2025-01-17 06:33:05St. Jame's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
Toc, toc.
The door of the room where Adrian Evans was resting opened.
Dr. Steve Meyers entered, holding in his hand an old notebook that was about to run out of pages as he wrote in it.
Immediately, sadness and death were feelings that accompanied him on his way to assess the 12-year-old boy who lay dying in the bed of the public hospital where he had been sent to end his days when his parents received the grim news that he would not be spared from death because of the terminal cancer he inherited from his father's family at birth.
Adrian looked at the doctor, his eyes were bathed in sadness, he had already lost the last drop of hope he had left to survive.
The doctor shook his head.
“No, Adrian. I'm sorry, but there is no cure for your illness, I already told you once. I just came to tell you that you will be transferred tonight to floor 001 of the hospital. There you will end your days, without the right to receive visitors.”
Adrian averted his eyes to the ceiling, sighed one last time, begging God to hear his words and take him to heaven at once before he ended up being accompanied by the smell of the dead, and by corpses that were decomposing and waiting to be claimed by their families to be buried.
When the doctor left him alone. Adrian closed his eyes, never to open them again that day.
Birdsong was heard in the air, the fresh wind hit his face, and little by little, he woke up, feeling his body move normally, feeling how underneath him was no longer the cold hard bed of the hospital, but now he was lying on what seemed to be the softness of the ground covered by grass.
It was then that Adrian opened his eyes completely, finding a paradise all around him.
The sky was no longer blue, now, it was a mix of pastel colors combined between blue, purple and orange. The sun was nowhere to be seen, but its warmth could be perceived perfectly as if it were there.
Adrian stood up from the ground, looked around in awe and fascination.
It was unbelievable.
The surrounding scenery looked like something out of a fairy tale of the kind his mother used to read to him when it was time to go to bed before he turned 10 and lost his love for them.
“Wow, this is wonderful. But where am I?” asked Adrian to himself when he finally regained consciousness and realized that everything he saw was real.
Soon, a slight shaking of the earth shook him, Adrian looked down at his feet, noticing that the shaking would not stop until fifteen seconds later that in front of him, a huge man appeared who was ten feet tall, and fatter than a normal-sized truck.
Adrian was paralyzed. He wanted to run away, but he could not, because that man was a real giant, the giants in this world were the worst enemies of the people who inhabited it. Giants and humans fought daily to colonize this new world, alien to the real one, where Adrian came from.
So it was that Adrian heard another noise echoing from inside the trees of the forest, of which he had not realized its existence until that moment when the danger was very close to him.
From inside a bush, a girl of perhaps the same age as him peeked out, shrieked at him, and hurriedly motioned for Adrian to approach her and hide by her side, and in a desperate attempt to get out of the hands of the furious giant who was about to grab him to put him in his mouth and devour him as if he were his dinner, Adrian obeyed the girl, and ran to his hiding place.
Adrian jumped into the bush, and hid in the back, just as she was doing.
The girl was very different from the ordinary girls he knew from his other world, and that quickly caught his attention.
She wore a black combat suit that fit her body, she wore a pair of black boots the kind one wears when doing heavy field work, in her hand, she carries what appears to be a black pipe the length of at least three hands together and lined into one, and on her back, she carries a mighty sword full of power, this was no ordinary metal sword, this was a magical and special sword that has been crafted solely to take on the giants and beat them in heavy battle.
“Who are you? Do you know where I am? Do you know why that giant wants to attack me?”, Adrian asked the girl with desperation to find an answer to his thousands of questions that were going around in his head.
But the girl was focused on hunting her first giant, she was an apprentice of the academy of Darksite specialists of the world where Adrian was now part of it just by waking up there, however, to move to the next level of her training, she had to hunt a giant on her own, applying all the theory and practice she received in each of her trainings, and taking with her as a prize and evidence the severed head of the giant she killed.
Of course, she didn't want to miss her chance just to get chatty with a newcomer to her world.
