Chapter 4
(Dante's pov)
A few hours later
P.E...probably my least favorite class in any school. Mostly because the Jocks I used to meet were dumb as rocks and would always love to start shit for no reason. But here...that's not the reason why...cause the moment we heard the door open letting us know the P.E teacher has entered the locker room, everyone including myself stood in a line once we got on uniform...and this P.E teacher was...intimidating to say the least. He was an anthromorphic tiger, had a scar on his right eye with an eyepatch covering that eye telling me that he's been in some battles, muscles about as built as Arnold Schwarzenegger's(no joke.), beige sleeveless shirt and beige cargo pants and brown leather boots.
Remember when I said that P.E teachers can be hard asses? Well this guy just tears that and changes it to tough...strict and almost callous(thankfully not too callous.) of a P.E teacher. As he started naming people to see if they were present or absent, he looks at me with a frown as if I pissed in his coffee or something. If it's one thing Gina told me before I got in P.E was don't say or do anything stupid that you will regret. so I took her advice and decided to take this guy serious.
"I don't think I recognize you, boy. Identify yourself." He said with authority.
"Dante Vera, sir." I said without showing fear.
"That's Boss to you, boy." He narrowed his eyes at me.
Boss? Ummmmmmm...why? He starts looking through his clipboard to find my name and once he did...he starts mumbling something.
"So you're the new guy the general told me about. Now you listen here, Maggot. Just because you're new here doesn't mean you'll be getting an special treatments. Do I make myself clear?"
"Yes, Boss." I said still keeping my serious tone in check.
"Good." He growls.
As he tells us to head out to the gymnasium, Boss stops me by holding my shoulder with firm grip telling me he wanted to talk to me. I didn't like where this was going.
"Is something the ma-"
"Don't act stupid with me, boy. I saw you talking with my little girl." He said as his pupils turned slit.
Straight to the point, eh? This could get ugly...
"We just-"
"Did I tell you to talk, huh? You talk when I say you can talk. Do I make myself?" He frowns hard.
I just nod not sure if I should talk or not.
"Now...tell me...what were you and my little girl were doing?" He asks me.
"We just talked, Boss."
"Just talked?"
He laughs humorlessly for a bit as he shook his head as if he wasn't convinced. I was expecting a clobber from his fists but he surprisingly kept his cool and thankfully didn't hit me...for now(I hope.).
"Okay, wise guy. Say I do believe you...what were you two talking about?" He asks with his arms behind his back.
"We just got to know each other more and told me that if I had P.E with you I shouldn't do or say anything I would regret. That's the truth, Boss." I said.
He stares at me for a bit to see if I was lying as I stood firm showing no fear or emotion as he stared at me. Once he stops staring, he narrows his eyes at me with a harden frown.
"Fine...I'll let you go...but know this, if you hurt my little girl's feelings or hurt her in any way, I'll mount your fucking head over my fireplace. Do I make myself clear, maggot?" He growls at me.
"Yes, Boss."
"Good. Now get your ass in the gymnasium before you get me in a even more foul mood. Dismissed." He said as he went to his office.
I saluted one last time and went to the gymnasium as everyone were shocked to see me not harmed.
"What the hell happened there, dude? I was scared out of my mind that he was going to put you in your place or something." A fox asked me rather paranoid.
"All you need to know is that he saw me with his daughter and was concern about me being with his daughter." I sighed.
"Who Gina? I'm surprised she wanted to talk to you despite being a different race." A toad chuckled.
"Shut it, Slippy." A blue feathered falcon scowled at the toad.
I just chuckled and waved off that toad's remark earning confused looks from the toad, the fox and the falcon.
"Too be honest...I'm surprised myself. The rest of you guys wouldn't go near me with a 6 foot pole and were probably scared out of their minds thinking that I was going to start some sort of invasion or something which sounds too stupid to be true." I shook my head.
Honestly...were they really thinking about that? I'm the only human being in this planet and I don't have the manpower to start one and second of all: killing innocent lives is something I will never do in the first place.
