THE 8 SAVIOURS

The First Day horror

Another morning, the sun rises, birds chirp but it doesn’t feel monotonous at all. I am excited and terrified at the same time, excited coz first training day, terrified coz first day of school. I muse how my life has taken an interesting turn like in the movies. I still fear it will be a dream and I will wake up, or that they will say it was a prank!!!!, look at the camera and wave.

But if it’s real we are in grave danger.

“Get up, do you want to be late on your first day”.

My mom’s voice reminds me that I have a dual life to lead, and I cannot neglect either of the two.

I get out of bed, shower, eat and the next thing I know I am in my class, everything seems brighter and shinier, it happens when ever I go to a new place, then after a week or so it dulls or looks normal. I am guessing it happens with everyone.

I look around trying to spot an empty seat when I see Samara waving at me. I walk towards her and she scoots over and makes space for me. I am really grateful for everything now at least I have a friend in school and I won’t have to fear about slip-up in front of someone else.

“Thank god you are sitting with me, I am so nervous and excited about the whole universe competition thing that I feared I won’t have control over my tongue” Samara says, “Don’t you think this kind of thing happened to harry potter we are just not selected for Hogwards.

I chuckle she has a wild imagination.

“Yeah maybe J.K Rowling knew about this and thought, if she told about this people will think she is crazy, so why not write about it.”

She looks at me with her wide eyes, like she just discovered something and is gonna shout Eureka.

“yessssssss, you are right, OMG”.

The banging of chalk duster on the desk brings us back to class as teacher starts teaching, we start scribbling on our notebooks and just like that time flies.

It’s lunch time now and we go out on the green grass field inside the campus of our school to stretch our body, sitting can really cramp your body.

I look around and see a lot of beautiful flowers bordering the grassy lawn and then there is small rose garden on the other side with a picket fence around it. I turn to look at Samara when I see she is staring at Samarth who is leaning against a tree and talking to a guy.

Hmmmm, never knew she had a crush on him.

I poke her shoulder, she turns around and when I say, “You have a crush on Samarth” she turns crimson red, if she turns anymore red, I am afraid she will burst.

She shakes her head and yells, “NOO, I DON’T”.

“yeah, totally bought it at least try to lie better”.

“he is dumb and stupid; I don’t like him.”

I was about to argue, when I see Arjun walking towards me, I start to search an escape, when I turn to find Samara, I see her running towards Samarth.

What the hell is she doing?

She pushes Samarth and then I see a football flying towards her head, she went there to save him, but how did she know that the football was going to hit Samarth.

But before I or she can react the football approaches her and she raises her hand to protect her head and the ball literally stopped near her hand and bounces back like she hit it back, what the f**k just happened.

But I didn’t see her use her hand thank god, everyone was far enough from her to not notice that, but does she have superpowers?

Samarth thanks her for the save and she blushes furiously. I smile and turn around to leave and I see Arjun.

No, not again the whole regret touching thing.

“umm…. I am sorry, for that night, I shouldn’t have touched you. But please don’t be awkward around me and don’t run away. Can we not forget it ever happened and go back to being friends again?”

I smile despite what I am feeling, I smile, he doesn’t like me, he wants to be my friend.

But then again, I do need him as my friend and what good would running away and being awkward do.

“apology accepted, we will forget it ever happened and be friends”.

He smiles and his smile is so genuine, that I feel that it’s all worth it, it would be a bit difficult to be his friend, but his happiness would make all the pain worth it.

The day passes by with Samara chanting Samarth’s name all damn day and finally the night comes it’s 11 p.m. I quietly creep out of my room and hear my father and mother snoring, yeah, they both snore and in the morning, they yell at each other that they couldn’t sleep coz the other one snored all night.

I climb down my room window and see Arjun climbing out as well, he smiles at me and my stomach tingles, but I ignore it, we both walk towards the GGS-8’s secret base. We see all the others approaching as well. When we reach there Aditya greets us and we enter the dungeon, we assemble in a big room.

Alexandros enters our room, addressing us he says, “today is your first day so let me explain you everything from scratch but I won’t explain it again. Like on earth and on any other planet in the caeruleum(blue) universe they think taking life is what makes them powerful because we can die, so our fights are always to kill the enemy.”“But there are several other realms where dying is something that doesn’t exists, basically death doesn’t exist. So, they test the superiority with brain, memory, IQ, speed, sometimes even ability to be a good manager and maintain peace. Now many of you might not be top players in pub-g or other survival games, but each one of you is a decent player in certain genre, so we have selected you so that each one of you can lead the group, when you fight with other realms.”“Are we in clear so far?”“yes, sir” we all shout in unison.“Good. Now you will be trained for 6 months for honing your survival and fighting skills, each of you will be given a weapon you will have to master. The next year and half you will improve your skills in your respective genre and train your other players to get better in that area. Remember even if you are leader in your genre, you are nothing without your team.”

“Now, the problem...is…”

“Great we didn’t start and there already a problem” Samarth says.

“DON’T YOU DARE INTERRUPT ME”

Alexandros says that with such an eerie tone, that everyone gets even more quieter, if it’s possible, like it was quite before but it seems like everyone is holding there breathe to be more silent, I am guessing they are doing that, because I definitely am.

“There was no other company than Winxer who selected the 8 milites for the competition to represent earth, but there has been a new company and how we don’t know yet, but we are digging information, so before the actual competition there will a small competition between the two company’s candidates.”

“Now welcome your teacher he has been teaching the combat skills since past 50 years, Gabriel Wilson.”

Alexandros and Aditya leave the room after greeting someone in the doorway and enters a large muscular man with scars all over his face and his arms, his hair military cut and frown, that probably he was born with.

“You have been already informed about all introductory s**t, I am your trainer not friend, don’t expect any kind of empathy and crap from me. I would just like to tell the one point they missed, no other company is allowed to select candidates for the competition except Winxer, so this fight you are having after 6 months, you will have to kill the other 8 candidates, while they kill the one who founded it.”

“To the training ground follow me.”

He leaves the room, and  all release their breathe, so everyone was holding it, huh.

But we have a bigger problem, we must kill other people, it didn’t register when we agreed upon it, but now, it’s freaking me out.

We were going for the competition because we wanted to protect the people on earth and now, we must kill 8 of them.

I turn around and see their faces have turned white pure horror marring their faces.

Now what?