Lucien laid in his cell on the bed, luckily on account of his age he was given a separate cell by himself. Lucien felt no broken bones on his body but he had numerous bruises allover his body.
Lucien was told he would stay here at the state prison and bee transferred to the nations sole juvenile prison in 2 weeks, so Lucien was left alone in his cell. Though he could still hear other prisoners calling out to him in saying disgusting things.
-Tomorrow I'll have to go to the recreational yard and the food hall, there's plenty of people who are going to want to test me. Jake told me that in prison you can't show fear to people or you're just going to become someones bitch.-
Lucien took the sheets of his bed, -everybody here is an adult, and I have no weapons. There's only one way to even the playing field in this situation. Strike first and continue striking until you win.-
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The next day
Lucien sat in the center of his cell already awake by the time the guard came to wake everybody up.
"Wake up! Wake up!" the guard walked along the cells with his baton hitting the cells.
"Oh our new prisoners already awake, that's good then line up at the door. then we can start with you for cell inspection"
Lucien walked out and stood in a line with the rest of the prisoners as the guards went through and searched the cells, and a pair of guards took role call.
"All clear in cells 1 through 5!"
"Clear in cells 6 through 10!"
"Cells 11 through 15 are clean"
"43 out of 43 prisoners present and accounted for sir!
A guard with a silver pauldron who seemed to be in charge nodded, "then lets move them to the mess hall."
The guards behaved obnoxiously, "you heard him, move!" a guard whacked a prisoner in the back.
The guards moved them to the mess hall, Lucien studied the hall as he got in line for food.
-A little above 150 prisoners, prisoners eat their food on the ground floor while guards oversee us from the railings on the second floor, theres more then a dozen guards visible.-
Lucien turned his attention to the prisoners, - it's likely today will end in a fight, since there's fresh meat. I need to find someone I can take down easily , but someone strong enough that I'll be left alone afterward.-
His eyes scanned the cafeteria, as he left the lunch line with his food. As Gyun got closer he noticed that a small number of prisoners had a metal ankle bracelet. -Is that the aura suppressor I've heard of?-
Lucien was eating at a table with a random group of prisoners, the food was cold and soggy. Though Lucien still ate it since he didn't have much a choice, -when is someone going to pick a fight?-.
It didn't take long Lucien noticed the shadow over him before he heard his voice, "hey what's a little boy like you doing here?".
Lucien had yet to turn to look at him, he kept his eyes on the food tray in front of him, he was looking at the reflection. - Two of them, both about 6ft somewhat well built, I can take one but two is going to be a bit hard-.
Lucien spoke softly, "I'm serving my time"
"Huh?Speak up boy I can't here ya!"
"Your not showing disrespect for your seniors are you!" One of the man's slapped Lucien on the back of the head.
One of the men leaned in speaking into Lucien's ear, "boy your awful disrespectful it seems I'm gonna have to tame you ton-"
*crunch
Lucien swung the metal food tray into his nose, sending the man reeling back.
"Ahhhh! My fucking nose!"
His friend hesitated for a moment trying ti grasp what was going on. Lucien seized the opportunity throwing the tray into the man's face, blocking his view.
"Agh! Fucking shit!" The man swatted it down.
Lucien had covered the distance and kneed the man in the groin, he started to crumple with his hands reaching for his groin,and as he did. Lucien grabbed hold of his head using the man's weight and bringing down on his knee.
The man fell back his nose broken and unable to stand. Lucien turned the other man who he'd hit with the tray was cradling his nose, he saw Lucien make eye contact with him.
"H-Hey get this brat!"
He pointed at Lucien, three other men sprung up, from the tables. -That's too many for me, they don't have weapons though, but I don't want to fight them I've already made my point-.
Lucien glanced around him, the guards had yet to make a move and the prisoners had formed a circle and were cheering on the fight, the guards, they were watching the fight and placing bets it seemed.
"Disgusting"
Lucien picked up the trays next to him, -these bastards are going to make me fight to survive huh?-
The three prisoners surrounded Lucien, Lucien looked around he noticed one of the prisoners had a mana restraint on his ankle.
"Hey, you know your mana don't mean shit here right? In here we're equal"
"Don't matter kid because we're not equal in numbers"
"No…. I guess we're not"
Lucien mad the first move charging over the table, jumping forward landing a kick on the aura user's throat. Sending him reeling back as he tried to breathe.
The nearest prisoner, jumped onto the table, Lucien kicked out one the man's legs. As he fell Lucien kicked him off the table. He sensed something to his right, he raised the tray he was holding.
*Clang!
The sound reverberated as the man had punched the metal tray with full force, the man looked down at his fist in pain.Lucien hit him across the face sending him off the table.
Lucien whirled around to look at his surroundings,
*thump
Lucien was punched in the stomach by the aura user who'd recovered enough to attack.
His punch lacked force since he still couldn't breathe well. So Lucien countered with his own punches across the face, the man swung desperately but he was barely wheezing in enough air to move.
Lucien grabbed the man's hair and smashed his head into the side of the metal tables, Lucien continued smashing over and over again even after the man's cries of mercy stopped.
Eventually Lucien was pulled off the man as the guards finally intervened. They gave Lucien a small beating before sending him and the other prisoners off to the infirmary.
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1 hour later
Lucien sat in the wardens office, the gray haired warden sat across from him.
The man spoke after a moment of silence, his voice warm but stern.
"I'll get straight to the point, are you going to be a problem here. Or are you going to be a solution, based on your choice your time spent here can be drastically affected do you understand me?"
Lucien stared at him with blank eyes, " It was all self defense"
"You attacked first from what I here"
"It was preemptive self defense"
"Is this how it's going to be?"
"Yes"
The warden gave a evil grin, "then I hope you enjoy cell 25 and your cellmates. I hear their a real ACTIVE bunch."
The man stamped a paper handing it to the guard behind Lucien.