Chapter 3 : Camp of Crowns

      A few weeks have gone by and as the sun rises to show the new light of a brand new day. Troy wakes up in his bus as Jaylin next to him near the window is on her phone playing video games as she laughs off. Troy looks around himself as all the other students are minding their business as the bus is on the highway driving north towards Georgia. Jaylin turns to her left as she notices Troy's awake, " Wakey wakey sleepy head.” Troy sits up on his seat as sighs, " Why do you that, you know we're kids anymore.” Jaylin turns to the window with a pout on her face, " I was trying to lighten the mood.” Troy smirks as he turns to her, ' I am sorry for being a jerk and a dumb headed dude.” Jaylin turns back in a smile, " I’m gonna hold you to that jerk.” Troy smacks his head as he nods no.

  The instructor gets from the front seat near the bus driver and pulls out a tablet, " Alright student I’m your instructor, Mr. Apollo I will be your supervisor of your student group for the majority of the camp’s length of use. You will all be going through training that pertains to your crown's abilities and must experience physical exams that will enhance your body’s potential.” As the bus passes under a sign on the highway that says, " Welcome Georgia " Thirty minutes later, the bus is near a forest entrance with a sign near it as said, " The path toward Camp of Crowns” Mr. Apollo walks behind the students as he says, " Well it is time for your first exam of the camp, try to get there before first light without getting badly injured.” All the students gasp as other buses drive up letting out students. Troy and Jaylin look around and realize everyone is forming teams to survive the treacherous journey through the forest. Troy turns to Jaylin to ask, but then he sees her joining a team with her friends and then someone pats Troy on the back. Troy turns to them and his face smiles with enjoyment as handshakes a light skin dude with a high top for hair. Troy with a smile, " How did you get here Javon, I thought you were busy with a little back at home.” Javon smirks, " The problem was easy to handle and I thought it would take up time, but guess not so I caught one of the late buses.”

         A few weeks before the trip the school mentioned that you can bring a friend or alumni to the camp to enhance your experience so Troy called many of his friends to see who was willing to come and hangout with him in Georgia. On a Friday night Troy called Javon, but Javon had a problem to handle so Troy sadly went on the ride to Georgia feeling a bit down until now.      

       Immediately a sound of horn rang and thousands of students raced into the forest as Troy and Javon jumped into the trees as they leaped branch to branch. Javon laughs mockingly, " It seems you haven’t lost your touch after that training me, Courtney, and Nathan gave you. " Troy smiles, " No, why would I stop working my body knowing this is going to help in the long run.” Both Javon and Troy stop in their respective branches as they look down to watch a team of students fight someone. as the smoke clears a criminal in an orange jumpsuit with a collar on his neck jumps at the students as his hands glow with a bright purple as a massive explosion as students fly in different directions screaming. Troy looks down in shock, Those are imprisoned criminals! What are they doing here fighting students?” Javon with a nonchalant look, " They are here to provide a challenge for students like you.” Troy’s right bracelet shines as a miniature blue screen appears showing Troy all the criminals that are providing a challenge for students. Troy smiles as he turns to Javon only to see he’s gone .

Troy starts leaping from branch to branch as other students are fighting the criminals until Troy jumps down as he sees a trail of blood. Troy dashes while following the trail of blood to see an old man in a brown poncho as he is covered in blood while holding a massive sword in a scabbard with constellations on them. The old man was lying on a tree as he was coughing and mumbling to himself. Troy walks to the old man and accidentally snaps a twig causing the elder to get up quickly as sticks of lightning point in the direction of Troy, Troy walks out of the shadows with his hands up, " Ay now calm down, it’s alright I’m just a student. My names’ Troy, what's yours ? " The old man sits back down near the tree as he coughs up large amounts of blood as he throws the scabbard towards Troy. 

     Troy looks down in question and looks back up at the old man, " So what’s the big sword for? Plus I don’t need it. I have a Power Crown, I can do just fine without a weapon-.” The old man speaks as he coughs blood, " Please take it boy. It’s my will, the last of my creations.” Troy picks up the blade as he looks at the old man. The old man speaks one final time, " You need this blade, pour your power into it and it will be the greatest blade you have ever seen, I created it for someone like you who shines like the stars.” The old man’s head looks down as he passes away and Troy looks down solemnly then walks away into the forest. 

      Meanwhile in the pacific on an island there were facilities filled with many troops and soldiers training and using their Power Crowns as a massive metal tower in black loomed over them as it rained with stormy dark clouds. Inside the tower there were many floors of researchers and laboratories as scientists did experiments.

       At the top of the tower lay a circular table with eight seats as eight elderly walked in and sat down as the large window turned into a black screen as it lit up with many details of information about an old man who lived in the Himalaya Mountains. It redacted his name and showed the many weapons he had forged over the years for the organization until he went rogue. One elderly in blue with cat ears spoke, “ So the great forger is dead I presume.” as the other seven at the table confirm in agreement. Another elderly in a red suit asks, " Have we captured and seized all of his property ? " An agent from the dark walks up to the screen and confirms as it shows the various weapons forged and built by the old man until one elder with a green cape asks a concerning question, " What about his newest blade that he forged and brought to Georgia in America.” The agent nervously responds, " Yes we have destroyed the weapon sir. No need for concern.” The elders bow their heads in agreement as the screen turns off and the room darkens to pitch black.

Meanwhile, Troy was running through the forests; he gathered twenty points after fighting a few criminals who got in his way. As he was running he was thinking about the blade he was carrying on his back as he looked at it, " I couldn’t unsheathe the blade when I fought that one criminal with flames. That was weird.” As Troy stops as he hears a maniacal laughter nearby, a criminal is holding a girl with huge mechanical arms as he laughs, " I’m gonna suffocate this girl then I’m gonna play with her until I get tired.” 

