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Chapter 9 - Chapter 9. Rivals

After Cedric finished things became hectic. Kids were pushing other students out of the way to desperately find a team. Eram and his group quickly walked to the outside and then to the front to not get trampled.

Alexander had tears in his eyes as even moving hurt him " Thanks for carrying me Michael I'll never forget this and I'll cherish this memory till the day I die" As soon as Alexander said that Michael dropped him like a brick " Hey what was that for!"

" I promise I am never helping you again after you just hit me with that information," Michael said while looking at Alexander in disgust.

"You hate me because I'm short you…" Once again another punch from Lila shut Alexander up

Lila looked at Michael and apologized " Sorry for his poor behavior, I should've beat on him more before we got here."

Michael listened to her natural-sounding apology and shivered "No need I'm sorry."

Lila wondered why he just said he apologized as well and the group continued to the front giggling at Alexander's suffering. Alex smiled seeing Lila so happy and said "I wonder what that group that was called up their abilities are?"

Eram spoke up " I know two of their abilities" he then pointed at Kalla " She can make a thing called a dimensional sphere or something and it attacks whatever gets inside. She cut my arm off and it hurt, felt like it was on fire."

Yuki was astonished and finally spoke up " What you had your arm cut off." She said with her mouth agape like the rest of the group.

"Yeah, and it hurt like hell, though it didn't hurt nearly as bad as when I broke a bunch of my bones when I was hit by a speeding car," Eram said while shuddering at the memory. "Next in the middle, there is Gunther. He can control gravity I think. I'm not too sure why the teacher was so astonished at that but he said he had a cool ability."

Yuki decided she had enough mental energy to say one more thing " Besides the fact that you have had your arm cut off. I can tell that the one right next to Kalla is strong. I forgot to mention I can sense stronger or weaker people in my vicinity, and he is just about as strong as Erams and Michael, maybe a little stronger" She then pointed at the two.

Michael said, " Would y'all like to talk to them?"

"Haha of course we would!" Alexander said with much enthusiasm and was glad he didn't get hit again. 

The group walked up to the stage where the other group was talking amongst themselves. Lila grabbed Alexanders arms with enough of a grip to keep him from talking. Once they got up to the stage the tall, strong guy walked in front of the group. " what do y'all want?" he said with a cold voice.

"What's your deal? We just came up here to see what's up and greet y'all" Eram said while upset by the cold welcome.

The boy took a deep breath and closed his eyes He responded after a second " Sorry I just come from a rough neighborhood and I'm not adjusted to the culture. My name is Ryker Sable and these are my party members, Kalla Fenn, Gunther Jett, Ren Halloway, and lastly Liora Willow." He took one more deep breath and asked " Mind introducing yourselves?"

Eram then decided to take charge and tell Ryker everyone's names "Sorry about Earlier, My name is Eram Shibo, this is Lila Raine, Alexander Greene, Michael Caldwell, and lastly for us is Yuki Kazumi." he said while pointing at each one of the group.

"Well, if there are ever any competitions just know I will win, I will be your guyses rival," Ryker said

"Hey, you mean our rival… stop excluding me, or I mean us," the girl named Liora said looking at her old friend.

"Yeah Ryker, you need to include us, or we're going to attack you…" Ren stated and then got uppercut punched by Liola.

"W…W… Why Liola why…" Ren looked at Liola with tears in his eyes causing everyone to laugh hard but none as hard as Michael.

"Hahaha It's not just me that suffers through this misery! Mmph" he got punched again by Lila.

"Misery? You go through misery?" Lila stared at him with daggers.

"No ma'am, I'm sorry for slandering your blessings," he said while looking at his newfound brother in shame on the ground, with tears in their eyes.

Ring, a bell rang and Principal Cedric Thorne stood back on the podium while smiling seeing the teens act goofy wishing he could turn back time. "Looking around I see that everyone found a team there should have been the exact number and it seems there is." The students who were now on the stage realized everyone had been watching them the whole time curled back in embarrassment.

"Ok so with this we will begin giving out schedules based on teams that were made reason being that in some classes you will need to have all of the team members of your class present to understand your roles in the team." Principal Thorne said

Everyone got excited and started talking again " Be quiet I'm not done." Cedric yelled and all of the students got quiet again "After those teachers go through and give you a schedule you have another teacher that is going to come through and give you a card with the dorm room assigned to you there will be up to to 4 boys in one room and up to 4 girls in one room, these will be here all of the first semester next semester you will have credits racked up and you can use those credits for better rooms starting next semester so work hard" After Cedric finished talking he vanished and about 50 staff members started to walk through the crowd asking for names and who all was on their teams.

It was taking a while so Eram's team and Kallas's team were looking at all of the teachers wondering who was going where they were going to be assigned and what the credits could get them. They started to discuss the items they were all thinking of until Mark came up.

"Hey, Eram, Kalla, and Gunther seems all didn't team up," Mark said 

"Yeah cause this loser told me no!"Gunther yelled

"Haha well that's ok it seems he has found him so good friends, anyways here are the dorm numbers for you guys. Oh, and Boys do not try to spend the night in the girl's dorms you will be punished harshly. On another note, food will be served in an hour in the cafeteria so eat up once you get the chance. Lastly, Cedric will be back in a bit so please stay put." Mark said and then he went off to give more students their dorn cards.

After he mentioned the food all of the student's stomachs started to growl, though none were worse than Lila's. "Damn, I'm fucking hungry."

"I know right," Liora said as her stomach growled just as badly "Keeping Ren in check takes a toll on me"

"Same, Alexander drains my hunger. I like you, we're going to get along great!" Lila said to Liora causing every boy there to shiver in fear knowing that at least it was Alexander and Ren's suffering, not theirs.

The two groups started talking about where they used to live and what food they liked and listened mostly to Michael talk about royale life and what it was like. After talking more they found themselves having fun and laughing and less stressed about being in a new environment without the support of their families.

Cedric appeared out of nowhere and shocked the group causing Micheal to stumble back from shock. "Ok, students I have gathered most of the staff to assist with guiding everyone to their dorms." Cedric vanished and then about 100 more staff members appeared around where everyone was at.

The girl that appeared in Eram's and Ryker's group smiled and said " Hello everyone my name is Sheila and I will guide you to your dorms. Please walk calmly and follow me. I was also told to inform you in 5 months we will hold a tournament for 10000 credits for first place so please get situated and try to become good friends with your fellow students."