Chap 26. Dead Theo

"Nope." And another 10 minutes of walking followed..

"Well as we walk, I might as well questions on how knowledgeable you are on abilities" Astro shrugged, Theo tapped his shoulder which meant he agreed with Astro, "Firstly, do you know what age abilities are meant to be combined with you at?"

Theo thought for a moment before responding with, "I know its around age 17 or 18. I mostly paid attention to what abilities were when I was gathering information." Astro understood his meaning and could completely agree with Theo since he also paid more attention to the abilities rather than the small things.

"Yea, they are given at age 17, on your 17th birthday. Yours will be given on you true birthday, so we don't know when you will actually gain your ability. But as a gain, you will finally know when your birthday is.." Astro explained with a small smile, "It will practically be a surprise haha" He chuckled, Theo joined in. He wasn't one to hate surprises so it'll probably be fine, but if his ability was something controlled by emotions then it would be a pretty hard, he hoped it wasn't and begged the gods to not give him an ability like that.

Luckily though, the evaluation will narrow down abilities so he will atleast know a little about his ability.

Sadly, the ability evaluation will never give an exact result, this is because no ones personality is the same, it can only give an idea. Some may have multiple personalities, or even a hidden personality, therefore even if you know a person for their whole life, not even you will know their ability let alone an evaluation.

The two kept conversing as Tommy kept leading them, after another 10 minutes they finally reached their destination.

The destination was a small shop, it looked cosy and had beautiful antiques decorating the walls of the store, although it looked small and somewhat boring, one can never judge a book by its appearance.

Tommy was a good friend will the owner of the small shop and happily conversed with the man behind the counter. The man's name was Callum, he and Tommy were friends in college. They kept in contact since they weren't that far from eachother and sometimes went out for drinks with eachother.

They chatted for awhile but Tommy suddenly remembered why he was there when he turned back and saw Theo and Astro will a bored expression on their faces.

"Oh.. hahoho! I completely forgot why I was here when I saw you Callum!" He laughed out, his voice was deep and echoed throughout the empty shopping center. Luckily, it was void of people otherwise he would be getting weird stares.

Astro sighed before saying, "You do that everytime we come here, And hello Uncle Callum!" Astro greeted with a small smile making his way on his face.

Callum greeted back and turned to the boy Astro was holding on to, "Well that's a new face, G'day Kiddo! I'm Callum but I guess you already now that because of these twat's!" A haughty laugh escaped his lips when a bright smile appeared on his face, small wrinkles formed next to his eyes as he smiled, it clearly showed how much the man smile during his life.

"Hello! I'm Theo, its nice to meet you Callum" Astro gave a small bow of respect, the man only waved and smiled before saying, "Please just call me Uncle Callum!"

Theo was stunned for a second before suddenly smiling, "Ok Uncle Callum"

"Oh right, we are here for our friend, Theo, to be evaluated. You think you can do it, mate?" Tommy announced. Callum had a deadpan expression on his face as he said, "Who do you think i am! You bloody know I can!" He exclaimed as Tommy laughed.

"Just got to make sure you're not losing your touch man." He shrugged with a smile on his face, Callum only rolled his eyes as he turned his attention over to Theo.

"Well well.. come here kiddo" He gestured for him to come closer since Theo was too far away and he couldn't examine him properly.

Theo followed his orders as he stumbled over to him. Why did he stumble? Well Tommy had suddenly reached out and pulled him closer which startled him, he had also unintentionally put too much strength into his pull and Theo almost fell over.

"Oops, sorry Theo." He apologised, but he didn't realize Astro was also pissed off because he had gotten pulled along with Theo, "And you Astro.." He quickly commented when he felt the deadly aura that was surrounding him.

That aura completely dispersed when he said that, he could only wipe the small droplets of sweat off his forehead when he had turned away from Astro.

"Well.. that escalated fast.. Anyway! Come here kiddo!" Callum simply waved his hand to forget that small mishap. This time Theo moved before he was pulled, he walked right up infront of Callum but that was after he gave Astro to Tommy.

"Oh ohh ohhh! My child! What have you been eating kiddo! Your as skinny as a twig!" A slight frown appeared on Theo's face but before he could comment, Callum continued with, "Well that doesn't matter! We aren't testing your physical aspects, but we are testing your mind! Get ready kiddo hohohoha"

Unsurprisingly, Callum did not wait for him to get ready and suddenly reached out and touched his forehead, before Theo could even get surprised, he fell into a dream like state.

His body fell as if his soul had just left his body and Callum caught him quickly, "Now we just wait hohoha! Anyway, let's get him situated in a bed and then we can chug some beer!" He cheered as he easily moved with Theo in his arms.

"Follow me!" He yelled out as he walked through a door next to the counter.

Unlike what you would expect, there was a whole room back there! No, not just a room! But a whole apartment!

A bed was next to the wall to the right when you walked through the door so Callum didn't walk far before placing Theo down.

"Wow man, last time I was here this place was trashed!" Tommy commented as he looked around the place with an expression that clearly expressed what he was thinking right now.

"Take me to Theo, I might as well sleep as you two get drunk." Astro commanded, Tommy only shrugged and guided him to Theo's dead looking body.

"There you go, Prince heh." Tommy smirked as he addressed him as his formal title. Astro subconsciously rolled his eyes, it was his go to response when he heard that title.

"Shut up idiot, you never know if they can hear you when their asleep!" Astro scolded Tommy with no hesitation, Callum laughed before clarifying whether they could hear or not, "Definitely can't hear you hoha"

He walked towards the fridge in the kitchen and opened it only to grab 4 bottles of beer.

"Two each" He commented as he winked at Tommy who was basically salvating.

"I love you.." Tommy suddenly said as he walked towards Callum with his arms reached out as if he was going in for a hug, when in reality he was reaching out to his beloved beer.

"Drunkards." Astro murmured, little did he know they both heard him and their heads snapped in his direction with death being considered.