Get Strong

"He-Hey, don't think anything funny, my-my brother is B-rank Earth elemental"

"Who is it?" Ray asked

"Wha-What are you talking about?" Kenji stuttered in fear

Ray grabbed his collar and asked again "Who was it", due to the heat in his hand, Kenji's collar started burning.

"Hot! Aghhhhh! Le-Leave me please, I will say it, I will say" Kenji cried in pain, the heat almost burned his neck, the collar of his hoodie was almost burned.

Ray throws him and Kenji was down on the road, until then Abby and Alex cleared the group and appeared.

"I don't know his name, he-he had grey hairs, and a scar on his lips, he also had a skull tattoo on his neck, that's all I know please leave me"

Abby and Alex were huffing, Ray was not in his normal self, Ronin ran away from the spot, the group was lying down unconscious, Kenji trembled as he saw the three of them, with Ray in middle and Alex and Abby on left and right, their eyes were enraged Kenji saw them as monsters in fear.

"Everything was in my hand until this Black hair boy appeared, I won't let you go after I escape from this situation," Kenji said in his mind.

"Ple-Please let me go, I said about them"

"Heh, you maybe begging for now but I bet you will attack us again once you get out of here," Alex said crouching down

"No no I will not mess with anyone in this life, I-I swear" Kenji tried to convince while sweating

"You messed with Abby's sister boy, not even we can convince him once he had made his mind" Ray smirked

"Si-Sir Abby, I swear I will stay far away from your sister, please let me go once" Kenji grabbed Abby's leg and begged.

"Next time if it happens I will kill you," Abby said

"No, No It won't happen I will never do it" Kenji stood up in relief and tried to go back on his bike

After that, the three of them left. Kenji thought he was spared but Abby beat the crap out of him before they left. Kenji was lying on the road with his eyes swelled and his two teeth were also lying on road.

"Shi-Shit I won't leave them alive" Kenji stuttered.

Unknown to anyone a man with a mask and black hoody was watching all this from the top of the building on the street.

"A fire elemental huh? interesting" He said and vanished from the top of the building.

On their way back to Abby's home, "That's crazy, why did you act like a loser back then in school" Alex said while trying to wrap his hands around Ray's shoulder, he felt hot and immediately retreated his hands.

"You still hot blood huh? Cool down there" Alex said but Ray collapsed on the road unconscious.

"Agh! Not again, this brat" Alex sighed.

Back then before Ray attacked the group. "The..These bastards, they wanted to harm Yuna," Ray said to the shadow.

"Why don't you jump in there then?" Shadow replied

"Hey, help me this time"

"Rude... why do you think I will help you"

"Didn't you say before that you are me and I am you"

"Sigh.. I'll share some of the mana and some memory about how to control mana, if your fragile body can hold on you are lucky buddy"

"That's enough for me"

The shadow inside Ray's body shared some mana with Ray, again his body was becoming hot but this time Ray didn't felt pain because he learned how to control the mana because of the memory shared with him.

Ray opened his eyes, he was again in Yuna's bedroom. Yuna was sitting on the sofa next to the bed she saw Ray opening his eyes.

"You awake?"

"Yeah"

Yuna sat on the bed next to Ray

"Good to hear, why do you always get unconscious, when you visit"

"Ahaha... this time it was just because"

"Because of me right?" Yuna interrupted.

"No-No, I just stepped on shit on the road then hit a pole, and fell unconscious"

Yuna started laughing and Ray was awkward there he just realized he made fun of himself in front of his crush.

Yuna stopped laughing and said "Alex told me everything, you three got in a fight because of me, Abby and Alex got hurt you were unconscious, you... you guys really scared me"

Yuna teared up, Ray was confused how to comfort her, he moved his hand forward to hug her, but then retracted

"I'm sorry," Ray said

Yuna stopped crying after a while "Ah, no I'm very thankful for your help, but please don't get hurt because of me"

"Ah for that day also, I'm sorry I wasn't In my right mood I thought it was a dream so..."

