Hazard_course - Pre-enrollment: At_the_crack_of_evening - Part_3

Part 3

The time was 12:10.

Martin had just arrived from the subway I in district Sunflower.

As soon as he got outside, he started running as fast as he could.

“As far as I can remember, the exams start at 12:30, but the gates close at 12:20. I have 10 minutes till closing, but to get there except running, I will have to figure out something else as well, because there are too many traffic lights which will slow me down.” he said out loud thinking.

But the moment he saw the traffic light in the distance turn green he ran as fast as he humanly could. After crossing the road, he saw that the traffic light at the end of the street walk was about to turn green.

“Dammit!”

Martin managed again to cross the light while trying to hit anybody along the way, but yet again the same thing happened. Martin now without any energy to run stopped to catch his breath. Bonus on all this, he got thirsty. Martin thought of drinking the strange water bottle that he got from the old lady, he got it out of his pocket (Most men and boys store their provisions and items in their pockets). He inspected the bottle if there is any information about it, but there was none.

The bottle`s name was TMCP water bottle.

He drank it. He then felt an immediate rush of blood flowing everywhere as well as hot, then before the traffic light was about to turn red, he got himself ready and made a mad dash toward it. He of course went across as well.

After that, he turned right when he saw the familiar dormitories, which then clicked that he was on the right path. At the end of the street was a tall white building with an amusement park-like entry. He then looked at his watch. 12:19. time suddenly slowed down and his feet started to transform fully as well as absorb something from the air. His eyes absorbed the same thing as well while emitting a dark blue light.

With his only thought in mind which was to make it on time, he ran as fast as he could, the fallen leaves around him started flying – he was literally piercing toward the gates like a bullet. Martin saw that the gates were starting to close, so he made a split-second decision to launch himself from a street light.

Now in this situation, everybody could tell that he was not in his right mind. He thought of jumping on the last street light, but to his surprise, somebody saw him from afar and informed the security guard that a kid was running toward the gate.

He finally arrived at the gate which said: Enrollment.

“Good afternoon.” Martin said as well as he was trying to catch his breath.

“Good afternoon to you as well.” The guard replied.

“Are you here to do the test to enroll?”

“Yes, that`s right.”

“Please show me your id.”

Before marching forward the guard called him.

“Martin, I remembered that Miss Thompson wanted to remind you that because you haven`t done any tests, you will have to go through every subject, no matter if you want something else or not, so good luck, you will need it.”

“Thank you for the heads up.” Replied Martin.

As he was entering the schoolyard, he was fascinated as well as a little troubled by the view: seeing that the majority are girls should be a huge plus if you are trying to find a girlfriend or bump up your ego a meter or so but to him, it looked as if he was sent to all girl`s school since the boys who were entering were either too skinny or looked like thugs, but his real concern was that this was like a dream come true to the average man.

Although his friends or somebody else might jump almost into instant happiness, for him was more like a change to the environment. But he was also aware that it wouldn`t hurt to enjoy himself while he was here as well, after all, he had to get familiar with his surroundings. And to his ‘surprise’ he already found one. He first saw a girl of normal height, with long black hair, wearing a sailor uniform and a normal skirt. She gave a very strong domineering aura while walking confidently.

(Maybe she is around my age?)

But as soon as she turned around… everything went haywire and the only thought that could come out could be “Those are one heck of melons.”.

The breast size almost did not make sense to her body figure as if she got super-size or implanted silicone. He then looked around and realized that almost every girl who was doing the enrollments looked genetically enhanced: their faces were more structured, their legs are long and elegant, their waist was thin as a sand watch, their proportions were either not matching or multiplied, their skin was as shining as it could be… It should be amazing right?

This ‘paradise’ almost got him insane. Luck sometimes could act as a curse.

To his relief, he spotted a boy. His shoulders relaxed and then tensed up again.

(What is wrong with him?)

The boy`s posture was hunched, his body was undeveloped (he looked like a kid, not a monster), his face was undefined and looked very feminine, even his presence was… unnatural.

(Was this how I looked back then?)

He then looked at his watch. 12:27.

He saw that everyone was entering through a big 2 door entrance.

That confused him a little because there nobody told him about a schedule or time for when to do his exams. He saw that most of the students (which were girls) were wearing a communicator earpiece device in one of their ears. Others had what looked like a guide or map of what they were going to do. Seeing this Martin headed back to see at the entrance if there was something like this or a post on which things were happening. Sadly, none of what he thought existed. Martin then remembered that the security guard might know something but at that moment he saw how the counter was closing in front of his eyes which meant that he couldn`t answer his questions.

