Fragments

John was on the verge of tears. All he wanted was to lose his virginity, which was supposed to be an easy feat for him. Now it seems like the universe was cockblocking him from every direction, right down to his dream.

The Ghostly figure of the young man stared at John without saying a word. Then the young man suddenly appears in front of him. John felt this scene was quite familiar to him. A massive headache abruptly assaulted him.

"Ahhhh!" It was so painful John felt like his head was splitting in two. His conciseness slowing fading as his vision blurred. John drops down to his knees as he held his head. 'why!? why?!' this was the only thought that was running through his mind.

He still couldn't understand what the hell was happening. One minute he was passionately making out with a stranger, now he's feeling the worst pain he's felt in his entire life. The change was so abrupt he couldn't get his head around it.

The ghost of the man just stared down at John while he kneels with a cold expression.

Suddenly John faintly heard a voice inside his head. it was the voice of the dark figure reciting that strange chant. The chant grew louder and louder until it was the only thing John could hear.

As if on instinct John also started to repeat the chant like he was possessed. In john's vision, there was no longer the ghost nor the blinding white light, it was just emptiness.

The ghost figure, on the other hand, was no longer expressionless. Right now there was only terror on his face as he looked at the unconscious John. A void suddenly opened up above John like a black hole. The black hole started to suck the man into itself.

"Wait!! Noooo!!" the young man screams as he tried to get away but no matter what he did, it was no use. The black hole swallowed him bit by bit till there was nothing left of him. After swallowing the man the black hole soundlessly disappeared, the white light follows it.

In the dark alleyway, only two unconscious bodies were left. One was the woman and the other was John. The corpse of the young man was nowhere to be seen like it was never there in the first place.

On the emptiness, John was still chanting like crazy after a while a change occurred in the empty space. Fragments of broken glass started appearing mysteriously.

'what is it this time?' John walked towards the closest fragment and picked it up. As soon as he did that the scene around him changed.

He was no longer inside a dark space but a brightly lit room of some sort. Inside the room there was one other person present, it was an old man. John somehow knew exactly who he was.

"Master I have mastered the Fireball skill." an unfamiliar voice rang out from his mouth. The voice sounded like that of a young child.

"let me see," the old man said with a gentle smile.

Then John started moving his body without his control. His hands made strange gestures and a ball of flame manifest in front of him.

"Hmm. Your execution is good but you could improve the channeling of Mana." The old man said. " Now launch it at me."

'John' threw the fireball at the old man and to his surprise, the fireball was caught in the old man's hand like a tennis ball.

"Fire is an explosive element so you need to adopt that into your skills. Don't just slam it into your opponent" the old man then proceeds to throw the fireball to the sidewall. The fireball flew rather slowly but before it reached the wall the fireball exploded into a fiery torrent.

"Now go the library to deepen your knowledge on fire element skills." The old man did as he walked off.

The scene turned dark and John was once again inside the pitch-black space. The fragment in his hand was gone.

"This might be the memories of that man" John decided to grab another piece of glass fragment.

This time he was outside and many people surrounded him. These people seem to be high schoolers based on their matching uniforms. They all formed a giant circle like that of a typical school fight.

In front of him was a boy in his teens. The boy had a smug smile on his face "Lance didn't you recently master a new skill? Why don't we test it out? "

"You think you're invincible because you broke through? Let me show you the difference between a genius and garbage." Lance spoke. This time John could tell the boy has grown much older.

Then lance did weird hand gestures and instantly 10s of fireballs appears in the air above him. Each one twice the size from what John has seen before.

It was not only John that was surprised but all the kids present as well. They all took many steps back getting as far from the fireballs as possible.

His opponent also lost his smug smile, it was now replaced by fear and seriousness. He also started making gestures with his hand and instantly a golden translucent shield appears around him.

The fireballs flew towards the force field and exploded as soon as it came in contact with the shield. Cracks instantly appear on the shield and it was just one of the fireball.

One could just imagine what the rest of the Remaining fireballs would do to its opponent.