Armageddon: Defying Fate

A fight

"look isn't that the strongest person in our class"

a burst of mocking laughter could be heard from a group of boys,

"hey Kiran, how about we spar?" Zhu fan shouted at the back looking at Kiran.

Kiran walked slowly as usual from the back, not saying anything.

It had been 1 month since their first class on cellular evolution and only Kiran had not absorbed any energy, all the other students had absorbed,

their body index had skyrocketed, the lowest students in the class had 20 body indexes while the strongest zhu fan, had 30 body indexes.

Zhu fan had been instigating a fight with Kiran all this while, Kiran was wise he knew he was weaker than Zhu Fan so he always ignored him.

"The mighty has fallen, aren't u supposed to be the strongest in the class, why are you afraid of a little spar"

Kiran walked slowly, "did this i***t think I'll foolishly fall for this tactic", Kiran smiled

Zhu fan saw the smile on Kiran's face and was angered.

Mr. Aron saw everything happening from inside the gym and didn't try to stop it. These children were raised in this orphanage which was like a beautiful garden compared to the cruel world outside the orphanage, he wanted Kiran to accept his cruel fate that he could not become an Evolutionist, but the boy was stubborn each day he kept coming to class, always trying to absorb energy and always failed.

Kiran sat down cross-legged inside the gym, closed his eyes, activated his inner sight but just like always failed to see the energy, one of Airra bodyguards had come to the orphanage last week delivering the message from the scientist, he was happy that the scientists said he had hope since he could activate inner sight.

"he failed again, the boy is stubborn enough, he would have been a promising Evolutionist" Aron, looked at Kiran with pity.

Bt he had to wake the boy up from his dreams, the world was cruel,

"Kiran I think its time you joined us for the combat training, don't you think so"

Everyone in the gym turned to look at Kiran, how will he join the combat training when he was the weakest person here, any one of them could defeat him.

Kiran greeted his teeth, stood up looking at Everyone, he had avoided fighting anyone here, he knew he wasn't their match.

"Mr. Aron has probably run out of patience, this is his way of sending me out," Kiran thought

Aron looked over at the students, every one of them was hoping he would choose them, so they could show off what they had learned throughout the week.

Aron looked over their faces until his eyes landed on the weakest boy in the class Steven,

Steven is a short black-haired boy who has a body index of 20, though he was the weakest person in the class, his body index was still greater than Kiran,

Kiran's body index has remained the same at 15 and had not changed throughout the month.

Steven moved quickly into the combat ring, he had felt bad about being the weakest in the class, he wanted to badly beat Kiran so he could prove to Everyone that he wasn't weak.

Kiran moved slowly like usual towards the ring, though steven had a higher body index, the difference between Kiran and steven's body index was just five, he didn't believe he would lose.

Kiran entered the ring drawing some meters in between him and steven,

He looked at steven, who was looking at him with a mocking smile, looking as if he had already won.

Steven moved his hand gesturing Kiran to attack, but Kiran raised his fists in a guard ignoring him, he had always allowed others to attack him first, using their first attacks to measure their strength and weaknesses.

steven was annoyed when Kiran didn't attack,

He sprinted in a fit of rage, and then instantly he was in front of Kiran he threw a punch towards kirans stomach,

Kiran felt a strong force coming towards him, but before he could dodge steven's punch hitting him, he felt the pain coming from his stomach and was pushed some steps back almost falling.

"you are not that strong anymore why do you like posturing ", steven said sarcastically.

Steven felt happy with his punch before Aron came he would never have challenged Kiran but now he felt good beating the guy up.

Kiran looked up at Steven smiling suppressing the pain he felt, though he had felt pain from the punch, it was less painful than he thought he would feel.

Steven got angry from seeing Kiran smile, this time he was going to punch him so hard that he would not be able to stand up.

He fiercely threw a punch towards Kiran's face, but this time Kiran was prepared he moved a step back dodging the punch, steven threw punch after punch but Kiran swiftly dodged them all.

The students outside were amazed at how agile and fast Kiran was,

"the boy's instincts are superb, he can anticipate all his opponent's moves before he makes them, I can't believe this is coming from a 16-year-old boy, who hasn't even undergone cellular evolution, he would have been a superb genius too bad.." Aron thought before he was drawn back by an angry yell from steven who was panting and had almost exhausted himself attacking Kiran.

"is running the only thing you know how to do blind boy"

Kiran nonchalantly kept dodging Steven furious attacks, he wasn't foolish enough to get angry over his childish taunts.

A few minutes later Steven was panting heavily angry and exhausted from all his futile attacks. Kiran looked at him feeling he had played enough with the boy, he rushed towards steven, Steven was alarmed but he had no strength to defend, an intense pain came from below in his stomach, several punches made by *Kiran* landed on his defenseless body.

Steven staggered backward and was about to fall when a final punch landed on the left of his face, he didn't even see it coming, the only thing he saw was kirans smiling face before he blacked out.

There was silence outside the ring, Kiran had played steven throughout the match, they had always thought they could easily beat the blind boy since they were now stronger than him, but he had completely distorted what they believed in.

Aron looked at the scene, this was the opposite of what he wanted, his reason for this matchup was to discourage Kiran from wasting his time, but now it had ended up reinvigorating his resolve instead, he had to find a remedy to this, though the boy was a genius he was doomed to be a normal person, and the earlier he accepted this the better.

Before he could think of what to do, a voice came "he is not that strong, he was just running throughout the fight like a monkey, it because he was fighting a weak fool like Steven that's why, he was able to win" zhu fan said mockingly, he didn't believe Kiran was that strong, he was just lucky steven was a fool.

