Chapter 4:

The organization

Beyond the shadows


Timmy heard the monster saying, "Hey, look, its an angel."

"An angel?" Timmy asked slowly as he opened his eyes. His vision was blurry but someone was sitting in front of him.

"He thinks you an monster." A voice chuckled

"Shut up," a familiar voice said. "He must be dreaming or something."

"Girl in the mask?" Timmy asked recognising the voice.

"He isn't dreaming is he." The other voice chuckled.

Timmy regained his vision to see Leah sitting in front of him covering her face.

"Huh? What's wrong?" Timmy said wondering why she was covering her face.

"Shut up." said Leah removing her hands from her face.

"Huh? Leah,the new girl?" Timmy asked again.

"It's funny how you sound so confused with that straight face." Leah said folding her hands and looking away from him.

"Are you're the girl in the mask? So You're gifted too," Timmy said realising the similarities in the two."you and the girl in the mask have the same body type so it has to be you."

"Shut up." leah said pulling the pillow from under head and hitting him with it.

"Sorry." Timmy said wondering what he said wrong.

"Are you two done?" The owner of the other voice said coming towards the bed. It was a female with blonde hair.

"Hello." Timmy said politely sitting up.

"Hello kid." the female said. "You good?"

"Yes I am,thank you for asking." Timmy replied.

"I am Sasha and it's nice to meet you. I'm sure you've already met little sister Leah over here." The female said.

"Sasha..." Timmy said slowly before suddenly saying. "Is Leah your little sister?"

"Not literally,but yeah." Sasha said pulling Leah into a sidehug hug as Leah tried to wiggle away.

"Oh." Timmy said scratching his messy hair.

"You're quite the adorable one," Sasha said finally holding Leah In a tight embrace. "Welcome to the organisation kid."

"Thank you." Timmy said.

"Rest for a while I'll come fetch you later." Sasha said leaving the room still holding Leah in her clutches.

"Okay." Timmy said to her.

"Hey Timmy." The monster whispered to Timmy from inside his head.

"Oh hey." Timmy said laying back down on the bed.

"You were asleep for so long and than you were speaking with that suspicious woman. I couldn't speak to you. " The monster groaned sounding annoyed.

"I'm sorry." Timmy said as he stared at the ceiling.

"It's okay." The monster mumbled with a sigh. It seemed to have come to terms with the fact that it would be with Timmy for a while.

"Hey monster." Timmy said slowly.

"Yeah what's wrong." The monster said listening attentively.

"What's your name?" Timmy said closing his eyes

"I guess I haven't told you that." The fiend said." Its Jago,my name is Jago."

"Jago." Timmy said slowly." That is a nice name."

"Yeah I guess." The monster said.

"Can I see what you look like." Timmy asked.

"So you guessed that the mist was not my original form." Jago,the monster said.

Timmy nodded.

"Well not yet." Jago said.

"Oh." Timmy said.

Timmy lied down in silence for a while before he heard someone knock on the room door. Than the person entered. It was Sasha.

"Hey,its Timmy right? Follow me." Sasha said smiling at him.

Timmy got out of the bed and followed Sasha. Leah had left and arrived with Sasha but she stayed silent the entire time. Sasha walked through a long corridor with a few hundred doors before taking a few turns until she reached a room with huge double doors. She pushed them open and entered, Timmy followed.

The inside of the room was huge and there was a huge dining table there. Around the dining table sat different people. When Timmy entered they all turned to see who had entered.

"These people are incredibly powerful." Jago said to Timmy.

"Oh,how do you know." Timmy asked

"I can sense it." Jago replied.

"So this is the boy who defeated two B class monsters ," A fat man in a suit said laughing."he looks like he could be taken out by the wind."

"How did you do it boy?" Another guy in a suit said. "What category do you fall under."

"Are you a reaper?" Another asked."what's your rank?"

There was chattering,laughs and questions all over the room. Than a large voice silenced them all.

"QUIET!" The voice commanded.

Everyone kept silent.

Someone entered from the door behind Timmy.

It was a man who looked like he was in his late 60's. He had a neat beard together white and grey hair. He had a few scars on his face. Despite the scars and the wrinkles he was still quite good looking. He had a very big build and he wore a black suit which seemed a little tight on his muscular body.

"Good evening. You must be Timmy, I hope you are well." He said as he held out his hand to shake Timmy's hand.

"I am good." Timmy said shaking his hand. Timmy's hand seemed ridiculously small in the old man's big hands.

"I am the chairman and welcome to the council. I apologize for the rudeness of the members here. The reason I'm here today is partly to meet you. I hope you can spare me some time to speak to you." The chairman said smiling.

"Sure." Timmy plainly replied covering himself with his hands. He still didn't have a shirt.

"Leah please do get him a shirt." The chairman said turning to Leah.

"Yes headmaster." Leah said politely before leaving the room. Timmy hadn't noticed her but she was there the whole time.

"Headmaster?" Timmy questioned.

"I am the headmaster at a school called Crystal academies school for the gifted." The chairman said.

"Oh,a school for the gifted?" Timmy asked slowly.

"Yes." The chairman said."that is partly why I'm here for you today."

