7. Not a dream

My alarm went off (the same sound as the day before). I reach over shut it off, "Good morning sir! how did you sleep" Gilbert asks

"Morning Gilbert, fine I was hoping to sleep a little bit longer but I did want to see my parents today before I'm shipped out" I answer

After I had left Ban's lab I had called my mom and asked to see her and my dad. She asked about why the sudden visit and I told her I had great news. The only downside is that she wanted to have breakfast at seven and I usually didn't wake up till nine so I was not happy for that.

"What should I wear Gilbert my parents usually hate what I wear." I ask him due to his elegant appearance

"Sir I'm not sure" he replies.

"I guess you wouldn't know either" I say with a dry laugh

I get up and go to the closet and open it and start to look around for something rather nice.

"Sir may I suggest some slacks, you do have three pairs" he says

I agree due to the fact that my mom always wanted me to dress nice.

After a while of looking into my closet, I realize all my clothes have a hunter function from armor, extra compartments and even camouflage. Even my shoes had some kind of function that would come in handy if I ever got caught off guard.

In the end I put on a stiff looking black and gray hoodie that two rows of buttons in the front. Definitely looks like a fashion statement especially if it was back in my old world.

"Gilbert how far do my parents live?" I ask

"They live about three miles away" he answers

"Is there any other means of transportation besides cars?" asking another question

He laughs "I believed that's why you put on those shoes " he says

I look down and wonder what he is talking about.

"These shoes connect to your magnet board" he says

This triggers another memory spike as I see myself using a board with no wheels, chasing down flying categories and just riding around enjoying nature.

I went to my bathroom to go fix my hair and brush my teeth which strangely enough wasn't different although the items used for hygiene were different colors unusual ones I would say. I started to take in my features now well the ones that were different. My hair wasn't black but a mixture of black and dark grey. My eyes were more of a lavender color. All this made me realize maybe this isn't a dream everything is still the same I remember going asleep and thinking when I wake back up I would be back to normal. This was starting to feel like one of those freak accidents where you're in a coma and you are dreaming of another life. I could still remember my old life very well I can even remember what I was doing the say before this.

I decide not to think to much about that because it was gonna be a problem only when the time came and maybe enjoy a different life.

Suddenly I hear a knock at the door, turning in that direction. A notification pops up on my HUD:

Delivery man

Name: David Wolfe

Threat level: low

Age:31

I head towards the door and open it standing in my doorway was a man with blonde hair orange eyes standing about 6'2 he had two large shotguns on his back and a menacing looking axe across his waist underneath the guns.

My HUD display everything the notification said but under occupation it says "Hunter/heavy armor courier"

I guess any kind of job that requires you outside of a building you should also be a hunter to some degree.

"Hello sir" he says with a friendly voice

"I am here with "making home a home" to deliver some furniture" he says

I did by some yesterday and was wondering how that worked but now I can see they deliver the next day.

A screen pops up in front of me

"if you could just sign here sir I will unload your new furniture for you" he says not losing his smile

I sign with my finger and let him Inside.

"Ok sure it says you had gotten a recliner and a futon is this correct" he asks

I nod my head and point to where I want them. He pulls out a small square and disc shape object and puts them down into the empty place I had just pointed to.

He reaches down to the disc and spins the center, from the center it seems to be unfolding within a few seconds I can see the metal skeleton of a chair. He pulls out a pair of gloves from his back pocket, sliding them on I notice that the gloves have lines that looks like circuitry on them. He reaches down into his bag and pulls out a piece of cloth and starts to unfold it, it was a little bit bigger than the chair when he completely unfolds it. He places it on the chair covering it completely, once he has it all cover it doesn't look very comfortable. Placing his hands on the chair he does something and then the chair forms like a normal chair. He does the same thing with the square that turns out to be the futon.

He nods at me and walks out my door without a word, I was a little confused about the whole transaction. I decided I had wasted a good amount of time and it was time to start heading out. I head to my door, again a panel open for my side arms then another panel open up and reveal my magnet board. Nadia's voice comes on once I grab the board "do not forget safety gear before riding magnet board". Two small disc are in the panel that the board was at I'm guessing that is the safety gear. Heading outside I set the board on the ground placing my feet into the open spots on the top and placing a disc on my chest it expands into like a plastic armor and the other one on my head and it cover my face and made a helmet. Once I had all of it on the board starts to float upward, at first I was caught off balance. it did take me the whole ride over there to get use to flying but I finally reached my parents house. I place the board on my back and it folds to a small backpack. Their house is pretty small I guess you don't need much when it's only two people. I can hear music coming from the garage next to the house assuming it's my dad I head that way. I see him sitting at the opening drinking a beer with a shotgun within arms length or at least it looks like a shotgun. "If it isn't my son that I haven't seen since when? two days ago I keep telling you me and your mother are fine." he laughs taking a drink out of his beer. "Doesn't mean I can't come see you old man" I jokingly say back. So far it seems like my dad and this dad were basically the same humor and all. He comes up to hug me "you know I could make you a gun like this people want to buy the design off of me" he says

"The seventh heaven is yours dad and besides I was never able to shoot it like you when I was younger" I say to him

He looks me up and down "something is different about you did something happen" he asks

He's always had a sort of intuition about things so it was apparent he would see it before I could say anything.

"I've been promoted dad and I'm gonna start going around the world" I say with a smile.

"Well look at you, the youngest and now you are going out further in the world your mother is gonna be proud" he says putting a hand on my shoulder

As if on cue my mom opens the front door to tell my dad it's time for breakfast.

Sitting down to a nice breakfast was great.

"So what's the big news" my mom asks

"I've been promoted again mom and I'm going to help out in the world against the categories" I say.

My mother was always against me becoming a hunter but when the time came I had no choice but to go against her wishes. The categories were attacking our home when I was during my senior year of high school a lot of low grade categories and even though I did not have the gene put into me yet I did a pretty good job saving people.