"Stop, what are you doing is completely inhumane? He will have trauma for life or worst he will die of you continue to do this to him." A boy shouted looking at the scene happening in corridor.
In the corridor, a boy was floating in the air while his upper body was being under so much pressure that his eyes and other four orifices we're bleeding.
This boy being tortured was Orion who have experienced such thing on daily basis becoming a regular occurrence for him. He became source for others fulfilling their sadistic sides.
"What are you, his father? Wait, up to what I know he is orphan now." Boy looking and standing close to the floating Orion turned his head toward this buzzkill and said in a tone which suggested that 'you better run off or otherwise…'
"He is level 1 piece of crap, so, he does not belong among us superior rank. Even among those lowlifes, he have a handicap of being such a battery. I mean have seen those big glasses of his."
"It's already last day of school so cut it off and I am too bored playing this old toy who does not even entertain anymore. I liked it in beginning when he used to scream in pain." A boy who looked head of those boys said to one using his telekinetic ability to torture Orion.
"Okay, it's your call." He said as he lowered his hand and left Orion to fall on ground.
In far end of corridor was standing a girl behind a pillar with glasses who immediately ran to somewhere as those boys left.
Others passing by ignored him and his condition while some stopped for a second to make sarcastic remarks on his pathetic life before getting on whatever business they have.
…
After that girl from previous time came with a teacher as she walked behind teacher. This teacher was of subject biology who teach about various beats and human reinforcement serum, apart from this she was also a healer type ability user.
Her face was straight without any impression that this thing faze her but look in her eyes betrayed her stoic face.
"Orion, what did you do this time?" She asked despite knowing that these wounds are caused by those other students but she couldn't do a thing as their background is strong.
"Nothing Mam, it's just that it fell and this happened." Orion tried to stand up as wiping blood from his face with his arm and hand.
"Wait, don't move, you will only make it worse." She stopped him from getting up by his chest with her hand.
Then she searched her coat pocket and got out a needle. "Lay down and don't make any movement until I say so."
She then inserted he needle on left side of his chest where his heart should be.
Closing her eyes, she began to use her ability known as healing aura. A weak green glow appeared on her hand holding that needle. Aura followed that needle and entered heart of Orion. Inserting Aura into heart was most effective but exhausting way to heal someone.
Heart began to pump blood with healing properties which started heal any kind of bodily damage he might have suffered.
…
"Thank you mam." Orion's pale face now recovered some colour and he immediately thanked teacher for her help.
Teacher just nodded before walking away after giving him instruction to sit for sometime before doing any activity.
Orion looked at teacher and nodded before she walked to continue her work. Now there were only two people, it was Orion himself and that girl who came with teacher.
"Ming, why don't you stop helping me because if they discovered about it, then they will definitely come for you." Orion looked down at floor while muttering this as he appreciate this but he was reluctant to see a good person fall into problem due to him.
Orion picked the glasses fallen on ground before trying to put it on only to realize that it have broke along with cracks on lens.
"Damn it! Just how many have they broke till now."
Having these mutterings, his body's stamina gradually dropped as healing uses stamina to enhance healing factor in body.
"You need someone to help you, even if not physically at least emotionally because that damage just can't be recovered by any ability." She said handing him the bag after picking it from side.
This was already last day before school ended and they can proceed further in life so he had expectations that he might not get bullied today at very least, but Murphy's law is stronger than Gravity in case of Orion's life. But he had made many bullies give up by sheer will of not uttering a single scream, though bullies kept changing and cycle of him suffering became eternal in school.
Orion didn't respond to girl's comment but remembered her as a rope of hope that life threw his way in this hellish routine.
He left the school quickly after attending the formalities of day instead of having talks about memories they made in school, it's not like he had anyone to talk to and even if he did than there are no such memories to speak about.
Coming to his aingel bedroom apartment , he immediately placed the bag in right place while organizing things in order first before going to take a bath. This apartment was granted to him by government after his parents had died in war against Kytheran Race.
Changing into new clothes, he organized his bed before going toward a small box laying on top of table. Picking up the box, he opened it and grabbed only one thing that he have received as inheritance from his parents. This thing left was card, it was very dirty and worsened worn by long passage of time.
This card had a circle logo in middle with hundreds of small carving in it making it hard to see, another thing was line of letter written around that circle logo.
Words was incomplete as they have faded in parts in some areas, and language is what he never seen before.
His attempts to activate, clean, or decrypt information from it have failed time and time again despite trying all reasonable or insane methods. His methods involved putting corrosive acids on it to clean which can melt metals but to no success.
*Sigh*
" What is it? Mom and dad left no clue as to why did they leave this to him or why."
Giving up for now as motivation have died down, he got on bed and turned Tv on. Putting News channel, he was ready to see some and hear some overly dramatic explanation.
"Yes, finally a peace agreement have reached between both Kytheran and human race, but officials have made announcement to push agenda of training more ability users forward to make preparations for any worst development in future."
Seeing this Orion had a big reaction which subsided father than anything because he had already lost everything in this war and from what human have got to know about Kytheran race, they will definitely end this truce and attack again.
"Their ruthlessness is not hidden from anyone, so, government will not rest building up power of human race." Orion said.
Aftr News Anchor made a statement about this, a footage of scenes happened during attack by Kytherana was shown, in which those humanoid creatures with Liquid Metal body structure destroyed human race like child destroying sand castle on beach and leader of Kytheran announced that they'd would cease all resources of earth and use human as slaves. It was only until original helped humans to push back.
War was so intense that his parents spent most of his childhood in war only coming once or twice in year while government took care of him. His memory of them was hazy but his emotional connection with them was entirely different scene. It was so deep.
Government have obtained control over shared abilities and controlled distribution of them. This treaty was achieved after statement in many Squamish where Kytheran still held upper hand despite deploying only low amount of their forces.
Orion wasn't granted anything but accommodation expenses by government till he is in school. This card was received when he was 11 year old and a government official showed up on his door to hand him over this card and move him to a government accommodation.
Remember those memories, tears involuntarily trickled down his eyes.
"Jus why, couldn't just world give me a common life with parents, was that so much to ask about or I should have died with them."
Shaking these feeling after sobbing for few minutes, he picked up broken glasses trying to fix them by putting glue or some tape.
Lens that were already cracked broke into pieces when he put little pressure onto them to put into frame of glasses.
"Now, I know for sure that if this my life is some novel that I am definitely written as some side character who will die a hopeless life." He made a sarcastic remark on his life to liven up himself which was bound to no fruition.
Open the drawer, he put all the broken pieces there to later deal with them. When he tried closing drawer back, handle of drawer came off and left a small gash on his finger.
"Damn it, can this day be anymore unlucky." He was unfazed from wound after all he have been though much worse.
He placed handle on top of table next to that box.
"Sigh, I should everything in place so I can sleep after eating something." He began put everything back in proper place, also including that card.
He was carrying the card in his wounded and a drop of blood travelled down wound of finger to then touch card.
Just as that drop touched card, card began shinning in golden glow and flew from his hand.
Circle logo in middle rotated and reached speed where nothing of carving he remembered could be gleamed, all the dust and wear tear on card was no more.
Orion could not move his sight anywhere else like he got absorbed into the mystery of card while still understanding a thing.
Words of card flew of card and started to being absorbed into forehead of Orion.
"What is ha…" he wanted say something but his senses lost control as he entered state of half unconsciousness. He body grew weak and fell with thud on ground when whole card turned into light entering the Orion.
[ Congratulations! you have been granted Temp… ]
In his state of being, he heard these words but finally got completely unconscious before he words can complete.