3 years later (Time is distorted in this universe - It'll be explained later)
The Tennyson family and Maria were sitting in the living room conversing about the TV series that they had just finished watching when the front door got unlocked.
The family carefully made their way towards the door just in time to see a wet, black haired boy carrying a dark coat and bag on his shoulders, a suspicious looking mask at his side, two swords in his hand, a stud in his left ear, along with some kind of species over his shoulder.
The boy closed the door behind him before facing the 4 women in front of him. He said nothing and simply brushed past them towards the stairs. He could have been stopped but they were shocked and felt like they knew him but couldn't put a finger on it.
All their thoughts were interrupted when Maria uttered a single word.
"Chase?"
He briefly glanced back but stayed silent before continuing his way up with Tridius following him. Everyone was still too stunned to say anything, even Lily who talks a lot, didn't utter a single word. He entered his room and was quite surprised that it looked the same as when he left it. He opened his closet, all his clothes were still there, he threw his coat and swords in there as he placed his shoes under his bed before placing his bag next to his table.
He didn't shower and just changed his clothes to a blue top and a grey tracksuit bottom before collapsing on his bed. He hadn't felt this comfortable in a while since he was sleeping either on the floor or on Tridius which was quite soft.
Suddenly, he became tired, Tridius had already comfortably installed himself on the bed and was peacefully sleeping. All this training wore Chase out so he was about to take a long nap but someone knocked on the door and entered his room without being told to. It was Maria.
Upon entering, she closed the door behind her and glances at her nephew. She obviously wanted to say something about his appearance but, Chase's expression told her that he wasn't going to say anything about where he's been or why he looks like that.
"What?" He asked her as he watched her with an eye open.
She knew that he wouldn't answer the multitudes of questions going through her head so she took the last question that appeared in her head.
"Are you alright?" She worriedly asked, "I was worried about you."
"I'm fine." Chase emotionlessly responded.
"As long as you're fine, I'm happy...Do you need anything?"
"I need to sleep." He answered, "I'm tired."
"Alright, I'll let you sleep but I want to know if you want to go back to school." She simply said.
"Yeah." He simply replied. 'Yeah' she thought to herself, he had never spoken so informally before and this came as a slight shock to her.
"But first, " she resumed, "you would need to sit your exams in order for you to be well prepared for future classes and since you missed those 3 years, you would have to repeat a class."
"That's long." He said as he sat up, "Just let me do it now."
"Why would I let you do that?" She asked, folding her arms. "You missed too much because of whatever you were doing and if you do it now without any preparations, you'll ultimately fail. Meaning that you'll need to retake it. It would look bad on your CV if they saw that you failed the first time which will make them see that you don't take what you do seriously and-"
"Just let me do it." He interrupted, "If I say I can do it, i can do it." She realised that it was futile to argue since it looked like he wasn't going to budge so she came to a decision.
"Fine then, " She started. "Let's say that you somehow do pass, what are you going to do in year 12?"
"Maths, Economics and Power systems." She was impressed that he had thought that far but was very hesitant in making him take the exams.
"Are you sure you want to do it now?"
"Yeah."
She sighed, "You're dead set on this aren't you?"
"Yeah."
"Fine then, give me 5 minutes, I'll bring you your tests." With that said, she disappeared out of the room and effectively came back in 5 minutes. "Sorry for the wait." She said as she dropped 10 papers on his desk. "Had to assemble all this."
Chase left his bed and took a seat at his desk before taking a look at his papers: 2 for English(Language and Literature), 2 for maths(Calculator and non-calculator), 3 for science(Physics, chemistry and biology), 1 for history, 1 for I.T, 1 for power studies(study of different types of power systems, for example Ki) and 1 for Business studies and all those papers together added up to 12 hours of exams.
"You can do some tomorrow and the others on another da-" Maria started before being interrupted again.
"I'll just do them today." Chase said as he looked at the clock, 3:57pm it read.
"That's extremely unhealthy!" Maria protested as Chase grabbed an exam paper. "I'm giving you time to revise and you just want to cram everything in a day? You can even choose what you want to start with."
Chase didn't listen and opened his first exam paper. "I'll be done at midnight.", he simply said as he started working through it.
"If you want to fail, go ahead but don't come crying afterwards." Maria said as she sat on his bed and pulled out her phone, "Midnight it is then."
Time flew by and by midnight, Chase had finished all his exams and handed them to his aunt.
"I'll tell you your results in 3 days." She said as she took the papers and placed the different subjects in different folders. "We'll talk later." And with that, she teleported out of his room.
After she had left, Chase jumped on his bed and fell into a deep sleep. He woke up at 8 am and left the house from the window since he didn't want the family to know of his outing. He only needed to do 1 thing and it was to pass his driving.
He was 16 so he could pass the theory test to get his license which he did. He had made the application on site and got started as soon as possible. He passed his test with a score of 39 over 40 but he was a bit ticked off because of the fact that he had missed a mark. Nevertheless, he was quite satisfied and proceeded to head on home, the practical test was going to be done later.
He entered his bedroom through the window, closed it and rested next to the still sleeping Tridius. He had made sure that the door was locked and from then till the next two weeks, he slept.