Chapter 2: How it started/How it's going

He wasn't happy about this newfound muteness and why were his thoughts so loud?

His heart was pumping even faster, pouring confusion and pain into the mix and he was a raging bowl of madness.

"Ahh, don't touch me!" He pushed her hand away sitting up.

...

How to start an adventure.

Let your friend tell you about some real-life dumb sh*t quest and accept it.

Character Profile: Maks

Maks is reaching five feet nine with brown hair, deep-seated green eyes inclining on darker green due to his physiological makeup, a well-shaped face pointed nose and thin lips, and an average physique.

He may come off as condescending, rude, hasty and sarcastic too.

***

Maks rolled his eyes as Victor Lee, his best friend and sworn nemesis in CoD climbed a chair and reached up to his clustered cabinet, papers came flying out.

Swish swish*

He caught a paper with this drab band from the eighties and squashed it.

"What's this?" He asked.

Unlike him, his room used to be spotless. What could have caused this onset of obsessiveness right now? At this time of day? When they could just sit down, chill and play a game?

"Victor, the consols are over there" He gestured to the huge TV and the game box and groaned.

"I prefer PCs" his voice was muffled by the sounds of paper ruffling, the cabinet was slowly emptying with his digging. Books were dunking on the floor.

Being the techie, Victor's parents were rich, he had everything he could wish for, and even a wider circle of friends, even though he couldn't put two and two together with his friends coming to his crib to hang out all the time, he was willing to hang out with anyone.

Maks palmed his face and sighed "I don't even know why_"

Victor turned immediately with a Ziplock bag "Okay okay, wait wait" He stepped down from the stool showing him the red and blue contents.

"I've got something to show you"

Maks laughed when he fished out a hand full.

"Jelly beans?"

Victor shook his head and his hair bobbed, he dyed his hair a light orange by the ends and wore glasses. A grey vest and chinos pants and shoes_from his mom's recommendations. He was still allowed to dress formally in his flannel cardigans and all.

"These are cultivation beans, they are rare" He swished them in his palm.

"Sure, I'll have some," As soon as he picked one, he screeched at the slap on his hand, dumping the beans back.

"Watch where you're throwing that war machine," He said as his sore hand pulsed.

"These are very dangerous" He lifted a red bean "This is the pyro bean and this is a Cryo bean"

"And?" He pointed at the multicoloured one, he wondered what it would taste like. Reaching for it, Victor gripped his hand with round brown eyes, it twitched and that made Maks want to taste it more.

"Don't even go near that one... These are the seeds to greater power" Victor was starting to sound like a Shifu again.

"A sugar rush?" He said dryly.

Victor almost rolled his eyes. "I want you to choose wisely"

"Snacks, check. Can we play the game now?" He said.

Victor looked indifferent and shrugged "I'm tired of games, I want the real thing"

Maks gasped, something was wrong with him.

"I'm taking the seer bean," He swallowed the yellow one as if it were a drug and passed it on to Maks.

With a tinge of nervousness looking into the bag.

"You don't do drugs, do you?" He snickered at the joke.

"My father would murder me but these couldn't be half bad, I've been keeping them since my grandmother died," He said proudly.

Maks was munching on the multicoloured one before he said so and gagged scraping out the bits and pieces off his tongue with his fingers. "Ew, gross man!"

He gagged spitting out through the window but the expired jelly bean was all ready to put down to vomit. However, it tasted sugary with a touch of lemon. His tongue hung out.

"Good prank"

Victor turned his head picking up the papers and making something good out of his room.

"I've realized, we should stop spending our time playing call of duty and phone some bitches. Find our destinies" He said opening a window, and taking a breeze, he wondered what would awaken his power.

Maks turned on the fan and walked over to him "Whoa man, why so serious?"

He snorted closing the window, he seemed to have forgotten his electrical appliances too.

"You don't believe me do you?" He asked.

Tsk tsk*

Maks shook his head and sighed "Did Irma break up with you?" Maks said and Victor turned red fuming at him.

"It's not that! I'm serious Maks, the sooner you start questioning your..." He paused. Victor took off his glasses and wiped his eyes "Just go, you've ruined my hopes"

He thought Victor Lee just graduated from a total dork to a complete geek. He was angry and tossed stuff up.

"Chill dude, I was just messing with you," He said.

[What's with him?]

"I'll call you...bitch"

He went out to meet Victor's mother in the front yard while she watered her huge garden. She wore two gloves and a pink ascot. a brown blouse and half her body were covered by the large pots of cacti.

No plant would thrive better in this season.

He nodded and she pulled down her straw hat nodding as well.

"Come back soon," She said in Mandarin and he cackled.

In hopes that he might not have the door shut in his face. He turned out to be a real jerk after that talk but something deep down tugged him that he wasn't being fair to him.

***

"Yeah" He glanced at the lot_ he forgot his bike. "Damn" He muttered walking along the road then looked back at the yellow light emitting from Vic's window and squinted his eyes.

"Hmm, probably just the sun," He said before getting the bus.

***

How it's going...

Maks gripped the sides of the bed. His heart was beating as though he consumed a lot of sugar. He was still writhing from the lights. He gasped for air.

Ding!

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[What!!?]