“I suspect that you already know the answer” Edwin says with a little smile in his mouth.
“Yes, I got the slightest idea, but I need to hear it from your mouth” Tirrius returned a Trickster smile.
Edwin sighed. “Yes, I choose the quiet life. You already watch my behavior when I was looking to the tablet. I am starting to suspect that you know it before I enter this room” He starts to feel as he lost in some kind of game.
Tirrius chuckled again “That is what comes with the years. That and a really bad spine. But enough of my mental eye. To pull the stunt of being one more of the pack and silence the doubtful. You need to do a lot of work. I need to be sure that you are ready for this” He shows his serious face again.
“I already choose my fate, and I am ready to follow that decision. I already confront giant sized spiders with a giant robot in freaking space. What could be harder than that?”
“As you wish Edwin. I hope you will not repent” And he move his left hand and press a few buttons. The wall behind him starts to transform into a blue screen, He draws a Laser pointer from his pocket, and points on to the screen “First you need to choose…”
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The talk was prolonged for almost three hours. They talked about everything, from the courses in the academy to how the Techband operated. The moon was showing his face on the sky. They finished to talk when the secretary, Amira, was entering the room.
“If you do what we discuss Edwin, I assure you, got nothing to worry. Amira will lead you to your new dorm. Let’s hope that you will find it comfortable” He gives him a trickster gaze.
“I appreciate what you do for me. Let’s hope that you still be an ally when the time comes” His eyes answered the gaze with a defiant look.
The both of them gives Tirrius a respectful farewell, as both descended in the elevator. On the outside, the day was almost over, and a few strokes of black were tainting the sky.
They see very few students as they walk through the path. Amira was in total silence, only talking through hand movements. They turn to the left until they stopped when the road divided in two paths. The gardener was neglecting a little this place.
“Where are we, miss Amira?” Edwin asked with a dubious face.
“This area appears in the official map of the school as the dormitory area. The students call it the division fork. Two almost identical buildings are located at my sides. They are separated for near seven hundred meters. To the right, the common male dormitory, and to the left, the common female dormitory. It is forbidden for members of the opposite sex to visit the female dormitory, as patrols guards their fences every hour. This is also equal for the male dormitory, but they doesn’t need any guard. After a few incidents, the female students won’t come near one hundred meters of that place”
“So, our path is to the right, no?” Edwin ask again.
“Those are the common dormitory, there are 5 dormitory more for the students. The High Class dorms and the Special Students dorms. They are also divided by gender, and another characteristics. As personal staff for your necessities, quality of furniture and a lot of things more. Of course you aren’t going to sleep in theses either.” Amira explains without a break.
“So where I am going to sleep, I suppose not in the forest?” Edwin starts to worry about his new “home”.
“Close enough. Please follow me, I will show you” She draws a small box and starts to emit a bright light. She starts to walks just right in the middle of the division. Its looks like she is walking in the grass, but she is currently stepping on a stone path.
“The common dorm got five amateurs gardeners. Which are students from the garden club, and they always forgot about this part. Very few people, thinks about the last room”
Thirty minutes of walking through the grass, in the midst of the night, until they come to a clear in the middle of the forest. An imposing three floored French type mansion was in the center of clear.
The area were in need of a lot of work. Overgrown trees and weeds were seen everywhere, the walls of the building were damaged and need a hand of paint. The fountain in the center was broken in several parts. The rock path was covered totally by the grass.
“I suppose this is one of your most famous attractions. The Haunted House, that is its name, or I am wrong?” Edwin ask with a smile in his face.
“Yes, and your new house for the next three years” and she showed her biggest smile.
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Amira starts to hit the ring next to the doors. These presented the same state as the walls of the building.
“I am coming. Wait a moment, bitch and stop touching the goddam bell!” a male voice answered from the insides.
“Silas, shut up and come here right now. Before I knock down the door, and kick your sassy ass!” Amira answer, pissed off at the words of Silas.
A few moments later, the opened door was showing a male in serious need of a shave and a bath.
“Again you're missing a lot of class. Tomorrow go to school or I will assure to behead you myself!” Amira says with an angry tone.
“It’s always a good time to see you, aunt Lyla. Every night is like hell when I see your face”
“Why, in the hero’s name, you were gifted with such a smart brain and that shit like personality?”
“Because your genes gave it to me, dear Aunt” He laughs with a trickster smile.
She pointed him with a finger and talk with an angry tone “I am warning you Silas, don’t provoke me, and show your cleaned ass to the school tomorrow, or you will hear from. You have the obligation to show Edwin the place. If you dare to have the thought your responsibility again, I will shove a stick in your dorsal spine. You got it?”
“As you say, dear aunt” with an innocent smile in his face.
She left the two young ones, with angry thoughts. Since the dead of his sister, he were a genius but lazy brat, and she promises to herself to change that. With force, If necessary.
The two boys look each other, until Silas broke the silence “As always, she is a really loving person” and they both laughed.
“I knew some people, like that in the military. That is their way to express love. My name is Edwin Withe, I hope we have a really good time together” He said, as his hand was extended to Silas.
“The name is Sylas Amira, second grade repeater. My area of expertise is the AI that rules the system of the Meacs. I hope the same thing” Those were his words, as he stretched the hand.
