Candle Maker

Two days later.

Adrian walked by several students in  the hallway, going to his class at the extreme end of the hallway.

"Isn't that candle maker? I thought he was dead."

"I heard he got beat up by Shaktar from class 1-D..."

Adrian overhead several students whispering. He chose to ignore their remarks knowing fully well he could do nothing about them.

He finally arrived at his class after his seemingly torturous stroll down the hallway. When he entered, everyone in the class halted their various activities, and stared at him.

"Candle maker is alive!" A fellow classmate blurted out.

Most students busted into  mocking laughter. Shaktar stood up and went towards where Adrian was standing and wrapped his arm around Adrian's neck and whispered to him.

"I'm glad my punching bag is still alive, I was wondering where else I could get another one of your pathetic type since I almost killed you."

Adrian pushed of Shaktar's hand and went to his seat at the extreme end of the class.

The whole classes went by, while Adrian stared out the window throughout the whole ordeal.

*Ring*

The sound of the bell went signifying the end of the day. Without even waiting for the lecturer to leave, most students rushed out of the class. Adrian on the other hand stayed back and kept staring out the window.

He was not aware the lecturer watched him throughout the entire lecture session. With only both of them in the class, The lecturer walked up to him and slammed her hand on his table, waking him up from his trance and  bringing him back to reality.

"What in particular is outside there that you couldn't even pay the slightest attention during the entire class?"  She blurted out.

She even looked outside the window to see what it was in particular that captivated this student.

"Do you how pathetic you are? Your a weak piece of trash, Your brain is literary a vacuum nothing exists up there and your  an average looking guy so I don't see how you were admitted into this school. There is nothing special about you." She added.

Adrian observed the features of the woman before him. She looked like she was in her early 40's, he could notice the slight wrinkles on her face, strands of gray hair on her head and overall she was  worse looking compared to him not to mention her none intimidating structure.

He simply picked up his bag and left the class. The lecturer on the other hand,  stood there trying her best to see what exactly he liked staring at during classes.

It was a torturous journey down the hallway and to the male dormitories. He could hear every bad comment people made about him no matter how much they tried to whisper.

He finally arrived at his room's door. He quickly opened the door and was shocked to see Ryan searching his things.

"Ummm, what do you think your doing?" Adrian asked.

Ryan simply ignored him and carried on with his search.

"He suspects you took some enhancers  to fight Shaktar. So he is simply looking for them." Alexis explained, lying on his bed with a book in his arms.

"I didn't use any form of enhancer." Adrian spoke up.

"Well let's fight now, that is the only way you can convince me you didn't use any enhancer." Ryan replied.

" In other words you want to fight me to prove I didn't use drugs,"

"Yes. Do you accept or do I continue ravaging your things?" Ryan asked with an evil grin on his face.

"I accept!"

"Let's head to the training grounds shall we?" Ryan kept on smiling while saying those words.

"Come on Adrian think this through, that guy is ready to put you on the hospital bed." Alexis begged, but it seemed his plea fell on deaf ears as Ryan and Adrian left the room for the training grounds.

It took about 12 minutes for the three boys to arrive at the training grounds. It was evening time and as a result many students were practicing, sparing and some even came here  just to hang out.

"Let go gear up." Ryan said.

The boys went in to the changing room and  wore their necessary protective gears which included a helmet and a metallic body armor. The armor didn't provide full body protection. It was an armless  armor that provided  only upper body protection. The helmet had a glass face covering at the front which served two purposes, protection and display.  The protective gear  also included a metal gauntlet and some metal leg covering. Overall the armor was quite light, as light as cotton wear.

Adrian could tell that this armor was made from a certain type of metal that wasn't available to the public and was restricted to the military, governmental houses and other important individuals.

At the training grounds there were about 12 hexagon Fighting platforms which accounted for two thirds of the training grounds, one of which Shaktar and Adrian dueled. The spectators section, changing rooms and gym accounted for the other one third.

The both arrived at one of the hexagonal platforms ready to battle.

Most students seemed to be intrested in their battle mostly due to Ryan being the heir to house of Posiedion, they wanted to see the power of a member of the royal houses and how they fought.

"Who is he going to fight?" A girl from the spectators section asked her boyfriend who sat beside her.

"Its candle maker. It seems he has a thing for getting beaten, he might probably be a Masochist." Her boyfriend replied.

"Shall we begin?" Ryan asked, while taking his stance.

"Sure." Adrian replied, taking his own stance.