'Alone. I'm alone again.' I thought. As I thought this I started to remember my father, mother and little sister. How we would go to a flower field every weekend to run around and play, to forget all the annoying things that happened that week.
But al of this changed when I turned 12, because... when people turn 12 they get their own superpower, those with superpowers were called, meta's. A meta was someone with a special power unique to them. but when I finally turned 12, something strange happened.
We were celebrating my 12th birthday on the grassy hill. I was born at 3:00 PM so we waited until it was 3:00 PM to see what my meta would be. Then the strange thing happened. All the grass around me began to wither and all the presents around me started to decay. I was startled by this and quickly looked up to my parents and sister, only to find 2 rotting corpse next to my little sister. When I saw them I immediately started weeping and crying. Then my sister walked up to me. I looked up. I saw her decaying, withering, dying. Then she looked me in the eyes and said, "such a splendid meta, you will be able to become an awesome superhero with this." She then died, right there in my arms. I saw her body decaying into nothingness and made a promise to her. I will become the best hero and I will make sure no one has to go trough what I went trough ever again.
And now I am here. Almost 4 years after my 12th birthday. Tomorrow 16, tomorrow eligible to go to the hero school. But it is still one day, I am still one day alone. It's not that I hate being alone, as I've been alone for 4 years, but I would like someone to talk to. That's all I wanted someone to talk to, a person of my age. Not those stupid government dogs that bring my allowance every month. But it was still one day away so I nu dat there, in a corner of the metal box without anything in it that is my house. I would still have to wist hair here until I get picked up and transferred to the school.
When I thought of al this my mind kept wandering back to 4 years ago and my promise to my sister. As I once again thought,' alone, I am still alone.' This repeated over and over in my mind as a sort of mantra. 'Alone, I am still alone, Alone, I am still alone, Alone, I am still alone, Alone, I am still alone, Alone, I am still alone, Alone, I am still alone, Alone, I am still alone, Alone, I am still alone.'
Then something unexpected happened, the doorbell rang. The doorbell rang? No one lives wihin 100 kilometers of this metal box, how come the bell rang. Those government dogs never rang the bell, they just unlocked the door and went in. So who could it be? I then slowly stood up and, while carefully controlling my meta, grabbed the keys, I then walked over to the door, unlocked it and poked my head out. What I saw then shocked so much that I almost lost control over my meta and the doorknob started to decay, I quickly controlled it again and reversed the decay. Then I looked outside again, there was a women standing there. About my age with long silvery white hair and the same void black eyes as me. The reason I was so shocked was because she looked exactly like my little sister, the silvery white hair, the void black eyes and the same confused expression. The women looked so much like her that I broke out in tears when I saw her, standing there with a confused expression.
She waited until I was finished crying and then said, " I'm sorry to ask, but why did you suddenly begin to cry when you saw me. I mean, we have never met before. Right? I looked at her again and said, "No I don't think we've met before….. it is just that you look a lot like someone I knew, who died. I said. " oh….. well…. I'm sorry for that then." She then asked me " Um, I came to get Inanis Ash. I am supposed to transfer him to his new school, and then also attend that school to keep an eye an him. But... do you know where he is? He is supposed to live here in total isolation with a supervisor, are you the supervisor? " the supervisor quit 3 years ago and no new supervisor has come since so….." I trailed of as I talked " Wait so you are….." " Yes I am Inanis Ash." I said in return. 15 minutes later on the road in a car I asked her " So why do you want to go to fearless void high? She almost choked as I asked her that question and then answered " I would just like to help people. After that we were quit for the rest of the ride to the school.
When we finally got there the driver said that although we were already in the school we still had to take the entrance exam like everyone else. I then got out of the car, walked to the test area with, wait what was her name again? Oh right I haven't asked yet, maybe I should, yeah I definitely should. So I asked her " uhm, sorry to ask so late but what is your name? her head suddenly shot up and she said all flustered " m-my name is r-r-r-Reina w-w-w-White." I responded with " ah okay, nice to meet you Reina White, as you already know, my name is Ash Inanis. But you can just call me whatever you like, but not to formal okay?" " a-a-h okay, well I'll just call you Ash then. You can just call me Reina." After that somewhat awkward conversation we finally reached the testing area.
The testing area was an area around 50 square kilometres in size, not to big not to small. Reina and I were the last ones to arrive, as when we arrived a guy on top of a platform suddenly began to speal. " Okay everyone is here we can finally begin. So everyone of you is here for the exact same reason, to get into fearless void high, I may presume yes?" No one answered but everyone nodded, all except one individual. Of course that individual was Inanis Ash. Apparently the guy on the platform was paying attention to every single person here, because after everyone was done nodding he said, " I see there is one person here who doesn't want to get into the school." I looked up at him but still remained silent. The guy on the platform then said "you, yes you. I know that you know that I mean you. Eeehmm you are the guy that showed up last right? Well explain, if you aren't here you get into fearless void high then why are you here?" I then responded by saying "well it's not like I had a choice, I have been in isolation for 4 years and when I finally get out I suddenly have to go to school. I mean I haven't had school for 4 years so I don't really know what to do here." Everyone stared at me blankly. The guy on the platform then carefully said "well if you haven't been to school for 4 years then school might be fun for you. You know meet new people and build up relations with them and all that kind of stuff. You will also learn all kind of things at school like math and other languages." After he said that I deliberately made an exaggerated thinking face and said "so learning and building relations seems interesting. I changed my mind I do want to get into fearless void high. Thank you for your explanation sir….." he then filled in "Campbell, Hawk Campbell." I said once again " thank you for your explanation sir Campbell."
After my little scheme to get the instructors name, I presumed he was an instructor since he was explaining everything, Campbell continued with the explanation. "The test will be really simple, who scores the least points doesn't get into the school." Immediately after he said those words everyone was yelling together, the thing you heard the most was "how many people will fail" or "is who only one person, or can there be more then one person who fails?" While everyone was yelling and screaming I pulled Reina to me an whispered in her ear "the test has already started do you know how to get points?" when I pulled to me and whispered in het ear she immediately started blushing but still answered with "there are 200 nodes scattered in the test field you can occupy a node and the longer you hold it the more points you will get, of course you can occupy more than one node at the time." After her explanation I grabbed het and carried het out of the mass of people and continued with her in my arms, looking for a node.