Average to Savage

The next morning, Ben firstly inspected his body.

´As expected I couldn't completely heal. I should take another one to heal more. Today is the day in which we do the basketball grades. I have to be in my best condition! I won't face again such humiliation.´

The blue pills were healing-accelerating drugs, which Ben ordered with his money. Each pill costs 1200 $, but Ben was willing to pay the price to heal faster.

Like every Monday morning, Ben just had German and English lessons. Even though Ben now had the concentration, he was saving his concentration and energy for the sports lesson, besides he still didn't like these lessons.

At noon, Ben ate his lunch while still in class. It was important to digest the meals before doing sports, so he timed his meal.

Having finished the English lesson, all his classmates went to eat something. Before going to the study room, Ben warned his friends to not eat too much. In the study room, Ben spent his time reading science books, who were stored in it.

Afterward, he looked at the clock.

´It is 13:25. I should be on my way to the gymnasium. I already read most of the magazines and books in here. I should be proud of this achievement, how many students succeded in that. Now, that I think about it, it has been a long time since I looked at my stats. No, you shouldn't look. I will just disappoint you. Then again, I am mentally prepared, so should I just look at it? Status open.´

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`What a nice surprise! Strength and Intelligence increased by one. Agility even by two. Still, It shouldn't surprise me. I kept going with reading and learning new things. Parkour did boost my agility a lot, even my Strength increased. The best of all is that I just began with Parkour, so my Agility should increase in these weeks."

In the changing room, everyone was happily discussing

Jonas: „Is it alright to do basketball with your injuries?"

Alex: „You were injured, Ben? Did somebody attack you?"

Ben: „My injuries mostly healed in the night. The truth is I begin to learn Parkour."

Alex: „Really? Parkour? Why would you learn that?"

Ben: „The people are nice and you improve at your own pace."

Jonas: „Why don't you try to play basketball, I think you are talented."

Ben: „Everything I achieve in basketball is trough hard-work, it has nothing to do with talent."

Jonas/Alex: "You braggart! We will never become as good as you."

Ben was telling the truth. But Jonas and Alex in fact weren't lying either as they were always to distracted from social media, games, or streaming.

These days, few took the path of physical training as it was of little avail. Only the best of a sport could live a famous and rich life, the rest practicing that sport could only do it as hobbies. Without graduation, you would only live a miserable life.

His friends only wanted to become muscular for being popular with girls.

Shortly, the sports lesson commenced.

GT: "Hello class 10b! Today, I will grade your basketball performance. We begin with warming up, then you will have to do basketball exercises and then you will play a match like in the last lesson. Now, you have 10 min to warm yourself up!"

All the students began to dribble or throw balls in the gym.

In the meantime, the sports teacher build 3 stations. He wanted to test their coordinative dribbling, their Jump shot after the run, and their passings.

The lesson progressed very slowly as each student had to perform 2 times on each of the exercises. Ben did almost get a perfect score on each exercise. These exercises were just to sort out the bad und good player. Even if you performed perfectly these exercises, you wouldn't have a 1 in basketball.

Finally, every student finished the exercises. It was time to begin the real grading. The 10 students, who performed the greatest in these exercises, had to create their teams and play against each other. Ben was the only one from his friend's circle, who managed to make it. The other had to build their own teams and have a match, but it wouldn't change their grade by much.

ST: "Fabian and Eren, you both are team captains, you can each chose your teammate for this game."

As Fabian and Eren were in the eyes of the PE teacher the best, they could make the teams. Ben didn't interact much with these sportif guys, so he was left out till he and the most inexperienced in their group had to be chosen.

It was Fabian's turn to choose, he hesitated who he should choose. He knew exactly what would happen if Ben played in the team of Eren and his friends. He would not receive any pass from his teammate and would then receive a bad grade. But Fabian had also to think about winning the match, it was the same as 5 vs 4 without counting on Ben.

