Damian was cremated the next day, and his ashes were given to the orphanage.
The director decided to take a few children to go with the caretakers to release Damian's ashes. They went to the nearby river and released them into the river.
The orphanage believed if you threw the ashes of the deceased into the river or the air, the spirit would be free and be at peace.
Since Damian's last moments were not great, this was to help ease his spirit.
Afterwards, they left the place.
After 32 hours had passed since they left, a human anatomy started to form near a waterfall, from skeletal form to the muscular system. A skeleton was formed first before the organs could form. After the organs had formed beneath the muscular system, the skin covered the muscular system, and the body was formed through fire.
A 4-year-old child could be seen burning up, but the child wasn't crying, and the flames died down after the child opened his eyes.
The child is Damian Cross.
He wasn't scared of what was happening to him because it had happened before.
"Why did I resurrect again? Why can't I stay dead?"
Damian was confused about why he couldn't stay dead after dying the second time, but he came back to life again.
[A/N: Technically it's 5 deaths and 5 rebirths.]
Damian stood up butt naked and started looking for where he was, but all he saw was a waterfall surrounded by trees.
"Waterfall? Where the hell am I?" Damian said as he started walking towards the forest, looking for where he was, but couldn't tell where he was.
Damian walked in the forest and spotted a bear coming towards him, but when it spotted Damian, it changed course.
"That's weird," Damian said as he looked at the black bear changing its course.
"Ouch," Damian said as he felt pain in his leg. He realised that a snake bit his leg, and it appeared to be poisonous because his skin was changing colour.
Damian kicked the snake away, and when the snake let go of his leg, the wound started closing, and it began reverting back to normal.
'I got my ability back,' Damian thought to himself as he smiled.
The poison affected Damian's blood cells, but the moment it let go, the blood cells started returning to a healthy state, and the poison vanished as the blood was changing.
Damian started looking for a place to sleep when he realised this forest might be dangerous.
He couldn't find a place to sleep, so he returned to the waterfall. Surprisingly, there was a small cave behind the waterfall.
Damian looked for some food to eat and found some. He ate the food, and stored the rest to eat tomorrow or another day.
A week passed with Damian living in the forest. He hunted a deer he saw in the forest and wore its skin. Damian let the skin dry first, then hit the skin with a stick and a rock to make it soft.
The following day, Damian woke up, noticing his food storage had missing food, and spotted some foxes going out of his cave carrying his food.
He started running towards them and ran so fast that he passed the foxes. He crashed into a tree.
Damian realised that he had superhuman speed.
He started running around the forest afterwards.
3 months passed by, and it was almost New Year, but Damian didn't know that. He didn't even know what day it was, but he kept repeating the same process as the day before.
Look for food, store some food, and sleep.
Damian was happy to live a simple life.
He learnt how to hunt, how to cook, how to preserve meat, how to fish, and how to track.
Damian was hunting a deer and finally found it. He looked at it as it ate grass, and then he started to see its biological structure (cardiovascular system and muscular system).
Damian was surprised by what he was seeing and realised he got Superhuman Vision. Damian thought he could see behind walls or objects but found out later he couldn't.
He could only see from afar and the biological structure/system of a living or dead creature. He realised what he had was Bio-Vision or Biological Vision.
Weeks went by, and Damian turned 5.
Damian didn't know his own birthday, and even if he did, he wouldn't know it was his birthday. He created a tally in the cave; that's how he knew he'd been in this forest for 5 months (more like 139 days).
Damian knew he's got Superhuman strength, durability, speed, vision, hearing, smell, and regenerative ability.
He found out about superhuman smell when a skunk farted in his face, and he couldn't get the smell out for days. He tracked the skunk by smelling it because he identified the fart.
He found out about superhuman hearing when he ran far away to look for people but was scared to leave the forest in fear of "the past." He focused his hearing to hear the waterfall and was able to pinpoint it from a mile away.
He knew he doesn't have nigh-invulnerability because he could get hurt and still bleed. He still felt pain, but he can turn off his pain receptors, and even while they are turned off, he can still feel pain.
If he can feel 100% without turning off his pain receptors, then he can feel 40% pain while they're turned off.
He doesn't know how to do it on command. He figured that's how the pain lessened when he was tortured by that lady.
Damian lived in the forest in peace.
A year went by, and he was 6 years old. He could understand his abilities well. He decided to go to the city to look for clothes, information, and some things he could find that looked valuable.
Damian ran to the nearby city or town. He found some houses near the forest. He used his super speed to check for clothes that could fit him.
His top speed is around Mach 0.5-0.9.
The 3rd house had clothes that could fit him.