August 22, 2112
I have classes everyday, it's rather exhausting but it is something to do. My schedule goes a bit like this: Monday two classes, Tuesday two classes, Wednesday one class, Thursday thru Saturday follow the same pattern and Sunday is fun day. Test day and review of the last week for all classes to make sure everyone is keeping up. Sunday's just so happen to be the most exhausting day of my week. Classes only last two hours each, except for on Sunday where they are half an hour.
The best thing about attending this school has to be the fact that they let me use my duplicate freely. Well I can't use all of them but it helps. My learning curve has exploded, and my social skills are off the charts!
Kidding.
This school is hard as fuck, I am barely getting by. My original plan was to have a dual life, a rough and tumble underground life and a school life, but shit. It takes all four of us to comprehend and process everything. I shouldn't have signed up for five classes. Between studying and trying to keep up my extra training, I've only made one friend, Darah. I've seen my sister's occasionally, but they are more military and magical focused than me, and have more classes. I don't know how they do it.
Darah is even more impressive, she's a genius with both magic and mundane tech. And rumor has it she is also an extremely gifted mage, but I wouldn't know. The more I think about it the more I feel slightly out of place, as though I tricked my way into this place. I mean I did, but it's not a great feeling. I feel out of my depth it is rather unbearable.
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August 30, 2112
I feel like death.
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September 17, 2112
I forgot that I had made that last entry, and had a good laugh when I saw it. It's been a bit since I last made an entry, but I finally got my feet under me. I have actually begun to rise in my classes. I have been spending my nights studying ahead so I can keep up in class. I've been having one duplicant sleep while the three of us make sure we fully understand the content of the classes and begin to lay the foundation for what we will learn next. It was exhausting especially since after a week of transferring sleep, my brain hates me.
So I rotate which one of me actually sleeps every night. But that's not all, I think the stress of pushing my mind has been enhancing it just like how I've been pushing my body. This I think is the only reason I still don't feel like dying. The repeated abuse has strengthened my body and mind, which I believe to be a function of my power. It seems that my power is like a filter allowing things in that make me stronger and filtering out what doesn't. It would explain the memory function of my power and the rejection of injuries when I recombine.
Researching powers has become a hobby of mine recently. It seems, at least according to public accounts and record, that no other power has changed and increased as much as mine has. Plus when a power grows or evolves it takes much longer for it's next evolution. I'm up to six now, I think? Of the most well documented heroes and their biographies, it seems that they had at the very most three evolutions or modifications. Even if they were lying about the number I can't believe it was more than six. My power might one day be average or above. A boy can dream.
I've also started studying with Darah. I have a vague hope about making something to augment my power, but I won't lie. I just enjoy hanging out with her. It's nice, and not anything more than friendship since I still don't know how I feel about romantic relationships. But it's nice and if the school year keeps going like this, I would deeply enjoy it.
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October 21, 2112
Things have been going great for a while now, I've continued to push myself both mentally and physically, and I'm seeing results. I've grown taller and stronger, this training is definitely excellerating puberty for me. My classes are no longer such a challenge for me, just by being there I absorb the information, so I began studying genetics in my spare time. Human genetics and if there is a biological link to powers. As far as I can tell there is no concrete evidence to support it even in people with physical powers. I dug it to it more, because I feel like there must be a physical component to powers but I could be wrong.
If I could I would have taken another class, but we are too late into the semester. It would have pushed me harder, but I can't have everything. In other news I have started learning an actual style of combat. My instructor in my combat class informed me that I was well above anyone else in their class and everyone outside the military courses, and offered to teach me a style of martial arts. Her own style actually. She calls it The Mountains Fall. As in her style will topple mountains. She says that since we are both generally smaller than our opponents this style is well suited for us.
Stolen story; please report.
I did bring up the fact that I was still a growing boy, but she said that at the rate I pick things up it will be the most useful for me right now. And I can also learn a different style if I do get bigger. That was at the end of last month and I must admit she was right. I've learned most of the advanced sets and I can use the moves in actual combat. Since then my combat rank in the school has jumped up. I may not have mentioned this yet, but nearly everything is ranked at this school. I'm the 1st ranked in combat for first years and 232 total. In combat where they allow powers I'm 591. I just can't keep up with people who are actual prodigy's, plus I can't use my full strength since I limited myself to one duplicant. However I'm not last in the rankings, since there are about 700 students. I am 9th in my year for academics and I worry that I will fall behind.
