"Ding! Ding! Ding!" the sound of the bell could be heard as the students rushed to their classes, looking at the crowd of students Alayna said with confusion evident on her face, "why are the students rushing to class like that, it's not like they're goanna die or anything if there late to class right," looking towards Alayna, cliff who had been quiet all this time said in an emotionless voice.
"They are not goanna die but they don't want to get on their teachers bad side, or get a bad record, for people who aren't awakeners the next best thing is to be a doctor or an engineer, science is still deeply appreciated in the alliance, and with a lot of perfect students the requirements are strict.
Taking a pause cliff said, "We better get going, it's our first day and it would be unbecoming of us to be late for class," as they walked forward cliff continued, "a typical day of high school day starts about 9:00 am, and ends around 3:00 to 6:00 pm for an average student and 4:00 to 5:00 pm for an awakener.
Normal students have extracurricular activities scheduled in the afternoons and early evenings, or some extracurricular activities may also be scheduled on weekends, but it's different for awakeners they are not allowed to participate as it would practically be cheating.
As they walked towards their classroom cliff said, "The government seems to try to separate the awakeners from normal people as much as possible, adapting as much of the old culture before the grate disaster that befell mankind.
"For a normal high school student school is pretty boring, as they have math classes at 9am English at 10am history at 11am lunch at 12pm and at 12:30 is training for those who still wish to become awakeners, 1:30pm is study time and 2pm is science and from 3 to 6 pm they have optional extracurricular activities, like sports or games."
"Thinking about it now we did get life a lit too easy don't you think? But it's much different for and awakener as after the first few hours of learning they head straight to training for the rest of the day.
"You know It's important to do you research girls don't go unprepared, especially you Ava, aren't you supposed to be the assassin," saying this cliff turned to Ava with a smile, seeing this Alayna said, "that's what we have you for cliff, you're the one who's always gathering interesting information."
With a nod cliff replied, "Speaking about interesting, that boy Jason is a real treat, I think I like him," by now they had already reached the front door of Jason's classroom.
Inside the classroom Uche was sulking as his seat got changed, they got three new students, so they got three extra seats added in the class room, and one of them was in front of Jason, suddenly the teacher walked in with three students, two beautiful girls and a boy with blue eyes.
Seeing the three newcomers, some of the students who hadn't seen them before let out gasps of astonishment as the classroom got a little rowdy, Mrs. Mila who just came in got a little annoyed as she slammed her hand on the table, making a small bam noise, "quiet down class," she said, we have three new students in class today, please be nice to them."
Saying this she pointed them to their seat and proceeded to ignore them, as she started her lesson, Alayna was seated beside Jason at his right while cliff was seated behind Jason, Ava was seated in front of him, and Uche seated further in front of Ava.
School was pretty boring as usual, Jason as usual got some more attributes in math but apart from that school was pretty uneventful.
It was 12pm, Jason and Uche walked out of class as they intended to get lunch together, "hey Jason wait up, a voice sounded from afar, it was cliff, with Ava and Alayna following behind, walking up to Jason cliff said "you're really doing a bad job in being a bodyguard you know," with a chuckle Jason said, "the contract didn't say I had to follow you around, did it, and plus your safe in school."
After they were done in the with eating they all left the cafeteria and headed for the south side of the school, where the school dojo was located, as usual, students could be seen training.
Lifting weights, or running on a treadmill, the students looked pretty tired walking across the vast hall Jason and a small group of students who were also awakeners where now standing in front of a metal door.
Swiping his student id on the door it opened slowly with a small buzzing sound, as he walked down the stairs, he glanced at the three newcomers who didn't seem surprised at the sight of the training room, "did you have a training room like this at your old school?"
With a small chuckle cliff said, "the training services offered by the alliance don't differ much, it's the same boring design everywhere," walking into their respective training rooms they changed into similar white uniforms.
"So how strong are you guys," Uche who was at the side asked as he looked towards cliff, "I'm not that good at fighting," cliff said as he pointed towards Alayna and Ava who looked pretty board, "you want to have a spare," Ava asked sounding pretty interested, seeing Ava who was quiet all this time suddenly speak Uche was startled as he muttered, "it speaks!" giving Uche a small hit on the head Ava said, let's go.
Seeing Ava get ready to fight, Cliff walked towards them as he intended to be the spectator, with the three of them gone, Jason and Alayna where left standing there alone, "feeling the surroundings get a little awkward Alayna decided to break the ice and get to know Jason, "they seem to be getting along," said Alayna looking towards Ava and Uche with a smile.
"Hmm I guess you could say that" Jason nonchalantly replied as he seemed to be in deep thought, not minding Jason's nonchalant attitude, Alayna asked, "so how strong are you," after a long pause Jason finally said as he turned towards Alayna, "what do you really want."
