"I want to go to the fourth segment now." My shoulders heaved as I tried to steady my breaths."You are injured, Kastian and it is no minor injury." He commented."You said it yourself, didn't you. I can heal, I should take risks." I took a step forward."Your abilities are flunctuating, Kastian. What if you're not able to heal yourself?" He asked but I only shrugged."Since you know so much about the academy, I assume that you know that there are healers there. They can heal me.""They can heal you and then you can risk them finding out what you've been up to. For someone who had little knowledge of what he's dealing with, you put too much trust in the academy."Shit!I couldn't let them find out about his Universe if I wanted to keep training in it.No doubt if the Principal saw me all bloodied without being on a mission, he would make Micah and her likes dig into my head until they took out every answer.And what did he mean by I put too much trust in the academy?"I will heal." I
By the time I returned to my dormitory, there were chants and cheers everywhere.I didn't want to care initially but the noise kept getting louder."I bet my lunch tomorrow, he's going to take him down!" Someone laughed, throwing his hands in the air and chanting as the noise continued.What the hell was happening?I tried to move past them to my ward but they kept pushing me down, caring less for me and more for whatever was making them shout like that."What's going on?" I resorted to asking."Oh, it's the ordinary Special." Some boy laughed, calling his friends to join him."Don't you know your nickname. Wow, what a shame." One if his friends laughed."You're pretty popular around here man and you don't even know it. Shame." He shook his head, laughing loudly along with the other boys.I was so mad, I wanted to react but I couldn't.The damn screen appeared with an instruction. Heroes don't hit heroes. You don't fight unless in a fair fight, Kastian.Even though he had said my
When I woke up the next morning, I took my bath quickly.I checked my time to see that I had enough time to do some exercises before my training session with Magda.It was day two of my training with her and I couldn't wait to see my progress after a month.The screen appeared before me again, showing some daily routines I had to do.I had to do a hundred sit ups, push-ups and lifts.There was nothing in my room that weighed enough to go for a dumb bell so I decided to improvise.I took my other suits and casual wears off the hanger.It was metal so it was strong.Since I had no dumb bell, this would have to do.I started with the sit-ups. They were painful but whenever I wanted to stop, I always thought of how weak everybody here and in Sidon saw me.If there was anywhere that I could have a place, it was definitely here.After I finished the exercises, it felt like my bones were on fire.I sighed, relieved when I saw the blue glow in my vein.The aches stopped just as Micah called o
When we returned to the Principal's office, I was stunned.I knew my mother was a hero but I didn't know she had done this plenty of good deeds.What else could she have done?No doubt, my mother was a good woman and an even better hero.This must be why she had been so uncomfortable with leaving whoever was left behind, behind.I didn't ask the Principal about it anyway."Kastian, your father was a Special even without possessing any abilities but he was still a hero. If he had to jump into the fire to save someone, he would do it not caring the slightest for his lack of abilities.""I understand that you feel different not being able to use a prototype that should make you the strongest but that doesn't mean you can't be a hero." He returned to his seat as he spoke.He was right.Once, my father had gone into our neighbor's house to fight off the robbers that had attacked them in the middle of the night.Without knives or guns, he had risked his life to save them.I was so young whe
Writer's POVTyreHe closed his eyes, enjoying the influence he was having on the young Ash.Soon, he was going to have him join him and together, they were going to get revenge for being tossed aside just because they couldn't meet up with the standard of the academy."For so long, I have waited for you Kastian Ash. Now, I was going to make sure you never became like them. You will help me get my revenge on every single one of them." He laughed, using his abilities to call another Special to his Universe.All he had to do was close his eyes and summon their minds.When he did that, they became mindless, only giving attention to his command.He had created a gate between his Universe and their planet.Whenever he opened the gate, many of them went through it into his world.Once they were in it, their abilities never worked so even if they regained their minds, they were defenseless against him.He made them his puppets, slowly building an army; his army.They had left him alone and v
Writer's POVBy the time the team returned to the academy, the leader was still in shock over what Markie had said."Are you sure of it, Markie?" He continued asking her even after they had settled down after their return.Markie's response was always a yes.When the time came for the leader to give his report of what had happened during the mission to the Principal, he decided to go with Markie.The Principal was surprised but trusting that the leader had a good reason for bringing one of his team members with him, he let the girl stay."It didn't seem like a C-grade mission at first. It seemed much higher; maybe a B-grade or even higher." He began his narration much to the interest of the Principal."We tested his energy through the portal, it was a C-grade Special mission." The Principal disagreed.Before teams of different ranks were sent out, the psychic users always tested the energy of the Specials causing trouble on earth, through the gate.That was how he always knew what te
Magda furrowed her brows, frowning as if to ask if I had done anything else besides almost burning Ivan alive.I shook my head, telling her that I had no idea what was going on.When we got to the Principal's office, Langrid, Micah and the Principal were all sitted, wearing a serious expression on their faces."Why am I here?" I directed my question to the Principal."We want to check if you sustained more injuries with the lad you fought yesterday." The Principal answered.Micah frowned at me.I hadn't told her nor Magda what had happened yesterday."I didn't sustain any injuries." Even if I had sustained injuries that I didn't know of, they would have healed up already.The screen appeared again in front of me.Threat. Activate automatic self defense.What the hell did that mean?I looked around again.None of them seemed like a threat.I didn't trust the Principal and I felt weird around Langrid but Micah was most definitely not a threat."You can't tell." "How can you tell? Your
Writer's POVThe Principal hesitated before leaving Kastian and going through the portal to where Micah laid.Janel was still unconscious so Micah was his only hope in finding out what had happened.Langrid went with him."We were only gone for a split second so as not to distract you and Janel. What on Lath happened there?" The Principal asked curiously.Langrid had found a way to stop him from going to where Zenin had died.He convinced Callin that if he let Micah and Janel take a peep into his mind, they would be able to let them know what the young Ash knew.But they had failed.Janel had been sure that the young Ash didn't know anything more than they needed him to know.He assured the Principal and Langrid that he had successfully wiped out the memory of whoever Zenin was, from his mind.However, Micah had been reluctant to go into the young Ash's head.She wasn't afraid of what was going to happen should she try to get into his mind again like she did the last time.She just di