Chapter 1: Why?

<p>"Why"? we're the only words I could muster. I was holding onto my life, my hand pressed against my chest where there was massive hole. " It's nothing personal Ryker, it's just your too strong simply put, it's tragic the royals decided to take you out, but I guess history repeats itself". I stared at my former comrade with anger, I stared at all my former comrades with anger and vengefulness. Why did they do this? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? What are the Royals? I looked all over seeing all my dead comrades." I guess I wasn't the only one that the royals decided to take out". Oleg replied " Yeah it's a damn shame we had to put down Section Commander". My eyes widened, they killed Jeong? I mustered up all the strength I could from my dying body and got up grabbed Oleg's collar and screamed " WHY DID YOU KILL HIM, HE WAS THE ONLY PERSON WHO DIDN'T CARE ABOUT OUR POWER AND HOW USEFUL WE WERE ON THE BATTLEFIELD"?! " Like I said kid… It's nothing personal, it's just we have bigger and better plans ahead and we just couldn't see him fitting in them".<br/> I collapsed on my knees due to my blood loss and fatigue. Why did it end this way? I was always one of the strongest Rankers, how could I let this happen? How was I defeated so easily? I scanned the area trying to make out all the traitors faces. My heart dropped when I saw her. Akane Hinata. " Why Akane? ". She looked at me and turned away as if she couldn't bare to see me. " Akane! Answer me! What is th-". But before I could spit out another word I blacked out and died.<br/> Or so I thought. <br/> It was black. Everything was black. Was this the after life, I suppose this wasn't the first time being dead like this for me though. It wasn't so bad if so. How did things end this way? It wasn't always like this. It all started with those damn portals. <br/> <br/>* Flashback from 2 years ago *<br/> <br/> June 6th, 2022. Portals all over the world started opening up, and with those portals people started developing superhuman like power. Those people were called Rankers. Some people believed these Portals were some higher power's " Divine Retribution " some believed that there was some scientifical explanation to these Portals. In reality there really wasn't any explanation aside from our world was being invaded. At first the Portal's were just there, nothing ever came out from the Portals and we never sent anything in the Portals. Until one day, the Imp's came. Imp's refer to the monstrosities that came out the Portal's. They were abomination's some having a human like figure with a demon like head, some would look like a creature out of a fantasy novel.<br/> During this, all conflict between nations ceased. I guess mankind decided to band together to fight this greater evil. The nations came up with a way to combat the Imp's and there solution was the Untied Nations Ranker Association, or UNRA. UNRA was created for one reason and one reason only… The extermination of Imp's. The UNRA wasn't very successful at first for the reason of a humans natural innate selfishness, think about it you were a human that had always lived a regular life just like any other human, and then suddenly you were blessed with the power to take out an entire army by yourself, would you really want to risk your life defending the weak? Some Rankers joined UNRA due to there own sense of justice, they thought they owed it to the people. The strong protecting the weak. Pathetic, in my own opinion. Eventually though most Rankers fell in line, either due to there fear of Imp's or by the UNR's which stand for the United Nations Rankers, would force the stragglers into submission.<br/> I didn't fall into that category though. I just wanted a normal life. I never had parents, or at least I never knew them. The only thing I got from them was my name " Ryker". Not even a last name, the people who took me in were real pieces of shit, wannabe gangsters and petty thieves. The only reason they took me in was so I could steal. Steal,steal, and steal some more, and when I would refuse, they would beat the shit out of me. So all I knew growing up was the malice of humans. I hated them. Not one good human I had encountered in that shithole town. I turned 14 and decided to head out for good, I escaped in the dead of night, and hiked to nowhere. I didn't have a goal, I just wanted to leave. Soon I stumbled upon the big city of Shiori. Being 14 and alone in a big city wasn't a very good combination soon I'd be back to my old habits of stealing, because that's all I knew. I was good at it, even if I was caught they'd either just beat me or give me a bullshit lecture about how I shouldn't do that or turn my life around because of my age. How would they know? They thought I had the lavish to turn it around. I was never given the opportunity of going to school, having friends or nothing like that. They just spouted out some bullshit that made them feel like they completed they're daily good deed of the day. They didn't actual care, they only cared about how they're image of themselves looked telling me all those empty words My malice only deepened, for each human giving me the same it's not too late speech.<br/> At this time though the year 2023 at 15 I still hadn't gained my Ranker powers. By this time already though the Portals had appeared and the Imp's were running rampant, the UNRA was already established as well. Usually the Rankers gained there powers as the Portal's appeared, but there were special cases called " Resurrection's". That was when a person gained Ranker powers even after the Portals appeared. My Ranker powers were soon to come…</p>