Author Note: I just wanted to say.. HI.
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Among a busy city, in one building with red plus symbol on the top it, a baby in 3rd floor of maternal ward woke up with a serious face. It seemed like he was desperate to know something and yet again unable to come to terms with it.
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It could have been the past or it could have been future, no worldly being could ever know, in a modern world with heavy traffic and lot of pollution, in a highly reputed hospital, lays an old man in his early seventies, with his one hand held by his now old wife and other hand by his middle aged daughter. He could see few other relatives with sad eyes but yet happy faces cheering him up. They all knew his time was up. This old man's had lived an very normal life. There was nothing adventures in his life. Nothing to extravagant. It was a simple and yet a beautiful life. He was happy at their successful sons and daughter, and very happy at cheerful, energetic and loving grand-kids.
He peacefully closed his eyes to accept death. It wasn't that painful. It felt like a string stretch beyond it's capabilities, but then he heard a old man's voice.
"Say 'Open Stats'."
Like a obedient boy he was he said, "Open stats."
NameLexton ZyanAlignmentNeutralAbilityNoneTitleNoneLevel1Primary ClassN/AFame0Secondary ClassN/AHealth100Mana100Health Regen/Sec0.1Mana Regen/Sec0.1Strength10Agility10Wisdom10Intelligence10Stamina10Vitality10Dexterity10Luck10
Old Man -"Lex, what does the ability it says you have?"
Boy (Lexton) - "None?"
All the people in the room at once - "None?"
Boy observed that in the room there was an old man sitting straight to him and a tall couple along side him who he recognized as his parents?
Old Man - "Soul stone has the property to extract the power residing in the soul it self. And every one has some kind of power. Hmm.. "
Couple -"Show your stats to us."
The boy was puzzled on how to show them but he kinda knew, as if he remember being told about a year ago.
Lex - "Show stats to parents and old man."
The couple and the old man were looking at front of them check again and again whether there was some mistake. Along the time, the kid tough a small child in appearance was connecting the pieces together.
Lex - "Umm.."
Dad - "How can you be born without any ability? " Looking at boy as if the kid has done a blunder he can never correct
Mom - with Ice clod voice "I thought you were better than.."
Old Man - "Now,now.. don't talk as if the boy is at fault."
Dad - "Then whose fault is it?"
Old Man - "I know soul stone is said to bring out hidden abilities, mostly all of them are hereditary. And you both.." Old man stopped talk to let them come to terms with reality.
Dad - "My ability is 'Fire Punch' and her ability is 'Ice Touch' , so what? In my family there were such unions, but their children had unique ability like 'steam manipulation' and more. "
Old Man - "That is what it normally happens, but in a little super rare cases, both negate themselves and result in no ability. It could be said, because you had so much in common like being an ability related to hands and being opposite like fire and ice, it's seems they have negated them. And more because he has no ability he couldn't fully absorb the power of soul stone and has missed the bonus stat. "
Parents looked at their son not of pity,but of shame, as if why was he ever born. The kid tough having memories of his past life, yet loved his parents in this new life was distraught at their sudden change in attitude, who showed so much care until yesterday and now disdain.
Old Man -< These prideful people of Zyan family, can't even understand they breaking the spirit of their innocent and cheerful son. Unable to accept facts, trying to blame the kid. I pity him, tough.> (Author Note: I will tell again. '<' and '>' means thinking.)
Mom - "You have disgraced the family of Zyan." Those words were all it took to break him inside.
The boy in his past life lived an average life, of not being too rich or poor - a true middle class person. He never had any ambitions except making his loved one happy. And he loved his parents and would have done anything for to make them happy. They were supportive people and yet again neither rich nor poor. All they wanted was their son to have a peaceful life and so he did it. Their son felt everything was lost when he lost his parents who left the world due to old age, but due to support the then middle age man was his new family of wife and children. He took solace in them.
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But in now in this new world his only loved ones started hating him. He wanted to make them proud, yet he was the whole reason they felt shamed. He wanted to cry, climb up his mom and hug her. But he couldn't, after looking into her eyes. He swallowed his tears. He didn't cry.
Old Man - "Having not able to get bonus stats and not having ability he will never be able to surpass his peers."
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Dad-"Great! He will inept lazy bum of the family. Unable to do anything with his life." With that said, both parents mentally stopped considering to even take care of their eldest son, and look forward to their twin daughters who were born two years after their son.
Mom - "I hope, it is not the same with the twins." worried.
Dad - "I hope he didn't pass his curse to his sisters. Don't even go near them from now on."
The kid was not listening. He was in his own world.
Old Man - "I don't think so. I can feel their affinities to fire and ice respectively. Tough the ceremony with soul stone will have to wait until they are 5 years old."
Old man leaving the house looked for one last towards the kid who had his head down. Unintentionally he checked his aura, it was small but dark like moonless and starless sky.
The kid never had an ambition in his past life. He was normal and he didn't want more. But now it changed. He was called inept, being treated as shame and as worthless. He couldn't take it for even a second more, since it was his parents treating him like that. He made a new ambition in this new life. He wanted to conquer the whole world to prove himself. He wanted to crush everyone looking down on him. But even after all this what he truly wished for was too make his new parents proud of him.
Somewhere in the same world, but underneath it, which is often called as 'Underworld' and old Lady of demonic race threw few strange looking stones. She concluded what she truly feared has happened. She went to a huge chamber which had huge throne with a huge person sitting on it. The person himself was of demonic race, always releasing dark miasma. Bowing to him, the old demonic lady says, "Highness, The string to your death has started moving. Some one will sure to kill you in days to come."
The Demon King, "So, it has begun. But who can other than The Dragon King himself can kill me? I am making a spell to kill those damn seemingly immortal flying reptiles. How much time are you estimating?"
Old Demon lady - "around 100 years. cannot be too sure. It has just begun. the more the it vibrates, the lesser the time will be."
Demon King, "All I need is 20 more years to complete the damn spell. HAHAHAHAHAH."
Turning his gaze to Commader, "Tell the tropes to not make any direct move, nor dragon king will start thinking to come after us. Keep them busy with by manipulating goblins and other monsters. But Tell the army to prepare for war which will be held in 20 years. Hahaha.. You damn reptile king, you will not know what hit you."
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The baby in cradle started crying. To calm him down, the father comes to pick him up.
'ding'
The baby stares quizzically looking forward into nowhere.
Due to your efforts +1 in Wisdom and +1 in Intelligence.
So it started, the New Day in a certain baby's life with grinding. Grinding it's stats and skill since infancy. But what can an infant achieve with limited strength and limited attention span?
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As always I will appreciate letting me know any suggestions and grammatical / spelling mistakes made by me. If you come across any mistake, don't believe it was a typo. I must have been using it thinking it was a correct application.
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And also can anyone tell me, how to remove the extra space creeping above the stat's table. It's damn annoying. [th_093.gif]
My sincere Thanks to *AnalEvaporator* and *Mindgames* for pointing mistakes in previous stories and improving them a little.
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