The young man laid on top of the water fountain. His face had a crack from the right corner of his lips running along his jaw to his neck. His chest was bleeding due to the energy beam that nearly pierced through him. He was coughing up blood and the headache he had worsened. One by one some of the festival goers began to recover, though many of them stayed in a coma like state, including Shuan. Achilles rolled to the side a little trying to stay on top of the fountain as he did this. He winced in pain at every small movement he made. He slowly sat up and hung his legs over the fountain as he tried to think of a way to get down without hurting himself more.
"How did I even get up here?" he mumbled to himself. Many of the civilians slowly shifted their attention to where the light came from, they were shocked to see a young kid there who seemed to be no older than fifteen, Achilles was shocked that everyone was staring at him. He was going to say something, but he felt himself falling out due to the seriousness of his headache.
Amongst the crowd were men of the military. They all held high power, like commander. They took notice of Achilles' abilities. These men were affected by the laser, though not as serious as everyone else, but still bad enough that they couldn't do anything, one of the men held a look of shame in his eyes and anger because a mere kid was able to withstand the effects of the energy, another held a look of confusion, he never seen something like this before, but there was one man whose face was unreadable.
"Okay boys, grab your things and retrieve that boy, he will be a valuable asset." the tallest man with white hair and an unreadable expression exclaimed, motioning to the place where Achilles laid.
"I doubt he actually disarmed the weapon; he might just have been a spy working with them." a red headed man said trying to reassure himself he didn't lose to a kid,
"Yeah, and he decided to stay behind just to disarm a weapon that his country made. You know you aren't making sense right." a man with black hair and glasses said.
"You guys shut up and get the boy." the white-haired man instructed again, this time sterner,
"YES SIR!" the two shouted as the ran to the fountain and picked up Achilles. Peleus woke up before his wife and noticed that they were taking his son. He ambled towards them while grabbing his side.
"W-Where are you taking my son?" he asked trying to hold down the bile that was trying to escape his throat.
The white heard man handed Peleus a badge and explained himself,
"My name is Miles, and that boy." he pointed to Achilles,
"Your son," he pointed to Peleus.
"Is the hope for our country, so if you don't mind, we're going to take him."
"You can't just take my son!" Peleus shouted trying to stand his ground,
"Yes, I can, and I will. Don't you want to be proud knowing your son is going to stop a war."
"No, I won't be if it's putting my son's life in danger."
"Your son put his own life in danger to help everyone here. He obviously wants this. Why would you deny him this right."
"Because I am his father and I know what's best for him." Peleus shouted.
"You are his father, and you don't know what's best for this nation!" Miles shouted back anger washing over his once cool exterior. Miles then pushed his hair back and shifted his weight on one side of his foot,
"I don't have time to be arguing, anything that's useful to this country is the governments which mean your Son is now ours."
Peleus knew he couldn't fight back with words, so he decided to throw a punch, however the red head instantly stood in front of the punch,
"Woah that's a lot of energy, I see where the son got it from, too bad it's not enough to break my protective layer." he said with a toothy grin filled with teeth that looks like razors.
"Stand down Augustus. He's still going to be one of our men starting tomorrow, we don't want him damage now do we."
"Augh, fine."
"Richard, message the head, tell him we found something valuable today." and with that they left, leaving Peleus ashamed that he couldn't stop them from taking his son.