Hero: The Dark Order

Episode 10: Part 1: Awake

Episode 10: Part 1: Awake

I honestly didn’t give a s**t about Genghis Kandhar, if he’s dead, that’s his problem, right now, all I cared about was resting well and passing my exams tomorrow. I went back to bed immediately and shockingly, I woke up rather early and packed up for today’s examination, I packed everything I might need like pens, pencils, rulers and a mathematical set. I put all this in my school bag and headed downstairs, I was planning to leave and get to school myself but before I could step out, Mr Hitoshi called me, I went back inside with a frown and instead of saying sir, I talked to him in the rudest tone I could come up with, I asked him, “yes, how may I help you?”. He looked at me, smiled and apologised for yesterday, but I was having none of it, I told him that it was fine and that I would greatly love it if he could stop apologizing to me but instead, talk to his son because if he does anything stupid again, I would ensure he won’t live to tell the tale. Mr Hitoshi looked at me sternly and told me I had better not even imagined harming his son, this time, I laughed and told him that was strictly in his son’s hands. I turned back and was heading out when I bumped into Mia, she apologised for ramming into me and even though I said it was fine, she still continued to apologise, I didn’t stop her, I just decided to leave when she remembered why she was looking for me, it was time for breakfast, she also claimed to have made some of it and she mentioned that she would love for me to taste her cooking. I told her that was just alright and then, I proceeded to the dining table. We were about to have breakfast when I saw a message from Annabelle and all of a sudden, for no reason in particular, I remembered the watch her father had given me, if I remember correctly, I left it on the table in my room, I had not seen it in a few days, that feels really odd, while I was still lost in thought, Hitoshi’s mom asked why he was not at the dining table when Mia volunteered to get him from his room. She let out a mild scream a few seconds later and while her mom got worried, she found out why Mia had screamed soon enough, it was because of her son, her only son, Hitoshi Hanagaki, he had bandages all over his face and his left arm was in a cast, he looked like he had literally been hit by a train. His mother got up in shock, looked at him in horror and asked him what had happened to him, he told her he had been practicing through the night and that he just happened to hurt himself badly in the process. His mother looked at him with very sad eyes and told him he really didn’t have to because she was proud of him anyways, he took his seat right next to me and I decided I was going to f**k with him. I told him, you must be really strong now, uhn, weaktoshi? I said it in a tone clear enough for him to hear. He looked at me with hatred so deep, you could literally feel it in the air, he said to me, “oh yes I have, what about you”. I smirked and told him, oh me? Well, I’m always hella strong, guess you can’t relate. He hit the ceramic plate in anger and as it broke in half, it did well to leave a cut in his right hand. His mom just looked at both of us oddly and then, I got up and informed everyone I had had my fill, I was ready for class now, Hitoshi also got up and said he was ready for school now too. It was a little too early to leave for school but we both wanted to go to school immediately. Mr Hitoshi called his driver and then, we were on our way to school, while we were still on our way, we heard on the news that the wildfires at Ikoyi reserves were still ongoing despite the great effort of the ever able fire force, I told the driver to stop the car, instructed him to take Hitoshi to school and then, I flew to the Ikoyi reserve, time for some hero work. I began immediately and after a few minutes, I had cleared the forest of all it’s fires. I flew back to school immediately as the fire force gave me a round of applause. I got back to school and headed into the examination hall immediately, it would soon be tome for our examination. We were thirty who would be taking the examination and the only way to pass was to get sixty percent. The exam was in two parts, the first section which contained two questions, each valued at fifty marks, if you somehow got both questions, you had already perfectly passed. The second part contained seventy five true or false questions, each valued at a mark. If you did everything correctly in this section, you would also pass, although, no one touches the first section because according to people who had taken the exams, the questions were impossibly hard. I sat down in the first seat and Hitoshi sat behind me immediately, I wondered why, Felicia arrived soon enough and she healed the injuries of that moron called Hitoshi. Hitoshi then leaned over and told me to check my phone, he wanted to send me a few messages. I paid no attention to him at first but when I saw that my notifications did not only contain text, it also contained videos, I got curious immediately. I opened up my phone and saw his messages, he sent a picture of Felicia and told me that since I liked her so much and since he hated me so much, he decided that there was no greater favour he could do for me than to sleep with her and send me videos of him doing it. He did just that, he sent me videos of them sleeping with each other and oh yeah, I knew just what to do, I was seriously gonna f**k both of them up. I made screenshots of I and Hitoshi’s chat, sent it to both Hitoshi’s parents and mailed them to Felicia’s dad’s work email, oh, and I made sure I did well enough to send the videos afterwards, then, I put my phone in airplane mode and waited on hell to rise. We begun our entrance examination soon enough and yeah, I looked at the first part and yeah, it was really simple if I was being totally honest. The first question was on abstract algebra, it was the classification of finite simple groups and soon enough, I was done with it. The second question was a riddle, it went thus, “you measure my life in hours and I serve you by expiring, I am quick when thin and slow when fat, what am I?”