Chapter 2
Waking up like one would in a movie I slowly stretched and sat up, stretching while doing so. Taking in a deep breath then letting it out I could immediately feel changes within and throughout my body. Looking down i could see that everything I changed had actually changed. Laughing slightly at the sheer awesomeness I moved. Almost like teleportation I speed into my living room and marvelled at how my body felt, it was like I was humming with energy. I wanted to try shit out. Quickly getting dressed in loose fitting cargo pants and navy blue t-shirt that now both seemed to small for me I charged out of the apartment and into the city for fun, forgetting I didn't have shoes on.
It was strange, When I started running everything seemed slow perhaps this was due to my enhancements after all I did enhance my brain as well. Grinning I push my body through the world that is slowly freezing around me, I ran on the street going faster than the cars, when jumping I could fly through the air much longer than a normal person, Thinking of the moves of a certain comic speedster I started running on walls, it worked, I grinned, I grin a lot now.
I speed around the city for the next few hours testing my limits, It was impressive at what I assumed was a beginner amount of power I was already superhuman. Finishing my run, I ended up on the top of a 8 story tall office building. Breathing like I had just been on a light run, which had been anything but light I stepped of the edge of the building and fell, hitting the pavement I bent my knees and landed, hard, the pavement cracked under me.
It took mere minute for me to get back to my apartment, I came in through the window this time, cause I could and returned to my living room, checking the time on my computer it was 11:47 I had left around 9 so I had been out around 3 hours.
I sit down and start thinking about my current circumstances. One night and I had enough power to effectively become a threat to almost anything. Yet the letter said to prepare, this couldn't be it this wasn't truly powerful and that scared me. If this was the beginning stage how bad could these monsters be, apparently very very bad.
I decided to start studying the books I had gotten to see what I could do. I've never been one for studying before though, so this eagerness to study is new for me perhaps it's due to an actually interesting subject.
I decide to start with the four classic elements of earth, water, air and fire.
Spending a few hours per book I went well into the night, summarizing it all I have one word, convoluted. Every sentence was a god forsaken poem, I mean really, I understand what the letter meant by look past the secrets or perhaps a more apt description is riddles. By the end of my session my left eye was twitching and I was contemplating whether or not to introduce the book of fire to a lighter.
Well I did get some basics from the books, Essentially you gather and align mana to the different elements and then use that energy and power in techniques or spells. However something in the texts bugged me, every element is different from each other even if it is the same. From what I could gather this was the reason that attacks worked, I mean if someone had the same fire as you and threw a fireball at them their fire would just absorb it. Again remembering the letter stating the books as a guideline I had some sort of realization, the deeper contents of this book are useless to me if I want my own power. From then on I just got the basics of the 4 elements and would later make my own understanding.
3 days later
I have made progress in the 4 element s finally, when I mean progress I mean I have created fire. For the past few days I had been trying to science the fire from mana, that didn't work despite what many fictions say or maybe it was just me. Well today I had succeeded, I pretty much grew frustrated and waved my hand a low and behold fire spewed from my fingers. I mean i'm pretty happy right now, even if I have to buy a new bed. Apparently fire is good at burning things and beds get set on fire easily. I managed to put out the fire buy using the same method I used with fire but instead water came out.
Gradually I figured out that I had what is called unfairly high affinity with the elements or maybe just magic itself, even with ki but i'll get to that later. My high affinities meant that all I had to do was imagine and shit happens, it's great making toast and Mr.Noodles has never been so easy.
Ki I definitely had monster aptitudes for, I mean for cultivating it one usually had a dantian as covered in the books, apparently however my bones blood and soul was good enough. This meant I was advancing at insane speeds due to the fact as my power grew so did the strength of my storage which was my body so this all balanced out and worked really goddamn well, If I could run as fast as a car before now i'm at the very least a plane's speed on the ground. Speaking of flying machines I have an ongoing project on trying to figure out how to fly. I could hover like in zero G but that was it, I had no control.
Sighing I get up from my “meditative position” which was literally any position. It didn't really matter as long as I was relaxed. Checking my email like I usually do I notice i've finally received my schedule for University. A few basic classes until I actually decide on what to do with my life, which currently i'm thinking of being a hunter, my own imagination came up with that one due to the fact monsters will appear soon and well shit would probably go down if they weren't kept in check.
