IT'S NAVI..

***The Upper sector of the Outskirts of 'Eclipse of the Ocean', Chingford's Academy..

Early morning today has been a sore experience for Navi.. Literally.

His body is as sore as a spanked buttock and his mind is in fragments of pain from last night's experience.

 Finally getting out of his room had taken a lot of willpower, grit as well as biting hunger.

Navi felt like his body hosted a party to a magnitude five earthquake and his tissues are now currently held together by sore jello instead of muscles.

 His skin, his head, his heart, his lungs and even his bones feels different in a bad way.

At first after waking up early morning, Navi is mostly sore and did not really feel much pains though as he started an attempt to pen-down all the things he's gotten from his dreams, the pains from the night started to crash into him like waves.

This pain is soon followed by the most brutal headache Navi has ever felt in his life and that is saying something considering the classes of headaches Navi has felt through his short lifetime.

 Navi could barely register the pains of his body when the headache first hit. It ringing in his head flares like sirens and electricity seems to turn to thunder through his neurons.

It seemed at the beginning that Navi's brain was so numb that it couldn't truly register the pains when he woke up but that changed,.. though that had changed real fast.

 Physically, Navi seemed to be breaking apart. Bkack blood flows through Navi's mouth as his lungs strained deeply like never before.

Falling sideways with trembling fingers, Navi had ended up on the ground while convulsing in pain as muffled growls blows out of his throat. His body seems to folds up and each little movement hurts more than the last.

Face with such physical and mental pains, Navi list consciousness.

 He dalls asleep in a sense as his mental defenses kicks in since he cannot conciously handle the sudden shocks and pains.

Out of some miracle the dleeping Navi would later be very grateful for, he does not have the usual 'dream' and when he had finally woken up, the sun is already making a beautiful exit for the moon.

 It's already late evening and the prime hours of the day is gone.

Atleast the hours of 'forced sleep' makes Navi feel much better than when he had just woken up.

 With a groan, Navi opens his eyes before turning his body to the side with an even bigger groan.

Althiugh there's a stagger in his movements, Navi claws his way back to his feet then out of the room.

Standing up, Navi's face scrunches up into a mild grimace as his head rings a bit before clearing up.

Feeling blood at the side of his cheek(from his nosebleed), Navi feels lucky as it seems that through the day, none if his room-mates had come back to see his awful state.

Shaking his head, Navi tucks such thoughts to the back of his head as the first thing he needs right now is not appreciating his luck but rather a very cold shower.

 With purpose, Navi moves to his cabinet as he pulls out a towel, a bar soap and a bag containing replacement clothes.

Slamming the cabinet door shut, Navi slowly moves out of the room's door while making his way into the public bathroom slowly with the dark circles around his eyes deeper than ever.

Climbing the stairs downwards, each set atill feel cruel to his body but soon he makes it through the 'Journey'.

Without caring much about anything, Navi pushes the door of the bathroom then lightly staggers inside.

 Running and rolling water sounds come from the room with tens of disciples who are about to retire to their rooms already getting themselves cleaned up.

Right now, Navi does not have the energy to care much about any sort of privacy as he just moves on to an empty slot while attracting a bit of attention due to his height as well as the blood in the side of his face.

 Since it's a martial Academy, Navi only gets first curious glances but never a second. It seems he is not the only one without energy to care for anything else but relieve.

The Martial trainings must have also done quite the numbers on everyone in here with the only difference in exhaustion levels being that Navi does not even have the energy to give anyone even a first glance!.

 Turning on the shower and holding the bamboo spray up, a very deep sigh escapes Navi's mouth as icy cold water hits his skin and hair with a small shiver rocking through his body. The cold water always brings him back to reality.

Holding up the bamboo spray, Navi just lets the cold water flow for a few minutes.

 With five minutes left on his time, Navi finally fetches out his soap and does justice to his body's hygiene. He doon rinses off the white foam from his skin before doing an everyday ritual of checking himself out in the mirror.

 Rubbing off the steam on the cold-glassy mirror surface with his palm, Navi looks straight at himself without much expression on his face.

