At the darkest corner of a mansion in H city
"Can you control it yet"
"No. Not yet"
"How much longer?"
"I don't know."
"You know you can't go out like this, right?"
"Yeah"
She stepped a bit closer to him. The jarring vibrations around him seemed to calm the closer she got. Her eyes like his shimmered in the dark, grey like the edges of hell.
"Don't worry" she said as she hugged him. "If this doesn't work, we'll use what Miss wade gave us"
"Hmm.. Ok"
Neil woke with a start. The train was rounding its umpteenth bend and the drooling man next to him had been thrown his way by the centripetal?? force. Globs of very disturbing liquid lay on the floor and the few people still awake tried to distance themselves from him and the still sleeping oaf.
Ugh. Bloody long journeys.
Neil tried to comfort himself by looking out the window. He had been excited when he got on the train, as this was his first time leaving home, and everything seemed so novel for him. His head was almost glued to the window for the first few hours. But now the novelty had worn off, the scenery outside seemed to repeat again; buildings, cars people and more building. The train stopped a few times but not too much, it had been two hours already but according to the map from his phone... He was nowhere near the school.
Pleaid university, seems like a nice place... All sorts of kids go there, the rich ones, plain ones and working class... The school was known to churn out the very best of the best and the position of the school's ranking has never below third place.
Aunt Hara said there will be a place for him in the school but, what school on earth accommodate those monstrous powers.
The feeling he felt that day, it was as if he was one with a black hole and all he wanted to do was just to devour. Everything... Anything.. All.
Those assassins... Neil whole his head, he needed to distract himself from those thoughts.
Distraction.... Distraction... Ehhhhhhhh....
That pink haired girl looked kinda pretty and she should be a college student too, just like him. Was she that girl's sister? No..they don't look like sisters.. Friends? Nah...Who cares, he shouldn't be bothering himself over that. But they did seem quite weird though. The little girl just started calling him uncle, for no reason. That was unfair unless... He touched his face.. "Do I look like an uncle??"
The other girl seemed to have interest in him though but the little killed whatever chances he might have with her.. What was her name anyway; Choyi.. Chobi.... Who cares. The little minx just killed anyways any chances of him being with maybe the love of his life. Her name wasn't worth remembering.
He checked his watch again... Two more hours before he gets to his destination, it was already mid-morning by now. Most people in the cabin had gone back to sleep, after that incident with the man whose head now resting on Neils shoulder, drenching it with... Blergh.. Neil pushed the man to the end of the bench.
Ugh. This is gonna be a long ride
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"Finally"
As he walked towards the exit of the train stop, Neil's eyes roamed wildly. T city was buzzing with colors everywhere. A group of teenagers about his age wearing high school uniforms, were singing a beautiful song about love. One of them though was thinking about stealing their tips to buy his girlfriend a new phone. His thoughts were so loud that Neil didn't even have to try. A little girl sat on a bench, licking a lollipop. Unlike the weird one at the previous stop this one wore sweatpants and a hooded tee shirt. The lollipop was too big to fit in her mouth so she just kept sucking on one side, like a small animal. The action reminded him of his sister. Nara loved lollipops, a lot. She would whine everytime he came home without one, and the only way he could pacify her was by promising to repay her with 5 more the next day. And when he brought those sweets, she would give him the biggest hugs, her hair carrying the scent of vanilla with it.
Neil's mother died giving birth to her. His father chose to deal with the grief by burning up everything that reminded him of her and forbade all members of his house from ever mentioning her to his daughter, Nara. Neil was 10 then. He still missed his mother, his sister the only family he has, since his absentee father obviously didn't count. After his mom died his father basically treated him like a piece of furniture. Until that day..... He hated to think what would have happened to his sister if she was at home that day. He would have been too late..
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*PLEIAD UNIVERSITY*
Throngs of people were walking in and out of the Emerald colored gates of the school.
