House of Cards

Fist of Justice

The day is quite different than the last thirty years that I have been in this institute or should I say thirty two years. Well, it doesn’t really matter anymore. As usual during the introduction, I would always be the one who seemed composed and gotten used to introducing myself while the others had a hard time introducing themselves. We continued to the other classes after Van gave everyone a clear view of what we are about to learn under his sessions for the next three hundred sixty five days or less. After his briefing we then continued to the next classroom where the others students have vacated as the teacher waits for our arrival.

               The entire day continued like that until the end of the briefing and introduction. “Hey, is it just me? Why does that guy looked so composed during our introductions?” I heard a student whispered to the others beside him while walking out of the room after our last session ended. ‘Well, here we go again. Just like what is happening every year it’s just coming back again.’ I thought to myself as I feel the same thing happening over and over again. Almost immediately I felt a slight hint of murderous intent coming from behind my back. ‘It must be that guy earlier, he must be mad about what I did to his little fun.’ I told myself as I walk leisurely on the hallway without a care in the world since there is close to none that I am afraid of at this point. So I would not really care if he attacks me lethally to the point that someone might have died if it was not me, maybe it is because of the various experiments that I have done to my own body that my fear of death had already vanquished from my head.

               The trace of the murderous intent slowly disappeared as I walk out of the building so then I looked back to the main entrance and saw that most of the students behind me came from the different classes so I erased the thought in my head and went straight home. Surprisingly there are so much more students are hanging out at the route that I always take to get home that I was surprised and shock, maybe the number of students this year did really impact me as hard as today. That’s when I heard a scream of a girl that I have not heard for a long time, a scream of someone who needs help. Instinctively I sprinted out to where the scream could have been the instant it reached my ears and saw the same girls that I encountered in front of the convenience store earlier in the morning and a group of boys who seemed to be making a move to them. “KYAAA!”

               “Get away from me!” I shouted the moment one of the delinquent hang his arm on my shoulders as I move a few steps away from them while dragging Freya along with me. “What’s the big deal? We just wanted to get to know you. Just like the principal said ‘use this year to get to know each other’.” One of the delinquents even quoted some of the principal’s words. “I know what he said but he did not mean to immediately hang your arm on someone’s shoulder and consider it as getting to know each other. It doesn’t work that way.” I retorted as we stand back then Freya supported my statement. “Who in their right minds would hang their arm on another person’s shoulder when we do not even know it each other in the first place?”

               Their expressions on their faces just stayed the same. They looked like they are staring on something that they wanted to obtain so badly. So we continued to step away from them the instant they take a step closer and then eventually we had our backs on a wall with no way to get away from the other students who wanted to harass us and almost suddenly another student came running towards us and stopped the students who wants to harass us. “Please stop what you are about to do. They are clearly saying that they don’t want to get to know you guys so please stop this before someone get s hurt.” The student said with a calm tone while standing between us and the delinquents.

               I don’t really know why I did this but maybe it was because of the disappointment that I was not able to help my classmates thirty two years ago that my body unintentionally ran the moment I heard a scream. ‘This guys- looks like I pissed them off when I decided to butt in on their fun.’ I thought to myself as I saw their expressions shifted from a really disgusting look in their faces to disappointment. “Who are you turd? You look like a dead fish who got washed up ashore.” One of the delinquents said mocking the way I look. Well, I can’t blame them. Someone with a droopy face like me trying to stop some guys who look like they have more energy to spare compared to me, they would definitely make fun of me. But even so, I tried to persuade them nonetheless.

               The situation intensified that it even caught the attention of the other students present on the scene and looked at us with confusion and curiosity. “Please, let’s resolve this without troubling the institute.” I persuaded when all of the sudden one of the delinquents pushed me back heavily that I need to get a grip on the ground. “What can you do huh? You want to be a hero?” one of them said while pushing me back with an annoyed expression. I already know that it will not get resolved peacefully so I already made arrangements and recorded the audio before I got involved since the voices and screams of the girls can be heard from far away.

The guy got pushed back to us then for a moment I caught a glance of his face, it was then I remembered him, the guy who got out of the convenience store earlier in the morning with a really dreadful complexion like he was about to pass out any time and the same guy who instantly burned the can to dust that made both Hannah and I froze in shock after seeing what happened. ‘Isn’t this the same guy from the convenience store and the classmates earlier?’ I told myself after realizing the identity of the guy in front of us who also decided to confront the other students. With the force of the student who got annoyed by his involvement getting stronger, I did not feel any animosity from him unlike the other guys who want to hit on us even though he is the one being pushed back and still continued to persuade them to stop what they are doing instead of using force just the others students are doing. That’s when suddenly the other students started to use excessive force just to push him back when all of the sudden I felt a slight power coming from the guy being pushed back and successfully drove them off away from us and steps in front of us again even after seeing that his attempt did not do any good at all.

‘What the hell is with this guy? At first it looked like we are overpowering him and yet with a simple push from him we got pushed back instantly. Is this guy’s special ability super strength?’ I told myself as Garet and I look at him with confusion written all over our faces. Taking his immediate use of force at a declaration of war, I then immediately used my ability without hesitation. Garet saw what I did and then used his ability as well. “So you want to fight huh?” I said as the air around me vibrated terribly and created a buzzing sound while Garet’s hands got covered with earth and bumped his fists signaling that he is ready to kick some random person’s ass but even after seeing us using our abilities the expression on the guys face did not change quite a bit and instead it looked like he was surprised about our abilities.

“I know that this can’t be resolved only by using words- offensive abilities huh?” I said after figuring out their ability types. ‘Looks like the cocky looking one has the ability to use the wind while the other one can use the earth as his medium. Quite interesting abilities, let’s see how well my ability fare off against them.’ I told myself as I take off my bag hanging on my back and handed it to the women that I was protecting earlier. “Can you please take care of my bag? It has some value you see and it looks like these guys don’t want to settle it peacefully.” I said with a pained smile on my face. “Please go to somewhere safe unless you guys have something to protect yourselves I advise you to get away from here.”

The guy just handed his bag and warned us not to stay so I took his bag and immediately left with Freya to a safe place. Just as we arrived to a place where we thought it was safe, the guy with his arms covered with earth charged first confident of his extra defenses. It turns out that he can also cover his vital spots with earth to act as armor but even with someone charging in front of him, the guy just stands still as our heartrates skyrocket in fear that he will get beaten up. And just as the guy was about to throw a punch, the guy who decided to help us threw a faster punch to the gut and strangely enough there was no sound when his fist wrecked the other guy’s armor like it was a costume made with Styrofoam instead of solid earth. The poor guy then plummeted on the ground like he hit a really well built wall with his friend staring at him with his eyes widened in shock, even the guy who threw the punch was surprised as well, I mean the look in his face says it all.

Then came the sound echoing throughout the area that devoured our ears of how strong and thought how painful it must have been to be on his shoes.

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