Chapter 3, Ark II: The Ultimate Test

Friday, September 12, 17:34

Lyon stood at the airfield, ready to board the ship. Today was the day of trial, which he was a little nervous about. He wondered about who he would be put on a team with. He hoped it would be with his friends, but there was five of them and there were teams of four. Someone would be left out.

Or they all were on separate teams. But it wouldn't really change anything. They would still see each other.

Marcus walked other to him with Will, Faith and Riley in toe. "You ready to board Lyon?" He asked.

The dark haired teen pushed off the rail. "Yep, ready to do this."

He looked over and saw Ria entering the ship alone. Lyon frowned at that, he would have thought she would make at least one other friend by now.

He decided to stay with his friends instead of going to her. It might've been a little mean but he wanted to spend as much time as possible with his friends before they might be thrusted into separate teams.

All the first year students were signaled to board the airships as the Headmaster and his assistant, the woman who addressed the on their first night, walked into a ship.

Lyon turned to his friends and nodded.

Marcus nodded back. "Let's get going."

Outsiders Opening 1: Beginning by BACK-ON

Hello World

Lyon sat, his back against a wall, watching the sky. A few birds fly over head and the title fades in.

I crawled back to the beginning from the dark again! I thought that I could get away from my past I say! It's like a flame blazen' up!

Lyon continues to look out into the sky. He turns his head and sees Will, Evan and Julia waiting for him.

Can you imagine it now? (Hey!)

Lyon smiles at his friends.

I'm never going down! Who the fuck manage to fukuzatsua na CODE? Buckiko washi shinkakaku na Flow! It's not automatic LIFE IS shudou!

Lyon straps his gauntlet onto his arm, Will holsters his pistols. Evan and Julia sling their respective weapons on their backs.

Mizukara egaku shin sekai e GO...

A hooded figure fades in with strands of brown hair showing through the hood.

Ugokidase ba,

Lyon jumps into the air throwing his fist up.

keshiki wa kawat taiku

On an open field Lyon, Evan, Julia and Will all charge at a pitch black elephant with golden tusks.

Kimo no sukima kar sashi ta, hikari no youni

The scene changes into a dark forest. A blue orb races forward at Evan and Will, they both smile.

Korekara wamou,

Marcus, Riley, Faith, and Megan jump into the air.

mayo ukoto noi kara

Ria stands on a balcony looking at the sunset, then turns around revealing tears streaming down her cheeks.

kokoro no bureeki o hacushi te tobidase My Way!

Lyon and Conner stand across from each other, weapons drawn. They both charge at each other and swing their weapons at each other. Sparks fly upwards from the weapon's collision forming the title, then slowly fades away.

The first year students stepped out of the airship and entered a hanger like structure. When they got inside the Headmaster stepped in front of the crowd.

"Welcome. " The Headmaster said to the students. "My name is Delven Gregory. Today is the day you all take one step closer to becoming this nation's saviors." He turned to his assistant. "If you will."

She nodded and pressed a button on her tablet. Not a moment later, the wall behind Delven raised revealing four green vortexes.

"We will be sending you through these portals which will teleport you to a random place in the forest." Delvan said. "Your objective: locate and acquire a relic and bring it back here. As for your partners, the first person you make eye contact with will be you partner and a member of your team. Any questions?"

A student walked forward, Lyon thought his name was Kyle or something. "What is this relic?"

Delvan turned to him. "You will know it when you see it. Beware that the forest is swarming with monsters of all sorts. Don't hesitate to kill them." He said in a serious tone. "Now who's first?"

One by one, each student stepped into one of the four portals. When Lyon stood in front of one a fair amount of students had already passed through.

The dark haired teen took a deep breath and walked through. But where he exited he wasn't ready for. He had exited thirty feet in the air. He gasped at the sudden change.

"Are you serious!" Lyon cried as he fell towards the earth.

He activated his arm blade and swung off a tree branch, landing skillfully.

Right of the bat, the dark haired teen noticed monsters were surrounding him. The first figure jumped out of the brush revealing itself. It stood on it's hind legs and was hunched forward. It had a wolfish face and golden fangs three inches long.

'A Lupus.' Lyon thought.

Lyon quickly got to work. The hoard of Lupus charged him but he ducked underneath, slicing them as they collided with each other. As he cut more and more of the Lupus to pieces he felt a presence watching him.

When there were not more monsters, alive at least, he walked past a tree, slicing it in half. Lyon heard a high pitched scream fall out of the tree and land with a thud. He raised his arm blade up to the strangers chin. As he did so he took in their appearance.

The figure was definitely female She had shoulder length black and brown hair. Her face was dotted with freckles and innocent brown eyes. But her clothing and weaponry said otherwise. She wore a over sized red hoodie with tattered black jeans. Her weapon was a wicked looking rifle with a axe blade on the underside of the barrel. Lyon notice she had a little fear in her eyes as the energy blade was only centimeters from her throat.

Before she could react Lyon asked, "Why were you watching me?"

His question seemed to startle her. She looked up him. "I was going to help you if needed, but I see you didn't."

Lyon removed his arm from her chin, deactivated it, and put out his hand. She accepted it and was hoisted up to her feet.

"Alright," Lyon said. "Let's go."

The girl eyed him. "What?"

