House of Cards

Welcome to Olympus

*BAM!*

“Damn it!” I grit my teeth in anger as I slam my fist on the wall of my room really after I got back from my visit to the foster home when I received the letter that they sent to me. I never thought that something like this would happen. “Then why did you give me your ability you stupid sh*t?” I talked to myself as I look at the scrape on my fist getting healed immediately. ‘………..’

After what happened a few days ago, explaining everything that happened to the institute while keeping the ability that strangely appeared in my card a secret from them. I started experimenting on myself, either cutting my pulse or drowning myself on water whenever a bath in the tab and nothing seem to work, my brain and body screams in pain but then immediately the foreign objects or liquids that entered my system are immediately forced out by my body, rejecting it completely and it happens in a cycle whenever I stay underwater for a few hours.

I feel like I am cheating death in every way possible but there is a lot more things that I have not tested yet so there is no way of saying that I failed in killing myself. It is always hard for the ones who survived and gets to live a little longer. And I feel like if I continue to live like this in the future with nothing while seeing others like me grow old and eventually die, dying might not be such a bad idea after all.

The institute offered me something that they are capable of giving me, thinking that I have witnessed something that is not appropriate for my age, they decided to let me stay in Olympus as long as I want and even bought an extra land where I can live and immediately built me a house. Seeing where they are coming from I agreed and told me if I want anything I just have to visit the principal and now that I have heard another news from the foster home, I visited the principal’s office.

“So what do you want to ask of Olympus Mr. Ambro?” the principal asked with a dignified look as I stare at him. “Don’t worry, if it’s something that we are able to do, I will definitely get it done.” He added with a stern expression while staring back at me. “Sigh! My brother Chris, before dying he left a seed.” I replied with a meek tone. The principal had the expression of ‘Is that so? How wonderful’ after hearing what I had to say and added. “I want that kid to have his future set in stone and place here in Olympus as a teacher.” I said with calm and serious tone. “Hmmmm that is not a very hard thing to do at all. Do you want that child to live here in Olympus with you? We can arrange if right away.” He said in a very convincing way but I declined. “No, the child will live with me once he reached adolescence but I do want the institute to support him in his growth, is that possible?”

The principal just look at me with a piercing gaze. ‘Is he testing me?’ I thought after I stare back at his eyes. Feeling unwavering will, he flashes a smile and nodded. “Not at all, that is something that we should do to the child of the late student that perished. We should take responsibility and support until the child gets old enough.” He replied with a smile. After my successful talk with the principal, I left for the foster home to tell them about my talks with the principal and let them know what is about to happen.

The graduation is coming up but we decided to call it off and not let the news about me staying in Olympus out to the world, as the news of the tragedy will eventually die out. A few years have passed, I graduated with countless of students in each year without them knowing my identity and the numbers of individuals with special abilities are getting larger and larger with the years passing by. ‘Are the parents deliberately making a lot of children just to have at least a single individual with special ability within their family?’ and just as I thought, the news flashed in the television reporting about the large number of babies being born every single day, thus resulting to over population that the whole world is currently facing. All the sectors all around the world agreed and passed on a bill that a family can only have two to three children per generation effective at the end of the year.

“This is ridiculous, people are really deliberately making children even at a young age.” I talked to myself as I drank a glass of milk while watching the news then I walked beside my window at looked at the roof of the dorm that the institute built for the students to stay in inside a year of their stay in Olympus.

“He should be here now.” I told myself as I look at my watch fixed on my wrist as I wait outside the gates of Olympus when a car suddenly stopped in front of me and a boy stepped out of the car. “I never thought that I would get to enter Olympus in my entire life. How are you uncle?” the young man said with a very enthusiastic expression after seeing Olympus with his own eyes and then turned to me. “Well, I never thought that you would have a special ability when the entire world is one the mission of making a huge amount of babies to have single individual with special ability in their family.” I responded with a smile and the young man smiled back at me. “I guess I will be in your care, please teach me everything that I need to know.” He said as he adjusts his glasses. I grabbed him and hangs my arm on his shoulder “Welcome to Olympus Van, you will be staying here for a year and I will teach you everything that you need to know.” I said with a smile on my face. ‘Hey i***t, I never thought I’d get to see your face in your son. You look the same even with the glasses.’ I thought to myself as my tears are about to flood my eyes.