Ryan looked up from the book he was reading. His ride was here.
He grabbed his backpack and slid it on a shoulder and walked towards Greg. 'Good day Master Ryan,' Greg managed a small smile. Ryan nodded curtly as he entered the car.
'Wait! Ryan! Wait!'
Ryan rolled his eyes. That annoying voice was Annabelle. She was always lying in wait for him at every of his classroom doorway. Girls like her just don't know they're an irritation!
'Drive!' he instructed Greg.
They soon left her in a cloud of dust.
His estate was a few miles from Hero League, they got to the mansion soon enough. 'Have my bath running,' Ryan instructed as he walked into his study.
'Trust your day went well Master Ryan?' Greg asked.
Ryan paused at the stairs. 'The usual,' he replied and continued walking. After he had had h
Suzanne woke up and yawned. Shane was looming over her.He scoffed and took a picture of her while he snickered.'Hey! Get out of my room!' she yelled at him. 'Sorry, I don't speak morning breath!' he laughed as she swung a nearby stick at him and he dogged it. 'Whoa!' he exclaimed, enjoying himself.'What are you doing here?! It's too early for school!' she whined.He rolled his eyes. He hated dealing with Suzanne in the mornings. 'Someone came to see you. Said he's your team mate or whatever. Anyway....I'm out. I'll be playing video games if you need me.'He headed out of her room.'What's his name?!' she yelled after him but he had gone. She pouted. Could it be....Ryan?!She gasped. Maybe!She quickly rushed to freshen up and threw on her uniform and wore her hoodie on it.
Andrew reached the site and saw Ethan yelling his head off and Ryan bluntly ignoring him.'Hey! Cut it out!' Suzanne ran over to them.Andrew rolled his eyes. Why were these people his teammates anyway?!Much later they all stood waiting for Aiden. After some hours of waiting, Suzanne knelt on the grass, Ethan laid on it, Ryan leaned against a tree and Andrew also sat on the grass, using his laptop.'Don't you think he ought to have been here since?' Suzanne asked as she groaned.Ryan checked his watch, it was getting to 3:00 pm already. He frowned. Where is he?!Ethan tried calling him. 'No luck. It's switched off!' he moaned. 'I coul
Suzanne hurried on with her over night case. She was thrilled: their first camping trip! She adjusted her shoulder strap and held her duffel bag tightly.She jogged up to the location. Only Andrew was there, seated on a small rock and using his laptop. 'Andrew,' she said.He rolled his eyes but didn't look up. 'What now?' he asked in his usual bored tone.She sat beside him. 'You're excited to be going on this trip right?' He shrugged. 'I guess.' She looked thoughtful. 'Why are you always doing that?' she asked him.His eyebrow shot up. 'What?' Suzanne shrugged. 'That.'He frowned and looked away. 'This discussion is irrelevant,' he continued his typing.'To think of it, you're always planning ahead.' He waited for her to continue. 'I mean...it's like you've planned your steps out before you do them and if anything you didn't plan throws itself yo
Andrew walked forward while Suzanne trudged behind. 'Why did we even all split up?' she asked.He frowned. 'You're the only one on the Squad that has a slow pace. After a while it can be quite annoying so the logical thing was to split up,' he replied.She also frowned and looked at him. 'I'm not slow,' she muttered.He scoffed.She broke the silence after a while. 'Why doesn't Ryan like me?' she asked him. Andrew rolled his eyes. 'That's an irrelevant question to which I have no care to answer!' he stated.'It's just that anything I do irriates him,' she continued and groaned. Andrew stuffed his hands in his pockets. 'I mean, I've liked him since I saw him in the reception when he was just admitted and I'm not even the only one; he doesn't even give any girl any attention.' She crossed her arms. 'It's so unfair!' He remained mute.'Aren't you going
Ethan smiled when he saw smoke rising from a distance.'There! We're almost at the camp!' he told Ryan. 'Good. The closer we get to the camp the farther I get away from a nuisance like you!' Ryan remarked coldly.Ethan clenched his fist.They both got down to the forest path and suddenly Ryan stopped, pulling Ethan back. 'What?! I thought you just said something about getting away from--' Ryan covered his mouth.He quietened him as he pulled him and they hid behind a rock.'I think we're being watched,' he said in a hushed tone. He grabbed a twig and threw it in the direction Ethan was about to go, suddenly a huge net came up and some daggers were thrown in that direction!'A death trap!' Ryan observed.'It's possible it's all part of the training,' Ethan said quietly. 'Doubt it. The Hero league would hardly do anything that i
