A/N: I've decided to split this chapter up to two parts so the total number of chapters for the Kian Arc is 15 instead of 14.


Chapter 11: Two Chainz gatecrashes our Field Trip.

4 months later…

Time: Too early in the morning!

"Is that the best you got Kina?!"

"Don't call me that!"

Why were we shouting at each other? Were we trying to kill each other again? Well, not really you might like to hear.

Instead of trying to kill each other, we sparring first thing in the morning. Both of us had our gloves and pads so if we did hit each other, we wouldn't end up hurting each other, at least not enough to hurt badly.

"Come on, I thought you knew how to fight!" she smirked.

I growled lightly and stepped my attack but she sidestepped the jabs I threw and after dodging the last one, she brought her right led back and roundhouse kicked me on my left side. The impact vibrated through my body and winded me for a second. She pulled her right leg back and went for another kick but I saw it coming and raised my left hand to block the kick

As the kick struck my raised hand, it stung my arm and I knew that even though I was trying my best, she would be hard to defeat. She pulled her leg back and I dropped my guard, waiting for a moment to punch her in the stomach. I readied my fist, reinforced my body and charged in, ready to take her down and wipe the smug smile she wore

To my surprise, she leaned away from my forward-leaning punch and somehow before I knew it, she kneed me in the stomach, hard enough to make me crumple to the floor. I tried to think of what to do next but I felt her arm go across my neck and push against my windpipe.

"And I win," she said from behind me. From the tone of her voice, I knew she was happy at beating me. "Tap out Kian."

"Never!" I tried to get out of the headlock she had gotten in me but she tightened it, making that much comfortable.

"Don't be a sore loser," she replied prodding my neck lightly. "Tap out. Come on, I won."

Still, not wanting to give her the satisfaction of beating I reinforced my neck and body but I still couldn't break out of her headlock.

"H-how?!" I said trying to get out of it to no effect.

Jazmine chuckled and just to rub it in, she played with the hair on the back of my head lightly "When I use my speed dash ability, I use Hellforce to reinforce my body. Just like you do. You can't win when you're like this."

After a while of more struggling, I reluctantly tapped her hand and she let go so I could finally breathe and not be suffocated by her and her choice of perfume for today. I rubbed my neck and turned to see her all smug and confident.

"What are you smiling about?" I asked her

"I beat you, that's why!" she said happily. "Remember what you said when we first met? That you could have beaten me? Well, it turns out you were wrong and I was right. Just like I expected."

Her pretty auburn red hair was along her right shoulders and under her shin and foot guards was a pair of black sports trousers which was complemented by a green top. I decided to not show her my disappointed face and turned around. I muttered under my breath how her perfume was getting in my way.

She leaned forward. "What did you say?"

"I said your perfume was distracting," I turned to face her. "And why do you keep calling me Kina? I thought I told you no."

She chuckled. "But it's fun to say."

"Not to me. I told you, Jazmine. It's something only my family calls me." I said, feeling self-conscious. "You aren't my family are you?"

She leaned forward slightly. "Don't you trust me with it?"

"We've known each other for 4 months, Jazmine," I replied. "I do trust you but not enough to let you call me Kina. I'm sorry, I hope you understand."

She sighed and her shoulders dropped. "Sorry, I should have realised. It's just that my mum used to call me by a nickname too. When she was alive that is."

"Oh?" I raised an eyebrow. "What was it? If you don't mind me asking you?"

She pursed her lips. "She called me Bella, short for Isabella," she explained. "It's one of two names that my mum gave me. She wanted me to know that I was her beautiful daughter."

"And what about the other name?" I asked.

"She named me after a flower. Can you believe it? So lame." she shook her head from side

"Wow, your mum sounds amazing," I said trying to make her feel better. "I think she'll be proud of you."

She rubbed the back of her hair and looked at the floor. "Y-you think so?"

"Well, I always think people who can fight are cool!" I said with a wide grin.

She rolled her eyes. "Of course you would. Why doesn't it surprise me? Your parents were excellent warriors. Of course you would like fighting."

"You're telling me you don't?"

"Oh, I do like it. But see," she brought her hands together. "I'd rather do the punching, rather than getting punched, unlike you," she grinned at me smugly. "You like getting punched more than doing the punching don't you?" she laughed as she finished the sentence.

"You got lucky," I complained

"Oh?" she went into a fighting stance again. "You want another round? I'm more than happy to prove you wrong Devil Boy!"

I put my left hand out and my coiled right hand into a fist. "Whatever you say, Green Flash. I'll make you see just how strong I am compared to you!"

"Okay, that's enough!"

Both of us turned to see Rennan in the middle of the training room that we had come to first thing in the morning. It had been 4 months since I had started going to this school and the same 4 months after I learned that Angels and Demons were real.

I was a hybrid between those two sides.

Because I and 2 others knew who we were. The 3 of us had been training in our free time to make sure if a creature from Heaven or Hell were to attack us, we could defend ourself.

"Rennan!" Marcel complained. "I was in the middle of a fight!" He was sparring with Harry and his hand was inches away from his face.

"Rennan, you saved me!" Harry got up from the floor quickly. "Thank you!"

Rennan wiped the blonde bangs away from his face. "Class is 10 minutes away so I thought I might stop this session before we overran. How are your powers? Any improvements?"