The students all wore a confident smile on their faces as they walked about. Really, who wouldn't? They were Plaid students. The uniforms was outstanding and beautiful because of the gold designs in it.... A blue long-sleeved shirt with gold strips at the stomach level, golden buttons and silver trousers with gold strips at the hip sides of it for the boys..... The girls had the same design but wore a mini skirt above their thigh-level and long knee-leveled stocks... Great... Looking at all this makes him feel uneasy.... Good thing he wasn't a pervert.....
Neil sighed heavily... Before moving towards the gate, and somehow; some of this kids come from a rich home.... Nice flashy cars... Beautiful shoes but no jewelries.
Perfect, because he wasn't the jewelry type... He never liked it. Neil moved towards the gate man who looked like he was in his mid thirties, tall with a long goatee that reached his neck-level and a moustache... Wearing a green uniform with black patterned stripes on the shoulder, wrist and chest.... A black well ironed trouser with green strips.
"Hello young lad." The gate man smiled, his voice was smooth like he was singing when talking. "Welcome to pleaid academy."
"Good day sir... I'm a transfered student and I need to find my way to the principal's office.. He's expecting me."
The man stared at Neil for a while, then made his way into his office.
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Neil walked at the lobby like he was in a trance wondering, and only one word rang in his head "Are they worth it?" He kept moving with a little paper with a geographical map drawn on it.. "This must be it." He sighed.
The building looked more like a castle... Seven separate castles joined together with a long corridor... With a nice garden, a big pitch.
The building is built in an hexagonal way with the last castle at the middle.... Guess thats why its called the pleiaid in the first place.. Seems the school had style and the badge at the left arm of each student, it seems they belong to each and every house...
Each painted with seven different colours and having different Siegels on it.. Maybe they have a meaning, who cares... Wait, guess he should in case he misses his way to class.. But why is he standing by the door for too long.
He sighed again.
He was about to hold the knob when something suddenly hits him from the side sending him into the air like a kite... What was that, he looked still in mid air. It wasn't a what but who. A boy with a crimson hair, dressed like a thug.. Wearing a black T-shirt, ruby handless-leathered jacket which had many pockets on it... A blue jean that was torn at the knee, seemed to be latest fashion for he had seen it on some individuals when he was on the train.. And a black shoes that seemed to lost it's polished quality.... This guy's a thug..
It was like he was in a hurry into the office, with that speed he pushed Neil out of the way, he turned over his shoulders and smiled before going in with the same speed.. Neil looked for an object around him to swap with... He looked at his hands which hold tight to a book... Without thinking, he threw the book into the air... He was close to landing with his back, his eyes transformed. The golden iris suddenly turned purple with a black line of flower pattern with blade edges. He looked at the book and the patterns in his iris began to spin real fast.
All of a sudden he swapped positions with the the book, landing with a knee to the ground.. While the book landed with a thud, Neil's eyes turned back to it's normal colour... He stared at the book he threw, it.... it.....
"Nara's present to me." He breath with difficulty, as anger was traced by the way he breath.... He felt his blood boil from within him.
Neil stood up, went over to pick up the book... He was going to kill tho guy, whoever he is.... Neil walked into the room with anger written over his face.
As Neil got closer to the principal's office and about to hold the knob
"Please don't go in yet." A soft voice called at him.. He turned and saw a young woman, she had a kind face and gentle eyes.. The gentle eyes had a green iris... Wow, beautiful eye colors.
"Why." Neil asked calmly surprised that his anger is gone.
"The principal is busy attending to board members." She said looking at her computer "if I were you, I would take my advice."
Neil looked at her, surprise.. What was she talking about, why would she warn him to take her advise.
As he left the door and walked towards her.. Bang..... Rang the air as the door opened, Neil turned briskly to see the same boy he pushed him in the chair... He was bounced out.
Wow.. That was a rude way to push out a guest,
"I warned him you know."
Neil turned and looked at the secretary who smiled at Neil, he noticed her eye colors changed to brown.... No longer the green color it had before.
Gifted... She can precog what will happen next, most precog he heard of seemed to go through pain before they precog.... But she didnt even flinch.... She must have gotten to a high level.... This school is awesome....