Chapter 1 Part. 1

Classism....

Once I finally got up peaceful with no worries in the world and not having a hard time like I usually have when I wake up early, I think to myself 'man, I'm getting better at waking on time, maybe I don't need Kenny to wake me. Consider I woke up before him' I then smiled for a bit....

Then bolted out of my beloved bed and now looking at my mess of a room, "Kenny whyyy u do this to meh." I talked to myself looking hard to find any decent clothes in this pile of dirty clothes with un hanged clothes in the bunch.

After what felt like eternity search for a decent look, I found a white shirt and a pair of grey jeans, then equipping my finest black sweaters keeping it unzip because why not? So once I was done with my clothes, I tried to escape from my room, but the pile fought back at me and attacked with a devastating trip that might become a bruise later on.

After I left my room and ran to the kitchen expecting to see Miss. Luna to only see father Hub making his coffee "Ohh? Grey? Why are you still here? Don't you need to get to that fancy school by now?" he sounded confused by me being here " One, because nobody wanted to take me in. And second yes!" I smiled at my joke, but now searching for any leftovers "Funny, so Kenny forgot to wake you?" he said getting ready to drink his cup of coffee, "Yup, gonna kill him afterwards, so he gonna need a priest once I'm done with him." I said that while deciding on a piece of toast as my breakfast "Ha, your jokes are bad as usual. Hey how's about I give you a ride there." he said happily offering "Thanks yo-" I cut myself off once I see the time on the microwave, fearing that'll I be really late and in trouble I sprinted out the kitchen and looking around for my jacket "Hey!" he said coming to the livingroom "Wait up! I'll get old reliable up and running." he said getting his winter coat on while looking for his shoes, as he was getting ready I was already done, not wanting to waste time I "Sorry old man, old reliable need time to warm up and your a bit to drunk to drive so, byeeeee." I said that while running outside and now facing the cold.

Running through the coldness in the city, trying to find any bus station that could get me close to my destination, but seeing as it's the rush hour now. I couldn't find any bus that could help me, I decided to just travel there by foot. Now checking the time 8:04 'hmm if I did a full on sprint with some jaywalking and cutting through some alley way like nothing...I could get there after lunch break.' with that said plan sounded awful 'Better then nothing?' I then ran into the snowy morning with lots of regrets for placing my trust onto a single person.

After a whole 30 minutes of running and feeling fatigue already, I decided to take a power walk through the alleys way, slowly but surely getting back my stamina and resting a little. But the alleys way was much more awful then depicted in movies, dogs barking everywhere, some homeless people sitting together keeping each others warm and surviving the harsh winter, and dealers littered over every deep alley mooching off people who cannot live without their supplies.

But seeing all this in front of my eyes and moving through them like nothing happening to me, made me felt numb and nothing else, no sympathy, nor no discomfort. Just numbness. I entered a empty alley, finally feeling getting back my energy, I started running through to make up the time I spent walking, but I wasn't looking and thinking this was a empty alley way. To only bump into a random dealers.

"Hey?! watch where you're going!" he yelled at me, "Ohh sorry. I wasn't looking where I was going" I scratched my head feeling kinda dumb for not noticing him here in the first place, "Nah, don't worry kid. Just watch where you're going next time, don't wanna bump into the wrong person." he said looking fine with my mistake "Ha, did you think I was gonna say 'I should put a bullet in your head for that!' yeah?" he jokingly laughed at my confused reaction to him "Well kinda, not gonna lie" I was surprised of the this dealers calm like self "Tell ya what, I'll let you on a secret. I'm not like those amateurs who only scary away potential customers, and looking at you." he paused and looked at me coming closer to look me in the eyes "Nah you're too bright to fall for my tricks." he said looking disappointed "Plus you have this look already that your on something." and after he was done talking. He then threw something like dust at my face.