. I thought about it carefully and came to the conclusion that the answer was most likely a candle, I wrote that down, knowing fully well I could fail if I was wrong and just closed my answer sheet, then, I heard it, it was Hitoshi, he was whispering for help, what? This bastard has the guts to ask for my help after all he had done the past few days. I just stood up, submitted my answer sheet and simply walked out. Soon enough, Felicia walked out too and a few minutes later, everyone else was forced to submit, we were told to sit back in the hall quietly and await our results. We sat down quietly and waited about thirty minutes before three nicely dressed men came in, they announced that of the thirty people who had taken the examination from this school, this year, only three had passed, my heart sunk immediately, I had surely failed, there was really no way around it. If out of thirty, only three had passed, that meant that ninety percent of the people who took this examination had failed and I was surely one of them, imagine, like just imagine that Hitoshi passed and I failed, just imagine, holy hell, I would literally never hear the end of it. They listed the people who had passed in ascending order, in last place was Hitoshi Hanagaki with sixty percent on the dot, my heart sunk when I heard his name, I had better not fail, I had really better not. The man in the middle continued, in second place we have Felicia Bonnucci, she did well, did her best but could only score seventy one, give her a round of applause, we all clapped as my heart sunk at the thought of both of them passing and me just being here. The man in the middle then went on, and the highest scorer today, who also happens to be the highest scorer of all time is no one else the genius and pride of the country Liam Neeson or as I like to call him, the dark knight. Get up and give him a heft round of applause. Everyone got up and I got a standing ovation, apparently, I had gotten both answers correctly and I had impressed the International Superhero Agency, they decided to bestow the genius medal on me, I even got a medal from writing an examination, talk about lucky. We then proceeded to each take our IQ tests, mine was two hundred and ninety eight, Hitoshi’s was at one hundred and fifty two while Felicia had one hundred and eighty. We were told that would be all and were dismissed immediately, we got in the car immediately and that was when we saw him, Felicia’s dad, he had come to school himself for her, he just simply dragged in the car and I was really starting to feel guilty, I’m sure Hitoshi manipulated her into doing this, perhaps, I could have kept her out of this, well, it was too late now. It took a couple of minutes but soon enough, she called Hitoshi and broke things off with him immediately, he tried calling her back, had no luck and soon enough, he tried texting her and he realised she had blocked him. I tuned up the radio and as we were hearing the afternoon news of two robbers escaping from prison, Hitoshi looked at me venomously and asked me what I had done, I looked at him, smirked and instead, I asked him, what had he done instead, he laughed and with all the strength he had, he punched me with his left hand, he soon realised that was a big mistake as his hand fractured and he felt incredible pain, while I felt absolutely nothing, he groaned in pain and looked at me venomously, then, it happened, our car hit something and as it tumbled up into the sky, I reacted immediately and at super speed and dragged both Hitoshi and the driver out of the car immediately. We got out and as the car continued tumbling, I looked around in order to process what had just happened, that’s when I saw who had crashed our car, it was the robber at the phone store, he had used a durable air bubble and used the air pressure from it to tilt our car over, I wondered how in God’s name he had got out, wasn’t he in a maximum security prison? I was still analysing the situation when I sensed it, danger from behind, I held both the driver and Hitoshi, flew up and simultaneously looked behind to see the glass manipulating robber I stopped sometime ago, damn, hell, here we go again, I went to the floor again and dropped Hitoshi with the driver. Hitoshi looked at me and told me he could help, he told me he literally had the power to help, I sighed in disgust, looked at him sternly and told him that having power is one thing but knowing how to use it is another thing. I charged at the villain with air related powers and I sensed it again, danger, the one who could control glass had attacked Hitoshi and the driver, I headed back immediately and made all the glass bounce off me, for one, I didn’t want anything happening to the driver, also, if anyone was going to kill Hitoshi, it sincerely has to be me, no one else deserves the pleasure of doing that. I thought of a plan immediately, the one who controlled glass specialised in long range attacks, the one who controlled air was a short range attacker, I needed to take the one with glass out first, I ran at him with my super speed and took of his head, I dumped it on the road and ripped out his spine, as the one who could control air approached Hitoshi, I threw the spine in my hand like a spear and it went straight through his neck, killing him instantly, he dropped dead and blood oozed out of his neck as he laid down dead. I carried both the driver and Hitoshi, then, I flew them home after we had called the cops and explained what had happened and where it had happened. We got home and Mr Hitoshi was right at the door, he didn’t even ask what had happened to us, he simply just told me the good news, my mom was AWAKE…………………………………………