Chapter one
"Hey, who's the new kid?" Magenta pointed to a person that had long brown hair.
"I don't know but they're not touching the grass." Layla stood beside her along with Will and Warren.
"Something seems odd about him." Warren crossed his arms. The five of his friends gave him questioning looks.
"How do you know that it's a 'he'?" Will asked as they started to walk towards the school.
"The way he walks and the fact that I've been watching him since he arrived." Warren's eyes never left the person's back. A few seconds later he turned around and looked around right before he locked eyes with Warren.
'I really hate these shoes. My feet are aching and school barely started. Oh well.' I took off my shoes and socks and threw them into my locker before slamming it shut. 'Now the Gym…great.'
I walked into the gymnasium with bare feet and earned a few questioning looks. I shrugged them off and took a seat in the bleachers.
"Okay class today we―who are you?" the teacher glared at me.
"Your new student Couch," my voice took on a tone that made me sound bored.
"Name, status and power," He boomed.
"Cody Warhammer, Status undecided, powers…eh don't want to tell you." I smirked when his face grew beat red and I heard some gasps from behind me.
"Wait, Warhammer, is your father Iron Warhammer?" the couch asked and I nodded. "Then that would mean that your mother is Serpentina." I nodded again. "So that means you're either a metal manipulator or a serpent talker."
"Heh, I'm neither." I smirked as I stood and moved to the middle of the gym. "Pay close attention, Boomer."
I turned my back to the class and started to unbutton my shirt and let it slid off of my shoulders. On my back there were lines that formed that of wings and to a normal person they would look like normal tattoos. Focusing on them they came off of my back in the form of blue fire wings. A few seconds later blue flames started to engulf my entire body and after they were completely surrounding me they dispersed leaving behind crimson armor with my wings protruding from my back still.
"Whoa, that's a new one on me." Coach whispered under his breath. "Car," he shouted and a car fell from the ceiling. Before it could reach me it was cut in half and the pieces landed beside me. I turned around and in my left hand was a glowing blade that had small flames licking across the metal.
"I knew something was odd," I heard a guy mutter from the back of the gym. He was wearing dark clothes and his hair was black with dark blue highlights.
I dropped my sword and kneeled down. In a visual of blue flames the armor exploded from my body and evaporated into dust, but my wings remained. I stood back up and put my shirt back on slipping my wings through the openings in the back.
"So status?" I quirked an eyebrow at the coach.
"Hero," he said in a quiet voice.
"Great," I smirked and returned to my seat.
"Um… your wings?" a girl with red hair pointed to me. She wore a green dress and had a shoulder bag that matched.
"We're going to do Save the Civilian today. Peace, Warhammer you're saving; Stronghold and Zero opposing." Coach Boomer shouted. The guy from earlier that was wearing the dark clothes stepped down along with two others. The other two stood on one side of the gym in front of a contraption in the floor. The other guy stood across from them ready. I took my stance next to him and waited for Boomer the sound the whistle. At the tone of the whistle my partner ran forward and tackled one of them to the ground. I shot up into the air and was about to head straight for the machine but was met by my other opponent who was hovering in front of me.
"Hi, names Will," he said before he punched at me. He hit me in the arm and sent me plummeting to the ground and landed, creating a crater.
"Damn, super strength and flying; let's see if he can resist this." I shot back into the air causing the crater to grow large. I met Will and returned the punch he hit me with but laced with flames.
"Sorry, invulnerability to fire. Warren found out the hard way." Will pointed to my partner.
"He controls fire also?" I asked Will just as he tried kicking me back to the ground.
"Yeah, but his is the normal color of fire you would see every day."
"Thanks," I smirked before I folded my wings and fell down. During the entire time that Will was trying to hit me he didn't relies that I had led him right above the pit with the dummy. I was inches from reaching the 'civilian' but right before I could grab them one of Warren's fire balls struck me.
"Shit," I cried out as my wings dissolved and disappeared.
"Will," Warren called out and Will plummeted down and caught me before I became mince meat.
"Thanks," I said as Will returned me to the gym floor.
"What happened to your wings?" He asked me after he stepped back.
"My wings kinda have a mind of their own. After they're manifested the only way to get rid of them is for them to get burned by a different color flame then what I control. Since Warren's is orange he was able to get rid of my blue flame." I explained as Warren and Zero came up to us.
"Are you okay?" Warren asked with wide eyes.
"I'm fine. I was actually hoping that you would hit me with a fireball but not while I was right above the pit." I chuckled lightly.
The rest of the students had come down from the bleachers and were crowding around the four of us asking if I was alright.
"That is enough," Coach Boomer boomed causing us to cover our ears.
"Mr. Warhammer so good to see that you're alright, but I would like to see you in my office." Principal Powers said before leaving the gym. I followed her to her office and entered it before shutting the door.
"Now, would you like to explain what happened in class today?" She knitted her fingers together and looked at me over them.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean the fiasco with you almost falling into the pit. No student in Sky High history has ever fallen into the pit."
"Well…" I went on to explain what I had to Will and the others.
"Really, that is quite unusual, someone that is weak against the very thing they control. Okay you may return to class." She waved her hand, dismissing me. "And you may want to put some shoes on."
I returned to my class and the day progressed on. In the Mad Science Lab we built freeze rays. The other classes were boring and I don't really remember much of them.
The bell that signaled lunch rang and I got up and went to the cafeteria.
"Cody over here." I heard my name being called. I saw Will stand up waving his hand getting my attention. I walk over and stare at him.
"Sit with us." He said as he returned to his seat and pointed to a seat in front of Warren.
"Hi, I'm Zach," A pale blonde boy said with a wide grin.
"I'm Magenta," a girl with black and magenta hair.
"It suits you," I smirk. The rest of them introduced themselves and I nodded to them.
"So why did you start school in the middle of the school year?" Layla asked.
"Every year my parents have a fight to see if I get another year of home school or if I can come here. My mom has won for three years so far. My mom is for home schooling and my dad is for Sky High," I explain to them.
"You said so far, meaning that your mom won this year, right?" Will asked.
"Yeah, I'm really surprised that she hasn't come looking for me yet." I shrugged my shoulders but before anyone could make a comment there were shrieks coming from the far side of the cafeteria.
"What's going on?" Layla asked as she stood to see what the commotion was. Within seconds I saw what the problem was and raced to the other side of the room.
"Brad, what are you doing here?" I kneeled down a picked up a large python.
"Cody, it's so good to see you. Your mom has been looking for you for hours now." The snake hissed to me.
"That would mean that she's here isn't she?" I asked as I walked back to the table. Brad nodded his head as he wrapped his body around my arms and my waist.
"Who's here?" Magenta asked with curiosity in her eyes.
"My mom," and as if on cue my mom burst open the door silencing everyone in the cafeteria and gaining their attention.
"Cody!" she shouted at the top of her lungs making about half of the room shiver and hide.
"Gotta run, it was nice getting to know you guys before I get killed," I smirked before I ran to the back door and raced out of it. I made it about two feet out before I hit a brick wall of flesh. Looking up I locked eyes with my dad's.
"Um…Hiya pops, how's it going?" I asked as I took a step back. He just glared at me with his arms crossed. I turned and raced back into the cafeteria and slammed the door shut.
"Cody, what are you doing here?" My mom asked from the other side of the room.
"Um, getting out of here, see you later mom." I waved as my wings formed. She shouted for me to stop but by then my wings wrapped themselves around my body. My entire body started to spin. The faster I spun the smaller my body grew until I disappeared altogether.