It was a beautiful Saturday morning and the city was as busy as ever. Damian was at his favorite ice cream stand where he and Shayla met the strange man
He got his favorite flavor Mint chocolate and leisurely walked through the entertainment district and stopped at a particular arcade
It was a bit old compared to its surroundings, but managed to appear very vibrant. Damian looked at the arcade for a long time before he decided to turn his head and keep on moving
"That's cold, didn't even think to say hi"
Damian smiled and looked back at the arcade, at the entrance was a middle aged man with green hair and green eyes wearing blue work uniforms
"Long time no see Daren"
"I could say the same to you" Darren said as he hugged Damian warmly and held him at arm's length
"I see your features are popping up"
Damian laughed "I'm glad you noticed"
"Its harder not to. Come into the arcade let's talk like old times" Darren led Damian into the arcade
The arcade was filled to the brim with many teenagers flocking about playing various games
"Man, this place is booming"
"Well I took you and your friends advice about installing a VR section" Darren said laughing
Damian remained quite and his gaze became down casted. Darren slightly turned his head and looked back at him with a serious look
Soon they arrived at the managers office, that is Darren's office, he was the owner after all. They entered the small sky blue room and sat opposite each other on the two sofas present in the room
"Are you gonna tell what the hell is going with Aiden or do I have to look for my answers somewhere else"
Damian flinched slightly at Darren's words. He knew that everyone who bothered to try to know Aiden would have picked up on his change in attitude in the past year
Damian sighed "It has to do with the event that happened a year ago"
"What happened?"
Damian was shocked that Darren didn't know, everyone in the city knew what had happened
"You don't know?" Damian asked shocked
"No I don't, I was out of town for some business for nearly half the year, my son was running the arcade in absence, not that you'd know" Darren remarked coldly
Damian felt guilty "I'm sorry ok, I haven't been able to play games due to my increase in training"
"Yeah right" Darren rolled his eyes
"Anyway it's a long story"
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Aiden was currently riding his skate board down the road fuming
' Stupid Library ' He had gone to the library early in the morning in order to find out how he would be able to improve his mental state and couldn't find anything on it
As he rode through the side walk he decided to head to the the arcade to unwind by playing the popular game Beast War
He got to the arcade and picked up his skate board, people stared at him due to them not have seeing a skateboard before as they were outdated
Aiden ignored them and made his way into the VR section and saw that there was no line in front of the Beast War game
He shrugged and and moved to the machine he raised his watch and saw he had 5000 credits with him. ' I better return Sammy's credits ' He thought as he placed his watch into a groove at the side of the machine
"Watch detected. Welcome Wolfrahn, how long would you like to play?" the machine asked
"An hour" Aiden said. A hologram was projected from his watch showing the machine withdraw 100 credits
Aiden stepped into the machine and the lid of the machine came down sealing him in the machine
"Beginning game"
Aiden closed his eyes and when he opened them he was in a large green open field
"Match make begin.... Opponent found"
Aiden bent his knees slightly and took in a deep breath
Aiden didn't look like his normal self, his avatar in the game had white hair with a cowlick and wore ninja gear covering his whole body apart from his eyes which were deep deep blue
Soon a body began to materialize in front of him and he soon got out of his stance and looked on in annoyance, sadness, anger and happiness
The body that materialized in front of him was Damian wearing boxing equipment
"Nice to see you Aiden"
"Same here" Aiden says as he soon oppresses his emotions and gets into his lunging stance