Collin's Otherworld Adventure

Me, My little Sister, Her friend Emmy, and my friend Kazuya, went to a convenience store to buy some snacks so that we can have something to eat while we drive to the amusement park that we made plans for, a week ago, and after gathering everything that we need, someone comes inside the door shouting.

"Everyone get down to the ground!"

shouted the gunman, me, my sister and everyone in the store dropped to the ground I quickly react by guiding my sister and Emmy, behind me so that I can make sure that I can protect them, The gunman waves the gun in the air, and then fires a shot and yells out.

"Now nobody move or try to be a hero, if you don't want to get hurt."

The gunman heads over to cash register and aims his gun at the employee and shouts at him to give him all the money, I hear my friend who was also close by and whispers to me.

"hey you and me can take this guy."

I shake my head and whisper back.

"are you crazy? he has a gun."

we both look at him and it seems he is distracted with the register, so me, my friend look at each other and I whisper reluctantly.

"what do you you want to do then?"

He whispers back.

you grab him from the back and I'll disarm him, I then take a few breaths and reply with hesitation

"uh, um ok, I got it."

me and my friend slowly get up and we charge towards the gunman, and quickly realized that I ended up tackling him to ground and which caused him to drop the gun and as I slowly get up so I can properly secure him, a loud pop rings and echoes throughout the air, and in that moment I felt a sharp pain hit my chest, I drop to floor to my side, and cough out blood, I couldn't muster any strength to utter a single word, but I could see that my friend kicked his head and had him pinned down to floor and then after yells out.

"someone call for help now!"

my sister comes to me crying and hugging me tightly and says to me with tears streaming down her cheeks.

"you will be okay, help is on the way."

I weakly smiled at her and manage to utter

weakly.

"I love you sis."

she cries out.

"idiot don't say that to me, you are going to live!"

I then continue, as my vision begins to fade and my body starts to feel cold.

"also tell, mom and dad, that I love them."

and then Immediately after saying that to her, everything faded to black. I open eyes and I see two unfamiliar faces smiling at me and then a woman kisses my forehead and says.

"How's my baby boy?"

confused I think to myself.

"baby boy? what?"

the man plants a kiss to the woman and asks.

"so do you have any ideas for his name?"

she replies as she cradles me in her arms.

"Collin."

I try to speak to them, but the only thing I can do right now is make cooing sounds, and I think to myself.

"what the hell is going on, didn't I get shot and die, did I get a second chance at life or something?"

the woman carrying me seems to be my mom, she then asks the man, who I think could be my dad.

"can you tell if he has good magical potential?"

he smiles and replies.

"yeah."

he then chants.

"mana detection."

his smiles, suddenly changes into a concerned and puzzled expression as he says.

"I can't seem to detect any mana coming from him."

she asks fretfully.

"are you sure you can't?"

he responds obviously worried.

"Yes I'm sure."

I think to myself.

"what are they talking, what is this about mana and magic, am I not on earth or something?"

after numerous attempts of my dad using the spell mana detection, a spell in this world that can pin point a living being's mana, just like what a sonar radar can do, or at least that's how my mom explained it to me in baby talk, he then gives up and says.

"you don't need to explain it to the boy on how mana detection works, he is still a baby and won't understand a single word and since I don't think our son has any mana, or if he does have any, I can't detect it."

my mom than cuddles me closer and says warmly.

"It's alright, even if he doesn't have any significant mana, he is still our son, and we will fulfill our duty as parents and not abandon him in some god forsaken orphanage like those other parents."

I think to myself.

"do parents in this world abandon their children if their mana is low, what kind of cruel world is this?"

my mom then says.

"Leon come here and hold your son."

my dad replies.

"Alright I'm coming Marie."

My mom then gently hands me over to my dad where he carefully cradles me, and says to me.

"don't worry son just because I can't detect any mana from you, it doesn't mean anything, you could be a late bloomer or something, but even if that's not the case and you don't get accepted in the academy you can still help out around the store when you get older."

I think to myself.

"damn this sucks but I guess there is no helping it, I'll figure out something once I can start moving around independently."

My dad then stares silently and then asks my mom.

"huh, this is weird, don't newborn babies cry a lot, I mean this whole time since he's been born he hasn't cried, is this normal?"

My mom responds.

"yeah, he hasn't cried at all, this is pretty weird."

I respond in my mind.

"well I'm not going to start crying now."

since there is not much I can do now as an infant, the only thing I can do is just enjoy this second chance at life at least until I grow older and then I can start learning everything that I can about this new world.