25 (Window)

I carry Skyler in my arms and she is heavier than I expected. I stare at her pale face and she is unconscious now, I guess she was too tired and her body gave out. She is very pretty, her lashes are long and silver in colour, and her lips are smallish and light red. My hair begins turning white and my skin starts to become pale, anytime I make close contact with her I start to change and I begin feeling mushy.

"Why did you hold back when you were fighting me?" I whisper and use my finger to tuck loose strands of hair that are falling freely over her face behind her ears. I still believed that she held back when she was fighting me because she was Kovex's former teammate and she was a general of Zyron's army, there was no way I could defeat her if she went all out.

"Anytime you come this close to her your power reacts, that's why you're turning into Kovex's form." Y explains and then its lips part into a smile. "Do you want to learn something interesting?"

"Anytime you are in Kovex mode your abilities increase and you become stronger." It walks closer to me as it talks, with its hands gesturing in the air. So this is why I feel a lot of energy surging through me because of this mode even though I am exhausted.

"Can I enter this mode on my own without getting this close to Skyler?" I ask out of curiosity, cause it will be uncomfortable getting this close to Skyler anytime I want to use this mode.

"Yes. But it'll be difficult to maintain it because of your current level, you lack the strength and energy to keep it on for long."

The higher the level I go the more experience and strength I get.

I am already in level three and there are seven levels before I will master this power, so this is going to be easy. If I can go up two levels by defeating someone strong that means if I keep on winning battles against strong persons then I will master this power in no time.

"This is why daily challenge is important, daily challenge doesn't only improve your abilities but also build your muscles, your mental ability and your fighting skills. Young master put it there so that you'll have some fun while learning and mastering his powers."

The daily challenge is a pain in the ass and a waste of time for me, I just needed it at the very beginning but now that I am this strong I don't think I need it again.

"Here you go again." I wave my hand in the air nonchalantly. Daily challenges won't make me strong enough to defeat Hermedox. From the visions I saw when I lay in my bed, evil emancipated from him and his breath was filled with bloodlust, I wonder how much more terrifying he will be in real life.

Those visions were implanted by Y. I guess it used both insight and manipulation to make me see things. It used insight to get into my mind and then it used manipulation to alter my thoughts... I also unintentionally used insight in the hospital when I was with my parents and I could know their immediate thoughts for a while.

These abilities can be very helpful in solving my immediate problem now. It's been two days since I came back from the past and now I am been stalked by an undercover agent.

I grin.

I have a pretty nice idea on how to both make him stop following me and to clear my name from the police's suspect list, I just have to manipulate his thoughts and make him believe that I am just like every normal high school teenage boy so that he would stop following me. The police are a hindrance to me, if I want to get stronger I have to stop them from trailing me.

I want to get stronger, I don't want to feel that same fear in my visions when I faced Hermedox in real life, I want to be the one in control of the battle.

Throughout my life, I hated losing and that was the main reason why I tried to avoid a battle with Skyler. Anytime I perceive that I can't win a situation I avoid it, that's why I didn't want to accept this fate at first, but when I saw that I had a chance of winning, saving people and having fun, I accepted it. I love being in control, I love being a winner and I don't care what it takes for me to win.

I teleport to my room and thankfully it is neat and well arranged. This Xera link is very useful, I can use it to go anywhere I like, even to my room in seconds but the downside of it is that it consumes a lot of XO. I drop Skyler on my bed, she is still unconscious, and I am clueless about what to do, I hope I haven't broken her. I rake my hair with my fingers and I notice that I have turned back to normal.

I leave my room to the kitchen to get something to eat, I am tired and I need something to replenish my energy. On my way to the kitchen, I meet my mom with both of her hands placed on her hips.

"When did you enter, Jay?" She questions and I jump at the suddenness of her voice.

"Somewhile ago," I stammer my reply and her eyes narrow, "I followed my room window."

"What happened to the front door?" She asks suspiciously and I give out a nervous laugh. It is hard to lie her especially when she is warily staring at me.

"I decided to try out some new window tricks I learnt in a superhero movie." I lie and then rush to the kitchen trying to avoid another question from her.

"Using the window to enter your room is very dangerous, what if you fall off?" My mom is worried that climbing a window of a storey building is dangerous for me when I have done two hundred push-ups on Mount Everest once as part of my daily challenge--this is the sole reason I hate Daily challenges.

"I'm almost eighteen, mom that's not dangerous for me." I open the refrigerator and grab anything edible in it. "Trust me I have been in more dangerous situations."

I just finished having a battle with a former general of a deathly army and a former member of a resistance group, what is more dangerous than that?

"You're turning eighteen and yet you still do movie tricks you watched in a superhero movie," she waves her hand sarcastically in the air and I sigh. "You're still a baby, Jay."

The doorbell rings and I thank heavens that it did, I am saved from this unending conversation with my mom about me turning eighteen and yet still doing childish things.

Since my hands are full with a lot of 'very important' things my mum goes to open the door while I head upstairs. I enter my room and shut the door. I put all the snacks I was able to salvage from the kitchen on my reading table and then I turn on my laptop so that I can watch some anime while I munch on these delicacies.

"Jay," she calls and even though she is downstairs I can hear her voice clearly. Her voice is so damn loud. "Someone wants to see you."

I roll my eyes, maybe it is one of the neighbours who wants to greet me for winning a competition in my school, too bad for that person I have already turned on my laptop and there is no going back.

"Jay!" I hear her call again and if I don't reply, my mom is going to keep on calling me till men finally understand women. That's a 'very long' time.

"I'm coming." I shout back and begin navigating on my laptop having no plans on returning downstairs any soon.

I hear footsteps and then I hear a tiny knock on my room door. This is weird, my mom doesn't usually knock this tiny and in situations like this she just barges in.

"Come in." I say softly forgetting that Skyler is in my room lying on my bed. My room door opens slowly and Via my classgirl walks in.

My eyes widen and I close my laptop immediately after seeing her.

Via and I don't talk often in class, she is the one who always reaches out to me in school, some of my classmates told me that she likes me but I was nonchalant about it since a ton of girls had a crush on me in my school.

Via is very pretty, she has long ebony hair which is packed into a ponytail, hazel eyes and smallish pink lips. She is indeed beautiful and she is also one of the most intelligent students in our class. But I am the most intelligent that is what really matters.

"Your mom told me to check you in your room, I hope you are okay with that," she says sheepishly and I let out a mischievous smile while scratching my head. No way my mom allowed her here, I thank goodness my room is neat.

"Sure I am." I tell her and a smile creeps to her lips. I quickly look away from her and then I reopen my laptop.

"You won the competition as usual, congratulations," she lets out and I nod without a reply while pretending to work on my laptop.

"Why were you not in school for two weeks?" She questions and I turn to her. When my eyes meet hers she becomes shy all of a sudden and her cheeks begin turning red.

I just looked at her!

"Well, something came up. How are you, Via?" I quickly ask to prevent her from asking any further questions.

"I'm fine." She chirps and I smile. This is very awkward, this is the first time I've had a girl in my room...something is wrong, I'm forgetting something.

My eyes become wide like large saucers when I realise that Skyler is still in my room lying unconsciously on my bed and it seems like

Via has noticed it too because she is now facing my bed's direction with her facial expression worse than mine. Via turns to me and then she scans me with her horrified eyes, she sees how messy and exhausted I look, she turns to Skyler and she too looks messy.

Wait, what is she thinking about? I hope it's not what I am thinking.

Shit.