Now, this was going to be updated like last weekend, but things got a little busy. But hey, at least this is getting updated. Anyways, I hope you all enjoy this. Slight violence in the beginning.
Last chapter:
We meet Shen, Luno's first actual guy friend. Luno also meets all of his fellow friends that live down the hall from him. Luno's roommate isn't there yet, so they all head to the mall for some lunch.
The Armorian Battles
Chapter 4: Keagan
Don - Age 18
Shen - Age 16
Luno - Age 15
(A.N.: Two things. First, setting all of that stuff up I just did such as the beginning notes, last chapter summary, title, chapter title, and ages isn't fun... But it's mostly necessary. Ah well, just venting.
Next, I start out this chapter off pretty weird... But can you just go with the flow? I promise to set everything straight.)
Luno fell to the cement outside of the mall, a trail of blood leaking out of the corner of his lip. A fifteen-year-old boy with spiky black hair stood over him, blood coming from his nose.
"You put up a good fight, I'll admit that," he said. "Now, why don't you give me that silver cube, you've got there?"
Luno looked up, staring him in the eye. Luno smiled and quietly chuckled, wiping his mouth with the sleeve of his black jacket. This caused the black haired boy to glare with his ice blue eyes and grit his teeth.
"Listen, Keagan, you already have the gold cube. Why would you want this silly old silver one?" asked Luno. Keagan wore an expensive looking black tuxedo. With it, a white tuxedo shirt underneath with a red necktie hung around his neck. On his legs, matching tuxedo pants with black, square-toed dress shoes that looked to be freshly polished and shined.
Keagan opened his mouth to speak when he felt a large hand rest on his shoulder. "Hey, don't touch me!" Keagan exclaimed, whipping around to face Don and Shen, the reason why Luno was smiling.
"Oh, well it seems the little Skitty wants to play, eh Don?" Shen smirked, causing Don to pop his knuckles one hand at a time by pressing his fist into the palm of the other hand.
This riled Keagan up greatly. He lunged at Shen who was three feet away. Luckily, Shen had great reflexes and briskly sidestepped, causing Keagan to go careening into table and some chairs just passed Don and Shen.
Shen simply ignored Keagan and let Don handle him while Shen helped Luno to stand. "What took ya so long?" asked Luno.
"Ah well, you know. We wanted to have lunch first," Shen retorted.
Just then, Don walked over to Luno and Shen holding a struggling Keagan by the collar of his jacket. Keagan was also sporting a new black eye and his hair was a bit messy. "What should I do with him?"
"Just leave him for now," Luno said. "I don't think he'll be any threat to us anymore today."
Don shrugged and dropped the young man, causing Keagan to land flat on his face. Don walked over to Luno and Shen, all three of them turning to him and crossing their arms.
Keagan stood up, fixed his hair slightly, and s tugged on the jacket to straighten it. "I'll be back. It may not be tomorrow nor the next day... But believe me. I'll be back," he said coldly. He turned around and walked off in the direction of the parking lot as a limo was pulled up by the curb.
Shen, Luno, and Don walked back into the interior of the mall.
"So Luno," Shen started. "Want to tell us what that was all about?"
Luno sighed, Don not saying a word. "Well, I was just paying for my food and since our banking accounts are on our cubes, I payed with my cube." Luno took out the small metal cylinder and emptied the silver square inch cube onto his hand.
"Wait. You have a silver cube?" Shen asked, now looking at the shining object in Luno's hand. Now even Don was looking at it curiously.
"Yeah. What's so special about it?" Luno asked, putting the cube back into his cylinder.
Don joined in the conversation now. "You see Luno, there are normal cubes like Shen and I have. Most people have these bland cubes which are normally colored such as red, blue, yellow, green, etcetera, etcetera. Basically, these cubes have no special meaning behind them," he said. "However. There are five special cubes. These ones are identified by their coloring. There's bronze, silver, gold, platinum, and crystal. It's rumored there's only one of each type of these cubes in the world."