“Shut up and let me concentrate. I have to kill this giant, or I'll lose the course and have to repeat it a third time. This is the one to beat, or else I'll be expelled from the academy and be a nobody in this world,” she scolded him, readying her red lightsaber, standing up from her hiding place, and preparing attack position against the giant who was approaching them cautiously not to lose them.
But just as she was about to aim at him with her advanced magical technology she created in another of her classes, soon, her heroic action was interrupted by a group of three boys wearing her same uniform, they were classmates from her class who entered new in this school cycle, and as she was the only one from the last course to repeat it, there was no doubt that they all made fun of her every chance they got, calling her as a loser, and this group of three, was no exception.
“Damn!” she shouted angrily as she saw that the boys had managed to catch and slay in small portions with their sabers the giant that was once hers.
“Did you think you could beat us, Ally?” sneered one of the boys, showing Ally, from their distance, the decapitated head of the giant that was originally going to be hers.
“You're going to pay for this one, Ryan!” shouted Ally very angrily. Adrian could see it, his savior's cheeks were redder than a tomato, and her hands formed fists tightly, as if she wanted to throw herself at them to grab them with blows, but Adrian guessed that if she didn't, it was because she couldn't, and shouldn't.
“Yes, as you wish, keep dreaming. Prepare your strategies better for next time. Bye, sweetie. See you in class tomorrow. Better, organize your bags, because soon you'll end up being expelled from the academy for being a loser,” another boy different from Ryan, one with brown skin and fake green eyes because of the contact lenses he wore, scoffed.
The boys picked up what belonged to them and walked away from the scene.
Ally began to cry out of anger, and in a slight, innocent attempt to want to support her, Adrian instead received a slap across the face that sent him flying into a nearby tree trunk, and soon, he passed out.
Previous Chapter
Related Chapters
Adrian's Awakening: Wake up in the magical world 2
Once again, and little by little, Adrian opened his eyes, waking up inside a dark room, which was now illuminated only by the open window facing the back of his bed.Slowly, he sat up, but suddenly felt a sharp pain seize his back.“Damn, what happened to me?” he said to himself.“Did you wake up already? I'm sorry, this happened because of me, I shouldn't have hit you like that,” Ally peeked out from behind the door of his room, looked at Adrian with embarrassment, and slowly, began to enter the room.“Don't worry. Although I don't remember much of what happened, I think you gave me a good blow because my back hurts a lot,” Adrián confessed, placing a hand on his back, in token of that pain.“It's just that I threw you against a tree trunk, and that's why you were knocked unconscious. But don't worry, I brought something for you that will calm the pain”, she smiled and even shyly, she approached Adrian's bed, although without asking his permission, she sat down next to him.Adrian no
Adrian's Awakening: Wake up in the magical world 3
The Darkside Specialist Academy in the new world was fantastic.It looked like a castle out of a tale of dark medieval stories where evil seems to reign more than good.The towers have been built on rocks, and the academy was located at a very considerable height as seen from the ground and in the sky.At the beginning, Adrian felt scared, nervous because he had to use a high-tech flying skateboard to gain entrance to the academy. For Ally, it was very easy to use it, she only had to jump on it, the skateboard gave off smoke and following the orders of her body began to move through the air with agility, without fear of falling to the ground.For his part, Adrian looked at his skateboard, not knowing how the hell he should use it, when he saw Ally do it, it seemed so easy, but just when it was his turn, terror took over him, since in his world, once upon a time, he got to play on these things, but not in those that could fly, his were different, they were used with small wheels, and y
Adrian's Awakening: Wake up in the magical world 4
The students were entering the academy, all in orderly fashion, wearing the same uniform Ally had been wearing that morning, and the same one she had worn the day she and Adrian met. The group of the three boys who had confronted and stolen Ally's giant's head trophy were nowhere to be seen yet, Adrian remembered them, and thought that maybe the boys had already arrived at the academy and were at this moment showing off their prize to the teacher Ally had mentioned to him that she didn't want to be late for class that day.Ally looked nervous about approaching to pass attendance along with the woman stationed at the door, an antique notebook hovered in the air beside her, and a feather moved on top of it each time she called out a name of the student who was entering in line order.“You're nervous, aren't you?”, Adrian noticed.Although he didn't want to say it, he was. Ally was afraid to enter the academy, to attend class, because on that previous challenge depended on her future at
