It was nightime, a white haired young boy was walking back to his hostel when he was suddenly grabbed by four boys. They kicked and slapped him across the face, knocking him out instantly. The white haired boy was then dragged away.
Leonard was suddenly awoken when he was struck across the face by one of the boys, he looked around but his vision was hazy, all he knew was that he was tied to a wooden chair in a gloomy room and he could heard the guys laughing at him.
"Hey fucker!" Someone grabbed Leonard by his hair before hitting him heavily across his face. Blood and a few pieces of teeth spewed from his mouth, blood streaming down his nose. Leonard caught a glimpse of the person's face before his vision turned blurry again, it was Casper.
Realising it was Casper and his gang, Leonard trembled with fear. He knew was fucked up and nobody was coming to save him.
"Go to hell!!!" Leonard screamed. Casper was irritated by this, he silenced Leonard by kicking him on the chest. Leonard fell heavily to the hard concrete floor that the wooden chair got broken, the pain of being kicked in the chest was too unbearable, he vomited more blood and had difficulty in breathing.
"Get him up," Casper ordered his lackeys.
Two of the boys lifted Leonard off the floor, he couldn't stand properly so they held him in each arm.
"You're the weakest of them, yet you have the biggest mouth talking shit to me. You'll suffer the consequences." Casper grabbed Leonard by his jaw and said to his face. He was clearly irritated of Leonard, but the latter wasn't having any of it, he spat the blood in his mouth to Casper's face.
"Aaaaaarrrghh, fuck it, I'll make you wish for death tonight." Casper was furious and disgusted by what Leonard had done, he looked like a menacing vampire that was on a rampage for blood. He kicked the latter in the stomach and punched him ,multiple times him on the face.
Leonard was in extreme pain, he tried to yell for help but a piece of cloth was shoved down his throat. The rest of the boys took turns in kicking and punching him, he would've vomited more blood multiple times but it was forced back to his stomach by the cloth shoved into his throat. After about ten minutes of receiving kicks and punches, he could slowly feel his consciousness fading away.
Snap!!! the sound of broken bone was heard, Leonard's consciousness was jolted back when he felt an extreme pain in one of the fingers of his right hand, he screamed at the top of his lungs but the scream was muffled by the cloth in his throat. Casper took another finger and snapped it like it was a dry twig, Leonard was in extreme agony, mucus mixed with blood was flowing down his nose. His body was covered in sweat and blood, he was in great discomfort.
"Hahahaha, I'm just beginning." Casper said maniacally. He then proceeded to breaking the rest of Leonard's fingers. The pain and agony was too much for Leonard to handle, he had even peed his pants.
"Hey you!" Come here and heal his fingers, I'm not done with him." Casper said to a person cowering at one corner of the gloomy room. It turned out that Casper had really prepared for Leonard, he had brought a healer along with the group.
The person cowering at the corner was a girl, she had her head buried between her thighs, trying not to hear the agonising cry of Leonard. She couldn't bear to watch the horrifying sight, she already had tears running down her cute cheeks.
"Are you fucking deaf?" Get the fuck up and come here!" Casper was enraged when the girl remained cowering in fear.
The girl quickly stood up, her legs were visibly shaking due to extreme fear. She looked at Leonard, she was so shocked at the sight of the miserable boy that she broke down in tears again. She slowly walked towards him and when she finally stood in front of him, she was enveloped with guilt even though she was forced to do this. This wasn't the first time she would be forced to do this by Casper, but Leonard's case was the most horrifying she had witnessed, she dared not utter a word of it to anyone. If she told anyone of Casper's evil deeds, she was scared of what he would do if he found out.
"Paaaa!!!!" The sound of a hot slap reverberated in the dark gloomy room, Casper had slapped the girl from behind, he was mad at her that she was slow to respond to his demands, her right cheek was instantly reddened and swollen from the slap. The poor girl howled in pain, she quickly took the hands of Leonard and healed all the broken fingers, she crawled away in tears afterwards.
After Leo's fingers was healed by the girl, Casper formed a small ice blade and grabbed one of Leonard's fingers, he then put the ice blade below the nail of the finger and pulled it up. Leonard cried in pain, the torture was too much for him.
"If you tell anyone it was me who did this to you, I swear, your family will fuckin suffer for it" Casper whispered into Leonard's ears. Leonard understood what Casper meant, with Casper's family strength and power, his family could truly be punished if he doesn't need to what the latter had told him.
Casper continued to brutally removed the rest of Leonard's fingers and the latter wished he could die. Casper mercilessly repeated this process of healing and torturing Leonard for three time before he eventually ordered his lackeys to dump the miserable boy to where he was grabbed earlier.
Clifford, Benson, Theodore and Feng Xin were worried of Leonard's whereabout as he was nowhere to be found. Earlier the next day, they heard news of a student that was tortured and dumped beside the road. They eventually realised it was Leonard, the four quickly left for the academy's clinic. When they got there, they were shocked when they saw the poor Leonard. Even the Feng Xin that was cold emotionally couldn't help but pity Leonard, the latter was completely unrecognizable. His white hair had turned red, bruises and cuts all over his body, and the nails on his fingers have been removed, he had been through hell.
Clifford stood there looking at Leonard, his eyes were reddened due to extreme anger, he swore on his life that he would revenge.
"Who could be so heartless to do this to him?" Theodore asked with teary eyes. He swore he would not rest until he knew who the culprit was, he would make life a living hell for whoever it was.
"He suffered too much, he might be mentally broken." Benson sobbed.
"I'm going to kill whoever did this," Clifford said while gritting his teeth.
A healer mage came and healed him, then he was given medications to help stabilize his health and recover quickly.
The four stayed until it was evening when Leonard finally woke up. The memory of his torture was the first thing that came to his mind when he woke up, he broke down in fresh tears.
"Who did this to you?" Clifford asked, his chest burning with anger. Although he had only known Leonard for a short time, he was his friend and he would revenge him if someone did unjust things to the latter.
"No!" Leonard shook his head, he doesn't want anyone to revenge for him, his family's safety was at stake. His parents had gathered money and borrowed loans to sent him here, they wanted their son to be a powerful mage when he grew up, so that their family could be respected. How could he afford to put them in danger because of his mischievousness? If he hadn't been bluffing to Casper, none of this would've happened.
"Are you mad? Who fuckin did this to you?" Theodore was enraged that Leonard would not talk.
"Tell us, was it Casper?" Benson asked Leonard, they had recently had a scuffle with Casper. Leonard was the weakest of them so it was reasonable that Casper had punished him, but he couldn't just accuse Casper, he needed to be sure.
"No! It wasn't him, there's nothing any of you can do about it." Leonard shook his head dejectedly. He couldn't risk it.
Clifford was mad at the situation, he angrily stormed out of the room, if Leonard wasn't going to tell him the culprit, he would find out the truth by himself. He hated people that made life miserable for other people, and this was part of the reason he had vowed to be strong, he would get rid of them.
Theodore and Benson kept persuading Leonard to tell them who it was but Leonard refused to answer. He even stopped responding after a while, he closed his eyes and thought of how miserable his life was.