Blood flowed into Leo's cheeks and he started blushing, he had never kissed someone before. "Is this a dream?", is the first thing that came into his mind.
"Why did you do that?", Leo asked the girl, his voice sounded embarrassed
"I don't know, it felt as if it was the right thing to do.", the girl smiled at him, took her hand touched his face, and said, "Ahh, you look so cute when you are blushing."
"I don't even know you.", he took her hand and put it aside
"Does it even matter?", the girl looked confused
"It does.", Leo stood up, "I am going now. I should have never gotten involved with you."
"Hey, don't just go away, at least tell me about what you said back then.", the girl stood up as well
"I don't care.", Leo didn't even look back as he made his way back to the pub
"Hey, My name is Lisa.", she started walking towards him, "At least tell me your name."
Lisa stopped walking and just stood there hoping that Leo would at least look back at her but he didn't even look back and just disappeared into the dark alleyway towards the pub where they ran away from.
Leo was now standing in front of his bike which he parked near the pub. But instead of trying to start the bike. He just stood there, as if he was waiting for something. He touched his face where Lisa had kept her hand, and thought to himself, "What was all that about? She was just a weird girl, forget about her."
He kept thinking to himself that she was just weird and to forget about her but he knew deep within how he was feeling, his heart was beating fast just thinking about that kiss. He who had become jaded at life was excited after so long. He didn't know what this emotion that was swirling inside of him was. He felt as if his heart would jump out of his chest any moment, he felt butterflies in his stomach and just thinking about her made him blush.
"So here you are.", he heard a voice behind him, when he turned back he got pressed to the wall by his throat. He had difficulty breathing and even opening his eyes felt hard but when he did he saw a bulk man in front of him with several tattoos and what seemed like mechanical implants. His hand felt metallic, and one of his eyes was artificial.
"Who are you?", Leo's voice sounded incredibly weak he was barely able to speak those words
"He is with me.", he saw the man whom Lisa punched walking in from the corner, he now had a bandage on his nose
"I never did anything….. to you..", Leo was struggling to free himself as he was barely able to make up those words
"Drop him, Jack.", said the man and the buff guy holding Leo let him go, Leo fell on the ground and started coughing and gasping for air.
The man came up to him and kicked Leo in the face as he was looking up. Leo curled up in pain and rolled over on the ground. Just then the man stepped on his chest and said,
"Even if you had nothing to do with it, you are her boyfriend aren't you? She will come if you call her won't she?", he pressed his shoe on his chest
"Aaghh!", Leo screamed, "I don't know her number, Aagh."
"Aren't you her boyfriend? how come you don't know her number? Call her or you won't be fine much longer.", he pressed his show even more
"I SWEAR, aagh! I AM NOT HER BOYFRIEND. NOW LET ME GO OR ELSE!!"
The man pressed his shoe on him even more, "What are you gonna do? eh?", he looked over to his bike and said, "You look poor enough that no one would care if you die."
"It is true that no one would care even if I die.", thought Leo to himself
"Fireball!", screamed the man, and a ball of fire the size of a football popped up in the man's hand,
"A magic implant!!", thought Leo, only rich kids of the high families get magic implants, if this guy had one that meant that there was nothing he could do any longer. He regretted ever getting out of the garage, and trying to start his bike even after it didn't start on the first try. He regretted all of his decisions, if only he would have had grabbed his hand that day, if only he would have accepted that offer. If only he didn't wish to live peacefully if only he never revolted and got his powers sealed and taken away from him… If only he wasn't sentenced to 3 years of…..
"Now call her! Or else you know what happened!", the man yelled at him
Leo just accepted his fate, realizing that there was nothing he could do, closed his eyes and a message showed up.
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"Punishment period OVER"
Your punishment has been indefinitely postponed and your implant chip activated
Quest:- Fight Back and Knock Down all of the people standing in front of you
Reward - Magic Implant Activation
Penalty - ???
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When Leo opened back his eyes, he saw a fireball coming towards him. In a mere fraction of a second, he pushed that man away and crawled back to evade the ball.