Fabian interacted friendly with Eren, but it still didn't mean that their relationship was close. On the other side, he always felt that Eren was looking down on him, he may not be from one of the richest family, but he couldn't be considered poor either. He didn't interact much with Ben, but the few times left a good impression on him.

´Just because you were found out that you cheated, you want to punish that person! Justice shall always prevail."

In the end, Fabian was a man of honor. Which is also why he choose Ben as his final teammate. "Ben you are on our team."

This phrase caused a distortion on Eren's face. Never did he foresee that Fabian would betray him.

´Ben did already become much better than I could have imagined and now that Ben is on the enemy's side, it won't be easy to stop him from playing well. At least, we have better chances than before. Even if Ben trained the basic moves, he won't play as great as us. I will destroy your life, beginning with winning against you!´

On another face: ´Can't believe that Fabian choose me. Does that mean that he could be a friend? Hahaha. I will destroy you, Eren. My team will win.´

The fighting spirit was lit, everyone went to his position on the field, the other students were all eyes on the match.

Fabian: "We play for the first time together so give your best!"

Ben: "Yes, Team captain!"

The match would only take 15 min.

Fabian began to bring the ball up the court but before he could pass half court the opposing team's Point Guard began to guard him tightly.

Fabian chuckled in his head 'You think you're on the same level as me? Maybe you can try again in a couple of years.'

Fabian jabbed his foot to the right before shifting directions to the left. The defender, Eren, bit on the fake and was a step behind as he tried to recover.

Eren went into a full dash as he tried to catch up to Fabian. Just as he was about to make contact Fabian changed directions with a smooth behind the back dribble.

As Fabian maneuvered his way around Eren, Fabian crossed half court and scanned the floor.

Without stopping he attacked the center as he drove to the paint. The opposing team's wing players were originally guarding Eren and Sinan who were standing in the corner so they couldn't help on Fabian.

Jason saw this and gathered his dribbled as he got ready for the shot. After he jumped into the air, their Center jumped with him in order to block the shot.

However instead of shooting the layup, Fabian wrapped around the defender as he dumped the ball off to Ben who had cut toward the basket.

Ben caught the pass and quickly put the ball up. After scoring the layup he walked over to Fabian and high fived him.

In the beginning, Ben was still shocked by how good Fabian was playing. At the end of the day, he was still a beginner. His only strong point in this game was his speed.

After 12 min, Fabian's team led the score. It was 8 : 10.

Eren was completely angered, Ben integrated himself well in the opposing team. Ben's speed was even making Eren difficulties to follow.

Eren cared no more about winning, but at least he wanted to knock Ben off his perch.

Eren, who was in the position of the ball, passed the ball to Ben and at the same time taunted him with his finger.

Ben smiled at him accepting his taunt to come at him.

Ben tried to fake his drive then step back but Eren was able to keep up with Ben's pace and Ben was astonished so he tried to do a spin move, hoping to not lose the ball in the move.

Ben got past him but Eren was able to react after half a second so he stepped back again and shot the ball.

The students all held their breath. Ben in the meantime was praying. He didn't have the confidence to score, but he saw this as his only chance.

The gods seemed to have received his prayer, with the roll around the basket it went luckily in.

The students were shocked. Ben's friends were the first beginning to sheer, followed by the rest of the class. Even the PE teacher was startled, he just witnessed Eren provoking Ben and Ben won the 1 vs 1. This would mean that he had to give Ben at least the same grade as Eren. This would be the same as giving Ben a perfect score.

Eren was slowly walking to the changing room.

´How can this be? I lost against Ben in 1 vs 1. How lucky could this poor guy be? I hate him sooooooooo much!!! I should pay somebody to kill him and let it look like an accident. Noo. No. This would be too merciful!!! I won't allow him to die. I want him to live without going to university and without him finding a job. His future will torture him better. Ben. It won't be long and you will wish to have never humiliated me.´

What Eren didn't know, was that he won't have enough power to exact his revenge. This was his only chance to kill him with certainty.