Adria slightly opened only one of his eyes as the punch came for his face like a bullet leaving the muzzle of a gun.
*Catch!*
A palm caught the punch when it was only a few inches away from Adria's nose. Holland in his surprise used his eyes to trace the hand that had just interrupted the lesson he was about to teach.
"Huh! Instructor Walter!"
He immediately left Adria's shirt in a panic.
"ATTENTION!!! Officer on deck!" Nora declared and everybody stood to their feet and saluted. Everybody except Adria of cause.
"Morning, Instructor Walter!" Nora greeted.
However, Walter paid her no mind as he pulled his hand away, and with it, Holland's fist.
This was the same Man that went for a midnight jog with the fresh colts some few hours ago. Adria had waved to him when he was on Emilia's bike.
He turned to Adria, "I'll have to apologize on behalf of my very rude students. I am very sorry. Please forgive them." Once he said this, he turned to Holland,
*Slap!*
Walter gave him a very resounding slap right to the face. And then he turned to Nora and also gave her two slaps to her face.
Walter turned to Adria again. "See! I disciplined them. So please bear with them. After all, they are still young and still very ignorant about life. You know how it is with kids these days. The internet just fills their heads up with rubbish."
Meanwhile, all the people that saw this were in total awe. Walter had just slapped their captain in an effort to please this nobody before them.
Holland and Nora felt wronged. Especially Nora. She was the best in her class and that was why she was given team captain. She worked so hard that there had never been a day when any of her instructors had ever had to raise their hands on her.
Yet, Walter had given her not one but two hot slaps on the face in order to please this nobody. And it was in front of her other teammates that she had always acted superior to.
At least she was disciplined enough to hold in her anger, Holland looked at Walter in disbelief and was about to say something but Walter sent his hand again in another slap without even turning to look at him. All the while still smiling and talking with Adria.
"All Passengers in. We are ready to head for the Hole!" The Pilot announced from the speakers.
"Ahh! See! we are leaving already. You know what!? A man of your caliber should not be staying here with the young ones. How about you come along with me to the cockpit. It's better there. And one of your old friends is the copilot. Also, you can smoke there as much as you want.
Those words were like thunder in the ears of these newly graduated Darklings. They could help but think how unreasonable a request that was. After all, who in their right senses would smoke in the cockpit of a plane.
Adria lazily opened his eyes and followed Walter to the cockpit. Leaving the Darklings in absolute surprise. The aircraft mounted the runway, and soon enough, it was in the air, alongside the other three cargo planes.
Nora and Holland took their seats in silence. However, Holland had his fists clenched as his thoughts stormed with ideas for revenge.
This was going to be a long flight. Adria sat in the cockpit with his old friends and after some catching up was done with the pilots, he felt bored and so picked a magazine his eyes caught lying at the side.
It was a very old magazine. Nevertheless, it was an important one. And that was because this magazine had in it essential historical events. As his eyes browsed through the events of World War I and then World War 2, he read through until he stumbled upon the most rest event in History.
At least, it was a significant event that resulted in the world's present situation.
After the event of discovering Ryouen Energy, the world had officially entered a new age. And all sorts of inventions were made as a result of Ryouen energy and how sustainable it was. Even new cars were made that ran strictly on Ryouen Energy.
One would wake up and without thinking of the need to visit a gas station, attach a device called the Ryouen gauge to the hand. The Ryouen gauge acted as a means by which energy from the soul would pass through and power the car.
Life had suddenly been made easier and even poor people could now secure food by selling some of their soul energy that was used to create Ryouen cores ( Soul Cores). However, things were not this great for long. Depression started to slowly creep into the hearts of men, like the roots of a growing tree in fertile soil.
The governments of the world actively needed a solution to this. After all, the most important resource in the world was not gold or silver. It was Man.
In looking for a solution for this, Avalon was given the task of finding ways to perfect the human soul. After all, it was this same company that had come out with the genius new discovery that had pushed the world into a new age.
And so Avalon started their highly inhumane experiments. Touching upon the souls of people and twisting them to fit their goals. However, Mistakes were made in this experiment and that was how the Blood demons were born.
The day the experiment went south was a terrible day for mankind. However, it was also the end of this beautiful city.
It was once called Oak Tree City. The city of Dreams. However, the Vampire infection spread out fast like wildfire and the government had no choice but to seal the entire city in. This was to stop the infection from spreading.
Now, this city entirely surrounded by big mighty walls of a hundred feet high on all sides, once known for its smiles and dreams was now simply called The Hole.
A dark no man's land. Scary stories have been told about it to kids and it has even become the inspiration of novels and even movies all around the world.
*Blaring Alarm*
Adria's smooth reading was interrupted by the blaring alarms of the aircraft and the red flashing lights.
He immediately dropped the magazine he had on hand.
"Walter! What's happening?"
Walter looked at him and frowned, "You won't believe me if I tell you."
"Try me!"
"Look! We have guests."
Adria looked outside. Behold! A horde of winged vampires was heading right towards them...