    As the Criminal starts to encase her in his mechanical arms Troy dashes out of the bushes and hits the criminal with a bright flaming kick as it sends him back. Troy catches the girl onto his arms as he looks at the criminal with disgust. The criminal gets up as he holds his face as he grunts, " You there! You think you can ruin my time by just kicking me. I’m gonna rip you apart and then play with the girl later.” Troy lays the girl down as he puts his hand on the hilt of the blade, " Ain’t you a big guy. I’m gonna protect her to my very last breath.” as he pulls out the blade with a bright blue energy and he dashes towards the criminal; the criminal smiles, " Names Jacko Obbert. Time to go ham!” Jacko launches a ton of robotic missiles at Troy as he dodges them in quick succession and jumps on one as his shoes blasts blue flames from under his feet launching him toward Jacko as he slices a missile in half making it explode.

   Jacko smiles but then he gets shocked as he sees Troy swing a massive blade toward his face as a clang is heard which echoes through the forest. Troys’ eyes look shocked as the blade gets stuck on Jacko’s face as half of it is metal. Jacko smirks as he creates a massive metal arm out of his back and launches it to squash Troy, but then a red energy disc slices the giant metal arm into many pieces as Jacko kicks Troy off him as the blade goes flying next to him. Then out of the smoke a male dude clade in black armor as red energy stripes surge around it. The male throws a black metal piece towards Troy as he catches it.

The male dude turns to him, " Put that on your chest and ready yourself for battle Troy.” Troy puts the metal piece up to his chest as it opens and wraps around him into a metal jacket and reinforces his pants as a metal mask appears on his face as black goggles form on the top of his dreads. Troy stands up in amazement of the transformation as he hears someone speaking in an earbud on his ear, " Hey it’s Javon I’m in front of you, I need you to pick up that blade and start moving because we gotta take this guy out quick.” Troy grabs the blade as he looks up at Jacko with a new determined goal as he gets into a stance with blade in front of him as he coats it with blue flames. Jacko smiles and laughs manically, " Alright so I have to kill two vigilantes to strip them of their inventory.” as he transforms his whole body into a metal robot as he looks entirely different with a rectangular chest as his legs became more robust as metal tentacles appeared on his back as his arms formed into cannons.

Javon dashes in as he creates a bat out of red energy and starts thrashing all of the tentacles thrown at him; then Troy dashes after Javon and creates a volley of blue balls of flames that attack all the missiles as it creates a massive screen of explosions then Troy jumps out of the flames with the blade as he strikes at Jacko’s body landing a massive flaming slash that cuts off Jacko’s left arm as he creates a jet pack and propels himself back to create distance between Troy and him. As he looks up at Troy with his red robotic eyes with a new vengeance.

Jacko’s arm starts rebuilding itself slowly as Troy runs toward him, but then he is swarmed with massive tentacles with hands as they encase him. Javon then slashes through the tentacles as creates miniature red balls in his left palm and shoots them as if he was a pitcher at crazy speed as they put holes into the tentacle arms encasing Troy. But to no avail Troy is still encased, as the metal tentacle hands start to crush Troy as he screams out in pain and Javon tries to dash to help him but Jacko launches a volley of missiles that keep him in place. As Troy was being crushed he thought to himself about all the good and bad that had happened to him in his life but then a thought came to him that shook his very core, in thought Troy said to himself, " Thinking about quitting ? Are you gonna get out of here and smash that criminal to a pulp.” as Troy thought this his Power Crown around his neck down to his shoulders and chest shined brightly with a great light blue as it appeared out of the cage of metal tentacle hands. Jacko turned to it in shock, " No way this boy gained a Power Crown Awakening mid battle!” As Javon’s helmet opened up and he smiled, " That’s it. That’s the way to keep going forward and grow.”

Then a blue explosion pushes Jacko and Javon back as Troy stood holding the blade behind his back as blue sparks of energy were coming off him as he smiled; then the blade he held behind on his shoulders inflamed in blue as Troy spoke, " Time to end to this fight, right here and NOW!” Jacko got up as he smirked, " NO time for antics boy!” AS HE LAUNCHED MISSILES AND METAL TENTACLES ALL AT ONCE AT TROY! Troy then threw his blade at them and it sliced and smashed many missiles, then Troy dashed around the explosion at an alarming speed as he got behind Jacko from a distance he pointed four of his fingers at Jacko as he said, " Lightning rail four-fold strike.” As four spikes of blue sparks appeared in front of his fingers and were launched towards JACKO’S BACK AS JACKO GOT AN ALERT ON HIS SCANNER HE TURNED BUT ALL FOUR OF THE BLUE SPARKS TOUCHED HIS METAL CHASSIS AS THEY SHOCKED HIM IMMENSELY !

Jacko screamed in pain as then the blade pierced right through his abdomen and he looked down in shock as he looked, Troy was holding his palm out as he then pulled his whole arm back and the blade from behind came out of Jacko’s back as he screamed one final time before falling backward as the blade floated back into the sheath behind Troy’s back. Javon walks up to Troy as he sees Troy looking at himself as the blue sparks fade away and the armor slowly transforms into a necklace wrapped around his neck creating a Christian Cross. Javon touches Troy's right shoulder, " Good job bud. You beat your first criminal, not only that but you also gained a Power Crown awakening which is pretty amazing. So what new enhancements did you gain.” Troy looks at Javon with a smile, " I gained the ability to generate plasma and magnetism. It’s actually pretty cool and not only that, but my Power Crown has a special name now, Plasmatonic Flames of Magnetism.”

Javons smiles at him and Troy goes to carry the girl as he puts on her his back as they walk back talking about the awesome battle they went through. As Javon and Troy walk toward the direction of the camp.