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Chapter 2 - Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 1

A young man, around twenty-three years old and looks younger than he actually is because of his more effeminate features and long black hair that cover the left side of his face. He's reading a book on medicine and biology in the middle of a college campus, not paying attention to his surroundings.

After a while, the young man shuts his book. Looking out to the people in his surroundings and sighing. In the middle of winter, this young man likes to watch the air dissipate into nothing. It reminds him of what he wants to become.

Someone who can save others. The young man wants to become a doctor. In his school, he's already considered a genius but feels as if he's still lacking. He wants to become more steady and less unstable as a person. Though that is only a secondary goal. He never minded his thoughts. It kept his days more entertaining, plus, they've been there since he was young.

Though it hurts at night, it was better than what he would have had otherwise. He knew that this was probably trying to convince himself otherwise though. Trying his best to convince himself that his torment is a good thing.

It is true though. He could be in a worse situation. Of course, no matter how hard he'd tried. He would always go back to how he was after that day.

This young man's name is Tobias Harlequin Hunt. His parents used to live in France but moved to America wherein they had both him and his brother. Tobias doesn't remember anything else other than that though. Tobias would prefer not to remember it, no, he chooses not to.

He finally decides to go home. Tobias lives with his adoptive father who was a detective that tried to help Tobias when he was younger but nothing came from it so his father just decided to keep him instead. As Tobias walks home a black Van drives in front of him in the middle of a crosswalk, a group of people following behind him stop in their tracks, confused by the man pulling out in front of them. Tobias takes a few steps back, one eyebrow raised and one hand gripping his backpack in concern.

/Why aren't you running?/

Tobias begins to try and run as the van's door flies open. A man in a suit wrapped in bandages comes out, grasping the roof of the fan as he scans the people around him. Tobias runs away and the man in bandages notices, sprinting after him. Someone stops the man, the man kills this person by smashing their skull into the concrete.

The people surrounding this man begin to scream, running for their lives. The man continues chasing after Tobias, who jumps over a metal pole fence, taking a metal chair and throwing it at the man. The man charges through the chair, but it hitting against him makes him tip into the metal pipe fencing, causing a dent. The man jumps over it after quickly recovering, forcing Tobias to run away again.

Tobias then stops, slightly sliding across the floor, causing him to trip but he recovers quickly as he takes a few steps forward before he stops, spinning around with a backpack in hand and chucking it at the man. The man changes through the backpack but is unsuspecting to Tobias lowering himself to the ground.

Negativa, when you lower yourself to the ground, both hands planted firmly on the ground, knees are not touching the ground, including your body. The man trips over Tobias and rolls, immediately going back in to grab Tobias who is already a good way away from the man. Tobias had spun himself a bit farther away and then jumped back, the man was stunned to see how fast Tobias had moved away from him.

Quiexada, a move wherein you put one leg behind your front leg then quickly move forward bringing your from leg across and towards the back, this motion will allow you to kick your opponent from the side of their vision while looking as if you are committing to a front kick. This movement will always move back into the start of Ginga, where one arm is in front of your back leg and your other arm is to the side of your front leg.

The instant the man gets up, Tobias does this technique, kicking the man in the man in the head and sending him into a wall. Tobias goes back into a Ginga.

S-Dobrado, Tobias falls to the floor, putting one foot under himself and stretching out one of his legs, sweeping with that leg and using it to kick the man in his knee and using the sweeps momentum to bring himself into a Parada de Maos, which is a handstand. Quickly after going into a handstand, still using the momentum he gave himself through S-Dobrado, he slams the man's head into the wall with his foot.

Tobias flips back into a standing position and backs away from the man. The man has gone limp, falling to the floor, head propped against a stone slab sitting underneath the wall.

"Capoeira?" The man speaks, standing up and dusting himself off. "What a pathetic attempt to hurt me."

Before the man could finish his thought after what he just said, Tobias lowered himself for a Meia Lua de Compasso, putting one hand in between both of his legs and another hand at the side of the one meant for kicking, using a spinning motion to give himself momentum. Tobias quickly uses this leg to sweep across the man's jaw, dropping him to the ground again, Tobias spinning back into a standing position wherein he's back using Ginga.

The man again gets back up. "Well, it's not entirely ineffective, it just won't kill me is all."

The man reaches into his back pockets, pulling out two knives, both of considerable length. Tobias backs up, sweat going down his chin.

"Where did you learn Capoeira boy? Also... did you change your name?"

Tobias's eyes widen as shivers went up to his spine. "Who are you?"

"Someone whos cleaning up the mess I made long ago."

Something clicked within Tobias and a new voice emerged inside of him. {Murder him for what he's done.}