Zein
I'm Zein Mandy Pormento and I'm currently in a hurry along with my dorm mates Fiona Mae Begonia and Faith Jesto Hwang, my best friends, 5 more minutes and we're officially late! The worst part is that I heard that the professor is a terror one. Too much for a first subject. We are already running since I don't want to be late and have a punishment early in the morning. And it's embarrassing to be late in the first day of class. Though I'm not the only one if the odds are on us and we happened to be late. We'll face hell with each other.
We are already in front of the door and we quickly push it to enter. When we successfully entered the door I glanced at my wristwatch and saw that we're just right on time. I sighed happily, that's was close. We quickly hopped on our seat before our professor gets inside the room, I don't want a punishment on the morning for goodness sake. We patiently waited for our prof while brushing my ruffled hair. Beauty is a must.
A minute or two and we just sitting straight on our seats like a robot waiting for our professor. It's unusual for that professor to be late on class, what is his name? Brian? Brian Kang? Since that man is very particular on time. If ever he's late he will announce it before but being late on the first day of class is so unlike him. Our classmates started the gossips on why on earth Professor Brian Kang is late on his first class this year.
"Where on earth is that professor?"
"Why are you asking me? As if I also know where did he go?"
"Bestie! Are we going to die?" one of my classmates I heard. I rolled my eyes as I hear more of her exaggerated remarks. Bitch. What is her name again? hmm, Pia if I'm not mistaken. Talked about exaggeration, she might win an award for her overly exaggerated reactions. Attention seeking bitch.
"Hey bro, let's play! Prof is not coming" Vinz shouted to George which is just on his right. Vinz Christopher Portman and George Karlo Mayhem is one of the schools famous duo. But they're both dumbass in my eyes. They're pretty much irritating guys, and not to mention that Vinz is a loud asshole that shouts every here and then.
My classmates are now having their own world. The girls are forming a circle and are gossiping about guys and such. The guys are playing some sort of games on their phone while others are silently watching them or talking among themselves or pretty much anything guys would do.
Out of boredom I reached for my book on my bag and started reading. These two witches on my sides are talking much that I can't concentrate on what I am reading. These girls are unbelievable, they're too noisy considering that they are just a meter a part and worse are that I'm the middle of these two witches. They're shouting here and there, I want to knot these two.
"Let's exchange seat, shall we?" I said at Fiona. I smiled creepily while glaring at her. She awkwardly smiled back at me and we both stood up and change seats, I put back my attention to my book. I was reaching for my ear pods, crouching on my bag when a ball of paper landed straight unto my own head. Who's the asshole who fucking threw a ball of paper with a stone inside! I heaved a deep breath and slowly lift my head.
I scanned the whole room and searched for the suspect that threw the paper on me. When my eyes landed on those two assholes that are now holding there giggles back. They're playing just awhile ago! Then now they are bullshitting a life that has a life! Ughhh I just want to bury them alive!
I stood up abruptly and was now taking a step towards them when the door on the front burst open. Prof Brian just entered. The earlier noisy room turns into a deafening silent one. Just get ready you two, I am not done yet! I ge back at them, lucky them that prof got here with a great timing or else I'd tied them with a rope of electricity and tied them up on a branch of a tree. Upside down!. I glanced at their direction and give them my WERE-NOT-DONE-YET look. I rolled my on them.
I sat up straight and now waiting for what prof needs to say.
"Good morning class" Prof Brian greeted us while we greeted him back with full of enthusiasm.
"Good morning Professor Brian we're glad to see you this morning" we all said in chorus.
"Ok class, I'm sorry if I'm late but I have a news for you" Sir Brian said.
"We have a new student" he said happily. The students started talking of what is the transferee's gender, name, appearance and etc. Sir Brian cough and they all stop talking.
"As I said we have a transferred student, so please let me call the new student to come inside" eyes are on the door and as if on cue a guy with a cold gaze and a poker face entered the room.
In all fairness he's handsome and the messy look suits him matched with the emotionless face.
"Please introduce yourself to us, boy." Sir Brian said. The students started gossiping again.
"Sis, he's so handsome." Girl student 1 said.
"Sis, he's mine." Girl student 2 stated.
"He's also mine! So damn hot." Girl student 3 replied.
"What? What did you say? He's mine, he's already my husband." Girl student 4 retaliated.
"Shhhh... Students please be quiet let the transferee introduce his self" Prof Brian quiet us down. My classmates are quite slutty, especially these two witches on my left. They keep complementing the transferee, saying how hot and handsome he is. Psh, what's the use of your handsomeness if you're an airhead, unless you're as intelligent and powerful as those jerks, assholes, dumbasses, or more names that you can call Vinz and George. They're the ones who threw that paper with a stone inside, nope let me rephrase it. An ice inside. The paper is now wet concluding that something hard melted inside.