After standing still for like what felt like hours, the clumsy gentlemen decided to ask the boy since he was the only one left outside and with what looked like a map.

“Excuse me, do you happen to be lost as well?”

“No, I am waiting for a friend.” the boy replied.

Well, that was no good for him.

“Oh… Then do you mind telling me where should I head for the first exam?”

“Which specialty are you in?” the boy asked.

“I do not have a specialty…”

The boy looked at him confused.

“Why are you here then?”

Martin was dumbfounded.

“Pardon?”

The boy was dumbfounded by his answer.

“Don`t you know?”

“Know what?”

“When you have to take your exams, duh.”

Martin only shook his head. The boy only sighed.

“Right now, are the retake exams for those who didn`t make it this year. I assume that you are here to take all exams, so yours are after 2 hours.”

“Aha…"

“Yeah… If you thought of showing up early so that you can study, well hate to tell ya bud, but um… the library will be closed until the start of the new school year. So, I can give ya now some notes which I took the previous year if you want, but um… overall you came too early.”

“Oh…no, thank you.”

“Okay then.” The boy said in a cold tone.

Martin then fell into a deep reflection of what he was being told up till this moment.

(Was I tricked? Did I miss anything?)

Although it was given from a verified institution, his suspicion mostly rose to the fact that the timing of almost everything was either too perfect (the teacher coming exactly when they arrived) as well as because the letter he got might still be in the data archive and had a connection with it.

That gave him the chills very bad.

(I won`t become suddenly a main character in some crazy story, right?)

He looked around for somewhere to sit if what the boy said was right when suddenly the ground began to shake.

(What was that!?)

He reflexively got into a position where could stand firmly on his two feet without budging while his eyes were looking left and right to see from where this earthquake was coming from but that was impossible because after just a few seconds stopped.

(Was that it?)

The boy though was not surprised at all which piqued his curiosity towards the boy`s steadiness and unmoved reactions.

“What`s going on?”

“Oh, nothing. Don`t worry.”

Then it started again. Martin couldn`t help but worry about why this happened. The people around seemed as if nothing was happening.

(Am I insane!!?)

After another shockwave, Martin finally identified where it was coming from: the subway station. From an interval of 30 seconds, the shockwaves came one after another which was driving him crazy and at the same time scared.

(I have gone to a proper place to study, right? RIGHT!?!?!)

“What is taking her so long…”

This complaint from the boy was quite odd for Martin but he decided to not ask since it would be too much.

Then it came back again. Martin finally saw from where the shockwave was coming from: the subway station. He saw a figure coming at high speed while going up and down. Every time the figure went to the ground the shockwave came.

“Ah, I finally!”

(So that is supposed to be the someone he was waiting for…WAIT, WHAT!!?)

Finally, now he could see more clearly that this someone was an actual person. If Martin`s mind had a jaw, it should have fallen by now because what he saw was a girl in a blue skirt, wearing a navy sailor top and dark tie, running at top speed as well as occasionally making long jumps to close the gap between her and the institution. As she got to the last street light, she made a jump that launched her over the gates and then landed near them, also destroying the ground as a consequence of making herself an airstrike bomb.

(I need to hide! ASAP!)

Martin started to run towards some of the trees to escape the calamity but it was too late. She landed without a scratch but caused a hole in the ground causing rocks and dirt to go in every direction. And one of those rocks met with our trying to defend gentlemen. The battle was decided from the beginning… Next could be seen how Martin`s body falls somewhere in the bushes near one of the many trees he was going to get behind cover. Coincidentally they were near one of the exam institution doors.

“Hello, my dear love!” said the girl in a lovely voice.

“Oh, hey, I was waiting for you for a long time.” said the boy.

After that, they kissed.

“Anyway, did something happen until I came?”

“Well, there was this fella who…” he then looked around and saw that Martin was gone.

“Which fella?”

“Well, he was here, but it seems he fled to somewhere…”

“What a shame, I really wanted to meet him.” the girl said in disappointment.

“Maybe next time, now le-” he then turned around and saw drops of blood leading towards the bush behind them.

The boy was about to say something, but his girlfriend`s voice overshadowed his.

