I opened my eyes and sat up looking around the room once my vision cleared. The room was pretty dark so I could hardly see.
'Where on earth am I?'
My head ached as I remembered how I got knocked out. I lifted my hand to touch my head expecting a sore or at least a bump but there was nothing.
"Hey dickhead."
I turned around and saw the last person I wanted to be stuck in a room with, Ryan.
"What!" I said trying to figure out a way to leave this place.
"Hey, no need to shout. Have you activated your system yet?"
I face palmed. I was so focused on trying to get out of here that I forgot why I was here in the first place.
"Not yet. Why do you wanna know?"
"Just wanted to rub it in your face that my system is better than yours."
"Haha, very funny." I said sarcastically.
I thought of my system and a screen appeared in front of me.
[Name: Hunter Zain]
[Race: Hybrid]
[Beast: White tiger]
[Tier: Legendary]
[Level: 5]
[Exp: 0/500]
[HP: 200/200]
[Strength: 23]
[Agility: 20]
[Endurance: 26]
[Daily quest: Run 5 miles]
[Stat points: 3]
[Skill points: 3]
[Status: Prodigy]
I almost couldn't believe my eyes. I just became a hybrid yet I was already at level five. And I got a legendary tier White tiger. That's like the rarest beast anyone can get. And it was at legendary tier. That's above trash, loser, average, rare, scarce and epic. I guess all my years of training finally paid off. Let's see Ryan beat that. There was a skills tab at one corner of the screen so I opened it. Most of the skills were locked but I still had a few.
[Skills tab;]
[Partial transformation]
[Drain]
[Poison claw]
[Fangs of death(locked)]
[Extraction(locked)]
[Full transformation(locked)]
[Air jump(locked)]
[Double swipe(locked)]
[???]
[???]
[Partial transformation: Allows host transform body parts into hybrid form. -1 hp.]
[Drain: Drains the health out of host's opponent/s. The bigger the damage to the opponent, the bigger hp recovered.-1 hp]
[Poison claw: Infused with an attack to inject a mildly poisonous substance into host's opponent. -1 hp]
The skills sounded useful in a life or death situation but I was more confused than excited.
'System, what are stat points?'
[Stat points are used to upgrade host's stats. Stats can also be upgraded by completing quests, levelling up or defeating opponents.]
'So I'm guessing skill points are used to upgrade skills.'
[Correct. Skill points can also be used to unlock new skills.]
' I currently have three stat points and three skill points. What am I meant to do with them.'
After some careful thinking, I decided to invest two of my three stat points into my lowest stat, unlock fangs of death and extraction and save the rest of my points for later.
[Would you like to add three stat points to agility? (YES/NO)]
'Yes.'
[Agility: 22]
[Fangs of death(unlock YES/NO)]
'Yes'
[Extraction(unlock YES/NO)]
'Yes'
[Fangs of death: Instantly kills host's prey regardless of it's species if host manages to bite it. -2 hp]
[Extraction: Allows host absorb energy from his surroundings. -2 hp.]
'Sounds nice although I'm not too keen in the instant death part.'
"Hello! Are you even listening?!" A voice brought me out of my thoughts.
"Yeah, what." I felt like Ryan enjoyed bothering me all the time.
"Have you activated your system yet?"
"Yeah. Guess what...."
"Your system classified you as a total newb?"
"No.."
"You're in the trash tier?"
"You know you're not actually supposed to guess right?"
"But you clearly said to guess."
"Yes but... Argh, never mind. As I was saying, I'm already at the legendary tier and I'm a prodigy." I said quite proudly, smirking as I puffed out my chest.
"Good for you. How about I wipe that smirk off your face. I'm already at the out of this world tier and I'm a genius." I know weird tier names right.
The smirk on my face actually dropped as he flashed his cool looking long canines at me.
'Were his teeth always like that?'
I was about to say something else but the door opened and a bright light flooded the room.
"Oh you boys are finally awake." Standing at the door was none other than the weird lady who knocked us out.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU LADY!! YOU COULD HAVE RUINED MY PERFECT FACE WITH THAT DAMN BATON!!!" Ryan yelled opening his mouth as wide as those anime characters.
'So cocky.' I thought rolling my eyes.
"Relax, you needed to be unconscious for the pill to work. And since you managed to withstand the sedatives, I had to improvise."
"What sedatives?! No sedatives were mentioned and you said we passed the test, what was that about?!"
"I just wanted you to feel like you accomplished something other than almost ruin your chances of getting your system."
"What the fuck are you talking about..?!"
"Oh shut up." I said tired of Ryan's attitude.
"You're free to go now." The lady said before running off.
I stood up and walked out of the room to meet up with Damon and Chloe.
"Where do you think you're going?" I turned around to see Ryan running up to me.
"To meet up with Damon and Chloe." I said once he caught up.
"Who's Damon?"
"The guy you.. Never mind, what's my name?"
"I don't know, Harry?"
"No it's..."
"Shh. I'm just gonna call you hulk."
"Why?"
"Cause, you have green hair and hulk is green."
"My hair isn't actually green."
"Shuut uup. We're wasting time."
"Huh?"
"We have to meet up with Leeroy and Chloe."
"His name is Damon."
"I'm just gonna call him chocolate."
"Why do you keep naming people after their hair colour?"
"We're losing time. We still have people waiting for us."
"We?"
"Yeah "
"I'm pretty sure they only invited me."
"Did they say your name specifically?"
"No but..."
"I rest my case."
"Fine, you can come." I reluctantly
agreed.
We reached the spot where we agreed to meet and Chloe was already there but Damon was nowhere to be found.
"Hey, where's Damon?" I asked when I reached her.
"Seriously, no 'hey Chloe what happened with your system' or 'Chloe how've you been'. Really insensitive."
"Oh, sorry I ...um, how've you been."
"I'm just gonna forget what you just said and answer your first question."
'Ouch.' I thought.
"He went to get a snack." She said while looking around. "What took you so long anyway."
"Just some complications."
"Hello, did anyone even notice me?" Ryan said pointing at himself.
"Oh and he's here too." I said gesturing towards Ryan.
"Why?" She asked ignoring Ryan.
"What do you mean why? I'm your brother, if I don't come then who will?" He said looking annoyed.
"Why do you keep reminding everyone that Chloe's your sister?"
"Hey, guyws." I turned around and saw Damon coming towards us with his mouth full holding a bag of chips in his hand.
"Hey."
"Sup."
"Who's this again?"
"Okay, since we're all together," We all turned to Chloe and with her eyes gleaming she said, "Let's go exploring."