A woman walks into a classroom and places her folder on the desk. The chalkboard at the front has ‘Introductions’ written on it. She begins to speak “Hello and good morning class, I’ll be your teacher for this year, as you are probably aware my name is Minita Mina but you will most likely know me as Wildfire. My ability is called, Solar flare. Welcome to your first day at Titan Academy. Now… I’ve introduced myself, I’m going to take the register so if you hear your name please introduce yourself to the class and explain a bit about yourself and your power”. The classmates are seen for the first time, ten students are sitting at their desks. Minita reads out the first name “Yuka”.
A tall boy stands up, aged 16 years old, with black hair, and a very handsome appearance. “Hi, my name is Yuka Yoshida but my hero name is double. That’s because my power is called double tap. When exerting a force I can activate my power meaning that force will become like a bubble of kinetic energy, the force then doubles after every minute and after any amount of time I can release the power and whatever the force is at that time will be exerted”. He looks back at the students who all look confused, Yuka sighs. It then flashes back to Yuka sat in a school chair at the age of 12, he turns to his friend “ok it’s all set” his friend replies “are you sure this is safe”, “yeah absolutely, about 10 minutes ago I tapped the bottom of Chiyo Sensei’s chair, as soon as he gets in and sits down I’ll release it and he’ll get a little morning wake up”. “Are you sure you didn’t knock it too hard”. “One hundred per cent”. The teacher enters the room, an elderly man, very plain looking, he speaks to the class with no enthusiasm. “Morning all, today we’ll start with a surprise test”. The students groan and he begins handing out the papers, as he stands next to Yuka he stops and looks him in the eye “and as always no talking, cheating and especially no messing around” as he hands out the last of the papers he goes to take his seat in front of his desk “you may now… begin” as he says this Yuka releases his power and his chair suddenly launches into the air, crashing through the ceiling,
The teacher is seen stuck in the ceiling 2 floors above. Yuka turns to his friend. “Ok so maybe I tapped it a little too hard”. Later Yuka is in the principal's office with his mum and the principal is having a conversation with them both. “This is the third incident this year Yuka Chan and this time again luckily the teacher wasn’t seriously injured but young Yuka here needs to stop misbehaving in class”. She stands up and bows. “Miho San I apologise for my son again, I will speak to him and make sure he is punished for his actions” The principal continues “he’s a gifted child, he is doing amazing academically and his power has promise, the only area he needs to improve on is his mathematics but if he wants to follow his dreams of making it into the top academy these schemes have got to stop and instead he needs to devote that time to improving his math skills” Yuka sighs and looks out the window. In the distance he sees Chiyo San being loaded into the ambulance.
Back in the classroom, Minita addresses the class. “I'm sure it will be easier to understand when we show it off later, for now let's move on to the next student, Kame”. Kame stands up, he’s also 16 with black hair, however, is of average height, and has a very timid nature. “My name is Okada Kame and my hero name is void, my power is infinite void, I have an infinitely empty void surrounding me which means nothing can touch me, it sounds great but I can’t turn it off so I guess since my power activated I’ve not been able to touch anything”. He remembers a time aged 13 when he was hovering on a bench, and eating his lunch alone, his sandwich is floating above his hand and he angles his head to take a bite. As he goes to take another bite, a paper projectile is launched toward him, it bounces off his void without any effect, and a group of children are heard laughing in the background. The children continue throwing things at him with no effect. He sighs, stands up and walks away continuing with an emotionless expression.
Later on, his class are all on a sports field and everyone is being picked for teams, one by one all the students are picked until finally he is the last person standing, with a few groans the team captain speaks up. “Fine, I’ll guess we’ll take Kame. The students get ready to play a game of baseball and after a few rounds a ball comes toward Kame. He reaches out his hand to catch it but the ball bounces off his aura and falls in front of him, he continues to try and pick it up but it continues to roll away from him, you hear his team shouting in the background as the opposing team continue to score points. A team member rushes over to pick up the ball but by the time he reaches it, the teacher announces the opposing team have won and everyone groans and boos toward Kame. Near the end of the school day, he is sat in the playground, again levitating off the floor. A boy walks over and shouts to his friends, “hey guys do you want Kame to join us for tag” a girl shouts back “there’s no point even if I could tag him I wouldn’t want to anyway” the children laugh and run off. Kame gets up and walks off, the wind chimes sound and he leaves school to head home. Upon arrival he shouts out “hey dad I’m home”. His dad pops around the corner. “Hey, how was your day at school son”. Kame shrugs and responds. “The same as normal I guess”.
