"Shirou" "Shirou" "SHIROU!" I opened my eyes to find myself in what looked to be an abyss or a void of some sort "Where the hell am I?" I asked with a bit of fear in my voice.
"We are in your mind Shirou," said a voice from the darkness "Who- Who are you and what do you mean in my mind?", "You mean who are we, and as for the mind part, it's exactly what it means," the figure said.
"We?" "Yes, we" 7 figures emerge from the darkness "You all look like me?" I said while puzzled "Yes that would appear so, I'll explain this later but for now, get up kid".
Reluctantly I got up and realized I wasn't injured "Wait is this just a dream was what just happened a dream", "Haha no Shirou this is all real you did get shot, and right now you're passed out on the floor".
"Please explain what's happening right now,", "Well to keep it short you were chosen to be reborn and to have a second chance at life", "I was chosen?", "Yes by us, you see 1,972 years ago wars raged between two beings that were hidden among humans".
He paused and had a slight smile of reminiscence on his face, then continued "The war was between our demons and God's angels".
"Ok, but why were you guys fighting and what do you mean by our demons?", " I'll take you back to the very beginning just bear with me for now, So we are the 7 devils that have existed since the world itself, the devil of envy, the devil of pride, the devil of gluttony, the devil of lust, the devil of sloth, the devil of wrath and me the devil of greed".
He paused again as if he was trying to gather his thoughts "And there are 7 gods that mirrored versions of us, the god of life, the god of diligence, the god of humility, the god of charity, the god of chastity, and the god of temperance, now we both existed as long as the world has though neither Gods nor Devils know how the world was made a couple of years past you creatures were born giving both of our sides meaning and also strengthening both of our sides, am I keeping your attention?".
"Yeah you have my full attention", "Good so your kind kept getting killed and that weakened both us and the gods so we pointed you guys in the right direction we showed you how to make fire, how to hunt, how to skin animals, how to reproduce and how to make weapons Gods, on the other hand, showed you how to grow crop's, how to pick mushrooms, how to make food without harming any life forms and how to make shelter" I grew bored of listening but I guess its better than being dead for now at least.
"Then your kind progressed and with doing so your kind strengthened us and The gods so we decided to come to an agreement that we would no longer meddle with your lives but there was a loophole since it was only the 7 gods and the 7 devils that couldn't meddle with you creatures so we created demons and they created angels and they hid among you humans and raged wars against each other but in a few months time they both realized they aren't being controlled some angels started falling for humans some demons started falling for humans and sometimes angels and demons would fall for each other than their offspring would fall for a human' this created the three types of mages that were born angel bloods demon bloods and half-bloods, angel bloods could use holy mana, demon bloods could use demonic mana and half-bloods could use neutral mana now holy mana allows you to cast holy magic, demon mana allows you to cast demonic magic and neutral mana allows you to cast demonic and holy magic. Any questions so far kid?"
"Only one why are you telling me about the mana and magic?" I asked in a state of confusion "We'll get to that part soon enough, so fast forward 2 centuries to the year 250 there was a mage called Atlas Ryder, he was a half-blood he was an insanely powerful mage so powerful in fact that he surpassed his max mana ring collection and he created a type of magic only he and his descendants could wield called phantom magic and he was named the Phantom mage he also had a wife and a son, and he was also chosen by one of us just like you young Shirou, your ancestor Atlas got a choice on who's the power to wield and he had chosen me so I granted him the power of greed".
'I still don't get where I come into this I thought to myself, "And since he chose me he ended up getting everything he wanted but he kept wanting more and more and more till he eventually wanted immortality but he was able to realize that greed has consumed him so he sent his family away because what he was going to do was dangerous, he created an artefact that kept his greed at bay it was a pendant this artefact made him more powerful than ever before he eventually found out that we Devils and Gods would destroy the world with our powers so he created a prison to trap both the Devils and gods he had to use nearly all of his innate mana along with his mana inside of his mana rings to trap us and it succeeded, Any questions Shirou?".