Lyon looked to her. "The first person we make eye contact with is our partner. Seeing how I landed 30 seconds ago, and you're alone that makes us partners." With that said he started to walk away.

The girl shrugged and walked after him. "At least tell me your name. I mean, we'll be spending a lot of time together."

The dark haired teen looked back at the girl and smiled. "Lyon, you?"

"Julia." She answered.

"Nice to meet you." He said as she slung her gun on her back. "Now let's get going."

19:52

Will had been running through the forest for about an hour now, and had yet to find anyone. He eventually gave up and started to look for shelter for the growing night. Most people probably went to look for their friends and ditch anyone the looked at.

At least, that's what Will believed. But as it got darker and darker, it became impossible to see. He soon found a cave and started a small fire with his Semblance. The fire wielder was about to turn in, when he heard several foot steps echoing through the cave. Will grabbed his reed and golden pistols and aimed them down the cave.

Next thing he know, a boy came running past him in a frantic manner. Will lowered his guns and stared after the boy.

"The heck..." Will muttered.

Then screeching filled his ears and hoards of monsters came running after him. Will cursed, holstered his pistols and ran out of the cave. he pulled his pistols out again and began shooting at the monsters. It was to dark to see what kind of monsters they were, but Will knew where they were by their glowing red eyes.

The boy that ran past Will ran past him again with a spear in hand. He drove the spear into a monsters head while punching another. The boy took the spear out of it's head and went for another.

Will continued to blast them one by one. Once the area was cleared, the fire wielder holstered his weapons and walked over to the boy.

The boy's spear folded up and he placed it on his back.

Will set his palm ablaze to get a better look at the boy. He looked a little like Lyon only he had brown hair as to Lyon's black hair. He was semi-muscular, and had fierce blue grey eyes. He wore a black jacket zipped up to about the middle of his chest and had a cobalt colored shirt. He had grey jeans on that were faded and didn't look in a very good condition.

"Hey." The teenager said. "Nice to meet ya, I'm Evan."

"I'm Will." He looked around the area. "Well, this is awkward."

Then the heard a loud screech from the distance. The two readied their weapons but were not expecting a giant elephant.

Saturday, September 13, 7:36

Lyon hoped out of the tree he and Julia had spent the night in. He scanned the area and saw a lone monster. It was a Tusken, a boar like creature. The monster soon noticed Lyon and charged him. The dark haired teen took a fighting stance, but before he could attack the Tusken was shot to the ground.

Lyon turned his head to where the gunshot came from. As he thought Julia sat in the tree, rifle in her hands. She hopped down slinging her gun onto her back. The girl walked past Lyon to inspect the monster.

"You can give me a little bit of a warning ya know." Lyon told her smiling.

She looked at him innocently. "Now where would the fun be in that?"

Lyon grabbed a few pieces of fruit out of a low hanging tree and tossed a piece to Julia. "I guess you have a point." he told as he walked pasted her. Julia stood up and walked after him.

"So, What's your story?" He asked curiously.

Julia looked at the boy in question. "What do you mean?"

"Why are you here, in D.S.W.? What made you want to fight?"

She looked to the ground. "Well-"

Before she could start there was a loud shriek. The sound was definitely human, most likely female. It also sounded painful, like the victim was being torn apart. Lyon and Julia looked at each other and ran in the direction of the scream.

The two reached a clearing they saw a bloody body, it's stomach ripped open and guts draping it. There were cuts all over the body. What caught Lyon's eye was that it had silver hair.

"Ria!" He yelled.

But before he could run to her side Julia put her hand up. "Stop, it's not what you think it is."

Lyon turned to his partner angrily. "What do you mean? She's dying!"

Julia shook her head. "Look closely."

The dark haired teen grumbled and looked at the body again. A moment later it slowly morphed into a log with a red flashing light from within.

Lyon's eyes widened. "The heck..."

"Someone's trying to trick you. Probably a professor or some twisted student." Julia stated.

Lyon's senses focused again. "I'm guessing that the red light's a bomb. And when we got close they'd detonate it. Clever bastards. Either they were trying to kill us or get us boxed in by monsters."

Julia grabbed her rifle and shot the log, which exploded in a ball of fire and smoke. "Definitely kill." She muttered. "Now we run."

The two ran back into the forest. They heard many faint growls from behind. When they thought it was safe the stopped to catch their breathes.

Lyon looked at his partner. "How did you see through it?"

Julia stared at the ground for a moment before answering. "I've trained to see through Manipulation Semblances, especially Illusion. It's complicated, but-"

Not a second later two boys ran out of the brush, one Lyon knew as Will and the other he vaguely remembered.

"Will? What are you-"

"No time to explain!" He panted. "We need to run! Now!"

"Wait why?" Julia asked.

Will turned to the girl. "Who are you?" He yelled.

"Who are you?" She asked back.

The other boy walked in between them and said, "Can we do this later?"

Then it came back to Lyon and pointed to the boy. "You were the one watching me on Sunday!"

"Again, can we do this later?" The boy said once more.

Next thing they knew a giant black elephant with golden tusks barged through the trees and roared. It's red beady eyes swept upon the four in amusement.

"Wait, wasn't this like the last cliffhanger?" Will asked.

Lyon turned to his friend. "What?"

"Nothing..."

Chapter End