Fuck fuck fuck! What do I do? I took a deep breath. Okay, first call the police. I punched in 9-1-1 on my phone. The phone rang for a second then someone picked up.

“9-1-1, what’s your emergency?” The electronic voice asked.

I counted the men walking into the bank. “Four, maybe five armed men went into the Bank of America.”

“Miss, do you know your current address?”

“No ma’am, I wish I did, how long will it take for someone to get here?”

“Thirty five minutes.” My heart sunk. That’s too long.

“Hurry, please! My mom’s in there.”

“We’ll try the best we can-” I hung up.

This is shit, so very very shit. Not only did my mom just go in, but the men look like they’re ready for a fight. Thirty-five minutes. That’s how long I’ll need to stall until the police arrives. I took another deep breath. *Ding* and closed my eyes.

I went to stats. I had 100 points to put to any stat I want. I need to use them for something. Intelligence would be good. I could definitely use it to come up with a plan. Plans are useless when they hit a battle field. So that wouldn’t be the best idea. Maybe if I do charisma and persuade them not to kill everyone. No, I can’t rely on probability. I went to quests.

A New Beginning:
Wake up Miranda Alder in her room
Go to a Metaphysiologist
Find skills 3/10

Time to face the Music:
Meet Juno Herring and Sebastian Harkcrow tomorrow at 2:35 pm at your apartment.
Complete one full day of school.

The search for similarity
Find other therians on the internet 0/5

Trial by fire:
Rescue Miranda Alder
Rescue other civilians 0/35
Or
Capture or Kill the attackers 0/6

Why does god hate me? Well, the easiest way to win this is by capturing the attackers. If I can’t save everyone, but I can thwart the men. How would I do that? Going head first would get me killed first. No, I must find a stealthy solution. Hmmm, I wonder.

I got out of the car and crouched walked around. I heard a *Ding* and I closed my eyes again.

Skills:
Serenity level 4: The ability to keep one’s mind calm in the face of great adversity. +40 to the mental bar. Activates when taking a deep breath.
Persuasion level 1: Based on their intelligence stat, your charisma stat, and the objective you want to achieve. You can persuade a person of anything. +10 to charisma when persuading.
Liar, liar pants on fire level 1: Based on the target’s intelligence stat, your cunning stat, and the objective you want to lie about. You can make the target believe in a lie. +10 to cunning when formulating a lie.
Sneaky Kitty level 1: When crouching, you can remain unseen based on your cunning stat and a person’s perception stat. +15 to cunning when in sneak. This ability drains 1 point per step of stamina.

I went back to stats. Here’s my dilemma. Do I give points to cunning or endurance. If I give points to cunning then I can have better sneak, but if I give points to endurance then I can have better stamina. 118 steps isn’t that many steps. I may need more than that, plus endurance may give me armor to take bullets. However, if I put points in cunning then I can remain unseen and take them out one by one. Though, if I’m sneaking around then I’ll be able to level up Sneaky kitty. Which means more cunning when sneaking. How much more? I don’t know. If I do half and half then I may be able to optimize on both sneak and steps.

How about I go twenty, eighty? Eighty in endurance and twenty in cunning. Because I’ll be able to get more cunning when I level up sneaking and be able to eat bullets if I need to. *Ding*

I went to skills:

Skills:
Serenity level 4: The ability to keep one’s mind calm in the face of great adversity. +40 to the mental bar. Activates when taking a deep breath.
Persuasion level 1: Based on their intelligence stat, your charisma stat, and the objective you want to achieve. You can persuade a person of anything. +10 to charisma when persuading.
Liar, liar pants on fire level 1: Based on the target’s intelligence stat, your cunning stat, and the objective you want to lie about. You can make the target believe in a lie. +10 to cunning when formulating a lie.
Sneaky Kitty level 1: When crouching, you can remain unseen based on your cunning stat and a person’s perception stat. +15 to cunning when in sneak. This ability drains 1 point per step of stamina.
Strategist level 1: Enhances your strategizing capabilities. +10 to intelligence when strategizing.

I guess even my power recognized it as a good plan. I went back to stats and put did the twenty, eighty plan.

Body: 109
Strength: 97
Endurance: 198
Agility: 112+100

Mind: 92
Charisma: 80
Intelligence: 119
Cunning: 96

Spirit: 104
Vitality: 100
Dexterity: 113
Perception: 100+150

I don’t know how this plan is going to work, but I hope it does.

Okay, I have to find a way in. If I use the front door, I’ll be noticed in a second. I couched down so that I’m not seen through the window and carefully walked to the back.

There it was, the back door… Guarded by one of the men. FUCK! I sigh, oh well. I have to take him down some way.

Maybe this is just like a video game. If I through a stone or something he’ll go to it.

There was a dumpster where I was couched. I took a bottle and smashed it against the dumpster. I can’t take him on in range, if I hope to capture him then I’ll have to close the range and take his gun.

“What was that?” The guard said to himself. He began walking to the dumpster. I crouched to the side, listening to his footstep. Each step made my heart beat apparent. I knew he was close.

I jumped out and smashed my foot into his face. I can thank my old taekwondo teacher for that. I yanked his gun right out of his hands as the target fell to the ground in a daze. Before he could react I smashed the butt of the rifle against his head knocking him out cold. *Ding* *Ding*

I panted hard from the encounter. Fighting takes a lot of stamina. I took a few deep breaths calming my rapid heartbeat. I was full of adrenaline and ready for a fight. I looked at the rifle in my arms. It was big compared to my small arms. Yet, I could hold it like I could before.