Browsing news sites came after my emails, I had to do this in order to keep up with current events due to me having no TV or cable. Interestingly enough it seems my awakened compatriots were very open, by open I mean at least three were wearing spandex on a interview. I could barely not laugh, no I giggled.
The interview was essentially a demonstration of their abilities, an explanation of their understanding of how this happened and the reason for the costumes, which were full body latex, still funny that.
I didn't disagree with what they were doing but I sure as hell wasn't going to do that, I might dress up in something to hide my identity when monsters came but that's about it. The interview finished with the three saying they were making a group to prepare for the future. I'm not joining.
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Then something happened that never happened, My phone started buzzing indicating that I had an incoming call. This was strange because there were only two people who had my number that called instead of text my parents(I count them as one entity) and my brother. I talk to my parents every sunday to catch up but today is friday so i'm left with the brother calling, this should be good. He never usually calls.
I pick up the phone and speak first.
“Hey bro what's up” I asked, having a slight tone of sarcasm in my voice.
“Hey man what's up long time no talk” My brother responded in a friendly tone, overly so.
This wasn't right, my brothers a dick whys he being nice, he's only nice when he needs shit.
Shifting my tone to a flat monotone I speak.
“What do you want”
He takes time responding.
“You know those spandex guys on TV?”
“Yeah why”
“Im like them and I don't know what to do man”
With that final statement things click into place. Most people aren't like me and adjust immediately to the situation, My brother chief among the people who would freak out at powers being thrust on him.
“Where you at, your apartment”
Yeah man, can you come over for a bit, Umm and be careful I can't really control stuff yet ”
“Sure”
The phone clicked signaling that the call had ended. Chuckling to myself I realized I really needed to figure out what the other people with powers are like. Considering myself who was in control of my power and then my brother who obviously was not. I also needed to tell him I was awakened as well, that should be fun.
Walking to the window, as I hardly used the door anymore, I jumped and after I exited the window used my hover ability to get my bearings then pushed off the wall. Over the past few days I have made excursions through the city and figured out how to make my travels more efficient, using magic I could align my gravity to whatever was under my feet, normally that would be disconcerting but using a little ki made my mind ignore the fact I has hanging at impossible angles. Also using ki, I made little mats of ki to run off of so as to gain traction, I relearned about traction the hard way earlier by slipping and colliding with a building, They still hadn't figured out where the hole came from.
It didn't take me long to reach his apartment, we were going to the same university in a few weeks so we lived in the same area but we both wanted to be independent so we got apartments on the “opposite sides” of the university.
I landed outside of his window, which thankfully could be opened, well windows were a preference, I opened and entered, His apartment has the same type of layout of mine. Living room, kitchen, bathroom and bedroom. I found him in the bedroom in a fetal position on the bed.
I called out.
“Hey, you okay”
It took him a few seconds to respond.
“How are you here already, you live at least fifteen minutes away”
“I have more control than you, I can actually do shit and not have to curl on the bed in what I assume is pain”
He digests my comment for a moment.
“You too huh” he grunts.
“Yup”
“Great, now help me then you're excellence” he says this with more of a strained and pained tone.
Frowning I move forwards, Despite my initial thoughts I realized I have no idea what to do. The books wouldn't help here after all they were meant to be read after the full awakening from what I could tell. I decide to try and scan him, like in the books people injected their own ki or mana into another to sense them. I do that, making my mana and ki into cords I wrap them around each other and send it into his body, these two streams are invisible to the naked eye, all he sees is me waving my hands. The threads enter and suddenly they spread, like they already know what to do. Perhaps they do, I need to figure more of this shit out. The problem appears quickly. The same energy I had found in the beginning when I reformed myself was still there and unused, it was basically telling him to hurry up it seemed.
Communicating him that, he looks at me like i'm an idiot.
“How exactly am I supposed to do that” He says
I launch into an explanation, he seems to grab the basic gist of and tries it. From my threads I could see the energy start to move around and through my eyes I could see the pain drain from his face. As the energy move some more my threads were kicked out. I decide to sit down and watch the second part of the process happen, when it happens.
I also slightly giggle as I realize my brother had magical diarrhea.