"Wooo!! Hoo!!, come on Mikey your too slow!"
Came the voice of Mio, who's currently soaring across the radiant clear skies, above the majestic blue ocean, the island seems to be out of sight.
"Slow down Mio! I can't fly that fast!!"
Mike replied, struggling to catch up with the weirdly elated Mio, isn't she supposed to be worried about the impending doom? as in the "Apocalypse?"
It's been 10 days since they both started training on the island and right now they're heading back to pismo Coast.
I know what your thinking, why didn't Mike just warp himself and Mio to their destination?, well he did want to, but the strong headed Mio wouldn't let him, instead she decided to travel by air, though not by a plane or some sort of aircraft, but by literally flying using their powers.
"That's it!, Accelerate!" *whoosh!*
Mike called out, and immediately zoomed towards Mio with his increased speed.
"Huh?, I thought you could only use that technique sparingly!"
Mio who watches as Mike approached with more speed than before asks in utter curiosity.
"Well, ever since my Stamina and Agility went up, I can use this technique about 6 or 7 times if I push myself to the limit."
Mike replies with an egotistical grin on his face.
"How high is your Stamina and Agility now?"
She inquires further, her expression, intrigued.
"You won't believe it, but after doing basic exercises and running laps my stats look like this...."
[ status Window ]
[ Name- Mike Morgan ]
[ Race- ?????? ]
[ Age- 17+ ]
[ Strength- 1.5 ]
[ Agility- 2 ]
[ Intelect- 2 ]
[ Stamina- 2.5 ]
[ Constitution- 1.5 ]
[Physical skills- Slightly Athletic ]
[ Mental skills- Quick thinking ]
[ Tip- Training or???? Can add stat points ]
Mike's silver tipped black hair fluttering as the wind blew across his face as they both flew through the sky, though slower than before but in the same proximity.
His lips stretched out in a confident smile after revealing his stats.
"What about yours?" He asked with a smirk, he had engaged himself in all sorts of exercises, he even ran laps everyday just to get his stats where they are today, so there was no way Mio's could possibly beat his, he thought.
"Huh?, well...I never really checked them though, I just focused on finding new ways to use my abilities,...I completely forgot about the stats."
"What?!!" He couldn't hide his shock as his mouth had already expressed them even before he could think.
"(What the hell, wasn't our stats the main purpose of the training....)"
Mike couldn't quite rap his head around Mio's words, but it did increase his confidence in his stats.
"(...well I guess that's just Mio being Mio, I gotta say, her carefree attitude is kinda cute though, anyways now there's no way her stats are higher than mine, he he! Time for me to bask in the glory of manliness) "
"Hmm let's see, umm...System! View status window!"
Mio called out to the system, loudly and anxious.
#INITIATING COMMAND- VIEWING THE STATUS WINDOW #
The system's robot voice came on and instantly flipped out the status window.
"...there it is, I'll read out loud..."
[ Status Window ]
[ Name- Mio Cruz ]
[ Race-????? ]
[ Age- 17+ ]
[ strength- 1.2 ]
[ Agility- 2.5 ]
[ Intelect- 1 ]
[ Stamina- 3 ]
[ Constitution- 2 ]
[ physical skills- Athletic ]
[ Mental skills- Extreme determination ]
[ Tip- Training or???? Can add stat points ]
Mike's eyes widened, his jaws dropped but the rush of the wind due to them zooming across the sky, caused him to cough as the wind made it's way to his throat which was wide open at that instant.
"Are you okay Mikey?" Immediately Mio stopped, to attend to the coughing lad who was struggling to breath properly.
*cough!* *cough* "I'm...I'm fine" he said trying to pull himself together as his thoughts unraveled, "(holy shit!, the hell is up with her stats, I thought she only played around with her powers, how did they increase that much?!)
"Your not..messing with me are you?"
He tried to confirm while wiping his mouth with the back of his wrists, and immediately Mio snapped...
"You think I'd lie about such a thing! Huh?!!"
"J-Just checking" he added while staring at the raging Mio.