"Oh okay,I understand." Timmy said.

Leah returned with a plain white shirt and gave it to Timmy.

Timmy took it from her and than muttered."thank you."

She forced a smile and returned to where she stood before.

Timmy wore the shirt and than looked at it. It was a little too big.

"So let's just get this over with," The Chairman said. "I want to recruit this child into the academy."

There were mumbles and complaints all over the room when the chairman said that. Nobody believed that the scrawny boy in front of them was capable of killing two B rank monsters .

"There seems to be objections," The chairman said." Are there people here who doubt my judgement?"

There was silence until one person stood up and said," Honoured chairman,we do not doubt your judgement,but it is hard for us to believe that this young man was the one who defeated two B rank monsters. There is no proof after all. May I ask who was the witness of this?"

The chairman turned to Leah and nodded.

Leah stepped forward and said,"I was."

"It's just this little girl."

"We can't be fooled by her."

"A child was the witness."

"QUIET!" Chairman's thunderous voice silenced every whisper from every corner of the room.

He turned to Leah saying,"speak."

"I was assigned to a mission to attend secretly a school and it was after school that I came across a monster on the school grounds and since it was a single low level B rank. I fought it until all I needed was a few more blows to defeat it but than another monster arrived. This time it was a high level B rank. All I could do was call for reinforcements and try to hold it off. I was almost at my limit when that's where he came in. He defeated the high level B rank with two strikes and flung the low level B rank into a wall. He defeated both of them. From the way he spoke,it sounded like it was his first time experiencing his abilities. He was newly awakened and he defeated two B rank monsters." Leah finished narrating her story and kept silent. Soon there where whispers and mumbles all over the room.

Someone said,"he defeated the high level B rank with 2 moves?"

Another said,"its truly unbelievable."

Another person spoke," But she did say that the low level B rank was already weakened when he beat it."

"Silence everyone," the chairman said."now we'll call upon the twins who were the reinforcements sent to assist Leah."

Fin and Neale entered the room and than Neale spoke,"when we arrived it was true that there were two B rank monsters. The lower level one was by a wall and the High level one was lying on the ground but with 2 fist imprints. It was confirmed by the cleanup party that the beast had been killed in 2 blows. The boy was unconscious when we arrived so we couldn't question him. That's what we have to say."

"What type of a monster was it? ", Someone asked.

"Beast-ape." The chairman replied.

There were gasps and people were conversing amongst themselves.

"Everyone." The chairman said getting everyone's attention."I'm going to bring him to the academy no Matter what anybody in this room thinks." 

A man clad in a black cloak stood up and said," Chairman,but is he going to come to the academy."

"Hmm." The chairman said turning to Timmy. "We'll have to see."

Timmy looked back at the chairman.

"So Timothy." The chairman said."will you come over to the academy?"

Timmy looked down in the floor and than looked back at the chairman.

He had to make a choice.

* * *

"This is all so sudden." Timmy said scratching his hair."Can I think about it?"

"Sure,You should think about it." The Chairman said smiling before turning towards Sasha."we'll speak again Later so Sasha please take him to his room."

Sasha indicated to Timmy to follow her. Timmy complied and noticed Leah go along with them.

"Hello Leah." Timmy said.

"Uh hello." Leah asked awkwardly.

"Are you okay?." Timmy asked her noticing how uncormfortable she was.

"Yeah." Leah replied rather quickly.

"I'm Timmy. You are in my class." Timmy said still looking at Leah.

"I know." Leah said annoyed at how Timmy wouldn't leave her alone.

Timmy kept silent and walked.

"Hey." Jago called out to Timmy.

"What happened?" Timmy asked.

"Are you going to go to the school?" Jago asked.

"Why should I go?" Timmy asked.

"You can become stronger if you learn at the school." Jago explained."they should be able to help your control your power."

"Oh." Timmy said.

"You are also going to have to start doing some exercise." Jago said to Timmy.

"Why?" Timmy asked.

"Your body needs to get used to the power so you're going to have to do some inhuman training. Because you've merged with me the results from you working out will probably be enhanced greatly." Jago said.

"Meaning?" Timmy asked scratching his hair.

"You can become stronger if you train. I can teach you some techniques when you are ready. If you go to the school you'll learn much more about how to control your power." Jago said explaining even more.

"Ah." Timmy said aloud.

"Huh?" Leah said looking at him questionably.

Timmy looked at her with his straight face. Timmy didn't know how to act or lie so he just kept staring at her.

"Ugh!" Leah said walking faster trying to catch up with Sasha.

They all reached Timmy's room and Timmy went over and sat on the bed.

Leah and Sasha were both about to leave but than they heard Timmy say," Leah,Can we please talk."

Leah turned around surprised and asked,"huh? About what?"

"I need to know about the academy and you seem to know about it." Timmy said with his straight expression.

"Well,I'll leave you two to it." Sasha said with a sinister smile and before Leah could protest she was gone.

"Ugh fine,what do you want to know." Leah groaned as she walked over to Timmy.

Timmy took a jug from the headboard and poured out the water into a cup. He took a sip and than spoke.

"As much as possible."

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Damn,tha