"Oh yeah," Marcel said with a wide grin. "I can make 6 explosions instead of 5."

"I can heal better compared to 4 months ago." Violet was in the back not wanting to get involved in the fighting. "Dad told me how to be efficient."

"Violet," Jazmine turned to her. "Won't it be good if you knew how to fight? I mean, what if creatures from Hell were to attack you?"

"If that happens, I have Kian and Harry to help me," Violet crossed her arms towards her. She was dressed in her school uniform and a book was on her free hand. "I want to help people without hurting them."

Jazmine recoiled slightly but relaxed. "Well, take care of yourself then okay? We can't have our healer getting hurt do we?"

"Healer?" Harry raised an eyebrow. "Since when do you play video games?"

"Since I like them," Jazmine quipped. "What, can't girls play video games too?"

"No, nothing like that," Harry put his arms up to defend himself. "I just thought you weren't the type of person to play video games, that's all."

"I thought she wasn't a person at all at first," I said under my breath.

Jazmine scowled and jabbed at my head lightly which made me giggle.

"If Violet is the healer, then who's the Tank and DPS guy?" Marcel asked all of us. "I don't think we have a tank in our team."

"I can be a tank," Harry said. "With my armour of course. I've made it better so it won't get damaged by those projectiles again."

Marcel pointed at Harry and then at the two of us. "So who's the DPS out of the 3 of us then?"

"We'll decide that later." Rennan chuckled. "You're making good progress in your abilities and I'm sure that if you keep carrying on like this, you'll all get stronger."

"Thanks, Rennan!" All of us said in unison.

"Kian," Rennan turned to me. "You're doing well but I can still see some problems."

"What problems?" I was surprised. "I thought I was doing well?!"

"You need to improve your control," Rennan answered. "Emotions can help you in a fight, strengthen your will to win but if you let it get the better of you then you can lose the fight."

"I'm in control!" I protested. "I know especially after I beat that DVK four months ago!"

"Oh?" Rennan raised an eyebrow. "Is that why you lost to Jazmine? Just because I'm looking at Harry and Marcel too, doesn't mean I can't see you too Kian."

My face blushed and I rubbed the back of my hair. "She got lucky. If I wasn't distracted, I would have won."

"Sure you would." Jazmine jabbed at my head again. "You may know a little bit on how to fight but you have nothing against someone who has been fighting since they were 6!"

"Anyway," Rennan wiped his blonde hair away. "Kian, I want you while in class before the lessons begin to try and sense your classmates' Life Forces."

"Why?"

"If you happen to be lost and you don't know where your classmates are or how to find them, then sensing their life energies can come in handy," Rennan explained. "I don't have enough time to teach you it but it's pretty easy to pick up."

"Oh, thanks Rennan.!" I grinned.

"Now," Rennan straightened up. "Go and get changed, then shower, I don't want you to stink up my class first thing in the morning. Especially you boys."

"Hey!" Harry, Marcel and I said in unison while the girls laughed to themselves.

"I didn't sweat that much!" I protested.

"You did," Jazmine quipped. "Here, do you need my perfume? It'll make you smell nicer."

"Shut up!" I said red in the face. "I don't need your stupid perfume!"


Sometime later...

After taking a shower and getting changed into my school uniform, I arrived in class and sat through the lessons. As I did, I thought over what Rennan had said, to sense the life energies of my classmates. How would I do it? And how do I activate it?

"Kian? Are you paying attention?" Rennan asked me.

"Oh yeah!" I sat up sharply. "I am."

"Right," Rennan said, not believing me fully. "Well, can you answer what happens when you heat cool water?"

"Well, it warms up?" I replied

"Well," Rennan chuckled. "You're not exactly wrong but you aren't correct either. I should have been clearer with the question, my apologies. Let me rephrase it: Why shouldn't you heat something cold really fast?"

"Oh, I know!" Leo raised his hand. "If you heat something cool really fast, it expands and it can damage whatever was holding it!"

"Correct!" Rennan said. "But of course you kids aren't going to believe Leo or me when I say this so let me show you what happens in action."

Rennan then proceeded to show a video of a kettle that had been cooled to near absolute zero and then when it was put over a stove immediately, it exploded which was a nice way of getting the point across: Rapidly heating something while it's cool makes the air expand rapidly creating an explosion.

As Rennan started to finish up his science lesson, I began resuming my train of thought I had earlier. It made sense, I had Heavenforce and Hellforce, two sources of supernatural life energy. Violet, Marcel and Jazmine had either one or the both but how do I go about sensing it?

"...Try sensing the anger in others…"

Lucifer? I guess he still stuck around to keep an eye on me. That was one thing I had to get used to, having a devil over my shoulder. Did he give me a hint? Anger in others?

"...Hellforce resonates with emotions like anger…"

Guess that makes sense. But how did I sense it in others?

I didn't get to find that answer as after Rennan finished, the door opened and someone walked into our class.

The person was short, had a receding, greying hairline and wore a white robe over his shoulders with a plain white shirt underneath. My first impression of him was that he was a lost grandfather who took the wrong path when he had dropped his grandson off to school.

Rennan glanced at him and then double took at him. "Council Member Broroil?! W-what are you doing here?!"

