With Ethan’s tall, fit and somewhat broad body, his naturally stern look, and his long black hair braided behind his head into a ponytail he gives off a viking warrior like appearance even as he sits at his desk and work on his class work. The only things that really take away from this appearance is the simple and modern clothing's he is wearing. A plain black long sleeved shirt and black slacks.
Despite what his fierce appearance may suggest Ethan really cares more about academics then martial arts. He used to fight all the time in middle school, but now that he is in high school he can’t afford a fight getting onto his record if he is to get into a good college. So Martial Arts is just a hobby to him now, a fun activity to relieve the stress of studying and a good way to keep in shape and healthy. While fighting have just became an old joy of the past. What is important to him right now is his grades and academic record. Outstanding grades and a good looking record in high school are required to get into a good college, and a degree from a good college is required to get a good high paying job.
Ethan looks around the class, and see only a few people focusing on their schoolwork while the rest socialize and generally make a ruckus of themselves. Considering the importance of good grades Ethan never understood why the people at this school seem to care more about socializing then their school performance. Do they not even think about their future? Or do they think things are just going to somehow magically workout for them? If so, they are fools. Nothing is ever that easy. Ethan shakes his thoughts away and focus back on his class work. It’s a waste of time to focus on a stranger’s life.
He is just finishing up his class work when the lights go out. A few girls screech in mock fright to Ethan’s annoyance. The lights going out isn’t a rare thing at this school, probably something to do with the wiring, and the girls always scream when it happens. Maybe they think it is cute or funny to pretend to be afraid. Plenty of sunlight shine in through the windows to light the room so Ethan decides to just hurry and finish his class work.
“Calm down everyone! The power just went out!” Mr. Knots shouts over the crowd. Ethan glance up at him, a little surprised that the teacher got up. Usually Mr. Knots would even sit through the lights going out on his computer. Finding this strange Ethan looks over over at the teachers computer desk and notice something odd. Though he can’t see the monitor screen he can tell that there is no shine coming from it.
“My phone lost it’s single!” Someone suddenly yell out, and for some odd reason quite a few students burst out laughing.
“Good! You shouldn’t be using a phone in my class anyways!” Mr. Knots says.
Having a bad feeling Ethan take his own phone out of his pocket, and notice that his phone doesn’t have a signal either. The first thing that cross his mind is that a blackout could of wiped out the nearby cell towers. Of course it could also just be a coincidence.He needs to find out. He stands up and glance out the window. His mind goes into a frenzy over what he sees. Outside the window, pass the front yard of the school and beyond the the parking lot is a sea of sand and sparsely scattered shrubbery. Without thinking he race over to the window for a better look. This doesn’t make any sense. He knows for a fact that this school was smack down in the middle of a neighborhood with lush green lawns everywhere and towering trees in almost every yard. However, now that is all gone and replaced by a desert.
He notice something worse. In the distance is a group of orange lizard like creatures that resembles the old featherless portrayal of velociraptors chasing after what looks like a giant red salamander. Ethan hardly even hear the ruckus his classmates make as they become aware of the situation outside and join him by the window. The giant salamander suddenly look back and opens it mouth, a torrent of flame shoots out of its mouth like a flamethrower. The raptors easily dodge to the side, but it buy the salamander time to turn and race towards the school. The seriousness of the situation strikes Ethan at the sight of this. If them things get here the students will be massacred, and the salamander may even burn the entire school down.
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Ethan takes a step back from the window, and one thought flash through his mind as he race out of the class. He need to find Emily, his sister. If he remembers her class list right she should currently be in her geometry class. That is on the first floor, near to where the raptors and salamander were heading.
The natural light coming in through the windows in the classroom doors provides just enough light to see by as Ethan sprint through the school. As Ethan near a flight of stairs he hear the distant sound of people screaming and a person rush up from a flight of stairs farther down the hall. Fearing the worse Ethan race down the stairs, and like he thought pass the other flight of stairs is a crowd of people racing down the hall. They are screaming about some monsters attacking their class. Ethan scan the crowd as he race towards them, but there are too many people so he can’t tell if his sister is among them.
“Emily!” Ethan yells as he scan the crowd for her, but she doesn’t respond. He force his way into the crowd. “Emily! It’s Ethan! If you can hear me say something!” He keeps repeating this as he make his way through the crowd towards the classrooms.
As he get out of the crowd and approach the open door he take out his pocket knife and flip it open. It’s a good quality and durable knife. He peeks inside the classroom, and is greeted with a scene of blood and gore. A single raptor is inside and feasting off from a pile of gore. The raptor is easily taller then a man, and it’s is big enough to bite a person in half. At the sight of the thing the knife in his hand start to feel like a joke. Ethan is just about to leave when he notice the two girls huddle in the shadow in a corner. Neither are making a sound or so much as moving an inch as they stare at the raptor. Among the two girls one of them bare a striking resemblance to Ethan with her long pitch black hair and sharp features that are now distorted into a fearful look as she stares at the raptor. She is Emily, his sister. Ethan grit his teeth, at the very least he can buy time for her to run.
Ethan steps into the room, and the raptor snap it’s head towards him. The raptor move it’s legs and Ethan could tell that it is about to pounce at him. “Run Emily!” Ethan yells and dodge behind the wall just as the raptor leaps at him. It lands in the hallway, leaving its side exposed. Ethan take the Chance to dive onto it and with the momentum of the dive he rolls off it just as it snaps at him. He lands in a crouch near it’s back and stab’s the back of its leg as he push off with his legs as he starts a roll. It tries to snap at him again, but his roll have already put him under it and out of the reach of it’s mouth. He come out of the roll and stab the back of it’s other leg.
The raptor stumbles forward and fall into a roll. As it falls Ethan half leap to where it’s head should land. Before it can react he stabs down into it’s eye. He grabs it’s head and knees it in the jaw just as it try to snap at him. It’s mouth slams shut and Ethan use the palm of his hand to drive the knife deeper into it’s eye socket.
He leaps back from it and wait to see if it dies. He finds himself smiling as he watch it twitch. It’s in it death throes, and about to die. He knows that it’s about to die, but he doesn't let his guard down as he stand ready to react. He wish he had another knife as without one he feels naked, but he knows trying to take it from the raptors eye would take too long and leave him exposed. As he watch its twitching come to an end a feeling of satisfaction and thrill starts boiling in his veins. It’s been years since he been in a fight, and even longer since he been in a life or death fight. He missed it more then he realized.
The raptor finally stop twitching and Ethan start towards it to get his knife back. With one hand on the handle a feminine voice suddenly ring in his head.
“Congratulations! You have killed a level five Desert Raptor!”
“You have gained enough experience to level up two times!”
“Sleep or meditate in order to level up!”