Hi guys! I know it's been a while since I updated, but I just couldn't find the time until now, when I got sick and stayed home from school. Hope you guys enjoy!

Chapter 2: Black Belt Newbie

"Austin, come on already, we're going to be late"

I turned around to find my best friend pouting at me. I chuckled as I finished putting my shoes on and stood up. Immediately, I was dragged out of my home and running alongside her. Up ahead, I see an ice cream shop come into view. When we got there, I opened the door and bowed.

"Ladies first"

She giggled and curtsied, before entering while I followed.

"Hey kiddos" I see the manager, Paul wave to us

"It's been a while since we saw you two" Rebecca, an employee said

"It's only been 2 days since we were here" My friend said smiling

"She just misses my awesomeness" I said

Rebecca skates over to us and ruffles my hair "Yes I did little kid"

I pouted and tried to fix my hair "I'm not a little kid Becca. Your only six years older than me"

"Your ten Austin, you're not even a teen yet" I raised an eyebrow at 'her'

"Neither are you"

"Yes, but I'm a month older than you so I'll be a teen before you"

I stuck my tongue out at her as we went to sit at our regular table, a booth sitting against the window in front of the store.

"Hey Austin?" I turned around to face her "We'll always be Best friends right?"

I grinned "Of course Ally"

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"Austin, wake up, we landed" I opened my eyes to see Riker looking at me curiously "You okay?"

I nodded and stretched "Yea, why wouldn't I be?"

He didn't seem convinced, but he let it go and went up to the front of the jet. I stood up, grabbed my bag, and followed him. I shut my eyes when the door opened, letting in all the brightness of the sun. We walked down the steps and saw a 2012 Black Silverado waiting in front of us.

"So, am I driving?" I grinned, thinking of all the possibilities of crashing

"By the look of your face, no way" Riker said

"Why not?"

"First off, because I have access to the keys" He says pulling out a set of keys from his pocket "And, because I'm older"

My eyes narrowed "Freak you"

We walked over to the car and got in with me grumbling to myself the whole time. Riker just shook his head at me and laughed.

"Why are you laughing?"

"Do you really want to drive?" I nodded "If I let you, will you promise not to crash"

"Well…I'll try not to"

"You're ridiculous-"

"-ly awesome? I know I am, now let me drive"

He ignored me and started driving to who knows where.

"Do you even know where we're supposed to be heading?" He nodded "Well, where?"

"We are going to live with 2 of Kendrick's most trusted friends. Their house isn't too far"

I nodded and turned to stare out the window. I watch as trees, buildings, and people zoom by as we drove. I still can't believe I'm in Miami, Miami of all places to be assigned. I sighed

"And here I thought being trapped in a cell for 6 weeks with no food or water was hard. Boy, was I wrong"

I felt the car stop and I came back to reality. I opened my door and stepped out looking at the house in front of me. It looked like a normal house even though I know it wasn't. It was a 2-story white house with a black tiled roof. It had a medium sized porch in the front with a couple of chairs on it. Riker and I walked up to the house and climbed up the steps. I rang the doorbell and the door immediately opened. Without a second to waste, we were yanked inside and pushed onto a couch.

"Jeez, what's with the hurry?" Riker groaned out as he rubbed his forehead that he hit on the arm of the couch

"We can't risk anyone seeing you just yet, we need a story" A middle aged woman said

I got a really good look at the two people in front of us. The man was slightly taller than Riker by like an inch or so, with black hair and green eyes. The woman was shorter than us three guys and had dark brown hair with the same colored eyes as the man.

"I'm William Parker and my partner here is Katie Sanchez, we're going to be known as your aunt and uncle to other people though"

"But you guys look nothing like us" I mentioned

"That will be taken care of later, when we're alone you will call us William and Katie but when there are people around we're known as Uncle Steve and Aunt Fran"

"Got it" Riker said "The names Riker and he-" he nodded his head at me "Is Austin"

"How old are you two?"

"I'm 21 and my friend here is 17"

"Good thing we already enrolled you into school"

I shrugged, I mean school's school. So what? I already graduated from over 7 different colleges, how hard could this be?

"Marino High School"

I spit my water out and started choking "I'm sorry, what?" Not sure I heard correctly

"Austin, your 17, you know the age of where you're still forced to go to school-"

"No, not that, what did you say the name of the school was?"