All the other students nodded accepting what zhu fan had said, there was no way Kiran was stronger than them.

"it's too much to pit Zhu Fan against Kiran, but that is probably the only way to dissuade Kiran," Aaron thought, Aron picked up steven who was knocked out, he slipped a drug into his mouth, carried him to the resting bed near the ring.

"Zhu Fan you are next"

Zhu fan was delighted when he heard Aaron's voice, he wanted to put a stop to this Kiran's charade.

He entered the ring laughing menacingly at Kiran "hahaha Kiran, I had challenged you throughout the week, but you always chickened out, now there's nowhere to run?"

"I neva ran, I just always ignored you," Kiran said calmly.

Looking at Kiran's calmness Zhu Fan was angry he had expected to see fear in his face, but he was calm as always, he hated that about Kiran.

He dashed towards Kiran with a casual punch, Kiran felt the air tremor as a punch came rushing towards his face,

The punch was too fast he was barely able to evade it, he moved back sweat dripping from his head, that punch was too powerful, he would have been seriously wounded if that punch had hit him.

"that was just a simple punch, a bit of force and I might have smashed your head" zhu fan teased as he saw Kiran's fluttered face. "maybe if you beg me I might go easy on you"

Kiran felt how powerful zhu fan was, he definitely could not defeat him, but instead of fear, he was filled with fighting intent.

Aron sighed he thought after seeing how strong zhu fan was Kiran would falter, instead, he was filled with fighting intent.

"This boy is crazy"

Zhu fan launched a kick toward Kiran, it was too fast, Kiran could not dodge it so he deflected it with his hands, an intense pain came from his palms as they met with zhu fan leg, he had probably fractured his palms, he suppressed the pain and drew back, before he could relax a punch came again towards him he blocked it with his hands, he was pushed back by the force of the punch, feeling serious pain he looked at his other hand it has been fractured too.

"hahaha are you ready to surrender" zhu fans voice came from behind him, he didn't know when zhu fan came to his back, he sent a kick towards kirans head wanting to completely knock him out, Kiran turned then used his right leg to meet zhu fans kick

"crrrrrk" a sound was heard followed by a cry from Kiran, his leg had broken from the impact, he then fell,

zhu fan looked at Kiran on the floor laughing, he bent his body his face facing Kiran mockingly asking him to surrender. He knew Kiran wasn't going to surrender, and just wanted to inflict more pain, while he was still laughing Kiran jacked his clothes dragging his head forward then used his head to knock on zhu fans nose with all his strength

"crrrkk" was heard again followed by a scream from zhu fan his nose was broken with blood all over his face.

"Am going to kill you!!" an angry and painful cry was heard from zhu fan, Aron and the other students were dumbfounded by what happened, Aron quickly came in between the two injured students stopping zhu fan from attacking Kiran.

"hahahahhahaha" a loud laugh came out from Kiran's mouth, he looked at zhu fan nosed and then kept laughing, this was the most satisfying thing he had ever done. Aron looked at Kiran shaking his head,

"This kid is really mad" he dropped a drug into kirans mouth and then swiftly carried him out of the ring. Zhu fan walked towards the toilet to clean up his face, he looked at the mirrors and saw his bloodied face and broken nose, then he heard kirans laughing, anger overwhelmed him and he punched the mirror breaking it into pieces.

"Am going to kill that blind bastard!!"

Aron laid Kiran on the bed beside the ring.

He swallowed the drug that was put into his mouth by Aaron, immediately warm current flowed from his mouth into his body, he could feel his pain quickly easing up, and then quickly his injuries began to heal, he was overjoyed "this is probably one of the high tech medicines used by Evolutionist." he thought

"boy you are something, it wasn't here to stop the fight, what were u going to do," Aaron asked

"I didn't think about that" Kiran murmured

"boy you should give up, Zhu fan has just absorbed 30 percent of energy into his cells and he already can injure you like this, soon everyone in the class will reach that level, they will also be able to surpass that level by the time they absorb up to 70 percent any one of them will be able to kill you with a simple blow. How are you going to defend then? Give up and think about how to live a simple life, it is even safer to live a normal life than be an Evolutionist, the death rate is seriously high"

Aron could see indignance in Kiran eyes

He sighed and shakes his head,

"you are stubborn, I don't want to have to drive you out myself"

"rest here and don't try to move too much, you would be good as new in about two hours," Aron said and then left.

Kiran was lost in thought, it wasn't that he didn't understand what Aron said but he was indignant, he could not even imagine himself living a normal life, he had to find his father, what about revenge on his cruel family, he could not let all these things go.

40 minutes passed as he was lost in thought, he could feel that his fractured hands and palm were healed even his broken leg was almost healed, he tried to stand up and felt there wasn't much pain from the leg. Everyone had continued training and even zhu fan had healed his nose, he looked at everyone and then quickly walked out of the gym dejected.

When Aron saw Kiran walking out, he thought "the boy has finally come to his senses and given up, it's better to accept his normal life than dream of being an Evolutionist"

Though he was the wrong Kiran had not given up, he just wanted some rest outside the gym, he limped until he was in the garden, and then he moved towards the bench that was situated far away from the playground. He sat there reminiscing about his life as he had always done. He removed his strapped glasses and then looked up at the sun. It looked shiny and beautiful like always, it was 1 pm and today the sun was more resplendent than ever.

Anytime he looked at the sun he was filled with hope. And then he vehemently decided "am not going to give up I must become an evolutionist"

He then sat crossed-legged on the bench to keep trying. He closed his eyes activated his inner sight and then instantly he was amazed.