Maximum Power

Adrian had earned a spot on the team like he desired, but he couldn't quench this dissatisfied feeling in his heart.

He had trained for several nights improving and evolving his fighting skill,he had even trained a few times with Mr Leo yet he still couldn't hold a candle to those in the top ten or even top twenty.

*Sigh*

Adrian breath a sigh of relief as he  walked towards his room. G-15 the sign above the door read as he twisted the door knob, opening it.

"If it isn't the fire princess." Ryan smiled.

"That was a nice one buddy." Alexis complement.

"Thanks." Adrian expressionlessly replied, walking straight to the bathroom.

"What do you think is wrong with him?" Ryan asked Alexis.

"I don't know, maybe Shaktar surrendering his position hurt his pride."Alexis suggested.

Adrian stared at the mirror, lost in thought. He could not understand why Shaktar would surrender so easily, it was as if everything was staged.

'I suspect Mr Leo has something to do with this.' Adrian thought to himself, trying to fix the pieces of the puzzle together.

'Mr Leo strangely advised me to challenge Shaktar which seemed crazy at that time, and now Shaktar suddenly gives up. It can't be a coincidence.' Adrian frowned.

*Bang!*

The door to the toilet came crashing as Adrian flung the door wide open, his anger clearly visible on his face.

"Where are you going?" Alexis asked as Adrian walked towards the room's exit.

"Nothing." Adrian replied in a cold tone as he exited the room.

. . .

"Ah shit." Mr Leo sat on one of the auditorium seats, observing the level of destruction his students had caused to the training center.

'My salary for this month goes down the drain.' Mr Leo thought to himself.

'Six completely destroyed platforms, one partly destroyed, and to top it of,a shattered section of the auditorium.'

"Hey!" Adrian voice halted Mr Leo's thoughts.

"Are you talking to me?" Mr Leo asked with a mischievous smile on his face

.

"Who else would I be talking to, your the only one here." Adrian blurted out, unable to hold back his anger.

"What do you want?" Mr Leo continued smiling.

"I know what you did, I know you made Shaktar surrender to me." Adrian spoke with the anger clearly audible in his tone.

"I don't know what your talking about?" Mr Leo lied.

"You also think am a failure right, you think I don't have what it takes to win. I'll show you." Adrian looked up, only to find Mr Leo's seat empty.

Suddenly, he felt a chill down his spine. He could sense a very terrifying killing intent behind him.

"Aren't you supposed to say thank you?" Mr Leo whispered into his ear.

"Beside, if I taught you were a failure would I train you specially?

Author's Note: 

{Killing intent and Aura are two different things. Killing intent is just an invisible controlled pressure which can be used to stun a target , while the aura is a colorful display of power similar to DBZ (Dragon Ball z :) ), accompanied with a uncontrollable pressure.}

"I-i..." Adrian opened his mouth but couldn't say a word in reply.

"Why help me?" Adrian finally managed to ask.

"You remind me of my younger brother."

"How do you mean?"

"Well, it's a long story. To cut it short, he was an E-rank deviant. Even though he was considered weak and incompetent by everyone around him, including our parents, he strived to grow stronger, he believed he could..." Tears ran down Mr Leo's face as he could no longer hold back his emotions.

"What happened to him?" Adrian asked.

"He died trying to protect me." Mr Leo sobbed.

"Anyway that's all in the past." Mr leo wiped the tears of his face.

"You also have that same determination to get stronger, to prove yourself. That is why I trained you even at night hours and that is why I want you to be part of my team." Mr Leo concluded, heading towards the center's exit.

"Make sure to get some rest Mr Kane, because from next week your gonna see hell." Mr Leo chuckled, disappearing on the spot.

'How does he keep doing that.' Adrian thought to himself.

' I'll just take a stroll to clear my thought, then I'll head to bed to catch some zzzzzzz."

Author's Note:( zzzzz = sleep).

Adrian walked around the school, aimlessly wandering about like a vehicle without a steering wheel.

He walked into the large 5-Storey building which house all the classrooms.

*Tap*

He's footsteps echoed throughout the deserted first floor.

The first floor of the building housed the cafeteria, and a public seating lounge for all students irrespective of the class. The subsequent four floors belonged to the four first year classes, each restricted to students and teachers of  a particular class. The second floor housed Class 1-D, the third Class 1-C and so it continued to the top floor.

'Lets see what these classes have to hide.' Adrian smiled mischievously, as he got into the elevator and pushed the button 3.

*Ding*

The elevator rang as it took him to the third floor. Adrian carefully stepped out of the lift, observing his surroundings in search of cameras.

Surprisingly they were all deactivated, which seemed strange to him. His own floor had several active cameras at almost every nook and cranny.

'Whatever.' Adrian brushed his suspicion aside, navigating the dim floor.

'This place looks good, it might even be better than ours.' Adrian thought to himself.

Just then, Adrian found one door in particular opened, with a bright light emanating from it.

He could hear two people conversing. Even though they spoke as quietly as they could, Adrian's hearing picked  them up.

"We have to prepare, Rarkham and the others are ready to make a move and we have to make sure everything goes according to plan." The first man spoke.

"Yes sir, I've gathered the required specimens for harvest." The second man replied.

'Specimens, and who the hell is Rarkham? I hope they aren't planning to cheat at the preliminary exams, Well let me take a peak.'

Adrian controlled his breathing, which in turn ceased all leaking energy radiating from him, this was one of the things Mr Leo had thought him during one of their late night training sessions.

Slowly but steadily, Adrian approached the door, only to find Mr Grater and the homeroom teacher of class 1-C discussing. What stood out the most was that they both had the same tattoo on their right arm, A ten headed black dragon.

Well whatever it meant, Adrian didn't really care. "I need to hear whatever they are scheming." Adrian whispered to himself.

*Creak*

The wooden floor beneath his foot creaked, alerting both men.

"Who is there?" Mr Grater said in a sinister tone, approaching the door.

*Thud-Thud*

Adrian's footsteps echoed throughout the dim empty hall way, as he approached the elevator.

"Get whoever it is, we can't let him or her get away, we don't know how much he has heard, it could ruin the plans." Mr Grater ordered.

*Tap-tap*

Adrian pushed the button to the elevator, which was taking forever to open.

"C'mon c'mon c'mon.." Adrian repeated.

*Ding*

The elevator door opened.

"Get back here!" The class 1-C teacher ordered as he swiftly approached the elevator.

*Tap-tap*

Adrian pushed the button repeatedly to close the elevator.

"C'mon c'mon c'mon." Thick drops of Sweat covered his face.

*Ding*

The elevator rang again, shutting the doors.

"You get back here!" The class 1-C teacher rammed his body into the closed elevator door.

*Bang*

The sound of the impact resounded throughout the entire floor.

"Ah shit." The class 1-C teacher wined, when he noticed he didn't even leave a scratch on the elevator door.

"Use the stairs Flynn; we don't need to destroy anything, it might lead to an investigation and that would be very bad for us. Now get that brat." Mr Grater ordered the Class 1-C teacher.

"Yes sir." Mr Flynn replied as he dashed down the stairs at superhuman speed.

*Ding*

The elevator rang again as it reached the ground floor.

"Hey you!" Mr Flynn roared,while panting heavily.

"You've got no where to run." Mr Flynn said with a diabolical smile.