Standing in front of Motley was, her brand new highschool, the crown jewel of Betong, St. Augustine's High School. The main slogan of the school is "God is our strength". This is really evident due to the fact that the school appreciates the beauty of nature, instead of major deforestation, they opted to coexist with mother nature's bed. Besides, to both students and staffs alike, they will enjoy the fresh air and breathtaking scenery that the school have to offer.
Hailing from the far away land of the United States of America, our loveable main character goes by the name of Motley, the daugther of a rich family, Neil's. She got to the high school on her red motorcycle that she cherished so much, delivered from her hometown literally hours ago before her school debut. She began to ascend to her classroom through a flight of concrete stairs. She began to feel unease as nearly all of the nearby students and staffs gazed their eyes upon her. She also noticed that some of the boys are completely bewitched by her beauty. Not suprisingly, one of the couples are currently arguing with one another after her boyfriend starred at Motley for too long and muttered, "very beautiful…". With each steps she took, the tension in the air tigthens around her, forcing her to breathe even heavily than before. Tis a crippling weakness of being an outsider, much worse, being a person who lacked self confidence, ungraced by the lack of willpower obtained over time.
She walked the school corridor of the second level, looking for the class with the name of 3 Orkid. She pondered the word "orkid" and what it meant. She instantly thought the word resembled orchid to a tee. This overthinking of mundane details are a great distraction to halt the level of her self confidence from plummeting any further. "Finally", she muttered. In front of her, was a door with a piece of colorful paper. On it, was written "3 Orkid". She gulped. Unfortunately, she could even feel her heartbeat getting faster and faster. She thought that it was starting to resemble the BPM of heavy metal songs that she oftened indulged herself with during her spare time. The other students started to gaze on her quirky behaviour. It is now or never. She must act before she etched a bad first impression of her character on her fellow classmates' brains.
Using her smooth and gentle hands, she pushed the door slowly in order to not startle the other students. In her mind, it was a very scary yet funny situation that she got herself in. Not making any sudden movements? The movie 'Jurassic Park' flooded her mind and made her chuckled. As she finally entered her class, she was suprised that her classmates were a bunch of dinosaurs of various species. In shock, she began to wipe her eyes. Opening them again, she then noticed they were all humans to begin with. She thought to herself, "damn I never thought my lack of self confidence could be this bad!". The students then starred at her with lack of emotions. This flooded Motley with a huge influx of imaginary scenarios where her classmates rejecting or ridiculing her. Not knowing what to do, she took a deep breath and let out a huge sigh. She began to forge the stature of a composed and a calm human being. Let out a smile and muttered the words, "Yo! What's up my fellow classmates? Nice to meet you. My name is Motley Neil. I come from USA. Salam sejahtera".
Motley then thought to herself while her legs began to shake, "I'm f'ed big time with my first impression". One of her classmates began to speak in their native tongue, to Motley's confussion. Others, joined the girl as well and started to giggle. Then they started to greet her back with positivity. Hell, even the boys started to be astonished by her beauty, as usual. All of her weakness started to fade away, as the positivity of the room started to fill her heart, empowering her feebled state to brand new heights. Nearly everybody was swooning over her, even asking her availability, before she could answer the question, one of her classmate entered the classroom. She was an angry looking girl wearing leather overcoat and a leather cap to school, reminding her that of military uniform. "Motley isn't it? Care to step aside? I am trying to sit here", she muttered to Motley. Motley then realised that she was blocking the girl's way to her sit. Motley then moved aside.
Suddenly, an omminious bell started to rang. Right before her classmates were able to continue their interaction with Motley, she was suprised that as she opened her eyes, she found out herself to be located at the rooftop of the school. She then began to breathe heavily as what happened to her in that moment. How could she teleported instantly from her classroom to the tallest floor of her school building in mere seconds? She did not even know the way to the top floor anyways as she was still new. She then located for the door, leading to a flight of stairs, descending. She thought to herself that she might be blacked out of an unspecified duration due to her getting really nervous. She reached classroom after frantically running around to locate it. She noticed that her teacher was already in the classroom, during their ice breaking session. The teacher then asked Motley to introduce herself to the class.