"Good Morning to you to Rennan." He greeted Rennan. "I came here to visit you before you went on your class trip. I have a few messages to tell you."

Rennan pursed his lips and nodded. "Should we stand or…"

He waved his hands as all of the kids in the class (except me) started to stand up. "No, that won't be necessary. I don't think you kids would like to stand up for an old man first thing in the morning huh?" he chuckled as he finished the sentence.

I was surprised by this person. If he was on the council that prevented my parents from being heroes because of their species and the same ones who made it that only special people can be superheroes, he should have been rotten to the core! Not a nice old man!

"Now," Broroil turned to us. "I know Noriel has already told you this so I'll keep it short. Being a hero is tough and hard work. I am glad that you kids have the spirit to endure how hard it and I look forward to seeing how you'll grow." he smiled at us to show how much he believed in us

Huh? Maybe he wasn't as bad as I thought.

"...Wait for it…"

"Thank you," Rennan said sharply after he finished. "Now-"

"I'm glad that no one here isn't a Vorakian or an Evian, then I would have to kill you. Especially a halfling of those two monsters we had before. They tried to protest against us but we won!" he laughed loudly. "I'm glad no one remembers Blue Angel and Red Devil."

What did he say?! My anger threatened to pour out of my mouth. How dare he just laugh at them, my parents?! My parents, who set this world up? All to do something good?! My vision tunnelled and I clenched my fist, ready to charge in and take his head off for daring to say something about my wonderful parents.

"...Kaliel, he's not worth it…"

"Broroil. I would like you to leave." Rennan started.

Broroil recoiled a little. "What is the meaning of this, Rennan I didn't even get to-"

"Thank you for stopping by, byeeeeee!" Rennan said as he pushed him out of the class and shut the door behind him, locking the door and ignoring the urgent knocks by the class. He turned to the class and looked at me, especially.

"I know that people hate them but in my class, I will not have it." Rennan began. "All species and people are more than welcome to stay here and everyone deserves kindness and respect. Is that understood?"

"Yes sir!" the class said in unison and all that anger I had just evaporated into nothingness. I breathed a sigh of relief at what Rennan said.

"He's a dirty old man!" Nigel said from the back. "I hate him!"

"If I had my way, I would kick them all out and erase their legacy but unfortunately they're responsible for the money coming into the school," Rennan said.

"Who actually likes them?" Marcel asked the class. "Raise your hands if you like them!"

No one did and It was nice to see that they and I didn't like this council which was good news. If my classmates knew who my parents were, what race I belonged to, they would still treat me no different than before.

"Let's turn this into something positive," Rennan coughed and pointed to the suitcases that were in the back of the classroom. "Your new costumes arrived and since in about-" he checked his watch. "-We leave in an hour, I thought you could show off."

So that's what we did.

The boys and girls separated and we went into our appropriate rooms to change into our upgraded costumes. After doing that, all of us met up again where Rennan told us to rendezvous. Rennan had explained he would do the final checks and then go on the trip.

In fact, it was no different from a school trip that you would take in school.

We met up in the cold and rainy outdoors which made me feel like I had never left the country I grew up in. I hated the cold weather because I couldn't go in the back garden without the air stinging my skin.

"Why did it have to rain?" Leo complained. "I hate rainy weather!"

"I wish there was someone who could manipulate the weather," Sakura said, holding an umbrella over her head. "I'm not having my hair ruined by it."

I laughed at their antics while I tried to get used to my new costume. My new costume was padded all around my body and as I shuffled in place, my choice of footwear felt sturdy and durable. If I kicked someone, I knew they weren't getting back from it immediately after.

"Nice costume Superman."

I turned to see Jazmine with her new costume too. What struck me first was that instead of wearing a visor and having her hair in a ponytail, she chose to wear a helmet over it with little lightning bolts out of the side.

"Nice helmet," I chuckled

"After what happened, I knew I had to protect my head somehow," Jazmine replied. "I had a headache for days!"

"How do you keep your hair in there? Doesn't it just poof up?" I gestured

"I braid it," she replied. "You should protect your head too, Kian. You're a lot smarter than you look, it'll be a shame if you lose it if you get a hard knock."

"Nah, I think I'll be fine. Body Reinforcement comes in handy to prevent damage!" I grinned.

She rolled her eyes and inspected her gloves. "Well, don't hear me telling you I told you so. I wonder how many things I can get you to say while you're concussed."

"Kian!" Harry shouted loud enough to get my attention and marched over to me. "What do you think of the suit?"

Harry's suit was a lot bulkier than mine. Everytime he walked, there were little mechanical noises which were pretty cool to hear, it felt like a robot had come to life. It came in a chrome black colour with a white centre which made Harry look that much intimidating.

"It looks amazing!" I said with stars in my eyes.

Harry blushed a little, his left hand carrying the helmet. "This time, the front is a lot sturdier. If they show up again, those black shadows, I know I'll be safe."

"Wait, what?" Leo scratched his head. "I thought you said you upgraded your costume because you thought the earlier one was not good enough."

"Erm…" Harry started to stutter. "See, I-uh-left a scratch on it and it damaged the main circuitry. That's why I upgraded it."

"Oh!" realization dawned on Leo's face. "Your costume looks cool, Harry."