Alayna who was surprised by the question said, "What do you mean," turning his head back towards the fight between Ava and Uche, you could see Ava dodging the furious attacks of Uche as the students watched in awe.
Her movements swift and without hesitation, turning back towards Alayna Jason said, "I hardly forget the people I've met, especially people I took stuff from.
"You can stop pretending to be nice now, it's irritating," with a look of surprise Alayna said "how did you find out," with a scoff Jason said "answer my question and I'll answer yours, who are you" with a small sigh Alayna said "you don't need to know, but the time grass you stole was a gift from my father and I'd like to get it back if you don't mind, of course I won't be taking it for free.
Listing to her Jason shook his head as he thought Jason shook his head as he brought out a small black coin that had the Horatio family symbol on it, you would know it was authentic by the mysterious energy that seemed to slow down time coming from it, "I don't know what this is, but I bet it would sell for a really good price."
Seeing the black coin in Jason's grasps Alayna's eyes widened as shock could be seen on her pretty face, "when did he take it from me, I didn't feel it at all."
"Give it back" Alayna said in a commanding tone, she had a cute frown on her face, but looking into her deep black eyes you could tell she was serious, her previous friendly demeanor long gone as it changed into a dark and noble aura her eyes filled with cold killing intent.
The air got a little colder in the face of Alayna's killing intent as the student's attention was drawn towards Jason and Alayna, who were standing close to each other.
Suddenly, Alayna Jumped backwards creating space between her and Jason, instantly at the same time, a chain like whip appeared out of nowhere, as it struck towards Jason at incredible speeds.
The chains where incredibly thin and if you looked closely you could see some pointy spikes on it, if Jason held onto the chain like whip it would not end well for him.
The tip of the knife was connected with a small knife, the weapon looked way cooler than your average sword but Jason didn't have the time to think about that as he quickly lowered his body dodging the attacks rather easily but something was wrong, he felt his senses screaming he was not safe yet, without wasting time Jason said summoned his dagger and struck it towards the danger he was feeling.
"Tang!" the sound of metal clanging could be heard as Jason looked towards Alayna "she's got two whips" Jason muttered, nobody knew when a second whip appeared in her hand, this one had exactly the same design as the first.
"How did this idiot get young miss so angry in such a short period of time?" Ava who had already stopped her fight with Uche asked herself, neither her nor cliff intended to help her as they knew what she was capable of, with her two whips Alayna attacked Jason again, "Ting!" "Ting!" "Ting!" the sound of metal clanging rang out continuously as Jason continuously deflected Attacks from Alayna, who seemed much more relaxed than him.
His stamina was running out fast as he was forced to use his skill {burst} to keep up with some of her tricky attack, "Clang!" "Clang!" "Clang!" Sparks flew as Jason blocked another set of attacks looking at how much stamina he had left, and he was shocked to discover that he had only 65% of his stamina left, his genetic energy was still at 84% since he wasn't really using it much, he didn't want to expose his true strength just because of a random disagreement.
Meanwhile Alayna was feeling glum, it took a lot of genetic energy to control her metallic whips, she had less than 60% of her original genetic energy left, her previous fights usually didn't last this long since she was able to predict exactly what move the opponent was going to make and act accordingly, and no this wasn't just your random prediction ability, she could literally see five seconds into the future.
Anytime she used that ability on Jason it would always end up with her landing a solid hit on Jason, but anytime she attacked him he would always block or evade at the last minute, proving her predictions wrong.
Seeing her genetic energy being burned up at an extremely fast pace Alayna finally moved from her original position as she ran towards Jason, striking her whips at him with a spin, her movements as if she was performing a ribbon dance, graceful and beautiful.
"Wow" most of the students were astonished at how their weapons popped out of nowhere, the fight was intense, most of them had never fought with real weapons before.
Meanwhile Jason was getting pretty annoyed as he jumped backwards, creating some distance between them, "your pretty good," Jason said as he looked towards Alayna, "ohh is that so" Alayna said as she played with a black coin she had in her grasp, she had taken back her coin.
Suddenly the noisy hallway quieted down as a man with a big build walked in, he was Forrest cloud, the instructor for awakeners, waking up to the middle of the hall you could feel his heavy and intimidating aura, looking around he said, "your final exams comes up in a month, I know many of you already know this but I'll tell you what you don't know."
Taking a short pause Forrest looked around before he continued "the selection of young elites and talent who would be entering into the military academy is happening right after your final exams, application starts tomorrow, note that you must be at least F level 6 to apply," looking at the group of students who either had a look of surprise shock or panic in their faces Forrest asked "any questions."
Looking at how intimidating Forrest looked nobody dared to asked any questions, well nobody except for a small group of student, pointing towards Jason Forrest asked, "what's your question," hesitating a little Jason asked, "I have two questions, my first question is where would the selection be held, and my second question is, "what would happen to the families of people that get into the military academy.