The Morning breeze seemed to enter every building to share its morning bliss, except this one. In a run down apartment, Dom rested on his worn out bed. The bed seemed to have lost some of its body parts. It couldn't even be called a bed again since a bed was meant to give someone comfort and not discomfort. Dom's head rested downwards and his leg upwards, placed in a slanted position.
In the room, everything in sight seems to have been on its last leg with so many dirty and battered looking shelves. He had tried his best to remove the dirt on the shelves but the dirt had grown on it. The wardrobe was placed at the corner of the room, far away from his sight. It made squeaky noises as it opened and closed due to the breeze that was entering the room through the double window, with one of them broken.
The loud sound of an alarm wakes the small figure. He slowly gets up from the slanted bed. Weird noises comes out from him stepping on the cold iron floor.
He stood at 4'9 inches tall with pitch black hair in a state of disarray. He grabs his hair and ties it into a small bun, his hands filled with various marks due to the intensive training he put himself through.
He heads toward the stand, opposite the bed and grabs a necklace adorned with a small black gem at it's center. He puts it on and smiles. The necklace was given to him by his mother before she vanished.
'Where are you- ", the door was abruptly flung open, causing Dom to stop abruptly and turn back just for his vison to be blocked by a fist.
He immediately ducks under the fist and intends to follow up with a blow to the ribs just for his vision to be blocked once again. Once the attacker missed the first surprise attack, she fluently followed up with a knee to Dom's face.
His head flung upwards with blood spurting out of his nose that was now bent.
"Nat, stop!!", a girl shouts as she hurriedly makes her way to the room. She looks at the beat-up Dom on the floor, " Why do you keep attacking him?! Do you want to bring this place down?!", she shouts as she goes to pick him up.
"I was only testing him, Aurelia and I didn't even take things far.", the attacker, named Nat, said. She would have been believable if there wasn't a huge difference between her words and her eyes.
Her eyes brimming with excitement and her arms twitching like a maniac's. "You didn't take it far?! Look at my f*cking nose!", Dom held his nose and shifted it back into place. 'Damn this girl, always after my apartment and I.', he sobbed in his head.
Dom had met his friends when he was in primary school. Everything was fine, happy and normal. Everyone received the same training and they all felt equal, until Nat was able to figure out that she was physically stronger than Dom. Ever since that day, she would attack him everyday as a form on 'training', when in reality, it was just a way of putting him in his place just to increase her pride.
"What are you guys waiting for?! Let's go!!", another small figure shouts from the entrance as he turns around and starts running towards the school.
"Hey, I'll give you a head start.", Nat smirks at the direction of Dom, who is still cleaning the blood from his nose.
Lots of swear words passed through his head as he starts running towards the school with inhumane speed.
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[West Kendall High School]
The school's exterior was designed like a castle in the medieval era but unlike those castles, it's brick had been hardened. It looked like every other mordern castle with many self defense mechanisms installed.
Dom and several others were sitting in a huge hall, the ceiling covered in marbles. The chairs were designed to have a touchable hologram that appeared from the armrest to give the students access to everything that was expected to happen during the assembly.
The walls were made of a smooth metal that was coloured blue with green trimmings. There was nothing in the Hall apart from the chairs and the huge space in front of them
Dom felt a tingle down his spine as he looked at the list. First on the list was introduction, where the assembly head was going to give an introduction to the students, but that wasn't what made him excited, it was the second on the list.
The second part was "Awakening". This was the part that everyone was anticipating. They have been waiting for this faithful day when they'll be like the superheroes they see on TV.
At the age of 14, after being accepted into a secondary school, they will be brought to a cubicle where the dust torus (the dust around the black hole) is in. They don't know how the process is, but they knew that anyone that leaves the cubicle gained new abilities.
"Dude, we are about to get powers, i have been waiting for this since the day I was born!", Dom shrieks in excitement, looking at Atlas, who also couldn't contain his excitement. They weren't the only one, everyone was excitedly shaking and talking.
"I know man, I hope I get something really good.", he replies.
" Whatever you get, you still won't be physically better than me.", Nat chimes in and changes Dom's mood.
'I hope I get something very good, I can't keep being beaten up by her.', as if able to read his thoughts, her grin increases.
"It's about to start.", following Aurelia's eyesight, the scene in front of them starts changing.
From the ground in front of them, a hole opens up and out of it was the assembly head standing on a huge circular stand.
The assembly head wore a suit with a well knotted tie and shinny, pointed shoes. The buttons on his sleeves were plastic with one of them being iron. A tiny speaker was hung on his ear with it's end in front of his lips.
He stood there, looking at each and every student as silence ensued. He carried this aura that made everyone around him feel threatend by his existence.
When he was done looking at everyone, he began.
"Good day students, I am Aziel and I'm the assembly head for now.", no one had missed how he added 'for now' in the sentence.
"We will start the assembly with a brief history about this planet's existence since it's mandatory for new students.", He sighed, like saying the history was too much of a task for him.
'With that attitude, why won't he be removed as the Head of Assembly.', Aurelia thought as she shook her head.
"Keer is a planet situated within the outer Rim of keeran galaxy. It is a vast world of rugged landscape, vast oceans with different species. Eons ago, our ancestors were powerless and were just beings without any ability. That was until they witnessed the celestial convergence.
Eons ago, our ancestors got to witness the biggest catastrophic event involving a dying star and it's planetary system forming a black hole. The black hole swallowed everything in its sight. Various planets were sucked into it but Keer… remained.
From the sky, fell huge balls of dust torus (dust around the black hole). Those who were aged 14 immediately began to realize their abilities.
With great power in the hands of children, danger ensued. Various children had killed their parents by mistake and others just went mad from a young age. The adults tried to stop them but they couldn't. How were our powerless adults meant to stop super beings? Nukes were just stopped mid air and tossed into the ocean. So they decided to lower their pride and beg the children, that seemed to listen, to help fight against the children that only wanted chaos.
An organization was made,the Harmonist, led by adults. The children were trained to be cold blooded killers from a young age and when the adult felt that they were ready, the children where sent to put an end to the criminals. The Harmonist succeeded and put a restriction on every super abled being. Things were meant to go well after that but the fucking weak adults turned greedy and decided to use the children for their own personal gain and where did that get them? They were killed by the children they trained to be merciless killers. Imagine the fucking irony.", Mr. Ariel chuckled a bit. He continued
"Over time, the awakened discovered ways to contain and multiply the dust torus. The adults who weren't killed by the children slowly died and the world was slowly filled with super abled humans.
Some of awakened have the same powers and new powers are still coming up. Our ancestors were able to find a way to train every different super abled the same way without any backlash."