Yuna blushed thinking about the day when Ray suddenly kissed her, she looked down trying to hide her face. But Ray thought he shouldn't have said anything about it

"Ah, shit she looks angry, damn I shouldn't have said anything about this topic, what should I do now?"

Ray was nervous he was unable to think anything. But then Yuna said, " So you have weird dreams about me every now and then huh?"

She leaned forward close to Ray's face, Ray blushed and looked the other way "Hmmm.... what kind of weird dreams do you have about me?

"No-No, It was just I was not on my right mind so... umm... you see I don't have any weird dreams," Ray said while trying to avoid the topic.

"So you don't think about me?" Yuna pretended to be sad.

"No-No you misunderstood me I think about you. Yeah yeah I always think about you that's why that day I kisse-" Yuna stopped Ray by keeping her hands on his mouth

"Okay, enough I got it," Yuna said as she blushed.

Alex knocked on the door and entered the room, Yuna retracted her hand from Ray's mouth. Alex saw the atmosphere looked strange.

"Yo, you up? lemme drop you to your house"

"Ah, ok"

Ray said bye to Yuna and Abby, he left on the bike with Alex, both of them were quiet for a while.

"Hey?" Alex asked

"Y-Yeah?"

"Don't be nervous around us, we may seem like a bully but we suffered a lot more than others"

"Ah"

"Abby's parents were killed in America when he was six, and the people involved were none other than Yuna's parents"

"What?"

"Yeah, Abby's parents worked in Administrative Personnel as Head Researcher. They were working for the development of a certain serum, but in between his parents found the dangers of the development they wanted to stop it, but the company was against it and they tried to force but his parents warned that they will make this issue public"

"What happened then?"

"Ray was six then, Ray's uncle and aunt lived in Japan, the company hired them to personally deal with his parents, I don't know what they offered but Abby's parents never knew that the ones who are closest to them are toxic. Abby's father and mother were found dead. They made a story that Abby's mother anted divorce, so Abby's father had a heart attack, and while on the way to the hospital they had an accident"

"Wait so that means Yuna is.."

"Yeah, she is the daughter of those culprits. But Abby never showed hatred against Yuna, infact he considered her the only family left with him"

After hearing the story there was silence between them for a while, Alex dropped Ray to his house and left.

Ray and Abby were both lying on their beds, they had the same thing in mind

"If Ray wasn't there It could have turned very bad for us," Abby thought.

"If it wasn't for shadows powers that could have turned bad for Abby and Alex," Ray thought

"I need to get stronger," Ray and Alex thought the same thing.

The next day in school Chris and Elaine were early Alex and Abby had some scratches on their face covered with a band-aid, everyone was scared of Abby and Alex, rumors started to begin about Abby and Alex fighting with the seniors of another school.

Alex and Abby entered the class took their seats, Chris asked what happened to them, Alex said it was a small fight with some thugs, Elaine didn't bother about Alex she was thinking how to ditch him.

Ray entered the class moments later, Alex raised his hands and greeted him "Yo", Ray also raised his hand and greeted him the same way. Ray gave the shirt he wore yesterday to Abby, as his shirt t-shirt was blown away

After the classes were finished the five of them again gathered to the ground, Sanjiro saw Abby and Alex's faces he understood they had a fight.

Alex was going to explain what happened before Sanjiro said anything but then Sanjiro asked "Who won?"

"Huh?" Alex was surprised by the question.

"We barely won" Abby replied.

"Honest answer huh? You just barely won being elementals?"

All of them were quiet. Chris and Elaine were shocked that there was someone who could deal damage to the "Mad Dogs"

"How much were they?" Sanjiro added

Alex and Abby didn't focus on the numbers, as they were busy fighting.

"Maybe 25 or 30?" Alex said.

"You don't even know the numbers of your opponent and just started fighting?"

"36" Ray replied with a straight face. Ray and Abby had the same expression, they were determined to become strong.

Sanjiro smirked seeing their expression.

"Alright, time to make your training harder," Sanjiro said.

"Yo-You guys fought 36 of them, and what was Ray doing there? he must have been deadweight to you guys" Elaine laughed looking down on Ray

"Because of him we won the fight," Alex said with slight anger on his face