[19 March 2024]
Inside a training hall/dojo. Ethan, Akashi, Kyle and Matthew are training each other with Samuel being their master and watching them from the sidelines. Ethan and Akashi spar together while Kyle and Matthew do the same.
Ethan: !!
Ethan gets slammed into the ground on his back by Akashi.
Matthew & Kyle: Ooooh.
Samuel: Alright time out. You can all rest now. Ethan come to me.
Ethan: Urgh.... (He continues to lay down on the ground and looks straight up to the ceiling before seeing Matthew's hand extended to him to grab.)
Akashi: Come on Williams laying on your back makes You look weak.
Ethan: Hm... (he grabs his hand and uses it to help himself up) easy for you to say... I haven't unlocked any power yet from any of side of my family.
Matthew: Ood Been there man.
Ethan: Wait... Really?
Matthew: Yeah... Well my family never really had any powers. Mine just... Manifested and boom! I'm a deprime user.
Samuel: Ethan!
Ethan: Tch! Sorry... (He runs up to Samuel) Yeah?
Samuel: There's some one that wants to meet you.
Ethan: Oh? Uh... okay.
Samuel: (he turns his sight to the exit doors and shouts out) You can come on in now! (Afterwards everyone else looks in confusion to see a male with the same lightly tanned skin tone and facial features as Matthew but more older with a tired expression as he has dark eyebags, he's 182cm/6'0ft tall, has black spiky-like hair and yellowish iris eyes with a red glare into them that mixes the two colors weirdly and wearing a fully black suit with even his shirt and tier being black.) Everyone... meet Matthew's variant... Klaus Redfield.
Matthew: Another variant. Sheesh. Where you also a survivor of your family massacre?
Klaus: Uh... No? I never... (he looks at Matthew confused and worried) ...experienced such a tragic thing.
Matthew: Oh, Me too! Oh,I thought I was the only one! (He Smiles with excitement.)
Klaus: Huh... A variant of me that's still bright... great.
Matthew: Klaus, Right? What's your awakening?
Klaus: Don't have one.
Matthew: Really? Hm. Me too... Do you think, the only way to get it is to experience something tragic in life?
Klaus: Nah. There's a few out there with an awakening and have never experienced a sad or depressing moment.
Matthew: Hmm... Now you got me thinking, What if... there's an earth out there, where we turn out to be gay or got raped by a gang of men!
Klaus: Uh-huh uh-huh, you making shit weird kid aaaaanyways. [Looks at Ethan] Ethan.... Walker right?
Ethan: (He looks at him slightly annoyed.) No... Its... Shinseiji.
Klaus: Ah! Right, Shinseiji. Satoshi your father?
Ethan: Yeah.
Klaus: Alright. Here you go. (He hands him a small black book.)
Ethan: (sarcastic) Hm? Wow... a... book. (He takes the book from his hands and observes the book before opening the first page.) Tch!! (His eyes widen up to see words of an entirely different language not from earth and are randomly moving around.) The... The hell?
Klaus: (He chuckles) That book belonged to your father.
Ethan: W-why are the words—
Klaus: It's sorta like a security measure for people trying to get the book.
Ethan: Whoa... tch... how'd you get it?
Klaus: Let's just say I'm a friend of your father.
Ethan: Why give it to me?
Klaus: Only those of his blood can actually bypass the security measure and see exactly what he's written.
Ethan: I see but... I can't seem to see further then just random gibberish.
Klaus: That's because you not trying to see. You letting your emotions get the better of you and that's stopping you from even unlocking your curse Energy.
Ethan: Tch... (He looks up st Klaus in surprise that he literally read him like an open book.)
Ethan sighs before looking back down and concentrating on trying to see through the mess of words. As he does so Klaus and Matthew sense a spark igniting and a flow of curse energy inside Ethan, Matthew had a look of surprise while Klaus had a look of satisfaction.
Klaus: Don't force it to work Ethan. Let all the things that makes you feel bad flow freely away.
Ethan: (He clenches his teeth) Tch... What? But...
Klaus: Curse energy is from negative emotions I know... but thats only the case for humans and other beings that are not wraith like you, you don't need to manifest your power that way.
Ethan: What... why?
Klaus: Because you share the same blood as your ancestors that are part of your fathers side. The blood of the wraiths. A race that's made up of negativity itself! Your curse energy is your life. It doesn't need you to feel pissed off and what not to manifest, only control, to draw out in increased masses naturally.
Ethan: tch... okay... (He closes his eyes and stops trying to manifest his curse energy with negative emotions and instead enters a state of concentration that allows him to channel his curse energy. He opens his eyes and looks down at the book) Tch! (Unlike the rest He sees the words all placed in order and manner for him to read and understand.) I... can see! I see the words!
Klaus: Good! Now... (He places a palm on Ethan's shoulder) Learn from this book. It holds the knowledge of soooo many things that you can't even imagine. Techniques that, not even your father is capable of using but knows.
Ethan: Tch... (He looks at Klaus before he smiles in determination as he shuts the book.) Thank you... I don't know how I repay you.
Klaus: You can repay me by practicing with the book. (He walks towards the exit doors he came through from.)