11 The Awakening

A huge spark of purple light appeared inside Conor's room. Suddenly, Conor, Hannah and Danny appeared inside the room. Danny was bleeding and he was unconscious. 

"Quickly, lay him down in the bed!" said Hannah as she took Danny into her arms, but she couldn't lift him up. Conor quickly lifted him from the legs and both of them together, managed to lay Danny on the bed.

"Heal him quickly Conor! Heal him!" yelled Hannah to the mage. He quickly got his book and tried to cast the spell. But his mana was too low. 

"My mana! It's too low!" yelled Conor as he saw his mana level. The last of his mana had been used to cast that teleportation spell. He turned to Hannah. 

"Ok I'll give you mine! Hold out your hand!" said Hannah, reading the boy's eyes. Conor held her hand and absorbed 100 units of mana and then turned back to Danny. 

He opened his book and the pages automatically turned. When a mage uses his or her book to cast a spell, the book reads the user's mind and gives the page of the spell required. But the mage using spells must be the rightful owner of it.

Conor quickly read the words. He had never used the spell before, but when they achieve the system, they get the knowledge of the spells automatically. 

"Heal!"

He touched Danny's forehead and Danny's body filled with a strange aura. His wounds slowly faded away and his health restored. But he wasn't conscious yet. Even though a player's health is restored, the player doesn't fully become conscious for a while. 

Hannah sat beside Danny on Conor's bed. Danny was still breathing, thankfully. "Get well soon, Danny!" uttered Hannah looking at Danny.

"Uhh.. soon... He must wake up and leave the house before my mother comes.." said Conor to Hannah. Hannah was expressionless. "Don't worry he will.." chuckled Hannah. 

Both of them laughed. They were getting to know each other pretty well already. All 3 of them was the most fitting group. A mage, vampire and a hunter.

"Hey, I'll make some lunch.. Must be hungry.." said Conor. "Yes.. I'd love to taste your food." said Hannah in surprise. Conor was perfect in every way. He's decent, neat and he was a gentleman. 

Conor smiled at Hannah and went to the kitchen. Then Hannah was alone with Danny sleeping beside her. She looked at Danny. 

"Poor thing.. Your best friend just died.. you got attacked.. I can't even imagine what you're going through" said Hannah to the unconscious Danny. 

Hannah looked at her wrist watch. It was 4:00 p.m. The sun was setting. It was a very awful day for the three of them. Mostly for Danny. 

Hannah couldn't think of anything. As now, she had many problems. Healing Danny, doing her school work, investigating the werewolf and finishing her survival quest, the most awful one of them all. 

"System, show survival quest.." said Hannah to her system. "Now opening your survival quest!!"

[ Survival quest : drink 2 liters of blood ( 1.1L / 2L ) ]

The set of words displayed in her mind. There was still 900 milliliters of blood left to drink. When a player reaches level 5, they acquire the voice recognition system. 

So when a player talks to the system, it responds back to them with their answer. The system could even talk with them like a living being. It was magical.

But modern technology also has its own magic just like that. So the players in the modern world were more used to the system than anyone who lived in the past.

It had only been a month since Hannah acquired the system. Her grandfather helped her to get to level 10. But after her grandfather died, she was alone again, until she found these two.

But each week, she regretfully sucked the blood of the humans she found and finished her survival quest to save her own life. But it was her fate, so she faced it. And it was her grandfather's dying wish, to let the girl reach the power of immortality, the one thing her grandfather couldn't accomplish. 

As she sat there, thinking about solutions for her problems, Conor made some sandwiches for their lunch. He was good at cooking or one could say he was good at living alone. 

Conor prepared the sandwiches and brought them to his room. Hannah was sitting beside Danny and Danny was still out cold. 

"Here's the lunch!" said Conor, handing the plate to Hannah. Hannah to the plate. "Thank you very much mister. Let's taste your cooking now." 

She took a bite out of the beautiful sandwich. It was delightful. The taste was absolutely gorgeous.

"This is wonderful! You're absolutely wonderful at cooking!" rejoiced Hannah as she chewed the marvellous sandwich. Conor smiled shyly rubbing his head. 

Suddenly Danny coughed. Both Hannah and Conor quickly turned to Danny. Then Danny slowly opened his eyes. "Danny!! You're finally awake!!" said Hannah giving Danny a hug.

Danny was feeling dizzy. He couldn't quite remember things clearly. "Wha- what happened?" asked Danny who was now talking like a man who had been in a coma. 

"Danny!! An awful lot happened!" said Hannah looking a little sad.

"Why? Wha-"

Suddenly, all the memories came back to Danny. The death of Linda, the werewolf's attack and the pact, all of it came back to him. Suddenly  tears ran down his cheeks. 

"Linda.. I'm sorry, I couldn't save you.." 

More and more tears ran down as the boy laid back on the bad. He was angrier with himself, more than the werewolf because he couldn't save her. "There's nothing I can do now!" 

"But I will swear, I will swear that I will hunt the motherfucker down and make him suffer for what he did to you!!" 

Danny was getting angrier by the moment. 

"Calm down Danny! There was nothing we could do! It was an elite rank! There was no possible way to beat it for a bunch of starters like us!" remarked Conor trying to put some sense into Danny. 

But Danny wasn't easily tamed. But he had his own reasons to be mad at the werewolf. The inhumane creature had taken his best friend's life.

Danny got off the bed. "First eat! Get some lunch or you'll run out of energy!" said Conor again as he gave Danny the plate of food. "Do I look like I'm hungry right now??" 

Danny went away from the room. "No! Eat Danny! If you don't you'll die lacking energy!" declared Hannah standing up from the bed. 

"How can I eat?? It was my fault that Linda died! I forgot about her!!" yelled Danny gripping and pulling his hair with his hand. "The innocent girl died because of me!"

"She was an innocent girl. But if she lived, she could've died in a worse way and she could've done things unimaginably horrible than that. The world chose to let her go to heaven, before she was doomed to be bound with hell!" 

Hannah explained to Danny. But Danny was in disgrace, for his shameless act. If only he could've taken the phone with him when he went to school. 

Danny took a look at his wrist watch. It was almost 8pm. "Wait! I got knocked down! What happened to Linda's body???" asked Danny, quickly turning to Hannah. 

"The police managed to recover her body, don't worry!" answered Hannah softly. Danny was feeling more disgraceful. He was even beaten up by the werewolf that killed Linda.

Danny rushed out from the room, to the hallway. "I'm going to kill that motherfucker! No matter what it takes!!"

"Danny!! Wait! I will help you hunt down that werewolf!" yelled Conor from the back. Danny turned around. He looked at Conor. 

"Meet me back here, tomorrow, right after school.. I'll help you find that werewolf." Conor said looking at the deadly eyes of Danny. 

"I will help too!" joined Hannah who was beside Conor. Danny thought for a bit. The werewolf was strong, so there was no possible way that he could beat this thing alone. 

"Tomorrow! Right after school! We're hunting this motherfucker!!"