"Here brother, something to help quell those demons of yours." I flinch back taken aback at the surprise attack, rubbing my eyes trying to see, and to get the dust on face clean from his attack. Finally being able to see I looked back at him only for him to magical disappear from his original spot, "Where did you go." I hiss at him now having my vision going blurry "Ohh brother I'm not trying to bring harm onto you, really, just curious about you." I looked behind to see him, to only see him just staring, in rage, I when to tackle him, to only met with a hard wall, he keep quiet while just staring at me, every time I seen him I tried to tackle or punch him, but it's was like he wasn't even there to begin with and I kept meeting with a wall everytime, finally after punching the wall as hard as I can thinking it was him but to only hear something that I shouldn't coming from my fist, I finally had it. "Hey! Are you even still here? If not then I'll take this a win for me as default!" I said that while shaking my hand around seeing if I broke something.

"Hmm, I just can't see what you are." he sounded confused "Someone who comes from darkness, while holding a measly mask. Why this?" he said while standing there menacingly, not caring for his comments I ran to him finally thinking I had him, "Ohh well." I past right through him hitting the hard cold road, "You wouldn't make it's far in the next world if you couldn't hit me." once he was done explaining, and now hearing something coming fast towards me.

Waiting for the impact to come, I close my eyes. to hear a loud screeching sound, "Grey is that's you!? Ohh thanks our lord that's I stopped in time." that familiar voice came out of the beaten car, opening my eyes to see this voice being father Hub "F-father Hub?" I looked at him "What happened to you son? You look like shit, and compared to me this morning, you look a lot worse." he said putting his hand on my shoulder "ha, fuck off." I laughed at him "hmm well, you could be going to hell now because you swear at a father of the church." he was amused "Huh well you know I don't believe in that's stuff." I got up "yeah, yeah I know, come on, I got old reliable up and running." he said getting back into the car, coming around the side, "Heh, you know if I had just waited I would have never fought myself back there." I laughed.

Once we left the unknown street and started driving towards the school "So, Grey excited for this new school?" he asked awkwardly "I heard they came personally to tranfor you to come into that's fancy school of theirs, with only very talented people getting the chance to get in." he sounded amazed "Yeah, and people who have the money to enter." I was looking out the car window "Aww, don't be like that's, look you made it's in that's school on your own, so that's still impressive." he incougar me "Well I didn't really tried to get into that's school, they just came out of nowhere and offered me to join. Plus I'm gonna miss my friends." I kept staring at the window feeling a bit more sadder "You mean Phoenix and Elizabeth? Not much 'friends' but two people, so not much too miss bud." he laughs at his joke "Haha, yeah okay. But still I haven't spoken to them after two months now, wonder what they been up to." "Look I don't know why you just don't use the family computer to talk to them, I mean all day you complain about how your phone is broken and you can't talk to them." he sighed "Well I can give a lot of reasons why I don't use the family computer, but the major one is that's everyone nosey about what's your doing every second, or who you are talking to." I remember all those times, "Well you should find the time to talk to them again, there probably think you died of 'Helo' or something." he was done his lecture with friendship "Yeah, knowing liz. She probably think I actually died because I when ghosted for that's long." I laughed and enjoy the drive their.

Finally after a excruciating long drive of waiting, traffic, and red stop lights, we finally arrived to the new school on time-ish. I opened the car door and was about to leave till "Grey, look." father Hub grab my hand "This is a new school run by very powerful people, and powerful people's kids in their." he sighed and looked at me serious "Look please play nicely here, and don't pick fights with someone who have more power then you can handle." he look pretty serious here "Alright alright, plus I don't think anyone gonna be mean to me or me being mean to them, I'm a saint after all." I smiled at him looking all saintly like, "In my books, saints don't have a sadistic personality." he shot down my saintly image "Welp old man, look through your books again and you'll see that's saint weren't at all nice." I shot him a smug smile to him while leaving old reliable.

