Chris was a teenager around the same age as the trio. Although he didn't attend the same school as them before the apocalypse, he was also a delinquent of his school and he was acquainted to Lloyd and his friends.
For his appearance, he had short spiky gray colored hair, brown eyes and he had a curved face and on both ears were black ear rings.
Chris received a class that shared some similarities with Lloyd's. His class was The Puppet Master class. It was a class that allows him to control puppets with Mind Strings.
Mind Strings are invisible strings of energy that allows summoning based classes to command and control their summoned being as they please and if by any means the Mind Strings get severed from the host, the one with less intelligence will enter a berserk state, attacking anything and everything on sight, while the intelligent ones may be able to re-establish a new Mind String with it's master or roam freely.
It was still nighttime and the four young adults still sat by the campfire exchanging their tales, adventures and informations with one another. Chris decided to show the trio his system interface.
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↓ Name: Chris Stapleton ↓
↓ Class: Puppet Master ↓
↓ Lvl: 6 (016/1,200) ↓
↓ Coins: 10, 089 ↓
↓ Health: 100% ↓
↓ Stamina: 100% ↓
↓ Strenght: 13 (2+5) ↓
↓ Speed: 12 (4) ↓
↓ Defense: 13 (5) ↓
↓ Equipment: Obsidian Blade ↓
↓ Blue Fang Set ↓
↓ Accessories: None ↓
↓ Puppets: 4/10 ↓
↓ Skills: Puppet Summon, Puppet Recall ↓
↓ String Field, Novice Swordmanship ↓
↓ Inventory: 76/500 ↓
↓ STORE ↓
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"*YAWNN* I'll get some sleep." Zeke said and got up.
But before he left, he gave Chris a deadly then he left and when back inside his hut.
Lloyd and Ace noticed this, but they decided it was best to remain silent. The glare Zeke gave Chris was simply a warning telling him 'I'm watching you' was what it meant.
Chris just smiled and turned to Lloyd.
"Hope you guys don't mind me spending the night with you." Chris asked.
"Sure." Lloyd answered.
Chris got up, looked for an empty location and crafted an Instant Hut were he could spend the night in.
"Hey, Chris." Ace called out.
"What's up." He answered
"You said they were already some settlements right?" Ace asked.
"Yeah, there are. Why?" Chris asked.
"Just curious." Ace said.
After that Ace didn't bother Chris with anymore questions.
"You're taking us there tomorrow." Lloyd suddenly said.
Ace was surprised by Lloyd's decision. Usually there would discuss something like this wetin themselves and a unanimous decision would be made, but Lloyd just made that decision on his own.
"Okay, I was about heading there at sunrise." Chris said.
Ace, thought about while he was inside his hut for a while. ' Well, it's not a bad idea. That way we can gain more information about this world.' Ace thought.
It was almost sunrise when Lloyd woke up when he exited his hut, he found out that nobody was out keeping watch, and the strangest part was no monsters came knocking.
'That's strange.' Lloyd thought.
Since he was the only awake, he didn't some light early morning workout. Some pushups, sit-up, planks and a little running.
Soon after Chris woke up, then Zeke and then Ace.
"Good morning, Sunshine." Chris teased.
Afar a few minutes of breakfast, Lloyd explained to Zeke that they were to one of the settlements Chris mentioned.
Although Zeke didn't fully trust Chris, he did like the idea of meeting new people so he didn't really say anything about the idea.
The journey began immediately after breakfast was over and Lloyd was the most excited of all.
"We have to pick up the pace. Star City is about twenty miles west. So you know it's gonna be a long journey." Chris said.
The journey was indeed a long one, the took breaks from time to time, to either rest or eat.
They decided to take a break, and rest under the shades of a tree close by.
"I'm exhausted." Lloyd said.
"We should be there before sunset if we continue at this pace." Chris said while relaxed himself on a tree.
Some minutes passed, and they were about leaving when they heard some rustling and strange growls from a distance.
The four, were on high alert, they scanned the surroundings and the cause of the growls walked towards them.
"Are those... Wolves." Zeke said unsure of what he was seeing.
"Thoes aren't normal wolves, they're Dire Wolves." Chris said in terror.