Minita san responds to Kame . “Ok well hopefully, this year we should be able to help with your ability and allow you to control it enough to touch things, we will try our best. So next up we have Kenikai.” Kenikai stands up to reveal he’s a 16-year-old student. “Hi, my name’s Randy Kenikai, as you can probably guess My mum is American and my dad is Japanese hence the name Randy. I only just moved to Japan last year but luckily I already spoke Japanese at home. All my friends used to call me Rando and I thought about making that my hero name but in the end I decided on the name Nexus, and well my power is called Random power generator, when I activate my power I get completely randomised powers, sometimes I don’t even get one at all, and no matter what I get it lasts exactly one hour before it runs out and I can randomise it again”.
Kenikai remembers a memory aged 16 walking home from school, as he turns a corner he sees a classmate getting beat up, the bullies shout at the student “hey where’s your lunch money, you owe us twice for not having any last week” Kenikai walks over and shouts at them, “hey, how about you pay for your own lunch”. The bullies turn and look at him “oh yeah Rando, what you going to do about it?”. He smiles and speaks to himself “ok come on Randy this is it, please give me something good” he activates his powers and a powerful light emanates from his eyes, the bullies take a step back and look at him in fear. One of the bullies takes a step forward again and looks closer. “Is that it, your power is just a bright light from your eyes”. The bullies laugh and continue walking towards him, he smiles at them again and shouts “oh yeah, you think that’s the only power I got” the bullies stop and look at each other. They take another step toward him. Kenikai starts to panic and takes a step back, he then turns and makes a run for it and the bullies chase behind him. As he’s running past the pedestrians shout at him to turn off the lights. After a few minutes, he gets caught in a back alley and turns around to try and run out. As he does the bullies turn the corner and walk toward him. “There’s nowhere to go now, Rando”. They all jump him and take turns beating him up.
Back in the classroom, he takes a seat. Minita shouts for the next student. “Ryoto” A student stands up. Aged 16, fairly short and wears glasses. “Urm hi everyone I’m Ryota Hino. My hero name is “Sleight” and my power is called Magica Infinitum. If you’ve heard of the Ryota clan then as you know we are all born as magic users. And supposedly I’m going to be the best mage of the Ryota bloodline to ever exist.”
16 years ago in a very dark and dimly lit room, a woman is heard screaming in pain. Finally, the screaming stops and the sound of a baby crying is heard. Ryota’s father is stood next to the woman, Ryota’s mother, and lifts baby Ryota. “Finally a son to carry on the throne”, an elder woman, Ryota’s grandmother, responds. “And his magic essence levels are off the chart, possibly the most I’ve ever seen, there’s no doubt about it, he could even achieve a level 9 archmage” his father replies, “This will be the most powerful member of the Ryoto clan yet. My son” Years later aged 6 Ryota is reading the apprentice level 1 grimoire of magic spells for children. His father walks into the room “Darling why have you given him that to read those spells are too basic for him and he’s already been reading it for 2 years, he should be easily able to master those by now, let’s get him started on the harder stuff already, then when his seed activates he’ll already be at a level 3 disciple level.” She replies, “Dreyfus dear you know all mages need to start from the basics, once he’s read that and mastered the incantations I’m sure in the next few months we can start him on the Initiate level grimoire” he sighs “Well as always you know best darling, how could I argue with you”.
A few years later aged 9 Ryota is reading a level 3 disciple level grimoire and practising the incantations. His father walks in “Hey son you know some people don’t even start with level 2 initiate incantations till they are twice your age and you’re already a level ahead. Keep going and you’ll make a fine mage” Kame smiles “thanks dad”. A year later on his tenth birthday, Kame is asleep in his bed when a bright light emanates from his core. He rushes into his parent's room. “Mum, dad, my seed finally activated. His father jumps up out of bed. “I knew it, never once has a Ryoto’s seed not activated, this is it, Ryota, show me, see if you can start with an initiate spell” Ryoto turns and performs the hand signs but nothing happens, he tries again but still nothing happens. His dad's face looks worried. “Don’t worry son, sometimes it takes a long time to activate a spell, you might have had lots of practice but in reality, it’s much harder when you need to do it. Let’s get some sleep and try again in the morning”. Ryota heads back into his room to get some sleep. The next morning a fellow student runs toward him, “Hey Ryoto I’m guessing your seed activated last night, you must be able to cast all sorts of crazy spells just like your dad” Ryoto is facing away from the student but turns around to face him. As he does he holds out his hands with a deck of cards in them. “pick a card”.