"Okay," Rennan checked over a flat-screen device that he did not use to play games on when he wasn't working. "Everyone here, everyone has their costumes Right, now to get on the next part, this assignment requires a partner, this is a rescue assignment so you're supposed to work in pairs."

We waited for him to say what came next.

"Go and pick your partner!" Rennan yelled, breaking the silence. "Come on, I thought you would understand that!"

The class all hurried and started breaking into discussions. I looked around for the little blonde girl I had promised to be a partner for this day and while I did, Harry spoke to me.

"So, do you wanna do this together then?" he asked. "I'm sure you'd like to see my suit in action huh?"

"I would but I already promised someone I would be their partner already," I said sadly. "Sorry, you know if you had asked me first, I would have said yes."

"Urgh!" Harry complained. "Who can I work with now?!"

Suddenly out of nowhere Marcel appeared out of the shadows and put an arm around Harry's shoulders. "I will. Please say yes."

"Fine," Harry agreed and turned to me. "Where is your partner by the way?"

"I don't know but she should be he-" I started but I felt a pair of arms wrap around my right hand and I looked down to see Milena holding onto it tightly.

"H-hey," she stuttered. "You still want to be my partner right?"

"Hey!" I greeted her. "Yes of course I will!"

"Kian?" Marcel raised an eyebrow. "Who's this?"

"Oh her?" I moved my arm between Milena and Marcel. "This is Milena, Milena Marcel. She's kind of shy."

She proved that by hiding behind me like my little sister would when she said something scary on the TV.

"Kian?"

I turned around to see Chris walking towards us. His costume consisted of red body armour with a black undershirt underneath it. He smiled at Milena and then me. "Should have known that she asked you didn't she?"

I nodded. "Yeah. I couldn't exactly say no. You can be her partner if you want Chris?"

He shook his head. "No, it's fine. I'm actually thankful that she chose to work with you. I can't be helping her all the time, it gets tiring being her big brother all the time."

"Yeah, I can understand. I have a little brother and sister at home too." I said with a little grin.

"Kian. Just keep her safe from harm okay. She's pretty good with her powers but she can't get pushed around like you can like I said you know-"

I nodded sharply, "Yeah, I know. Don't worry Chris, I'll make sure she'll stay safe."

"Good." Chris smiled and put his helmet on. "I'm going to go and find someone to work with."

"Erm," Harry raised his hand. "Who is he?"

"Oh!" Chris turned to the two beside me. "I'm Chris, it's short for Christian. I'm from Earth too, just like you guys and this is my little sister."

"Hey!" Harry smiled. "I'm Harry, I'm Kian's best friend!"

While those two were talking and exchanging names, I heard footsteps and turned to see someone with the same white robe that a council member wears. He wore a smile on his face and immediately, I knew that this was bad news if the white robe didn't already give it away.

"Rebellion," he started. "I have been asked to tag along with your class to see your...teaching."

"What?!" Rennan spat out. "Why?!"

"Didn't my father tell you? The council wanted me to see how you're progressing" he wiped his black hair away from his face. "Though I suppose you would have known that if you hadn't got so touchy when my father said about the Vorakians. I know you were close with that one right? The Red Devil?"

Rennan grit his teeth. "Of course that's why isn't it? Let me make one thing clear, I do not share your immoral and incorrect views."

The man licked his lips slightly. "That's a shame. Anyway, my task is to see how you did and report back to the council."

"Is that it?" Rennan narrowed his amber eyes.

"Yes." the person agreed. "Now, act as if I'm not here."

"Rennan?" I asked my teacher. "Who is this?"

Rennan grit his teeth as the person strolled to check his reflection on a handheld mirror. "He's Broroil's son but he acts like he's a council member. He's got a reputation of being a narcissist, always wanting to be in the centre of attention."

I checked back to see him wiping his greasy black hair in front of said mirror-like his appearance was all that mattered to him.

"Yeah, I don't like him." I agreed with my teacher.

"No one does. Locus Daily loves to report on him." Rennan agreed.

"Locus what?"

"Oh right," Rennan started. "You know how you have the BBC in England? Well, it's a News network here in Locus. It's very popular, and ever since that requirement was passed by the Council, it's been against them since the start. It's why I have a subscription to it!"

"Ok," I nodded. "Can't we distract Marrow by saying that he's here?"

"Marrow's smart, if anything doesn't go his way, he runs back to his father crying and complaining about how unfair it was." Rennan began.

"I'm starting to hate him more and more!" I crossed my arms. "You're strong right? Can't you beat him up?"

"The last heroes who opposed him all got fired." Rennan sighed. "It's better if I just let him tag along."

"I hate them." Jazmine stepped in to say. "I thought people like that only existed in fairy tales."

"What's your favourite?" I asked her

She seemed to blush underneath her helmet. "I like Sleeping Beauty. But keep that a secret okay? I'll beat you up if you tell anyone."

"It's okay I won't," I replied.

Rennan chuckled and patted my head. "Don't tell him this but I'm planning on making him sit near the part of the bus where it's the most uncomfortable." he chuckled at the end. "I'm just waiting for the bus to come over."

"Oh?" Marrow walked over to the three of us with a curious look in his eyes. "Hmm, I didn't know you had such good kids in your class," he said as he looked at Jazmine. "I look forward to seeing you grow up, especially you. You'll fill out nicely."

