Death is the only thing that can be as beautiful as life...
Reigga woke up the next day on the floor. Feeling completely calm now, he sat up and realized he was still in his school uniform, so he decided to say screw it and leave right away.
When he opened his door he saw all of his friends sleeping on the floor in the hallway outside his door.
"What the hell are you all doing?" Reigga asked, still a little tired.
Clad yawned as he opened his eyes. Leaned against a wall with a cover he responded with, "Waiting for you to come out jackass."
"You were acting all weird and stuff," Latina added as she sat up off the pillow she was laying on.
"That's her way of saying we were worried." Dontris was already folding her cover.
"Shut up!" Latina yelled energetically.
"You know it's Saturday right? Be quiet." Tosen told her as he snuggled more under his cover.
"Wait...today's Saturday? I forgot. I'm going back to bed." Reigga turned around and tried to walk back into his room but he felt a menacing hand on his shoulder.
"You're sleeping out here with us today!" Clad pulled Reigga down to the floor. "You really thought you were just going to make us panic like that then be good!?" Clad shouted while strangling Reigga. "Tickle him!"
"Wait! No! AHAHA!" Reigga begged but there was no mercy. They ended up waking up the people in the dorms.
A whole 3 days passed like normal after that. Reigga was back in normal spirits. One day in gym class. Tuesday...
They were outside but the field they were using had a barrier so no snow could get through.
"Alright, we're going to be doing some tests today. So get ready!" The male gym coach with a weird black and red tracksuit announced.
They all began stretching for 10 minutes then got down to the test...
"For the first test, you will find a partner and get in a circle." There are five big circles drawn into the dirt. All of them having space between them left a big empty space in the middle of the 5 circles.
Reigga looked around for a partner then a girl came up and tapped his shoulder, "Hey, you're my partner," She said like it was just a know fact then dragged him into a circle by his shoulder. She also had a British accent with her Straight Layered Hairstyle that flowed like a river and a body that could put yo girl to shame. And a beautiful face to match. Reigga was not complaining.
After they picked their circle that could hold about if they were spread out, 20 students but only had 10 in it, they waited until everyone else was done.
"So what's your name?" Reigga asked as she stopped dragging him.
"My name is Athena. Try not to get left." She grinned.
"Sure." Reigga was not trying to match her vibe at all.
"Today the game is simple. Your team has to be the last one in your circle. You are allowed to use any means to be the last one in. Begin!" The coach yelled.
Everybody in the class just stared for a second.
"Let's get moving!" Athena went on the move jumping into the air and coming down with an axe kick shattering the ground in the circle! Reigga along with most of the class went flying into the air.
Athena jumped off the falling rocks and pebbles taking out people left and right while they were still all in the air. Then she kick and cleared the dust and landed perfectly on a spiky big rock sticking out of the ground. only 3 teams in the circle remained after that. The taken-out student's bodies were just starting to hit the ground.
Reigga fell to the ground on his back, "Ow." Not really hurt he got up and dusted himself off.
"He's on that girl's team! If we can get only him, they're out!" 2 boys charged at Reigga as fast as they could.
But something was weird..."Why are you guys so slow?" Reigga looked at them both in what seemed to be slowed downtime. He moved his hand around just to see if he was moving normally.
"Hey don't just stand there!" Athena suddenly appeared in front of Reigga and sent a punch at the boys, that was so strong the wind-blasted them back without it even touching them! "Keep your guard up." She told Reigga while protecting him.
"Oh, my bad. And thanks." Reigga finished brushing himself off casually. "She's really strong! I didn't even see here move!" Reigga thought to himself.
The boys were done recovering.
"We just need to get past her." The boy told his friend.
"Come try it!" Athena rushed at the 2 boys as they tried gunning for Reigga. She slipped in the air right between them and grabbed one boy by the back of his shirt as a knee dug into the other boy's face!
She spun off the knee and used the boy she grabbed and put him under her feet while moving at a high speed and rode him like a skateboard! He was knocked outs on impact but his face was still dragged through the dirt. She hopped off his body and shot a chain out of her sleeve of the crop-top jacket, making it wrap around the top of a spiky bolder, and swung around the bolder to the other side where a girl was waiting to sneak attack but wasn't expecting Athena to find her! gaining momentum from her swing Athena slammed her knee into the girl's liver and smashed her through the bolder!
"Die!" A boy shouted, with his fist full of fire he tried to hit Reigga.
"Oh no I forgot about him!" Athena rushed to get to Reigga.
"You're slow too? Why?" Reigga watched as the boy rushed him. Reigga slowly stepped to the side making the boy completely miss his punch.