"Yeah, what's innate mana?" "Innate mana is the amount of mana you naturally possess everything in the world has innate mana it's a life force but only mages can use their mana and also the atmosphere's mana, now continuing the success of his prisoners also made it impossible for any of his descendants to awaken as a mage until 1,772 years later in the present time the prison has grown weaker allowing his descendants to once again awaken as mages so this is where you come in young Ryder"
"Alright, so what's going to happen now?", "Well, Shirou what do you want?", "I want to live I want to claim my ancestor's power for myself I want one more chance at living," I said without hesitation "Very well then choose someone here to give you their power please not every ability gets stronger the more you use them,", "well what's everyone's abilities starting with you greed?", "mine is purgery it allows you to take whatever you want but when you first use it you will only be able to take 90% of things like intelligence, strength, speed, touch, taste, sight, hearing, etc", "sounds nice how about you lust?", "my ability is seduction, as the name suggests you can seduce anyone", "Interesting might be useful what about you pride?", "my ability is unbeatable, for 30 seconds you are invincible, "That's powerful, what about you wrath", "My ability is rage, it makes all your emotions turn into pure anger for 30 seconds while its active your anger can be manifested into weapons", "interesting Envy how about you?", "my ability is copy, it's similar to greed's but you have it for 1 minute but you can take everything you want for that minute", "sounds helpful how about sloth?", "my ability is called inactive, it freezes people for 5 seconds", "I like the sound of that and now lastly gluttony what's your ability?", "it's called devour, it allows you to summon a beast that devours anything in its path for 10 seconds", "they all sound useful to give me a couple of minutes to think".
After a couple of minutes of thinking I made my decision "I choose You Greed to lend me your power so I can get my second chance," I said with absolute confidence "Very well Shirou repeat after me, This world will be mine in the brightness of day and the darkness of night anything I want a will obtain anything I wish I make into existence this is my power and I will wield it however I please for this is my right".
I went to recite what greed said "This world will be mine in the brightness of day and the darkness of night anything I want a will obtain anything I wish I make into existence this is my power and I will wield it however I please for this is my right ", "Very good Shirou now you'll be given three abilities when you get reborn into a mage you'll get mana eyes which allows you to see magic, mana speed which costs 10 mana to use and your overall speed are increased by 100 fold but it only lasts for 10 seconds and mana heal which costs 10 mana to use and it heals any wounds, you'll also be able to check how much mana you have left by looking at the bottom of your left wrist and don't worry it replenished over time and to activate an ability just think it and it will activate, oh and if you need to contact me just say my name", "i do have one question about mana speed", "go for it", "so with my speed increased by 100 times i'll be running at 3170 kilometres per hour which would mean i travel at 881 meters a second roughly so wouldn't i die at that speed", "normally yes but mana speed covers your body in a thin layer of mana allowing you to not create any friction and you could do some dumb shit like flick bullets if you wanted", "alright cool", "remember kid you can call me anytime".
"Alright thanks, I believe I'm ready to get reborn", "Alright cya soon kid", I opened my eyes to find myself on the floor in the same place I was when I passed out but I had no bullet wound, I started getting up and the shooter was still there, his back turned to me like it was before so with all my strength I yelled, "I'm still standing you asshole!" He turned to me and shot three bullets at me and at that moment I thought 'mana speed' and everything looked slower and I could see the bullets they were slow, so slow in fact that I could flick them off course so I did.
I wanted to try something so I just said "Your vision I want it", my vision had improved a lot more and the man started shooting but he missed every shot it looked like he was shooting without any sense of knowledge of where I was "So this does work," I said with a smirk on my face.
After a few more seconds I decided to walk over to him and restrain him 'mana speed' luckily with the mana speed I don't have to worry about getting shot 'how do I deactivate it, maybe if I try to think it again, 'mana speed' to my surprise it worked and I was behind the man so I decided to tackle him to the ground and told someone to call the police to get them over here to arrest him "Mr Allan call the police", "Right" Mr Allan started a call with the police "Hello this is Mr Allan from Elvia secondary school there has been a school shooter who has been subdued come quick".
After 20 minutes of struggling to keep the man subdued the police arrived and took the man to prison, "Alright everyone you may all go home and come in next week" said Mr Allan still frightened from what had happened.
I walked over to where my bag was and picked it up then made my way to the bike shed and unlocked it and I decided to see how much mana I used so I looked at my wrist < 70/100 mana> "I wonder how long it will take to recharge" I said out loud.
Then I grabbed my bike and started riding it back home then I had this idea what if I used mana speed to get home quickly so I tried 'mana speed' to my surprise it worked in a few seconds I was already going back up to my hill and in the last 3 seconds of mana speed, I was able to reach my house.
I opened the gate and put my bike against the fence, squeezing passed my mum's bike and then closed the gate behind me and went inside I made my way to my room where I got undressed, I threw my clothes in my chair, got into bed, and just took a nap.