12 Night terror

"MIKE? WHAT DID YOU DO TO MIKE, STOP!"

The man shouts as Zach approaches, soon he can't retreat backwards anymore due to the walls.

Looking around erratically he sees the drunk and the woman staring at him from the sidelines,

"Help!, he's gone crazy!"

They say nothing and hold their breathes.

Zachs tail throws the man it's holding towards the drunk as he sprints to the uninjured man. The man tries to fight back, He attempts to block the hand holding the weapon but has no chance. Zach grabs the mans neck and stab the dreidel into him many times.

Zach finally turns and runs towards the last 2 enemies.

"Stop, please!"

The man says with both knees on the floor and a large wound in his shoulder.

Zach says nothing and stabs him in the side of the neck with the dreidel and leaves it there. Someone runs past him and as he swings his tail to stop them he realises its the woman who needed help earlier.

"Monster!"

The woman screams as she runs out of the alley way, meanwhile the drunk man is still on the floor from the previous hit. Zach looks back at his work, he sees 2 mummified corpses and almost vomits.

.I didn't, they deserved it! it was to save the girl. yeah i'm a hero.

His brain goes at 200mph to tell himself that they had to die, the drunk man sits there watching him not saying anything.

After a while he begins to hear sirens and looks back at the drunk man, .What do i do, should he die?.

The drunk man sees the demon looking at him and please,

"Don't kill me, i have a wife and family."

Zach hears this and his heart goes cold,

.You have a wife and children yet you attempt to rape someone?.

"it was a mistake, ill never do it again"

.Yes, you won't.

As he says this he steps on the mans body and using his tail, he pierces the mans knee cap permanently disabling him.

.Punishment is needed, discipline is needed. You will become a better person with this.

Zach says this and runs away from the sirens that are rapidly approaching, using his tail he latches onto high walls and fences and vaults over them extremely quickly. Normally Zach would be excited by this but right now his attitude is extremely bad. He keeps replaying what just happened in his mind when he lost control.

I went it, failed my first strike and started receiving hits... I heard a whisper and it was already over.

.It felt like someone else was controlling me, yeah someone must have made me do it.

It doesn't take as long to get back to his house, he climbs through the windows to his room he unlocked before he left.

He takes off his mask and sits on his bed trying to rationalise killing someone. After an hour of not coming to an answer he moves to take his clothes off, but stops when he feels the adrenaline wearing off causing him to face the extent of his injuries.

He checks himself over, luckily nothing is broken but his whole body is covered in bruises and small cuts.

He is angry about his own weakness but remembers the fate of the people who caused the injuries and calms down.

It's now around 1am and hes still got school in the morning, he checks with the system and raises his stats without spinning before quickly falling asleep.

[Zachary Miller - Human+ - Male

Condition - Fine

Strength - 11 > 12

Intelligence - 10

Agility - 11

Stamina - 11 > 15

Spirit - 10

Luck - 10

Skill: Quick retreat, lv3 Pain resistance, Unveiling eye, Language comprehension,

Body mods : Prehensile tail,

LV4 Exp: 6/40]

Zach finds himself inside what looks to be a dark alley way, the atmosphere is heavy and he looks around to see where he is.

It's very dark so he can't see very well but as he gets closer to the walls he realises that there seems to be something wet and sticky running down them.

"Help!"

Suddenly he hears a voice turning around it appears to be the drunk man from last night, he rolls on the floor side to side as he screams for help.

Zach doesn't approach and just observes him, after a while of the rather peculiar scene he turns back trying to discover what this fluid on the wall is.

Touching it and smelling it, it smells like it have iron in it and its thicker than water. The wall appears to be covered in blood, as he notes this fact he turns around to the drunk man about to say something but stops.

The drunk man is holding a knife to his fathers throat from behind, he looks at Zach while grinning.

"This is payback!"

He digs the knife into his Fathers neck causing blood the spurt out as he drags it to the other side. Zach tries to stop him but realises his tail isn't here, he runs to tackle the man but as hes about to hit them. He wakes up, sweating profusely and panting he touches his own face and realises he is crying.

.Relax, it's just a dream.

He tries to calm himself down while his heart is beating at a rapid pace, Hearing a knock at the door and a familiar voice he jumps up.

"Hey Zach, sorry about yesterday. I know i don't really get what the schools like but i will listen if you need me to"

.Dad.

Zach jumps up, opens the door and gives his dad a bear hug,

"What's wrong?" he notices the weird mode but pats Zach on the back while returning the hug"

.It's nothing, just don't leave.. Ok?.

"Well i have to go to work sometime..." as he releases the hug he pats his sons back a few more times,

"Did you lose weight?"

.Huh?.

Zach looks himself up and down and realises his belly and love handles are smaller than yesterday.

"You look taller too, must be a growth spurt"

.Ill go measure myself. Zach says while smiling brightly,

He enters the bathroom and first steps on the scale, before he weighed around 95kg or 15 stone, which doesn't sound like a lot until you realise he is only 15 years old. Checking the scale he seems to be the same weight, disappointed he checks his height and discovers he has grown from 5.3 ft to 5.4.

.System, is this an effect from the stamina increase?.

[Yes, you can expect to see more changes as your body adapts to the stat change]

Zach washes his face and realises he has slightly less acne, excited by the changes he tells his Father and he looks really happy.

"I told you, our family has good genes! Your grandfather is over 6ft you know"

.Really!?.

"Yeah, it's a shame you can't meet him."

.Why not?.

"He's... busy with certain matters, Anyway have you had breakfast yet?"