Chapter 1: Last day
"Drrriiinnnng... "
As the bell announced the end of the alloted time the female examiner said "Time's up, stop writing everyone"
After submitting my answersheet i got out of the exam hall and went down the hallway discussing along the way. After a while I crossed the schoolgates and got outside with a deep sense of relief as today is the last day of my high school life.
Some may say that who says you've already passed you may end up failing. Well they are not wrong I may end up failing as I'm not some perfectionist who is 100% confident that he will clear it no matter what but I know my parents very well it's either pass or the family business there is no other way.
Well I'm atleast grateful to them for being strict with me Or I might've ended up like those buffoons who can't even score in double digits.
But this joy is short lived, I have to start preparing for my college entrance exam from tommorow onwards atleast I've got today to enjoy myself and what might be a better way to celebrate than going home and sleeping till I wake up naturally and not by the maddening voice of that damned alarm clock.
Feeling a bit suffocated I loosen up my tie but it didn't help 'What's wrong am I sick or something, should go to the doctor... ' but before I could finish that thought I collapsed.
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'Ah...' my body is so sore, it feels like I've been sitting on my desk nonstop for 8 hours even opening my eyes feels so damn tiring. After alot of effort I finally managed to open my eyes looking around, it was a very typical hospital room with a doctor sitting nearby waiting for me to get comfortable.
"How are you feeling right now" the doctor asked.
"Not too well" I was surely in a poor state but it was still not the worst I've ever been. It probably doesn't even make it in top 10.
"Well I suggest that you rest for a bit longer we've already conducted all the necessary tests while you were asleep with your parents permission"
Seems like I've been out for along time, I hope it's nothing serious.
"Can I see my parents"
"Of course I'll have them informed that you've woken up" and with that the doctor left.
After a while, my parents came in barraging me with questions like how I feel, do I feel hungry, is there anything I need and many more. Once they calmed down a bit they told me that I've been unconcious since yesterday.
The reason for my sudden collapse is still unknown as I do not show any symptoms of any known diseases. Atleast I celebrated my last day of school the way I planned but it was not enjoyable at all. I don't feel like I will be getting out of here anytime soon.
And that is how it went once the doctors figured the cause, it turned out to be a really rare sort of disease which doesn't show any symptoms till it's impossible to save the patient and it's rarity makes it incurable at the moment after all there have been only a few such reported cases.
Means that I'm plagued by an incurable disease which will end my life in about less than a month.
Once the news about my condition reached the ears of all those who knew me I received continuost visits from friends, relatives, teachers, neighbours and many more there were some who felt pity, some told me words like you've been a good friend, a good student, a good person but as the days kept on passing the number of visitors decreased but there were still some who continued to come everyday.
As for me my condition was deteriorating with each passing moment. After the first week I was not even able to eat by myself and after the second even my thoughts became hazy I laid on my bed feeling sore and miserable and after the third week it started to feel like if I close my eyes now I might never wake up again and by the end of the fourth week I died.
'What I'm not dead yet why are they all crying I'm still alive' why can't I move my body even my breathing has stopped and I can't even close my eyes. That doctor what did he inject in me, but I could do nothing except staying still and then my father closed my eyes.
I don't know what happened after that but it seems that my body has not been disposed of yet. Opening my eyes I try to look around but it seems that my body is restrained in such a way that I can't even move my neck. All I can see is a white ceiling with unusually bright lights.
"You're awake"
I know that voice it's the doctor, so am I gonna be used as a test subject for some experiment because I can't think of any other reason except for this.
"Don't worry I won't hurt you, you were doomed to begin with I just wish to give you a second chance" And after that he never spoke again.
From then on he performed many sorts of weird tests on me but atleast none of them were painful but my condition was making just being alive rather painful but today it all ends as today seems to be the last day of whatever he is doing.
He injected me with the same thing again which he used on the day I was declared dead and my eyes were closed once again.
After that whatever he did I couldn't feel a thing, but at one point my entire mind shuddered as if my conciousness itself was being hurt but it only lasted a moment and my senses came back but they felt different like how I felt before I was hospitalized.
Opening my eyes I looked around, it was a small room with poor lighting and a doublebed in the middle with me laying on it alongside a beautiful women who was about a few years older than me.
'Who is she, where are my clothes wait... ' I'm naked in a bed with a women what did she do to me while I was asleep was I sold to this women but what about my disease did the doctor cure it just to sell me doesn't seem to be the case.
Before I finished figuring out what was going on the beautiful women woke up. Rubbing her eyes she looked at me with a gentle smile
"Good morning dear"
Dear... Who... Me is she in her right mind I do not even know her but wait the time frame between the time I blanked out from the doctor's medicine and the time I woke up is too short for me to spend a night with a women it was like half an hour and it doesn't seem likely for him to arrange such a scenario for me to wake up in. Just then the women spoke again
"I'll go make breakfast, you get up as well" and after giving me a kiss she went to pick up her clothes from all around the room. I noticed it now that the women was walking around the room naked.
'I shouldn't look... ' it was view to die for. Just what did she see in this body, but once I looked down I understood just what did she see damn it's like a monster.
Wait... What is this on the back of my right hand there were 5 stars drawn I instinctively looked at the back of the right and there was also the same 5 star tattoo. Was the owner of this body into such things even though I was highly against having any tattoo's but these ones somehow felt different.
[Error detected]
Huh... What's this voice in my head
[There are two potentials in the same body]
Potential... What does that mean before I could finish that though I went into a trance like the world has stopped but the voice kept on announcing.
[Merging of potentials will shortly begin]
[Merging of potentials is starting]
[Elements are being merged]
[Elements of Light and Dark are being merged]
[New element is being created]
[Merger is complete]
As the last message sounded in my head the world started moving again. I should be filled with questions now but I somehow understood everything that was happening it was the awakening process and how did I know that it seems that I had gained the memories of the original owner of this body.
The original owner of this body was a young man named Spade he was around the same age as me with black hair, black eyes and a muscular build but the most important feature of his was his face and it was completely burned, it was a miracle that he was still able to see and speak.
After all this was the life threatening scenario which made him worthy of possessing a five star potential. Looking away from the mirror I opened my status window
Name: Spade
Rank: One star
Potential: Five star
Inventory: -
Soul Pieces: [0/1000]
Element: Twilight
Skills: [Perception], [Brawler]
First ability: [Twilight Sense]
[Twilight Sense] Ability Description: [The ability grants the user a heightened sense of awareness, allowing them to perceive subtle changes in their environment, track hidden enemies, and anticipate potential threats]