Steve cried. He felt hopeless. He had been enjoying all of the kidnapping situation, but his uncle was now dead. He remembered the day his parents left him alone when he was five. Then he remembered how his uncle went to visit him every month so as to accompany and make food for him. He remembered the vacations they went together. The huge mountains, the fast rivers, the never-ending oceans and the beautiful landscapes.

A black mist started surrounding Steve. The mist swirled around him making his friends confused, but the mafia men seemed to know what was happening. His eyes started bleeding while his hair slowly turned to a whitish silver tone. "AGHHHHHH!", he screamed because of the excruciating pain through his covered mouth, while the cloth that covered Steve's mouth and the ropes that were confining him started burning.

"Hmmm. He became a corrupted. So... he is a Sepheth too", Said the old man with a calm face while he loaded his gun with another bullet.

Then he aimed at Steve's head and said: "Bye, unnamed Sepheth.", and then he shoot him.

To everyone's surprise, Steve had dodged the bullet in the last second, followed by rushing to get one of the katanas that was hung on the wall.

"I dont know how to use nor reload a gun", he thought while complaining about how obstructed his vision was due to the blood.

Steve strangely felt a lot of energy flowing through his body, like blood through his veins.

The old man, realized that he hadn't time to reload again. He pressed a red boton and shouted through a microphone: "Everyone, get every weapon you possibly can! we are being attacked!", phrase that he couldn't finish due to Steve cutting his neck with his sword.

Steve fastly ran towards the woman and the three men, fastly cutting each of their necks.

Then steve cut the ropes from Louis and Mia's hands and ordered: "Get a weapon!"

They couldn't believe what was happening, then realizing that Steve was the one that had it worst. He had just lost the closest thing he had to a father, and they had no idea of how much pain Steve was going through, physically and mentally.

They fastly grabbed a weapon: Louis a katana, and Mia a rifle. And then they all left through the door, where they were immediately ambushed by a rain of bullets.

Steve pushed Louis and Mia to the left, making enough force to push himself to the right, that way being able to dodge the bullets.

Then Steve and Louis ran and barely cut the heads of the men that were aiming at them before they were able to shot again.

From the end of the hallway, they saw some people running towards them with guns, getting in range to shoot.

The two boys were too far away to be able to avoid them being killed.

When it all seemed lost, Mia shouted: "Guys! Crouch!", which was immediately followed by her using her rifle to shoot the men that were getting ready to shoot.

They kept fighting like that for some time.

When nobody else came, they rested for a bit to discuss what had just happened.

"Steve, what do you know about your familly?", Asked Mia.

"Literally nothing. The only relative I have seen in the last eleven years is my uncle." He responded. Steve still felt that same pain.

"Your last name is Sepheth. Right?", asked Louis, to which Steve responded affirmatively.

"Your uncle also said that there was a family mafia. Maybe that can have something to do with this.", pointed Mia.

"Do you think that I know?" Asked Steve angered, trying to clean the blood from his face, but blood was still spilling from his eyes.

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"He also mentioned something about other worlds", Louis pointed.

"Any other day of the year, I would be happy to know that there are other worlds. I always wanted to have magic." Steve said.

"I still don't understand why do you want magic", confessed Louis.

"Wouldn't it be cool? Imagine launching big fireballs, or creating a real life inventory. You could also be able to fly. And in case that there's a fire, you could turn it off with a water spell", He said excited.

Steve wanted to continue wondering about magic, but some blood got into his mouth, making him cough hardly.

His friends laughed, trying to forget the traumatic things that had happened.

"Hey Steve. While we were fighting with them, your hair was turning white. Now it's like only 10% brown", Mia pointed.

"Really?", Steve asked. Then he looked to his hair, noticing that indeed, the upper part of it was white.

"I'm soooooo tired and my body hurts so much. I will take a nap. Can you guys cover me?", he asked.

"Of course", his friends said, knowing that he really needed to rest.

Steve slowly laid down and closed his eyes. He just wanted to sleep and forget what had happened that day.

