Awaken

About a decade passed since Zylan reached his beginning. Zylan went back to when he had a loving mother and father, his brother was even still here. He had a nice family life, they all cared and loved for him very much. Zylan was eternally grateful to be raised in such an environment even if he had little money.

Despite having a good family, he still struggled with alot of other things. This time around Zylan was conscious and was more aware of what was going on. He much more ambitious too. This time around he planned to get into the best of schools because he knew he had the talent to do so.

He planned to get in on the scholarships for newly awakened. However he still had a few years to go before he awakened.

99% of people who awaken do so in there teen years from about 15-17 years of age. Some do so later but never earlier. It was werid, most people believed that you can only awaken at those ages because of puberty but the facter's were still unknown. Nobody knew why people started gaining weird powers and nobody really cared.

If one randomly gained power, they wouldn't question how they got it instead they would just use it for there own means. That was human nature.

Zylan was another one of those people, he did not care how or why because when he got his power he used it for a goal and purpose. He did not stop to think why he had it or how. When he did stop to think he realised how much bigger everything was than him. That was the real reason why he was in this mess. To stop a repeat of that self destruction.

Despite everything he still hadn't managed to figure out why powers were bestowed upon humans. It must of been an extremely powerful force to bestow such things but was it enough to challenge gods? Or was it the calamity itself setting us up to fail. He would never know until he repeaed the gods himself. Untill he gained more power.

A side from that, there were multiple different elements and powers people gained. Some were alchemist while some were warriors. Healers and utility users were out there as well. But even then there were different elements and sections within the main categories. There were no 2 people with the same powers.

For example, there was a group called fire alchemist at his school originally before he turned back time. However they were not all the same. Some were combustion user and managed to make fire as a strech of their ability. There was also a person who could use a fuel based ability. When that person was paired with a wind and oxygen user they could make fire.

Sometimes people were unlucky and if they had a power which was not balanced they would have a drawback. Most people were like that.

For example, if someone had the ability to travel back in time there draw back could be that they age instead of getting younger when they go back in time.

A drawback like that doesn't seem to bad but in the grand scheme of things its pretty horrendous. Luckily the higher ranked a person like that got the more powerful they would become. That was because aging is a law powerful people did not have to think about to much. But even then, nobody would know if a power like that existed unless their power perfectly countered it.

Abilities were not the only thing awakened could use though. Once you kill a monster a game like system awards you points. These points can be traded in for weapons or new abilities.

Power-point's weren't easy to get, though, and the exchange rate was not cheap. A decent sword would cost 5 power points and when you only get 1 power-point for killing a medicore monster, it easily gets hard to gain equipment. Fortunately there are tasks you can complete to gain more but they aren't easy. People often seek out forge masters when they need weapons.

Zylan quickly put aside his thoughts of the future. It wasn't long since he turned 10 and the days felt short. Soon enough he'd be 15. Zylan remembered that the day he turned 15 he awakened. He was one of the only few to awaken so early after turning 15. It changed his world.

This time around he'd be prepared. However before he got there he needed to pass school. School ended at 15 years of age in todays world and if you didn't awaken in th 2 year gap between lower and higher you would have to go back for higher education or apply to jobs.

Original he wasn't very smart, but now he had years of knowledge and experience backing him up.

The sound of a pencil scratching at paper echoed throughout the room. Before a gentle knocking could be heard at the door.

Zylan sighed before speaking.

"You can come in Aiden."

A small innocent boy with identical black eyes to his own walked through the door. He had brown hair that was shortly cut. His face was round and screamed of youth. He took small steps towards the bed and sat down. He was kicking his feet about and spoke in a sweet voice.

"Zy zy, you smart right brother?"

Zylan looked at the adorable boy who was only 4 years of age. Whenever Aiden called him Zy zy he couldn't help but feel like he would turn into same mischievous devil as he was before. Still he was his brother and he loved him no matter what.

"Hello to you to Aiden. And yes big brother Zy zy is smart? What do you need help with?"

Aiden turned his head away slowly. Then quickly pulled out a small toy car. The toy was a small red sports car. It was a toy model of the Ferrari SF90. Zylan had wished he had that car once. He even dreamed about riding in a car like that to flex to all the people who had builled him in school. That was just a fantasy though.

"Zy zy can you plwease help me build one of these cars."

Zylan just started at the boy.

'what is that child thinking. I know he's young but i am 10. 10. how the hell im i supposed to do that.'

Zylan slowly shook his head.

" Aiden I'm sorry but im only a child. I dont know how to build a car."

The mood in the air shifted as Zylan carefully choose his words. It didn't matter though. Zylan had just crushed Aidens dreams. It made no difference.

A small sob escaped his mouth and all hell broke loose.

***

Mum and Dad came in when they heard the loud ruckess and realised the issue of the problem quite quickly. Aiden may be cute and only be 4 but his natural way of speech made everything exaggerated and so making Zylan look like a horrible person.

They decided pretty quickly that he had done nothing wrong and sent Aiden away to play with his toys.

Eventually time passed and it was later in the day. He had food around the table and contuined his act of a 10 year old. Not that he was very good at it.

Zylan didn't do much and that was about as interesting as his days went. Go to school come back , do homework, sleep, eat, repeat.

It wasn't that bad really.