Reality Check

Marcus had been called by Amber, he knew she had been attacked feeling the pain and sensing her fear before hand the second he was there he moved fast grabbing Amber and moving her away from her attackers. "Wow" he heard a female voice speak as he stopped a few yards away from them, he looked over to see only one guy and girl standing there, however behind them was about 15 people just watching and snickering. The girl spoke up yelling at Marcus, so you're the reason this little new blood bitch was smiling huh." Marcus ignored her and looked at Amber her face was a bit swollen as the strength protector had hit her, Marcus was looking at her and she was definitely unconscious due to the hit plus the summoning. Marcus set her down lightly and having quickly taken off his hoodie for her to have as a pillow, he then took out his phone leaning it against her and recording what was about to happen. He stood up and faced them, the girl furious he had been ignoring her, she commanded her protector to kill him. Marcus smirked at her saying that, her protector looked pissed, "something funny about me coming to kill you punk?" Marcus smiled, yeah the fact that you think you can." He looked at Amber then back at the guy, "so you hit my damsel and now you're threatening to kill me do I got that right?" The protector laughed, "what are you stupid or something, yes I hit her and now you're going to die." Marcus sighed as he shook his head and in a split second he was in front of the guy and with a quick jab to the face the guy had a bloody nose, the guy shook it off even more pissed off and charged him as fast as he could. Marcus quickly swept his legs out from underneath him causing his body to do a front flip at the same force he was charging with as he was almost back to standing Marcus appeared behind him back to back. He reached back grabbing his forehead pulling it back and down as he pulled him down he slammed his shoulder into the back of his neck snapping it with a loud snap from his bone. He stood there for a second looking at the girl as well as the others behind her, they stood there frozen unsure what had just happened. He then shrugged off the dead body as if it were just a bag of garbage, his damsel slowly stumbled over before falling on his body letting out a screaming cry. Her scream seemed to wake up the others as a few of the screamed running away, others started yelling at Marcus about how he's so dead and what not. Marcus even noticed a few of them throwing up, he picked up his phone and ended the recording. After putting it away he picked up Amber, right after he picked up Amber a few teachers showed up as well as what appeared to be the school doctor. The doctor went to check on the dead protector only to quickly confirm that he was dead, one of the teachers started questioning the students who all just kept saying that He had killed him. Marcus felt his name would be more widely know after this incident but currently they didn't know his name. A teacher came marching over looking beyond pissed off, he immediately started yelling at Marcus, "do you realize what you've done, you killed him!" The teacher continued to yell at him but Marcus wasn't paying him any attention, Marcus sighed looking around and waiting for the authorities as he knew he only needed to show them the video and he'd be fine. He noticed the school doctor was done dealing with the dead student and decided he should let her handle Amber as she probably needed to be checked on. When he turned to go walk the angry teacher now livid grabbed his shoulder, but in a split second he lost his grip and heard a booming voice yell out, "stop!" He blinked and saw Marcus heel stopped about an inch from his right eye, the teacher backed away looking at the origin of the voice to see the principal of the school looking at them. Principal Skinner was a giant of a man standing about 6'5" and muscular as all hell he looked like a walking tank, but to most people's surprise he very much preferred a kinder more peaceful approach to most things. Marcus had talked to Principal Skinner when gaining approval to come to school and through that learned he respected not only his strength but they type of person he was so he felt as a student at his school it was natural to listen when he said to stop. Marcus put his foot down and walked over to the doctor, she looked at him a second not seeming to notice Amber in his arms until he motioned to her. She nodded taking her from him and getting her on a stretcher with other teachers help, Marcus walked over to see the angry teacher bitching to the principal about what he had been told. He simply handed the principal his phone with the video, "as you'll see recorded here he not only attacked my damsel but even threatened my life." The principal sighed looking at him then watched the video, he handed the phone back, "in these situations the authorities will need to be called to make a proper verdict but it seems as though you were within your rights per the law." He motioned for Marcus to follow him and proceeded to walk to the school, Marcus knew that the students