The Start of a New Beginning Arc

"Your pain tolerance is quite strong," Colt says as he pours the vinegar "just what will it take to break that. I know," he clicks his fingers twice as one of the men come to him

"You, boil it." he hands the man the bottle of vinegar which he pours in a metal container and places it in the furnace nearby. The other men laugh till they hear footsteps coming from the main door.

They turn to see one of their comrades dragging an unconscious Kyran by the arm which shocks and scares Ms. Travers. The man is quite short yet strong and is wearing full black military type clothing with black boots and the same colored mask and has short trimmed hair.

"Boss," the man says "I found this one spying from outside." his voice was calm as though there was no emotion in it.

"Dispose of him, we need no witnesses." Colt says till he notices a change in Ms. Travers' eyes. "Wait!" Colt says as the man draws back his gun. "You know this boy, don't you."

"No I don't," Ms. Travers denies "I just don't want children to die."

"No that's not it," Colt says as he holds her hair up "There's a difference in someone's eyes when they see someone they don't know about to be killed," he turns to Kyran "and someone they do know." he chuckles for a bit which surprises everyone "This makes things more fun and easier. Chain him."

The man proceeds to wrap the chains around Kyran's limbs, then the chains get screwed to the ground. Colt then walks to Kyran and places the knife edge on the back of Kyran's neck. He then notices the scar as he shifts the blade to press on the neck scar.

"Now, are you going to talk?" Colt says to Ms. Travers.

Kyran begins to gain consciousness as he opens his eyes to a blurry sight while slowly regaining his vision. Colt notices this as he pulls Kyran's hair, lifting his head to see his face properly.

"Rise and shine you little rascal." Colt says.

"Huh, where am I?" Kyran says "Ms Travers I--" he says just as Colt slaps him all of a sudden which silences him.

"Hey, I'm the one you should be talking to here." Colt says as he pulls on his hair.

"Didn't your parents teach you not to spy on people?" Colt asks yet Kyran stays silent.

"So now you have nothing to say. Doesn't matter, we don't need anything fro you other than you screams." he begins to slowly cut the scar on Kyran's neck as Ms. Travers watches.

Ms. Travers remains silent as Colt kept cutting Kyran by dragging the blade on his scar. Although it hurts Kyran tries not to worry Ms. Travers, but as soon as Colt pours the vinegar, Kyran's tolerance is broken as he lets out a cry of agony.

"So are you willing to talk now fox?" Colt asks but just as soon as she was about to talk he cuts her off saying "Don't try spouting any lies or else his misery will end too quickly."

[ Survive]

The system informs Kyran a his eyes widen to the sight of the gun pointing at his head.

Suddenly they hear the sound of Colt's smart phone ringing as he pulls it out with its red and white case and answers the call.

"Yes." he says as he listens to the voice "Okay. You," he says to one of his men "make her chains tighter. It's for all of us." he says as he shows the phone screen which shows an anonymous call labelled with hyphens(-----------).

The short man leaves the chained Kyran and heads over to tighten Ms. Travers' chains properly. Once he finished, the other men, him and Colt head to a separate room as the metal door closes behind them. The room is dark with the only source of light being the phone which has been placed horizontally on a clear table and set to video call. The video call comes on as they all recognize who it is. They all seem scared except for Colt who seems glad.

"Good to see all of you." they hear a manly voice say.

"Same here. Are you feeling better?" Colt says.

"I need more. And ---."

Meanwhile Ms. Travers attempts to free herself of the chains but finds it almost impossible to move. She looks at Kyran who has been awfully quiet and quickly suspects that he is afraid.

"Kyran." she calls a he turns to her "How did you even get here? Never-mind, that doesn't matter now, I'll get us out of here."

Although he's bleeding, Kyran stays calm and looks around trying to brainstorm an escape method. He looks at his chains carefully and notices an opportunity of escape which he knows how to achieve, but he has to get something off his mind first.

"Ms. Travers, I'm sorry." Kyran says.

"Don't apologize now," Ms. Travers replies "this is no time for that."

"I'm sorry for what happened in class."

"What do you mean?" she questions "It was just the effects of my lack of sleep catching up to me but," she says with a calm voice "I forgive you."

He considers explaining what happened but doesn't because there is no clear way to explain to her, so he settles with what he got.

"Thank you and there's another thing..." Kyran says.

Ms. Travers thinks to herself 'What more does he have to apologize for?'

"...I know how we can escape from these chains." Kyran says which surprises her.

"Explain, quickly before they come back."

"Okay. The screw on my chain is loose, you can use your focus to remove it then I'll free myself then free you."

"That's a great idea but," she tries moving which she can't "I can't move my hands so my focus is unusable."