"Checking?!, checking?!, what the h..."
Mio's voice grew inaudible to Mike as his thoughts continued to get the better of him.
"(I know Mio wouldn't lie about such a thing but...I just can't believe that even with all my efforts I still can't catch up to her, I mean, I know the system helps one improve faster than normal but...she improved without even trying, what happens if she really tried...) "What a monster."
Mike's lips finally betrayed him, and guess what, Mio heard it loud and clear.
"What?!!, A MONSTER!!
*Smack* she sent a smack down his forehead and called out on top of her voice "you jerk!!! " *whoosh!* she zoomed off in a burning rage.
"I'm sorry!!!, what the hell man!, I had to open my big mouth. Come on Mio I meant to say that you're...Amazing, yes Amazing!."
"Shut up!!!", Mio yelled, and not for once looked back as her speed intensified.
"Accelerate!!" He called out as he immediately went after her, I'm really sorry I didn't mean it like that!!.
*****
A few moments later, Mike somehow managed to calm her down as they were both now headed to their destination.
The wind washed across their faces as they kept closing in on their destination with a speed 2 times faster than any car.
"Umm...Mio!, I have a question?!"
Mike finally broke the deafening silence.
"Go ahead Mikey" she replied while smiling sheepishly.
"When you used...your lightning abilities during the training...it felt like...no you were a completely different person, what happened back there?!"
The rustling of the wild breeze instantly seized as Mio's zooming came to a sudden halt, she turned towards Mike, her eyebrows furrowed, her head bent as she said....
"I...I don't really know what happened to me "
Mio paused for a moment, trying to put what she felt into words, Mike stared at her intently, until she finally continued....
"I felt so much pressure and I didn't want to give up, and all of a sudden, it felt like...my instincts took over my body, and with it, came the surge of extreme power."
Mike's eyes widened in intrigue, his pupils bulged intensely as if to live there sockets as he stared at Mio, but it seemed Mio wasn't done with her explanation...
"I...with that amount of power...I could do more than just destroy the island, I felt like a god in that moment and everything else was beneath me."
"The more terrifying part was that...a part of me actually enjoyed it....I really don't wanna feel like that again, otherwise I don't know what I might do...I don't wanna hurt anyone especially...the people I love.
Mike couldn't take his eyes off Mio after she had said those words, Mio was fidgeting, her head bent, she couldn't afford to look at Mike. But Mike, not realizing Mio's discomfort, blinded by his ever increasing curiosity asked...
"...how were you...able to snap out of it then?"
Mio couldn't keep her head down anymore as she raised it to meet Mike's gaze, but she saw the genuine concern and worry in Mike's face and couldn't shun him, but rather gave him an answer...
"When my instincts took over, all I could see was the enemy I needed to defeat, and I attacked relentlessly, but when you reached out to me...the good memories we've shared all came back at once, and after that I went blank."
"...is that why you refused to use your lightning powers?, is that the same feeling you had on the rooftop back then?"
Mike couldn't help but try to inquire more about the situation, his face painted with concern.
"...Yes!", though reluctantly but she managed to give an answer to the question.
An awkward silence followed after Mio's reply, the only sound the whooshing of the cool summer breeze as they hovered in the sky over the beautiful but intimidating blue ocean.
"Ehem!...uhh..let's make a bet Mio" Mike quickly noticed the mood which had turned foul and decides to lighten it up.
"Huh?!, a bet?...wh-what do mean?" Mio instinctively looked up at him and quickly asked in other to quell her growing curiosity.
"Seeing as you can't use your lightning powers right now, I bet there's no way you could possibly beat me in a race to pismo coast"
He added with a confident smile.
"Oh yeah!, your on!, no cheating okay?!, no teleporting or freezing time, only speed!
She came on enthusiastically, her eyes glowing in excitement.
"I give you my word as a gentle man" he said in contempt, Mio scoffed at those ridiculous words of his, and then he continued...
"The loser will grant one wish to the winner no matter what it is." Mike had said that in the heat of the moment, not thinking about what would happen if he lost.
