"Could you hurry this up already!?"
"Fear not sir. The transformation is nearly complete!"
"And how long is that?"
"Well, according to my trusty computer. The transformations are almost 70%, plus, the screams have died down. So we should be close to our goal."
The mysterious figure smirked.
"Excellent!"
"Get the prisoners out as soon as the transformations are complete. We don't want to go through all of that trouble for nothing now do we?"
The Scientist has not yet looked his boss in the eyes once but rather been staring at the window in front of him that shows the prisoners.
With the Scientist still looking down at the window. He hid a smirk on his face.
"Ahh, boss. will you ever let go of all of the doubt and just trust me? Have I not been useful to you before? Relax! Everything will be fine!"
The figure, presuming to be the boss of whatever this place is.
"Melli! What's the status of the transformation?"
"The transformation process is now 70% complete!"
The Scientist smirked, feeling good that his prediction was right.
"Good. Let me know when it's complete. I'm gonna head off to check on something."
"Will do creator!"
One year ago.
"Wake up!"
As the sun started to rise. A voice was heard right before hearing a door being slammed.
Buried in the blankets. There lay a boy, on a comfortable bed. The boy has just turned seventeen, close to becoming an adult.
The male gradually opened his eyes, feeling the dried pus inside them. He stretched his limbs to shake off the exhaustion that surrounds his body. He lazily tried to reach out of his bed, being careful not to hit his head on the top bunk.
With some effort. He got out of his bed. As soon as he got out of his bed and on his feet. He once again let out a yawn and then opened the door.
He walked down to the small hallway and went kitchen. He sat on one of the six chairs that were neatly placed around the table.
"Good morning Ryden!" Ryden's mother greeted, showing a smile.
"Ugh… Good morning mum!" Ryder mumbled.
"Now, I hoped you slept well because the holidays are over now."
Ryden grumbled in annoyance.
Ahh, that's right. I have to head to school today. Ehh, this is going to be a pain. Why did I have to stay up till 3 am? Ryden thought to himself.
"Oh come on Ryden. Don't be like that. I'm sure school will be fun."
"*Sigh* I hope."
Ryden's dad appeared in the kitchen and greeted the two.
"Good morning to you too. I hope both of you slept well, during the loud wind?" Ryden's dad said.
"No, not at all, to be honest," Ryden admitted.
Ryden's dad nodded in understanding.
"Well, I had the dog playing with the cat until 3 am in the morning," Ryden's dad said. "Hey, by the way. Has Harry woken up yet?"
"I don't think so. Let me check!"
With that. Ryden walked past the kitchen and the hall. Then opened the door that leads both Ryden's and Harry's room. Ryden looked up to see Harry still fast asleep on his top bunk bed. Ryden shook the bed, producing a loud screech from the bed.
Harry let out a groan and shifted his body in the opposite direction. He pulled off the blanket that he covered himself in. He then stuck his feet out from the bed and then jumped off.
Harry rudely walked past Ryden without even saying anything. Rather just narrowing his eyes.
Ryden didn't pay him any attention and just followed Harry out of the room.
The two quickly got dressed and headed out to catch the bus to school.
The Ryden, Harry got out of the blue car and waved their father goodbye. They walked over the other side of the road, watching both left and right
They safely make it on the bus and show the bus driver their bus passes and they find a seat at the near back.
Ryden and Harry didn't bother talking to anyone, however, not even to each other. That's not to say that they are lonely. They both have a pretty good reputation around the school.
Ryden is known for being forgiving, nice (maybe a little too much) and pretty casual. He would usually ignore the fuck boys and the stupid girls who would create drama. And instead, always pay all his attention to his friends, family, and acquaintances.
Ryden was quite a weakling, not really the one who would pick fights so often. However, when
As for Harry. Harry was always honest, no matter how brutal his opinions were. He was never afraid to let his opinion out, even if that means hurting someone's feelings. He detested lying no matter how bad the consequences were. Although, he usually tries to hide many things, keeping secrets.
With both Ryden and Harry almost falling asleep on the bus. The bus arrived at their high school. The bus parked in front of the school and opened the door to allow the kids to enter.
With over a hundred kids pouring out of the gate. Ryden and Harry walked into the school, being careful not to bump into anyone. They made it through the crowd and they parted ways soon after with Harry, going up the steps, that lead up to the library while for Ryden. He went the other way, heading to his friends.
Ryden walked past some people. He came across a large group of people his age, being around seventeen/sixteen. Ryden turned to the left to catch sight of two of his friends. His first friend was a male named Dante. Ryden has friends of all ages from eighteen to fourteen. As long as the person was funny or nice. Ryden would have no problem getting along with them for the most part.
The second person was a girl named Emily. She was a nice, pretty girl with blonde hair, with a ponytail at the back of her head. She had light freckles all across her face. She had blue eyes, a normal small nose and she was tiny, tinier than all of her friends. With most of her friends being mildly strong. She is hands down the weakest out of the group. Sometimes her knees can even pop, due to how weak she is.
