Hello. I'm back again. This is my second journal entry. The date is February 19, 2016.

The military has been cracking down on getting the A.S.H.A. serum ready for soldier use, but it's going to take a long time to get anywhere at this rate. Even with the recent disconnection of Project BLAZE we still have nothing to show for the billions of dollars put into this lab.

I am unsure why they expect so much from mere children injected at birth with the first drops of the A.S.H.A. serum. They can only achieve so much by the age of 8.

Now to Project GRAV. I researched him from our list of test subjects injected with A.S.H.A. and he isn't there. We never even tried to simulate gravitational abilities with A.S.H.A. Although, we may have attempted it and someone in this lab or in the government is simply trying to hide his existence.

Project PENUMBRA. He is an interesting boy. With the sudden disappearance of his friend Project BLAZE, you would think he would be sad. But the thing is, he isn't.

PENUMBRA seems to be fine talking to Project GRAV and himself of course. You see, he talks to himself in the darkness as if someone is there.

Now, I understand that many normal children have imaginary friends, but he simply is not a normal child. He has grown up in a lab for the majority of his life with powers to control shadows and go into what we here at the lab call The Underworld.

I seem to be going a little off-topic, but who even reads these anyway. The Underworld is another name for the darkness under our feet. Or where shadows go.

Mankind has only ever gone there once before, at least intentionally. Let's just say it didn't go as planned. The only man who made it out said that he could hear faint footsteps and growling even after his colleagues vanished.

The only way into The Underworld is through a shadow and because PENUMBRA can control shadows he can enter the Underworld.

Well, I've said enough. At least more than the 200-word minimum I was given. My due dates have changed, by the way, entries are now due annually. I guess I'm just not that interesting.

Frederick Geiszler