Robin had slept like a log in the last 4 hours. He was pretty sure that nobody would have been able to wake him up if anyone tried to. The trauma and the memory of the pain had finally washed away as he was slowly coming back to normal.
He checked his mobile to see if there were any messages. There were a couple of them. One of them was from his friend asking him if he was free to play PUBG.
Zoro -"Bro, you coming to play today? You just puffed in smoke yesterday."
Robin - "Na bro, have been a little busy lately with my work. Will inform you when I visit the game next time."
And the other message was from his cousin.
"Come to meet me tomorrow. I am tired of eating the food at the hostel. It sucks. And my boyfriend is a bigger asshole. All he does is work and work and work. Hate him."
"Sure. I will be there."
There was only one person in his life that he cared about the most. Of course there were his parents. His mother was a housewife as many Indian households tended to have. His father was a Bank Officer who right now was out of state due to office work and meetings.
Robin had his friends too and even his best friend who right now was in Delhi working on a corporate job. But he was particularly close to his cousin. She had been the rock of his life and he considered her just like his own sister instead of attaching the word cousin to it.
She was called Rita.
She was the same age as him but they took up different career choices. She took up medical as her career and Robin took engineering. And now she was suffering from this decision. She had just got herself admitted in the same college for specialization in pediatrics. This was again 3 years of studies before she was free and that was a torture according to Robin.
In studies, both Robin and Rita were opposite to each other. In engineering, Robin didn't really have any good grades, while Rita had best grades, even graduating from the first part of her medical studies while being top of the class.
Since she had called to meet, he would go and meet her. Maybe go for a good restaurant hunting where they could get good food.
After replying to her back, Robin got up and went out of his room to have a normal talk with his mom. From yesterday he hadn't been normal and he needed some fresh air. His mom would probably be the best option here.
He needed to be away from the game tonight and do other things!! And thus he sat with his mother and watched some TV shows. Robin, in general, hated TV but for the sanity of his mind he tried watching it with his mother.
"Go for some movies."
"I don't watch Hollywood movies." His mother replied.
"Ok. Then go for Bollywood."
After some search they settled on a good Bollywood movie which both of them had watched multiple times before. 3 Idiots.
It was a great movie based on three friends in an engineering university. The movie showed their struggles and then later rising up above them. It was both funny and emotional. When the movie ended it was already 8.30 pm at night. Mom then proceeded to make dinner while Robin just fiddled with his phone.
"Gastly, sorry I had to make you invisible among others. Maybe a day will come when you won't have to be invisible." Robin whispered in nothingness as Gastly slowly appeared near him.
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It didn't appear to be stressed that it had to remain in hiding. It was a ghost Pokemon so of course it loved hiding away. But Robin didn't want Gastly to think that Robin didn't care about it. Soon it was time for dinner.
After having a sumptuous dinner with rice and fish, he went back to bed to sleep. After today's trauma he had already decided not to touch games for the remainder of the day. Before sleeping, Robin proceeded to read some fanfictions until the point his eyelids closed by itself.
The next day, 9pm.
Robin woke up like normal and unlike the previous day he took his own sweet time getting up from bed and even spent a lot of time in breakfast. After doing his chores like cleaning the table for a bit and doing the laundry, he finally sat with his laptop.
It was time to face his demon.
Skyrim.
He opened the game right where he ended last time and proceeded to follow the main quest. Soon he came across the first word of power 'Fus'. This time when the player was close to the word, he took the courage and inserted his hand.
Technically in order to gain the knowledge of the word, he needed to insert his face so that he could see the word with his 'own' eyes and gain the word of power, but he chose not to do so. Inserting his head inside a laptop? Let's forget the fact that it might not even be possible but even if it was Robin didn't want to do such a thing. Can you imagine taking the laptop screen and inserting his head through the shiny LED screen?
If his hand failed to do the work, then he would have to probably go after the 'inserting head' quest. Thankfully, he didn't have to do so. The moment he inserted his hand and placed it between the word and the player, his mind was filled with various information and a new language.
Out of nowhere a massive amount of knowledge of a completely different knowledge filled his mind. A knowledge which had its own scripts, its own way of speaking and its own heritage. And the main shining point of this was he had learnt the first word of power.
Unrelenting Force. Your Voice is raw power, pushing aside anything - or anyone - who stands in your path.
It took quite a few minutes to understand the new language. But the process was fast and he felt joy that he had learnt a completely different language in a matter of a few minutes. There was no pain, no hallucinations, nothing. Now all he had to do was try and see if he could really utter the famous 'dragon shouts'
And to try this he had a perfect place.
The roof of the apartment!!!
Without wasting any time, he went to the roof through the elevator. The building was 10 floors tall so of course he wouldn't go by stairs. He soon reached the roof. The roof was filled with clothes hanging on the wires, out in the open. Almost all Asian households tended to dry their clothes by hanging it out.
But sadly there was no sun today just like the previous day. It was gloomy and cloudy, the only difference being there were more white clouds than black. Robin went to a corner after making sure that there was no one on the roof. He took a deep breath while facing the open space that was outside the roof and filled his lungs with a huge amount of air. And with all the power that his windpipe could provide he shouted
"FUS"
And then the magic happened!!
A strong force which didn't have any color spat out of Robin's mouth. As he spoke those words loudly, his voice reverberated to a long distance. The birds that were in the trees or those that were on the perches flew away in a hurry to random directions. The dogs of the streets started randomly barking.
The people in the apartment and on the road nearby heard that word and were confused. The word to all the people sounded strong like lightning but lightning had a distinct sound of its own. This was different. Many of them came to balconies to see if there was something wrong.
Seeing nothing had changed the curious old ladies and men went back to what they were doing. Meanwhile the main culprit was hiding in a corner. It was good that their apartment was the tallest and no other apartment nearby was of that height. But what Robin did was really calculated.
From all the animations he could already tell that uttering those words would create a strong sound around. The roof was really the best and quickest option at that moment. But before hiding he got to see the power of the word. It was a very strong force that had travelled from its mouth and he was sure that whatever written in the description would exactly fit its power. He had no doubt about it.
After speaking the word, he tried speaking it again, but he almost got choked in his throat. Robin had to cough out loud in order to continue breathing.
"That was close again. Have I become a devil of some kind? Taking risks one after another." Robin thought.
Speaking words of power without giving a cool down seemed to be impossible. After 15 seconds Robin felt that he could speak the word again. Robin wanted to try again but this time he wanted to see if he could just speak the word in his original volume, not following the normal process of shouting the word.