Hmm, to use the gun or to not use the gun. That tis the question. Dad always said, “If you’re going to point a gun at something. Make sure you have the will to kill.”

The thought alone of killing someone terrorized me. I’ve killed people on video games before, but never in real life. I unloaded the clip and hid it in the dumpster. Then popped the one in the chamber. And I can thank my dad on how to wield a rifle.

I closed my eyes. I had two new skills:

Improvised melee level 1: Equipping an unconventional melee weapon gives you +10 to strength.
Rifleman level 1: Equipping an unscoped rifle gives you +10 to dexterity.

Interesting new skills. I just hope I won’t have to use them after this. I threw the rifle as far as I could. *Ding*

I crouched through the back door of the bank and down the hall to see the men from before. There was only four of them. I wonder where the fifth went.

Shit, they’re all together. Had I just not been a massive fucking pussy and thrown the fucking gun to oblivion. Then this would’ve been a walk in the park. A very scary park full of people shooting back, but still. A walk in the park.

“Open the fucking vault, you stupid cunt!” Said the robber in a clown mask.

“I told you, I can’t. The only people who can access it are the mobile vaults and the manager of the bank.” A bank employee replied scared.

“Well, you better call him up, because if you don’t.” He yanked a little girl from her mother’s arms, “This little piggy is going to be broken limp by limp starting with her right .” There was a sickening crunch as the arm of the little girl was smashed and hung limp. Her scream was ear piercing.

Her mother begged “Give her back plea-” A bullet went straight threw her head ending her life as if it was granite.

The clown man faced the employee again, “Now then, open the vault.” He said calmly.

The employee was in shaking with tears rolling down her cheeks like the rain outside. She didn’t say anything. She just choked. Another screech pierced the air as the other arm was broken. Causing the employee to shake harder. “Please stop.” She choked.

“Really?” The clown man said amused, “You’d be thinking by now you would be opening the vault, but you aren’t. I guess I’ll have to do more that just break arms.” He glanced to his comrade, “Frog, your in charge until I get back. Tell me when the employee opens the vaults.”

“What are you going to do, boss?” The frog masked man said.

You could almost hear a degenerative grin coming from his mouth, “I’m going to teach this girl what it feels like to be with a man.”

“NO! PLEASE DON’T” The employee cried.

The clown man faced the employee, “So will you open the vault?”

The employee looked down in pain, “I-I can’t.”

The clown turned to the little girl, “Time to break the pure.” He laughed dragging the little girl to a bathroom. The shrieks and screams of the girl vibrated the whole building.

The two got inside and even though the door was think. The screeches of the girl could be heard through the walls.

I looked at the captives. They were frozen as if time just stopped for them. None of them did or said anything. I don’t think any of them could.

I couldn’t do anything. My whole body frozen, shaking, and all I could do was just let the tears roll down my cheeks as the dying screams of the innocent penetrated the world.

Is this real life? No, it can’t be nothing is ever this bad. Nobody ever just does something like that just to some stupid metal door to open… right? I almost want to laugh at myself for being so naïve. I activated serenity *Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding*. I closed my eyes

Serenity max level 10: The ability to keep one’s mind calm in the face of great adversity. When taking a deep breath, your mental bar is regenerated by 100.
Persuasion level 1: Based on their intelligence stat, your charisma stat, and the objective you want to achieve. You can persuade a person of anything. +10 to charisma when persuading.
Liar, liar pants on fire level 1: Based on the target’s intelligence stat, your cunning stat, and the objective you want to lie about. You can make the target believe in a lie. +10 to cunning when formulating a lie.
Sneaky Kitty level 1: When crouching, you can remain unseen based on your cunning stat and a person’s perception stat. +15 to cunning when in sneak. This ability drains 1 point per step of stamina.
Strategist level 1: Enhances your strategizing capabilities. +10 to intelligence when strategizing.
Improvised melee level 1: Equipping an unconventional melee weapon gives you +10 to strength.
Rifleman level 1: Equipping an unscoped rifle gives you +10 to dexterity.
Pitcher level 1: Based on the average of your dexterity and strength, you can throw stuff faster and stronger. +10 when pitching.

I felt strangely serene as I opened my eyes to the dark world before me. The screams and shrieks of innocence being broken had stopped.

My mind cleared of delusions as only one thought flowed through my mind.

DIE.

I flew into the closest person, the frog man, smashing into his gut and yanking his rifle from his grip. I dropped shot cat man center mass then rolled and unloaded two into the shocked bear man. *Ding*

I heard the bathroom door open. “What the fu-” I unloaded the rest of the clip into clown man. Not giving him a chance to puke words out of his mouth.

A force hit me in the back of the head as I heard a scream, “NOOO.” I fell, but quickly rolled back up before another shot went through the screamer’s leg. I quickly aim at the hidden perpetrator’s head and clicked. Nothing. I ran up and using the rifle as a hammer, I smashed into his head. Blood and matter flew everywhere. *Ding*

I dropped the rifle and fell to the floor. I was exhausted. I looked over to the screamer from earlier.

It was Mom.