Adrian's Awakening: Wake up in the magical world 5
They strolled through all the halls of the academy, Adrian kept looking in awe at what made it up; students with extraordinary abilities, superb teachers and teaching classes that didn't look at all boring like the ones he once took in his other life for when his terminal illness hadn't been detected yet.Headmistress Roxanne analyzed every step, every glance and every movement of the boy who accompanied her, wondering to herself from which of all the worlds she knew was the one that might have been Adrian's former home.There were different existing magical worlds that were annexed to the earth, for when people died, God decided if he wanted to take their soul to heaven, or if they deserved a chance to reincarnate in one of the other worlds, it all depended on their aura, their mentality, and their personality and heart. These worlds were seven in total, and the director, Roxanne, knew them perfectly well to the letter because both she and her graduate students from the academy, stoo
Adrian's Awakening: Wake up in the magical world 6
Adrian looked around him with nerves on edge, gripping every part of his body. Onexus was a place that seemed designed to break anyone who dared to enter it. The undulating walls, the air charged with an energy that could almost be felt, and the constant sensation of being watched made him feel tiny and helpless.Suddenly, the ground trembled beneath his feet.In front of him, the walls began to open, giving way to a gigantic figure emerging from the gloom. It was a colossus of dark stone, with eyes that glowed like burning coals. His step echoed like thunder, and every movement shed fragments of his body, revealing flashes of light at specific points.“The Shadow Colossus!” said Roxanne's voice, echoing through the air. Watch, Adrian. Every enemy has a weak spot. Find it before it finds you, that will be the key to its defeat.The giant advanced, raising a huge arm that slammed into the ground, sending a shockwave that threw Adrian backwards. He struggled to his feet, his hands wer
Adrian's Awakening: Wake up in the magical world 7
Headmistress Roxanne and Adrian leave the academy's management office, and as they walk towards what would be Adrian's new temporary home, the boy couldn't help but look towards the classrooms where he could see that, in some classes, the injuries of the day were great; in one of them, they were learning the art of dark herbology, they were taking out a frog's heart without using surgical elements, yes, that would look disgusting to anyone's eyes, even disgusting, maybe someone was already vomiting from not being able to stand it, but in the classroom, there was no one vomiting.All the boys were concentrating on how they would manage to rip out the frog's heart without it daring to bite their fingers. Not even the girls were showing any signs of wanting to run out of the room, they all wanted to earn the points the teacher would give them for meeting the challenge.In another classroom, they were learning the art of tarot card reading. It was a less interesting class than the previou
Adrian's Awakening: Wake up in the magical world 8
“What? You're kidding, right? What do you mean you're not magical? What do you mean you don't have powers? Who told you that vile lie?”, Ally caught her breath after coughing for a moment as she nearly choked. Adrian didn't seem surprised by her friend's reaction. He set the sandwich down on the half-finished tray, tossed the tray to the side of the bed and stood up, began to walk in circles for the short space he had to do so. Her gaze was lost on the floor.“Ally, did you know that the academy does an entrance test for students to define in which academic program they will be enrolled?”, he asked the girl with interest to know that what she experienced was not some kind of trap on the part of the director Roxanne, he wanted to know if that had been true. Ally nodded. “Yes, I knew that. I forgot to mention it, sorry. We've all been through that test, I nearly failed, I was sent to fight a horde of flying angry piranhas from another world. Yes, it may sound stupid, but with that t
Adrian's Awakening: Wake up in the magical world 9