Academically speaking I'm ranked 99 in the whole school based on the average of my scores. Which I can't be too proud about because even with extra time people are still above me, but dammit I am proud. I have always been less, in every way since I was a little kid, but for once I am keeping up with the geniuses through sheer determination. It does feel pretty good. Nothing else really to report, well thats not technically true it's just embarrassing. A girl a year ahead of me and a year younger has a crush on me. She is gifted in all regards, and wealthy. One might say a girl of superior stock. I kicked her ass in non-powered combat, and then she kicked mine in powered combat because she has a stupid good power.
She can enhance things by pouring focus on it. For example if she wanted a knife to be sharper she would think about its edge, and it would become sharpe. NOw the overpowered thing about it,is that there seems to no limit to her enhancement. She enhanced a knife so much that dropping it would shear through concrete. So she has been enhancing a suit of armor to increase her strength and speed. It can almost fly, and it shoots fire on command. She is in the running for most powerful hero and might inherit protection of the city. If this keeps up she will basically be a god by the time she is 24.
For the moment however I can kick her ass. She has apparently fixated on me now, challenging me at every turn, and generally making a nuisance of herself. It might be cute if I had the physical age to conceivably reject her advances, but as it is most people would just think I'm an asshole with his head stuck up said asshole. I am in a lose-lose position either I'm a pedophile for not wanting to be an asshole or an asshole for not wanting to be a pedophile. Wow I never thought I'd type that in a sentence, I mean it's obvious that I will be the asshole ten times outta ten, but I should try and be a little less likeable or something and hopefully the next six years will go by quickly.
Of course by then I will be 24ish years older than now and it'll be even weirder. I might have to come to terms with not dating, or get over the creep vibe I get since I am physically 13.
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November 6, 2112
Turns out I am getting one of my dreams fulfilled. It's a tournament, and a non-powered one at that. Well there is a powered one a few days after the first one, but not important. What is important is that I might actually get to face challenging fights again. I've been avoiding fights the last few weeks to get the princess off my back, and focused instead on my limit training. I think I am close to something. I think I need something to push me over the edge and I think this might be exactly what I need.
This is basically the end of my semester. I've taken my other finals, and I'm excited to have a break with my sisters. Christmas should be fun and I think I've done a pretty good job on completing my goals. Let's just see how the tournaments go.
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November 10, 2112
I have now completed both tournaments and things got a little weird. Well let me start by saying that the non-powered tournament was my favorite. It was no surprise that I was top of my year in combat, but I also beat the first rank second year. I got into the final fifty combatants, and even got to fight some fourth years in the losers bracket. It was enlightening. What really made me happy however was the powered tournament. Which is surprising to me, I was dreading this competition, but it was exactly the catalyst I needed.
I was basically used as a punching bag for the first two matches. With my ability to negate damage it didn't matter to me so I basically stayed in the ring and ran around until my opponents became too exhausted. When they got too tired I'd throw them out of the ring. However in my third match, I faced a super human. As far as I could tell she was about four times as strong as a normal person. With insane endurance too. It was a complete slog, I could barely do anything to her, but with every blow she seemed to break bones forcing me towards my own limit.
In a moment of sheer defiance, I re-upped and threw a kick with all the force I could muster, and to my chagrin I broke her arm. I also shattered my leg, but that's besides the point. The point is that I managed to exceed the physical limit for my body. I somehow channeled strength beyond my control and broke bones that should be like rebar. I think this might be the evolution I've been searching for. To exceed my physical limit, well it's like an actual super power.
After I broke the girls arm she cried and screamed bloody murder, having never before been hurt so badly I forfeited the next match and can back to my dorm to write it all down. And after getting my thoughts straight I've come up with a few possibilities. One I can exceed my limits when I'm desperate enough, two I can do when I focus on using all of my strength, or three it has to do with re-upping. Honestly I think option three is more likely solely, because none of my other powers are emotion based. Two could be likely it could even be a combination of all three. I got some experimenting to do...
After the holidays I think I've earned a break.