“Ho, ho somebody is really daring today.” said the girl in excitement.

“Let`s see who is that daring to do naughty this in front of the door on campus!” she then launched herself towards the bush, but to her surprise was Martin who was trying to get up while leaning on the tree behind the bushes. She then bumped into him, causing them both to fail as well as her falling on his body.

Due to the shock of the girl launching herself toward Martin, he fell to the ground again and did not move at all. He was officially K.O-ed.

“That was the fella who I was talking about!” said the boy after seeing them.

“Also… Can you please get up from him!” said in a squeaky voice.

“Relax, it was just an accident.” said the girl.

He still gave her the “I am angry at you” face. The girl sighed and got up from Martin.

She then looked at the clock and then at him. He was in an awful situation. His body was heavily damaged. He was looking like a dead body. His arms and legs were in every direction, his arms` fingers were trying to react and form at least a fist but were failing at every attempt, his face was hazy and on top of that, he looked like he would fall into a coma almost every moment.

“Well, we can`t leave him like that.” said the girl.

“I know, I was about to call for help.” said the boy.

“Better do, I will try to pull him up.” replied the girl.

“Okay, I am going.”

Then he headed in to call for the doctors. She sent him off with a warm smile.

After he left, her face went cold, and looked again at Martin, this time with hidden killing intent. She scanned him off as he was on the ground, from top to bottom, after that as he reached his hand towards her, she evaded his hand and started to look for his id.

“..S..Stop..it” said desperately Martin.

She did not even flinch. She found his id, then gave a quick look and threw it on his stomach. Then she gave a strange smirk.

“Honestly, haven`t you done your research on what kind of place is this?” she asked him in an indifferent tone.

“As well as you being pathetic, you trying to even get into our ranks?” she continued speaking.

Martin couldn`t hear her due to him feeling very dizzy. She continued speaking, but he was not able to hear or comprehend, what was she saying. For better or worse, he finally passed out on the ground, after she was speaking to him about how weak he is.

“How can you, who can`t withstand a little earthquake, call himself a man! Look at you, you were hit with a little rock and now you are pretending to be bleeding as if you got the most fatal wound, you ever had! What about us, we women never complain! We even survive in a cold environment, we do work even when ill, but you men when getting ill, you are all weak and pathetic because you have an illness. Honestly, I can`t believe that you have more power than us. You better man up or nobody will like you or even want to be around you!”

After all that, she could still feel a sense of urgency to badmouth him again, something was not right, although she knew that he was unconscious, his aura could still be felt. A small one, but still there, even unconscious. Her mind was triggering an alarm that was long forgotten for a long time. But she brushed it off as if she was feeling in some way superior to him.

After 2 minutes, a group of doctors with a stretcher picked him up. She then hugged her boyfriend and went towards the exams.

Before entering, she gave Martin one last look. She was now sure about it her eyes then went blue for a moment and inspected his body on the stretcher. His whole body was glowing in a strange light, which she could not identify, but one thing was for sure: the biggest glow was on his head where his wound was. She had not seen that type of glow for a long time.

Before entering she went to the doctors who were about to enter the building

“Excuse me, can you please give his id for a moment!” she said to them.

“I am sorry, but you don`t have the authority to do that.” they responded back.

“Oh, I do.” then she showed her id to them.

The moment she showed her id, the young doctors felt immense fear and almost automatically sent them into a desperation mode.

“I AM SO SORRY, PLEASE DO NOT EXPEL US!”

“Do not worry about it, just give me his id for a moment.” she said with a fake smile.

They immediately started to search for his id and found it on the ground. Then they give it to her. Then a strange light glowed on his id card for a second and reverted back to normal. As they were about to head in, she stopped them with her hand again.

“What are you doing?” she asked.

“We are about to head in, right?” they asked in a low voice.

“Yes, yes, but do think that you are going to get away with this?” she then gave a sadistic smile.

“Mi-i-ss-ss, you told us that you were not going to expel us.” they said afraid.

“That is true, but…” she then pointed towards one of the alleys “you were about to lose his id! You know how strict and dutiful I am right, so after that, if you wish to continue, you better show there.” She then made then a heart and sent them off.

Martin, who was now on the stretcher, was able to hear only the last part. His anger at that moment went through the roof, but he could not do anything, but above all, he knew that if you want to do something, you first need power, to get power, you need to be strong, so he just fainted again, with a bitter thought in mind.