Chapter 1: I.CAN.NOT

As sweat practically poured down his head like a waterfall, his gaze was focused on the voice sounding in his head while trying to look around to see if he could find its owner. As his head twisted side to side in search, The Voice spoke once more in a curious yet annoyed tone.

'HOW COULD THERE BE SUCH AN ANOMALY, MY METHOD WAS FLAWLESS'

As The Voice continued, Daniel was also confused at how The Voice referred to him.

'Anomaly???, what do you mean by anomaly, is it your fault that I'm still here?!' As if The Voice read his mind it once again sounded in his head.

'HOW COULD THIS BE MY ERROR, I HAD EVERYTHING PLANNED, IT'S YOU WHO IS THE ERROR IN ALL OF THIS' 

Acting like an argumentative child passing blame the voice sounded irritated by Daniel while all he could do was stand there shaking while the voice was speaking before he opened his mouth once more.

"Well does this mean you can just fox it and send me off to where they are?" As he finished speaking the voice went completely silent for a few minutes, getting a scared reaction from the pale boy, thinking the voice was trying to fix its mistake until it finally spoke words of despair.

'I CAN NOT, AS THIS WAS A ONE TIME TELEPORTATION WHICH SHALL LAST 10 YEARS FOR ALL, UNTIL THEN YOUR ONLY OPTION IS TO REMAIN HERE ALONE AS THE WORLD GOES THROUGH A 10 YEAR CHANGE WHEN INVOLVES THE PLANET ENLARGING, LAND GROWING AND FORMING AND ALL OTHER ORGANISMS MUTATE AND CHANGE WITHE PLANET AND NEW SPECIES AND MONSTERS APPEAR ON THIS PLANET.'

After Its long rambling not that Daniel was ever listening as he only heard before he drowned out the rest was those 3 words.

I.Can.Not

As his mind spun around those 3 words his despair only grew as The Voice allowed him to process this before it spoke up finally once again.

'ALTHOUGH I CANNOT TELEPORT YOU I CAN OFFER YOU ONE SPECIAL SKILL TO HELP YOU SURVIVE IN THIS LAND AS IT CHANGES, WITH IT YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO SURVIVE THIS EVOLUTION' 

As it finally stopped talking, Daniel's eyes showed a bit of hope as the voice finished speaking before stuttering words he spoke "R-really?" 

The Voice confirms it and a blue light surrounds Daniel as his eyes show a small speck of light finally as the voice speaks.

'ALTHOUGH ITS AN EXTREMELY HIGH LEVEL SKILL IT IS USEFUL, THE SKILL IS CALLED REGENERATION BUT BECAUSE OF YOUR LOW LEVEL IT WILL REQUIRE LOTS OF MANA TO USE' 

As The Voice ceased speaking due to the rush of hope blooming in Daniel, it failed to mention the exact mana requirement for this skill and also the pitiful amount of mana within Daniel it saw little hope for his survival. Then as he was waiting patiently for it to continue it spoke once more.

'THIS IS ALL I CAN DO, THE REST IS UP TO YOU TO SURVIVE AS BEST AS YOU CAN MAY YOU GROW STRONG IN THESE TEN YEARS HUMAN'

As the voice finishes its sentence the voice begins to fade until there's nothing left apart from himself… 

After The Voice had disappeared, as though it was never there, Daniel was left by himself, with nothing to do but wait.

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The first few days were just him staying in his room,eating what food he could find in his parents house and just staying in doors while reading or watching movies as electricity was still available for now. A couple days after he found that there wasn't any more food in his house he decided to finally step outside for the first time after the disappearance of humanity, wearing a black leather jacket, blue Jeans and black and white sneakers and finally armed with a kitchen knife about the side of a plate which was also sharp. He walked down his lifeless street, taking long yet slow steps just in case something jumps out at him. The dairy store he acquires his supplies from is just a couple of kilometers away so not a very long distance but it does take a while to walk to, since he has never drive before and he does enjoy the stroll… well did,  before all of humanity disappeared leaving him all alone with supposedly mutated animals and plants. There are only a couple of hills on his journey but part of him can't help but think that something is over those stone road hills as he cautiously makes it up the top before glancing down and finding nothing and letting out a big sigh before he continues.

He eventually makes his way down to the local dairy shop which he then walks into surrounded by large quantities of food, mainly sweets such as candy bars, soda,energy drinks,water but also dairy products, as he takes off the large black bag he had brought with him, he then starts with the bags of chips which he stuffs into the very bottom, then moves towards the canned goods such as beans and fruit salad then takes out some large bottles of water, fizzy and milk before his large bag is eventually full and heavy as he straps in onto his back, fighting it to him so it won't be loose and walks out of the shop and makes his way home, panting while carrying the large quantities of food. 

This cycle of walking to and from the dairy and bringing home supplies doesn't last him very long as a couple weeks past and he is now not as skinny as he once was due to the amount he consumed. In these past couple of weeks the amount of bags he brought increased to 3, one being the original dark blue bagel with the three pockets and the last two being duffle bags he got from his father's closet, His physique has changed from the skinny pale boy to a tanned and fit body.

Not extremely fit but not overweight either but somewhere in between as the amount of stress caused him to eat more and the amount of walking/running he had to do kept him from becoming obese. This cycle of walking to and from the shops for supplies did pretty good for him for a while… but everything good must come to an end as he soon realized that simple market goods wouldn't last him for ten years as he realised he needed other skills to survive for  just yesterday he had finally met the first ever mutated animal which was an oversized cat which had black and white stripes like a zebra and a height of 3 meters and length of a car, but that's not all as on the rip of its tail was a shiny metallic blade which was extremely fast and sharp.

His gaze glued to the large striped tail as it moves around before the tail slashes down on a car in front of the beast, no smash,no slice just as though it was a hot knife through butter as the car stays in place before continuing forward on its journey leaving a horrified and despairing Daniel hiding behind a dumpster shaking with his hand over his mouth to prevent any noise from coming out, shaking terribly as the beast moves on, as though he didn't think Daniel was worth feasting on and left to pursue other prey as though he would never become a threat to it's existence.

The shaking couldn't stop as he made his way home after staying by the dumpsters for at least 20 minutes. Tears falling from his eyes mixed with sweat from his face as his world was falling apart at the memory of that thing, before he reached home, as soon as he went inside, He slammed the door, locked it and afterwards his legs gave way and he fell, hugging his knees as he trembled with fear of the outside world...