His alarm clock quickly narked him, so he punched it since he was too tired and lazy to get up or even move his head to see where the button even was...
Eventually he got up, but just sat on his bed in his single, teeny little apartment and removed the gloves he wore all the time, while even sleeping, too afraid that someone might find out he wasn't human.
"This is the final time I'll remove these!" He kept telling himself every morning when he woke up and repeated the process of removing his gloves to show he's still an Ajitapman, but at the same time conflicted about claiming or Disavowing his lineage.
His species are special creatures, unlike most, they look, behave and even possess extremely similar physical capabilities and bodily functions as the standard human being, except they can innately manipulate any living creature's mind, body, mood and to some degree even their soul. He comes from a world LIKE Earth except one of the very few where there's nothing but the species who inhabit the realm and the environment they inhabit, no outer space, no animals or subspecies for nourishment since their nails shifting colors based on their own mood and the way they gain nourishment are the only two things that differ upon themselves and humans.
Coming to this new world, Anastasius Eslevelni had to adapt, wandering it like a bum on the street at first, from the point of view of a "mama's boy" who happens to be the queen and the most powerful individual in his entire world, well, he got whatever he wanted whenever. He had to drop the princely attitude and adopt something brand new in this new world he got trapped in by chance with some of his own kind.
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Anastasius routinely woke up, showered, got dressed for work like a peasant would in his world and ate breakfast, lunch and dinner at a big time public bakery in Seyort. He didn't have much of a choice but work there to make a new living for himself.
"Alula's bakery!" Known for their irresistibly delicious and mind bending Vietnamese donuts that help keep the place in business.
"Boy, get up, get off yer ass and get to cleaning and stocking before we open!" The bakery manager screamed at the top of her lungs, Thanh bian, after she caught Anastasius sleeping at one of the tables.
Anastasius woke up like he had just had a nightmare, and he did, he saw his mom calling him but he wanted nothing to do with her anymore.
"Uh, yes, yes ma'am, I'll get right on that!" He replied while in a hurry to get in the back and stock, when he made it back there, his head began to hurt so badly that he dropped to his knees in agony, the world's worst headache.
"Auugghhh, remove your presence from my head!!" He cried out like thunder with tears pouring down his eyes like heavy rain, the pain was so immense he gripped his head tighter but it did nothing in his favor.
Thanh bian: the Bakery manager, Bihn ngu: His co-worker, Danh tran: Co-owner of the shop all came rushing after a few minutes, Bihn rushed to his aid, trying to comfort him and calm him down as he continued to scream in extreme agony, the elders stood where they were with worried faces but ultimately, they were lost.
"She won't stop man, she won't stop, when will she stop doing this??" Anastasius asked while sobbing as the pain began to slowly cease, Bihn held his shoulder unable to answer his question, unable to help his friend who was also paralyzed on his knees in the middle of their kitchen.
"If your abilities have something to do with your mind.... Can't you use, like your willpower or mental strength to stop this?" Bihn asked his friend, finally feeling the courage to throw an idea out in the open.
"No, she's so strong, you don't get it, she's basically a god even back home, I'm nothing compared to her, and when she comes then we're all doomed!" Anastasius replied in a low murmuring tone as his strength soon began returning slowly a little bit earlier, "I don't want this world conquered like the rest, it doesn't deserve that fate." Anastasius admitted in his head.
Bihn turned just his head away and squinted at the floor, his squint turned from him thinking about his words to realization to anger and irritation, "You know what you dumbass, you are nothing! When you told me about all of this, It gave me feels. I believed it all too because you looked too genuine, I didn't judge you when you confessed you were a murderer, I didn't fear or judge you harshly because you looked genuine about your promise of redemption. I've been here for you and I've been helping you out since you got here, but I never realized why we get along so well, it's because we're both uninspired, insecure, lazy, easily manipulatable scumbags who don't deserve to live happy lives because in all honesty, we're just talk, talk, talk and zero drive and confidence. So, go ahead and accept all of this and that BS as facts, Josue'll save us when your mom arrives but if you wanna stay her favorite pet she loves to hurt until then, then you're just as useless to the world as you are yourself, Sleazebag." Bihn yelled furiously, the elders heard this pent up frustration come out of Bihn from the front.
Bihn got off the ground while Anastasius stayed feeling an assortment of emotions and being flooded with an assortment of thoughts as his friend's words cut through like a hot knife through a marshmallow, Bihn dramatically turned his back on Anastasius before he walked off to the front with the others.
"Was that for me or for him...?" Anastasius asked, putting together what he meant, "No, he's right, he's right!" Anastasius told himself repeatedly in his head as his finger and toe nails glowed a very bright Yellow coloring and he achieved the strength to get up.