Heading towards the school finally making it's to the school after everything that's happened, but to only see a long line waiting to enter the school. Confused at the situation and needing some answers, I when to the person who was at the end of the line, "Hey." I tipped the shoulder of that's said person "You know why there's a line here?" questioning that's person to only find out that's person was a girl once she turned to face me "Ohh? Are you just getting here as well?" she spoke bluntly "Yup." I sighed remember all the things, "Hmm." she hummed while she was doing that's I hear a alarm sounds coming through the front "They always have a saying for early people." I looked over to the front as she did as well, to see the person who triggered the alarm worried and panicking, "That's the early bird gets the worm." she kept going on about her speech, while we seen that's person getting assaulted and being pinned to the ground by two guards, while the people in front are being assaulted as well for being close by the first person "That's how the saying is for normal people." while she explains, they stab all the pinned students with this weird looking device which had a needle at the bottom, then after a quick 5 second the device blinked red, "But for people like us." They escorted all of them to the parking lot, making their way to a medical looking van, "The hunter always wait for his prey to make a move first." she said coldly and unfazed by the event that happened.

They postpone the entrance of the school, and took immediately tests of the students who were the closest to the people in the front and so on, they basically cut the long line in half after they were done with the people in closest to the front. Every students at the middle and back when back to the line, while keeping a bit fair distance then before thanks to the show we witnessed, "Man that's was something." I sighed still in the back of the line "Hmm yes, but very educational, seeing 'Helo' at actions, before it would have taken a week to mutated inside a person body." she said coming next to me "But thanks to a indoitloc researcher, and his claims of a vaccine with his research, to only mutant the virus and made it lethal for healthy people as well, and killing millions in that's amount of time it mutant." she explains all the information "Wow, thanks for the information that's everyone knows about already." I sarcastic said in a bit of a mocking tone, "Hmm, well now." she said a bit amused by my assholeness "Look at how much students we are left of with now." she waved her hand towards the once long line, now cut into one fourth of its size "If everyone knew about this information already now, then care to explain why this line now is cut with a short amount now?" I expected her to be offended by my remark or concern about the line and situation that occurred, but the way she sounded was more of a question and now expecting some kinda answer "hmmm." I looked up, "It's like there trying to see which one of us are too short minded, like weeding out the people who can't use the information rightfully, and seeing how using our thoughts and processes, then relying on numbers is more important." I now looked at the medical van.

After I was done my with my answer to her question, she smirked a bit "Hm, I guess I wasn't wrong about you, you my have a sharp tongue, but comes with it's a cunning mind." she nod "As expected of another person who showed up late on purpose." she nod again "Haha, yup! Just binding time to see what's happened next with how much people they're were." I lied expertly, too ashamed of why I was late in the first place, "Well I'm glad to see a potential student here in the school as myself." she just stated no overconfidence, nor no humility, just bluntly said "Well met?" she asked putting out her hand while fishing out my name "Grey." I answer back meeting her hand with my, "My Nicole Chika, and before you ask, yes I'm half Japanese." she looked like she was explaining her heritage to a children with the mixed up name, "Well, I'm half of something as well." I jokingly said "Heh, well at least someone have humor here to entertain us, while we wait." she giggled a bit.

And through out the whole line of waiting, we talked about anything to keep us from being bored, and learning a bit of each other, she then started talking about her social life at the end. She being a different clothe in society then me, she coming from a house from Japan who have a respectable foot hold in some big countries, while partnering up with a huge cooperative named 'Doxy Corp' in America helping each other while keeping a family tie to each other, and her duties to be learning business at a young age and to make connections in the school. Once she was done explaining her whole heritage, powers and duties she holds.

"I really don't know why you had to explain all that's to me even though I'm just a orphan, but okay?" I was surprised at all the information given to me "Oh, forgive me. I usually talk to people who want to know the power I hold and the family I'm in." she sighed "That's usually talk for me. And seeing your potential, maybe you can be a valuable with time here. And besides, they only accepted the best out of the best here, so I have faith in you to be a valuable asset? " she look to me as a connection more as a friend, which was hurt, but I expected much once she explained her whole heritage and power, but she still talked to me as equals instead of someone who just wanted to use me "And don't you worry." she said in a calming tone "I always take care of connections, so help me and I'll help you?" she pulls out her hand again, but instead of a meeting shake, she hold out her hand for a deal. As for me, I didn't know anyone here, and thought that's the whole student's body would consists of people like her from powerful people and looking for potential people to partner up with.

