"I thought to my self that if I ran fast enough and flapped my arms hard enough that I would be able to fly, but life is just another disappointment." The rustle of wind passed through his ears, blind of everything around him except for the bar that loomed above him, mocking him. He jumped with all of his might as he passed over the high jump bar with not an inch between him and the bar as he then plummeted to the ground. He looked up at the still hanging bar, "I guess I'm down here and your still up there."
The group of guys gathered in the locker room changing out of their track uniforms, "So Tatsuo, what are you doing after this?" Said one of the guys.
"Nothing I'm just going home." Said Tatsuo, as he grabbed his bag and walked out of the locker room to the outside. He walked down the sidewalk in the summer afternoon with his backpack over his shoulder. He looked up at the sky, as he watched the birds fly over his head he could help to feel like they were mocking him. The two of them were fighting with each other he witnessed them flying in circles around each other and occasionally crashing into each other. Suddenly they flew off and Tatsuo turned quickly turned around to see a guy fall from the sky. He stood at attention and looked at Tatsuo.
"What do you want Katsu?" Said Tatsuo.
"What I can't say hello to my friend?" Said Katsu.
"Yes you can just but do you have to be wearing those damned A-Ts?" Said Tatsuo, he paused for a moment. "I'm sorry."
"It's alright. Why do you hate A-Ts so much?" Asked Katsu.
Tatsuo sighed "It's just these people on A-Ts are so free and overjoyed, it just annoys me that I could never feel the way they do, it sickens me."
"You know, you could just get a pair of A-Ts." Said Katsu.
"You know I don't have the money." Tasuo and Katsu continued to talk on the way to Tatsuo's house; they both said good-bye went off in separate directions.
"It's always a shame to see a stricken bird." A girl with long brown luxurious hair stood on a rooftop watching as Tatsuo walked into his house. She held her hands together up against her chest as she looked in to the sky, "You'll find your wings, sooner or later."
The next morning came quick; Tatsuo was lying in his bed looking out the window out at the sky listening to the morning chirps of the birds. He slowly got out of bed, grabbed his backpack, walked down stairs, grabbed an apple off of the kitchen counter and walked out side. Tatsuo made his way up the sidewalk on his way to school, but suddenly he heard a noise behind him, and suddenly he felt him self being lifted up by both arms and he saw that to guys about his age who he had never seen before grabbing on to him.
"Hey, let me go!" Yelled Tatsuo.
One of them chuckled, "That's an awful nice uniform you got there, where do you go, Higashi High school?" From far away, a girl on A-Ts was following the three of them, watching what they were doing.
"Yeah, we know another guy that goes there, we think you might know who it is. A Takahashi Katsu." Said the other guy.
Tatsuo thought to him self "Damn it, what has Katsu gotten himself into? I think I'm in trouble now."
"Tell us where he is and we wont kill you." Said one of the guys. Tatsuo noticed that they were wearing the same color jackets, he couldn't completely make out the colors but he saw that their sleeves were the same shade of purple."
"I don't know where he is, even if I did know I wouldn't tell you." Said Tatsuo.
One of them let out a heavily angry breath, "Punk." He nodded to the other guy, "You had better hope you can tuck and roll." They started to lower Tatsuo to the ground as they rode through the streets. Tatsuo waited nervously towards his fate as his shoes scraped against the ground. They eventually dropped him and he tried his best to twist his body, so he would roll one his side. He hit the hard ground, rolling trying to protect him self from serious injury. He stopped in the middle of the street just lying there as he watched the two of them ride off; he got a better look at what they were wearing, both long purple and green light jackets with a bio-hazard symbol on their backs. The girl that had been following them, she stood watching him as he lay there on his side in the middle of the empty street.
"Bio-Raiders…"she said.
"Yeah they're just a bunch of punks." The girl turned around, waving her beautiful brown hair around her and she saw Katsu standing behind her. "Who are you anyways, and why have you been stalking my friend?"
She sighed and looked back at Tatsuo for a second and turned back, "Let me just say I want what you want."
Tatsuo slowly got to his feet as he grabbed a hold of his arm as he walked out of the street, he slowly walked the last block to his school, since that ride with those storm riders took him close to his school.
"Why him, why my friend Tatsuo?" Asked Katsu.
"I've seen him jump at school, he is an Olympic level high jumper, he has the drive to lift him self in to the sky he just lacks the tools to do it." She said.
"He can't his hands on any A-Ts." Said Katsu.
"Hmm, It's a shame." She said as she elegantly rode off.
Tatsuo made his way through the school and he walked into the nurse's office, the school nurse immediately stood up. "What happened to you?"
"I fell…" The rest of the day went on but all Tatsuo could think about was getting revenge on those storm riders, he wasn't even really that mad at Katsu for doing whatever he did, he was used to Katsu's punk ass antics. The bell rang and school ended, Tatsuo headed home having felt better from that morning. He eventually got home and he noticed a box on his front porch, he walked up to it and noticed a metal emblem on the box, it looked like a biohazard sign like on those guys' jackets. He took the box and put the emblem in his pocket and walked in the house. He places the box on to the coffee table and began to open it, he saw a note on top of what looked like A-Ts, he started to read the note, "From your Dove of hope – see you in the sky."