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“Well that was the kitchen, I know is a little dusty but I was living alone here all the time. The bathroom is the only thing I keep clean because the toilet breaks easily. I am working in a robotic maid but I doesn´t have the funds to buy the necessary parts for it. Well, do you like it?” He smiles as he awaits an answer.
“I suppose we can´t over look to the fact, that the last time someone clean this place was three months ago. But there is some truth in the words of your aunt. You are a really lazy one. But whatever I am really tired, Nothing could surprise me now” Edwin said it with a hand in his face, lamenting the second that he entered this building.
The outside was destroyed, but the interior was a disaster. The kitchen was a true nightmare, every plate was dirty. The water in the sink was looking like petroleum, and cockroaches were in plain sight.
The toilet room was like the W.C. of a public concert, it was usable, but he wouldn’t recommend it to his worst enemy. The bathroom door of the first floor was blocked with trash, so they need to use the shower in the second floor.
“Your room is in the second floor, I believe it is already furnished. There is only one warning I will give you, don´t go to the third floor, or I will find your dead body by the morning, got it?“ Sylas said it with a serious face.
“Sure, whatever makes you happy” Edwin gives a half assed answer, saying goodbye with his hand and going to the stairs. He opened the door of his room, with the card that the director gave him.
The furniture was quite simple. The room consisted in a king sized bed, two bedside tables, a wardrobe, a desktop with a terminal and a wardrobe embedded in the wall. He puts the three devices on the desk, and he hangs his uniform in a perch.
“Today was a really stressful one. I hope tomorrow will be more easy” and falls quickly to sleep.
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“Ohh, Miss Amira I was beginning to wonder when you are going to come” Tirrius open his eyes after enjoying the smell of the tea in the cup.
“I am really sorry, boss, my nephew always brings out the worst from me” She said it, as she sits enjoying her own cup of tea.
“I want to know the opinion of my secretary. What are her thoughts about our wonder boy” He said, as his cup was left in the table.
“He was too sure of himself for being first day after awakening from the coma. It is really unnatural for a common human to be so calm. But is not outside of the norm, so he could be some kind of alien, I don’t really care for that. I still don’t know why you spend so much effort in a boy like that. You even involve the president of the federation for that child”
“That idiot still owe me a lot of favors. So it wasn’t a huge job after all. But if you think so then I believe you. But I am going to need a new desk for tomorrow” as he point to the place where Edwin fist hit the desk.
“So your wife piss of you again, he… Wait… these are not your hands, they are bigger … The kid did this… I can´t believe it…” Her jaw dropped, and stay like that for a while.
“Hehe, as I thought. This year will be a really funny one” He said as the tea goes through his throat.
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In the middle of the night, the sounds of footsteps in the floor above him, awakes Edwin. An enemy, was the thought in his mind as he goes up on the stairs in underwear.
The footsteps silence in the moment that he puts his feet outside the stair. He tense his muscles as he remembers the combat training. “The mayor was right, it doesn’t matter where or when do you are the war always find you”.
The floor was in a deep darkness. The first room to his right was empty, probably a deposit. The third floor was really clean, as no dust was in view. The second door leaves to another empty, but clean room.
The third door was the same. “I can live with the death threat instead of Sylas, is much more clean here than there” and laughed to his joke for a long while, before jumping to the sides, evading the flying pieces of the fourth door.
“This was a really tiring day, so I don’t want any more troubles here. I was hoping that you leaves in total silence for where you enter” He ask to the figure that was in front of him. He was only seeing the red lights on his enemy.
The two red eyes starts to get close to him really quickly. He hears a really familiar sound, the sound of a blade cutting the air of the hallway. He dodged the next cut of the figure, jumping back quickly, and gives a swift kick to where he thinks the abdomen of his opponent was. His leg bones suffer the impact.
“What the heck… is like kicking a wall. I was letting you because I was really tired. But, on the other hand, letting out some steam is exactly what I need” He said, as he drop to the ground, dodging the incoming cut.
He quickly stands up and lets out a kick directed to the red lights, and jumps back again to dodge the cuts.
The opponent doesn’t have a style, it looks like he was only cutting randomly to Edwin. After two more punches in full strength to random places of the body of his opponent, Edwin falls to the fact that his opponent wasn´t human.
The pain in his fists start to bother him, as he thinks the fight lasted for enough time. “It was fun, but is time to finish it” as he made two jumps to his back, and puts in karate stance. He inhale a great deal of air and his arms starts to glow with intense blue light. He parries the katana with his left hand, and unleashes his right hand with all his might.
A great “Boom!!!” was heard in all the building, as the figure was pushed several meters, and falls to the ground. But it wasn´t defeated yet, as the red eyes were still glowing.
The figure was trying to stand up again. With the scream “I will not let you” and two more blue glowing punches, he finish the fight.
“What was this thing?” Edwin asks himself as the lights starts to illuminate the hallway.
“I was hoping to find your body cut in five pieces, but this is something I wasn´t expecting” Sylas was totally shocked as the blue light on the arms of Edwin starts to fade. In the ground besides him was a female figure dressed with a maid attire. In its hands was a long blade.
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