I wake up screaming as a shockwave shoots through my head. "Wake up bitch your grandma wants to see you." My dad walks out of the room as I get up, holding my head in pain. My brother steps into the room after our father leaves.
"I'm sorry brother.... He always treats you like this.. I keep telling him to stop harming you, but he doesn't listen. He's just furious that you're the only one who doesn't have any Elements, and what's been happening with you." He kneels in front of me, placing his hand on the side of my head. I feel a brief flash of warmth, and then the pain in my head disappears.
"Thank you Shogeki.." I smile sadly as I hug him tightly. He looks at me, smiling a little.
"Hungry?" He asks. I nod. "Let's go get breakfast, ok?" He smiles and we both head downstairs to the kitchen where our mother is making breakfast.
"Good morning boys!" She smiles as she hands a plate of eggs to each of us. "How'd you guys sleep?" She asks.
"Good", Shogeki says. "Father harmed Cole again." He said. She finishes cooking and turns the stove on, not facing us. "Well, your father is preparing for your training right now Shogeki. He's been pretty focused with you and all the other things that's been going on lately, so I haven't been able to talk to him." She then smiles a little as she looks at me.
"You excited to see your grandma today?" I nod, finishing my breakfast. "I wonder what might happen today while I'm at grandma's today?" I say as I stand up.
"Well, I guess that's what you'll find out today, isn't it?" A voice suddenly speaks from somewhere in the room. I look around only to find no one there. Not even my mom or Shogeki. My eyes suddenly flash white as I collapse to the floor and fall into the void.
•••
I'm standing in the kitchen where a guy sits on the edge of the table, sharpening his weapons. He's wearing a black skintight-like armor and has many weapons strapped to his body, the most eye-catching a large black blade almost the size of his body.
"You're going to face many things, some you'll never want to face. You'll face me someday, where I'll be waiting." He said, his voice somewhat muffled by the bear's head helmet covering his face. The house suddenly erupts into flames and the screams of my parents fill the air. The flames engulf me, the smoke filling my lungs and clouding my vision.
My vision clears and I stand in the middle of a desert. Thunder and lightning flash all around me. In the distance a tornado forms with someone in the middle of it. A lady in blue armor with a fox mask covering her face stands next to me, watching the storm
"Storms are brewing, not just in your timeline, but in others as well. You will unlock many secrets, even some that were meant to be secrets. It's starting, Cole. It's starting, whether you're ready or not." She then disappears in a bright flash as I fall through the ground, a series of images swirling around me:
A young boy wearing a mask getting stabbed by a person with glowing purple eyes.
A man made entirely of smoke, standing at the edge of a forest as he looks down at a city in ruins.
A young girl falling off a cliff as her brother screams, his hand stretched out to grab her.
I suddenly end up in a room made entirely of glass, with nothing except the sound of heels walking towards me. I turn around to see a lady in a blue gown with a cape in the shape of a monarch butterfly's wings. She smiles gently and tosses her long blue hair over her shoulder, a halo-ish crown on her head as she takes a sip of wine. She opens her mouth to speak just as everything turns to white and I end up back in the kitchen, collapsing to the floor as everything goes dark.