"We gotta go dude, there's some weird muscular hyena guys outside destroying the city and killing people!!" Bihn cried out with the most fear in his voice he's ever had in his entire life.
Hearing the fear, hearing the urgency, hearing the stress and anxiety in his best friend's voice sent a quick wave of all of it to himself for a quick moment, Anastasius showed off his largest smirk as he removed his gloves.
"Hey wait, is that nail polish?" Bihn asked, fully distracted by that and not noticing his friend's smirk first.
Anastasius didn't answer, he ignored him and walked outside to the street where he heard loud ruckus before he stepped out.
Arriving outside, he observed these hulking hyena men wearing nothing but bracelets and kilts like the Scottish wore and they were angry, he could work with their anger he thought.
Each Hyena man quit wrecking things and sniffed simultaneously, then turned towards him where he could feel their unrestrained anger, but it wasn't a specific personal grudge towards anything, and with this knowledge, his smile only grew larger.
The Muscular hyena men laughed like a regular Hyena would then all charged Anastasius like wild bulls but Anastasius didn't budge, he didn't move nor was he scared at all, he remained in his spot.
Focusing his ability into a large oval, he put one leg forward and that shoulder then yelled as loud as he could, "Calm down, feel some peace!!" With an assertive tone.
When these Hyena men entered this blue oval that appeared on the ground, they got so close to him but instantly and easily succumbed to an overwhelming urge for peace.
"So, these dudes are sentient and have some form of intelligence to them, huh?" Anastasius thought to himself as he circled around one of them, "Heh, well they obviously don't have enough for me to feel bad about doing this!" He finished.
Still with Glowing purple nails, Anastasius backed away and made an obvious ripping gesture, the Hyena men's anger seemingly returned except they started ripping each other apart and all of their blood stained and splattered the streets outside the bakery, his new home.
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Anastasius found one of his own kind, one of the many, many of his own kind that came along with him in a rebel attack that forced them all to Seyort.
"All of your suffering can be over if you tell me where the others are, you're an amazing warrior, I knew you'd survive this place easily, easier than I ever could but you won't survive me!" Anastasius threatened one of his own kind, one of his best bodyguards back at his own world who came with him when the attack happened to them.
"Yeua, because of your mother's blood, you can restrain me, keep my body peaceful but the moment you goof up, you're done for kid, but you're lucky she will arrive and those pesky rebels already took one of your lives!" Ęjunabi replied in a calm manner, "The fact I can beat you isn't because of her or genetics she gave me, it's because I'm an Ajitapman who worked for this strength, worked to overcome his cowardice and worked to find your cowardly ass, but I'm just realizing that I'm an idiot now. Why am I doing this the hard way when I could just put you in an honest mood?" Anastasius replied angrily, calming down a bit towards the end and instead smirking.
Ęjunabi returned a Smirk with a smirk, "You're not my blindly loyal and annoyingly naive prince anymore, are you...?" He replied almost in a very proud tone.
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Anastasius bursted into a pretty well known casino in Seyort one night, a casino owned by a few Ajitapman guards of his who accompanied him before the rush, but knows for a fact didn't change thanks to his informant.
He walked into the place with no fear, the men inside that immediately trained their guns on him. He could tell they were human, easily manipulated men, might not be so good of men, he was aiming for the bodyguards who made themselves their bosses though.
"Guys, come on out, it's your priiiince!" Anastasius screamed out as loud as he could, the two men he was looking for came out confused and lost for words.
"You're our little prince, the one who couldn't even make us, one of the lowest of the low in the world even a little sad or lift a pebble?" One of the men asked mockingly, "Still got That blind loyalty and naivety with your mum, boy?" Said the 2nd guard he came for...
"Keep laughing clowns, Like with Ęjunabi, I'm willing to spare your lives if you tell me where more Ajitapme foreigners are and dessert my Ajipma's ways and turn your nails green!" Anastasius replied, his offer was the best he could give for despicable beings such as the men in front of him.
"We work for the big boss now, so I think we will Dissert your mum, but a little nothing like you?" Said the 2nd guard he came for, he scoffed, "Only your mum could convince us to obey you but she's faaarrr from here ain't she?" The 2nd guard finished in a disrespectful tone before chuckling.
The 1st guard he came for, sort of the leader, gave the 4 men with guns their orders, they all shot Anastasius down and didn't quit.
The 2nd guard scoffed again and threw his hand at him before everyone started walking away, leaving his body where it was...
