What are you planning to do?" Jason asked, his voice laced with concern.
Gabbie gave him a sideways glance, her eyes gleaming with a hint of mischief. "You know exactly what I'm planning to do," she said, a sly smile spreading across her face.
Jason's eyes widened as realization dawned on him. "You can't be serious! You're going to use your special skill, aren't you?"
She smirked. Her system wanted her to bruise three people….almost like it knew their current situation. She just happened to have a skill, one where she could take control of people's mind and turn them into her puppets…how convenient.
"You know it. I'm going to teach these knuckleheads some lessons."
Eiden's eyes narrowed. "Gabbie, that's not a good idea. You haven't even mastered it yet, how are you sure it'll work?."
Gabbie was undeterred. She had a score to settle with these boys for embarrassing Eiden, and she was going to enjoy every moment of it.
"You can't!" Jason objected, "w..what about your limitation?"
Gabbie's eyes twitched at his question, Eiden was just harassed by these dorks, and all Jason is worried about is her skills limit. She ignored him.
Gabbie positioned herself at the front, her gaze was intimidating.
The boy snorted "what's this? You want to challenge me? Do you know who I am? Do you know who my father is?" He asked
She ignored his questions and asked "Do you mind?"
He arched his brow, "what do you mean by that?"
"Do you mind if I bend reality?"
"Huh?—", he opened his mouth to speak but his words suddenly ceased. He stood there erect, he neither spoke nor moved, just stood there with his back facing his minions.
Gabbie couldn't help the wicked smile curling up on her lips. Her system wanted her to beat people up, why should she? When she could just make them beat up themselves like her puppets.
"Z..Zhiheng?" The boy on the right called out, why did Zhiheng stop talking all of a sudden?
Zhiheng tilted his head and turned to face them.
They flinched at the way he looked. His mouth hung open and he wasn't blinking, his eyes weren't their usual color, it shone emerald green.
"Zhiheng?" He called out again but got no response, Zhiheng just stood there staring with his eyes wide open almost like he was being controlled.
The boy looked at Gabbie angrily "what have you done to him!" He asked
She shrugged, "I showed him what a frail female can do" she smirked
"Turn him to normal now!" He roared.
She shook her head, "tsk tsk tsk, you don't get it do you?"
Him and the other one took a step back, her words were frightening and her gaze on them intensified.
"Your thoughts are my playground", her eyes glimmered with emerald green.
The more they stared at her glowing eyes the more they felt like they were being sucked in by an invisible force, it was alluring and they couldn't look away.
Her smile grew wide, she loved the feeling, the feeling of engulfing someone else's subconsciousness. If only she could manipulate her parents like this to stop bugging her….
"There….this is better isn't it?" The three of them stood like tall trees. They looked like zombies, only they had glowing green eyes.
With her hands akimbo, Gabbie laughed out "I didn't think I'd be able to pull it off"
"That was reckless you know?" Said Eiden. He was worried when he saw that menacing look on her face, she enjoyed every moment of prying and taking over another person's mind. Though they were at fault it still worried him.
She stared him him dryly "you're welcome" she said
Derrick pointed at the three boys "uh…what are we going to do with the zombie dudes?" He asked
"I haven't done the quest yet" Gabbie replied.
Jason's eyes trailed off, "wait, so you're going to—"
She cut in and nodded "yup". She faced the three, "hmm….let's see" she placed her hand on her chin, thinking.
"Ah yes, Zhiheng, I want you to kiss my boots" she instructed
"What the…?" Said Derrick
"That's disgusting" Jason furrowed his brows
Eiden shook his head "when did you become this petty?" He asked her.
She giggled at their reaction, and just as she instructed, Zhiheng walked over to her, bent over and kissed her boots.
Derrick cursed, "ah shit! I'd hate to be that guy's girlfriend".
Zhiheng stood back in his former position. Gabbie smiled, she tapped on her left cheek, thinking…
"Okay okay. Now, you're a chicken Zhiheng, behave like one" she ordered
Eiden smacked his forehead.
Zhiheng lowered his height and placed his hands on his waist, he moved his head back and forth while making clucking noises like a chicken.
Gabbie laughed loudly at the display, she was downright embarrassing him. She was the only one with a happy expression, the rest thought she was just over doing it, Zhiheng looked pathetic behaving like a chicken
It wasn't funny at all, rather it was cringeworthy.
It was almost two minutes, Zhiheng was still walking and clucking like a chicken.
"Uh…Gabbie I think he has had enough" said Jason uneasily.
She wiped her teary eyes, she had laughed so hard her eyes became watery. In her thoughts, he deserved to be treated this way, he shouldn't have forced Eiden to bow and apologize.
"Okay, that's enough laughs", Zhiheng stopped and stood erect.
"Now then", Gabbie's expression grew dark and her eyes narrowed. A glint of terror flashed in her eyes, "beat yourselves up to a pulp" she ordered.
The boys watched in disbelief as Zhiheng and the others began to fight each other, their fists flying as they tried to obey Gabbie's command.
It was quite a show, the sound of crunching bones were yet to seize. They all watched with creased brows except Gabbie who had on a sweet smile.
The three didn't spare each other. while one was punching, another was punching him also. In less than five minutes, they all had black eyes with bruses and blood on their faces.
While they stood watching, Gabbie's system appeared with a notification
[Quest complete: 3/3 bruised people]
[Reward__2coins, 5points]
[Player used special skill__level up!]
Her stats came to view,
[Player name_Gabbie Kains]
[Race_human
[Strength_25
[Stamina_25
[Level 2]
[HP_10/20]
"Woah! I leveled up" she said excitedly.
"does that mean using our skills is the only way to move to level 2?", Eiden walked closer to her.
"And your stats increased too, by five points" Jason added
"So, what? You're stronger than us now?" Derrick asked
While they celebrated, Eiden pondered….he couldn't get that image of Gabbie's sinister smile out of his head. Will she continue to manipulate people just like she did just now? What if she loses control?
"You know, I don't get why we still have systems and need to level up, if all this is real life, why do we have video game features?" Eiden asked
Gabbie's smile turned to a frown "Eiden why must you spoil the happy mood with questions we actually need to look into? Huh?"
He averted his eyes "we've never been through something like this, I'm just exploiting the possibilities, it might be of great help sooner or later".
"Yea but—" Gabbie tried to argue but was interrupted by a hard crunch sound.
They turned at the noise, the three boys were still engrossed in disfiguring each other…. Gabbie did say they should beat each other to a pulp, although she was only just feeling the moment, acting like she was an overpowered MC.
Derrick narrowed his eyes "you should…..probably get them to stop