Miss Tani Dark

Esai wanted to forget the whole ordeal as soon he sat down in the gym room where he could imagine that the principal was speaking to the new students as well as the returning students. While the principal spoke through the microphone "Students this year we will be focusing on all students that scored low in the previous standardized test in reading and math, so students can prepare to enter higher class and eventually enter middle schools." Thinking about it, Esai is in sixth grade this year and he will eventually enter middle school next year as a seventh grader. Esai is nervous about that because he heard stories about it being a rough transition.

That kids join violence, gangs, take drugs, swearing, and bullying every day in school from hearing previous six graders. That is why most six graders had to toughen up or join a gang they would avoid being prey for the bullies. Esai had been an easy target for the bullies because of my spiky hair. Been called a hedgehog, stupid, freak, and many things that was not kind. Esai is blessed to have some good friends, Isaac, Abel, and annoying Leo.

Believing he had an off day, Esai sat next to them in a front row of the gym normally he was extremely shy about being in the front row. Especially some other students who were staring at him as he walked up toward his destination. Isaac spoke with his usual concerned voice "Yo boss, I thought it was strange that you were later this time of round. What gives?" Esai made himself comfortable knowing how long principal is going to take. Esai smiles at Isaac returning a friendly gesture "Morning, it has been a bit of a pain for me especially when I stayed up too late playing video games before going to bed." Isaac stares at Esai's eyelids although, slightly difficult to see especially he is dark-skinned to tell.

Isaac noticed it and took his word for it. Abel was just slightly irritated because it was early in the morning, especially when Leo spoke about his vacation with a cheesy joke "Hot springing to the pot man! Especially when there are many pretty girls on Florida's beach!" Abel brushes his jokes aside, "Leo, no one cares what place you had gone to this time!" One of the teachers told them to be quiet or they will have detention on the first day to school. Which silences them for the majority of time. It is the only way to keep them silent or otherwise it would be impossible to keep them quiet.

The principal was about to finish his announcements when he was interrupted by that lady who Esai had met earlier before, she said "Excuse me Principal Linsey you forgot to introduce me." Principal Linsey couldn't help to feel flustered or impatient with the new teacher "Ma'am I am already behind schedule, would you wait and go back once you came!" the new teacher's eyes glitzed with red "You misunderstood, Principal Linsey I will only take a minute to introduce myself to the students." spoken with such authority that caused Principal Linsey to relinquish his mic to her. Abel whispers "Who is that lady with shades? Brother?" Isaac doesn't have the slightest clue who she is. Leo remarks "She smokin' hot I wished I had her for my teacher!" As the teacher presented herself "My name is Tani Dark, I am a new six grade teacher I am looking forward to seeing the potential of you youngsters to be refined students." Uneasiness filled the whole gym room as if thick clouds covered the place.

As she dabbles with her speech "I am here to see that if anyone you students have what it takes to overcome the world because the world is in need of strong leaders because previous leaders had run this nation had been a joke. We need a wise leader who leads by example instead of words." This caused some kind confusion amongst us, getting mixed messages from her. Unaware that some students and some teachers begin to have droopy eyes, and some pass out.

What on Earth is happening, Miss Dark is almost intentionally putting all the students and adults to sleep. Leo begin to yawn "Feelin' loopy I am going to take a nap." Just like that he snores like a motor car. Abel is already out for the count. Isaac is struggling to stay awake "Why I am tired? I need to stay awake." Before Esai knew it all people inside the gym is sleeping. Miss Dark finished saying "I need a 'Messenger' to light my path of my salvation, son of Rehigh." Staring face to face with her, Esai's heart started to race "How are you doing this!?" Miss Dark laugh playfully as poses herself by crossing one of her arm on the elbow while hand upon her brow "I manipulated the veil that replaced the weak ones from the strong ones, human is pitifully weak because they lack Spiritual strength or simply unaware having these Spiritual abilities." Spiritual abilities and veil manipulations? Esai know veil exist to block out things we can't see or not meant to see.

