Chapter 1: The start of the 'Beginning'

"And Andrew passed the ball to Ryo, they are moving toward goal it's a very close match, both the teams are tied with 3 goals each just few minutes are remaining and...".

It was that match from where it started.

At City Stadium a Soccer finals were being held between 'The Apex High' and 'The Zenith High' in the city of Gofniar. Both the teams didn't hold back on their game as they both had their respective teams filled with their top final year students. The prize for the 1st place was hundred thousand USD greater, far greater than any other year. As the match continues….The Apex high had the advantage as they were getting near the goal of Zenith High almost penetrating their defenses ,and the one to do that was one of their ace player Edith along with Raiser backing him up both played forward for their teams. As Edith was surrounded by the defense of Zenith high , Raiser was waiting for his signal.

"Raiser ! NOW!!!" as Edith shouted he passed the ball to Raiser who was waiting for the signal to make his move and ran forward just couple of minutes left for the game Raiser received the ball and shot it towards the goal but at the same time a *THUN* sound of ball hitting pole was resounded in the entire stadium the goal was missed and everybody knew the loosing team has to pay the half of the amount of prize money to the winning team this was the condition both teams agreed upon and the condition of Apex high wasn't that good paying fifty thousand USD means a big loss to them they would probably had to sell their building to pay the amount. As everyone almost loss the hope Edith took the control of ball while taking the advantage of the situation he shot towards the goal and scored the final goal. After dozens of seconds the whistle to end the match was heard and Apex High was barely saved.

The school chairman wiped out the cold sweat from his forehead he mumbled so that only he could hear "That was close , we almost fell into their trap."

~*A week ago

While chairman was in his office, his secretary came and said "Sir, the chairman of Zenith High is here to visit you."

'Why is that bastard here! He shouldn't cause me trouble' from few years Zenith High and Apex High were very cunning rivals as much that it had reached to its maximum border. Competition was natural but the incidents were also involving some street fights, mocking, etc.

"Welcome Chairman of Zenith High. May I know why I have the privilege to have a visit with you personally" said Apex High Chairman

"Hahahaha! Mr.Chairman ,I have a proposition if you would allow may I propose it to you!" said Zenith High Chairman.

'What this shady man plotting', thought Apex High Chairman.

"Well I would like to hear it." said Apex High Chairman.

"You see our institutes have been rivals for many years now, so I was thinking that may be you would like to place a bet" said Zenith High Chairman.

"What would that be?" said Apex High Chairman.

"Well, you know our both teams are qualified for the finals i the football tournament so as we know the reward prize is not that much as the players deserve."said Zenith High Chairman.

"So what do you propose?" ,said Apex High Chairman with frown on his face.

"How about we increase the reward by twice of what it is now and the loosing team has to ll the remaining amount." said Zenith High Chairman.

"Well if that's what you want then ne." said Apex High Chairman.

"Its a deal then." with that Zenith High Chairman left.

"Sir, you know the reward for this year's football championship right." , said the secretory with a worry on her face. "What is it? Isn't it same as the last year?" said Apex High Chairman. "Sir, the reward was increased by four times compared to the last year as many high level guests were invited into this event due to a meeting that was scheduled a day before the match, also there are many sponsors than last year" said the secretory.

~End of flashback~

After the whistle players rushed to the stadium and began to lift up Edith. After the award ceremony everybody went into dressing room.

Players congratulated and were happy to win the match but that wasn't for everybody as Raiser was left alone in the dressing room .From the beginning he received a cold treatment from everybody as he was living alone due to accidental death of parents in a plane crash when he was 10 he didn't had any grandparents and his expenses were managed by his uncle .Now he's 16 ,due to shock gained from death of his parents he couldn't concentrate on his studies resulting falling his grades to the average level due to which slowly he became isolated and his friends started to walk away from him. He didn't know when it happened but when he looked around all his friends were gone. He remembered how Edith and he were best buddies in the past but now their relationship was also not as good as before Edith got busy in his lifestyle and taking care of his little sister as his parents were always overseas due to their jobs.

But he didn't knew a man with same black hair as Raiser was observing him from far of the stadium and looked at him with his cold black eyes.

"So you are here. "muttered the mysterious teenage boy.

Raiser looked down, everybody was ignoring him ,then Edith came and said, "Nice try, and don't let it get in your head there is always a next time.

C'mon get up, we have to celebrate our victory".

After the team got refreshed they went to the mall to celebrate with school's staff with their families' along with many high level dignitaries. Team looked very happy they were like a big group but they didn't know what awaited for them in this mall.

They were celebrating their victory and having party on the third floor "Is everything ready?" , asked a man with a black mask.

"Yes we just need a distraction to drag the attention and retrieve the item. This item is something unusual though", said a man next to him.

And on the other side Riser was having a chat with Edith little sister as she was the only one in the group to greet and talk to him, as they were on the way a loud sound was heard.

*BOOM*

An explosion occurred catching most of the group in the explosion along with many civilians, the damage was more than they expected almost sixty percent of the building was reduced to rumbles.

From top of another building two mysterious person one seems to be in his early 20's having white hair and blue eyes, and a man having appearance seems to in mid 30's were watching this incident as it happened.