Avol walked for a while before arriving at the park. As he walked towards the park, he could see a lot of children within his age group playing around. This made him feel apprehensive at first but then he took a deep breath to calm himself before calmly walking in.
When he walked in, some children stopped playing for a bit and then stared at him, wondering who the new kid was. Avol just ignored the stares and found a bench to sit on. After sitting, he began to reminisce all the missions he went on and the information that had been obtained, as well as the things he had seen happen within the Lancaster family as a whole. He was also thinking of what he could do to change the way the family operated.
Because he was thinking so deeply, he failed to notice that someone had walked up to him until he saw a shadow covering him. When he raised his head, he saw a big kid who looked to be around nine years and had an air of arrogance around him. Around them, most of the kids stopped playing and looked in their direction as if they were expecting a show. He ven heard some of them whispering.
"Ah! Hunter is at it again. Always bullying the new kids with the pretense of wanting to play with them."
"Shh. What if he hears you?"
"So, what if he hears. It's not like he can do anything to me after all I'm a girl."
"Yeah. Now that you mentioned this, I haven't seen him trying to bully any of the girls here. It's almost like his trying to impress us."
"Well, whatever. It's none of our business so let's continue playing our game."
"Alright."
Avol just sighed when he saw this before asking.
"How may I help you?"
The kid just snorted before pointing his fingers at Avol before saying.
"You. You'll join our game and you'll be the villain while our job is to catch you."
Avol, already seeing through his scheme just sighed before agreeing to it. Hunter seeing this, had a devious smile on his face for a moment before quickly putting it away, thinking that Abol hadn't seen it. But how is that possible? Avol is one of the most observant kids on the planet.
As both boys walked towards Hunter's friends(goons), he introduced him to them.
"Guys this is…" he paused a bit before scratching the back of his head, remembering that he didn't even ask for a name and was caught up in planning how to beat up the new kid.
Avol just deadpanned at Hunter before simply saying.
"Avol."
Hunter then continued.
"Right. Avol. I almost forgot. Hehe. So, he agreed to be the villain and he will be running away while we'll be chasing him to catch him and beat *cough* sorry arrest him."
Although he thought he had no one saw through his slip-up as his friends(goons) were looking at him with smiles and fear since most of them were forced to do this always with the consequence of refusal being pummeling from Hunter, but again, how is that possible in front of Avol? After all, he is one of the most observant kids in the world.
As they prepared for their game to begin, Avol looked at the seven boys apart from Hunter who would be chasing and decided to play the role of a first-rate villain. He first put one hand in his pocket before raising the other hand, motioning the other kids to 'come on'.
Seeing this, the kids all lost their fear for Hunter and gained aggressive looks while glaring at Avol, thinking about how arrogant he was being. They all rushed at him with the full intention of giving him a beating to teach him a lesson. But how can that be possible? How could a bunch of untrained and irrational kids even touch a single hair on his head? After all, Avol has one of the best foot-works in the world as well as proper field training with it. If he let's a single one touch him, Annabeth would whack his head for a month straight if she ever found out.
Unknown to Avol, Annabeth had been assigned as his guard since he was two years old. (Well, it's more like she literarily beat up anyone in the hidden corps who wanted to take up the task. How could she let all those b*tches and leeches get their hands on her beloved?) And she was currently watching him to see how he would handle such a situation with his peers. After all, he was trained to handle situation such as this on the spot, but most of them had to do with handling adults than people around his age. So, when she saw him put one had in his pocket while provoking them, she just giggled and watched on.
Avol decide to use a bit of him foot-work while strategically dodging each kid. At the same time, he would tap their shoulder from behind and saw "tag, you're it" as if to mock them. This went on for the next five minutes before they stopped with most of the kids sprawled on the ground while panting, while Avol just stood in their middle as if he hadn't done anything.
Hunter just stood back through all this, although he had a very surprised look on his face having watched what happened. In fact, all the kids had stopped whatever they were doing and watched Avol play with them like the little kid they were doing and just watched in awe a Avol handled them like the kids they were.
