10 A Tiger Revealing Its Stripes Edited

Waiting for the Doctor to arrive, he sat by the open window, watching the clouds float by. The world felt more peaceful than he remembered, in the past; Though he knew it was because his point of view had changed.

Having waited for a while, boredom began to set in, so he decided to check his status.

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"System, show me the attributes page please."

[Of course.]

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[Name: Taka Everlast]

[Male]

Age: 10 (Real age: 30)

Level: 1

Experience: 0/200

Life points: 2000/2000 (Health stat x 100)

Stamina: 6,900/6,900 (Strength+Speed+Agility+Health x 100)

-Attributes-

Health: 20

--Current lifespan: 125 Years

--Self Healing: Slightly faster than average

Strength: 16

-- Maximum liftable weight: 160 kg

-- Body strength: Average adult male

Speed: 14

--Maximum sprint speed: 28 MPH/45 KPH

Agility: 19

Intelligence: 258

--Basic intelligence (Understanding of things: 50)

--Memory Palace (Never forget: 100)

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--Future-past experience (Knowledge of the future: 100)

--New-old life (You learn something new: 8)

--(Despite having high intelligence, Host will still show signs of stupidity due to current age)

Luck: 63

Free attribute points: 100

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Looking over his status a question he'd been meaning to ask came to mind.

"System, what are the sub-headings beneath my intelligence stat?"

[They are your perks host.]

"Perks? Explain?"

[Whenever the host reaches a milestone in his stats, for example, 50, 100, 150, 200, 250. The host gets a choice of perks. If host doesn't see any perks he likes, he can wait for the next milestone. Some perks need more stat points to unlock as you can see. Next milestone for intelligence is 500.]

"Thanks for the explanation."

[Of course. Will that be all?]

"Yes, thank you system."

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Looking down at Fen who was still curled up in his lap, he couldn't help but smile. Seconds later his ears twitched, now he'd gotten used to his new senses picking the small noises out had become an unconscious thing. Hearing a car motoring toward his home, with an anxious person inside. He quickly made the deduction that the doctor was about to arrive.

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Back to the present

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Heartbeat racing.

Her nervousness shortening her breaths.

Hands trembling in anticipation.

she tried to calm herself but Doctor Emily Harper failed miserably.

She failed so badly in fact, that she couldn't even bring herself to knock on Taka's bedroom door. Anyone would think she was meeting the ruler of the universe.

Standing there, she appeared like the last tree in a barren forest. She finally garnered enough of her courage to knock the door, when a voice was heard, from the room.

"Doctor, please come in."

Weakly opening the door, Doctor Harper walked into the tigers den.

Seeing Taka sitting there was enough to leave her awestruck. Seeing him staring out of the window with what she assumed was a wolf cub on his lap, made it look like she'd just walked into the scene of a movie.

Turning on his chair, Taka focused his gaze on the doctor; pupils narrowing and a smirk plaguing his lips. Making him look like a wild animal eyeing its prey, well only until the cub that was lying in his lap jumped up and decided to lie on his head instead.

The whole situation turned from looking evil to somewhat cute in the matter of a second. That is if you ignore the growl, resonating around the room but that soon stopped as Taka stroked the cubs head.

While observing all of this, Doctor Harper couldn't help but gulp.

This child was allowing, one of the most ferocious creatures in the world, to casually sit comfortably on his head; not mentioning the fact that the animal in question was allowing a human and a human child at that to stroke its head. It was clear at this point to Doctor Harper that the wolf cub held great affection for the child sitting in front of her and she could only infer the child felt the same.

Very quickly Doctor Harper had come to the conclusion that the Child, Taka, was perfectly healthy. But that raised more questions, which made her nervous.

'Why would he allow his parents to call me if there was nothing wrong?'

As she panicked, a voice snapped her back from her thinking.

A voice with a mature flavor but obviously from a child.

"Hmm I see, you've already figured out the truth."

It was a statement, not a question. Shortly after Taka muttered quietly 'Observe'.

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[Name: Doctor Emily Harper]

[Female]

Age: 22

-Attributes-

Health: 7

Strength: 5

Speed: 8

Agility: 6

Intelligence: 141

-- Eidetic memory

-- All-round scientific genius

-- Qualified Doctor

-- Trustworthy

-- Loyal

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Emily Harper is the heir to one of the biggest companies in the world. While been known as a super genius by many, she is still very humble and tries to help people whenever she can. This has only grown more since she set up a clinic to help the poor and needy. Currently, she is attending to one Taka Everlast who is making her feel very nervous in his presence.

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The Doctor flinched, feeling as if her thoughts were being read.

Seeing her nervousness and reading the information he'd gained from 'Observe' Taka chuckled gently which calmed the tension in the room.

"There's no need to be nervous, Emily. You don't mind me calling you Emily, do you?"

Shock plastered her face.

"Y-Y-Y-You, how do you know my name?"

Hearing what Emily had said. Taka looked at her as if she were an idiot.

"Your card, remember?"

"Oh, right...." She let out a sigh of relief.

