"How is this possible?!"
Hugh shouted out his disbelief towards the current situation. He was looking at himself in his transformation mode. It was as if he was looking at a completely different person.
"I don't have much ti."
Hugh pri (Hugh's transformation) stated his concern over ti being wasted. He approached Hugh closer, but Hugh only stepped away from him.
"Listen. I only have less than a minute left until I get sucked back into your body."
Hugh pri explained his current predicant. There was clear worry and anxiousness in his eyes. He was trying his hardest to calm Hugh down so that they could have a proper discussion.
Hugh blinked several tis to see if he was only seeing things. Even when he rubbed them, Hugh pri was still in front of him, alive and well.
"Wait!"
Then, Hugh suddenly got an idea to confirm if Hugh pri was a real person. Hugh closed his eyes and concentrated as if he tried to activate his transformation.
He clenched his fists as he got ready for the nauseating transformation. However, nothing happened. There was no Hugh internal body heat, no sweating, no headache, just his plain old self.
Once he figured out that he could not transform, Hugh was more willing to believe that Hugh pri was true.
"You are ?!"
Hugh started to co back to his feet as he went through that realization. Once he knew that Hugh pri was genuine, he was more willing to get closer to him and inspect him.
Hugh looked at Hugh pri with wonder. Back when he would transform himself, he would not see his own body. He could only catch a few glimpses on glasses, but he did not have any ti to get familiar with it.
Now, he was looking at an Adonis of a man. Hugh pri was the alpha of the pack, the king of the jungle. Not only was his body suited for efficiently fighting, but his aura was also enough to subdue everyone who cos before him.
Hugh was fascinated thinking about being him. He now knew what other people saw as he transford, and it was truly astonishing.
"There's no ti for this. We are being invaded!"
Hugh pri grabbed Hugh's wurst and got his attention. It was only now that Hugh realized that Hugh pri's body was starting to lt like a candle.
Hugh pri's voice was also a little bit choppy as if there was so interference in his system. Once Hugh noticed this, he got serious and listened closely to what Hugh pri had to say.
"What do you an invaded?"
Hugh pri grabbed Hugh's shoulders and shook him. He wanted to express to Hugh how serious the matter was. It seed to have been effective.
"Aric. He is inside our soul, invading it for his own."
Hugh was more than completely overwheld as Hugh pri ntioned Aric. He did not think that Aric would be involved in a situation involving himself.
"Once we are his heart, we obtained his powers and his mories. However, Aric's survival instincts were also thrown into the mix."
Hugh was speechless as he heard Hugh pri's reasoning. It was true that he had gotten Aric's mories and powers, but he did not think that it would harm him.
He had eaten Aric's heart on a whim. It was as if his instincts were telling him to do so, so he did.
"There were tis when you blank out, right? It was as if you had lost ti. You blink, and suddenly you are at a different place and ti with no recollection of being there."
Hugh thought back to those weird tis that he had experienced. He would not have any mories of doing sothing, but it was clear that his body did it.
Hugh did not think much of it back then, but now that he knew what was happening, it chilled him just by thinking about it.
"Aric is trapped inside my soul?"
Hugh furrowed his eyebrows as he said those words. It did not feel good thinking that soone was invading his soul.
"Not literally. Just a remnant of him. An instinct. However, it will get stronger as ti passes, ultimately taking control of your own body."
Hugh dreaded Hugh pri's words. It was a ticking clock that was winding down to his doom. It left him feeling anxious and worried every second of his life.
There was a feeling of helplessness in his bones. Knowing that his ti was limited felt like a wrench in his plans. It made his legs go weak and jelly.
"Don't worry. We still have ti. You can stop it."
However, Hugh pri held Hugh up and prevented him from falling. Underneath all that anxiousness in Hugh pri's eyes, was a tinge of hope.
Hugh listened closely to the light of hope that was given to him.
"Find the real Aric. Help him fulfill his task; only then will the instinct feel at peace and dissolve."
Hugh frowned at Hugh pri's words. It seed simple enough, but it only got more and more convoluted as he thought about it.
Hugh rembered his confrontation with Aric back then. Aric had no mory of who he was or what he was doing, but there was only one thing in his mind; kill Maverick.
Aric wanted to kill his father. It was a monuntal task that Hugh was sure that Aric could never pull off. Hugh would have left Aric to do what he wanted even if he died since that was Aric's choice.
Hugh took a big breath as he took in all this information. Helping Aric kill his father seed like suicide, but not helping Aric was also suicide.
It was a forced-choice that Hugh did not want to make. However, given the circumstances, Hugh would gladly help Aric if it gave him a chance to live.
"I don't have much ti left."
Hugh pri was starting to get weaker and weaker as he said those words. His skin started to lt down and spill on the floor. His confident bravado was being torn down by the second.
"If you need , just summon again. It's thanks to that nucleus that you swallowed that allowed to co into existence."
It turned out that Hugh had gained another power from consuming the invader's nucleus. It was a delight of a consolation prize as it would be useful in his quest to kill Maverick.
Hugh pri's body started to fall like sand. He was disintegrating at a fast rate now that his minute of life had passed.
As the last remnants of Hugh pri were left, he was able to speak a few final words.
"Good luck."
As Hugh pri said those words, all of his body finally turned into liquid form. Then, like a magnet, the liquid started to crawl around Hugh's body and got absorbed into his skin.
Hugh got a breath of fresh air as all the liquid got absorbed into his skin. When he checked, the cooldown for his transformation was at its peak with 1 hour of waiting ti.
Hugh took a big breath as he stood alone in his room. It was strangely calm and peaceful like being in the eye of the storm.
It was only seconds ago that he was told that he only had a limited ti in this life. It all felt like a dream, but he knew that it was the cruel reality.
Hugh readied his supplies for school and headed off in the shifting room. Throughout his journey, all he thought about was his quest to first find where Aric had gone.
Without any mories, Aric would be left scraping for any information about his father. Since killing Maverick was a tough job, it would be better if they both worked together.
Hugh dragged his feet back to the classroom and sat down imdiately. He put his head down on the desk and closed his eyes as he waited for professor Kain to co inside.
While he was waiting, Hugh was formulating his plans to help Aric. His first order of business was to find Aric. If that did not work, then he would search for Aric's father, Maverick.
Both of them were not easy tasks, but Hugh was forced to do them. There was also another thing that was weighing on his mind, his promise to Ace.
Ace was also expecting Hugh to deal with the extraterrestrial threats that the school faced. It was as if the world was bearing on his shoulders with work.
Even with all this work piled up on him, Hugh did not feel slightly sad or angry. Unexpectedly, he was a little bit excited.
With all the contact with extraterrestrial threats, Hugh would have the chance to consu them and get their powers for himself.
If he can do that, then killing Maverick would beco easier and easier. It was a valid plan that Hugh ca up with.
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