Millions of years ago, humans were prey to feral beasts in the wilds, but they had something the beasts did not - powers. Those with supernatural abilities were called "gods." We know some from the Greek Pantheon, such as Zeus and Athena. But how did these individuals get their powers? With "Power Orbs," given by the real gods as a chance to those who need it the most. The powers are unknown to the gods until the users activate them. The orbs are passed down from generation to generation or given to someone interesting for the gods' pleasure, but they may not activate themselves if the orb deems the user unworthy. A power orb is now living in the shadow of a possible user, Isao Tyson, an American-Japanese, seventeen-year-old living in New York City. He is a teenager around 6'0" with black, long hair tied up at the back of his head. He studies at a decent private school, has more than decent grades, but an unhealthy social life.
The alarm clock starts, Isao wakes up looks at his phone, and looks at the date, september 15th 2023.
He gets out of the bed, dresses in his school uniform, the uniform was a simple black suit with the school seal on it. He ties his hair in a ponytail, looks at the clock, 6:36 am. He exits his bedroom only to see his step sister Elena looking like she worked all night.
"Tough night Elena?"
"Fuck you!" She rushes to her bedroom and closes the door, slamming it.
"The girls your age should stay home, not go with anyone they please and have a good night!" Isao replies, but nothing is heard from his sister's bedroom.
He gets in the kitchen, makes a ham sandwich, goes back in his room to grab his bag and heads for the door.
When he opens it, he sees a man wearing a long coat, black jeans, and a shirt underneath the open coat, and a hat, 90s gangster type of hat.
Isao looks a bit strange, but gives no shits about him. He goes onto the sidewalk, and heads in the opposite direction of his school, he heads left on the sidewalk. The man slowly starts walking in the same direction could be a coincidence, but to be sure Isao heads for the crosswalk. He waits for the light to light green, and the coat man still stay at somewhat of a distance, he lights up a cigarette. The light goes green and he rushes through the crosswalk, the man is still behind him. Isao begins a sprint, trying to lose the man, but his physical condition wasn't the best. He stops. The man catches him from behind. Isao, now exhausted, goes to the man and asks: "Why do you follow me?" the man lights up. a cigarette. "You'll be mad if i'd say your dad hired me for this?" Isao takes some deep breaths. "You are saying my idiot dad got you on my back… Typical for the chief of police." He walks away slowly, he looks at his phone, the clock is 7:10 am. After a 40 minute walk he ends up at his high school, Skyline high. He gets into class, before anyone else. Something was not right. "Where is everyone! Is this a bad prank?" he nervously laughs "Nice joke everyone…" None replies. He heads into the hallways only to see everyone in stop motion. "What the fuck is going on?" He goes to one of the chess club boys and tries to talk to him, even touch him, but nothing happens… He hears a bang in the school's front yard, he slowly approaches and hides behind the door. He opens it and looks outside. There were 2 people fighting, one of them was throwing knives out of their hand and teleporting and the other was flying and somehow deviated the knives mid air. He hears a woman's voice "How long will you deviate from my attacks, Lord of Telekinetics?" The floating person chuckled "Shreds, we already have done this before, you can't win like this, you are endangering the citizens of this area. Stop" The door where Isao was, now fully opens. His eyes open wide as the door makes a heavy sound. "Shit!" he whispers, the two stop monologue-ing and look at the boy.
"Who is he?" The lady asks "I don't know…" Isao gets up brushes of the dirt on his clothes. "Continue what you guys do I'd be out of here." He runs back to class, sitting in his chair. After a few "minutes" people enter in class, and the teacher starts his lecture.
After the class Isao got a break to think. He goes into the cafeteria, gets into a corner and opens his laptop. Isao searches on the internet, "super powers recorded," a stupid thing to search for, but that's everything he got. He found nothing, as expected. A brown haired girl, in the girl school uniform came to his table.
"Nihao! Isao." Isao looks at her "I'm Japanese not Chinese" she looks upset "What's the difference?" Isao closes his eyes and sighs "One is communist one is filled with fake anime girls. What do you want, Rebecca?"
Rebecca sits next to him, gets her hand over his neck and asks: "Can you please help me find if my boyfriend is cheating on me? To hack his phone and all that, you Asians do that right?" Isao gets her hand off him, closes the laptop, puts it in his bag and gets up. "Try someone else, and don't bring me this stereotype bullshit at my table ever again." He leaves the cafeteria and gets to his next class. He was flabbergasted, he was mad at how racist the girl was. Nothing else happens, no more powers, Rebecca stays at a safe distance. The weekend starts so he needs to pack his belongings and move back at his mom in the other part of the city.
"Isao! A second please!" Rebecca runs towards him, he waits, wanting to see where everything is going. "Isao. I am so, so, so sorry for being an ass, but please can you help me?" Isao looks around them and people look at both of them "You realize you are asking the wrong kid right?" Isao leaves, Rebecca did not take the refusal. She follows him, slowly. He ended up at a crosswalk, the light was red. A white haired girl starts walking on the sidewalk, he does not hesitate and runs to save her he pulls her back, but he then realizes the time was stopped again, everyone but Isao, Rebecca and the other girl moved. Rebecca and the other girl looked like they knew each other, and Rebecca rushed forward. "Isao?! You've got an orb too?" "Orb?" Isao asked. The realization hit both of the girls "You do not know what an orb is?" both of them asked. "Is that a big deal?" "Yes!" Rebecca added "How can you walk into the time Arena without knowing what an orb is, do you at least have one?" The white haired girl asked. She touched Isao's palm and a light came only out of hers. "Oh my lord! He doesn't have an orb!" Both of them got scared. "Are you the devil?" Rebecca asked "He looks Japanese he is probably an oni" Isao's head was hurting all this information surpassing his capability of understanding "Time Arena? Orb? Light comes out of your hand? Devil?" Both of his hands were on his forehead.
"You know what, this orb bullshit is making me sick, I'll go home, and don't follow me." He runs back home, no one is there. He tries the sink, it does not work. "I need something to drink" He then remembers there is left in the fridge some soda, he tries to pour it into a glass but it does not work. He panics and gets to his phone, the phone it's frozen too. "What the hell? Am I in a fever dream or something?" He pinches himself and it hurts. He sits in his chair not knowing how long it will take this time for the time to start again.
He gets outside only to see a hole fighting scene between two super-people in the air, both of them wearing suits, they where both flying and thrown punches that sound can't comprehend, one of them is thrown into the street Isao lives, Isao got up and tried to help up the one in the street.
"Don't do that kid! He aint a good guy" But the heads up was a little too late as the other guy used Isao as a hostage.
"I'll blow this kid's head off"
"Kid, activate your power! don't stand like that"
Isao was a bit overwhelmed by the situation, but he needed to say something, if he tells the truth he will still be captive, but if he lies he might have a chance of getting away.
"I- I can't! If I use them I'd kill the whole of New York, but if this guy keeps touching me he'll meet the same fate as those at Chernobyl. Have you watched that show? It's a nice documentary, mr villain!"
The man got scared and let go of Isao, and jumped away at an unknown distance, the other guy came down. "Is that really your power kid?"
Isao shakes his head
"Then what did you get?" Isao looks at him in his eyes "Nothing…" "Huh?! What do you mean you have none, you need one to be in this shithole like Time Arena." Isao shrugs. "I see you're an expert, so when this time things will stop because I need to make my stuff, like food…"
"Just wait!" The man in a formal suit pressed a button and time started again, birds were moving in the sky and the clouds did as well. "See ya kid!" The man flew away. Isao gets inside to pack up some clothing in a bag to get back to his mother's place.