Ethan kept slashing his way through the enemies who kept multiplying. From three, they had increased to twenty now.They just kept on streaming in.Ryan did an eletric pulse wave blast but that only cleared the front.'Where are they coming from?!' Ryan gritted his teeth.'I don't know. When I strike one down, four come up in his place,' Ethan panted as he slashed away at the enemies.His arms were bloodied by now.'We need to take down the girl!' Ryan said. 'Right!' Ethan nodded and they splitted up.Ethan jumped and slashed one of their assailants but three more jumped on him, covering him up. Ryan blas
Ryan tapped his foot impatiently. Ethan couldn't stop pacing around. Andrew sat undisturbed, engrossed in a big voluminous book. Aiden sat by the window, going through a magazine and Gwen sat at a desk with her headphones on.Suzanne burst in.'Sorry I'm late!' she apologised, trying not to look too embarrassed.Ryan and Ethan both glared at her in disapproval, while Andrew looked indifferent and unconcerned. Aiden gave her a hard look.Suzanne grinned nervously, scratching her hair. 'You see what happened was--''You overslept,' Andrew interrupted in a bored tone, not looking up from his book. She turned and glared at him.'Don't put words into my mouth, Andrew!' she scowled at him and turned back to Aiden. 'So what happened?' Aiden asked, looking at her impassively.She chuckled nervously.'I overslept,' she said in a small, meek voice
Squad 10 left the rowdy library.'Here's the plan...' Andrew started, sketching on the sand with a stick. Ryan crouched beside him while Suzanne just knelt down and Ethan squatted.'It's possible that they'd split us up into two groups,' Andrew separated the pieces of stone. 'Coach Gwen would take one while CIN would take the other.'He drew two rooms.'We must make sure we get paired up, Ethan and Ryan, Suzanne and I, or the other way round. Reason is the people that will easily freak out are Suzanne and Ethan and they can't be together,' he cleared his throat. 'If they are both chosen by CIN, then we're all done for.' Ethan frowned as Andrew continued. 'Now the main answers we're to give if we're asked to leave a teammate behind is to write a name. We must write "me", as our answers must be the same,' Andrew warned. 'Also, let's be selfless,' he added as an after thought. He looke
The alarm clock beeped.A brunette stirred lazily on the bed. She tried to find the snooze button all to no avail.She clenched her hand into a fist and knocked the alarm clock away from her bedside table, sending it up in the air and crashing into her room's wall, making a big dent and destroying the alarm clock along with it.Suzanne turned to her other side to resume her sleep.This was Herotapolis, where the heroes lived.In this city there lived real, breathing heroes. You could tell already by the name of the city right?Hero League was an organization that pooled together normal people and trained them to become heroes. From chasing of bank robbers to extinguishing of fires in burning buildings, to serving as body guards to important people as well as getting stranded animals down from trees, or odd places, the heroes were ever availa
Suzanne yawned as she got off her bed.It had been a week since the E-rank exam. Their E-rank crest had been given to Coach Gwen but she said they had one final minor test to take before they were given their final E-ranks and then they'll meet their M.D corp three days after.Suzanne got her brush and combed her hair.Ryan was discharged the previous day so she knew he would be present today. She smiled at the thought. She had to look her best today. She got out her ribbon and packed her hair in a neat pony tail. She decorated her hair with her accessories.'Wassup, loser,' Shane leaned on her door post.'Hey Shane,' She decided to start ignoring the loser stuff ever since she heard that Shane had followed the guards that were taking Kyle away to give him a big talking to then he had landed a punch...or had attempted to at least.'Andrew's
'The judges have decided that Kyle Quole will be scratched out of the hero-league program due to the behavior he exibited today. But this decision shouldn't affect squad 12 so they shall be assigned a new Slad to join their group. Marissa Cartwell,' the Tifex said.'She has all her complete points and therefore can not be a hinderance to the team,' he concluded on that matter.'Suzanne O'Izzy, the judges have decided you are granted a win due to the situation on ground. Hence your battle with Kyle is crowned with you as the winner,' he stated.Suzanne couldn't stop her wide grin. Man, was she lucky!'And since Ryan Ziantez and Caleb Marsh had been shot, both will be given a pass too, however Andrew Frankstin and Lucas Will who remains standing will have the last battle. Their battle shall hold and the total counting shall rest on their shoulders.'The Tifex announced.