"Hi guys, uhm I'm Mark John R. Martinez. Nice to meet you" I said with a cold manner. The students began murmuring again.
"Sis, his voice is so deep. Hot." Girl 1 purred with admiration.
"He's intimidating." George stated. Shocking, that guy knows how to be intimidated. By a weakling? How odd, I thought it's the other way around. It's supposed to be that this jerk should the one that cause intimidation.
"He's cold." Fiona said. What she said caused the whole room to be quiet but seconds later they started murmuring again. Fiona is a snob type of a girl. She only shares her opinion just a few times that's why it's shocking to hear her opinions, especially knowing her powers.
Professor Brian cleared his throat making the whole class quiet again.
"Will you explain further about yourself?" Professor Brian asked him.
"Like what are your special ability, your talent, and hobbies?" Professor Brian asked him with a smile. The transferee sighed.
"My hobbies are taking pictures and I love to eat and sleep and also I don't have any special ability" He said maintaining his cold tone. The room got noisy again, murmuring about what the guy said.
"Of course you have, like this one" Prof. said and at that time he threw three daggers at the poker face guy's direction at the same time. As a defense mechanism he spun around and grabs one of the three daggers flying towards him and threw it back at Prof. Brian's direction in a blink of an eye but Prof. just catch it effortlessly. The whole class gave him a round of applause. 'He's good' I said to myself.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING" poker face guy yelled. Pfft, he has short temper. Sorry to him but I'm not fond of boys that has a short temper, wait what is his name again? Mark James Martinez? Aish, I don't care, I will just call him by his surname, poker face guy is too long to be his nickname.
"Very good, so that's your special ability. Super Speed am I right?" Prof. said and grinned widely. He smirked. I hate him; he's just like those two assholes eh. They are full of themselves.
"Uhmm, my special ability if that's what you call it. You're wrong I'm a all element controller" Martinez declared with a cold tone and a cold stare. They all gasped at his sentence even me gaped a little but Prof. Brian just smile. He didn't even gwt shock of what Martinez said.
"As expected, you're powerful" he said knowingly. They started murmuring again but I did not listened to them. I raised my hand. Time to piss the whole out of him. I grin evilly.
"You witch! What are planning to do? Don't tell me you're going to play with his head right now. Not now, let him be for awhile, he's just new and your bullshitting him no? For the thrill, let's just wait for few days and he looks nice and innocent" Faith whispered with full of disapproval. Pshh, nice my ass. Is it nice to yell at a professor in front of a class? He just new here and he's acting like someone who's superior. I did not listen and started talking right away.
"Sir you said that there are only four all element controllers and there are only chosen by God's. They are chosen by their unique and good traits but him, he seems so be cold, distant, and short-tempered and I assume that his traits are not as good as the prophecy said" I said. Poor boy, sorry but you can't get away from the war going on inside this room. Boys and girls have this invisible war going on anytime and anywhere inside this room, and even if you're new, you are not exempted.
We're almost four years of being classmates and this war that we have is going to be four years too, every guy and girl have their own pranks to pull, names to call, until one will cry out of one's teasing. Since it's a matter of emotionally strong and attitude I don't want to be one of the losers. My rank and name will be tainted if I will let the guys toy and bully me. It would be embarrassing.
"So what do you mean Ms. Pormento?" Sir Brian asked. I faced them with a poker face, I gave in to the staring battle the mannequin is giving me. Mannequin because look at him, perfectly emotionless, unmoving, and he just changing his expression when talking, and let's not talk about how cold his voice is, now, he would as a perfect mannequin, isn't he?
"I mean that, maybe he's just joking? Bluffing? I don't know maybe to intimidate us? The Chosens and the prophecy is a very touchy subject, so why tell us that when it's obvious that he's not" I said, I pointed a finger on him. The ladies made noise on what I said to support me on my statement. Like we clearly notice, the seats are divided between guys and ladies. Girls on the left side and the asshole gents on the right.
"And by the way, no offense to you but I can't feel any strong presence coming from you. We only saw your incredible speed, nothing strong and unusual" I stated again, And that's it, I smirk appeared on my not so beautiful but very beautiful face when I saw him holding off his anger, the way his lips twitch, clenched jaw and veiny fist we can clearly see his burning anger.
He heaved deep breathes in many counts, closed his eyes and open it again. His cold eyes stared back at me as I took my seat. The temperature inside the room rapidly go down, the air got strong that it made the curtains fly uncontrollably.
"I think it's going to rain" one student commented.