Kyran looks around for other methods but, without Ms. Travers' focus he learns that they won't work. He tries moving his arms around and sees that he can but it's limited. He knows what he has to do.

"Miss, I can." he says as she gets puzzled.

"Then why haven't you done so?"

"I lack the strength, but you can teach me."

"Kyran," she sighs "even if I can teach you how, I'm pretty sure a regular 14-year-old boy can't break metal chains."

"I can use my focus. I recently emerged it and" he pauses "it's the same as yours. So please teach me."

"That's convenient." she hears noise in the other room "Okay let's not waste time, are you ready to learn?"

Kyran takes in a deep breath before saying "Yes"

"Well this is really lucky but let's start." she says "Telekinesis is a direct mental focus which gets stronger with your mental ability. Although you're quite lazy, you're still very smart so I guess it won't be too hard for you. Everyone who has emerged naturally gets an aura around them which varies in strength depending on the person. A telekinesis user can transfer some of it to an object then move it around."

"Okay but how do I transfer it?" Kyran asks.

"From what I learned," she replies " you first have to feel the aura in your mind and your body. Just sense that tingly sensation and it's there, then concentrate on the object and some would transfer to it."

He does as she says as he starts feeling the tingly sensation in his head then looks at he screw of the chain and concentrates on it. Thin black aura can be seen forming around his hands which shocks and impresses her. The same black aura emits from the screw as it vibrates lightly.

"That's great progress for your first time." she compliments "Now move your hand as though you're unscrewing it."

He does so as the screw comes off releasing his right hand as he stops using the focus.

[ Focus has ascended: Psychokinesis] the circle changes from black to a heavy dark shade of grey.

[ Ability learned: Ambience of the 10]

[ Description: Natural aura of the Catalysts. Automatic activation depending on mood. Grows with Catalyst. Learn more by yourself.]

He removes the other chains with his free right hand then heads over to free Ms Travers. He tries to free her but later sees that her chains are incredibly hard to remove.

"They won't budge." he whispers.

"Okay try looking for a lever over there," she indicates the direction with her head "please don't make any loud noises and keep calm." she says as he nods.

He goes towards the direction while trying his best not to step on the lying metal. Fear kept coursing through him but he took deep breaths to keep calm. He laced every step with caution and speed to reach where the lever is. He looks around and finds the lever behind a stack of crates. He goes around the crates to see three of the same levers greatly spaced apart with no labels to indicate which does what. He carefully goes to grab the one on the far left but before he pulls it he considers the fact that he doesn't know what it will do. It could free Ms. Travers or it could alert the gang. He decides to pull all three at the same time and hope for the best.

He tries to reach for the other two but is unable to so he decides to use telekinesis. He concentrates on the other two levers with his right hand stretched out as thin black aura emitted from them. He moves his right hand slowly to check for a firm hold then simultaneously pulls all the levers down as he hears the sounds of releasing chains.

Ms. Travers feels her chains loosen as she frees her hands then hears the sound of loosening chains above her, she looks up to see a giant crate above her as she quickly removes the chains on her legs then lunges out of the way as the crate came crashing down, creating a loud noise.

"Kyran come out, we have to run!" she calls out to him. Kyran rushes towards her carelessly as the sound of falling metal could be clearly heard. He meets up with her as she grabs his arm while running out.

A loud boom noise is heard as the door of the other room flies out with the gang members rushing out. They see the crate's debris as Colt looks to the main door to see it has been slid open.

"Get them," Colt shouts "and make sure no one sees them or you!"

The men begin their pursuit as one of them clashes his fists as an armor of metal forms around his body and anothers' fists burst with flames while the rest grabbed steel pipes and drew out their knives.

"Spread out and alert everyone if they're found!" Colt shouts.

Ms Travers looks at Kyran while running and sees that he has calmed down, she looks around and sees a road leading to the main one.

"Let's go here." she says as she pulls him into an alley way as they stop to take a breather. "That was the first time you used your focus, very impressive progress." she compliments.

"Thank you." he says while panting "Do you think we lost them?"

"Unlikely," she sighs "they won't give up that easily. You're not even supposed to be here but, thank you for the help, We have to get you home as soon as possible."

She grabs his arm and begins to rush out of the alley way with her taking the lead. They rush through the dirty alley and past rubbish piles till they reached the end as Ms Travers is first to go out, but just as soon as she did, she pushes Kyran back with one arm then suddenly...

BANG!

The sound of gunfire is heard as Kyran sees blood spew out of the sides of her abdomen. He is carried by her telekinesis behind a big trash bin, then she falls to the ground.

"That was a fun game of hide and seek." he hears Colt's voice as Colt shoots her leg

"We're not done with you," he shoots her other leg "so where do you think you're going."