Academy for Specials; The Ash Legacy

CHAPTER 2

By the time i wake up, it's the school nurse sitting by the side of my bed.

"oh, you're awake?" it sounded more like a question than a statement.

"how long have i been gone?" i don't ask what happened as the images flood my head.

"only a few minutes." she answered.

it feels like forever.

"i'm not getting my exam rescheduled." i sigh and dropped my head into my hands.

the perfect plan i had made for my life had gone up in ruins thanks to justin.

"are you okay?" she eyed me looking somehow scared.

was i not supposed to be?

Justin had injected me with ethanol but it couldn't be that bad, right?

"You were injected with a large dose of ethanol by your exam partner." she didn't need to go further, i understand what that meant.

ethanol causes pain and hemolysis and considering the force, speed and amount justin had injected me, i wasn't even supposed to be breathing or at least conscious after a few minutes.

"you stopped bre…." she stopped halfway because someone walked into the dispensary.

"kastian ash?" justin's father smiled a little.

i recognized him easily as he always came to the school to donate to the school.

before i would offer my greeting, he went on,

"i apologize for what my son did. not that i mean to put it past him but his mental state had played a big role in his action and i apologise." he sounded so business-like, it was like he was making a deal.

"you're putting it past him and justin did what he did out of sheer wickedness, stop trying to always use his mental health to save him from the punishment he deserved!"

i so wanted to yell that in his face however, i could not.

not when my aunty's husband worked for him and could easily be sacked for my behavior and then my aunty would skin me alive while her children ate my flesh.

had they even shown up?

i was damn sure the school had called.

"i understand, sir." i nodded, swallowing every word i wanted to say.

"your exam will be rescheduled and you would have it done alone. i hear you're a lone walker." his last two words sounded like an insult but i ignored it.

not because i wanted to, well not like there was anything i could do to him but that wasn't why i involuntarily ignored his insult.

it was what i heard and was still hearing.

i could hear what sounded like heartbeats, voices of school boys and girls, laughing, talking but none of them was in the room.

what was wrong with me?

i couldn't be hallucinating, could i?

was this an aftermath of being stabbed with ethanol?

"thank you, sir." there was nothing i could do anyway.

he nodded and gave me a quick glance over before walking out of the room.

"no one picked the phone from your home, sorry kid." the nurse passed me a sorry look before stepping out too.

i looked at my wrist, there was no sign there that i had been stabbed, not even the faintest scratch.

my attention suddenly got drawn to the small knife by my bed, in a tray with a few fruits.

i remembered what i had seen in my vein, under my skin and an idea popped into my head.

locking the door to make sure no one would walk in and think i had suddenly gotten justin's mental illness,

i grabbed the knife and after discarding all thoughts that came to my mind and told me to drop the knife, i dug it into my wrist and pulled it out immediately.

blood spilled all over the floor, it was red and not what i had seen before blacking out minutes ago.

i missed my vein so the injury was not severe.

but just before i would try to treat it, i watched as the blood that had spilled to the floor returned to my wrist.

the droplets levitated in the air like magic and with a mind of their own, they found my wrist and repositioned themselves in my body.

the torn part of my flesh healed up and there came the blue glow afterward.

"what the hell?" i mumbled, dropping the knife to the floor.

i was finally going crazy.

this was it for me; i was going to go crazy without even getting a chance to leave that god-damned house.

"you're not crazy, kastian." it was a masculine voice.

"jesus!", i turned around to find the creep from the bus staring at me, hands in his pocket as he leaned on the door.

there were two things that terrified me.

firstly, the fact that he had gotten into the room without unlocking the door, i would have heard if he had unlocked the door or even used it.

the second thing that terrified me was another encounter with him.

"who are you?"

"w….wh…what are you?" i corrected myself when he was standing right in front of me in less than a blink of my eye.

actually, i didn't even blink and he was standing right in front of me, just like that.

i couldn't even explain what he had just done.

"teleportation and invincibility are my special abilities but of course, you can see me as he could. i have one more but it's gross so i hate telling anyone about it." he said, peering down at from from the few inches he had over me.

yes, i knew what he had just done was teleportation but that wasn't supposed to be real, right?

it was something that only happened in comics and cartoons but never in real life, right?

and who was 'he'?

"what is happening to me?" it was a rhetorical question but he answered it anyway.

"you're becoming what you've always been, a…." he was cut short by a loud knock on the door.

i was so sane last night, what changed during my sleep?

"go on, the human needs your attention." he smiled before walking away and sitting on my bed.

"kastian?" it was the nurse.

i couldn't stay in here any longer.

the ethanol must be messing with my mind.

no!

my mind was already messed up before justin stabbed me with it, i shouldn't blame the poor chemical for my hallucinations.

i picked up my school bag and walked to the door.

"are you okay?" she asked once she was inside the room probably noticing the panic on my face.

she followed my gaze to the man sitting on my bed and waving at me.

"hey, are you okay?" she asked again, placing her aged hands on my shoulder.

i frowned,

"you don't see him?" i pointed at the man who was now waving at me, mouthing "i told you i was invincible".

"him? what are you talking about, kastian?" her worried expression was now tainted with fright.

"forget it." i sighed, pinching the space between my brows as if that would bring back my sanity.

i didn't have time for this, i had to prepare for my rescheduled examination.

"thank you, lauren, i'll leave now." i left, ignoring her continuous questions of "are you okay kid?"

i looked around and was relieved when i didn't see him again.

"what was wrong with me?" i asked myself, reflecting on everything that had happened between the bus station and now.

i was distracted by loud screams.

when i looked, people were yelling at a girl to hurriedly leave the middle of the road before oncoming vehicles hit her.

"hey, get out of there!" i joined the screaming but it looked like she was lost in…. thoughts and couldn't hear us.

"get out of there!" i screamed louder but she didn't hear, didn't move.

"fuck." i cussed, running into the road.

and with a supersonic speed that i didn't even know i had, i got us on the other side of the road in no time.

i had done that at the nick of time, just before the car would crash into her and definitely kill her with the speed with which it was moving.

"w…wh…what happened? what is happening? who are you?" she rushed the questions, looking around having suddenly regained her mind.

"you're safe." i breathed, making sure she was steady before i left her.

"how did i do that?" i asked myself amidt the shock on the faces of the people around on what i had just done; what had just happened.

"i guess you got yourself supersonic speed and grade A regeneration abilities. who knows what else that crazy chorazin in your veins can make you do." once again, he appeared.

"who the hell are you?!" i yelled, not minding if everyone was watching me.

this couldn't be hallucination, he- they were right in front of me.

the lady i just saved scrambled away, afraid.

"you don't go around saving humans in front of humans, kastian." he tsk-tsk all the way as he walked to me.

it was the other one.

i looked around the other side of the road and the people were still staring.

"that's fine, i'll erase theirs memories. you want that, right?" without waiting for my response if he expected any, he snapped his fingers and the people started moving around like nothing out of the ordinary had just happened.

"what the hell?!"

"who the hell are you two?"

"what the hell is happening to me?"

i looked at the amused looks on their faces.

"ever heard of special heroes with super powers?" the creep asked.

"what?" i snorted.

"s-u-p-e-r p-o-w-r-r-s." 

ike nothing out of the ordinary had just happened.

"What the hell?!"

"Who the hell are you two?"

"What the hell is happening to me?"

I looked at the amused looks on their faces.

"Ever heard of Special heroes with super powers?" The creep asked.

"What?" I snorted.

"S-U-P-E-R P-O-W-E-R-S."