Hunter seeing all this thought that there was no way Avol wasn't tired after all this and was just feigning it. With this train of thought, he rushed at Avol with his right arm cocked back to deliver a right hook. Seeing Hunter rushing at him like a mad bull, Avol just took a step back, dodging the punch. Hunter got enraged seeing Avol easily dodging his punch and attempted to give another punch. And this is where Avol fucked up. After all, Avol has no proper fighting experience. When compared to a kid two years older than him that had taken self defense lessons for three years, the best he could do is run and dodge.
Avol, seeing the incoming punch tried to move back again but stepped on an unassuming stone that unknown to him was close to his leg, causing him to miss his step. Having missed his step, Avol crossed his arms in front of his face to block Hunter's punch.
When Hunter's punch connected with his crossed arms, Avol felt his arms get a little numb which was enough warning for him to know to not underestimate Hunter. Hunter seeing his punch connect, followed up with another punch so as not to lose momentum. But since Avol had already regained his footing, his punch missed once again. This continued for a minute with both boys sweating. On one side, Hunter was using a considerable amount of strength to deliver punches which didn't connect while on the other hand, Avol, had to give a significant amount of his attention to dodging Hunter's punches while also keeping an eye on his surroundings so as not to repeat his previous mistake.
Suddenly, during their exchange, an opportunity presented itself to Avol when Hunter, due to him running out of gas, threw a rather sloppy punch at him. Avol, with his superior speed, as well as adrenaline, sidestepped the punch before he used his left hand to catch Hunter's fist while turning and placing Hunter behind him in a way that his back was close to Hunter's chest while Hunter's arm was above his shoulder. Then using Hunter's momentum front his punch, he used both hands and all of his strength to cause Hunter to experience an overhead flip causing Hunter to land with a loud thud. Avol then released Hunter's hand in fear that he might do something drastic to Hunter.
Everyone was silent for a period of time before they began whispering. Avol then dusted himself and was about to turn and leave. As soon as he turned around though, he came face to face with two pairs of blue eyes. He immediately took a step back and got a look at who those eyes belonged to.
In front of Avol were two identical girls around his age whom he guessed were twins. One had sandy blonde hair
who was wearing a red dress while the other had platinum blonde hair and was wearing a purple dress.
Seeing as they were just staring at him with stars in their eyes, Avol decide to take the initiative to speak.
"Uhm… my name is Avol and I live a few blocks away from here. What about you?"
The two girls then blushed, a little embarrassed that they were just staring and didn't say anything. The girl by the left then spoke first.
"Ah. My name is Gabriella and she is my twin sister Isabella. We're seven and half years old. Please be friends with us." She immediately blushed when she remembered what she just said, with Isabella who was by her side grumbling a bit. Although if you look at the tip of her ears you would see that there was a shade of pink.
Avol just wryly smiled before answering.
"Uhm… Sure. Let's be friends." Before muttering that it was the reason he came to the park.
Gabriella smiled and then looked at him enthusiastically, with metaphorical stars in her eyes before saying.
"The way you dodged their attacks easily was so cool. And the way you dealt with Hunter was also cool. You were like 'WOOSH' and then he was in the air like 'WEEEE' and then immediately on the ground like 'BAM'. Can you teach please?" While giving him puppy eyes
Avol almost had a mini heart attack due to how cute her expression was and just smiled shyly. But then he spoke again.
"Well, if you want, I could teach you. After all we're friends."
Gabriella just gave him a big smile while nodding her head like a perpetual woodpecker before turning her head to face her sister before saying.
"Come on Bella, you have to introduce yourself to our new friend."
Isabella, or rather Bella as her sister called her just grumbled something under her breath about how she had already introduced her before speaking.
"Hmph! My name is Isabella and I give you permission to call me Bella. Be grateful. Only people close to me get to call me that." But then she realized what she said and then started stuttering.
"Nonono. That's not what I meant." Before covering her face with her hands and then running off faster than an ostrich chased by a predator.
Gabriella who saw this smiled wryly and just apologized.
"Sorry about that. She's just a little shy and likes to put on a front. Well, I have to go after her so she doesn't get lost. After all she's my little sister. So, I guess I'll see you around."
Avol then replied, "Yeah see you around. If you want, I'll start teaching you tomorrow since I'll be coming here again tomorrow."
After saying their goodbyes, they then went their separate ways with Gabriella going after her twin while Avol just walked out of the park.