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Chapter 2 - New Realm

Placing the photo down, Oliver takes a deep breath before saying in a neutral tone, "Well, I best be on my way. The bus will be here any minute now." Oliver walks out of his father's room and heads to the front door. Every step is filled with mixed emotions as he walks out the front door of his now-former home.

Exiting the apartment building, Oliver stands outside, feeling the cold morning air and the green grass beneath, with flourishing oak trees leading to his apartment building. However, before Oliver can enjoy the scenery, a large gust of wind envelopes him as a large rectangular shadow flies over him. As this happens, a massive grey bus with blue circular hover jets and blue streaks across it lands behind him.

With an excited look on his face, Oliver watches the bus land in front of him. Oliver stares in awe as the doors of the bus open, almost as if it were the pearly gates of heaven letting him enter.

After the doors of the bus open, a ramp begins to connect to the ground. Once it does, a man around his 20s in a red metal-plated attire with a red pilot hat a blue visor and black boots appears. The man walks down the ramp and stands in front of Oliver towering over him the staring at him before speaking in a rough and commanding tone " Hmm are you Oliver Kraus" staring at him with an intimidating look. "Uh yeah, that's me" Oliver responds trying to seem as if he's not intimidated the man stares at him for a moment almost like he's confirming that he's Oliver Kraus. The man then says in a commanding tone "Alright you may enter your seated in the second last row" After saying this the man proceeds to walk back into the bus. Oliver takes a deep breath before entering the bus he walks in and notices despite the rectangular look from the outside it's quite round inside with other kids his age at their seats some are asleep while others chat among themselves. Walking down and passing other people's seats Oliver can hear some of the other people start whispering to each other, finally reaching his assigned seat Oliver notices a boy in the seat next to his, staring out the window.

With an annoyed look on his face almost as if someone's been bugging him short brown hair with light pale skin and, wearing a long-sleeved black shirt and white pants he looks to be about seventeen, but Oliver can't seem to tell. Approaching Oliver attempts to properly introduce himself, in a friendly yet nervous tone he says "Hi...uh hello I'm Oliver Kraus but you can just call me Oliver or Ollie or whatever what's your name since we'll be sitting next to each other for the trip" after saying that the boy turns around to face Oliver before saying in an annoyed tone. " Leave me alone I'm trying to think" Hearing this Oliver responds in a confused tone "I would love to but you're in my assigned seat". Hearing this the boy's face which had an annoyed expression seems to intensify but he tries to contain himself as he moves one seat down. Noticing this Oliver finally sits down and notices that some of the people in the bus are staring at him some with looks of disgust and others with faces of curiosity, but he ignores it thinking all of it is just in his head as he stares out the window. A slight rumbling feeling begins to reverb through the bus as it begins to ascend Oliver stares out the window giving a mental farewell to his former home and as the bus rises, he begins to feel tired before Oliver can even realise what is going on everything has gone black.

In this world, people are born with special powers known as Potentias extraordinary abilities that allow people to do amazing feats such as breaking through boulders with their bare fists. With powers like these humans are naturally stronger they heal faster and take more hits everyone is born with a power except for one person Oliver. Feeling cold steel pressed on his cheek Oliver opens his heavy-feeling eyelids and begins to look around realising he's on the ground Oliver begins to stand up and once he regains himself, he notices that everyone who was on the bus is gone. Trying to wrap his head around what happened Oliver tries to remember what happened "OK so I got on the bus fell asleep and then what, come one me remember!" But no matter how hard he tried he couldn't remember what happened. Frantically turning his head to look out the window but once he does, he's filled with pure and utter shock. with slight hesitation in his voice, he says "I...is the grass BLUE!"