Back in the classroom, Ryoto continues addressing the class “for some reason at the moment I can only really do simple magic tricks, I know all the incantations and everything and I’ve read up to a level 4 Adept mage but I still can’t actually perform any spells, but I can still do some pretty cool things, like this, watch… pick a card”.
Minita san jumps in. “ok, that’s ok thank you Ryoto you can show everyone later, next up to introduce herself, Mizo”. A faint voice is heard “here” a small girl stands up at the back of the class, aged 16 she’s a short, pretty girl with red hair and black eyes. “Hi everyone my name is….”, Minita jumps in “Mizo would you be able to speak a little louder please” she clears her throat and speaks again slightly louder “hi everyone my name is Mizo Kudo and my hero name is Ember. My power is called Rage, urm sometimes when I get angry my natural abilities increase drastically, for example, my strength, speed and durability” Yuka interrupts “wait what, no offence but I can’t exactly imagine you getting angry”.
A few years before Mizo is sat in class in her old school, the teacher asks a question to the students, “and if that’s the case can you calculate x, Mizo San can you answer please” she stands up and whispers the answer so quietly it can’t be heard by any of the class, the girl next to her snickers and shouts, “Urm Mizo I think maybe you need to speak a little louder” the whole class laugh, she sighs and whispers again slightly louder yet still unable to be heard. The girl repeats “I think she’s probably saying she’s too shy to answer the question Sensei” again the class begin to laugh, Inside Mizo’s eyes there is a very small flame surrounded by the darkness of her iris. Mizo turns to look at the student next to her and as she does so the flame gets slightly larger and brighter. Mizo turns to the teacher and aggressively shouts out “the answer is 26, Sensei” the class are quiet for a few seconds then burst into laughter,. The teacher responds “ok everyone calm down, Mizo San that’s absolutely correct but in future please try not to shout, you can take a seat” she sighs and takes a seat.
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Later that day she is walking out of school, and the girl who made fun of her in class walks past knocking into her and knocking her books on the floor, she turns and whispers to Mizo. “Oh I’m sorry I didn’t notice you there, I guess you’re just too quiet”. once again the flame in Mizo’s eyes gets slightly bigger but then quickly settles back down. She gathers her books and papers, stands up and walks off”. As she continues walking home she hears a woman scream in the background, a man is running away holding the woman’s purse and the woman shouts out loud, “please somebody stop him, he’s got my purse and my husband's 60th birthday present is in there”. Suddenly Mizo’s fire gets larger and larger until it’s a roaring flame, Mizo's eyes burn red, and as this happens her body becomes incredibly muscular, however, her head and face remain unchanged. Within an instant, she disappears. The robber continues running away until he is instantly knocked to the floor skidding along the concrete until his body comes to a stop. Mizo is on top of the man with a very angry look on her face, she looks down to see the robber is unconscious and her eyes and body return to normal. She takes the bag from the robber's hand and starts walking toward the old lady. She returns the bag and whispers “Hi please accept your bag back and enjoy your husband's birthday” the woman looking very scared takes the bag and quickly walks off.
Back in the classroom, Mizo looks a little sad. Minita continues “Ok well please try your best to keep calm during your time in the academy, I'm sure we’ll have that under control in no time. Let’s take a seat. Up next on my list is Shuichi”. Shuichi stands up, aged 16, plane looking, with black hair and glasses, “It’s an honour to meet you all, my name is Shuichi Ogaru and my hero name is Upgrade. My ability is called RPG”. Kenikai shouts out. “Hey that’s cool that’s the acronym for my power too”. Minita looks at Kenikai with a stern face. “Oops sorry” Shuichi continues. “My ability makes me like a character in a video game. I can raise my stats through training and combat as well as completing certain tasks, this also gives me the ability to level up and gain new skills. I also have another skill called appraisal which allows me to see the stat points of other people including things like strength, defence, speed, intellect, durability, magic, swordsmanship, shooting, as well as miscellaneous stat points”. Through Shuichi’s eyes, we see the appraisal of other students
4 months before Shuichi is training in his garden. He is continuously swinging his sword in the air. “995, 996, 997, 998, 999, 1000”, he then proceeds to start doing push-ups and after a short period of time he begins to count. “97, 98, 99, 100” he sees a pop-up appear with a strength icon saying +1xp and then a congratulations box appears with fireworks. ‘strength levelled up’ “yeeeeees finally level 5 strength”. 2 months later he is sat in his kitchen and looks at his stat points again, they are the same as in the garden however his speed, strength and swordsmanship are one level higher. “I’m turning 17 next month how can I still only have these weak levels”.
