CHanGE 5 : The Return ?

  The Ding sound woke me up and a huge mouth which lay open right in front of me scared the shit out of me. A mouth full of pointy teeth's and rotting smell. I scrambled backwards before the owner of the mouth came into my vision and I remembered the whole flying-to-my-death episode and checked my body. Amazingly the wounds were gone and the only scar I could find was that bluish little circle right beside my heart which I swear to GOD, was fucking glowing like a small ball of flame inside my chest.

  I touched it gingerly but it felt normal if a bit cold to the touch. My shirt had been ripped apart sometime in the fight; now all I had was a (Bruce banner after he wasn't hulk) outfit and a body caked full of dirt and blood. Though I felt weird for a second the amount of system notices made me forget everything else.

  Then a second later, something lodged itself inside my head and I blacked out before I could even scream in pain. The screen turned black in front of me.

  I felt as if I was watching a movie about myself, this wasn't the first time it had happened. I saw myself as a super hero in a variety of movies while I dreamt but this dream was different, so very very different.

  It was about an apocalypse that suddenly shook the world over, of Monsters and Magic, of Mayhem and Murder, of Sacrifice and Sacrilege , of Freedom and Fate. Oh and that damn fate so fucked me up ...well the other me up quite too much actually. The future was so fucking dangerous that I felt rather stupid when I understood what the other me had done . He forcefully made his consciousness travel back in time even though he knew that there was a chance that it might just end up vanishing in thin air, he still did it. And here's what pisses me off; he did it because he trusts me, the balls on this guy. If his memories are anything to go by, his wish is a very tall order. I took a deep breath afterwards and calmed my heart which was thundering like a storm.

  Was it too much? Of course it was.

  Is it going to be Dangerous? Of-fucking-course it is going to be.

  But...

  Whatever he did...

  whoever he became..

  did I feel anything for him..?

  Yes, I did.

  For all his actions and thinking I wouldn't know how to react. I mean sure now that I could see his life like a reel it was easy to make decisions just like an audience thinking they could have done better than the main lead. I withheld all the judgement and focused on making sure that I didn't have to make the same mistakes he did.

  Did I have a Choice? No-Fucking-Way...There will...no there is an apocalypse on the way and it won't stop just cause I am having a time travelling brain-seizure. It will come and it will destroy everything I held dear if I don't do something about it. The other me, he didn't know better but I do..so.

  For what it's worth, HE is ME so of-course his wish is my wish.

  "Sigh, Fine. I will fulfill our wish and thanks for all that knowledge you gave me.That was awesome....", I said to no-one and turned around towards the huge corpse of a long time friend of mine. The Heaven swallowing beast looked just as fresh as any other giant monster corpse-that-just-died-a-second-ago should look like. It still scared me but I also felt stupid thinking that once I had just ran away from this treasure of mine.

  I touched the blur glowing ball on my chest and felt it's slight rhythm before focusing. I uttered something for the first time and yet I felt as if I had uttered them a million times already.

  "Open Log."

  I looked at the window and felt nostalgic all of a sudden. The memories told me of all that is to come and my own actions in the following times. They contained precise instructions on when and how I was supposed to make sure that I did not make the same mistake the other me did. Looking at it this way, it was almost like knowing that you are going to regret doing some things before you even do it. The next thing was very important for my (my other one's)plans.

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  "Add all points to Luck and Initiate Reward collection."

  "Yes", I said without hesitation and still thinking about how the last time my other self had obtained the class. Suddenly the world expanded and the sky above tore open to reveal the galaxy and billions billions of stars.

  It was beautiful. The scenery left me in such awe that I forgot to breath for a minute. The magnificent and grand scenery filled me with both greatness and anxiety.

  Even though I knew it was going to happen, I still couldn't stop. I ignored the box that popped up in front of me and just kept looking at the stars.

  This didn't mean that the atmosphere had vanished from above me, it was just a flashy way of telling everyone around that I had done something phenomenal. It didn't happen on a regular basis and never at the scale that it presently is. The surrounding sky darkened and started thundering as if the heavens were angry at being swept away just like that. I took one last look at the sky before turning away and looking at the incessantly blinking box in front of me.

  I felt weird looking at the class because in the near future this class would belong to a dear friend of mine. I didn't know how to feel about that so I swiped above and he screen changed to show another class.

  It felt weird to know exactly the information that I couldn't read due to my low access. I mean the other me had all these info about their strengths, their weaknesses and what exactly made them so special so naturally I knew exactly what the system was trying to hide. Unique classes were powerful and rightfully so, they were the only one in all of existence. That means there can not be two 'Hellboy' or two 'Heaven's Beloved' in this world. This makes them different to the majority of classes which can be taken by anyone who fulfills the criteria. Since they are the only one in existence it becomes some sort of balancing factor to make them as strong as possible with a hell lot of criteria requirements. The system was still in it's development phase so there could be errors but for things this special, the system always maintains a balance.

  I looked at the remaining classes and what I saw just made me sigh.

  'Ah there it is...', I stopped myself and wiped off the imaginary sweat from my forehead. The lucky draw was fixed and thus could not be re-drawn. So even I didn't know whether or not I would get the same class the 'second time'.

  "Confirm Adventurer as class."

  The sky rippled like a sheet in the wind for a second before I heard a faint pop from somewhere. A mysterious energy which I knew is mana entered my body and gently lifted me in the sky. The comfort almost made me moan out but I controlled myself. I didn't feel any changes but I knew the changes done to my body. I sighed when I was set down after the changes were complete.

  Before anything I looked at the massive beast I had killed in front of me and placed my hand on it's head. The smell of blood and brain matter made me a bit nauseous but what I was about to do was much more important. A mistake my other self regretted always.

  Last time my other self didn't actually learn of this until way too late. My other self was scared shit-less after waking up and just ran into the school trying to find his/my friends. The situation by that time had just got way too complicated. So he or should I say me missed quite an opportunity. You see monsters gave out loot after being killed. The matter was just that at the start of 'The Game', the System hadn't implemented the automatic loot drop. So if someone killed a creature then that someone had to keep his hands on the creature and say..

  "Loot", I said simply. The massive creature glowed like a small golden star before getting turned into little gold lights and disappearing. Combined with the massive aurora of stars around me, it was quite a amazing view. Something that I hope to always remember.

  Before allocating my class, I reached out to the little orb on the floor and the silver ring lying besides along with a couple hundred gold coins scattered around the clearing.

  "hu..I am quite Lucky. First skill on first kill",I said while holding the tiny orb at eye level. Skills orbs were rare, so much so that in the future they were almost considered a modern myth.

  They weren't. At-least not for those who were truly strong.

  The idea of loot is being given random amount of items which have to have some connection to the monster killed. In the case of monsters they have skills (Stronger the monster Rarer the skill), Items (which have similar properties to the monsters; System generated), Coins (stronger the monster greater the amount; System generated). But in the case of Humans, they drop everything they have on person after being killed.

  A scream woke me up from my thoughts. Clutching the orb closer to me, I looked towards the huge school which at the moment had turned to the very first test of my new Life.

  Unknown to him, a seemingly plain looking ring materialized right after he turned. Like an unremarkable thing it lay in the dust awaiting the lucky fellow which would pick it up and reclaim it to one day.