The vile is Pure white, indicating that no legacy nor Calling can be found in his body.
His grip loosens on the vile and the vile drops and shatters. Hopelessly, He turn around and walks out of the test room, he walks out of the facility and begins to make his way home, his head hangs low, his eyes glued to the ground and he drags his feet while going home.
He makes it to his cabin in the woods and for the first time, he raises his eyes to look at the cabin. In the doorway of the cabin is his mother looking around seemingly worriedly. She notices him and her expression changes from worried to happy and excited.
She rushes over to him and hugs him tightly. He hugs her and begins to sob once more,
"What's wrong, my love?" She asked
"Sob sob I messed up.."
"What happened?"
"I couldn't protect my friends..."
"Oh.. Its.. okay, honey. It's going to be alright!" She said in a reassuring tone.
"They'll still be your friends and they will still hang around you!"
"Are you sure?"
"I'm certain. Now let's go inside and eat."
"Okay.."
They both go inside to eat dinner. After they eat, Max goes upstairs to his bedroom and flops on his bed, his eyes heavy, he thinks,
" when I get stronger.. I'll protect.. them.."
as his eyes shut and his consciousness drifts away.
He wakes up once again in the white void, he lifts his head up to see the purple blob again,
"AAH!" He screamed.
"I knew you would scream. Scaredy-cat." The blob said.
"I forgot you were here."
"Of course you did."
"why are you here?"
"I cannot tell you."
"Huh? Why not? You're in my dream you know?"
"I'll tell you later."
"Hmm.. okay I'll take your word for it."
"So, what's your name?"
"Zekphyr"
"What a weird name.."
"Yea yea."
Some time passed and they sat in silence for some time, all of a sudden the white void begins to rumble and shake,
"What's going on?!" Max frantically asked.
"Its beginning."
"WHAT IS?!"
"Listen to me, once you awake, you must seek out the white void, much like this one.."
"What?! Where can I find it?!"
"The healthiest deer follows the freshest grass."
"WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?" He shouted
Max wakes up in a jolt, he breaks out in a cold sweat as he sits upright. He moves his blanket out of the way and goes down the hall to his mother's room, he opens her door and peeks in, only to witness her sleeping, he slowly closes the door as to not wake her up. He puts on his clothes, grabs his bow and ventures out into the forest, he thinks,
"The healthiest deer eats the freshest grass..?"
"What does that mean?"
He ventures deep into the forest, and he begins to find dead grass, all around the forest.
"Huh? That's odd. Usually this grass Is healthy and plentiful."
Suddenly a deer dashes by him prancing along, the deer is fast, but Max is able to keep up with the deer,
"This may be my chance!" He thought, while running
Max runs and runs further and further away from home, chasing after an unusual deer. He follows the deer until he couldn't anymore and he begins slows down,
"NO!" He thought.
"This is my only chance!" He reaches out his hand, hoping to catch the deer but he stumbles, and falls. He looks up at the deer as it dashes away, thinking,
"That was my last opportunity to get stronger..." He begins to cry,
"Its all my fault.. if only I was stronger. And not a WIMP. I could have saved her."
His head hangs low and tears fall on the fresh grass below him. He realizes what he is laying on is a fresh patch of grass.
"Wait.."
He looks up and sees more grass, so he wipes the tears from his face and begins to follow the grass. Meanwhile, back at his cabin, mysterious people approach his home. Dressed in black suits, they approach the door and knock. Knock knock knock
"Who is it?" She asks from inside.
She opens the door, expecting it to be Max but is met with the opposite. Tall, strong men who have black glasses on are stranding in her doorway,
"Can I help you?" She asks.
Max continues to follow the grass and as the fresh grass ends he looks up and sees a shining white Fracture, giving off and intimidating white glow and a low humming sound. It seemingly responds to his presence. Glowing brighter as he approaches it,
"This is it! My chance!"
Max hastily goes into the white Fracture. For a short few seconds. All he could see is white but his eyes began to adjust and he sees a similar white void, He becomes confused,
"Am I asleep?" He thoughts, and his thoughts rang out loud and echoed.
"Woah, that's not supposed to happen." He thought, his thoughts once again ringing out loud and echoing. He begins to look around, and notices a familiar purple blob, he calls out,
"Zekphyr!" But to no answer, He calls out once more,
"Zekphyr, is that you?"
He approaches the blob, as he gets closer he notices that unlike Zekphyr, this blob has a core. He asks once more, drawing his bow,
"Zekphyr, if this is you, I need to know, I don't want to kill you."
The blob notices Max and becomes aggravated, it shoots a short of sticky goop at him, but he dodges,
"Huh? That was much slower than it seemed..?" He though drawing his bow higher.
"Last chance Zekphyr. Tell me, is this you?"
Suddenly a loud voice resembling Zekphyrs voice loudly rings out in the void, "That isn't me, Max."
"Huh?" Max looks around, as the slime continues to shoot its goop at Max,
"This is the white void I spoke of, you must kill that Haze to become strong like you've always wanted."