Rennan grabbed his hand tightly before Marrow made a move and looked at his black eyes with his furrowed amber ones, eyes that I swore were glowing brightly. "Do Not. Touch. My Students. I don't care who your father is, touch them and I'll break your arm like a twig!"

Marrow snapped his hand back sharply, his knees trembling slightly. "Y-Yes, sir. S-sorry Sir."

"Get lost. Wait for me to call you." Rennan scowled. "Understand?"

Marrow nodded sharply and Rennan turned to the two of us. "Sorry about that. Forgot to mention that he's a creep too."

"I'm fine," Jazmine began. "If he tries that again, can I punch him?"

Rennan smirked. "Of course you can. Just don't tell him that I said so, okay?"

Jazmine smiled in return and while we waited for a moment, The bus came around the corner and Rennan straightened his collar. "Right, everybody gets on!"

"Wait!"

I heard more footsteps and turned to see someone familiar. He was panting briefly and looked somewhat glad to see us. The same could not be said for Rennan however.

"Mitras?!" Rennan said with wide eyes. "What are you doing here?!"

"Noriel asked me to cover for him. He was running late." Mitras replied and turned to Marrow. "It's an honour to see you with us."

Marrow wiped his hair away. "Yes, thank you. I do make it an honour, don't I ?"

Rennan facepalmed and shook his head. "Great, I've got the Chuckle brothers on this trip!"

"What's Dad so busy with?" Jazmine wondered.

"The council asked Noriel to take on a special task. He's in the city." Mitras explained. "So I came."

"Mitras, Marrow Shut up and don't talk!" Rennan ordered. "Get on the bus, all of you!"


I think I was dreaming?!...

"It's almost time."

I was in a dark place, the only sources of light coming from the little slits in the ceiling which wasn't enough to see well

"And are you sure that he'll be there?"

"I-CRKK-am certain." a voice said through radio static. "I have-CRKKK-access to his schedule. I know where he'll be."

Someone laughed loudly. "Yes, thank you! We'll show those stuck up old fools just how useless they are. I wonder how Locus is going to react after their number one hero, someone they rely on for all the stuff is dea-I mean defeated!"

I knew who was speaking, I knew that voice especially those clinking chains.

"Auras. CRRK-Are you sure we're doing the right thing?" the other voice asked

"Are you doubting me?! Of course we are." Auras replied defiantly.

"Right-CRKK…" the other voice said, still not 100% sure. "Listen, Auras-CRKKK-there's going to be a few people with him okay, children-CRKKK-actually, all around about your age. Please don't hurt them."

"Oh yeah, sure sure. Whatever." Auras waved him off., "Stand by on the second part of the plan. We need him to be there."

"Understood-CRRRCK!" the voice cut off.

"Why is he such a worrier? We both made the plan at the same time!" Auras complained. "Help me out here!"

"I have nothing to comment on." an older voice said and as he stepped forward, the light from the top of his black armour. "You know the plan and so do I. Let's get it going before we waste any time."

"Of course, of course!" Auras shook his hands and the chains clinked with agreement. "Ready to bring in the big surprise? I sent those three monsters and that huge one but that brat killed them all! I mean, how can a kid do that?!"

The man in the black armour sighed. "He must be a lot stronger than you thought and that's what all that borrowed power does for you, you can't summon one of them properly. I shall make up for your mistakes."

He did a few gestures with his left hand, too many to count actually before he slammed it down on the floor. A red pentagram formed around his outstretched hand lighting the place up with a bright red light and as I watched, the ground below me started to bubble and boil like it was tar.

Auras smiled sincerely. "I can't wait for this! I'll go gather up the rest of them!"

"KIAN!"

Back to reality

I woke up with a shock and looked around frantically, thinking I was about to be swallowed up by the ground but luckily, I was just on the bus that I had been in.

"What were you dreaming about?"

I turned around to see Harry looking at me, Marcel right next to him. "Oh," I began. "I don't really know. It was very weird."

Those two didn't seem happy with my answers and I could only smile awkwardly in return. I looked around and saw everyone else talking to their new friends with some of them laughing and chuckling. I looked forward and saw Marrow sitting on what looked like a bumpy chair and he did not look like he was enjoying it

I saw Rennan but when I went to call him, I noticed my arm were a lot heavier than usual. I looked at it and saw Milena sleeping against it, her arms wrapped around mine like it was her pillow.

"Yeah," Marcel said reading my mind. "You both fell asleep after we set off. I thought it was funny but uh, Violet and Jazmine weren't happy about it."

"Why?" I raised my eyebrow.

"Girls, no idea what they're thinking half the time." Harry shrugged. "I told Marcel how your little sister does that sometimes right?"

"Oh yeah," I nodded. "Whenever I watch TV with my little sister, she ends up sleeping next to my arm."

"I wish I had a little sister." Marcel sighed. "I mean, I grew up with Jazmine but I think I'd rather have someone who doesn't argue with me every 5 seconds."

"You grew up together?" I asked Marcel

"Since I was 6, yes," Marcel replied. "I can't remember anything before that but she probably was there too."

"Do you have any brothers?" Harry asked him

Marcel shook his head. "No. Jazmine and I are the only children so if we wanted to play, we would visit each other. I wish I did have a little brother."

