Chapter 4: A Unique Variant
=|5 days later|=
[Austin POV]
I miss mom. . .
It's already been a week since 'that' day happened, and I've been in Carol's care for 5 days since the day she saved my life.
I'm thankful to her, I really am. . .but, I just can't get over the fact that my family was gone just like that, so I didn't talk to Carol in the first few days I stayed here as I am trying to organize my thoughts, but every time I tried to forget that awful memory, mom and dad will suddenly show up before me with their bloodied face and body, constantly appearing in my line of sight and even shows up in my dreams every night turning it to a nightmare.
Every night I keep having nightmares, relieving 'that' incident over and over again, waking me up every time and keeping me away from sleep. I had a hard time sleeping because of this, making my head a mess and emotions rampant wildly.
On the first night after Carol saved me, she said that I sweated buckets and keep muttering something in my sleep, she said that she didn't know what to do so she only went and sat beside me, holding my hand while I sleep which she said made me calm a little.
And after that night, Carol would come beside me when she sees me having another nightmare, holding my hands and rubbing my forehead. I gotta say, it felt pretty nice. Days went on just like that and after I recovered, she asked me where I lived and said that she would help me get back home.
"I. . .got no home to go back to..." I said as I looked outside the window, but. . .a sudden wave of pain went through my head, scenes of awful memories appeared before me as I clutched my head in pain, 'no! Don't show up, PLEASE!'
"NO!" I screamed still clutching my head, scenes of my parents dying before me played out, "NO! PLEASE! I'M SORRY!, I'M SORRY! IT'S ALL MY FAULT! PLEASE-"
"Hey, kid! Can you hear me?! calm down!" Carol tried to calm me down
"PLEASE! I'M SORRY! MOM!"
Carol suddenly brought me into a hug, "calm down. Take a deep breath and calm down" she said in a soothing tone, "everything's gonna be alright" I remember my mom saying the exact words as her, her words rang in my head like an echo.
That managed to calm me down and finally, tears started to flow down from my eyes and hugged Carol back as I really needed something, someone, to do that to me.
After minutes of bawling my eyes out, I stopped crying and broke the hug as I managed to calm down.
"what? finished? it seems like your eyes ran out of juice huh" She giggled.
"thank you for that Mrs. Lee" I said thanking her.
"well, you're welcome."
"oh and It's 'MISS', I guess I didn't mention it huh, I don't have a partner" she said correcting me.
"Oh I'm sorry-" I tried to apologize but she quickly cut me off.
"don't apologize, it's quite understandable HAHA! You're probably wondering why a beautiful woman like me doesn't have a partner, well to answer your doubts-*ngggh*, well no one can handle these babies! HAHAHA!" she said flexing her muscles as she laughed loudly.
I giggled at her antics.
"huh? so you can smile too huh?" she said grinning widely.
After she said that, I immediately switched my expression to neutral.
"hehe" she giggled again,
"I can see the redness on your ears boy"
'WHAT?!' Oh god! This is so embarrassing!
She continued to laugh
"Say, how about staying here?" she suddenly offered.
"me? stay here?"
"yeah! you said that you don't have a home to go back to, and I've been kinda lonely here living alone too so. . .why not?" she said smiling.
"is-is it really alright?"
"of course it's alright! why? you don't want to?"
'can I really start a new life here?. . .I-I-'
"well, if you'll have me" I said with a smile on my face, happy that finally I cant start over, that maybe with this, I can bury all these raging emotions inside me. Tears started to fall down my eyes.
"Well let's re-introduce ourselves shall we! My name is Carol Lee!" she said extending her right arm to me for a handshake.
I wipe out the tears on my face and extended my right arm towards her, shaking her hands and completing the handshake.
"My name is Austin Vale, nice to meet you" I said with a soft smile
And that's how I met the best and coolest grandma in the world!
And so, 3 years went by. Me and grandma Carol already became the best of friends. She taught me a lot of things about hunting and trained my body to be capable of handling her ways, and I gotta say, she really is the coolest(and cruelest) person in the world!! The way she hunted prey was unique, she's using a chain with blades on its end, dancing around elegantly as she cuts through her prey.
She said that when she was still in China, she was trained at an early age by her family as she said that her family was trained to be warriors or 'protectors', she explained that since the early era, her family was protecting an ancient tomb where a corpse of a god was laying.
When I first heard her story, I laughed so hard my stomach hurt as this was just on another level, a joke Carol made.
"lol, what the hell? hahaha! who are you trying to fool old woman? corpse of a god? pfft* HAHAHA! I don't doubt you being a warrior as I can clearly see you manhandling those large ass bears and making them into rugs, but a god? really? HAHAHAHA!" I laughed out loud.
"believe it or not brat, there's a lot of things in this world that ordinary humans do not know. Souls, spirits, guardians, gods, they're all real" She said in a serious tone.
'Wait! She's serious?!', "are you serious?"
She didn't answer me and only showed her right arm where it started to glow a hue of golden light.
I only stared at her arm in shock, 'WHAT THE FUCK?!'
"HAHAHAHA! if you could only see your face right now, ha ha hah! It's totally worth telling you my secret! this is priceless! hahaha!" she laughed at me as I realized that I made an ugly expression(probably).
"wait! so gods are real? and what the fuck is that glowing thing around your arm!?"
"this golden aura is called 'qi', my family practice this art to make our body tough and stronger" she explained, "we also use qi to strengthen our weapons. We direct our body's qi into the weapon, making it stronger. That's why I can easily cut through a bear." she continued.
"but. . . I'm a variant" she said in a serious tone as she extended her right arm towards a rock in a distance. The rock suddenly floated and flew towards her catching it. "I can put my qi in an object without touching it, and I can control it at will"
'what?!'
brain.exe_not_functioning/error/error. . .
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[A.N: Well that escalated quickly lol
And P.S: He is still on Earth, I'm planning on making him have a little adventure here first to build his character completely then proceed to send him to the Arcane world :D]
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