".....You can call me Emily, when no one else in the room, but please address me as Doctor in front of other people."

Quickly nodding, Taka agreed. Emily questioned.

"Can I call you Taka?"

"Sure, whatever."

A smile so bright the world seemed to dim appeared on Taka's face.

"Well, shall we get down to the reason I called you here?"

As Taka became serious, the atmosphere in the room once again became tense.

"What is it that I can help you with exactly?"

Emily spoke not realising she was no longer speaking to Taka as if a child but an adult.

"I need information."

Emily stiffened.

"And why would you think I could get it?"

Taka snorted.

"Emily I know who you are. Little miss Heiress to possibly one of the biggest companies in the world."

Emily's eyes widened in shock before narrowing. A serious look appeared on her face that took Taka by surprise. She knew she wasn't dealing with just anyone now.

"So what information do you need?"

"Ways to skip grades at school, ways to contact people and I need a fresh bank account setting up."

"Why are you asking me to do this and not your parents? You don't even know me?"

She couldn't help but wonder why he'd ask her for such favor's and not just go straight to his parents. something didn't add up.

"I don't want them knowing the truth about me, at least not yet."

Her eyes widen as recognition of what he had said flash through her eyes.

"Hmm that I can understand but clearly you're not a normal child."

"I guess you could say that."

Taka said with a smile.

A moment passed. Emily spoke with confidence.

"How high exactly, is your I.Q?"

"Hehe. . . well let's say it's high enough"

Hesitate to ask but proceeding to ask anyway for peace of mind.

"How high is high enough?"

Unable to tell her the complete truth outright in case she went into shock. Taka told her while dancing around the subject.

"Well let's just say that compared to me, Einstein is third rate genius."

Emily's mouth gaped dumbfounded by what she had just heard, not believing it, but she knew by instinct alone that Taka wasn't lying merely stating facts. Even though she believed him, the facts posed even more questions like.

'Why wouldn't his parents know?'

'Why hadn't he told anyone before her?'

'Why did he need the information he'd asked for? Why was it so urgent?'

'Why does he need a fresh bank account?'

'If he's so intelligent surely he'd find a way himself?'

Tens of thoughts racing through her head. Emily wasn't able to calm her mind until a voice was heard.

"Hey Doc, don't think about it so much. Everything will be explained in time."

Returning to reality she stared intently at Taka.

Before she had the chance to speak. Taka's voice was heard.

"Hey Doc, we haven't got much time left before my family starts to become suspicious. I know what I've asked of you, is not something one should ask of people outside of the family but you're the only one I trust."

Without pausing she asked.

"Why me? Why do you trust me? You don't even know me?"

A foreign thought was heard in her mind.

'You will find that out in the future.'

With a moment's silence. Taka spoke with a slight sadness. While his eyes dimmed to a listless state, completely devoid of any feeling.

"I know, I probably appear as a monster to you and to many other people but I don't want to appear that way to my family."

An air of ferociousness pervaded the air around Taka confirming the truth about what he'd said. He continued.

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"Even if that means destroying everyone that steps onto my path, I will protect them."

What he didn't realise was that after he'd finished speaking. He'd continued muttering unconsciously.

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'I couldn't protect them last time but this time, I will'

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A great heart-wrenching sadness could be heard in his voice.

Hearing the muttered statement. Tears filled Emily's eyes, moving toward Taka despite the Ferociousness he was radiating, she pulled him into her embrace as if protecting him from his own mind.

Tears fell from her eyes.

'Poor child, who knows what he's had to shoulder for his family without them knowing. He's been protecting them from the shadows by himself with no support. Even if it's only a little I need to help him, at the very least I need to be there for him.'

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Pushing his way out of Emily's embrace, only to stare at her.

The wildness in his eyes slowly hiding, retracting itself back into the abyss of his soul.

With his beautiful gold and silver eyes concentrated on her, she couldn't help but blush, Taka was truly too beautiful.

Backing away she spoke.

"The things you've asked of me, I'll do, Just promise me that whenever you need help, come to me even if you can't go to anybody else you can come to me."

Nothing was said, only a simple nod could be seen.

Shortly after Taka made a request.

"Hey Doc, There is one more thing you can help me out with."

"Hmm, what is it?"

"Can you give me a full physical?"

"Why?" Worry jumping to the forefront of her mind.

"Don't worry its nothing serious but I think you'll be surprised if you do and I need to check something."

"Hmm really? It shouldn't be a problem but you'll have to come by the research institute, I work at?"

"Sure that's not a problem, though I'll have to find a way to get there without my parents finding out."

"How about I tell them that you're fine but you need time to rest, so I've offered to let you help me with my research. That way you won't get bored and might learn something, plus you'll have a Doctor looking after you?" She said tapping her chin.

"Hmm, yeah that's believable enough I guess. It also gives me an excuse to not be at home and not at school. Yeah, that'll work. I hope you can lie well Doc?"

Emily snorted at him. Finding this little rascal cuter the more she looked at him.

"I'm a Doctor, of course, I can hehe."

Taka couldn't help but laugh out loud at how cute Emily appeared at that very moment.