Aiden was surprised at the sudden information he received from the system
'What? how did I recover my mental state Aiden thought. He reviewed all that had happened up till before the notification and used the water from the fountain to wash his face to make sure it didn't look like he was just crying
'I see!' Aiden snapped his head up 'When Damian and I were together...my memories... that's it!' Aiden was elated at his discovery and decided that he would head home to relive his old memories
Suddenly his excitement died down 'Relive...my... memories' Aiden decided to steel himself and headed home
Aiden was baffled as on his way back as he saw many people rushing over to the eastern residential district where his home was located
Aiden soon new the cause. As he reached his home he saw some police cars around his hand and an ambulance
Aiden moved closer and saw first responders carrying his mom into the ambulance. Aiden didn't feel anything seeing this because he didn't know what to feel
"Yeah, a bottle of drugs were found by her body"
"What kind of drugs?"
"Psychotropic...and really strong ones"
Aiden heard all the police said and was frozen in place, his eyes twitched and he clenched his hands and looked downward
"Aiden..." Aiden felt a soft hands on his shoulder and he immediately smacked the hand away
Shayla was sadden by what Aiden had done but still stayed near him
"This was bound to happen" a bystander said
"Families like these are cursed, It's just so sad that it had to be this one"
"What do you mean? This family has always been bad luck, especially that nuisance they call Aiden"
Shayla knew Aiden could hear all they said but could do nothing to help comfort him. Aiden's body shook with sadness and fury 'Shut up' he thought
Soon Aiden's mother was in the ambulance and take to the hospital. The crowds dispersed soon after leaving Shayla alone with Aiden
"Ding, Warning mental state worsening!"
Aiden ran into his home and slammed the door behind him not even taking note of Shayla. Shayla felt unbearable pain seeing him like
"It okay" A soft voice said as an arm was placed on Shayla's shoulder "He'll be alright"
Shayla nodded at Damian's encouraging words
Aiden ran into his room and broke down into tears, he just couldn't hold it anymore. He had had it with this past year of torment and abuses, of seeing his mom in her currently helpless state and his inability to do anything about it
He cried from noon till around three pm. He slowly got up from the ground. He wobbled over to his dresser and opened it, in it was a key. Aiden picked up the key then went towards the middle of his room where a carpet was. He removed the carpet and found a loose floor board. He opened the floor board and brought out a small silver box.
The box was decorated elaborately with silver vines. Aiden unlocked the box with the key and opened it.
Inside the box where various research papers on the virus, notebooks and even pictures. Aiden was overwhelmed by the mere sight of them as memories resurfaced in his mind
He held his head as it throbbed continuously. Aiden didn't care though and kept digging through the medium sized box until he found a drawing
The drawing was a sketch made by Aiden, it was a sketch of his family. It showed his mom and dad holding hands looking at Aiden from afar.
A part of the sketch beside Aiden's image was burnt. Aiden couldn't stop the memories from resurfacing his head throbbed more painfully as he screamed
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"Be careful!" A female voice shouts. Her silver hair danced beautifully in the autumn breeze, as her grey eyes shine brilliantly.
"Let the kids have their fun" a male voice said. He was a tall man if average build, his black hair was styled in a cesar cut with a strand protruding from the front down towards his dazzling green eyes
The two were Aiden's parent, they smiled warmly as they saw their children playing in a field of orange and yellow grasses and flowers with orange leaves falling from the trees
Aiden was chasing a boy a bit older than him "Come back. Liam!"
"Hahaha!" the boy laughs back "You've got to be faster!"
Suddenly the scene goes fuzzy and Liam's face kept popping up several times always with a smile before a dark figure stood before Aiden and looks back at him with red narrow eyes. Aiden blacked out after that
Aiden once again awoke in the dark room illuminated by the blue flowers. The aura in front of him was stronger and had a fiercer look to it
"Well, well, this is entertaining"
"Who are you? What are you?!" Aiden shouts back
"My, my what's the point of you finding out who I am? it'll make things dull"
Aiden unconsciously takes a step back as the aura emits more power
"But I'll give you a freebie piece of info, I'll appear in a week and 5 days from now" Aura said as a violent gust of flower petals surrounded Aiden before he blacked out again
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Damian and Shayla were currently staying in Aiden's room watching him sleep. They heard him scream as they were just outside of his house when he did
"What do you think is going on with him?" Shayla asked more baffled than ever looking at the book filled to the brim with memories "He never wanted to see these again...so why?"
"As I keep saying I don't know, but something is going on with him and that's for sure"
It was around eight pm and both Damian and Shayla had informed their parents they would be staying over with Aiden so that they wouldn't be worried when they didn't turn up at their homes
A knock was heard from the front door
Damian headed downstairs towards the door and was pleasantly surprised by who it was
In front of Damian was Ferguson Sequina, a hunter who lived nearby with his brother Baraq, Who attended the same school as Damian and the rest
Hunters were morphs who chose to devote their lives to the hunting, capturing or killing of beasts for a living. Hunters were extremely popular so much so that nearly all the youths wanted to be one
"Good evening Damian, how've you been?" Fergus asked with a pearly white smile which added to his appeal along with his shoulder length green hair and piercing hazel eyes
"Good evening, I've been good" Damian says as he lets Fergus into the house. Currently Fergus wore no armour
"Where is he?"
"Upstairs"
Fergus went up the stairs and peaked into Aiden's room and saw him sleeping peacefully and nodded
"You guys get some sleep, I'll protect the house"
Damian nodded and went to meet Shayla and both of them prepared the sleeping bags they brought and went to sleep.
Fergus sighed and looked into the room again and saw a thin outline of blue and silver energy surrounding Aiden
'Is he unlocking his inherited trait? or is this something else?' Fergus thought worriedly
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"Ahhh...." William sighed as he laid back in his chair worn out.
William was currently in an underground research facility working on a certain experiment and was completely wiped. He had bags under his eyes and his stomach felt like it was tearing itself up
Willam had been studying a piece of the large door of in the tunnel under Big Ben the second.
He made no head way in his research as no matter what he did the piece didn't react even if it did show signs of life within
*Ring**Ring*
William lazily looked at his watch and saw it was Mr Wells calling
"Oh boy"