Aiden's eyes snapped open and he immediately sat up, he was sweating profusely. Aiden didn't no If it was a dream or a nightmare, his body was shivering non-stop as the power and danger he felt emanating from the aporation was beyond what he had ever faced
Aiden looked at his reflection in on the waters surface, he looked pale and dirty for some reason. He scooped up some water to wash his face and stood up to stretch. He dusted of his grey shorts and his black hoodie
He looked up at the sky, it was lit beautifully by the stars and the moon. Looking at the beauty of the sky cleared Aiden's mind and soon he was calm
Aiden looked at his watch and saw it was around eight pm and he knew his mom would worry if he wasn't home soon
Aiden got up and staggered a bit as his vision blurred for a moment but soon regained his balance. He left the spring and made his way through the forest of willows and soon left the forest behind.
Aiden soon got to the residential area which was filled with houses that were nearly identical excluding their colors.
He took a deep breath before he entered his home.
"Welcome back Aiden" his mom said. She sounded as if she forced herself to say it in a cheerful tone
Aiden smiled sadly "Yeah"
They sat down at the table to eat their dinner. The atmosphere was tense between them. Aiden was trying to find a way to dispell the tense feeling but he didn't have to think long before his mother started talking
"How're your friends, Damian and Shayla?"
Aiden flinched a bit "They're fine" he said in a forced voice
"Oh that's good" She pauses for a moment "Aiden... have you..."
"I'm done eating mom and I've got a big day ahead of me tomorrow, May I be excused?" Aiden says hurriedly taking his empty plate to the kitchen and then hurrying up the stairs
"Aiden..." His mom says in a weak voice then she hears a beep from her watch "Oh it's time"
She moves to a drawer in the living room and removes a small bottle containing pills. She pops one in her mouth and she instantly feels tired
"I hope I'll recover soon... For Aiden's sake"
Aiden locked the door behind him and collapsed on his bed to the far right if his room. He sighs and closes his eyes ' What's wrong with me? ' Aiden thinks ' I can't even pretend just to make my own mom happy '
Aiden continued to think until he heard a ding sound. He sat up and looked around his room but didn't see anything that could have made the sound
Suddenly Aiden saw a white loading screen in front of him. Aiden was shocked at seeing the screen in front of him, he tried to touch it but his hand just passed through it. Aiden thought he was seeing things
The loading screen cleared then he heard a voice "System installed, requirements to operate the system not met, locking system functions, unlocking quest function and tab"
Aiden thought he was going crazy and started thinking what the hell a system was and why it was saying it was installed? Aiden was baffled about what was going on
Suddenly Aiden felt a surging mixture of both pain and pleasure he gritted his teeth as he feel to his knees, he wanted to shout out cause of the weird sensation running rampant in his body
"Quest function unlocked, unlocking Status function, Status function unlocked"
After hearing that he started feeling relieved as the sensation left his body.
"What the hell happened!?" Aiden shouted
Aiden started thinking about the system then suddenly a blue screen appeared in from of him with 'Status' on it
"Status
Name: Aiden Woods
Age: 16
Race: Human
Status: Mentally broken (Stage 5)
Animal type: N/A
Soul Animal: N/A
Martial Arts: Taekwondo, Northern wolf style Kung Fu
Anima Element: Processing....
Alignment: Neutral
Skills: Front Snap kick, Hook kick, Tornado kick, Round house kick, Side kick, Axe kick, Fore arm strike, Grapple, Wolf claw, Palm strike"
Aiden was at a loss of words, he didn't even know what to make of this
"Quest acquired
[Recover your mental state before the Night of Wolves: blood and death in 14 days
336:00:00
Failure: Possible death of everyone you love]
Quest cannot be rejected"
Now Aiden felt scared, he couldn't believe what he saw, this system thing has now given a quest with a failure penalty of the death of nearly all the people he knew
He felt like he was in a dream he just couldn't comprehend what was happening to him.
"Warning Mental state has reached: Mentally broken (stage 6). Initiating automatic blackout"
Aiden continued to think it was all a bad dream until the last sentence that the system said and he blacked out
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William was walking down a wide white corridor. He soon reached the end where he knocks on a door
"Enter" a hoarse voice says
William enters a large office building overlooking the entire city. The walls of the office were made of glass and was finely furnished with a black sofa in the middle of the room, a 100 inch TV, a black furry carpet and a large desk and chair near the end of the room
"Mr Wells" William begins " We've been carrying out research on the door and it seems to be a type of seal"
William clicks his watch and holograms fill the room
"But it's power has weakend and now a bit of the power that was seal in it is seeping into the world"
The man William was talking to, Mr Valdimir Wells was watching the the city below then he turned to face William
"Is there any adverse effect from the power entering the world?" He asks
"Only that it prevents the use of morph powers for extended periods of time, the good news is that it seems to energize the Virus and improve the Virus's capabilities which in turn boosts out own"
Mr Wells brushed his hand through his black hair, his red eyes piercing through William
"I see, then we shall still hold the event"
William bowed and took his leave, he breathed a sigh of relief "That man can be scary"