"Anything?! No take backs okay?!, Alright let's go!!!," Mio's entire face lit up in a mix of determination and excitement as she raises her folded fists to her chest in anticipation.
"(With the stacking effect of my Acceleration technique , I could increase my speed infinitely, although my stamina can't handle that much but there's no way she could surpass 3 to 4 stacks of acceleration, I've got this in the bag already haha!)"
Mikes thoughts seemed to get him more fired up in extreme confidence.
"1!.... 2!!.... GO!!!!"
*VOOM!!!*
As soon as Mike uttered the word "go" they both zoomed off in an incredible speed with Mio in the lead.
"Sorry Mikey!, but I'm taking that wish no matter what!!"
She called out on top of her voice as she put a few meters distance between them.
"Don't be too quick to celebrate!" He replied, his voice calm but loud, "Accelerate, Accelerate, Accelerate!
*zoooom!!*
[Ping- Host's Agility has significantly increased]
[ Agility- 2 > 5^ ]
"He he!( even the system knows how fast I am right now)"
Mike's speed surged as he zoomed right past Mio, gaining the upper hand. Yet Mio remained unfazed.
"Your not the only one with a trump card!" She scoffed and continued. "When I said I focused on my abilities, what did you think I mean by that?"
After that rhetorical question, she muttered below her breath, "wind storm, Gale Force."
*fuuuu BOOOM!*
Suddenly she blasted through the sky like a raging missile, parting the clouds as she zoomed past Mike with intense speed.
She had compressed wind into severely trampolines and stacked them together, launched her self of them, increased the wind force she had been releasing and made a triangular cacoon around her body, there by reducing air pressure, applying the aerodynamic force.
"...She's really a monster" Mike was lucky she didn't hear that, as she had zoomed out of sight in that unthinkable speed,
"Yeah I give up, with my current stamina there's no way I'd catch up or even think about winning..."
"Mike's face grew weary as he realized the implications of loosing the bet. "...I can't imagine what she'd ask me to do, so much for lightening up the mood, oh crap!"
******
SOMEWHERE IN MIKE'S NEIGHBORHOOD
"Oh, you finally got here huh!," Mio who was standing, her back pressed against a wall in an alleyway immediately shot at Mike who just arrived panting heavily.
*Huff! Huff! Huff! *
"Give me...a second...to...catch...my breath"
Mike said, struggling to string words together with his hands on his knees as he bent in akimbo gasping for breath.
"There you are!!"
A rude but familiar voice suddenly called their attention.
"...Chloe?!, How did you....
"Don't you think I should be the one asking the question here?"
Chloe who suddenly walked out of nowhere, confronted the lot with an audacious tone, leaving the both in awe as she continued...
"Where have you guys bee....
*BOOOOOOM!*
An ear piercing sound suddenly shook up the entire city.
"What was that?!" Chloe asked, fear creeping into her pretty face.
"Mio!!"
"Yeah!, I know! It's here!!"
The lot ignored the question as Mio quickly flew into the sky and Mike followed after her, as if being on guard for an incoming danger.
"...what the, Mike where are you going?"
Chloe, still in shock, inquire, not minding the fact that the were hovering in the air, as if she'd come to terms with it.
*whoooooooooshhhhh!!!!*
"Ahh!!!"
"Chloe!!"
A wave instantly swept through the city, launching Chloe into the air, but Mike immediately caught her with his telekinesis.
"Are you...alright!"
"What the hell was that?!"
*vrrrrrr!* *woosh!*
"Watch out! Chloe!!
"Ahh!!"
*BLAST!*
A giant cockroach suddenly emerged and pounced on Chloe, but immediately a yellowish beam of light struck it and completely burned it to ashes.
In a daze Mio and Mike simultaneously turned their heads towards Chloe who's hand's we're stretched out.
Her arms, from her fingertips to her elbow were glowing with a burning bright yellowish light.
Chloe's eyes widened, her pupils bulging in confusion, she could only utter the words...
"Did I...just...do that?"