His family are also around the table having dinner. His father speaks out “look I’m not suggesting you go around picking fights and I'm no expert on games or powers or whatever but don’t you get more experience points for, you know, actually fighting”. His mother angrily replies “Konishi did you really just suggest your son starts getting into fights”, he quickly and nervously replies “look I’m not saying random people but say like in a class or something, or sparring” Shuichi replies, “I've tried, in the past I’ve protected some people against bullies but most of them were so weak I barely got any exp for it.” His mother speaks again “hmmm putting the fact that you’ve been in fights aside as I’m sure you were doing it to protect people, there’s no doubt later on something will come along that will help you level up faster”. Hatanaka, his older brother, jumps in. “Why don’t you go into professional fighting, my friend at work is an MMA fighter and he does it all the time” Shuichi replies. “I mean I'm already pretty strong compared to most normal people, but if I wanna be a hero I'm going to need to be a lot stronger than I am right now”. His mum confidently speaks again “well you've got to make a choice about which hero academy you're going to choose, maybe you'll get a good one and get much stronger there”. He takes a bite and sighs. ‘I doubt it”.
Back in the classroom, he is still speaking to the class. “Any way at the moment I’m stronger and faster than your average person and I train very hard, every day I do 1000 sword swings and 100 push-ups so I'm hoping to get even stronger soon”. Minita replies “That’s great Shuichi I’m sure you will during your time here if you keep training hard like that. Now Tatsuo over to you” Tatsuo stands up to show he's an average-looking student aged 16, “hi my name is Tatsuo Ryüjin, I currently don’t have a power and therefore don’t have a hero name so for now you can just call me Ryü.” Everyone in the class looks at each other confused, Ryü rubs his hair and nervously smiles.
On his 10th birthday, Tatsuo is laying in bed, a light illuminates his core, and he wakes up shouting and jumping with joy. His mum and dad run into the room. “Ryü what's wrong, is everything ok?”. He excitedly replies “Mum, Dad, my seed just activated” his mother joyfully responds “Wow Ryü that’s great” his father, half asleep, continues “that’s great Ryü, well done you’re the first person in our family for generations to have their seed activate, tell us can you feel what your power is” he looks at them blankly, “I don’t know” he replies. “What do you mean you don’t know son it's common that nearly everyone knows what their power is as soon as their seed activates it should be something you feel deep in your soul”. Tatsuo continues to look confused “but, I can’t feel anything, I felt it activate and I saw the light but I don’t know what my power is” his parents look at each other concerned.
The next day Shuichi is in the doctor's office. A doctor walks in and starts to speak “ok Shuichi San the good news is your son’s seed has activated and he is perfectly fine however even our top ability analyst doctor has come from Kyoto and he can’t quite figure out what exactly your son's power is, all the readings are, well unknown.” Tatsuo is sat at the doctor's table and he begins to look very sad. A year later on his 11th birthday, he blows out the candle on his cake “it’s ok because this year I’m finally going to know exactly what my power is”, then again on his 12th birthday “this year I can feel my power is finally going to work, this continues for his 13th, 14th and 15th birthday until finally, he is back in the classroom speaking to the other students. “But it’s ok because I’m sure my power will show itself soon”. Shuichi runs Appraisal on him and sees all of Tatsuo’s stats are normal, all except for his miscellaneous stat which shows a question mark. Shuichi speaks to himself “well that’s strange”.
Minita continues “ok, thank you for that Tatsuo, next up Hiro” she very confidently stands up and begins to speak, aged 16 she is a very pretty girl. “My name is Hiro Fuse and my hero name is Esperado. Which is a Spanish word meaning expected or hoped. When people need saving I want them to just expectthat ill save them, I want to bring hope to people when they see me. It also comes from my ability, which is called Esper which grants me the powers most espers would have. For example, I can move myself and other objects with my mind” Everyone looks amazed, and she continues “the problem is since my power activates I'm only able to use one per cent of my true power” the class go back to looking dissatisfied as she confidently smiles.
Hiro is on the playground aged 10 when she shouts to a crowd of other students “behold peasants, my seed has activated and I have the great power of telekinesis, watch as I fly and soar through the air, she jumps from the bench and starts to levitate into a flying position, the classmates look at her with shocked faces when they realise she is only flying 25cm off the ground. She stands up and her classmates start to applaud shouting praise at her, one of the students shouts “woah that’s so cool. A few years later she is flying again however still only 25cm off the ground, the same student shouts again “yeah you’ve been doing that for the past 2 years, show us when you can actually fly or do something cool” she stands up and speaks to herself “just you wait one day I’ll be so powerful you won’t be able to help but be in awe of me”. 2 more years later, she is holding out her hand “are you ready I’ve finally learned a new skill, my powers are finally growing, watch now and fear my awesome power” a book begins to shake slightly, the class gasp, the book then slowly moves towards her, at an incredibly slow speed. 2 minutes later the book reaches her and she turns to the class “did you see that, my powers have finally grown, soon I will be invincible” as she does so she sees everyone has left the room.