"Marino High" The next thing I knew, my vision went black

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"Austin" I felt someone shaking me "Hello, are you still alive"

What kind of question is that? Of course I'm alive… I think. When was the last time I fainted, oh yea, when that stupid Handler swung a pipe at my head from behind. Basically, a Handler is someone who works for Diablo to help eliminate us.

"Austin" I groaned in response "You ok?"

"Why wouldn't I be?" That is my answer to pretty much everything

"Come on, you have to hurry up so I could take you to school"

I shot right up "How long have I been out exactly?"

Riker sighed "Pretty much all of yesterday"

"Fantastic" I said sarcastically

After Riker practically dragged me out of the house and threw me in the car, we were on our way to Marino High. Out of all the high schools, why did it have to be the one back from my childhood? Riker slowly stopped right in front of the school and I eyed it as if it would somehow explode.

"Austin, you don't have heat vision, we've been over this"

"You just have to believe and it will happen"

"If that were true, then I believe that you should get out of the dang car"

I glared at him "You suck"

"Why is it that you're more childish here than back at the academy"

I shrugged "This is where I spent the other half of my life as a child, I guess ever since that…incident, I grew up and never got to finish my childhood, so by being back here" I sighed "It just brought the kid out of me"

Riker nodded "I understand"

I opened the car door and got out, grabbing my bag along the way. I waved to Riker while he drove away before I headed into the school. "So, this is Marino High" I said to myself as I looked up at the huge brick building in front of me "It's been a while since I've attended school, hope I won't run into trouble, preferably my friends and Ally" I sighed and walked through the front double doors

I looked around and found the office right across from the school entrance. I went over to it and walked inside. I saw the secretary look up from her computer and studied me like she somehow remembered me. I inwardly rolled my eyes. All of a sudden her eyes lit up and she rushed over to me and practically squeezed me to death.

"Austin is that really you"

As much as I really wanted to be that kid from back then, I couldn't. I've changed over the years that have passed by, both physically and mentally.

"Yea Mrs. Parker, it's so good to see you" I couldn't be mean to her, she was practically a second mom to be when all I had was Trish and Dez

She looked up at me and chuckled "You've grown so much, I remember I had to sit down just so I could look at you, but now, I have to stand on the chair so we could be the same height"

I smiled at her "You're not that short Mrs. Parker, just by a couple inches or so"

She waved her hand at me "Nonsense" She walked back over to her desk and pulled out a paper before handing it to me "When I saw your name on the paper, I didn't believe it was you, but seeing you in person really made my day"

I hugged her before I started heading towards the door "It's only the beginning of the day Mrs."

"Oh no, I'm coming with you" Before I could protest, she was already heading to my fourth period class, what? I came late okay

I shook my head before following her down the hallway. She suddenly stopped and placed a piece of paper in my hand.

"Go find your locker first and I'll meet you there" She started down the hallway again

After 5 minutes of looking around, I finally found my locker. I remembered the location and started heading towards my 4th period class, Gym. This class brings back so many memories.

Flashback…

"Alright class, now it's time to play everyone's favorite activity" Please don't say Karate, please don't Karate "Everyone go change into your Gi" Oh dear lord

"Hey Moon!" I slowly turned around to find Thomas, captain of the football team and my biggest bully "You and Me" I gulped, stood up and went towards the boy's locker room

When I went back out, everyone was already out waiting for me. I wonder why, that was until I saw Thomas standing on the mat.

"Hurry up Moon!" The coach practically screamed out and I quickly scrambled over towards the mat. Before I was on the mat though, I heard the coach yell "Hai!" and I felt something tackle me towards the ground

I groaned and I felt my glasses break when Thomas repeatedly punched me in the face. I felt blood trickle down from my forehead and my face starting to bruise. Why isn't the coach saying anything?!

"You're supposed to block Moon not coward and cry!" Okay not the words I was expecting "That's enough Ziller, someone for heaven's sake please take Moon to the nurse…again"

I looked over at Ally who was currently with the populars and I saw her laughing when she saw my beaten face. She never laughed; she always immediately volunteered to take me to the nurse. I guess she really did change. That was the time I decided I hated Allyson Dawson.

Flashback Ended…

I suddenly found myself in front of the high school gym doors.

"New…was here before…..at locker" A voice faintly said from behind the door

I silently slipped through the doors and into the boy's locker room. White tiles under my feet and dark blue walls were the first things that filled my vision along with the blue metal lockers and a black door leading to the showers. I looked around and saw a closet door open and I faintly saw white fabric.