"I'm not gonna be useless and weak again!" Anastasius reminded himself in his head as he arose thanks to his Gen-oath's body armor.
Anastasius clapped his hands, individual blue ovals appeared below the feet of all 6 men, halting each of them while they walked away, no longer did they.
"Ęjunabi. Was. WEAK!" Said the 1st bodyguard, after a minute, Anastasius' blue oval disappeared, the oval dissolved and gone.
"He was only higher in rank because the queen, your mum loved him because YOU loved him." Said the 2nd bodyguard of his after his Oval left under from him too.
The 2 tried together to get rid of the ovals under their men but one of them noticed he was putting his all into those more than theirs, instead they froze Anastasius together with all of their might the same way he did to them.
"Such a basic technique but you've really grown strong, huh?" Bhavuka, the 2nd guard asked rhetorically, "It's actually astounding he made such a basic and dull technique THAT strong, wow!" Pemota, the 1st bodyguard commented as he circled around the frozen Anastasius, "Oi, mate, I think it's because of his little mommy's power, he must've inherited a TINY bit, nothing more or else he would have taken us down!" Bhavuka mocked him.
Anastasius got angry, furious, beyond upset by their words.
Anastasius' nails turned purple and he broke their hold, he broke it with mid level difficulty with his frustration flaring and overwhelming him.
Pemota and Bhavuka backed away slowly, "I'll redeem myself and break my ties to her and her evil, I've become sworn to a new oath now, one that I intend to keep closer but I also gotta cleanse the city of the filth I dragged in before my redemption can begin!"
Pemota and Bhavuka froze and placed their hands in the air when Anastasius made their own men train their firearms at them.
Quicker than the blink of an eye, the two transformed into grim reaper type of beings, hunched over with long black gowns on, faceless faces and more powerful telepathically or telekinetically in some rare cases.
"Ugh, Inhovud Ajitapmen, are you kidding me, how?!" Anastasius asked with extreme puzzlement, "Isn't it obvious, little genius?" Pemota asked rhetorically before the two flew out and away, "I doubt she didn't know or figure it out, they just got lucky through the attack, then got lucky I'm such a nice guy, but they must've been destined to be killed by me." Anastasius said in His head as he rushed outside.
Anastasius made it outside before the 2 of his guards escaped and were out of sight, they were high up, making fun of him and feeling like they were too good.
Anastasuis heard footsteps behind him so he swiftly turned around and saw 2 men around his age wearing different body armor with the same color scheme.
"He's already here, here's another member they've told me about!" He heard from one of them before he turned around, "Hiya, I'm Kiyo childay!" Kiyo yelled out excitedly, "Yeah, and I'm Coda, Codagan Dugan!" Their 2nd member introduced himself too.
Anastasuis stood quiet for a moment while he took off his gloves, "Is that Nail polish?" Coda and Kiyo asked at the same time, Anastasuis let out a low sigh, "Yes, you got a problem with it?" He asked the both of them, "Nooo, no, nah, I'm just trying to get to know my teammate a little more, is all!" Coda answered as he stepped back a bit.
"Whatever, either of you got a way to help me up to those ghosts there?" He asked as he pointed specifically at the two, "I got this!!" Coda yelled before he threw his middle and index fingers up in a very dramatic fashion, then did the same on his other hand.
A large tube that looked like glass flew upwards out of thin air and entrapped Pemota and Bhavuka who were still in the middle of mocking and teasing Anastasius, then a lid and bottom closed on the large thick tube before they could fly up or phase down out of it.
"Where's all the nerve and confidence when you were taunting me gone now, boys?" Anastasuis taunted in return as his adversaries found themselves trapped.
Anastasuis placed his hands in front of his face, palm open, and focused deeply on something specific, Coda and Kiyo saw his red nails slowly shifting to black and became heavily baffled and perplexed.
He let out a low groan before stretching out his shoulders, since what he's doing weakens him the longer he does it, the initiation was complete. His bones were aching painfully but he was used to pain.
"I really appreciated that, Coda, but do either of you two actually got a way for me to get up there to finish these ridiculous goons?" Anastasuis started, then asked before he caught sight of something on Coda...
"Is that a... Hoshkimafay?" Anastasuis asked upon noticing it on Coda's side, Coda looked down at his side where Anastasuis was pointing and saw his Kukri, "You mean a.... Kukri?" He asked in response while he grabbed it and swung it around.
"Yes, um, yeah sure, Can I borrow it?" He replied as Coda gave it to him.
"I can lighten the gravity around you, but then we should probably talk about these things, they look badass as oof!" Kiyo said before he did make Anastasuis' body less affected by Gravity.