Miss Dark explains "Veil is a very useful tool and convenient because it exists everywhere not only to mask yourself but, deceiving your enemies even control what they see and believe, observe boy." She selected a nearby student who was a girl to wake her by releasing from the veil and she groggily rubs her eyes "Oh dear, had I just fallen asleep?" Miss Dark waves her hand upon the girl's face. Seeing the veil, a transparent cloth passes her as she begins to freak out, seeing Miss Dark crimson red eyes like a fiendish monster. After she waves her hand again upon the face as Esai witnesses her veil place back the girl went back to sleep. Then she turns towards Esai now "If you try to tell anyone about me, I will rework their veils and memories making that you are labeled crazy, and I will end you here now." Coldly said Miss Dark. Mumbling because of his fear of her "W-what d-do y-you want?" Unnerving smile is upon her face "Oh never thought you would get to the point, I like that." Instantly she grabs Esai by the throat with a second flat "Ughk!" helplessly struggling to break the grip of her hand.

It is unbelievably hard because her grip is harder than metal. Her crimson red eyes were glares menacing towards Esai as she demands "Where is your father, Rehigh Aluzaki the Messenger!" What about his biological father, why does she want to know about him "I haven't seen my biological father when I was three years old since my mother divorced him years ago why that matter?" my head began to be light-headed due strangulation of my air. Dissatisfied she release me from the grip as Esai stumbled to floor gasping for air as she faces me again angrily "Do not screw with me boy I am the only one, who knows your true lineage if any other Darkbringers who discover who you are they had done much worse things to you. Now tell me the truth where is he!?"

Esai had feelings if he told her the truth it will end up making her angry and he is most certain to meet his Maker sooner "It would have not mattered if he told you the truth because he stopped being a part of my life since the divorce!" Placing her hand on her head as she had a deep sense of pondering then made her decision "Fine kid, don't tell me in the end you will give me the answer whether you want to or not. I will give you time to end the term to give that answer." Grateful that he had a certain amount of time, she waved her hand that everyone started to wake up gradually.

Principal Linsey groggily realized how late they are "All students please go to your last year teacher's classroom and receive a notification on your holo-devices." Everyone quickly went to rooms and waited outside the hallways, the synthetic humanoids repairing sophisticated security alarms and alarms that were built in the early 2030s since there were many mass shootings and break ins over the years, they were dark times. However, the security systems are considered outdated for two centuries ago. It is easily hackable by modern slicers who takeover system for fun.

This day and age it is illegal to be a hacker unless you are licensed by the government of the state. Everyone wants to be slicers because it is better than our modern society that is dictated by cybernetics-human with advanced implants, cyborgs, and humanoid machines that mainly control the world in the sense. Esai despises the people with cybernetics that had abilities to be highly intelligent and athletic than most kids his age that are entitled to belittle those who are none-cybernetics which basically Esai with spiky hair.

There are a lot of cybernetic kids in the class that attend most classrooms. Esai hoped that he would get a class that does not deal with that kind of kid. Also, not to get Miss Dark. Esai tries to figure out why the security did not notify the police to detain Miss Dark or the humanoid synthetics pick up anything. This is disturbing, if it is quite possible that she might have hacked the system to make it faulty that no one picks up on. It is illegal to mess with humanoid machines because violating civil synthetic rights established in the 2050s would be sent to prison without a trial. Many people at least those who are human found that outrageous for the machine to have this absurd law. There are a lot of protests that are still going on to this day. In the current year of 2206.

Esai knows it is not the first-time seeing people to bioengineer their eyes colors to change any color but, for some reason they felt unnaturally red that the way they glow felt supernatural. In a world that is filled with unexplainable phenomena drift away as superstitious and mocked by society today. Major religions of the world had been declining since the last two centuries just by hundred thousand remaining in the world or been extinct entirely.

Regardless, Esai is more worried about what he is going to do if he does not find the information about his biological father, even hesitant about if Miss Dark will be even pleased with information that he acquired. His thoughts are interrupted when his holo-device beeps of the notification. As eager to see which teacher Esai had for this year. His face went blink that was unimaginable that crushed his hopes to complete despair. When slumping against the wall to floor his head stares despairingly at the face of the woman that to be called his teacher Miss Tani Dark.