"Must be where they put the Gi uniform" I thought as I walked in and turned the light on. Inside was shelves filled with Gi uniforms and underneath each pile was a size number. I took a uniform that was my size and quickly took off my clothes before I slipped the white fabric on. I soon decided to just wear the karate pants and pulled on a black muscle shirt that I got from my backpack. When I looked up, I saw wooden hooks, each holding a different color belt. I reached out for the black one, but stopped myself. Instead, I grabbed the white belt and tied it loosely around my waist. I needed to make it fair.

I walked out of the closet and I hid my bag in one of the empty lockers before I went back out into the gym. Mrs. Parker turned around and saw me standing there.

"Ah, there he is" She motioned for me to stand next to her and I quickly did so "You remember Austin Moon right?" I heard gasps fill out the room, but I kept myself from turning around

The coach did a double take and quickly rubbed her eyes before staring back at me. I raised an eyebrow.

"Is that really you Moon?" I nodded slightly "Are you sure" I couldn't have changed that much… ok maybe I have

"Moon?" I turned to face everyone and saw Thomas standing up giving me a confused stare

Whispers filled out the room. "Is that really that loser from middle school?" "No, it couldn't be" "He's way too hot for him to be Moon" "Is that really Austin?" The last comment I could make out was Dez's voice, but I refused to turn to him

"No way you're Moon" Thomas finally stated

"Are you sure about that?" I asked and I heard some girls sigh. Ok, so maybe my voice got deeper throughout the years. Can't blame puberty though "Because I can faintly remember you handcuffing me onto the flagpole back in 6th grade" The year I lost Ally

"Why don't we settle this in a fight" Thomas suggested "Remember that time I always broke your face?"

I shrugged "A little"

"Why don't we relive those times, shall we?" I rolled my eyes and stepped onto the mat

"There, happy now?" I asked seriously bored

He suddenly charged and went in to tackle me, but I swiftly turned my body to the left and stuck out my foot which he ended up tripping over and falling flat on his face. I heard the students cheering the person they think will win. Thomas stood up and turned to glare at me. I did a small grin in return. He turned back around and pick up nun chucks that were resting on the ground and started swinging it around. Without even a second for the coach to stop him, he charged at me and was about to strike my head.

CLANG!

The sound erupted throughout the room. Thomas looked at me surprised. I mean who wouldn't when someone takes out a Bo staff from his pocket and blocked an attack last minute? Yep, now I defiantly love the fact that Riker gave it to me. Wonder what else this can do? I swiftly dropped to the ground and side swept him before backing away a couple feet. I grabbed both ends of the Bo staff and merely tugged down. The staff broke into two, making each of my hands have something to fight with. Sweet.

"Thomas, put the nun chunks down, violence is never the answer"

"Says the assassin" A voice said in my head "Shut up" I said back

"Where'd you get the staff Moon, you're not supposed to use weapons" I looked at the nun chunks he was holding "Unless you think you can use it"

"You're right" He grinned at my defeat "I know I can use it" His grin was replaced by a scowl

He charged at me and swung his weapon wildly. He struck the nun chunks down, but I grabbed it between my two weapons and kicked him in the stomach. When he stepped back I swung my foot at his face and I heard the sound of his nose being broken. He fell to the ground and I remained standing. I looked at the coach who was looking at me frightened. I twirled the Bo around my hands as I made my way back to the locker room.

When I entered the locker room, I grabbed my bag and took my clothes out. I put on a pair of grey jeans with a chain attached to it, pulled a white v neck shirt over my head and placed a black leather jacket over it. I put on blue high tops and placed a blue tie around my neck. After I finished, I heard the door open and the chatter of the guys who entered. Fourth period was almost over, finally. When the bell rang, I swung my backpack over my shoulder and walked out of the room. A couple of girls that were already outside stopped and stared at me. I fixed my tie and headed out the gym.

"Next up is lunch time"

And done! Sorry for the lateness, I'll try to update once a week. I hope you guys like this chapter!

Here's a preview of the next chapter!

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BANG!

A sound rippled around the room when the back of my head met the cool metal of the door as I fell to the ground. I stood up and stuffed my hands in the front pockets of my jeans as if nothing happened.

"You done?" I asked as I raised an eyebrow

"Nope, I have years to make up ever since you mysteriously left" He said as he grabbed the collar of my jacket and threw me at a table

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I stared at the shocked looks of my friends and Ally

"Sup" I nodded at them

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"Do you mind? I have some catching up to do with Dez and Trish" I said as I nodded my head towards them

"What about that Dawson girl that's with them, Ally?" Thomas said

"Who?"