"Well," I chuckled. "I do have siblings, it's fun and games when you agree on something but when you argue on something, it's awful! They always get up in your face." I said with a smile.

Marcel and Harry laughed and we kept on talking, all until the bus had stopped and we had arrived at our destination. Milena woke up and wiped her eyes after she had noticed she had been sleeping for a while.

"Hey Kian!" she beamed, holding on to my arm tightly as we stepped out of the bus,

"Hey" I replied smiling back. "You don't have to hold on to my arm you know. I'll do my best to keep you safe."

"But I wanna!" she held onto my arm like a vice grip and I couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed at the display.

"So…" I heard a voice say. "You seem popular."

I turned to see Jazmine scowling at me, her helmet in her hands. Her red hair like she had said before was elaborately braided and I couldn't help but notice how pretty her lightning bolt earrings looked.

"Well," I said smiling sheepishly. "She kind of made me promise that I would work with her."

"Hmpf," she scowled again. "Well, good luck, hope you do well with her."

"Jazmine, why are you upset?" I asked her. "What's up? Are you upset that she wants to work with me?"

"It's nothing," she said coldly. "It's none of my business who you decide to work with."

"Erm, so okay." I scratched the back of my head. "Who are you working with?"

"Your friend Violet." she crossed her arms and started walking to find her. "Have fun with your partner here."

"Wait!" I replied, trying to get her to stop but she ignored me and vanished into the crowd.

"Rebellion, why did I have to sit in the short seat?" Marrow asked him

"I'm the teacher, I decide where they sit. Understand?" Rennan replied calmly and with authority. "If you don't like it, leave. I don't really care if you stick around because let us be honest, why would the council want to check on someone who's been teaching for 7 years."

Marrow went to talk but he crossed his arms, trying to act as if he didn't care about the seat he had taken for the journey which Harry had told me was just 30 minutes nor what Rennan said.

"You're lucky that my father won't hear about this!" Marrow complained.

"And you're lucky that Red Devil is keeping to himself." Renna countered sharply. "I know that after that last incident, the council isn't exactly in the right state of mind to see him."

Marrow shivered at the mention of the name and shut up

"So," Mitras began and turned to us. "Ready to start Rennan?"

"Don't try to get chummy with me." Rennan snapped back. "Class, follow me okay, not the Chuckle Brothers."

Sometime later…

Rennan and Mitras both explained how this rescue assignment was going to work. There were dummies placed in 5 disaster areas. One was a burning building, one was a sinking boat, one was on a mountain-like area and there was a rickety building, affected by strong winds and one was set in a very stormy place.

You know, to simulate the elements and stuff.

"Does that make sense?" Rennan asked. "We'll all go through each of them together because some of you are more suited to certain elements than others."

"Hmmph." Marrow began. "We shall see."

Rennan didn't pay him any attention and instead turned towards the front. "Come on, let's begin. I'm ready to see what you can do."

"Rennan." Mitras began. "Is that supposed to be part of the field trip"

"What?" Rennan massaged his temple. "What are you on about.

"Look!" Mitras pointed to the middle

We followed his finger and in the middle of the large complex was a swirling shadow and from it stepped a lot of people, each one with devilish smirks on their face and from behind them, stepped 3 more people. The one in the middle had chains on his arms, the one to his left wore black armour and to complete the trio, there was a monster so large behind them that it made those two look like little kids.

"Mitras, stay back!" Rennan went on alert immediately

"What's going on?" I asked him

"Yeah!" Harry asked him. "Is this part of the training assignment?"

Rennan's hands twirled and in a flash of light, there were silver coloured pistols, each one glowing brightly. He grit his teeth and gripped the weapons tightly

"Good Morning!" a voice said from below.

I knew who this was, the moment I saw him, I knew it was the person I had been seeing in my dreams. Auras wore black clothes while his hair was messy and all over his forehead. He had his hands spread out like he was addressing a huge gathering of people.

"I'm sorry to drop in like this but I'm looking for Dominion and here's not here. I thought he would be, guess I was wrong." Auras said. "I should get him to double-check the information. Can you guys tell us where he is?"

"Why?" Rennan asked, holding his pistols tightly. "What do you want with him?!"

"Isn't it obvious?" Auras asked with a wide smile. "I'm going to kill him. Show me where he is please?"

"You Filth!"

Marrow stepped forward to our surprise. "Do you think you can hurt the number one hero? You must be mistaken, you're nothing but filth compared to me, commoner."

Auras scowled and turned to the man in the black armour. "On second thought, I think I can make the best out of this situation. Hey-" he turned to the man with the black armour. "Can you isolate him, I'll deal with everyone else."

"Understood. What about the monster you had me summon?" the black armoured man asked.

"He'll listen to me, right? Even though you're its master?"

"It is done." the black armoured man clenched his hand and vanished into the shadow below him.

"Good," Auras smiled and turned back to the people who were behind him. "You have your orders, we'll show just how pathetic that Council is. Go ahead and give them all the anger you have felt, especially to that one!" he pointed to Marrow. "Show him just how arrogant people like him are."

The villains all started charging and Marrow hid behind all of us while we watched them charge towards us with wide smiles and balled fists ready to kill us as Auras had intended. Even though I should have felt scared, all I could think was about those dreams I had.