"Will it affect you?"
"I will disappear."
"Wait what? Why?"
"I don't have much time to explain He doesn't know about this space yet."
"He? Who is he?"
"I can't tell you, If he finds out then he will.." all of a sudden the entire void begins to violently shake,
"WHAT'S GOING ON?" Max frantically asks.
"Oh no, He's here.. MAX QUICKLY, KILL T-"
"Zekphyr?" Max calls out.
"Zekphyr!?"
Max shoots the Haze and grabs its core, and places it in his pocket.
"How do I get out of here?" He thought.
"A portal was supposed to open.. what is happening?!"
The rumbling stop and everything falls silent.
"It stopped?"
A Crack forms at "the top" of the void, and grows bigger, a loud cracking sound can be heard as it expands more and more, seemingly breaking apart the void itself. Max looks up in curiosity and confusion, the cracking stops and once again everything goes silent.
Then, a large hand breaks through the Crack and grabs the void, breaking it apart as if it's trying to get in, in the peek of the hole a skeleton peeks it's head in, and sees Max, as it sees Max, it begins to tear apart the void. Max begins to run in fear as the carnage around him gets worse.
"What is that thing?!" Max thought as he begins to run toward what he hopes is the exit,
"Why is it after me?!"
He kept running as the hole in the top of the void got larger and larger, and more and more of the Skelton is begin revealed. Max runs into an invisible wall again,
"Its just like that time."
Max recalls when he was running away from Zekphyr. He pressed his back against the wall, seemingly giving up, as the skeleton grabbed Max and began pulling it into the dark void, all of Max's thoughts began to pour out.
"Why is this happening to me?"
"Why have I been cursed?"
"This life is so unfair, all I wanted to do was protect my mom."
"I hate this life."
"I curse evil."
" I curse the strong who bully the weak."
"I curse those who I curse this unfair world."
All of his thoughts jumbled together, and he could only think of one thing
"I curse this existence."
Suddenly the core in his pocket, began shine a bright gold and it releases him from the skeletons tight grasp. The skeleton looks down in awe,
"So you're the one He chose. How interesting.." The skeletons loud, deep voice shook Maxs body, as he begins to fall back Down into the void, The white Fracture, begins to pulsate and the humming gets louder, the light gets blinding as it spits Max out, and closes in on it self. Max shakes his head, and remembers what Zekphyr told him, "My mom!" Max gets up and dashes away at breakneck speeds,
"Woah! I'm alot faster than I used to be!" He thought, suprised at his own speed,
"Now is not the time." He thought, speeding up hastily towards his home. He arrives in a few short seconds and notices footprints in the mud,
"No.." He dashes into his home, flying through the door as he enters the living room, he sees his mother tied up with tape over her mouth, her face bruised and battered. She looks at Max with worry,
"MMPH! MMMPH! " She signals that there are people in the doorframe just out of his vision but its too late, they hit Max casuing him to fly back and crash into the wall breaking the wall and the stand that he crashed into, and knocking the cealing light out. His head begins to bleed, as he is seemingly passed out.
"Hmph, as expected of a trash Unawakened with no legacy. Let's pack up."
His mom begins to cry, and one of the men, take off the tape on her mouth,
"Anything you wanna say to your little boy before you never see him again..?" He said mockingly.
"Max.." She said,
"My sweet boy..Please wake up.."
"Please, my son.."
"Aww how touching. Almost makes me want to shed a tear."
Suddenly a wave of purple and black aura bursts from Max's body, casuing the guards to halt their movements, and look back at Max,
"What terrifying aura.."
" I thought you said he wasn't Awakened!"
"That's what the boss told me."
"Well it seems like he lied.."
The light above Max that was previously knocked out begins to flicker and the air around him begins to warp and distort. Max begins to get up,
"Mom. Don't worry. I will protect you..."
Max stands up and looks at the men with intense blood lust. The men draw their weapon and prepare to fight, sweating nervously and shaking,
"Its only a kid so why.."
"Why am I so scared?" He thought.
Instantly Max disappears along with his bloodlust. The two men begin to look around frantically, one of them disappears with a scream, "AGGH-" The other one looks around in terror, sweating and frantically shaking, he decides to run out of the cabin, he goes out and runs into the forest,
"I don't wanna die! I don't wanna die!"
Max seemingly teleports infront of the man, the man runs into Max as if he ran into a brick wall. His running comes to a stop and slowly backs away.
"Please.."
"Let me go man.." He begs.
"You.. are the lowest scum." Max calmly said.
"Werent you just holding my mom hostage? And attempted to kill me with a single punch?"
"Come on man, we can look past that, right?"
He put one hand behind his back, He formed a sparkling fire ball behind, seemingly seemingly to throw it at him when he lets his guard down.
"Even in this situation you continue your deceit." Max said.
"W-what are you talking about..?"
Max sighs and ruthlessly takes the head off of the man. The fireball dissipates. And his body flops to the ground Thud. Max drops the head and walks back home.
Little did Max know how big of an impact he would have on the world.
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