1 Chapter 0: Prologue

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Beep! Beep! Beep! Crash!

A black box was thrown into the wall making a large dent before falling onto the floor. Although the clock seemed to be unharmed by the recent events that had just occurred in this room.

A rustle began underneath the covers of the bed next to where the clock should've been, A battle began. A battle between the overwhelming urge to return to the fantastic dreamscape versus the need to get out of bed. Before that battle had finished though, a voice called out from outside of the room.

"Erin! Time to get up!" a voice called. A wide eyed boy shot out of his covers after hearing this voice. An unwelcome opponent had won todays battle. His mother.

Erin climbed out of bed and walked through the door way of his room to the bathroom conveniently placed across the hallway. There were many reasons he chose this room, and this was just one of those reasons. Easy bathroom access.

First on the routine list was a shower, paired with a zone out session. "How long has it been since I got in here?" Erin thought to himself. As soon as he uttered those words, without warning a figure poked their head through the shower curtains.

"You've been in there for long enough if you ask me." A girl with beautiful sharp facial features and bright, blue eyes looked at Erin seeming as though she was unfazed by the fact that he was buck naked. A bar of soap flew at her head but fazed through her like a ghost through a wall and hit the side of the tub.

"What the Hell V!" yelled Erin, trying to recuperate after being seen in his birthday suit by a girl. Although she wasn't a real girl, it was still traumatizing for Erin to be seen like that.

The water stopped and Erin stepped out of the tub to reveal a wide tooth to tooth grin of his long time friend. V handed a towel to the pride hurt Erin and continued on with her daily disturbances of his life.

"You were in the shower for approximately 10 minutes." said V with a knowing look on her face. "Thank you for letting me know." Erin sarcastically stated. V, reacting to this sudden change in mood and put on a deeply offended face and vanished through the bathroom door. Erin did not know what gave rise to this personality that manifested one day, he assumed that she was because of the many mishaps of his childhood that she had come. But he knew she was more than that.

V was a psionic specter. Psionic specters are manifestations of a persons resounding psionic energy that can amass and become that of a ghost. Erin was, at least to his knowledge, the youngest person to recive one. He didn't know why V had appeared to him and even those that could see her were flabbergasted by his amazing potential.

"Erin Smith! Get out of there and get breakfast! Its time to go!" This started a chain reaction within him of fear mixed with the worry of being late for his newly transferred to school. rushing out of the bathroom and into a school uniform hung up on the back of his door. As he changed into the uniform he looked at the coat of arms embroidered onto his jacket. "A new school, a new life." he sighed

Erin looked over to the side of his mirror to see a family photo. It depicted his mom, Sara Smith. And to what he assumed to be his grandfather, by the looks of how old he was. Mom described him as a rough man but I can tell he really cared about his family. To top it all off, he was a really amazing scientist too! leading the way into new realms of thinking with psionics. As Erin grew up, he wanted to be just like his grandpa. a smile appeared on his face remembering the times he imagined himself being a scientist with his mom.

"Indulging in nostalgia are we?" V spoke out. "A little bit." Erin cracked a half smile.

The Earth had changed much after the discovery of psionic capabilities. less than 5 years after the world was flipped upside down by the combined effort of scientists. bloody wars started using the new powers of psions. soldiers trained in enhancing their prowess beyond human nature. They were named "Eldritch Soliders". Taking meaning from tales of fiction from a cosmos of horrors. these units moved through armies as easily as a eagle flying through the sky.

After these wars, many countries set up military schools to nurture those with potential to become Eldritch Soliders and set them up to one day become apart of the elite. Erin was attending one of those schools in hopes to become a psionic scientist.

Erin departed towards the kitchen to grab a quick snack before heading off to school. As Erin walked into the kitchen, he saw his mother nervous but ready to drive them to school. she looked like she was almost 30 but didn't look a day over 25. She had glistening green eyes that would make most men swoon the moment they meet her coupled with an astounding curvaceous figure. By the amount of times she did community service, you could compare her rack to the size of her heart too.

"Come on you two lets get this show on the road." she said with a smile as she walked out the door to start up the car parked just outside. While only those that had above a psionic level of 7 could see V, his mother was quite a powerful Psionic user that she could see and converse with V without much difficulty.

After a quick brisk breakfast which involved V mocking the way Erin eats under pressure. Erin and V, although adamantly, cleaned up from breakfast in a flash and darted outside to the car.

On their way to school Erin only had one thought, crossing his fingers at the same time. "Please just be a normal school year this time."

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