Chapter 2

"Do you want to continue feeling like that and getting stronger?" The flame says in a deep and amused voice.

"Yes, what do I have to do?"I say pleased that i may have the chance to get stronger and feel that feeling again.

"You will have to see yourself... looks like my time is up I look forward to your future," The flame says as i wake up sweaty everywhere.

"Get up, if you're gonna live here you have to exercise with me. Oh and I forgot to mention my name is John. Get up come down for dinner in 30 minutes "The man says with his hands on my shoulder and a smile on his face.

"Okay," I say getting up and putting on some shirts in the closet, Starting to think about how bizarre the dream... if you can call it that was. Deciding to wait till later to think more, he went downstairs. Once he comes down he notices one other boy at the table around his age, he also had a Tattoo on his counter but his only said '001'.

"So hope everyone had great dreams last night but soon, we will go Down to the gym in the basement. Cash please teach Kain the ropes." John says as he puts up his plates and starts to head down to the basement, followed by smacking sounds of punching bags and sound of dumbells.

"So how's it going, " I say to Cash.

"don't worry about it, are you done eating so we can go down to train." Cash says in an aggressive way. I nod and follow him downstairs and once we go down the spiral staircase, once we reach the bottom of the stairs. I look around in awe at the high tech looking facility's.

" so here's how it goes, we simply do training in martial arts and then we spar. Do you have any martial arts in mind?" Cash ask uninterested at my awe struck face. While i think of what martial arts i know of, not knowing of any.

"can you pick for me?" i say due to not being able to think of any martial arts of the top of my head.

"ever heard of the Seals? well your gonna learn Brazilian jiu-jitsu." Cash says slightly interested in how well i'm gonna pick up the martial arts. Meanwhile i'm excited at the prospect of learning the same martial art as the Navy Seals.

"well then lets get started." I say eager to start working out so that way i can take my mind off of my mothers death as well as the weird flame that appears in my dreams quite frequently.

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Day 1: John made me and cash do 50 pushups and 100 situps THEN he had us run 12 miles. Needless to say I was extremely tired afterwards, i could barely walk straight. the fact that he would inflict this upon a 13 year old is kinda cruel of him.

Day 2: I started to train Brazilian jiu-jitsu the first thing i learned, was chokes and leg locks. John made Cash be my sparing partner, promisingly even though hes older than me i was slightly stronger than him. John didn't look one bit of confused though and i wonder why.

Day 3: Today was weird, John had us both sit down n this black room. Cash wasn't even there and he started to give a speech.

"Kain do you feel a lot?" John asked in a sinister tone

"No not really, why do you ask?" I say mildly confused and vigilant against him.

"That's good, but maybe you should discard he last feelings you have. Strive for... Efficiency. That's all i have to say for today we will pick this up next week." John says in a slow methodical voice

Day 4: John went out today for the first time since i came here.

"ill be back don't slack on your training." John said leaving the house.

Day 10: I've started to get the hang of brazilian jiu-jitsu and I've started to develop muscle on my body and my frame started to grow.Cash still doesn't really respect me , although he treats me a litte better than when i first got here.

"why don't you respect me?" I ask Cash in a slightly angry tone as we spar and i attempt to put him in an armlock.

"Cause you're weak" Cash says indifferently to my question, as he wiggles out of my armlock and punches me in the mouth. And this has been my daily routine for a while. The flame has been talking to me almost every day, for some reason it seems like it wants me to get stronger and wants me to kill and rampage once i'm strong enough. I have pushed it back due to will power but its starting to get to me.

(AN: They have on gloves, its like MMA.)

Day 25: At this point I've completely gotten Brazilian jiu-jitsu down. I would even say i'm a master at it. And Cash has started to respect me more due to me getting stronger. And although i cant beat Cash I got pretty close at some points.

Day 45:We have decided to learn Krav Maga, i'm honestly excited about this cause its a aggressive martial art yet it defends at the same time. I've given in to the flame once i'm strong, enough i have decided i will kill and massacre people.

Day 46: John came back today he was really impressed with my training and my progress, and it made me happy he is pleased. He called me to his room later on in the day when he got back. The flame says that i'm still weak although i would say i'm pretty strong, i'm learning multiple martial arts and my body is in tip top shape.

"If i told you to kill for me would you do it?" John says ominously

"Yes" I say without hesitation due to the fact at this point my rage has been contained for so long, and I've been taking my mind off of it with training.

"good well then, keep training and in maybe a month ill have a... Job for you" John says smiling and patting me in the back, i kind of look forward to finally killing someone. Cause i decided to hate everyone after they killed my mother. I honestly still don't like john but he gave me a home and now hes giving me a target to take my rage out on. Cash seems like he could be useful to helping me get revenge on everyone.