"How can this happen?!" Jazmine said. "Isn't there something against this? Like an alarm?"

"Someone must have turned the sensors off." Mitras grit his teeth.

"Yeah, I think they have someone there who's messing with the sensors," Karin replied, touching the base of his ears.

"Are we both seeing that monster?!" Violet pointed down at it.

The monster did not charge at us like the others. Its skin was the colour of mud, cracks ran along its large body which looked like it was made of sharpened granite. In its eyes were red rubies and from his mouth dripped green liquid from the end and I was getting an odd feeling from him.

"Rennan, I think it's one of those," I explained. "You know, from that place."

Rennan seemed to have got it and turned to his Mitras. "Mitras, get the kids and Marrow out of here!" Rennan clenched his jaw. "We can't let them get hurt!"

"Got it!" Mitras replied and his entire body transformed into a bluey-green emerald surface, complete with little spikes at the end of his hands

"Yes, that's right!" Morrow cried out. "Protect me. Do your job as heroes and protect me! That's all you're made for."

Mitras moved in front of us and Rennan charged into the charging villains below and armed with nothing but two silver pistols in his hands. He was about to face down what looked like a small army. I half expected Rennan to not do well, I mean, how could a single person take on an army?

But to my and the class's surprise, Rennan beat the villains up one by one, dodging, ducking under the attacks and punching anyone he could get his fists on. Rennan ducked under a hook and used the barrel of the pistol to smack the villain in front of him as the ends of his red coat twirled around him.

"Get him!" one of the villains yelled but was met with a kick to the face sending him into another group of villains like a bowling ball against pins.

"Rebellion can't handle that many people at once," Marrow said smugly. "He'll tire himself out."

Mitras aimed a diamond-covered fist at Marrow. "During the Great Disaster, Rennan had the highest amount of rescues, he was putting his life on the line during a time of great disaster while you were hidden in your father's safe area. Do not underestimate him."

While I was confused at the praise that Mitras was giving Rennan. I turned back below to see how Rennan was getting along. He didn't care or didn't hear what Marrow said as he kept on fighting, defeating each and everyone that went up against him until a big muscular guy grabbed him from behind.

"You lost!" he said while Rennan struggled. "Die!"

A guy with a longhorn on his head attempted to charge towards Rennan and stab him but he veered off course at the last second and while the big guy was distracted, a silver pistol came flying out of nowhere and hit him on the back loosening his hold on him.

"Give up and this way, I might take pity on you." the silver pistol twirled back into Rennan's right hand and Rennan side kicked him in the chest sending him flying.

They didn't listen. Instead, those who were still standing got up and charged at him from all angles, making sure that if they were to attack, they would get him eventually.

"You guys are making this harder than it's supposed to be!" Rennan pulled back the firing pins on his silver light pistols and without wasting a second, he pulled the trigger rapidly, changing his aim every time he shot. He fired little rounds of light across the huge crowd and they zipped across them huge army, hitting knees, hands, stomach, all the non-lethal parts as one by one, the huge army slumped to the floor.

"When did our teacher know Gun-Fu?!" Harry asked with an open mouth.

"Rennan's so awesome!" Marcel said with stars in his eyes again.

Rennan breathed in and out, using up what I assumed was a large chunk of his heavenforce into controlling every little trajectory. He twirled the pistols downwards and looked at villains and scowled at them deeply. "Don't try to put the lives of my students' in danger, dipshits."

This would have been the time to celebrate right?

Wrong!

Before he and any of us could celebrate, chains with a sharp arrowhead surged towards my teacher's head.

"Rennan!" I screamed. "Look out!"

Rennan looked at me and just before those chains speared him, he rolled backwards and used his pistols to parry them away from his body.

CLAP CLAP "It's very impressive what you did. It's a shame you have to die."

The twin chains surged backwards to its owner and wrapped themselves around Auras's arms. I could take a better look at him now. His dark eyes were filled with malice and sincerity at my teacher.

"Who are you?!" Rennan aimed his pistols at him. "Why would Two Chainz attack us in the middle of our field trip?"!

He blinked. "I have no idea who this 'Two Chainz' is but my name is Auras," he explained. "I already told you what I want. I want to kill Dominion."

"What makes you think that you would be able to kill him." Rennan charged at Auras but went backwards when a chain surged towards his head. He aimed his pistols and fired his light bullets but Auras's chains defended him from all shots.

"I see," Rennan summarised. "Your chains attack and defend for you doesn't it?"

"Exactly!" Auras confirmed. "My mother gave it to me, said it would save my life and I think I'll keep this. " Auras began. "I ask you again, tell me where Dominion is."

Rennan smirked. "Even if I did know, I'm not going to tell you." Without warning he charged towards Auras and attacked, using his twin pistols to parry the chains and he managed to land a punch on Auras's face, sending him stumbling backwards.

"Impressive...Rebellion." Auras smirked while the chains hung in the air around him. "You're just as impressive as you were told to be."

"You know who I am?" Rennan was still on guard. "How do you know?"

"Well, I observed what you did." Auras began. "That and a little birdy told me."

Rennan aimed his pistols and looked down the sights. Auras just chuckled. "You know that's not going to even touch me right?"

