(CHAPTER 10) SPECIAL POWERS!?

OPEN WOUNS SEAL IS BROKEN, HE IS NOW UNLEASHED. OPEN WOUNS SEAL I BROKEN, HE IS NOW UNLEASHED"What the....my head...Its another nightmare again, but its different. What's going on" Thought Neon as he lifted himself up, rubbing his head thinking that he should be remembering something important but he couldn't quite remember what it was. Suddenly a rush of emotions entered his body as he remembered some of the things that had happened. "Are you okay Neon, your not hurt anywhere are you" Asked Riyu looking extremely worried as Neon had a heartbreaking expression on his face. "PLEASE tell me I wasn't dreaming, tell me he's alive. Where is..." I'm sorry Neon, but I'm afraid your not dreaming. 7 days ago, we lost a very good man. The best of us in fact" Said Lucy who was standing near Riyu. "What I was asleep for 7 days?" He thought surprised but then he became speechless, he couldn't say anything in response to what Lucy said. All he could think about was how stupid he acted, thinking he could fight off the Iratheons with the others. But all he did was kill Pain. "I killed him....its all my fault....if only I wasn't such a weak half ass piece of shit!" Cried Neon as tears rolled down his cheek. Without warning, he dashed up from where he was lying down and ran away from the medical room he was in, and rushed off to his dorm room. He slammed the door shut and sat at the corner of the room curled up like a ball.

"Neon please come out" Riyu said in such a tone like he was about to burst into tears. "Please, im your friend so let me help you. I know your hurting but please I don't wanna see you so sad Neon. Riyu cried placing his head against the door. But there was no response from Neon. Lucy sighed thinking about what she could do for him. "Fine, if isolating yourself makes you feel better, ill let you rest for the remaining of the day, but I want you ready for a meeting tomorrow, we do need to talk about what took place 7 days ago." Lucy and the other staff had now been convinced that the power they were believing Neon would achieve, had been achieved. She then walked off with Riyu following her, leaving Neon with his own thoughts. Not only did he know that Pain had passed on, but because of what Lucy had just said, he also remembered the major power boost he got when Pain died and also remembered the horrifying Iratheons that were there in the exam. "Wait a minute, those monsters kept on calling me Open Wound. Why though?" He then suddenly also recalled the nightmare he used to have and the one he had this morning about the one named "Open Wound". "The mysterious person in my nightmare said that his seal would break and he would be unleashed, and now it says that his seal has been broken, so does that mean that he was inside of me? Well, it had to have been right? Does this explain my super strength and the other things I can do on my own without an ability." Thought Neon. He had so much questions but he didn't know who would answer them for him.

