It had been a rough and stressful week for Ajax. He was always busy. He rarely had time for himself and his education. He was always buried in system and work and now He had exams coming up in a few weeks. Apparently, every student in the college was supposed to be involved in an extra curricular activity. Ajax had not been involved in any since he started learning in Richmore college. He had to pick an extra curricular activity or her might not graduate and move to the next level. Raphael had suggested he tried out for the basket ball team considering that he was tall and built. Ajax could not believe those two words were used in conjunction for him. Tall? Yes he was. He had always been. But built? He was always a lanky fellow that hid his body size in sweatpants and hoodies, but now he was built. He wondered if it was a thing of the system, or if it was because of his training. “I am not sure I would be accepted bro.” Ajax had complained. “C’mon Ajax. Have you see
The dude fell back in surprise and landed on his butt.“Aw. Sorry.” Ajax said with a pout, then his face grew serious. He grabbed him by his shoulder, repeating his former actions with the coach. “You and I played. I kicked your ass very well and you think I am very good at basket ball. And I would be the perfect person the team needs.”The guys eyebrows furrowed but then he inhaled sharply and blinked. He looked around having no idea how he got there. Ajax stretched his hands forward and dragged him up.“Nice play man!” The guy said. “Coach he is really good-” the guy was yelling when he sighted his coach on the floor. “Oh my God!” Ajax exclaimed. “Is he alright?”His opponent quickly rushed to the coach and checked his pulse. “He is still breathing. We should call 911.” Ajax nodded and turned around to get his phone. He was about leaving when the coach stirred up and woke up. And that was how Ajax got a place in the bas
“Ajax.” Raphael called using his shoulder to hit Ajax.Ajax snapped out of his trip down memory lane.“You have been quiet for some while.” Raphael mumbled staring at him with worry filled eyes. “Are you okay?”“Yeah.” Ajax nodded. “I’m fine. I just got lost wondering about Gregory.”“Don’t worry. Everything will come to lim light and we would understand everything and face our demons.” Raphael assured him.After Ajax told Gregory in the little girls body that he was not interested, Gregory exited the little girl’s mind and she walked off ignoring Ajax and entered into the streets.Ajax had asked her where she was going but her reply was. “I got to be where I got to be.”Ajax wanted to walk after her and trail her, find out where she lived, but he decided against it.He knew Raphael would be getting really worried back at the dorm so he went back to the dorm.When he had arrived at his dorm that night, it was already quarter to three o’clock in the morning.He walked into his room to
“Who is that?” Raphael asked squinting his eyes to see.It was about four o’clock in evening. The sun was setting but yet so bright. But despite the brightness, he could not see his face because he was wearing a hoodie.Ajax recognized the voice and he began to panic. It was Nate. He was back in his villain mode and Elena was there.No, he was not scared that Nate would hurt Elena. He was scared that Nate might talk about their little meet up and Elena would find out.“Nate.” Ajax spat as though the name was a bitter taste in his mouth. He was reciprocating the bitter energy Nate was emitting.“I see we are back to the usual us.” Nate said looking smug as he approached them. “Hi Elena, Raphael.” Nate greeted as he stopped. He stared at Ajax, his eyes boring deep into Ajax’s soul.Their locked stare was on for a while before Nate broke it and walked away.“That was a nice play out there mate!” Nate called out as he walked away. “Considering that you did not even use your powers.”Aja
“I told you she was keeping a secret.” Ajax said. Raphael rolled his eyes. “I knew that already. I told you it might be reverse psychology she is trying to use on us.”Elena glanced at the both of them simultaneously again.Then she looked at Raphael. “Yeah. I heard that reverse psychology part when I was coming anyways, that she? Is right here folks. Right in front of you. Hello.” She said waving her hands dramatically to emphasize her point.Raphael glanced at Ajax. Ajax shrugged.“Okay. You go first.” He said turning to Elena.“Why are you so far away.” Elena said turning to Ajax. He was at the diagonal end of the room, standing at a corner and watching. She sat on his bed, tapping the space beside her. “Come here.”Ajax took a step back. “Nah. I’m good here.”Elena stared at him pointedly still confused of why he was acting like that.Ajax was genuinely scared that his fear might be true. At the same time it sounded stupid, even to him that thought about it.He knew Elena would
“Oh.” Elena mumbled stunned. “Your threats make starts with a G. And I receive this things from a person with the initials G.”“Yeah.” Raphael said with a nod. “Exactly.”“Sorry, what exactly is the Gregory doing? What’s the threat? What does he look like? I need to teach this bastard a lesson.”She looked between Ajax and Raphael. None of them were saying anything.“Why is no one saying anything?” Elena asked.“Umm. The truth is, we do not know who he is either. We have absolutely no idea who he looks like.” He sucked his teeth. “So. Yeah. We both are in the same shoes as you are.”Elena sighed. “That’s sad. Got my hopes all up and now they’ve crashed. By the way, if you do not know him physically, how did you identify him as a threat?”Ajax and Raphael exchanged a look again.“Will you both drop the crazy ass eye language thingy?” She whined frustratingly.Raphael chuckled.Ajax sighed and took a step towards her, his lips tilting upwards into a smile, hoping a little levity would l
She looked around. She could not flash past the crowd of students. She would get caught and exposed. She could not risk that.So she just ran. Pushing and passing through the students leaving their halls of exams.She weaved her way through them. Though she was slow, because she had gotten so used to her system and the powers. With her system, there was no need to use her mere human strength to run but now she had to, so even though she was slow, she ran.As she got to the corner she saw him turn into, she looked around. Taking a deep breath, she walked in, her hands up in a defense mode, her senses were alert too, just in case there was any attack.As she turned by the corner, she noticed it was empty, there was not a single person in there. Did that mean that the person disappeared?She looked around looking puzzled and surprised. She walked out the corner. The students walking around had lessened in their numerical strength.She looked back at the corner. Was she missing somethin
It was few minutes past four o’clock in the evening when Ajax had just returned back to his dorm after his exams. He was in a very good mood. His exams went great.As of late, He had been into systems and finding more informations about the threats, so he had not been as serious and ‘nerdy’, as Elena always referred to him as, but despite his derailed focus, the exams still went great.He was exhausted when he got into his dorm. He threw himself into the bed, his eyes stuck up at the ceiling.Raphael was yet to return from his own exams. So he was alone in the dorm. Ajax sighed. He could not remember when last he was alone in his dorm.His eye lids were slowly drooping over his eyes as he had begun to feel sleepy.The piercing sound of his ring tone and the vibration of his phone in his pocket woke him up and his eyes snapped open quickly. His heart race increasing.He heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that it was just his phone. He fished it out of his pocket and stared at t