The boy rolled on the ground and bounced back to his feet and turned to look at Reigga.
"You lucky bastard! We know nobody besides the FBIWC is strong in class 1. So don't act like that wasn't a lucky dodge!" The boy looked embarrassed.
"What? I wasn't even trying. Why are you all so slow?" Reigga was really asking but all it did was make the boy madder.
The boy rushed at Reigga again with even bigger flames on his fist. Reigga got into a Muay Thai fighting stance and waited for the boy to get close enough. Then once the flame boy was at the right spot Reigga came up with a devastating Switch Kick.
Suddenly the boy with the flame's, life started to flash, "What!? What is this!" The boy panicked as he saw his life flashing.
Then something in Reigga called out, "Hold back!" Reigga instantly stopped his kick before it reached the boy's jaw and still sent the flame boy flying right through the rocks!
"W-what the hell!" Reigga was excited and panicking at the same time.
"Oh wow~! You are strong." Athena smacked him on the back with a big smile.
"Uuuuh. Sure?" Reigga didn't really know how to respond to what just happened.
Their circle was done now they just had to wait until the others were done. After about 20 minutes they were.
"Now would the final students step in the middle of the circle!" The coach yelled. The students listened and went in between the circles. Then a circle that could hold about 30 students formed. But there were only 10.
"This is the final test. Stay in the circle. If knocked out you are out. If taken out of the circle you are out! Begin!"
"What team do you want to fight?" Athena asked Reigga.
"Umm...that one I guess." Reigga chose the weakest-looking people.
"Alright, I'll start these guys then!" Athena ran after a different team than what Reigga pointed out.
"Wait! By myself!?" Reigga was regretting his decisions now. The team saw that Reigga picked them out and smiled. "Oh no." The team came speeding at Reigga. "They're fast but I can see them!" Reigga got ready to fight!
A girl with orange hair jumped up with rocks covering her fist and came down with a straight right! Reigga Dodged to the left and slid her punch off his shoulder then returned with a straight right of his own to her stomach! Water came shooting at him right after he landed the punch from his left! He slid back letting the water bullets go right between him and the girl he just socked in her stomach.
"My body...it's like that time when I woke up in class after that weird dream place for the first time." Reigga looked at the girlish-looking boy who fired the bullets at him. "My body feels so light." Reigga started walking towards the boy as the boy kept firing bullets. But Reigga just kept dodging like they were nothing until he reach the boy and grabbed his wrist.
"When the hell did I get strong!?" Reigga happily yelled with innocent intent but had the boy shaking. "Oh, my bad." Reigga smiled then dragged the boy by his wrist and set him outside the circle.
"But I don't get how though? Maybe those weird dreams I've been having has something to do with this. I guess for right now that doesn't matter." Reigga looked at his next victims.
Reigga saw that everybody was fighting each other. Athena had already taken out the team she wanted to and moved on to her next team. Only leaving 6 students.
"Oh yeah. What if I tried that." Reigga formed a fireball in his hand the size of a basketball and It just kept getting bigger and bigger! Until it was the size of a grown elephant! "Holy fuck!" The sounds of the fireball and the heat caught all the student's attention! "You better dodge!" Reigga fired what looked to be a mini sun at them!
"Run!" A male student shouted!
within a second, 3 students were taken out.
And only one girl remained and she was fighting Athena.
"Looks like it's over." Athena smiled then kicked the final girl in her face sending her out of the circle and knocking her out.
"That's enough! The final team is standing! Our winners are Reigga! And...who is she?" Took a second and looked at her.
"Oops. Sorry, she is one of my students." A man with a black Undercut with a Ponytail and a green and gold kimono told the coach from behind him with a British accent.
"...What are you doing here?" The coach looked even angrier.
"Just here to say hi to the headmaster." The man smiled like a snake and his eye looked shut.
"Then what is one of your students doing fighting here?"
"No need to get angry. She just got loose is all." The man put his arm around the coach without him being able to notice.
"You're really strong! Are there any others like you at this school?" Athena asked Reigga energetically.
"Oh definitely. What did you just transfer here or something?" Reigga asked.
"Nope. I'm from another school." She responded.
"Another school? What are you doi-?"
"Athena, It's time to go!" The snake-eyed man yelled to her.
"Up. sorry looks like I got to go. I hope I see you in the school clash." She waved and ran up to the snake-eyed man's side.
"We will be going now. See ya." With a cool snake look, he and Athena walked off.
"What just happened. And why am I so strong?" Reigga looked at his fist. "Shit I guess the gods like me." Reigga started laughing by himself like a crazy man.
"Is he ok?" A girl whispered to a friend.
