Sinedd was alone in his room. He wondered around the room, head down, thinking. He stopped at the window and looked out. Unadar, the Rykers planet was covered in clouds of pollutions, as always. The view was really depressing; everywhere were factories and their high chimneys. There was dirt and soot on every building's walls. Thank God Sinedd and his team had to stay there for only few days now. He turned his back to the sight.
Sinedd had arrived there a couple days ago before the others, because he had bought an apartment from Genesis and the only shuttle to Unadar before the day of the match left then. The next one would have been too late. He had been trapped inside the few days, because he didn't have the devices that allow you to breathe the toxic air; Artegor had them all.
Sinedd walked to the mirror in the corner of the rather small room, took off his shirt and shivered a little. Across his side and (dreamy ;P) abs was a deep cut; it was stitched up and it had started to heal. Chills ran down his spine as he remembered how he saw the a**hole pulling out the razorblade. It was only a week from the fight he had got involved. He almost regretted had he had ever gone in the middle. He had seen two men attacking a young girl, about his age maybe, hitting and kicking her as she fell on the ground. Sinedd had ran down the alley and pulled the men off the girl. One of them had took off but the other had turned and attacked Sinedd. They had been fighting a while and Sinedd was winning. But apparently the guy noticed that and pulled out a razorblade from his pocket and took another charge towards Sinedd. He was so fast that Sinedd didn't have enough time to react and saw how the blade split air and he felt sudden pain on his left side. He stumbled backwards hand on the wound. The girl had took off and the attacker vanished into to the dark night. The emergency duty had patched him up and he was allowed to go home the next morning. Neither the men nor the girl were found.
Sinedd shook his head and threw the black cotton shirt on his bed. He looked at his arm. The smog had dyed his veins black and they were dimly visible through his porcelain skin. He lifted his eyes off the rather creepy sight.
He walked to his bathroom which was small and clean white. On a shelf, above the sink were his golden earrings. He didn't usually take them off, but here on Unadar they had got infected and they were so achy that he couldn't keep them on. Sinedd liked them. They looked nice in his ears and he felt good with them on. They were a part of him.
He was interrupted by his coach, Artegor.
"Sinedd?"
"What?" Sinedd yelled back.
Artegor's head appeared from the doorway and he said:
"Practice in ten minutes. Don't be late, okay?"
Sinedd snapped without even looking at him:
"I know our timetable, you don't have to come and remind me of every practice".
Artegor raised an eyebrow and left room.
Sinedd didn't turn until he heard the door closing. He walked next his bed and sat on it. He pulled his backpack under the bed and bent over to open it. He scrabbled the insides of it for a while until he found what he had been looking for; a photo of the most beautiful creature on the universe, or at least on his opinion, Mei, the defender of the Snow Kids. He looked at her face; she was smiling and leaning on a wall. He smiled at her and put it back under his shirts into the backpack.
His training gears were still on the chair next to the window, just where he had left them yesterday. He took of his tight black jeans and changed to the black and green football shorts; they were meant to have a little match against a holoteam.
The shirt went on well, considering that he had to make it go on the stitches so that it doesn't rip them off.
He looked at his watch; he was already late.
"Damn it!"