Blood splattered at the card table, its strong stench covered Allen's nose as he try to catch his breath.
Laying on the said table his head felt breezy with its hollow hole given by the revolver by his side.
Isaac was huffing for air his head against the table that was bathed in his comrade's blood.
"The plan.." He mumbled before breathing his last.
"Leader" Terro the fatty murmured his large body embedded with spears.
He tried to stand up but was met with a spear that was put against his throat, it ended his life almost instantly
Dev had her decapitated head levitating next to Gamby while her brother Kevin did not suffer a single injury.
Holding a sword he screamed approaching the monster
"Let go of my Sister!"
The vision ended with that.
"Wait!, you cheated!!"
Allen shouted the moment his eyes opened,
he thought he will be met with a dark close room where the first thing he will see is a single gloomy table made with cards stacked together, there his allies will all be set.
A chip-like monster waiting for their move that's what he thought at least, but a different scenario was happening right in front of him.
His seat was trembling, Allen could hear whispers left and right.
Isaac was in the driver's seat humming, chatting with the other survivors.
His dead body in Allen's vision felt unreal, the scenario he dreamed of felt like a bad nightmare.
"Did we win?"
Words that left Allen's mouth.
The bus stop, a catchy song can be heard just outside.
"Your awake" A man next to him mumbled, it was terro the fatty.
"Allen!" A head popped out from the front, "What happened to you?" Kevin asked
"Let me ask first" Allen rubs his head before readjusting the collar on his neck, he looks like a kid tinkering with a toy.
"Are we on our way to the mission or are we going back?"
Allen's confused,
Seconds ago he was with that monster face to face with death, now he was on the bus and all people seated is injured.
So does it mean Gamby is dead now or maybe this is a vision, something that might have happened if he found out earlier about how that monster cheated.
He felt pain as the bullet drilled through his head, was that fake?
Allen's heavy breathing gathered everyone's attention, he looks like he is about to lose his mind.
The sudden scream of pain as he move to a petal position, made him look more....psycho
Terro patted the guy's back.
"Boss, is the kid alright?"
The bus begin to tremble and the engine roared
"I don't know, teacher might know something"
"Allen wanna have the window seat?" Terro asked and Allen nodded his body trembling as if he was on the brink of collapsing.
Watching the window and the famous sign of 'Las Vegas Nevada' getting further and further.
Dev stick out her head pointing at the sign
"Wow, the sign is real!"
"I thought it was only in movies," Kevin said
"Me too!" dev agreed
Terro by Allen's side was smiling as he listen to the conversation of the siblings.
Allen let out a sigh of relief, the sudden pain as if his head was about to explode something he doesn't want to experience again but doesn't know how to prevent.
'Drew know how the trick to activate my bloodline....hope he knows how to stop it' Allen pondered.
"Brother, can I see your hands again?" Kevin asked as he nervously move his hand towards dev.
Dev sighed, as she show her wrist, it has a wound that have gone worse just minutes after not being healed.
A large slash on the wrist, something you'll see on someone who just tried to kill themselves.
The wound is thumping changing color it shifted to red then blue the next second.
"Are you sure it didn't hurt?" Kevin asked massaging her hands trying to lessen the pain.
"It hurts, I never said it didn't" dev moved her hands away from Kevin
"And let's avoid touching, it might get worse"
"Right!" Kevin agreed
After minutes of driving and they arrived back at the hunter's building, Isaac stood from his seat.
"Ow, we arrive guys!" He announced moving out of the bus.
The clear view of the futuristic building put a smile on Isaac's face
"Were back! everyone to the clinic"
At the very back of the bus is a long haired man his body covered in a bandage he emits smoke as if he was being cooked alive
"Terro grab Lex and follow behind"
A curtain separating him from every other patient.
Allen was sitting on the bed next to him is a nurse wearing a long white coat that made her look professional.
"I kind of get it now, sir Allen Dale" The nurse said after listening to Allen's story.
Allen talked about how confused he is, that he couldn't distinguish what a vision is from reality and that he felt a brain cracking pain after using the ability he got from his bloodline.
"You are sick" The nurse leaned closer examining Allen's eyes.
"You don't get enough sleep but it isn't the biggest problem, no."
"From what I heard your head....is not in the best condition"
"Can you remember anything from your childhood?" The nurse asked
"....." She was met with silence as Allen thought of what he could say, he tried to remember his past but couldn't.
"I remember I have parents"
"right.....I got it, sir Allen Dale, go here every weekend, if you can't please have a good excuse as to why not"
The nurse grabs Allen's wrist removing his collar,
her hands almost broke at how surprisingly heavy the small collar is.
The nurse accidentally lost grip of the collar and it dug into the concrete floor.
"You might die if you push yourself more sir Allen Dale, I hope you value your life more" She said glancing at the collar on the floor.
