Chapter 29: Gained Abilities

<Shui Yu's Pov>

We left the restaurant and wandered around the streets since outings were rare for us. Food stalls sold greasy food but Xiao Lai and Xiao Bing liked them nonetheless. I got some tanghulu while Ge got some soymilk for himself.

Walking around, we decided to go to a KTV and go singing. Who would have expected that Ge's voice turned so good after he got the Charm ability? It literally was like an angel singing. And with the huge white wings and shiny silver hair after he uses his dove affinity, he'll look more dazzling than before.

By the way, I might have forgotten to mention this, but if you have an affinity with a certain animal, you can transform parts of your body into it. Like Ge, in my last life, had beautiful white wings and long silver hair. When Ge turns into his wolf form, he'll probably have furry ears, greyish blue hair, a tail, and sharp claws. His dove form made him look a lot more graceful. When he turns into his wolf form, I guarantee he'll look ferocious.

For Xiao Lai, I've seen some people with spider affinities. They were kind of strange, sucking blood and eating insects. The mutant insects automatically had fear when encountering a person with spider affinity, so some people who survived the zombie trial opted for this option.

The spider form doesn't have eight limbs or eight eyes. But they do have sharp teeth and a slender lithe form. They also have hair color according to the spider they touched. So Xiao Lai will have deep blue hair that sparkles in the sun. Spider forms also include small cuts at the tips of their fingers where they spout nearly indestructible thread from. Xiao Lai's Kite form will have terribly sharp nails and a really speedy and light body. His wing size will probably be a little smaller than Ge's. Ge's speed will depend on mostly his air abilities while Xiao Lai's speed will depend on his wings. Kites are very fast, and Xiao Lai will certainly inherit that. Xiao Lai will look cool and slightly scary in his spider form while looking sharp and serious in his kite form.

Xiao Bing is the one with the most animal abilities. Owl, Cheetah, Gecko. For the owl form, she'll have huge wings, much huger than any of ours. With super sharp nails and night vision, she'll be a better as a thief than ever before. The owl form would have large glowing blue eyes and flaming red hair since I bought her an extremely rare red owl. Her speed will be much more enhanced and senses too from her cheetah ability. She'll have spotted cheetah ears, a tail, sharp nails, and longer eyelashes that serve as whiskers. She'll have those deep brown feline eyes and blonde hair. For the gecko form, there will be a thin and whip-like black spotted blue tail since I got an equally-rare-as-the-owl blue gecko. Xiao Bing will gain soft hands with pads on her fingertips that can let her cling onto anything. And her regeneration abilities will come from the gecko form since they heal very quick. Sporting blue hair and red eyes, I have no doubt that it'll fulfill her cosplaying desires. In her owl form, Xiao Bing will look cute and adorable, in her cheetah form she'll look cold and lazy, and she'll look calm and collected in her gecko form.

For me, when I'm in my raven form, I'll have large black wings, blue eyes, and sharp nails. And in my arctic fox form, I'll have long white hair, sharp canines, sharp nails, glowing amber eyes, and a furry tail. I'll probably look paler and have white fox ears in my arctic fox form. I'll probably look cold and serious in both forms, same things as I am right now.

Animal forms can't be combined, you can only switch between them quickly. But I once heard of a bird affinity user who was originally a bird lover and had many different birds. She had 7 abilities which were too dangerous to have with all kinds of scheming people. All birds loved her and it was thought of that she was loved so much because all her abilities were bird types. People tried to make her join their groups and even threatened her. She just stayed in her uncle's group and flew around all day snatching food from others and staying with only birds.

Actually, she should be going to my school. She's the niece of the headmaster from what Yun told me. She's a loner stuck in class C10. She's smart but too lazy according to the rumors. Not pretty but not ugly, not nice or mean, has friends but aren't too close to them. She's very "average" but doesn't fit in with anyone. Isn't that ironic?

Li Hua. That's her name. The girl who loved birds and had all of them love her back.

From my situation with the... um... I forget people's names too easily... That... Greek kid. He was not good for the plan and I made a huge mistake on that. If Li Hua is like him, I wouldn't be interested in working together with her. So, I want to see what she's like.

I heard she can memorize numbers quickly but sucked at computer science and memorizing words. Li Hua's a native-born American who had Chinese parents, so she spoke English and Chinese very well. Her parents are dead due to a bus crash but she wasn't depressed because she was only 2 and confused instead when that happened. Li Hua was a recently adopted orphan when her new parents also died so quickly. She was only 10 around that time.

The things I hear from Yun... He's great at getting gossip though. Maybe even better than Xiao Lai.

By the way, I need to think if I should help train Yun so he could survive in the apocalypse. With his blood diseases, I don't think it would be easy unless he had absolute protection.

Humans are not solitary creatures, and it would soon get very boring without some human company, so I want to keep a group of absolutely trusted people who we can train to be safe at all times.

After 3 weeks of training and teaching, all my siblings and I became familiar with our powers. It was easier for me because I already had my water ability and spatial ability. Our storage was empty and I was busying myself to buy as much food as I could and store it in my space since it worked like a refrigerator and not let anything spoil. Ah, it was so good to sleep on the soft ground. There weren't any sharp blades of weeds or bugs. It was very fresh and very comfortable to take naps on.

I built a house with Ge's help. So far, my space ability can only let one person besides me in it. Ge built a fine house with his Earth ability and I was very satisfied with it and impressed once more with my designing skills.

Ah, by the way, from now on, I can be as unruly as I want. Nobody can stop me. I can brag. I don't need to be mature. I've already gotten ahold of the abilities needed, what else should I do? But I should still keep it down and be the responsible brother I've always been. Besides, I'm 40 something mentally, it'd be embarrassing to act like a childish brat.

Well, I just wonder how the future would turn out with all that I've prepared for starting from when I was just a kid in this second life.