The battlefield was similar to that Adrián had entered when the director Roxanne told her that she should do to enter the academy as evidence.But this field was different, now, the sky was black, there was no space where a single flash of light could enter. Around it, the students had all organized themselves sitting on stone benches that appeared magically at the same time as the battlefield.Under his feet, kilometers of sand extended.A battle has begun.The teachers joined the students to be spectators.Adrián looked around, looking for Ally everywhere, until, finally, he found her sitting in the front row from the highest point of the steps. Adrián calmed down to see her, because in the midst of so many people, it was impossible to stay calmly and surely what he was doing. Adrián came from a world in which magic did not exist, and now, he had reincarnated in soul in a world where magic was real, and the survival pillar is the fight.On the other hand, Adrián also saw Ryan's two
Latest Chapter
63
Adrián was stunned. I couldn't believe what I saw. Since when did the world I knew become this?Before it was different, now, everything was chaos. It seemed that there would be no remedy to use to save it. Perhaps…?Was everything being the work of an alliance among its most powerful enemies?An alliance between the woman with silver hair and purple eyes, along with the monk who had felt betrayed by him, and who now wanted to take revenge on what he most preceded?Indeed, Adrián was realizing his mistakes. Those assumptions had no failures in their logic. They can be real. Adrián had betrayed two powerful beings who were now being very powerful, and were attacking him where he hurt the most, in his ancient world. Definitely, this was not the battle of the specialist students of the Darkside Specialist Academy. This was the battle of Adrián Evans, a boy who previously lived a normal life, but because of a terminal disease, ended up dying and his reincarnate soul in a new world
62
On the other hand, Adrián looked around, wondering where he had been transported thanks to that mysterious portal that came out of nowhere, and that was how he deduced, everything around him, he seemed too much to the last thing he remembered from the earth.Immediately, the portal disappeared, it was magically, but for Adrián, living those experiences were no longer new, because he was already accustomed to them, in fact, and since he reached his world, Adrián lived much more strange and amazing things than he ever imagined in his past life that would be real."All this...", Adrián murmured as he looked around, analyzing everything he saw, because the memories, immediately, had appeared in his head. "I seem a lot to me...""Land?", Listen to Adrián that, mysteriously, someone speaks to him.That voice seemed to be that of a girl, a small girl, at least about 11 years old, and then, when Adrián looked for her to know where they were talking about, she found that the girl approached wa
61
Adrián ran until he could hide inside the forest. He had left the academy, his body flew with the flying skate that he had always used to climb to school that was so high in the air.The forest...That place was your favorite place to think. He needed to think a lot. Lately, too many things have happened in their lives, their most loved beings have been hurt because of their fault. Adrián could not afford to continue hurting them. If nobody wanted to help him with a mission as important as it was to save the world in which he was born first and that he had enjoyed him, a good life, where he had received all the love of the world, Adrián if he cared to save him, and he would do it not only for him, but also would do it for Lucas, the boy who had died to reincarnate and come to this world to ask for help and recover his family and his life before.Adrián turned and turned in the forest, kicked the trunks of the trees to take off his rage of the moment, without measuring the conseque
60
Hours spent, everyone was gathered at the Colosseum of the Darkside Specialists Academy. Students, parents, teachers, Roxanne, being the director, and her trusted teacher, Professor Nichols, were there.With them, Adrián was also, and by his side, he remained the boy who came from his world, from which he had come to ask for help in this new world to recover his life that he liked to live so much and not have to resign himself to die and live a new life without knowing what he could have done something to rescue what would remain of his world.Adrián's plan was accepted by all, and it was that the specialists were divided into groups of five people, there were many and the world of Adrián, above all, the main city where chaos was becoming much larger and heavier, they would need the support of all, and control, discipline and disobedience were the key points to be treated at that meeting, because no one could go as well as and on top of the giants without being unharmed Even, dead.Th
59
