I woke up in a panic, out of breath sweating. It felt like I had died and come back to life... Again anyway. Everything that happened had felt like a nightmare. It was worse than when I was a dragon. At least I had the power to fight back. Never had I felt that way before, so defenceless with no power to fight back.

I looked around me to see where I was. It seemed like I had been taken to my room. My chest and face had been wrapped in bandages. I still felt a slight pain in my chest but the swelling on my face had come down a lot.

My mother had fallen asleep next to me holding my hand. I smiled. how could one human be so sweet yet another so cruel? The slight movement of my hand managed to wake her up. As her eyes began to open tears started to form.

"Ray! I can't believe it, your awake!" my mom cried.

Suddenly the door burst open and my father ran to my other side.

"Ray, don't this again we thought you would never wake up." My dad said.

I thought my dad's words had sounded a bit strange. Hadn't it only been a day?

"How long was I asleep for?"

"You been out for a whole week, your mother called me and I came back as soon as I could."

A whole week, how was that possible? Even though I was badly hurt it shouldn't have warranted a week's worth of sleep. No wonder my parents were so worried.

I asked my parents what had happened to Bob and Kyle the two kids that went into the forest with Gary. Their faces turned pale at the question. When my mother and father came back, they went into the forest to search for them.

Gary had led the way to where they met the intermediate tier wolf. when they arrived the body's had already been taken away, the only thing that was left was bloodshed from the battle. My parents continued looking for them for a couple of days but still had no luck.

The only thing they could do was guess that they were dead. When their mother found out the news she blamed me for everything that happened. Gary had explained the whole thing to the village including my parents what actually happened. People still chose to believe what they wanted to believe saying things like I must have forced him to say that.

It took my father's whole strength to stop my mother form going over and beating the women half to death.

The one thing that I was happy to hear was about Amy. She had only received minor injuries from the wolf. Gary had done a good job of protecting her. The doctor said she mainly fainted from the pressure and fear of the beast.

After my parents were done explaining everything that had happened while I was asleep. They left me be to rest in my room.

There was something that had been bothering me ever since I woke up. That was the messages I received after defeating the wolf.

I remember a status window appearing but at the time I was too focused to pay it any attention. Last time I wanted the window to disappear and it did, so maybe if I thought about it appearing it would appear again.

To my surprise, it worked.

What was this strange system, it never appeared before? Were all humans able to do something like this? the only person I could rely on for information was my mother but I wasn't sure if something like this would shock her.

I decided that no harm could come out of it and activated the skill. My vision had suddenly gone into a wireframe view. The walls and bed had a white wireframe showing the building blocks of it all. I looked towards my other wall to my right which led into the kitchen. I could see my father and mother on the other side of the wall. The frames on their body appeared as a gold glowing colour.

It was hard to explain but I could see more than with my regular eyesight. The yellow vision of their bodies even showed the details of their heartbeat and muscle fibres.

This wasn't a surprise to me because I had the same skill when I was a dragon. the skill came in handy when searching for enemies, as it allowed you to see through objects and more specific details. For example, if a person was to hide behind a tree or was hiding a weapon the eyes would allow me to see this.

I deactivated the skill and looked at the status window in front of me again. Although it didn't take any energy to use this skill it did strain my eyes.

On the status bar, there was a little tab that said skills. When looking through it a row of question marks appeared. Only one skill was showing unlocked which was the dragon eyes. On top of the list, it said 1/1000.

If I had to take a guess the numbers indicated the skills that I had as a dragon. I didn't know how many skills I knew. You never really count them I just used the ones that were most effective on my enemies. If someone was to say 1000 I would think that was a good guess. The only way to confirm my theory would be to unlock more skills.

This was the second problem. What was the condition to unlock skills? thinking back at what happened, the only thing I could think of was defeating the intermediate tier wolf. Was the condition to just kill a beast, or did it have to be a new creature every time? If that was the case wasn't that too easy? there where many beasts in the whole continent.

Thinking about this also made me remember that a second status window had appeared.

This I had never seen before. It was a complete mystery to me what a beast crystal even was. With no knowledge of what the crystal did, I decided to leave it be for now.