Rennan chuckled and didn't reply. Instead, he blasted Auras with his guns, firing more rounds towards Auras but like expected, Auras's chains reacted on their own and moved to defend its owner from damage. I had noticed that Rennan's pistols glowed with a light blue hue and the bullets were an electric blue instead of the silver light it had been before.

Rennan stopped firing and he started breathing faster. Beads of sweat started pouring down Rennan's face while Auras stood there proud and smug.

"Too easy!" Auras replied. "I thought you heroes were strong. I was wrong about two things, weren't I today?"

Rennan smirked and looked at Auras. "I'm not done yet."

The bullets that Rennan had fired zipped back and in towards Auras stretching into a thin string of light as it streaked across him. HIs chains started to react but now the strings of light prevented them from moving by bouncing them up Auras. He tried to fight back but the strings of light went across his body and bound him up and with a sparkle of static, electricity coursed through him, electrocuting him while Auras screamed in pain.

"W-What did you do?!" Auras screamed. "WHAT DID YOU DO?!"

Rennan chuckled and wiped his blonde hair away from his face. "I didn't fire those rounds because I was wasting bullets. I was testing how your chains worked. I noticed how your chains didn't do a thing when I curved one of the bullets behind you. It looks like those chains can only defend you if you see what's coming" Rennan summarised.

"Why am I b-being electrocuted?!" Auras demanded.

"I put electricity in it," Rennan explained. "How does it feel, tingly?"

"Our teacher is amazing!" the rest of the class said.

"I told you!" Mitras said proudly

"It's still nothing compared to Noriel," Marrow turned his nose up at him which made me want to punch his lights out.

But instead of doing that, I reflected on what just happened. I knew I had a good teacher but this was just amazing. Rennan single-handedly took out the villains and even the person who walked in here, going on and on about how he was going to kill Noriel.

"It's over, Auras," Rennan said facing down a still electrocuting Auras and pointing a gun towards him.

"Argh!" Auras struggled while he was being electrocuted. "I-I'm not going to c-come here! A-All for nothing!" He balled his fists. "Attack him!"

Rennan looked confused, who was he talking to but before he could ask, the same monster from earlier charged in to save its master and before Rennan could process what was happening, the monster brought his huge rock-like arm back and backhanded Rennan into another area, sending him flying through the rocky place.

"RENNAN!" I screamed

Rennan rolled around the floor for a while and he got back up but his face had started to show injuries. There were cuts on his face and his hair was filled with dust. The monster that had slapped him like that didn't let up and kept charging to kill him

Rennan reached inside his pocket and from it, he grabbed 5 orbs, one on each finger. He waited for the monster to come closer and when he decided it was, he threw it towards the ground. The orbs exploded and the monster was stopped in its tracks. Its feet were stuck in the ground and it looked like it had suddenly melted.

"Each one of those orbs was packed with enough heat to melt steel!" Rennan said wincing and grabbing his chest."This thing isn't going anywhere!"

"Do you remember what happened earlier?" Auras said while he was in the chains.

"What are you talking about?" Rennan coughed.

"Those AVK's(Stands for Angel Vessel Killer) that tried to kill those kids." Auras said again with a little smirk

"You sent them?!" Rennan's amber eyes stared at Auras. "Why?!"

Auras shrugged. "My Mum told me to do it, I didn't know why she wanted to but hey, I couldn't care less about what happened. But then a funny thing happened, a kid of all things killed them didn't he? I saw it. Especially what he did to that Needle Monster I summoned all those years ago

My head started to spin now.

Was he behind all of this? I faintly remember him saying that he was responsible for sending them but was he lying?! He was a villain!

"I'm not lying!" he turned to me and looked at my eyes directly. "Do you remember him? That monster who made your life misery? I was the one who sent it. It's nothing personal, I was just listening to my Mum."

"Y-your lying!" I said again. "You're a villain!

"That depends on your perspective. What I want to do is to bring down the man you're protecting right now, he's everything that I hate about them!" Auras said. "Hand him over and I'll leave you alone. Is that clear?!"

"I'll beat you!" I yelled and started reinforcing my body. "I'll make you pay for what you did!"

"I'm sorry, that won't be happening."

I felt a sudden chill and turned behind me to see a dark cloud large enough to surround all of us. Mitras tried to attack it but he was pushed back like a magnet and into the floor.

From the black cloud stepped the man in the black armour although this time, there was a red line on the front of his helmet.

"Get him!" Marcel screamed and charged 6 orbs in his left hand. Marcel jumped in but a dark cloud formed around the black armoured man and Marcel's attack was dispatched easily.

"Protect me!" Marrow screamed helplessly hiding behind us,

"I pity you sometimes. Imagine having to protect someone so cowardly." the man in the black armour replied agreeing with my internal thoughts.

I reinforced my body and jumped to attack him. He pivoted on the spot to avoid my attack and then looked around to see Jazmine attempt to attack him. He sidestepped each attack and when more of my classmates tried to attack, he flicked his hand and they were pushed back

"You kids don't need to see this. Disperse!" the man raised his arms and a cloud of darkness surrounded all of us. I looked around for Milena but I couldn't find her. I was beginning to feel anxious, where was she?! Was she okay?

I didn't get to find out as the winds picked up and I suddenly found myself falling through thin air and into pitch-black darkness.