After that conversation Allen rest in bed trying to regain his energy, chatting with the said nurse.
Two weeks passed and Allen was now back on his feet.
All the buses had now arrived, the hope squad which had Isaac as its leader was the first one to arrive the second one arrived one week later
The whole place becomes lively, but not as it used to.
Knowing that you can die when you go on a mission.
That what your fighting could be impossible to even kill
The halls become empty cause of how many people prioritize training more than socializing
all the training rooms were filled with hunters trying to get stronger, fights were happening more often cause it seems to have a bigger response than talking.
The cafeteria was isolated instead of being a place to relieve stress and a place to lessen the burden of training it became a place to share information on how to grow stronger or how to survive on a mission.
It changes in a matter of weeks, Allen worries that his roommates have changed just like the others, he wouldn't be surprised if they did.
At the dorm no one was present, he looked at Lee's gravestone it was kept clean, a small basket full of fruits, and a vase of roses was presented to the tomb.
"Lee, I'm late compared to others sorry, hahaha....."
Allen quietly moved to his bed he grab the worn-out sword under
He gripped it tightly before swinging it until his arm collapsed
"I'm sick" He mumbled
"That old geezer, why would he make me join a mission when I'm sick!"
"I stay quiet because I thought it would benefit me, but this is the worse!!"
"I didn't even do anything on that mission, I even fall asleep in the middle of a fight"
Allen catch his breath before continuing
"Who falls asleep in a middle of a fight!!"
"Wait...I'm sick so that's why I fall asleep...right"
Outside, surrounded by nature, there's even a bird tweeting nearby it stopped when it felt the intense mood of the two dudes having a staring contest with each other
face to face with drew, Allen, growled
"You know I'm sick!"
"Right, that nurse did say something similar"
Drew opened his hand to Allen, it contains many metal collars some larger some smaller than others
"But being sick is better than death"
"But I'll die at this rate" Allen complained as he put the collars on.
"Your sick because you lack sleep, that's why I thought of something" Drew said
"What if you train in your sleep"
"Just kill me," Allen said with a collar on the neck, forehead, wrist, hand, ankles, and legs, he look like Ironman with his whole body covered with metallic rings.
"Let's start with a three mile run" Drew suggested
Dark came, the forest become a literal maze, unable to see any form of the path and strange noise going left and right
in the middle of the forest was drew, Allen in his back snoring loudly.
"He smells like rotten milk" Drew complained
"I can hear you" Allen said his voice sounding like he was just woken up
"Wanna train again?" Drew suggested
"ugh, I wanna die"
smell of sweat and vinegar, an aroma that filled the entire training room,
"Kevin, dev" Allen called
And instead of the two, a little girl approached him.
"Allen wanna spar?" Kevin asked as the little girl grab the metal collar on Allen's knee.
Remembering their last spar and knowing it wouldn't end with just minor injuries
"No, you don't know how to spar"
"Yes, I do! tell him" Kevin looked at the people behind him and his sister was the first one to voice her opinion
"Allen's right bro, you don't know the rules"
"What?, then teach me" Kevin said
"Ask your sister...I'm busy"
Allen tried to leave but Kevin grabbed him by the hand
"That excuse won't work again, teach me!"
'I only wanted to greet them....if Drew see this'
'Huh?, your having a sweet time aren't you?, then we will double the training amount!'
Thinking of how Drew would react, Allen shook his hand until Kevin released it
"Sorry, but tomorrow, I'm free tomorrow, will spar tomorrow" Allen stuttered as he try to move away from the sibling.
The kid playing with the collar on his knee almost got dragged to the ground As he begin to walk away.
But before he could walk out, a voice entered his ear
"He must be scared of you Kevin, he lost the first time so he probably doesn't want to get humiliated again"
Hearing it, Allen was put in a trance.
"Don't talk bad about Allen" Kevin tried to reason with the buff guy next to him, mainly cause Allen was still in view
"I'm not talking bad I'm talking truth, man"
'Deep breath, your not hot headed, you are a man who doesn't move with his heart but with his mind' Allen reminded himself.
"He's a sore loser, I bet I could beat him, I mean you could doesn't that mean I have a chance"
Allen snapped, Hearing the guy talk trash about him was something that fuelled his anger.
He forgot about Drew and start to approach the buff man.
He couldn't reach the guy's head as he wasn't just muscular but also tall maybe 6 foot,
Allen tap the man's shoulder and once he got his attention.
"Hey blockhead, let's spar so I can punch that brainless head of yours"
Instead of being enraged the man was ....confused?
"All of you watch!" Allen yelled
"I'm gonna beat this guy up!"
While Allen was yelling the man pointed at him
"Whos this?" He whispered to Kevin.
It seems Allen wasn't the only one angry, beaming with rage and a thought
'how come he can spar with you
Kevin said with a smile his veins popping out
"His Allen, how lucky...."