Soon, the wait ended. Professor Nichols had brought Adrián back home, and to Adrián's surprise, his peace, his tranquility, he was not returning, on the contrary, things would begin to get more ugly for everyone from the moment Adrián had no choice but to accept his new challenge. Roxanne did not want this to happen, she was nervous about it, she did not want to lose her worshiped son, not since the last time what almost changed it suddenly happened. The worlds are so unpredictable, magic was a world so great that it was never known what fate could get in your way if it was not careful.Adrián's mother had a lot of terror of knowing what could happen in the event that Adrián returned to his world after so long, after having reincarnated in another life where he was not the same, where he had awakened new powers to know how to live here with those who were now his new family despite having some closer than others.Adrián met the boy, immediately recognized him as a reincarnated soul,
58
"I think the best thing we can do is look for Adrián, the boy can feel safer if he speaks directly with him. Don't you think?", Professor Nichols offered. Roxanne nodded, agreeing with him. "Do you know where Ally's house""Yes of course. His father is a great friend of mine, from time to time I am going to visit him there to take a drink while we talk about our affairs. So, I'm going to look for him, stay with the boy. I promise not to take".Professor Nichols left, leaving Roxanne and the boy alone. "Do you want to keep talking about what happens in your human world?"The boy looked at the woman with insecurity."Do you want to give me more ice cream first? It is delicious. He died of hunger".Roxanne looked at the boy with regret and decided to offer him something better so he could be calm. "Don't you prefer to prepare a sandwich? With that you will be more satisfied than with ice cream..."The boy smiled from ear to ear, and his eyes illuminated."Come, accompany me to the ki
57
That afternoon ended up being perfect for everyone. Roxanne never imagined that spending quality time with Nichols would be just what he would need to recover. Professor Nichols knew her very well, and knew how to be entertained for her, making her laugh, telling her good stories, and spending quality time with her. That night, Nichols thanked Roxanne for the invitation to dinner, assuring him that the boy's dinner had been delicious. In addition to that, he had also enjoyed a delicious coffee by his side. With those compliments, Roxanne felt very happy, since before, no one had taken the daring to be direct with her, many people who knew her, used to give her respect, treat her only for the most important and professional issues. Until now, no one else had thought about approaching her, as much as Nichols had achieved it.That night, Roxanne had planned to go to a bath, wanted to relax to sleep, but he could not do it since he heard the desperate screams of a person who didn't eve
56
The aroma of homemade food began to fill the house, wrapping the atmosphere with a warm and familiar air. From the kitchen the voices of Adrián and Ally were heard discussing the exact amount of condiments they had to use, while from time to time they ranged and the occasional mocking comment. And when they were silent, it was because both teenagers were kissing, and they did nothing to hide it.In the room, silence became comfortable. Roxanne closed her eyes for a moment, enjoying the feeling of not having to be alert, not to be thinking about strategies, training or problems of the academy, as well as having to be going through that moment when I would know that she needed to use her Magic to save those who needed it. Nichols, meanwhile, watched her with dissimulation. It was rare to see her like this, so relaxed, so human, not always fighting the unknown and the enemies, or taking control of what would happen to the academy."What do you look?", She murmured without opening her eye
55
"Of course, teacher, accompanies us? I'm going to prepare dinner, and he is invited", Adrian replied, looking at the teacher with an accomplice look to prevent her from going to reject her proposal and that she could spend more time next to her mother outside the academy. He tried, but the professor blushed, and only nodded without saying anything, behaving like a small boy who was afraid to spend time next to the girl he liked.Adrián smiled and looked at Ally."You come? After dinner, I accompany you to your home so you can rest calmly", said Adrián.She nodded."Yes, I would not like any more problems with my parents, if I decide to stay one more night with you in your home", she replied.Adrián nodded. "I agree, I don't want more problems than I already have with them". Then, Adrián helped Ally getting off the stretcher, he took her delicately from the hip, and charged her as if she were a baby until she left her on the floor. For her part, Professor Nichols looked at Roxanne,
