She opened her eyes to nothing. To utter and complete darkness. At first she thought her eyes may still be closed so she blinked them exaggeratedly. Then she realized something and blinked more slowly. There was a difference between when her eyes were open and when they were closed and she began to believe she could see but there was only black.
As she thought about that words flashed before her eyes so quickly she thought she had hallucinated. They blinked a few more times before they stabilized and she was able to focus and read them.
SOUL SYSTEM
System reset !
System reset !
System reset !
Reset complete:
SOUL SYSTEM
Name: Yana ????
Age:. ????
Soul Depth: Void
Rank: Shadow Novice
Location: Pa void
ABILITIES
Dimensional step: Adept
Shadow Walk: Adept
Shadow step: Adept
Shadow call: Adept
Shadow control: Adept
Shadow dispersal: Adept
Discernment: Adept
Seer: Adept
MAGICS
Spell weave: reset to level 1
Shadow create: reset to level 1
Shadow manipulate: reset to level 1
Fate: reset to level 1
Illusion: reset to level 1
Dimensional door: reset to level 1
Pets: 0
Familiars: 1
Shadow cat
Name: Amber
Abilities:
Shadow Step
Shadow Weave
Level: Adept
Location: Lost in the void
Okay she didn't want to ask but how she was Adept at so many abilities but level one in magic? Was this some kind of screw up?! Did she hit her head and accidentally reset her own system? And how did it not know her full name and age but it knew her location. Her calm mind began to swim as she continued asking questions she couldn't possibly have the answer to.
Then she remembered she had a familiar. Maybe this Amber could answer questions. Okay. She is Lost in the void, but she is a Shadow cat and Yana could call shadows. She was even Adept at it.
She frowned and looked stern as if this was her last hope. She thought to herself Call Amber.
'Amber to me!'
She felt her soul quiver then a great rush of wind and a black cat, with white markings, large golden eyes and standing over 3 meters tall was suddenly before her.
It sat down and shrank to the size of a house cat and then looked at her strangely.
"Why did it take you so long to call me. Did something happen?
Yana shrugged. "seems so. All of my magics are back to level one."
The tabby stood in surprise. "Only level one? How did you ever call me?
"All of my abilities are at adept."
The bewildered cat just sat and stared at her. Yana sighed.
"So how long have you been with me."
The cat scrunched its face into what she assumed was a frown and stared at her for a second more.
"you don't remember me?
"no."
"Well why did you think to call me?"
Yana shrugged. How do you explain that you have a leveling system and it lists your assets. Wait. Should she even call a Shadow cat an asset?
"Never mind. Never mind. I see that you do not want to tell me. Yes we have been to… gether… for…. Um…. A while."
Amber began to speak slowly and look around as if she were looking for something. Yana narrowed her eyes.
"What are you looking for?"
"Tasha and the others. Where are they?"
Tasha and the others? Another unexplainable thing. She remembered Amber but she did not remember the others. She sighed. She needed the familiar's help so she would need to be honest.
"I just woke up here with no memory and I saw these words flashing in my eyes saying system reset . When the reset was complete it listed some things and it said zero pets and one familiar. I do not remember Tasha and she was not listed anywhere."
Amber side and brought her paw to her face. Yana merely watched.
"I told you that you may not be powerful enough to upgrade your system. But you can still call shadows?"
"Yes. My abilities are still at the Adept level, my magics are at level one."
"Okay. You can call Tasha, Starlight, and demon dust. They are all shadows." Amber looked around. "The others may be lost in here forever. I have no idea how to find them in a void. Maybe DD or Tasha know. They both have some void magic."
She shook her head. "What a mess, I always told you that you can be way too greedy sometimes. In everything else you are perfection but when it comes to power…"
Yana ignored her and began to call the others to her.
'Tasha to me! Starlight to me! Demon Dust to me!'
This time it was like a gale force wind and then three beings appeared before her. A tall slender black skinned fae, a bright ball of iridescent fur barely bigger than the palm of her hand, and a two meter tall being that actually seemed to be made of dust.
Yana's soul stirred and the system alert flashed before her eyes.
You have gained two familiars
Dark Fae
Name: Tasha
Abilities:
Shadow Dimension Walk
Void Step
Level: Advanced
Marked Demon
Name: Demon Dust
Abilities:
Shadow Kill
Void Rip
Level: intermediate
You have gained one pet
Star Guide
Name: Starlight
Abilities:
Star Walk
Star Void Magic
Level: Advanced
Yana nodded her head with a smile.
Tasha looked around, annoyance clear on her face.
"What happened?"
"Her system did a reset instead of an upgrade."
Tasha just looked blankly.
"And the others?"
"Lost in this place."
Yana ignored their conversation and sat down. Demon Dust came to her and just looked at her.
She sighed.
"Do you know where we are?"
He nodded.
"Do you know where the others are?"
He stopped and looked up to the sky for a moment then he looked back to her and nodded.
"All of them?
"There are only two more."
His voice was like hot rocks knocking together and breaking against each other. It made sense that he did not speak much. His voice sounded like it actually hurt to talk.
"Do you think they want to return to me?"
He nodded to indicate yes.
"Come everyone. Lets get the last two."
"Just call them to you."
"I don't know them to sense them."
"Oh… right. I'll show you where they are."
Tasha projected an image and information directly into Yana's mind and Yana understood exactly where they were almost instantly.
She sent her senses to them and touched them both. When they felt her they relaxed a bit.
Tasha had even told her their names so Yana only had to call them to her.
"To me Alisha! To me Jasmine!"
And that was all that it took.
You have gained one familiar
Shadow Doll
Name: Alisha
Abilities:
Shape-shift
Shadow Weave
Level: intermediate
You have gained one pet
Dimensional wraith
Name: Jasmine
Abilities:
Dimensional Walk
Shadow Embrace
Level: Advanced
A small doll with porcelain white skin and long jet black curly hair jumped on Yana's shoulder while a jet black wraith with fire red hair and eyes moved to Yana and slipped directly into her soul. She instantly felt Jasmine's relief and her power.
"Exactly what happened."
"It seemed I made a mistake. You do know you are right beside my ear you do not need to scream."
"Scream?!" The beautiful doll looked to the others for clarification.
"She has lost her memory Alisha. Yana you never want to hear her scream. Banshees were born from this precious thing."
"Call me precious again Amber!"
Yana felt everything tremble as the doll made her demand. Then she just instinctively knew she could decrease the sensitivity to sound to that particular ear and she could automatically calm the shadow doll down but she knew she shouldn't.
She looked around. Her system specifically said that she was lost. That was pretty ominous but she held out hope.
"So we're in a void. Can one of you open a door and get us out?"
"Well you usually handle that."
Yana sighed and looked around again hoping she would gain enlightenment or something.
"I had a feeling you would say that. My dimensional step is good but I have no idea where we are and my dimensional door is at level one."
She looked to Amber. "What exactly did I do and why did I do it here in a void?"
There was silence.
'Okay. Task one. Escape the void'
New task created.
Escape the void
1. You have five days to escape the void.
2. Each day you fail to escape there will be a punishment.
3. If you do not escape the void in 5 days there will be a new system reset and a new location chosen.
4. If you complete the task in the time given you will increase all of your magics by one half level.
If you do not accept the task you will be punished.
Do you accept the Task. Y N
Yana's eyes went wide. How can making a random statement be so troublesome?
'Yes. I accept.'
Task accepted. Your time starts now:
4 days 23 hours 59 minutes