"You may now take your seat Mr. Martinez" said Sir Brian. I eyed George so I can tell him to stop what he's doing using my eyes. Ice is starting to coat some part of the wall, George just shrug his shoulder and eyed me telling me that it's not him doing that. If not him, who? It's impossible that the transferee is the one who's doing this. I was telling the truth when I said that I can't I feel any presence from him that any all element controllers should possess.
"So class, you probably already know what you need to do but I'll repeat it again so your new classmate will be informed. You have three weeks free training for the upcoming actual test or ability test to increase the level of your ability. Your levels are shown at the back of your t-shirts uniform" Prof. said. We just nodded.
"Oh My God! You witch! You're so harsh on the new student!" said Fiona, I smirk, I don't care, I feel like I won this day by pissing the hell out of that emotionless new guy.
"So, what will we do level up our ability?" Martinez said in a cold tone.
"You have to give your best and release powerful techniques and it depends on how powerful your technique is, the powerful the technique the higher the level you get and this is one of the grading system in this school so we know whose already good at controlling their power." Prof Brian said, he nodded and sat on his chair beside Vinz and George.
"And as for you, you need to do this seriously to get your identification card." He mentioned.
"So your training starts now" Prof Brian said sounding giddy and amused, we stood and got out of the room with his words on our minds.
We immediately went to our very own cafeteria, if we want to have a higher level in the ability test, we need to eat, we need energy to maintain our health and continue to train until the ability test comes. Faith voiced "You have no mercy you with! How dare you do that to the newbie! How dare you do that to my baby boy!" we cringed at her statement. She's disgusting! Baby? Naah. We sat on our usual spot, at the very last table, two tables away from the door.
"Ewww, you're so gross Faith!" me and Fiona said at the same time, like c'mon, should I be Elsa now? 'You can't marry a man you just met' but I should rephrase it a lil bit to fit the situation, but before I can say my well planned line, she stood up and forced us to tell our orders, it's her schedule now to order us food.
"Hey Faith! He's not your baby!" Fiona added and flipped her hair dramatically. This witch is so irritating, sometimes I wonder why did I become friends with this witches? Ah yes, I'm also a witch with this type of attitude, but sometimes I want to slap them upside down, I want to know if there overly dramatic attitudes will still take effects after a strong slaps .
Faith came back with our order, we attacked the food in a fast pace that we finish it no time, we might be the bitchy, sassy, classy and beautiful ladies in the whole campus but we ate like guys. We stood up as we finish our plates, and at the same time the asshole Vinz and George entered the whole cafeteria, all girls turned their heads on the new comers, what can I do they're as popular as we are three. Right, I forgot that I need to confront one of these assholes. I walked closer to them, glaring daggers at them
"Hey George, what's on you?" I said so loudly at him with hint of irritation, he creased his forehead as he looked at me, confused.
"Huh?, what's on me?" he answered me another question, both for his self and for me. I faked a laugh, acting dumb huh?
"Are you planning to turn us ice statues!? You didn't stop making the temperature low, not until Prof started talking!" I angrily answered him and rolled my eyes.
"I'm not the one who did that!" he answered defensively.
"If not you, who? We all know here that the only guy who can do that is non-other than you!" I pointed my finger at him. He look at me with confused but offended expression, what? It's the truth!
"Maybe it's the transferee; I felt a very odd presence when he sat beside me. I had Goosebumps just right here" Vinz said with a really bothered face, he showed us his arm where he had his goose bumps. What! They're kidding right?
"That make sense, we can't feel that tremendous presence because his hiding it" Faith said in a serious tone like she's coming up with a most convincing conclusion.
"You guys are unbelievable" I said as I walk out of the cafeteria, seriously they believe that arrogant guy to be an all element controller? Nonsense, the two girls followed me right away. We immediately made our way on the training room I reserved a night before, I sat on the floor and look at the two witches who sat right next to me
"Oh come on" Faith said exasperated, we both looked at her.
"What? We'll just stare at each other here whole day?" her voice echoed within the corner of the walls.
"I know that we're quite bothered about that guy's identity, but can we just let it be for now?" Fiona groaned to us that made sigh. A matter of seconds passed I grinned.
"Do you think what I'm thinking?" I said and grinned widely. They both stared at each other then turned their heads on me, they both smirked, a couple of seconds later, all weapons are out
"Just to let you know, I won't go easy to the both you" Fiona said and her infamous hair flip is at it again as her eyes glow magenta, I grinned as we all attacked at the same time. This is gonna be cool.
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WE'RE now walking to the cafeteria, we just got our cuts treated on the clinic. I wide smile is plastered on my so beautiful face, guess what, I won hahahah.