As Boss entered in the gymnasium, the first thing we did...A.P.F.T. (Army Physical Fitness Test) and let me tell you...it's tiring...well for most of the students here but it was tiring for me. I was prepared for this kind of stuff from my dad who got me fit for this kind of stuff. So what did we had to do? 10 Sit ups, 10 push ups and do two mile runs. Sounds simple, right? Not quite. You see if you fuck up more than once, that affects your score significantly and you're pretty much a laughing stock to the academy. You pass, then you are eligible to get a promotion to the higher rank in flying colors.
Anyway...I finished my sit ups, my push ups and my two mile run in under 14 minutes, some of the girls were whispering how(and I kid you not when I say this.) I look good showing a bit of my muscles. I'm not too built so I don't understand why they would say that. God I hope the women here don't get attracted to me just because of my muscles cause that is going to be annoying(and if that's the case...fuck my life...). But what concerns me the most...is my performance for the test. Did I pass? I don't know cause Boss didn't want to tell us and we would have the results for tomorrow. Talk about leaving us in suspense. The whole class was paranoid about their scores of their performance.
(Luigia's pov)
2 hours later.
"On today's news. It seems our new visitor has come from a planet called Earth which was annihilated from a catastrophic disaster we know as...Armageddon. according to the military, the pod that the human came from was a pod that was designed to evacuate civilians from Armageddon and send them to a stable and safe planet call it home...however...many lives were lost from Earth including the human's father who risked his life to save his son's life from death..."
That kid has been alot of stress to lose his father like that and he's been keeping himself calm about the situation so he doesn't go into a mental breakdown when he escaped. I don't blame him. Losing someone you love can be hard to bear.
Speaking about the kid...as school ended for the day, he enters my car looking exhausted.
"You okay, kid?" I asked him.
"Yeah...just exhausted. Boss had me and the rest of the class do the A.P.F.T." He said as he closed the door and lays down on the seat.
"Did you say, Boss?" I asked with concern.
"Yeah? Why? You know him?"
"Oh yeah...he was a bit of callous guy on his cadet days but had always had a soft spot for his wife who also used to be a cadet." I chuckled.
"So why do people call him Boss?" He asks me.
"Not sure. People say that cause he shows harsh authority to recruits but I think it's because he's just showing off. Err...don't tell him I said that last part. I don't want you to get in trouble cause of that." I said as I drove home.
"Noted." He sighs.
"Can I get you something when we get home?" I asked him.
"Just need some rest for now...too tired to do anything."
"Okay. By the way, the media were talking about you."
"They weren't trying to slander my race when they talked about me?" He asks me with an almost annoyed growl.
"No. General Pepper made sure that wouldn't happen when he heard the answers you gave me the recorder." I said as I took a right turn.
"They better not or I'm going to knock some sense into them." He said with a bit of a frown.
I can tell the kid wasn't too fond of reporters when said "Slander" with such hate. I don't blame him. Reporters will say anything to earn some money and to earn some views.
As we got back home, the kid walks up the stairs groggy to his room to sleep as I got a transmission from James. As I turned on the transmission, James, with his usual smile, wanted to discuss about the kid.
"Hey, Luigia. What's up?"
"Good. Something going on?" I asked.
"Just curious. Fox tells me that he met a human in the academy and said that he was surprisingly fit in the A.P.F.T. that wouldn't happen to be the same human from the news?"
"Yes. A human survivor of Earth..." I sighed.
"God that must be terrible for him to lose his home and family from such a disaster." James said with sorrow.
"Yeah. He's been keeping himself calm so far and hasn't been out of his room for hours whenever he wants to be alone."
"I see...anyway...I want to meet him in person when I have the chance."
"I don't know, James...he could be anti-social for all we know."
"Well we won't know until we try, won't we?"
"...I...I suppose you're right. I'll see what I can do and let you if he wants me to meet you. Right now he's exhausted from the A.P.F.T and needs rest."
"Heh heh...no kidding. You should've seen Fox when he was exhausted. He almost passed out on the floor when he came back home." He chuckled.
"That would be something to see for laughs. Well I better get back to work. Say hi to Vixy and Fox for me, will ya?" I smiled.
"Will do." James said as he ended the transmission.
What a day...
*Before I end this chapter, let me say this. Happy new years!*
