Awaken (2)

A couple more years passed of Zylan living his uneventful but peaceful life. The change of pace was something Zylan desperately needed. That didn't change the fact the he frequently thought of Tilly though. If he managed to get into the awakened academy he wanted to, then it would only be a matter of weeks before he met her again.

All he wanted to do was apologize but he couldn't. He actions spoke so much louder then his words had. He had left her in the rain on a cold winters night. How does one come back from that? He had no idea. The worst part was that she wouldn't even remember. She wouldn't remember so she wouldn't resent him, she wouldn't shout or scream at him she wouldn't even cry. It made it seem like it didn't happen. Because he knew he would cry.

Zylan didn't want to think about that though. He was 14 now and was only 2 weeks away from his birthday. He had finished his tests in school and was patiently awaiting his grades.

Most people would usually think that school grades didn't matter when applying to awakened school. However that was not the case. Awakened people often didn't get higher education and contuined there nornal studies in awakened school while learning about abilities and everything one needed to know before challengong the tower.

There was reasoning behind it and it was simple. Awakened couldn't go to higher education because they had no time.

It was ironic really, the people with more time had less of it.

That was because once awakened had undergone a 5 year period of extensive training they had 4 choices on what to do.

The first choice was join a mage tower. Mage towers were a form of scientific work for awakened. Science's in new ways to use abilities, challenging towers and asceneding to higher ranks faster. The most famous mage tower was the Clock tower. Notoriously known for only taking in the most promising talents of ascended rank people. It was a prestigious place but it was a fundamental for all the advancements made in Awakened history. Still all mage towers were hard to get into so not an ideal option.

The second choice was to become a professor for awakened academy's. This was a good option for most people because you made a really large income and without risks. Not that it is without risk it's just safer in comparison. However you must atleast be a middle rank blessed to become a professor which leads onto the third option.

The third option was to join the HPAF which stood for 'Humanities Protective Awakaned Gorce' it's a group of awakaned who challenged towers and climb the ranks. They are basically the army but instead they fight in awakened wars against other nations as well as clearing towers.

The final option is the goverment route. The goverment route is for the people who wish clear broken or collapsed towers. The fight the monsters that run rampant on streets. They also fight against other criminal awakened.

The reality is that all option aren't great. Awakaned work horrible hours even though they good pay. The pay doesn't make up for the life threatening dangers that they all have to deal with just to protect humanity. The idea of having to take a set route was not nice to Zylan. Awakaned could always change the path they took but options were limited. Yet it was frowned upon if awakened didn't work. It was a loose loose situation. The only vantage point was large pay and the fame you get when you become a higher class. Even then, if you took the government route you got less pay than other awakened.

Overall the situation and choices an awakaned got was few and far between.

Zylan honestly did not want to think about his options because he already knew what he had to do to succeed.

***

Another week passed when Zylan got his grades.

"Sweetie your grades are out."

His mother was shouting for him from downstairs, he could even hear his farther and brother scramble from the kitchen to the living room when they heard her shout. His family was very nosey and loved to know everything. Not that he minded it just got frustrating sometimes.

With a small huff he slid into his slipper and rushed down the stars. He had to admit that he was a bit excited. Zylan never did well in school and that was his downfall. This time around things were different, he had alot going for him. He found his own opportunities and took them.

Once he finally reached the living room he quickly spoke, you could hear the panting in his voice.

" So what'd I get? Don't leave me hanging."

His mother sighed before pulling up a tab on her phone, taking her sweet time. He watched as his dads face darkened before he spoke in an angered tone.

"Zylan what is going on, these grade are horrific."

Aiden, matching his farther tone, hissed

"Zy zy I'm disappointed in you. You were supposed to be the smarter brother."

Zylan face slowly dropped.

'have I really failed. I mean no I couldn't of. I put so many hours into studying. wait a damn minute. They're tricking me. How rude.'

"your lying. I couldn't of failed." His voice was sturn and confident. How could thee Zylan fail?

His mother beautiful face chuckled before showing him his grades.

A large sigh of relief escaped his mouth. He was right he had not failed. It baffled him that he could even think that.

"Well does this mean we can have a special meal for celebration?"

Zylan really wanted to have his favourite, Chiven meat. Chiven meat was the meat of a low ranking monster that resembled a chicken. It was a common meat but for a person of his status, having Chiven meat was an extreme luxury. He did not want to be the one to request such a delicacy so he wanted someone else to suggest it for him.

"Hmm Lesia I think we should get Zylan some Chiven, we know it his favourite. I mean getting 98/100 on all his test and 100% in some. It's s an exceptional feat Dont you think?"

It didn't take long for his mum to agree, it was a special occasion after all. For Zylan it would be his last time having Chiven with his family before he went to take an entrance exam for awakaned school.

So after a few hours of cooking an amazing meal, Zylan , Aiden, Lesia and Mark sat down to eat one fancy family meal.

Zylan had flet paece before he left and that was all he wanted. A nice family meal without arguments and no disturbance.

It felt nice.