In a house that looked like its seen its better days, there lived a family of four. In the kitchen that looked old, there is a middle-aged woman who just finished making breakfast, she wasn’t exactly the prettiest, she had a few wrinkles on her forehead and crow’s feet by her eyes. She had a bruise by her left eye, most likely the result of abuse. The was a middle-aged man at the dinner table where she was setting the table, his was a bit burly and had clean shaven face with a few wrinkles on his forehead, while his head had full grey hair that didn’t look natural. The middle-aged woman soon shouted to the stairs, saying breakfast was ready.
The first person to walk down the stairs was a young man with average looks, who looked like he was 18 years old. He had blonde hair that didn’t looked natural but the result of bad quality hair dye, He had short scar across his cheek. The moment the young boy spotted his mother, he noticed the bruise on her left eye. He shook a bit but ignored it as it was a common occurrence in their neighbourhood or among people of their social status, as they live in a ghetto. As the he sat down, and young boy soon came running down with even younger girl following behind him. The boy had black hair just like his mom and the young girl behind him had brown hair, the young boy looked like a normal 8-year-old boy and you could see the innocence in his eyes, while the girl behind him looked 6 years old. She looked small and cute as you could see the dimples on her cheeks. When they sat down at the table for breakfast the young boy noticed the bruise by his moms left eye but didn’t say anything about it and just looked down, while the little girl was to young and dint notice her elder brothers attitude and asked her mom in a cute childish voice, ‘’mommy what’s wrong with your face ‘’. The middle-aged woman shook and said in a hurried voice ‘’ it’s nothing, why don’t you just sit down and quickly have some breakfast your goanna be late for school’’, as the little girl was too young to notice anything strange, she just replied ‘’okay’’ and climbed on her chair to have breakfast with the rest of the family.
The young man soon finished breakfast first, but before he could leave the middle-aged men called out to him ‘’Dustin’’. Dustin replied casually ‘’yes father’’, the middle-aged man replied back ‘’where were you last night, because I seem to be remembering that I told you to that curfew is at nine o clock’’ he said this as he was wiping his hands on a cloth. The table became quiet, the youngest boy in the room quickly said trying to defend to his older brother ‘’’umm, father could you please forgive him, brother works very hard and his job is very dangerous, so please’’ his brother quickly cut him off saying ‘’I had to do an extra run , and took out some bills and handed them to his father’’ . The middle-aged man quickly counted the bills and nodded. He put the bills in his pocket and said ‘’I’m done ‘’, he then got up and left the kitchen. As soon as he left the youngest couldn’t take it and shouted to his brother ‘’why did you let him take all your money, you worked hard for it!’’, his mother shouted back to him’’ Bob! now you know the rules of the house, you dad set them and since Dustin is living here he has to follow them and you too’’ .Bob shook, but his older put his hand on his shoulder and said ‘’its fine , don’t worry about it. I can always make more’’. He the rustled his brothers hair ‘’ come on , you have to go to school and get a proper education ,so you can get a proper well paying job’’ . Bob replied ‘’ but I’m not really good at school work , I want to be strong just like you brother. Then I can protect my family’’. Dustin just laughed it off and continued rustling his brothers hair and said ‘’ now come on ,go and take your sister to school’’.
Bob just brushed his brothers hands off and went to take his and his sisters bag, and got ready to go to school. Their school wasn’t far from where they lived, it was just a 10 minute walk. Their neighbourhood wasn’t exactly the safest, in fact it was far from safe but wasn’t at the level where they would rob little kids. So it was safe for them to walk to school without worry but however the world they lived in wasn’t a normal world but a world where magic exist but not everyone could use it. When a child reaches the age of 10 his powers will awaken and will be able to use magic, but the chances of awakening are only 1 in 1000 people. The children that have awakened are tested and graded according to how much magic they can use and how much affinity they have for certain elements, then their put in special schools designed to cater for their abilities. Every child dreams of awakening their powers, and Bob is no different who dreams to be as strong as his brother. His brother is also an magician, including their father but he hasn’t noticed even when their magicians why are they living in the ghetto and not in a modern safe neighbourhood. There are ways to awaken your powers other than having a natural safe awakening and that’s by using drugs but however its looked down upon to use drugs to awaken your magical powers and you will not be accepted into any magical academies, in fact you would be ostracized or arrested and put in prison if caught, and even with drugs it’s not guaranteed to awaken and there’s a chance of the user dying ,including side affects that can cripple the user. The price to play is high but there are still many people willing to try it even if it costs them their lives, reputations etc. Bob is 2 years away from his awakening and he can’t wait, has been sneaking out of his house to go and train his body and trying to copy his brothers training schedule. Even if the affects have been small and is impatient and wants to quickly become string as his brother as right now his strength is just that of a 10 year old boy.
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They quickly reached their school and Bob dropped is little sister of at her class and he quickly reached his own class. His class wasn’t that far from hers as they where only separated by two grades, their school was a large government school with student count about 1200 students. Each grade had 4 classes. The first grade to the third had their own building near the entrance that was coloured in different colours, while the rest of the school was had blue coloured buildings. The buildings weren’t in the best shape as they where broken windows and graffiti here and there, and there a bunch of litter on the ground. It was just a normal government school that didn’t receive much attention. When Bob reached class he just went and sat down alone in the corner of the room and the rest of the class ignored him , this was a normal occurrence in this school as his family had a bad reputation and rumours that his dad and brother used drugs to awaken their magical powers. Bob wasn’t the only receiving this the end of the stick, his sister to was being given the cold shoulder by her classmates. At first it hurt and they were pretty down and depressed about it but they soon got used it and it became a normal occurrence, today they where getting their test results back and Bob was just barely scraping through the classes they where taking, they were getting their math results back and it looked like Bobs luck had run out as he got 30% on his test, what’s worse was the teacher was calling out their results to the whole class and when Bobs results were announced, the whole class started laughing , and making jokes about his results. Bob was never good at hiding his emotions behind a cold look or hiding them like his elder brother, so you could see the look on his face was the furthest thing from happy, if he could he would beat all his classmates to the ground, but he knew that was impossible. So he just endured, got up and went to take his test from the teacher. The teacher just gave Bob a cold look, as if he wasn’t his problem, Bob just took his test but on his way back his desk a classmate tripped him and he fell to the floor. The whole class started laughing at him and the classmate who tripped him said ‘’ his just a pathetic as his older brother’’ and at that moment it was like something inside him snapped and before he knew it he was already being dragged away from his 3 classmates bruised and bloody bodies.