Prologue:

When will this end....?

This never-ending nothingness....

I can't feel anything, I can't see anything, I don't even have a body.

I guess it's only my soul here, wherever here is.

I'm tired.... Tired of floating around in absolute darkness for what feels like an eternity with nothing except my thoughts for company.

I can't even kill myself to escape from this hell. Perhaps I already am dead and this is how it will stay for the rest of time? I really hope not...

I just want to end this and go somewhere... even my old life was better then this!

Wait a minute! Is that light...? Yes! Light is slowly expanding and pushing away the darkness!

Finally!!

Looks like I may be able to get out of this place! As long as it's anything except darkness on the other side I'll be happy!

I can now vaguely see something in the light.... looks like it's moving.... wait! Is that another person?!?

Chapter One: Hell on Earth

In a dark, dusty and extremely filthy room, a man is annoyingly supporting a woman in labor. The woman is clearly in pain and really close to giving birth, but instead of showing happiness or even pain, she has a dark expression on her face.

"Come on! Push it out already! I don't have all day!" said the man.

"I'm trying alright! It's not like I wanted this filth inside me anyway!" the woman said with disgust.

Finally, after about an hour of bickering and pushing, a beautiful and healthy looking baby boy is born. Any other parents would have had tears of joy at this point seeing the baby kicking and screaming at the top of his lungs. However...

"About damn time! It's a brat... Just our luck. A girl could have had some use to us at least..." said the man observing the baby with hate.

"Yeah... this brat will just cost us money and time. I guess we can just throw it away... SHUT UP!" the woman slapped the baby across his tiny face trying to stop his screaming, but luckily she was weak having just gone through labor to do any serious damage.

"Nah... someone might notice us getting rid of this shit and tell the cops on us. I guess I'll find a way to use him somehow. Try and shut him while I go get some business done, guess I'll have to also spend some of my hard earned money for some clothes and milk for the brat." the man said while standing away and turning around to leave. One could hear his dark mumbles about wasting money all the way to the door.

After about 4 hours the man returned and saw that the baby was silent now and the mom had a glazed expression on her face. Smiling, the man said "Ah good job Mary! How did you shut it up?"

Mary took some time before groggily answering "He just wouldn't shut up no matter how much I beat it! So I thought I might as well get high to drown out his revolting voice, when I thought of something awesome! I gave a dose to him thinking it might shut it up for a while and it worked!"

"Hahahaha! Great one! But I hope you didn't give him too much, it's enough that we have to feed him and all, I don't want to waste our product on him as well!"

"Hmph! Who do you take me as Will? I know not to waste something so good on this brat!"

"Excellent excellent!" Will said smiling approvingly. "Oooh! I just thought of something brilliant! Why don't we test all new products on the little shit! That way we can see if there are any side-effects without harming ourselves, and the damn boy will also keep his trap shut!"

"WOW! I never knew you were such a genius Will!" exclaimed Mary with round eyes.

"Hahahaha!" Laughed Will with a proud expression on his face.

And thus began a living hell for the poor, innocent child.

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Over the next few years the boy suffered immensely. His parents, if you can even call them parents, never let him out of the house and no one knew of his existence. He would be experimented on with drugs anytime the parents got their hands on something new or got existing drugs from someone they hadn't dealt with before. He was just treated as a way for them to be safe from anyone who would try to poison them or from anything that could have side-effects. There were many instances where the boy almost died, but naturally the parents only cared about noting that particular drug as harmful and ignored the boy saying, "If he lives good for us, if not we can always pay some random kid to test stuff for us."

If at any time he would dare make a fuss about not wanting to take a drug, he would be beaten harshly without a care of whether bones were broken or not.

This truly was Hell on Earth for the poor boy.

One day, when the boy was about 8 years old, his father said something that excited him a little!

"Brat! You are going out with us tonight. We got a deal someplace and we need you to test the product. Go get ready, hurry up!"

This was his first time leaving the house! He had only seen the outside world through the windows at his house! He excitedly went and quickly came back wearing somewhat clean clothes and battered shoes.

"Hmph! Can't even take care of the stuff we get for you! I'll give you a nice beating when we come back, just you wait!" said Will turning around with a signal for Mary and the boy to follow him.

Even though the boy was scared about the future beating, he quickly forgot all about it once he stepped out for the first time! He excitedly sat in a rusty old car and scanned his surroundings with shining eyes.

His parents were smoking something while his father drove with one hand on the steering and one hand on a bottle from which he drank from time to time.

The boy was looking around at the passing sights with big, round eyes filled with wonder and amazement when suddenly...

CRASH!

.... And everything around him turned black....

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Author's note: Hi everyone! Hope you like reading this fiction. It's my first try at writing something and I would love any and all criticisms. Feel free to comment below or send me a private message.

Having some trouble with formatting as the paragraphs don't show up in the same way as I write them, any suggestions? Will also likely have trouble with adding tables when the MC gets into the game, but I guess we will cross that bridge when we arrive at it...

Thank you for reading!

Edit: Managed to get some formatting done, hope it looks better now.