When we entered the cafeteria, it's oddly crowded and the noise is also quite odd. You can't really hear the usual noise that cafeteria always have but a murmuring guys and girls forcing there shrieks. I overheard a group of girls talking about the transferee and a new handsome guy. A new transferee again. That's odd when this school rarely has a enrollee, how about a transferee
My eyes search for the transferee and there I saw him on the side of the window with some other guy. I wonder who that is. I sighed and chose to ignore them, I might just find some table to sea, and because Fiona Mae Begonia, my overly dramatic best friend, is scheduled to order for us three, she immediately went to the counter lined, she already knows our orders so she could handle that already, she's old enough.
We searched for a table but lucky us, there's no tables left aside the table beside Martinez and his buddy. I heaved a deep sigh before walking towards the empty table. Me and Faith sat whose just like others, she flushed red while biting her lower lip to prevent herself to shout.
I slightly glanced at Martinez, and I just noticed his hair, it's not as messy as it is just like this morning, his haircut now is already good, he looks handsome, 'Zein pull your act up!' I just blushed on my thoughts. Shit. Why is he wearing a harry potter glass and had his camera hanging on his neck? He's also not wearing blazer and jut his nice grey tee. Fiona arrived on our table with our orders.
He looks innocent and cool with his look right now. I overheard their conversation while I'm eating my burger. Being the great gossip girl that I am of course I listened.
"It's fine" Martinez said in a cold tone, maybe that's signature tone.
"Good to hear" his companion answered sounding pleased.
"I'm glad that you agreed to cut your hair. It really suits you" His buddy added, I agree, he's actually right, he really suited his hair style, two block hair style suits his Asian face. I took another bit on my juicy and meaty burger.
"Kuya, I have a problem" Martinez spoke in a serious manner; I'm surprised that his not using his poker face on this guys his with, but what is "kuya"? Let me ask my walking dictionary that's not really obvious.
"Hey Fiona, what does "Kuya" mean?" I asked curiously, she giggled on my question.
"You're such a gossiper. Kuya means older brother in asian countries, specifically the pearl on the orient seas, Phillipines" she answered, just like I thought, I wonder if there's still a capacity on her brain, how can she remember every fact this world has, not every though but every book she had read.
"You should know that because you're also a filo" Fiona said while eating her food.
"I'm not pure filo okay, I'm just 1/4, plus I grow up here, and if we're on the mortal realms we're basically in the U.S" I answered than took a bite on my burger; she just nodded and focused on her food.
Wait a minute that is his brother! Oh my god! His brother is as good looking as him and his older brother is same age as him! Or maybe he just has a baby face that most asian has. I listened to their conversation once again while taking a bite and my burger.
"Ok, what's your problem my little brother?" his brother asked him, he frowned of what his "kuya" had called him.
"It's about our ability test. I don't know what to do" he said in his most worrisome voice.
"So?" asked his brother as the guys is shoving ice cream on his mouth.
"Help me please" he said and smiled so cutely, my eyes widen, fuck he looks so adorable when he did that. I cough uncontrollably that made my two peers look at me, I just noticed that I'm not the only one who had something caught on their throats, is that necessary? Does he know that he could kill hundreds of girls by just doing that? Literally!
"Hey are you okay Miss?" his brother asked me, concerned. Shit, where's my water?!
"Mark give her water" her brother commanded with such authority, fuck! What's this? My body is reacting on the presence. I searched on my own water not hearing what his brother had said.
I stood up to get some water that I bumped at Martinez making us fall on the floor, wet because the glass of water is now spilled on the both of us, I closed my eyes as I swallowed the lump on my throat because of the two overwhelming presence that's coming from the guys that's near me right now. I did not notice our position not until I opened my eyes, I am on top of Martinez, hands on his chest as I felt every inch of muscles on his body, because of the shock and their presence overwhelm my body, and my power got uncontrollable. Threads of lightning envelop my body and I end up electrifying Martinez.
Martinez shouted in agony as threads of lightning is now electrocuting every inch of his body. My power is now uncontrollable and I know for a fact that it's because of them, their presence. Just what are they? That my powers in now wild just to fight their presence off. My vision got blurry as my energy depleted with my powers goes on rampage.
His brother lifted me away from him, who is now unconscious because of how high the voltage his body get. But what's odd is that there is no sigh on Martinez's body that he got electrocuted by a high voltage electricity, no burns and all, just like how his brother effortlessly lift me away from his unconsciously brother knowing that I can't control of how high the voltage I am releasing.
My body got limp as a huge amount of energy my body has lost because of this incident, my vision got so blurry and my ear is ringing that I can't hear anything right now. My eyelids got heavier and heavier as time pass by. Later on my eyes slowly closed and the infinity of darkness welcomed me as I lose my consciousness.