and most of the teachers in this school were living in a very fragile bubble unaware of how most protectors and damsels really have to work. The four families only brought on the most talented of them while others go off to try to live a more normal life, how ever due to discrimination most of them can't find normal jobs. Whether it was fighting for others entertainment, becoming a mercenary for money, or simply being paid to be someone's trophy the options most protectors and damsels had were very limited. For what ever reason the school seemed to not be teaching them about reality but an idealistic future. The Principal spoke as he walked, "I understand you have your reasons for going so far but I will be using you to help this school and all my students." Marcus nodded, "I understand if you need me to help in anyway I'll try to." The principal sighed, "if you want to help from now on if something like this happens just don't kill them, this is already going to be a hell of a hassle and I don't want it to become a recurring thing." Marcus nodded, "understandable and I will do my best to follow what you have said." Marcus continued to follow him until they reached his office where they waited a bit for the authorities. Two officers came in about 40 minutes later, and looked at Marcus then to the principal. The first officer spoke to the principal while the other officer stared at Marcus who pretended not to notice, "well as the video of what happened seems to have already been leaked and gathered a fair bit of attention per the law he was within his rights and we have been told to leave it up to you as to how you will deal with it." The officer staring at Marcus spoke up not looking away, "not that we at all feel ok with letting a murderer slip through the cracks but I guess this freak is just lucky he found that hole." He turned to walk out muttering, "freak doesn't even care he killed someone." The other cop sighed, "right, we'll be leaving now." The principal followed the cop out then after they left he turned to his secretary and told her to have all the classes gather into the auditorium for a special announcement. He then went back into his office and sighed, "now I need to make sure this message gets across properly." Marcus stood up and sighed, "then make it look bad." The principal proceeded to beat Marcus till he was very bloody, he then picked up Marcus and said, "you still breathing?" Marcus weakly said, "yep just peachy." The principal chuckled and walked off carrying him, the classes of all the years were gathered all of them talking and gossiping about the death they had now and wondering what was going to happen. The lights went off in the room only lighting up the stage, the principal stood there his clothes slightly bloody from the beating he gave out. He spoke into the mic his voice silencing the students, "students, I have gathered you all here today to address the rumors that I'm sure you've heard hell maybe even seen the video." He paused his voice getting a bit softer, "sadly a student died today." There were a good number of gasps and clamoring but the principal started again, "now due to what was said in the video the young man Marcus was deemed to be within his rights and has been aloud to go free." A good number of people were yelling out in disbelief and fear, "now listen and understand if you threaten to kill someone as a protector or damsel that isn't something that can be laughed off in most situations and that was the main reason he was freed so if you remember anything remember that. But as he is a student of my school there will be punishment. He walked over picking up Marcus off the ground from behind the curtain and threw him on stage showing just how beaten he was. A few people screamed thinking he was dead, the principal got back on stage and spoke again, "he's not dead but probably wishes he was, now yes I personally punished him but along side this he will be suspended till he is full recovered." Skinner looked at the students his gaze, demeanor, and voice became serious, "this punishment is only because this is the first time this happened in my school and will serve as a warning to all of you, if any of you think that you can try to get away with killing another student you will be worse off then him." Skinner picked Marcus up throwing him on his shoulder then walked off the stage, as the lights turned back on the teachers started leading the students back to their class. Skinner laid him down on one of the beds in the schools doctors office, the head doctor walked over in a rush seeing all the blood, "oh god what happened? Wait." She paused recognizing him from earlier and looked at the principal, he smiled, "I had to discipline him but he should be fine just a few broken bones." She sighed as she took out scissors to cut off his clothes as she was about to start she heard a small scream, "Marcus!" She turned to see Amber had woken up with no knowledge of what had happened. She ran up beside his bed, "oh my god what happened?" The principal sighed and pulled her aside as the doctor closed the curtain to start her medical examination.