Reborn on 2013
Levi Tan who's a child of a couple from Tan and Sy families in the business but things went down before he born in the world. The patriarchs of the two families clashed due to several project proposals that almost made them wiped each other.
The final nail that pushed them to chaos is a 10 trillion dollars project that the government big ticket or flagship to lessen the air and land traffic congestion of the capital. His father and mother are the leaders of the two groups fighting for the right to build and operate the project.
His father won in the bidding, his mother took all the blame for the failure and went abroad to cool things down. Few months later, his mother Melly Tan discovered that her stomach got bigger as time passed and nine months passed by Levi was born. Due to loss of blood and complication after the delivery, she passed away and cremated.
Her ash was put in a mausoleum back home and Levi as baby boy grown-up in the U.S. for 6 years. He became a dual citizen; Levi earned his education elementary to his college in University of the East also known as UE, a private university located in Manila. It was founded in 1946 by his business tycoon grandfather Lucio Tan acquired the university in 1990. UE also labeled as the "largest university in Asia" when its enrollment in the past reached over 65,000 students and he lead UE red warriors thrice to NCAA finals.
He won rookie of the year, 2 time regular season MVP, 3 time finals MVP and two championships under his belt. He also part of the national team Gilas 1line-up, played 21 international competitions and won gold 8 times. But an accident occurred during his vacation after graduated on Business Management; his injury made him bedridden for life and cut-off his dream to become a basketball superstar.
Despite being disabled He spends time cultivating young ballers from elementary, high school and the college team. On January 10, 2053, after sixty years living for basketball and mentoring the new generation to past all knowledge he obtained through the years of blood, sweat and tears.
In the gymnasium of the school, all players, coaches and staffs are gathered due to major news in the team affairs. High level officers from supervisors, department heads, deans, minor and major shareholders of the school along with vice and president are in the podium. The female secretary gave a stack of papers to the president and he approach the microphone.
"Hello good evening everyone, it's sad to say one of our family member and patron Sir Levi passed away this early morning in his home. Due to his health worsen caused by pneumonia for the past month and just a day before his birthday.
The whole gymnasium went quiet to full of cries from the people and even the coldest person heart was melted from frozen for a long time.
"I guess Sir Levi have reached the end of the line" a player said.
"Why good people always die earlier than those evil people" head coach said.
"Sir Levi has lived long enough even his condition hold him back and still continue his passion for sport" a staff said.
"His body will be cremated by tonight and the wake will start tomorrow night so I hope you guys inform everyone this sad news" school president said.
"Yes President!!!" all replied in unison.
To be continued...