Red

The next day, Takeru went to school as usual. However, something was different, he felt it. He didn't meet a single soul on the way to school. "Is it Saturday today?" mumbled the boy. When he got to an intersection, he saw no cars anywhere. Something must have gone wrong. Suddenly Takeru heard voices in his head. "You have to fight!" "You have to protect the people!" "You have to prepare yourself, Takeru!" "Where do all these voices come from?" Suddenly a red figure stood in front of him. It was a human being. Physical proportions couldn´t be recognized. An unknown aura surrounded Takeru. The person in front of him held out his hand and whispered: "Accept it. Make our last wish come true, Takeru Sarugaki." The boy was a little bit confused, but he did not hesitate and touched the hand of the person opposite. The boy's body began to glow, it was filled with energy. It got stronger and stronger, and Takeru's body glowed brighter and brighter. "What is this?" he asks in amazement. "This is your Meta-spirit. Learn to control it in order to fight against evil." "But who are you? And why are you giving it to me?" "You will find out one day..."

His body was beginning to hurt. The energy grew stronger and was harder to control. Suddenly he felt stabbing pain everywhere. It was like his whole body was on fire. Takeru caught fire, he blazed and shouted for help. But nobody could help him. He rolled on the floor in agony, with tears in his eyes. Nobody could hear him. The person in front of him vanished into thin air: "Fulfill the determination of the Meta-spirits!" Takeru woke up. It must have been a bad dream. However, the stabbing pain was still there. He raised his arms, both his arms and his hands, no, his whole body was covered with burns. The boy felt dizzy and fell to the ground. Takeru passed out. His grandmother came into his room to wake him but she saw her grandson lying on the floor. She burst into tears and immediately called the local hospital.

Several hours passed. Takeru slowly woke up. His body was wrapped in bandages. When he opened his eyes, the bright white light stabbed him in the eyes: "Damn it, what happened to me." "You have burns all over your body" Hope was standing at the window. The woman who saved the boy yesterday. "It happened. The Spirits came faster than I thought. That it would happen the next day… I really didn't expect that..." "How did you get in here in the first place ...?" "My ability is teleportation, remember?" "That's right, there was something about it..." "You suffer a bit from amnesia, do you? Well, we now have to think about how we should approach the whole thing ..."

"What is going to happen now, master?" "Paranormal abilities have broken out all over the world." "And how do you know that?" "It's all over the news. This morning at 6:32 am in a Tokyo supermarket all employees and customers were stunned by a poison gas and passed out. The problem is this that that gas was used by one of the customers, unconsciously. In interviews, it turned out that the customer himself did not know what happened to the gas ... "" Are there any injuries? "No, thank God not. Here's another case: A woman was bullied by a man in a back alley in Boston, America. When she put up a fight, innumerable tendrils suddenly emerged from the ground. They clutched the man and almost killed him!" "And that all really happened? I mean, it could also be fake news…" "On my way to the hospital I was getting a coffee at the kiosk when I noticed a jogger walking past me. And not at normal speed, he was running. It must have been around 40 kilometers an hour. That's when I realized for the first time that it had already happened. And from now on the Spirits will be part of our everyday life. But that also means that the regime of superheroes and villains will come into being. Who knows, maybe in ten years the surreal dream of being a hero will have become a job that you can earn money for...

First of all we have to awaken your ability, you have to be able to defend yourself too. Believe me, there will be a lot of awakenings going to happen in the next few weeks. And it can happen to you too." "Yes, you are right, but how am I supposed to set my Spirit free? " Takeru suddenly remembered. He remembered about his dream and the red figure he met there: "Master, I had a dream. I met a person. She talked about determination or something..." "Say that again ... Did I just hear that correctly?" "Yes, and the unknown person held out her hand to me, she wanted me to accept something. When I did this, my whole body started to burn. It hurt like hell. I don't remember anything after that. In the end I woke up in the hospital with burns all over my body..." "It wasn´t a dream. It was real...no, but that couldn't be either. Huh it must have been a vision. But, doesn't it make sense to you? Your dream, the burns, your encounter with me. Everything is interrelated. I think that your ability has awakened. Now you have to find out how to activate it. We will need to train a lot during the next months! And from now on you are officially my student!" Takeru's eyes shone brighter than any star: "Really? When do we start? Tomorrow? Today? Now?"    "Slowly, slowly! Your body has to regenerate first! You can't fight with these wounds anyway or either safe people. We should start looking for someone who can heal your wounds..." "But how will that work? Scars don't go away, they´ll stay forever." "Right, but there will probably be some kind of Spirit in this world that can make your body healthy again. Even if it could take years, I'll make you a hero!" Takeru came to tears: "You are such a nice person, I am really happy to have found you, master!" "Anyway, I have a few more errands to do now. You are still resting today. I'll visit you again tomorrow, okay? Stay fresh!"

So Hope left the hospital to attend to her errands. Takeru stayed in the hospital bed and watched the news. Meanwhile the chief doctor came to check the boy: "My boy, you were very lucky, because not many survive such bad burns. I'm here to take a closer look at your body..."When the doctor removed the bandages from Takeru's body, he was shocked. All the burn scars, all the wounds, they had completely healed. Takeru was discharged the same evening. He didn't know why his injuries had disappeared, but now he could concentrate on being a hero, or even begin to become a hero in the first place!