"I think he might be dumb." She responded.
"I should go show the group this!" Reigga ran off jumping happily.
Meanwhile in Tsude's classroom...
"Yo!" Reigga yelled as he busted into the room. "Group of people I know, come with me for a second," Reigga told the group. They all just looked at Tsude for a second then got up and left with him.
Reigga led them to the training ground building.
"Why are we here?" Tosen asked.
"Look at this." Reigga stuck out his hand a fireball bigger than 4 basketballs appeared. Sorry, I'm just not up to thinking of any other objects.
"What the hell!?" Clad yelled while covering his face from the heat.
"How are you doing that!?" Nisa was amazed and shocked.
Then just like that, he made the fireball disappear. "I don't know! But it's fucking amazing. Maybe it's puberty."
"Damn you men and your overpowered puberty." Dontris huffed and crossed her arms.
"There is no way puberty did that!" Latina shouted at them.
"Wait, does this have to do something with the way you've been acting lately?" Clad asked in the middle of the chatting.
Reigga remained quiet for a second, "It might." Reigga sighed.
"Bro, you have to tell us what's been going on with you lately." Tosen demand.
All the others scolded him as well.
He sat there like a dog getting punished, "Fine." Reigga started telling them about the dreams. The things he has been seeing. It was a long few minutes.
"...Can we walk and talk about this?" Clad asked still trying to wrap his head around this.
They all walked out of the training ground and continued.
"So that's why Tsude scared you..." Latina talked under her breath.
"You been going through some shit like this and you really kept it from us. What a bitch." Tosen sighed disappointedly.
"I'm sorry." Reigga laughed it off a bit.
"So what's the plan now? How can we help." Bentra asked being as nice as she always is.
"For right now I want to go see the headmaster and ask him about the school clash. Some girl from another school said something about it."
"Alright then let's go," Clad told them like they were on a crew ship.
A few minutes later in the headmaster's room.
"Hey, headmaster." Reigga peaked his head in the door.
"Come in." The headmaster told them.
All the students walked in as the headmaster kept his head in his book.
"I came to ask about this thing about a school clash. What is it?" Reigga asked.
"The school clash...? You must have heard something when those two were here..." The headmaster sounded interested a little but kept his head in the book.
"Some girl from another school told me," Reigga added.
"She told you?" The headmaster raised an eyebrow, "Well well. Looks like you're doing things I didn't see coming."
"What?" Reigga asked confused.
"Now that you've heard about it I guess I'll tell you. School clash is open to all schools to join. There are three different schools. Our school is called Principium, School of Qompo. The other two are Finis and Medietas. Finis was the school that man and girl came from. 3rd year and powerful people handpicked by my staff or me can enter a tournament that will earn that school a reward on the highest level and the student who won as well. 2nd and 1st years aren't told about it to keep it under wraps for some other reasons."
"Oh wow. Like an underground fight club? That makes sense." Dontris nodded like this was just normal to her.
"I guess you can call it that." The headmaster grinned behind his book. "You." The headmaster pointed at Reigga, "Would you like a chance to enter?"
"M-me!?" Reigga pointed at himself in shock.
"Yes. That girl that you met out on the field was no regular girl. She is a power beast along with 2 special abilities. And she's only a first-year like you all." The headmaster's words made a cold sweat run down Reigga's face. "But that's not what makes her special...Reigga, enter the tournament...I heard you need money." The headmaster smiled behind the book, "If you win you can have all the money you want. What do you say?" The headmaster lifted his head from the book with a warm smile. He stuck out his hand for a handshake.
"No matter how much money I ask for you'll give me it?" Reigga stepped up to the headmaster. "I'll do my best!" Reigga grabbed the headmaster's cold hand. "I'll win for mom!" Reigga thought to himself.
"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Latina looked concerned.
Reigga let go of the headmaster's hand and turned around and looked at her "The way things are going money is becoming a problem. I'll die for this if it comes to it."
"Good. I will give you one of my maids in order to help you train." The headmaster snapped and a teenager-looking girl with orange faded into red hair shaped in a curly mohawk with the sides faded appeared. Her smooth dark skin was like a goddess.
"Praestantia, could you be in charge of training him?" The headmaster asked nicely.
"He doesn't look like much to me." She responded in a rough tone.
"He'll do fine. Just do your best with him."
"Ugh, whatever. What's your name?" Praestantia asked Reigga.
"I'm Reigga. Nic-"
"Ok bozo. I'm going to be training you so don't die." Praestantia grabbed Reigga by the shoulder and dragged him off right past the group.
"...so much just happened so fast." Clad itched his head out of confusion.
That's how shit goes.
See ya next time.