The man who tried to burn him, was now on the ground and screaming in pain.
"KILL HIM!", he said signaling his friends and that buff guy named Jack toward Leo.
Leo tried to run away, but a message suddenly popped up in front of him written in a red box.
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Penalty for Running Away: ????
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After seeing that message, Leo stopped running away and looked back.
All of those behind him stopped as well and started to circle around him. And Jack came up in front of him.
"I can't miss that reward, I don't know what is going on but I don't need answers right now.", Leo thought to himself as Jack made his way closer to him. Even Leo did not understand what was his punishment. Why it was lessened? Or what was that message? for he lost his memories long ago but knows nothing of it.
Right now, what was guiding him was nothing but his instincts from back then when he was a...
Leo was now staring into Jack's eyes and Jack was staring back at him as well they stood there just like that for a few seconds before Jack suddenly tried to punch Leo out of the blue.
Leo who had now awakened a few of his abilities from before, was able to see that punch coming towards him as if it was being played in Slow-Mo. He dodged and punched Jack right near his abdominal gland. CRACK!! a big sound came when Leo punched Jack. Jack's face had gone pale and his eyes rolled. And he collapsed on his ground while holding the spot where Leo hit him.
Everyone else backed off a bit after seeing that Leo just defeated the strongest guy they had. Even Leo was stunned at how he was able to do it when he had never fought anyone ever in his life. After all, how could he understand when his body was just reflexively acting? He just stood there and stared at his fist for a while. A message once again appeared in front of him.\
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Quest:- Fight Back and Knock Down all of the people standing in front of you
Reward - Magic Implant Activation
Penalty - ???
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He remembered that he still had some things to take care of. He looked over at everyone else.
"Who wants to fight next?", he said with a calmness in his voice, he might not have realized it but his blue eyes were glowing bright in the beautiful moonlight.
"Jack just had his guard down, there is no way he would have been able to defeat him otherwise.", one of the men standing around him said
"Yea…. True…", other men started whispering to each other
When suddenly the man standing behind Leo jumped onto him. And grabbed him by the neck, but this time Leo didn't seem flustered or even in pain and just took that guy's hand and thrashed him into the ground. Now some of the men were running away from him while some were running towards him. He first ran over and kicked the legs of those who were running away and then when those who were coming towards him attacked him he simply just punched each and every one of them in their stomach.
He had run so fast that no one was able to see his movements.
He just stood there contemplating what he had just done, it was true that it was them who attacked first. But what he wanted to know was what was that message what was the Quest.
"Is this like one of those video game thing?", Leo thought to himself, "The quest and stuff looked like a video game."
"Status window!", he yelled out hoping that a status window or something like it would pop up but nothing did.
As he was still thinking about what had just happened. The man whom Lisa had originally punched came up and screamed, "AHH…. Who are you? What did you do??" and tried to punch Leo. Leo caught his fist and started twisting it,
"Aaghh!!! STOP!!", screamed the man as he wrestled to get his hand loose
"Did you stop when you were stepping on me?", Leo said, twisting the man's hand even more
"AAAGHH!!!", the man kept screaming in agony, it felt as if his arm would break any second now.
"HANDS UP!! DO NOT RESIST.", he heard a robotic voice say, when he looked back he saw one of the police drones over his head, "A police officer will be here to get you soon, if you resist I will have no choice but to fire.", said the flying drone. They were also equipped with a gun that could temporarily paralyze a person by sending special EMP waves at the person, turning off the implant.
For someone like Leo who had no implants in him as he thought, he would have no reason to obey the drone. But resisting would mean an increase in a sentence or even worse when caught by a human officer.
Leo let that man go and he fell to the ground unconscious due to the pain. Leo put his hands up and thought, "Ahh, I messed up big time.", but he still had one major question in his brain. What exactly was that message that had popped up before, and now that all those that stood in front of him before were knocked out and the quest requirements fulfilled why was there no reward screen or such? "If it is like a video game, something should have happened now."
But he didn't have any time to think about it now, he was already in a bigger mess. He just stood there with his hands up in the air, waiting for the human officer to come to the scene.