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Chapter 1 - ch. 1 - Vivid

Sitting in a couch of a very familiar house, seeing himself socializing with the relatives he can't put the name to faces.

"Sid" called one of his cousins. "let's go outside". His parents smiled at him as if saying "go on son", wanting him to enjoy and relax with relatives his age.

Sid watches himself follow the "stranger" relative outside and as he follows himself out the door, the outside suddenly became a world of trees as high as a mountain with almost no pathway for trekking but Sid watches himself all alone trying to find his way back. His supposed cousins nowhere to be found.

"Where's the door?" Sid ask himself, looking around and finding nothing but trees and green bushes. Looking up he saw nothing but green leaves and various birds nesting on the tree trunk. He saw himself staring at a bird as colorful as a rainbow flying from tree to tree. Looking at himself, he seems to think of the name of the bird "Adarna?"

There is no such thing as a bird called Adarna but he seems so sure that, that's the name of the bird. As he was thinking, he decided to just look at himself again and there he was, suddenly wrestling himself free from a giant slime as big as a van trying to consume him whole. Sid struggling inside the big a** slime.

"ugmmp~ aghh ugh". Struggling inside the monster slime is torture but he doesn't want to die he wants to live. He wants to survive. He tried scratching, punching, kicking, swimming inside the slime but it was all for naught.

As Sid watch himself struggle, he could not handle it anymore, as he run forward trying to help himself feels like forever. He knew he was only fifty meters away watching it all unfold but he seems to be running for about a minute, yet he still was not inching any closer to his dying self.

"NOooooooo!!!!! " He screamed trying to force himself closer.

Nothing happens. A sudden ringing was engulfing the whole forest. ~riiinnnggg~ ~riinnnggg~ ~rriiinggggggg~.

Sid woke up. "A dream" he muttered to himself "always very vivid, always very dangerous, always in third person". He thinks to himself on why his dream was always in third person.

It was not always like this. During his childhood he dreams just like everyone else. He dreams of happy occasions, silly settings, past memories, nightmares and most of the times he always forgets most of it. He'll wake up in the middle of the night telling himself "wow that was amazing, I can't wait to tell mom about it",he'll doze off and forget the whole thing next morning. But for the past five years his dreams became very vivid. He always thinks "maybe Im also special, Im going to awaken any moment now, maybe this is the trigger i need". But for the past five years since the world has change, he was still the same. No awakening, no system, no suddenly being able to fly, no being invisible, no sudden outburst of elemental energy and no power-ups to attain levels. He is still normal.

When data says that ninety-seven percent of the people in the world had awakened, Sid was sadly part of the remaining three percent who was not able to trigger their awakening. He became the outlier the special one because everyone around him started to change, they started becoming super humans, being able to lift things that was always seem impossible in the past, little by little becoming as fast as most motorized vehicles and most importantly being able to jump so high Sid thougth that one of these days the people of earth will be able to fly. But he sadly remains the same.

He wants to be able to level-up attain heights of power to protect himself from the new dangers of the world. He wants to trigger the system like everybody else. He tried facing monsters but all he got is a scar on his face but the system still wont activate for him. He had to embarrassingly be saved by goddess Natalie who was so beautiful, elegant, noble and having one of the very rare awakened powers, an elemental affinity the power of ice. She freezes the hoglike creature just by touching the monster and shatters it by the subsequent punch on the snout. Looking so cool and ethereal just like an ice princess.

"Are you okay? " Natalie asked. Sid was so scared on the ordeal he stuttered a non-coherent reply "ugh~ uhmm~ ah~ mmmmhm ye~ yeye" "ouchhhhh" before he passed out. He might have also wet himself during the encounter with the hog creature during his struggle in the supposed fight to trigger his awakening but he chose to forget most of what had happened at that time.

A beautiful scenery welcomed Sid as he watch himself lying in a clearing full of gigantic trees, chirping birds of all shape and color. Cute little blue slime bouncing around wandering the clearing and a skeleton walking with a huge axe lumbering near his lying self. His other self was slow to get up absorbing the radiant sun and the beautiful scenery unaware of the lumbering skeleton coming closer his back. Sid who was on the ground look up and saw the various flying animals, birds mostly birds of different color but there are also some butterflies and various insects as big as the birds. He was amazed on the elegance of the flying creatures specially the enormous bird whose rainbow color and beautiful singing mesmerized him. But a grating sound was also ringing near him. Like a metal grating on rocks ~grrrrrrrkkkkk graarrrrrkkkk grrrkkkkkkk~ the sound is really annoying, Sid hates that sound. As he look behind him where the sound was coming from his eyes almost buldged out. A lumbering skeleton dragging a huge metal axe on the ground was approximately five meters away from him and as he look in the skeleton's eyes the skeleton suddenly lunge toward him trying to chomp down with the big a** axe.

~CRAAAASHHHHHHHHH!!!! ~

rubbles flew and massive crevice in the ground where Sid was lying a second ago.

Sid watch as he saw himself hurriedly jump out of the way and panickly running toward the meadow where the bunch of cute blue slimes where bouncing around.

~boink ~ boink~ boink~

sounds of bouncing slimes are surrounding the meadows but on his back he can hear the scraping sound of the metal axe nearing him. He pushed himself as he had never before toward the beautiful meadow when the slimes notice his approach.

As the blue slimes' beady eyes got in contact with his own, they suddenly looked enraged and rushed toward him. The panicked boy tripped on his own foot and fell on the ground.

Sid who was watching himself tripped and fell down also panicked and tried to help himself, but he can't seem to approach his other self. Like he was just there to spectate himself get brutalize by the angry skeleton and the mob of cute blue slimes.

He tried screaming at the monsters to get the attention away from his other self.

"HEEEEYYYYYY!!! I'M HEEEEEERREE!! YOU F***ING MONSTERS COME AND GET MEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!! ".

~ding ding~

~ding ding~

Sid woke up in the bed of a hospital's emergency room. "Ughhh" he groaned while a sting on the side of his face caused him to reached-up and touched the bandage covering the left side of his face. He remembered that he got a long wound beginning from his forehead up to the side of his cheeks due to the charged of the monster boar when he tried to kill it. He panicked that he might had been blinded from the said encounter, since the left side of his face was all wrapped up.

"He's awake"

A melodious call was heard throughout the emergency room. Sid saw Natalie standing beside him, calling for the nurse's attention.

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