Lysserix

"I can't believe he won", Sanders mumbled. His sister patted his arm to calm him down. 

Mr. Roman asked them to stand in a line before things proceeded further. "Some of you are trained while some of you are quite the beginners. Yet none of you are qualified enough to be an ETN .Let's see if that changes over the course of time". He declared. "Now let's begin our training".

He pointed out all the mistakes they did while fighting and how to improve on them. He also taught them techniques that aligns with their fighting techniques. By the time they were done everyone was exhausted, and it was still before 12noon. All of them went to the cafeteria and to have a quiet lunch. On their way the brother of the sibling duo smacked the back of Kaze's shoulder, on purpose, before he left. Xander who noticed that frowned and went to walk right next to Kaze. "I can't believe he is being such an a**. These rich kids really be spoiled eh"? He mumbled.

Kaze scrunched his eyebrows before he looked at Xander. "You are rich too, so you are spoiled"? He asked flatly.

"No, I am not rich. I am richer than most of the people. These two, they are Richie rich. In case you didn't know they are the heir of SanTech Enterprises. The company that is responsible for most of the technology that is being used by IAEA".

"I see" Kaze mumbled  before he resumed his walking.

"I see? Why do you react so bland everytime I share something exciting? Makes me feel like an idiot" Xander rolled his eyes. 

"Maybe you are" Kaze replied to him before walking faster towards the cafeteria. Xander was surprised by his blunt answer before he thought, 'I seriously need to make new friends'.

When Mr. Roman dismissed them, they were glad that they won't have to do anything more today given he didn't mention anything about coming back.

Once the lunch time was over a loud announcement rang through the entire hallway which instructed them to gather around in the hall. Hoping for it to be not any other physical exercise they headed towards there. "Gather around everyone. As you are aware that there are  many lifeforms that share our planets with us. We intend to maintain peace and harmony as we try our best to get along". Joan Mitchell announced once almost everyone was there.

"Today one of them will land on our planet. President Desmond, the head of their organization responsible for intergalactic affairs on the planet Lysserix. The presence of each and everyone of the candidates is requested there. In case you are wondering why it is so important, it is because you must show respect to beings from outside of our planet".

Most of them nodded while kaze, maintaining a straight face, thought, "Seems a bit hypocritical".

After taking a moment to pause, Joan continued, "Also, he will be one of your judges in the scoring on your final rounds. I hope none of you manages to annoy him" She smirked.

All of them went back to their allocated dorms and after which they started chatting. "Where is Lysseris"? it was Kaze who asked Xander who was lying on the bed.

"You don't know"? Xander smirked at him. "It is the planet where humans can actually survive"! Xander exclaimed but Kaze titled his head further in confusion. "Amongst all the galaxies we have been able to explore, amongst all the planets we have come to encounter, Lysserixis the only one that has earth like atmosphere. The composition, the pressure, everything is quite  close to the normal range of ours. In fact few people have moved to that planet as well".he explained before he continued his sentence in a dreamt thought. "I would love to go there someday as well".

"How can you not know about Lysserix"? Kane asked out loud looking nowhere in particular, as she heard them talk. Kaze glanced at her but didn't reply to her. "Sometimes I wonder, under which rock have you been living all these years"! Xander mumbled.

"How did you even come to this academy without knowing all this"? Sanders brother commented on their conversation. Kaze thought back to the exams he had to appear and how he had to leave the questions that were related to alien species. The aliens they knew, and the aliens people of earth did were quite different indeed. He still couldn't believe how he was selected when he didn't even know the obvious things.

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Around six in the evening the announcement was made for the arrival of President Desmond. All of them gathered at the lobby before they were guided to the landing port. Being situated in a different building they were accompanied by various guards to keep check on the candidates. 

The building they entered was building S, which was never seen by any of the candidates, apart from Kaze. This was the same building Kaze wa present on the day he arrived here for getting his appearence changed. Even if he wasn't still that familiar with the whole building he could recognize the corridor in front of which they took the turn. That corridor leads to the Transition Hub where Kaze gained his current appearance. He mused as he reminisced that day.

The area where the spaceship would land was present in between the space of the huge building. It was a huge area and thus the took almost whole compound to ensure safe landing of various kinds of spacecrafts. After a few minutes of idle standing, a tiny firefly like particle appeared on the sky, which gradually magnified into a giant spaceship. It was different than the ones Kaze have seen in his planet or in the launch room in the earth.

Of course every planet can have their own design, in fact a same planet can have different designs to avoid monotony. Once the spaceships landed everyone gawked at its magnificent designs and the unreadable scribbles present on its body. Its size was almost half as big as Syverzius, which made Kaze marvel that how it can be only one person that is travelling. 

He was proven right when many individuals stepped out of the ship wearing the same uniform and formed a circle like guard before a man with a figure of authority stepped out. Given his pleated uniform which separated him from rest of his crewmate, everyone assumed he was none other than President Desmond himself. Kaze took a moment to observe him once he realised he has encountered their lifeforms before. 

They looked quite a bit similar to humans with minute sublte changes that sets them apart from humans. Given how their planets resembled each other, it wasn't surprising theor lifeforms resembled each other as well. On a proper careful observation Kaze noticed the differences from earthlings. For example, they had tiny scales over their soft skin on a few particular areas like their prominence of cheekbones or back of their palms. Their skin had a noticeable tinge of the colour yellow, and thus almost looked like a jaundiced person.

He appeared short, almost as short as the lady Sanders's who was the shortest one in Kaze's team. He looked around and found that amongst all that stepped out, president was actually the tallest making him question that maybe the people of Lysserix were shorter in general. 

After he stepped out he exchanged greetings with the President of IAEA, whom the candidates including Kaze were seeing for the first time, although it might not count given how only his back was visible. The candidates were separated by almost half and were placed on both sides of the aisle from where President Desmond walked by. 

He was walking smoothly until he reached in front of Kaze. He took a quick glance at him before turning his head around to look at Kaze. He stared at him in amusement before he resumed walking without a single word. His teammates and the other teams gave Kaze a suspicious and  curious look for a moment while Kaze clenched his fists wondering why the President did that.