"My name is Motley Neil. I..."
Right before she could continue her introduction, the class, even the teacher, started to gasped in shock and disbelief. Her teacher then asked,
"So, are you the daughter of Mr. Harold Garfinn Neil....?"
She then nodded slowly. She then asked for her classroom teacher for a place to sit, since they were still in a state of shock, thus making her stand there for nothing. Her classroom teacher then ordered her to find a sit. Unfortunately, the only sit left was next to the leather clad girl that she met few minutes ago. She then greeted the girl and asked her permission to sit next to her. The leather cladded girl then simply nodded while looking at the window outside. Motley then tried her best to strike a conversation with her pair. "So, you like nature too huh?" She didn't answer her back. This made the situation much more akward than it should be.
As the other students were busy introducing themselves during the ice breaking session, she yawned with her eyes closed. As she opened her eyes, she found herself to be teleported outside, again. This time, she was at the canteen of her school. With this, she became horrified as her state of depression becoming worst. Is an ultimate form of sleepwalking? She asked herself. Her puzzled nature began to running amock inside of her. She then checked her watch, it was already in time for a break, answering her confusion as to why they are many students outside already. That meant, that she blacked out for few periods already.
She quickly rushed to her classroom, discovering that her classmates were busy surrounding a girl with long black hair with a few shades of green. As she entered the class, the other students left the girl alone, instead, rushed towards Motley because wanted to talk with her more as she was a foreign. The black and green haired girl gritted her teeth in anger, as envy began to swarm her very being. She then asked for her whereabouts from the other students. They told her that she was acting normally, but she was acting strangely, like a zombie with no emotions. She then proceeded to exit the classroom again after asking permission to the toilet from the teacher. Afterwards, she skipped all of her other periods until now.
She was then in a state of bewilderment. The other students, especially the boys, then voluntered to accompany her to school clinic for a medical checkup in order to understand her situation better. One of her classmate accompanied her to said location. After a few minute of walking, she knocked the door of the school clinic. She exclaimed to her classmate that it was such a joyful thing to be greeted with positivity by people from Malaysia, not treating her as an outsider, but instead, their own. She entered the room and realised that it was empty and dark, filled with cobblewebs and broken equipments.
"This doesn't look like the school clinic to me! This is an abandoned storage room!"
She rushed to the door in front and began to knock it for help. She began to breakdown in tears in response to the crazy but scary predicament that she currently stucked with. Out of the shadows, the sound of footsteps began to grow in volume.
"You! Really pissed me off you know that? Bimbo..."
She then recognized that voice in a mere instant. It was the voice of the girl with black and green hair. She then tried her best to recall her name during the ice breaking session.
"Madeline Erin anak Urin?"
"It's Madelina!". Madelina then approached Motley, chocking her to the wall. Madelina then told her that the reason she was becoming angry at Motley was the fact that she took all the attention of her classmates away from her. Right before Motley came in, she was the center of attention, the most prettiest one. Now, they favoured Motley more than her. This really filled her with great envy. Motley tried her best to beg for forgiveness but she was unable to do so because she was getting choked to death.
Motley then noticed there was metal pole nearby. She tried her best to grab it. As Madelina was preoccupied trying to choke her, she then swung the metal pole right to her face. As Madelina released her and recoiled in pain. She quickly ran away from her, looking for an alternative escape route. She then noticed that there was a broken window with a gap big enough to fit her body. Regardless of the sharp glass shards, she managed to get through. While bleeding and scared to death, she began to escape the storage room.