Nothing has changed much.

 The same fiery yet cold orange eyes though with reddened veins in his whites. The same pale skin, the same ink-black hair and really bad dark eye circles.

The only difference todat in Navi's appearance is the fact that everything seems a bit worse than the day before.

 His dark-circles have gotten worse, his hair a bit more overgrown and his pale face looks a shade deeper into unhealthy.

Navi still looks handsome and cold though his gaze has lost something.

Seeing himself, he subconsciously tries to touch his neck just to realise that his pendant is not currently with him.

He suddenly misses his mom badly right now and he doesn't even know why.

 Either way, his time in the bathroom is up and Navi knows better than to stay much longer and so he makes his exit after putting on a clean set of robes.

 Going back up the stairs, Navi drops off all he has used in the bathroom back into his dorm's cabinet before redesending as he trails his way straight to the cafeteria with his teardrop shaped pendant now hanging on his neck.

 Common to the evening, the Academy's cafeteria is loaded with hungry and tired disciples stuffing themselves up with energy.

The normally brutal taste of the cafeteria's food does not taste half as bad whenever someone has just returned from a set of brutal martial training so Navi is not much surprised by the canopy of sounds of spoons and chopsticks wildly slapping against plates from different table sets.

 Not at all daring to feel selfish to his numb body, Navi moves then soon fills up a tray with energy packed food and two high-tier Nutrient packs as he scans the big place for an empty corner.

 Unfortunately for him, there's only empty wooden seats and not tables so Navi is forced to pull a seat with a group of other disciples.

 Every body on the table he pulls off on seems to already know themselves as they are all jovially speaking to each other while eating.

All Navi does as he gets settled at the last empty seat on the table is give a polite smile before pulling the seat.

 The group pauses for a while to give him a side-glance but seeing his age and the fact that he immediately focuses on his meal, they soon ignore him as they continue their gossip.

 "..because of this, the death duel has been approved and is going to hold in one week in the Academy's duel stage. All disciples that can take in the violence are free to bear witness.",- A girl on the six-person dining table says before diving into the drawy meat-soup in front of her with a pair of chop-sticks.

 "If I were him, I'll back off from the fight. He hasn't sensed mana and neither has she but considering the amount of help she's getting it wouldn't be miracle anymore if she can sense mana overnight. By then the chances of him getting any sort of justice would be buried alongside his very broken body.", Another guy on the table says as he sucks up some very nasty meat flavoured spaghetti with a light grimace.

 "Well that's why you're not him. He's a man and you're missing a pair of balls!. He already knows his low odds when he issued the challenge but he also knows somethings just have to be done.", Another guy says while pointing to the guy who's slurping meaty spaghetti with his chop-sticks.

 "How dare..*Slurp*.. how dare you insult by balls?!.", The guy yells with his voice high in both anger and embarrassment.

 "Yeah, he has balls the sixe of cannonballs!.", An elven lady by the insulted guy's side says defensive while unknowingly explaining their relationship to an uncaring Navi.

 The guy who had just give out the insult about balls shakes his head and ignores the defensive duo before taking in gulps of water from his cup though another lady on the table gives a *Hush* sound to the last woman who has just spoken.

 "Shhhush!. There's a kid on the table.", The young lady says with a glare before giving an upset sigh at her friends babaric behavior.

 Turning to Navi the lady says with a friendly smile which soon gets wiped off as she is interupted after her first two words.

"Hey kid..

 "It's Navi.", Navi cuts the lady off immediately with a deep and calm voice that takes everyone around the table by surprise.

 "Huh?.", The woman exclaims softly in confusion and surprise.

 Finally lifting his gaze off from his food, Navi looks straight into the lady's eyes with his distinct orange eyes and then he says calmly.

 "My name.. It's Navi.".

 The young lady blinks a couple of times with a little blush surfacing on her skin as she stares right at Navi's deep orange eyes and pale face.

 Holdingbtge stare for a second, Navi soon takes off his gaze off the lady as he dives right back into his meal.

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