.

For now, the difference in population between men and woman is so exorbitant that considerations like that do not feel meaningful. Men are just too rare, in the entire world.

The normal balance is going to be restored after a couple generations, if nature is allowed to follow its tendency of about half the human babies to each sex.

Some are not inclined to allow that to happen.

There are local governs (and I am using the word “govern” loosely) investing resources in select the sex of their new generations.

Most are killing all baby boys who show sights of Oni genetic, of course. In some places the govern had decided to kill all baby boys, to avoid any risk, and has settle to rely in laboratorial insemination to keep population levels. I suppose that would be the prevalent approach mostly everywhere, if wasn’t for the scarcity of resources.

Most communities cannot afford basic medicine. Apply artificial insemination in large scale would be out of consideration. Even it they didn’t needed to make babies from two ovules and no sperm, what adds a new layer of complication, and material cost, to the operation.

Some Onis do give justification for those **** measures. Growing empires of ****-women, in secret. And indulging all sorts of depravity.

I like to think I am not like them.

On the other hand, I never had much chance to pay attention to myself. Never developed my power of self-improvement in any direction.

I do not dare to try.

Perhaps, maybe, that’s the only thing separating me from them.

Some onis build their lives as crime lords in the middle of large urban areas. Others took control over cities and rural areas around them, keeping the human population in their domains as shields to prevent attacks with nuclear missiles.

Onis have survived almost direct hits of nuclear weapons, proving that’s possible, but a lot less will kill most of us. All depends on what the individual invested his attention in develop, and how far he has managed to go.

Is impossible to know exactly how many live lives like mine. Hiding among normal society. Probably less than those who expose themselves in one way or another. Trusting armies of fanatics and female slaves to keep them safe.

Information do not circulate well, since we are a plague targeted for extermination I cannot start making questions, can I? Too much interest for the subject would make me a suspect, and there are the genetic tests.

Seems to be a fact that onis can cheat the test, or at least some tests, but I never learned how.

The reason behind the baby killing is obvious enough, I do not need much explanation.

Logically, we are a population of individuals with endless time to live. Potentially! And, we will keep reproducing: presumably.

Perhaps some of us can control whether or not our sperm will be fertile. Perhaps some can control the sex of the babies we make. If so, one oni with such power could have only baby girls. Thus preventing the need to kill the baby boys. If those things are not possible, or are not always effective, or if most don’t learn how to do those things, then we will keep making more onis.

Whit enough time, and proper development, onis became very hard to kill. If we act careless is inevitable that eventually our world will have millions of onis for each woman. No one wants that!

The ideal situation for any one of us, in theory, would be if there was no other oni. If I was the only one, I would no longer have to worry about the actions of others bringing me bad reputation.

Perhaps I would lose the chance to learn about experiments others are making and would develop slower. That’s not a huge price to pay, because in that situation no one else would be learning with those other onis. Opposed to the current situation, that involves billions of humans learning with every mistake onis make.

To share that knowledge and find together the better ways to find, hunt down, and kill us.

No use to wish for ideal circumstances! I have what I have.

My mother died when I was 10. She was killed in a car accident provoked by a bus driver turning into clay, in that tragic day. Jully 7 of 2098. The day when everything changed.

Aunt Sidra, mother’s sister, and uncle Joll, raised me and my three sisters.

Aunt is a tattoo artist and has a studio downtown. Her husband is a former army tenant, now working for local police. They are both good people, despite their flaws, deeply scarred by the wars and shaken by the intense transformations their world has endured during their life time (even before the Big Change). My decision to stay where I am all thig time has a lot to do with the respect I have for them.

I am a virgin. Of course.

When my sexual life starts, if it ever starts, will became a lot harder to keep hiding. From this point on I will have to decide what path to take. If I choose to preserver my aunt and my sisters I will have to leave them behind.

If not, I must **** them all, probably.

Ratter sooner than later, to stay hidden.

Or trust they will not give me up to the authorities. What is too much to ask, with the constant propaganda circulating everywhere.

Not all of it unsubstantiated, as I have mentioned.

I do not want to go. The longer I stay, harder my situation will be. Because living here any test of my powers of self-transformation makes me more **** to get exposed. Tests sometimes go wrong, and the results can be very conspicuous. On the other hand, the less I develop my powers worse my situation will be when my secret find its way to light.

I would be ill prepared to deal with even one single policeman, if I had to run for my life right now.

What should I do?