The were twelve huge wolves that were as big as a full grown horse, and the one that was standing in front of the wolves was even bigger.
The wolves were hesitant to attack the group. They were trying to surround them and attack them at once. Ace was able to quickly pick up their tactics.
"They're trying to surround us, it's best we attack first." Ace shouted.
Lloyd instantly summoned the Warrior Skeleton and Tank, while Chris summoned his Attack Puppet and two Four-Armed puppets which were called Spider puppets.
The Alpha seemed to understand that his plan had been figured out, released a loud howl.
*Howlll*
The wolves sprinted towards them, with the aim of ripping them to pieces.
The quartet didn't plan on letting that happen as they sprung into action.
A wolf leapt at Lloyd with it's mouth wide open, but unfortunately for it Tank stopped held both jaws with it's hands and was pushed back, but it used it's legs and tried stopping the push. The Warrior Skeleton swiftly moved up to wolf and drove his sword into the head of the wolf and killed it.
While the skeleton was trying to remove it's sword from the head of the dead wolf another wolf tried chomping down on it, before it could Tank gave it a heavy punch to the face, sending back to the ground. The strength from the punch dislocated the lower jaw of the wolf
It cried in pain, but it's cry was cut short as the Warrior Skeleton quickly ended it's pain by stabbed it's sword into it's eye.
Zeke was easily able to deflect attacks from two of the wolves in front of him.
'What are your claws made from.' Zeke thought.
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The two arcs travelled from his sword and sliced off one of the wolves forelimbs and the other avoided the deadly attack.
Zeke activated Radiating Pulse, his right sword released a golden color energy wave every second and the movement of all the wolves became noticably slow and their attacks became very sloppy.
Lloyd and Chris engaged the Alpha wolf. Lloyd used Demonic Aura and the Alpha wolf was stunned for a few seconds. Then he used Hellfire, a tunnel of red flames rushed towards the stunned Alpha wolf.
The flames engulfed it's whole body and it winced in pain as the flames devoured it.
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↓ Skull Explosion Barrage ↓
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Ten skulls covered in reddish flames appeared besides Lloyd, immediately they appeared they all shot at the burning wolf and a series of explosion followed.
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↓ You Have Slain Alpha Dire Wolf ↓
↓ +10EXP(+100EXP) ↓
↓ +100 Coins ↓
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Seeing their leader die, the wolves became reluctant to attack and began slowly retreating. Out of twelve wolves that attacked them only four survived and two were badly injured.
Lloyd and Chris recalled back their summonings when they were sure the wolves won't come back for revenge.
Just then, Lloyd spotted something that was hiding behind one of the trees.
"If we were to face thoes guys on the first day, we'd be dead already." Zeke couldn't help but mutter.
"Hey, look what I found." Lloyd said from a corner.
They turned towards the direction of Lloyd, he was holding something they never expected. It was a black wolf pup. It looked a few weeks old, three at max.
"What do you want to do with it." Chris asked.
"What do mean what am I going to do with it, of course I'm gonna keep it and it's not negotiable." Lloyd said.
While it was with Lloyd it didn't try to resist or struggle, probably because it saw what happened to the grown-ups that attacked them.
Lloyd placed the pup on top of his head and walked towards the dead Alpha.
"I'll come up with a name for you later." Lloyd said.
Lloyd stood in front of the disfigured Alpha wolf, he held out his hand in front of it.
"What are you doing, it's already dead." Chris said.
"Don't worry, you'll see." Ace smiled.
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Reddish black smoke slowly flowed down from Lloyd's hand and made it's way towards the dead wolf. The smoke engulfed the whole of the wolf and lifted it a few meters in the air.
After some seconds the smoke started going back into Lloyd's body, the wolf was also being lowered slowly and something like a shadowy version of the wolf was standing in front of him.
"What the." Chris exclaimed in surprise.
"Yep, that's what we thought at first." Ace said.
"This guy's name is Alpha." Lloyd said and recalled it.
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I'm so sorry for the late update. I've been really sick and I think I'm gonna have to cut it down to one chapter daily because I'm preparing for an exam, I'm really sorry.
And also really need a name for the Dire Wolf Puppy, leave your suggestions down the comments and the one with the most likes gets selected.
PEACE OUT!!!