EgoPlex

"Gordon! Why are you late? The awakening ceremony is right now!"
Jessica said urgently when she saw Gordon come through the doors of the awakening center.
Shrugging Gordon didn't say anything. The last thing in the world that he wanted to do was tell this beautiful girl that he had been tripped and beaten on the way to school today. 
It was times like this that he wished that he bruised more easily. Then maybe he could get some attention. But this thought was fleeting in his mind. Gordon actually preferred to deal with his problems in his own way. 
And awakening to become a beast tamer and maybe even have his own talent would be the first step. Once he had a powerful beast the bullies wouldn't dare pick on him. 
"Come on, let's get in line."
Jessica whispered to Gordon when she realized that he wasn't going to tell her what had happened.
Together they went to the back of the arena type auditorium to wait for their turn to awaken.
They had been friends since childhood and had been there for each other through thick and thin. Jessica had been the only friend that stuck with him despite all of his quirks.
Slowly the line inched forward. Occasionally some people in their class would cheer if in addition to becoming a beast master a student also awakened a talent.

Lichen Tree Beast Tamer

Then it dawned on Gordon. These guys weren't targeting him. There must be an entire section full of these ghost type beasts everywhere. When he thought in this way suddenly their behavior made sense. If they were behaving normally they would have already found and probably killed him already.

Instead these beasts even the bone dragon eight were being controlled. It was the only thing that made sense.

Carefully Gordon crawled out of the bed and stood up. Of course he wasn't going to try to attract attention to himself, but moving around didn't break the wights out of mindless circles. Because that was what was happening. The wights were just repeating the same actions over and over again.

Deeply disturbed Gordon wondered what beast had the power to entrain these notoriously difficult creatures to handle.

Beast Incursion