Some time passed, and Steve wasn't able to sleep due to an annoying metallic sound. He opened his eyes to see what was the source of that sound. He couldn't find something that made sense, until he looked at the ceiling. There, Steve saw the metallic things that were dividing each room, but something was weird. They were much lower than before.

He thought about what could had happened to them, until he realized: "The rooms are closing", he murmured.

"What? I can't hear you", his friends said.

Steve, faster than ever, stood up and shouted: "THE ROOMS ARE CLOSING!".

He grabbed Mia's and Louise's hands and made them stand up. Then he ran as fast as he could without letting them go, trying to find the path to the exit.

"Not here...", He thought when he didn't recognize a hallway, still running while trying to not hit his head with the metallic things due to how low they were.

Then he recognized a path. It was the one that led to the exit.

"This way!", he shouted to his friends while running towards the exit.

"You are literaly grabbing our arms! We can't go in a direction you aren't going!", Mia complained.

Then, when they took the last turn, everything started to move in slow motion. There they saw people in the corner they couldn't see, aiming with rifles at them. They could see the bullets coming after them.

"Ah shi-", Steve thought before his head was perfored by bullets, which was the same thing that happened to his friends.

***

Steve opened his eyes due to the pain. He was in a red bed. The bed was surrounded by white. Everything was white: the sky, the floor and even the non existing walls. He sat down trying to think about where he was. Then, everything went back: The regret for enjoying being kidnapped, the death of his uncle, the pain he felt and the frustration for being killed when they were about to escape.

"-ve... -ive... Steve!", He heard in the middle of his thoughts. Someone was shaking him hardly, but he was too weak to move or answer. There he saw his friends: Louis and Mia. There was also another girl but he didn't recognize her. She had a golden tiara, some weird cyan and pink clothes with a golden collar, she had also a whitish pink tone of hair and red eyes. He tried to say something but he collapsed in his bed while he heard his friends say, "See you there".

***

He woke up again and the other girl was sitting beside him. He still felt the pain but it was more bearable. Her presence only created a feeling of comfort. "Hi young man! I see you have finally aweakened", Said the girl with a beautiful voice. Her voice felt reassuring, it felt like being in a field full of flowers, running with your friends and family. "Family...",he thought, remembering his uncle. He started crying. Then, the girl softly put her hand on his cheek, while putting her other hand over his hand. "I know what you went through... It's going to be okay.", She said comforting him.

They stayed some time without moving, until out of nowhere she grabbed him strongly and threw him to the ground "Ok corrupted, you already had a month to rest. Now you have to catch up to them!", She said with a more playful voice. "Huh?!?!? Hey! That hurt! Wait... the pain is gone! What did you do!?" He said angered because of her sudden actions.

"Wait, what's a corrupted? Why am I a corrupted?", He asked with curiosity. She remained silent for some time after what she sighted and said "So you want to know what you are... At least do you know what aura is?", She asked already knowing the answer. "Aura? Well... I've read mangas that had that", He answered confused "Wait... don't tell me...", He said with a little excitement, still feeling the burden of his uncle's death.

"First of all let me introduce myself. I'm Aria, the Goddes of Aura.", She said going back to her playful voice. Then she went back to a serious tone, "There are two ways to achieve aura: The first one is to become a corrupted and the second one is to be near one. When you experience a huge trauma you transform your emotions into aura paying a price. That way you become a corrupted", She Explained.

"What's the price I have to pay?" Steve asked getting curious.

"Blood." She answered looking at him straight in the eyes. "Your body instinctively pumps blood out of your eyes making them red, and the stress provoked by this creates aura inside your body. The stress also makes your hair turn white.", She explained.

"So I went through the edgy white hair and red eyes transformatioon, haha. Well, I still haven't looked at myself", Thought Steve.

"Well... enough explanation. Before I send you to that world, you need to be able to control aura. So, let's start with your training.", She ordered.

And then, the training started.

"By the way, you are dead", She said.

"WAIT WHAT!?"