Back in the classroom, Hiro shouts to her fellow classmates. “Here watch this”. she starts to make a pencil float towards her but once again at a very slow speed. Minita interrupts “that’s very good Hiro thank you, let’s move on to the next person” Hiro loses concentration and the pencil falls to the floor and rolls along next to another student who picks it up, Minita continues “Daisuke you are up next” The student holding the pencil stands up, aged 16. “Hi my name is Daisuke Adachi and my hero name is Omega, I have a power called Atomic configuration, I can control the atomic structure in my body, this allows me to go invisible, make myself super light or super heavy, I can make my skin crazy hard sometimes even stronger than metal and also sometimes it allows me to pass through objects.” Yuka shouts out “I’m guessing there’s a but coming” Daisuke continues “but... I can’t quite control my powers yet”
Daisuke is sitting in his old class aged 15 daydreaming over a cute girl sitting a few seats next to him, suddenly the teacher shouts his name “Daisuke are you ok, is there a reason you seem to be floating off the ground” he suddenly realises he is levitating off the floor, begins to panic and apologies to the teacher “I’m sorry Sensei I don’t know how to stop it.” His teacher shouts at him again. “Daisuke this isn’t funny get down right now or you’re going to the principal's office” “Sensei I promise I can’t control it” she angrily shouts back “just close your eyes and try” he shuts his eyes and repeats to himself “ok you can do this, just change the atoms, make myself just a little bit heavier, here we go come on. He feels his feet touch the ground and opens his eyes to see all his classmates shocked, he looks down and realises he has made himself pass through his clothes and is standing there completely naked. The students start to laugh as he picks his clothes up off the floor and runs out of the room.
Back in the classroom, Daisuke is covering his face with an awkward expression. Minita speaks out. “Daisuke you ok”. He nods and sits down. “Well, thank you Daisuke, let's move on, finally we have our last one up, Etsuko”. A student aged 161 stands up, she has long black hair and a bun with long twisting streaks of red, blue, yellow and brown. She’s tall, smart and oozes an aura of confidence. “Hello all my name is Etsuko Yamagata and my hero name is Elementrix. Mizo whispers under her breath. “That's a cute name”. Etsuko turns and smiles at her then carries on talking. “My power is called 4th element. I can control the 4 elements, water, fire, Earth and air. However, at the moment I'm having the same problem as Daisuke because when I say I can control the 4 elements I can’t really… control them”.
A young Etsuko aged 11 is walking around a fairground with her mother, along the way her mother stops to buy her a ball of cotton candy, and she continues walking around looking content. Her mother softly grabs her, gets down on one knee and speaks to Etsuko “now listen very carefully, remember you have to stay close to me and hold my hand in crowded areas at all times or you’ll get lost, ok?” she replies “ok I will” they continue walking through the fair, taking occasional stops to play games, go on rides and grab food from the market stools. As she walks past a glass panel inside is a large stuffed animal, she presses both hands and her face to the glass and looks at it in awe, she turns to her mum to ask her if she can try and win it, however when she turns around she only sees a large crowd and her mum is nowhere to be found. She runs through the crowd calling for her mum but begins to panic when she can’t find her anywhere, as she gets more panicked eventually she falls to the floor and screams “mummy” into the air. Suddenly the ground starts to tremble and the people around also begin to panic and scatter, Etsuko continues crying on the floor and the earthquake gradually worsens. Moments later her mum wraps her arms around her and kisses her on the forehead. “I’m here baby, I’m here it’s ok” as she says this the earthquake gradually weakens. Etsuko stops crying, closes her eyes and holds her mother tightly.
Back in class Etsuko has her eyes closed and takes a deep breath, she opens them and continues speaking. “I'm hoping to be able to get my powers under control while I'm here as I've struggled to do so on my own”. Minita smiles, “that’s great, I'm sure we will have great success while you are here. Well now we’ve done all the introductions I want to personally welcome you to Titan Academy. As you know this is our first year as an academy, and hopefully together we can help every one of you reach your full potential. Good luck and let’s get started with our first lesson…”.