So wanting safety and having someone who have power behind my back, I slapped my hand on her hand, and shaked on it, "Hmm, wise choice." she smiled. As the line finally getting close to us, "Oh my, look like it's almost time for us to go." she looked at the person who was done his test, and when inside the school "Yeah, well it's been nice meeting you Nicole or should I say boss?" I jokingly said "As I'm as well and stick with Nicole, nobody likes a suck up." she laughed at her own joke, "But I do hope you proven yourself in time Mr. Grey." she walked away with her hand up to showing her saying bye. After that's thay started the tests a far and checking everything was fine with Nicole and asking a bit of questions for her.

Finally once she was done with her tests and finishing up with her questions, they welcomed her in. And finally I was the last person.

"Last one!" he shouted at the people who were guarding the school and the people who had the hazardous suits who were on stand by, walking up the tester. "Name?" he asked all gruff like "Grey." I waited for the next question, "Grey?" he waited for something else, "Yes, Grey?" I was confused why he asked for my name again "No I mean your la-" before he got to finish, there were a woman who tip his shoulder, "Don't worry, I'll handle this." she said to him in a deep German accent "Hold up lady, I'm tr'" he didn't finish his stances, once he got a good like at the lady who spoken to, "Forgive me Lady Ulva!" he bowed his head once he knew who he was talking to, she tipped his shoulder again telling him to move.

"Mr. Grau." she said once we were alone "Actually it's Grey." I said confused by the way she said my name "Yes, Grau." she said again "Grey." "Grau." we started shouting at each other for saying my name right, "Fine then, Grau." I told her, "Ahh, Mr. Grau." we finally came to a agreement with my name, "Hand please." she reached for my hand, giving her my hand and talking some of my blood, and we waited for it's to come "I'll like you to answers some of my questions? ya?" she getting a clipboard "Sure." waiting for the questions "Grey c-" I felted a sharp pain in my head, like a million little daggers stabbing my head then the next thing I remember was darkness covered my body and senses....

"Grey"

"Grey"

"Grey!"

I woken up from a painful headache just a moments ago. In the school on a bench with Miss. Ulva kneeing their making sure I was okay, "Are you feeling better? Your head all better?" she looked all over me checking if I was alright "Yeah, yeah. How long was I passed out for?" still feeling the headache pounding at me "Only ten minutes." she was done her exams on me "Don't worry Grau. It's a common side effects when taking a needle in. Many people get afraid of taking a needle every now and then" she tried to cheer me up "Yeah. That's probably it, maybe I should have eaten more then a piece of toast?" I tried to list all the possible why I fainted "Well Mr. Grau, seeing your fine, and all. But I'm sad to say you miss the tour around the school." she looked over to the last bunch of students coming back, from what's look like they when around the school and were impressed by said school.

"Well I can't help you with that's now." she said standing up from her kneeling position and giving me a textbook, "Everything in there is important. As well as locker number." she dropped them near me on the bench, "Don't lose them!" she made her finger into a wiggling no gesture. After she was done, she was heading towards the exit of the school, "Wait!" I said getting up from my bench and trying to catch up "You're gonna leave me, with no tour and no information about the school to me?" I was genuinely confused "Mr. Grau." she stopped dead middle in the hallway near the school's exit "Life isn't fair, so adapt to your surroundings." she said that's and left the school leaving me to pounder weather I should either wait for someone help with guidance, wait for my headache to pass and possible miss class, or aim blindly around with my killer headache till I make it to my locker in time for class....

I picked blindly looking for my locker.

Taking Miss. Ulva word to adapt to this unknown place and hope for the best.....wouldn't be so hard.