O.R.B

[GravityStar]

Well hello everyone, this is a manga that my friend and i are making, he is the author and i am the artist. -bow- please read and give your feedback onto how the story looks and feels. please tell us anything we need to improve thank you. -bow-

Authors comments:

"If your wondering about the art... i'll have it done soon, haha sorry for the inconvenience" - Gravity

"Please treat it well" - ST@R

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O.R.B
Genre: Action
Author: GravitySt@r


Sorry ahead of time, for blasting you with text -bow-

~ Story Overview ~

Life on Earth has changed lately. Strange items have appeared called Orbs; these are basically chunks of a new type of rock that was, before now, never seen by human beings because they’ve been resting so deep and widely scattered inside the Earth. However the constant hunt for more minerals and natural resources has uncovered them and brought them to the surface. These Orbs give off a strange type of radiation that, for some reason, contains itself to a single host. Although every Orb is unique in size, shape, and radiation they all are the same in the way they interact with humans. If a human keeps an Orb on them for a day the orb will bond with them and alter their genetic code giving them a new ability. After a couple months a second power will emerge and it’s speculated that after many years another one might appear but no one is recorded to have had one that long yet. It’s speculated that these powers are a symbiotic relationship between the orb itself and the human for mutual survival. Sometimes these abilities are passive some are supportive, but most are violent. In fact the first human to gain a power was hailed as a miracle because his power was to heal the wounded. He was a hero of the world for roughly 2 months which he spent travelling all over giving life to those who were doomed to die. Then his second ability manifested. His touch of life got divided into a touch of both life and death. Life was in his left and Death in his right hand. The problem was there was no way of knowing what you’re new power is until you test it out. So sure that it would be another beneficial ability he tested it out on the wife he loved more than anything. She died at the touch of his right arm and his left could never bring her back. The abilities of a God were far too much for him and overcome with guilt and torn by the responsibilities of his powers he took his own life. The next people with powers to appear had violent ones right from the start. They wreaked havoc across cities and countries. There were some who fought them but it was hit and miss who would win. Then ORB (Organization to Restore Balance) was created to deal with all evil Orb possessors. By gathering together the good Orb users under the intelligence of the World Government the chaos was subdued and peace was once again restored. The world is constantly cautious though because new users are always appearing and no one knows when one will win the lottery and land an orb that can’t be defeated. We just hope that when that happens we’ll have enough good users in the world to balance out the evil.

~ Character Overview ~

Our main character is a young man named Dajo. He comes from a mining village and it was actually while mining that he found his orb. He was enchanted by the idea of having power and held onto it. The following day he discovered he could read the minds of people around him. He was disappointed that it wasn’t something more powerful but it soon proved to be all too much for him as he couldn’t control the incoming stream of voices telling him things he doesn’t even want to hear so he sought out the only other one in the village with experience, a woman named May. Her power was to conjure anything she imagined into existence. She refused to use this power for personal gain however because of how unnatural and potentially dangerous it was. She knew that if in the wrong hands an army could rise from thin air and there would be no shortage of weapons or destruction. She wasn’t naïve enough to trust that such people wouldn’t seek her out so she treated her power as a curse she would bear. She would remove her orb from herself every week for just over 24 hours so she would reset her progress towards a second power and never get it. To Dajo’s relief he couldn’t read her mind, supposedly because she had a power as well. She trained him intensely until he could almost silence the minds of people around him completely and if he should choose to, read minds so efficiently he could instantly pick apart a person’s memories and deepest thoughts. He could instantly familiarize himself with places he had never been with the memories of a nearby person. May was an incredible teacher with her ability she could make any challenge she thought of a reality and when his second power emerged, telekinesis, he was overjoyed with the power he now held and she trained him in that quite a bit before it happened. Dajo himself can’t be sure what happened but he’s been able to piece things together. The day before while in the mines another man discovered an orb and everyone congratulated him and couldn’t wait for his power to emerge as he was a great guy well liked by everyone and it would likely be useful to the village. The following day however Dajo was working in the mines when the town exploded. It was simply obliterated. When he got out of the mine all there was left to look at was a blinding ball of fire more intense than any natural flame engulfing everything he knew and everyone he loved. He learned that day that power isn’t something to be taken lightly and that he could just have easily drawn that power from the lottery of the orbs. That horrible self sacrificing power of exploding to take out all that is around you. The guy that drew the power would never have done that intentionally but probably couldn’t contain himself when his orb unlocked. After that the other miners slowly left either because they couldn’t take the sorrow of the people they lost of because they couldn’t take having nothing to do anymore, usually a combination of both. Dajo remained however. He busied himself with training as May would have wanted and he figured he had no business in the world of humans with their loud, sad minds open to him like a book he couldn’t resist reading. When the government finally got around to coming by the place it wasn’t even to tend to the survivors it was as a promotion of their new ORB project. That’s when Dajo met Simon and Steel. Simon was someone he took an immediate liking to. He was going to be the head of an ORB office in a city a few miles away and they were using this as an example of why it was necessary. Simon had a way with words like no one Dajo had ever met. He made him believe in the project and want to be helpful to the world with the powers he’s had such confusion over what to do with since the explosion. He grew attached to the idea of preventing this destruction from happening again anywhere. Steel was someone strong. You could tell just by looking at him. Apparently this is how all ORB offices started out. With one human psychologist and another human with powers to round up new recruits or deal with those who can’t be converted. Dajo accepted when Simon asked him to join because he liked them. He liked Simons clean mind and Steels silent one. Dajo never dug too deep into Simons mind because he knows how it can ruin a relationship. Can make you hate someone you could have loved and make them unbearable to even look at. Knowing someone’s deepest secrets is a painful burden to carry. But on the immediate surface of Simon Dajo only saw potential. Potential to really make a difference in this world caught at such a troubled transition that could easily lead to war. Joining with Simon and Steel they gathered more allies, not enough though. Not enough to deal with the ever increasing amount of violent orb users showing up and not enough to balance the evil out in the world. They try though. Each day is an attempt to tip the scale in their favor and each day is a dance with death. This is the life of Dajo and his ORB team.