"Go on," Luno said.
"I was about to. Anyways, these special cubes actually have powers. No one knows what they do, just that if all five of them are brought together, it could be as much as being able to travel back in time. You see, these five cubes are not made by modern machinery. Only these normal cubes. These five special cubes are actually valuable artifacts that were created by an ancient civilization. The original cubes from before the year 1200. Surprisingly, they work the best out of all the cubes seeing as the normal cubes were modeled after them."
"No way, really?" Luno exclaimed.
"Indeed," Shen said. "But the government has only allowed the bronze, silver, and gold cubes to be given away. They still have the platinum and crystal cube in a very secure laboratory where scientists are researching them. But enough of this lesson. Continue on with your explanation," he finished as they walked down a large hall in the crowded mall.
"Well, anyways. I payed for my food and sat down with you guys and ate. Well when I left to go throw my trash away, I decided to head outside into the square for some fresh air."
"I don't get where you're going with this..." Don said.
"I'm getting to it. Anyways, apparently Keagan saw me pay for my food with my silver cube when he was standing behind me in line. He comes out and punches me out when I'm just looking off in the distance. We fought for a little bit, ending up with me on the ground with a bloody lip and him towering above me with a possible broken nose," Luno explained. "Where's everyone else?"
"They're at the bus stop waiting for us. But back to your story, that's when Don and I found you," Shen said as they exited a clothing department store and outside once more.
"Pretty much. However, Keagan must want to bring all five cubes together. Your little lesson explained a lot of stuff that I didn't understand before."
"Oh?" Don said. "Do tell."
Luno paused. "Um, okay, well Keagan has the gold cube. He wanted me to give him my silver one but I didn't understand why."
The three friends neared the bus stop where the four other boys were waiting for them.
"Well, I don't like the sound of all five cubes being brought together," Don said. "It may be good for the person who does the deed, but I wouldn't bet on it being good for everyone else."
"Yeah, same here," agreed Shen. "But let's not bring this up with the other boys. This stays between us."
"Agreed," Luno and Don said.
The three dropped the conversation and walked up to their friends. A tall young man that looked to be sixteen-years-old ran up to them. "Hey, where you guys been?"
"Hey Benny," Shen said. "Luno had to get a little more lunch. He wasn't quite satisfied in round one."
"Ah. Okay then."
Benny was about six feet tall with messy, dirty-blonde hair. A red and blue sports cap covered the majority of his hair. The young man wore a dark blue hoodie with baggy denim jeans that stopped a little below the knees so that they were shorts. A pair of black sneakers were on his feet.
"Let's just get on the bus," a seventeen-year-old said. This boy's name was James. James had short black hair that lay flat on his head with the exception being a longer area of his hair dropped off into a curved spike and covered half of his right eye. Near the end of the spike, the color faded into a blood red color. James was an average height guy with a brown, western jacket that was zipped up. For pants, the young man had baggy black jeans on with gray tennis shoes on underneath.
They all did as James said and climbed onto the bus which would take them back to the Academy. Luno sat alone in a seat near the back, just listening to his friends talk. He sat there, thinking about what the five cubes would do if they did happen to be brought together, if Keagan knew of what the cubes could do or if he just wanted it for prideful reasons...
The fight's toll slowly ate away at Luno's energy, causing the fifteen-year-old to fall into a light sleep.
Well, first off, thank you very much MiddleNameDanger for those two characters. Everyone, he had a lot to do with Keagan and Benny in this chapter. I know Benny and James weren't in it much, but I kinda made this chapter to introduce the main rival, Keagan, and some more plot. I know it was pretty short, but I hope you guys enjoyed it. I won't be updating until after Christmas, so sorry about that. Happy holidays, though! Now for my Christmas present, could you all go just below this and press that nice, little green button that has the holy words on it. You know what I'm talking about, so review! Thanks everyone. I'll see you all after the break.