Anastasuis jumped twice, then back flipped to get a feel of how lighter gravity was, "Not a chance!!" He yelled while he had launched himself upwards towards Pemota and Bhavuka, and was readying to kill them.
Bhavuka dodged his swing, Anastasius fell but launched back up then Pemota with ease, dodged him.
They were nimble and swift in the air, the higher they were, the better and more free, and they were high, luckily so was Coda's barrier that broke down and let them go free.
Coda turned imprecise and had no idea what was going on with his powers that day, he put his hands right in front of himself and stared deeply, in deep thought.
Anastasius and the battle between his 2 ex-bodyguards kept going, with the barrier gone, Ana became anxious they'd escape and leave to tell their bosses.
Instead, they immediately dropped to the ground with him and transformed back into human.
Pemota and Bhavuka dodged each of his strikes with ease even as their humanoid forms, his undisciplined and untrained attacks put the two in a fluster and at their first chance, they disarmed him.
Not a moment of silence went past as they knew they had to keep him distracted and focused on them, Anastasuis tanked a few of their blows but together they easily abused their superior experience and skill and took him down to the fetal position.
Kiyo, who had been the optimistic one thinking he was gonna win and that this was a personal fight realized quickly enough that he wasn't going to win and decided to finally step in, personal or not.
"Okay, that's enough, man!!!" Kiyo yelled out as loud as he could while he used his gravity control before he yelled this and as they were absolutely beating Anastasius senselessly and Ruthlessly, he slammed heavy gravity on Pemota and Bhavuka.
After five minutes, Anastasius got back up, although with some struggle still...
"Yeah, yeah, feel free to smack these scum with enough to kill, Ajitapme can be extremely hard to murder by other things besides ourselves." Anastasius informed his comrade while he went to pick back up Coda's Scimitar he dropped to finish the job.
"Oohh, So, that's why these goons aren't dead already?" Kiyo asked, genuinely bewildered, Anastasius after he heard this, stopped for a moment and glanced back at him, "A fine example of don't judge a book by it's cover, I guess." Anastasius commented in his head before he continued with what he was doing.
"You're wasting your damn time killing us instead of preparing for your mother's arrival, you know ya stand no chance in hell at stopping her." Pemota with an incandescent tone, Anastasuis approached both of his former bodyguards, "Remember that time when I was little and you had me clean my room and everyone in palace tunne even though you were supposed to but you took advantage of my young timidity? Honestly, no hard feelings about that but this whole thing reminded me of what you said, "Children cleaning the homes before their parents comes is just tradition!" Anastasius quoted before he chopped off both of their heads in style.
After beheading his former bodyguards, he froze up and a long while of absolute stillness happened between the 3 Gen-oath members.
"Dude, did you just behead your... Grandpa?" Kiyo asked, breaking the stillness between them, as he had nebulous ideas roaming his thoughts about the situation.
"Codagan, here's your hoshkimafay back!" Anastasuis yelled attracting Coda's attention before he tossed it back to him, "You could say some...thing like that, but, these guys were bad, bad men kid, you wouldn't understand, they were also part of the reason behind a lot of the crime here." He finished informing and answering.
"And you know this... How?" Coda asked while caressing his scimitar like he cherished it, "Forget that part, nobody really cares, right?" Anastasius replied, "Nah man, you've just shown that you're on our side, that's good enough with me!" Kiyo answered, "Uh, no, I'm gonna need more elaboration here since you've just said this involved the whole city and news flash, it's our job to keep it and the citizens in one piece!" Coda answered him in more of a worried tone.
"Alright fine!" Anastasius yelled heavily irritatedly, "These men are from a very foreign land, they're experiments in a gang from a russian scientist, I defected from them but they decided not to let me go so easily. They're hunting me now." Anastasius informed his comrades.
Kiyo believed every word he said, but Coda squinted and made the face of a skeptic, "Is that all we need to know?" Coda asked him in a low tone.
"Hmm, hang on, let me think a bit..." Anastasius replied, he went to grab his gloves out of his pockets while his nails turned white, "You guys feel like busting some crime!" Anastasius shouted a little louder while showing his smug smile.
Kiyo and Coda closed their eyes as they stepped back some and froze before they left him in silence to do as he manipulated them to do.
Saint Aubine cemetery in Generil, midnight struck, Advay wasn't worried about sleep at this hour though, he finally found his apprentice Ambroise Detayvern's grave.
"The others told me about what happened to Ambroise, he really could've been the best of us. My condolences, sir." Makisig, another talented student tutored under Advay for hundreds of years visiting him after hearing from others, Advay gave him a hug with no words needed, "I heard there's
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