The crowd watched in open mouthed amazement.'Jesus, please help Suzanne,' Aiden prayed silently, his head bowed. It was the only thing he could do.Kevin glanced at him before facing the ring again. 'You sure are a terrible CIN, Aiden,' Kevin chuckled. 'I'm sure when CIN Rodrick was your age, he sure did a better job.'Aiden rolled his eyes.Suzanne yelped as a bullet whizzed past her.'He has a gun!' she shrieked, cowing on the spot.The comentator didn't know what to say. In all his years of moderating in contests, this was the first time someone wasn't fighting back.Shane watched as his twin ran around the ring while her bulky opponent, who was assigned to face her, fired off flames from the second gun he held.'Stay still!' Kyle hissed at her as he pursued her.
The noise of the crowd had quietened down. Now most eyes, if not all, were on the Squads that stood in a straight line assembled below.The Tifex moved about as he addressed the audience and the Slads.'Here are the instructions, listen up because I'm going to say this only once and that's it.' The Tifex said to the squads.He gestured to the field.'Over there, behind those red lines, the different squads facing each other will stand. But note, one person faces off only a person from the other team. And the match between the two will last for just a minute. The person that remains standing after the one minute time laspe will be the winner.'He looked back at the judges and nodded stiffly.'Since there are four members in each team, each team member will face the person he's facing opposite on the other line. If the time is up a
The squads that passed the first round were all assembled on a straight line and were made to face the panel that came from the headquarters.At their right was a battle ground with red lines marked close to the end of both sides, leaving a vast amount of space for dueling in the middle. A Tifex stood in the middle of the mini-field to act as a referee for the contestants.At the four corners of the huge wall, lots of seats were raised on a higher podium so as to prevent the fighters from reaching the onlookers.Defense mechanism shields were also put up in a form of glass around the places the audience would seat.Hence it was assured to be a safe match. The audience could easily watch the match below them without any worry of being injured by the fighters.The judges had a separate seat from everyone else. The CINs' seats were some feet behind the judges
Andrew stopped using his laptop and looked up. It all makes sense now. He thought.He then snorted as he looked past Ryan who gave him a puzzled expression which was ignored. Andrew stood up and headed for the door. He walked ten feet away from it and stopped, a frown of concentration was deeply etched on his face.'What are you doing?' Ryan asked with mild interest. Andrew continued to ignore him.Andrew bent down and felt the ground. 'Just as I thought,' he muttered to himself.'What is it Andrew?' Ryan asked again. He walked up to Andrew's side.Just then Suzanne and Ethan ran up to them, breathless.'Where's the package?' Ryan asked them both, extending a hand towards them swiftly. Ethan shrugged and raked his hand through his hair. 'We don't have it. We didn't see anything.'Ryan's gaze hardened as he appraised Ethan and Suzanne coldly.
'How are we going to find anything in this vast land?' Ryan wondered aloud.Andrew was deep in thought too.'And the others must not find our package! It's an impossible task!' Suzanne wailed.Ethan cupped his hands over both his eyes like a binocular. 'I can't even see the end of this land....,' he whistled. 'Then there's the forest and mountains. Quite an impossible task, I'll say,' he concluded warily.Andrew paced around, deep in thought. An hour is hardly enough for searching. We could search for months and not find it....there's more to it than this. He continued thinking hard.We are allowed to find other Squads' packages...that must mean something. Andrew got out his laptop and started working on it.'We are doomed! Doomed I tell you!' Suzanne stamped her foot on the ground.The ground shook everytime she brought her leg down. 'Doomed
Suzanne shuffled from one feet to the other nervously. Aiden had picked them all up so that no one would turn up late.They all stood at the entrance of the extremely large hall of Super Hero High.Aiden flashed his ID card for the perusal of the guards that were stationed at the backstage entrance for only the contestants.They turned and entered. A small table was at the entrance of the main hall. That room led to various sections and other compartments of the hall but all entrances had a guard beside them.They had to check in with one of the Tifex. Those are the instructions that are in charge of every examination. The main room was beginning to get filled up as more squads trooped in with their CINs.A Tifex headed towards them.'I'm Silverstin. The CIN of squad 10. We've registered since two days ago,' Aiden told him. The r