Ryden greeted the two with a wave and a smile. He sat next to Dante as he usually would almost every day. Emily however, sat on the concrete floor, directly in straight in front of Dante, laying against the yellow railway.
"So, how were your holiday's guys?" Ryden asked. "For me personally, It was a drag with it moving so slowing with nothing to do."
"Ehh, it was alright," Dante said.
"Mine was fun. I and my family went on a trip to Disneyland," Emily added.
Ryden smiled.
"Cool! I hope the rides didn't rob too much of your parent's money," Ryden said.
"I would be lying if I said that we kept our money well balanced. So yeah, there wasn't much to eat after the trip.
The three laughed it off for a whole minute with their giggles being cut short with Dante spotting another one of Ryden's friend who goes by the name "Leo" who was casually walking to their direction.
"HEY LEO! HOW WAS WORKING AT A FAST RESTAURANT FOR YOU?" Dante shouted.
Leo came close to them.
With Leo telling his story about his first time working at his job. Ryden fell into his own mind, thinking about his direction in life so far.
'What is my purpose? When will this world stop holding my hand and instead, let me do something meaningful and wild in my life like going on an adventure like all those fairy tales? Am I going to have a boring life forever? Oh, why can't this world answer me for once or at least give me a sign?' Ryden thought to himself.
"Hey, Ryden! Daydreaming are you again?" Leo asked.
"Nah, I was just watching the birds fly while chirping happily in the air," Ryden lied.
Ryden's friends gave Ryden a dumb look.
"So rather chatting in our conversation. You instead felt the urge to watch some birds?"
"Ugh, yeah. They are really adorable after all," Ryden said, regretting what he just said.
The three stared at Ryden, unclear on what he is going on about. So, they just shrugged and tried to move on the conversation.
"Okay, whatever. I've seen you do weird stuff like this before so it shouldn't come as a surprise anyway," Dante said.
With that out of the way. Ryden sighed in relief inside his mind.
After a while. The bell rung, playing a song as usual too. And unfortunately, it was another terrible pop song being grating for Ryden's ears.
"Wow, I hope whoever suggested the song was just doing it as a joke. If not," Emily said.
"Well let's not waste any more time and let's just head to roll core already!" Dante said,
WIth the four saying their goodbyes. Ryden walked off to roll core which was actually the Ag room. Arch opened the door to be greeted with a lamb trying to escape the Ag room. Ryden crouched down and kept his grip on the lamb in order to not allow it to escape.
"Ugh, thank you, Ryden! Who knows how far this little cheeky bugger could go," The roll core teacher said.
The roll core teacher allowed Ryden to get inside the room, where even more people around Ryden's age are in. Ryden sighed, knowing he's gonna hear some rather fucked up stuff being said by pretty every student in the class.
Without even a second when Ryden found a seat in the classroom. A brown colored teenage girl said something so infuriating, making Ryden clenched his fist in anger.
"Aww guys, did you hear the drama how Beck called Hannah a bitch and now Hannah is going out with Beck's boyfriend in revenge?"
All of a sudden. A tall kid with blond hair interrupted her saying
"Aww, guys. There's a fight going outside as we speak! Let's ditch this place and go see who wins!"
With the boy said that. The entire roll core stormed off (except Ryden and Miss Conlindal) to watch the fight between two idiotic boys.
Ryden sighed in shame, knowing that the world will have those morons having jobs (if they can even get the jobs that is).
Ryden decided to head out of the room too but instead of going into the crowd, he just watched from the staircase, seeing how ridiculous they can get. The young adult on the left wasn't very fit, only being as fit as Ryden himself. On the other flip side. The young adult on the right was pretty muscular. He had black hair, blue eyes, and brown skin.
Right before the fight was about to commence. One of the kids took his shirt off and started swinging it wildly into the air while cheering on the battle. Fortunately, the school speaker came on, telling everyone to break up the fight and telling Jackson to put his shirt on too. However, as soon as that was said. The speaker also told everyone in the school to head to the hall for a meeting.
'A meeting from the hall? That's unusual to head to the hall this early!'
With a caught of an eye. Ryden saw Leo, Dante, Emily along with Harry, Lachlan, and Layton, walking past the boy's toilets and heading to the hall. Ryden jogged to catch up to them.
"Do any of you's have any idea about why we are heading to the hall?" Dante said.
"No clue man. I'm assuming would be the fight or some other bullshit, saying that were bad students and we need to clean the school up or something," Layton said.
With the group almost entering into the hall. Ryden noticed that there was a police truck parked near the school.
"Oh god, please tell me the meeting is just a drug PSA," Ryden hoped out loud.
Ryden's friends heard Ryden and then looked to find a police car parked in front of the school. They all felt chills running down their spine, along with some of the other strangers who were just near Ryden.
*Sigh* "Let's get this over with!" Layton said.
With Layton saying that. The group disappeared into the hall, wondering what will come their way.