Suddenly, Neon heard a voice. And a deep one at that. "So your finally starting to remember what happened." Neon frantically got up and turned side to side to see who was the person who spoke to him, but there was no one in the room to be seen."Who was that! Show yourself!" Shouted Neon nervously. "Would you stop, dumbass, you look like an idiot. I thought you would have at least figured out the last part." Neon then felt something inside him that seemed very much alive from the last time he felt this power. "If I'm actually hearing a voice in my head then...." Neon gulped. "Are you...." "Yes, I am Open Wound" He said quite menacingly. "hello Neon. I've been keeping an eye on you for a very long time, and I've taken a liking to you boy." Neon was stunned on what was happening right now, he was actually talking to an unknown life force that was existing in his body. "How long have you been inside me....and What the hell are you." Said Neon looking for answers. Open Wound, went straight to the point without any hesitation. "If you want answers, your gonna need my help. We are going to be together for some time Neon, so I guess you should know everything about me. I'm a demon well, an Iratheon to be clear." Neons heart left his body after what he had just heard. He was talking to an Iratheon, it was more confusing than it was scary. It could've killed him anytime he wanted but it didn't, but in fact, he was willing to help him. This was all too much for him to handle already. Open Wound continued talking. "You might be wondering why I just killed my own men huh. Well, it was for revenge, you see, I'm technically dead, and that's thanks to them. When I was alive, I was a very strong demon, in fact I was close to being as strong as the demon King himself. Of course I got too strong for my own good and scared the other Iratheons as well as the king himself. They thought I would plot against them and take over land after land and invade the demon territory for myself, and eventually claim the Demon Kings throne for myself. So the Demon King plotted against me, killing me in cold blood. But what they didnt know was that I was studying ancient demon magic which has all sorts of forbidden magic. Of course we wern't allowed to learn such things as the forbidden magic would corrupt us and make us insane, but I didnt care, I was already thirsty for even more power. And luckily for me, it paid off as when they were murdering me in cold blood. I started chanting a forbidden reincarnation spell which didn't kill me off completely as u can tell. But I was turned into some sort of ghost that could attach itself to living beings but only one with no ability. It was rare to find one and it was difficult because they were so damn weak. But then I met you. You had no ability yet had strange inhumane traits such as super strength speed and super healing. As you may have figured out, this is the only way a human can turn into a demon...." "What! I'm a DEMON!" Cried Neon in disbelief. "Yes, your a demon, how do you explain that red aura of yours, a red aura means that your a demon. "What the...I can see my aura?" Said Neon surprised as he saw his body surrounded by a dark red aura. "I couldnt see this before so how the hell can I see it now." asked Neon in a confused manner. "Its because of the poor guy who saved you from dying a horrible death, when he touched your shoulders while he was giving you his last goodbyes, he was transferring his powers to you. I don't know how he did it, but it may have something to do with the 6th sense ability, because it is impossible now, for your cells to mutate to give you powers. Neon was relieved that he had something to remember Pain by. "Pain, thank you for giving me this power, I'll treasure it with my life" Neon said grabbing his chest to calm his nerves down. "So all this time, I've been a demon ever since you entered my body, does that explain my super healing and strength and stuff." Neon asked. "No, that's not from me, but its seperate, its entirely from you, even though you don't have an ability, you had these unusual traits which was why I picked you." "So your a ghost" "you could say that but I'm more like a conscience of yours now, I'm apart of you and I can guide you to getting stronger if that's what you want boy" Neons eyes lit up, finally he could get stronger but first he wanted to know more things as he still needed answers to some questions. "Yes, I do wanna get stronger, teach me how to get stronger, but first I want some answers on a few more questions. Can you explain the nightmare I keep having about you. "Haha, yes, I almost forgot about that. Although it's an unsettling feeling, it's not a nightmare. It's just that you have another trait that's not known to you. You can tap into things that normal people can't, even high ranking ability users can't do what you can do which is tapping Into your subconscious. You see, your subconscious is always watching, always seeing things from the outside world as well as the inside world which is in your body. And that's when your subconscious detected me and what makes your subconscious different to every other person's subconscious, is that yours can signal to you, telling you of things like the fact that I am getting stronger and soon will be unleashed." "Wow, so I have a subconscious that actually warns me of things and can tell me things? "Yes exactly, it's like a secret agent working for you and reporting back to you every second of the day, you can use this as an advantage in fights" Said the Demon. "I have another question, why couldn't you take control of me sooner or unleash my demon powers sooner" asked Neon. "When you were a baby, your parents tried to kill you, but I regenerated you to save you and this took a huge ammont of energy from me, so I laid dormant in your body for years, slowly regaining my strength. So basically, I needed a strong connection with you to take control and unlock your demon powers, and the stronger I got, the stronger my connection was to you, so I needed time before I could take control of you and unleash your true demon powers, but in fact it was actually supposed to be much later, till I could do this, but it was because you hit such a calamity when your loved one died, that you lost control and lowered your guard from me. So I took control then so easily, because you were in such a vulnerable state. Now that I have successfully took control of you and unlocked your demon powers, I have a stronger connection to you aswell, that's why I can now directly talk to you" "My parents tried to kill me, did they know I was a demon?" Asked Neon searching for answers. "Well, my guess is that they assumed you were because you had regenerated, which links to Iratheons. I mean, it was pretty obvious haha. But you being a demon. They just couldn't handle it. I guess it just reminded them of the Iratheons. Neon really didn't know what to feel, he just found out that his parents tried to kill him but he wasn't sad or angry because if it wasn't for him becoming a demon, then he would be the weakest. So him becoming a demon and his parents disowning him was something he accepted because it had to be done for him to have a chance to get strong. Then something suddenly came to Neon. "Wait, so how many people have a hunch that I'm a demon." Open Wound began to speak. "Its likely that it is most of the adults working at the military school because they were aware why you were sent here, so they had a hunch that you could be a demon because of the abnormal traits you had despite not having an ability." However what was certain, was that the staff would keep this a secret from outside the military school because if the government found out that Neon is a demon, then he would either try and kill him, or make him a lab rat. So this was good for both of them. Neon then noticed something. "Hey Open Wound, the fact that they've basically known all this time but havn't done anything shows that they are keeping this secret, but sooner or later, the outside will know and when that happens, what do we do then." Neon said worried. Open Wound then spoke once again. "The way i see it, is that we both are after the same goal, we both wanna keep our secrets hidden and wanna obliterate and kill off the demons right, so how about we team up and i can get you to a lvl that you could never imagine or even comprehend. That way, we can protect ourselves from when people from the outside, find out about us."

"Lets do it, but how do I get stronger to protect myself." "Leave that to me. I can show you all the things that will make you stronger than you will ever know." Neon was so excited, he could finally take that step forward he didnt believe he could take. He didn't know if Open Wound had secret motives of his own, but he couldn't do anything about it now. All he had to do was trust him....