As then screamed as loud as she could to gather attention. Right before she could find any help, she found out that she blacked out again. This time, a wooden pole was sticking out. She then began to bleed out heavily on the floor after she was impaled by Madelina. Madelina then proclaimed that it was her ability all long.
"Since you will die anyways, I will have this moment to drop you a cliche villainous dialogue. I am no mere human, Motley. I am an undead being. Being an undead have their own perks you see. To be honest, I am also not sure what my ability does but it does have something to do with the concept of envy. Everytime I feel envious, I can steal their "time and attention" to be mine. Like how I stole your time and attention? You hours were simply erased in mere seconds and people will simply forgotten about you. Your destiny, or fate, which one you preferred more, is now mine, Motley".
As Madelina about to deliver the final blow to Motley by grabbing a large rock to smash her head with, Motley began to pray to someone for help, as she haven't even find a purpose in life, dreams, goals, what are those to her? She barely knew what those are. Like Madelina, she also understood the meaning of envy and therefore, cursed with it. As her friends and families have goals in life, she will be riddled with envy as she have yet to find her own goals or dreams. Not wanting to die, she began to use two of her arms to block the trajectory of the rock from hitting her head. Her arms were later smacked by the rock repeatedly, breaking them in place. She then continued to scream in pain. She noticed that both of her arms were protruding with broken bones. She tried her best to wiggle away but Madelina quickly locked her position by stepping on her legs with such force.
Yet again, an omminious bell rang again from an unknown location. The bloody stone then began to wind up again, ready for the final blow to her face. One time, it hit the top of her head, bleeding. Her visions began to grow blurly. Right before another hit could be delivered, someone punched Madelina out of the way. Her vision were uncleared but she knew who it was instantly from the sound of their grunts and outfit. It was the leather cladded girl. The leather cladded girl then began to fight Madelina, with a fighting style similar to that of a professional boxer. She began to punched her face repeatedly with Madelina to slow to block or dodge her attacks.
In retaliation, Madelina began to let out a loud yet monstrous scream, similar to that of a horror movie monster. Her skin then transformed into a greenish scales, with an extra pair of 6 arms sprouted from the sides of her body. Her jaw then unhinged and was elongated to an extremely degree. No longer, she is now a fearful monster. Motley was then suprised but was too weak to say anything. She began to choke on her own blood. The leather cladded girl kneeled down and began to outstretch her arms. Slowly, Motley felt that she began to recover slowly, even her minor wounds are disappearing.
Madelina screamed, "STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING!!!!" and launched a flurry of attacks using her multiple sets of arms. Smoke and dust began to covered the area. As the dust began to clear the area, both Madelina and Motley noticed that the leather cladded girl's eyes were glowing. She was then surrounded by a ball of water, acting as a shield. They both noticed that water from the nearby river and sewage started to flow towards the leather cladded girl. The water shield then began to shape into something different. They began to wrap around her fists, becoming a pair of boxing gloves.
Madelina laughed loudly as she planned to fight a giant monster with a pair of boxing gloves made from water. In a mere instant, she launched one of her long arm to catch the leather cladded girl. She swiftly dodged the monstrous arm. Rather than just dodging it, she parried her arm away by punching it once, completely destroying her arm into pieces after hearing the sounds of brokens cracking. Madelina recoiled and screamed in pain as she lost one of her arms. She then screamed, "THAT'S NO MERE WATER!!! THAT'S A GODDAMN SHOTGUN!!"
"Well, you are not wrong. I have the ability to control water. Unfortunately for you, my water contructs aren't normal water. They are extremely compressed water. My water looks normal, sure, but they could be stronger than concrete and beyond", the leather cladded girl explained. She the began to crack her knuckles, ready for battle.
"What I hate most, is injustice and those who willing to trample the weak. Unfortunately to evildoers like yourself, I am the judge and the executioner. My power will decide your fate. Prepare yourselves!", the leather cladded girl created a trampoline made of water and launched her body flying, headed straight for Madelina.