[October 22nd 2010]
Kire had arranged a much larger indoor court, where he and 55 had brought Michael. He wasted no time and immediately started to lecture Michael. “Since most strength comes from cultivation almost every person who knows Energy, only uses a few techniques that they picked out or came up with, myself and 55 included. Since I can’t teach you after today anymore, I'll show you my most important technique.” He took some distance from 55 who shot an orb that was glowing light yellow towards him, it traveled at such a speed that Michael only caught a glimpse of it before it completely vanished right before it hit Kire.
“If you freeze and strengthen the nitrogen atoms in the air it can block basically anything.” Kire explained. Michael had no idea what it meant and 55 was rolling her eyes.
Kire grabbed Michael and tried controlling Michael’s energy to replicate his forcefield, but Michael passed out immediately.
55 didn’t look happy at all, she signed something with her hands to Kire. “Well he has felt what it's like.” He responded. 55 shook her head and signed something again which made Kire leave.
Michael woke up 20 minutes later and saw 55 sleeping. He looked around, but got startled by her tapping on his shoulder. She took out her phone and wrote something which she then played out with text-to-speech. “He has other things he has to do so from now on I’ll train you.” Michael had been told the previous day about 55’s disability. 55 taught Michael how to cultivate through meditation while also teaching him sign language. Everyday for the next 9 days she would pick Michael up and bring him to the indoor court for training.
[November 2nd 2010]
Michael was completely accustomed to the life he had now, he was also able to understand most things 55 signed although it always took a bit of time. Meanwhile Joy had completely learned to read and now spent most of his days reading science books. Vince told Renja and Janko to fire Ratimir, but he also told them that Michael and Joy were to be sent to an actual school.
Theri first day there was coming and Michael had been so excited that he got no sleep the entire night. Renja took them to a large institute in the middle of Belgrade, it stood out very heavily from all the other smaller and older looking buildings. They were immediately taken into a room where multiple other children and their parents were waiting. They got a ticket with the number 772 on it, Renja looked at a screen that said 765 and sat down.
Within 5 minutes it turned to 772, they got up and entered another room where they were greeted by a man who was sitting behind his desk. “Sit down.” He said.
“My name is Stanko Živanović.” He introduced himself. “Please fill out these forms.” He gave her two forms that were asking for their personal information.
After Renja had filled them the man asked them to continue to the next room where Joy and Michael were taken to different rooms. Renja had to wait 40 minutes before Michael finally returned, but they had to wait over an hour after that until Joy finally returned. A girl also came with him and apologized profusely for the wait and explained that Joy just would not fail any of the memory tests he was given. She gave Renja the sheet of paper and it showed that Joy had scored almost 5 times as high as Michael. She was petrified, but they were advised to move out of the way so others could get tested so they continued on with the other tests that were after.
The remaining tests took around an hour, they then went to a final room where a man who had already seen their scores was waiting.
“They will both be placed in the 5th special class we have.” The man explained to them.
Renja left the boys there while she was finally free. She hurried back to the apartment where she showed the results to Janko and Jeso. They could not believe that the numbers were so big, especially Jeso whose eyes were glued to the amount of energy they had calculated for Michael. “He has more energy than us..” He murmured and threw the paper away.
“I don’t want to fucking die…” Renja commented.
“50 million isn’t that much.” Janko interrupted her. “And it doesn’t mean he is strong, just that he’s got a lot of Energy.”
“Enough to kill us.” She disputed. “I didn’t sign up for a suicide.”
“What if we kill him?” Janko suggested.
“Really?” Jeso was staring at him with disapproval. “What do you think happens to us after that?”
“Michael seems pretty docile.” He continued. “I wouldn’t worry too much, but I can try to come up with something.”
“She’s just delusional.” Janko mocked.
Jeso silently agreed with him, but also thought that countermeasures wouldn’t hurt. He sat down and watched as Renja and Janko continued bickering like children.
Meanwhile in Romania Eaco Riley and Vb Ganz who were guarding Kire’s friend Iro got a message that had a picture of Michael’s test results. Eaco, who received it first, immediately started coughing because she almost choked on her food upon seeing it.
Vb looked a bit concerned. “You okay?” He asked, but when Eaco showed the picture to him, he gave a concerned chuckle and then went silent.
“This is from Serbia.” She broke the silence. “I don’t think anyone else is closer.”
“You’re planning on going there?” Vb asked.
She didn’t directly answer. Vb could tell that Eaco wanted to go, but was debating because she knew that it would be risky. “Is nobody really closer?” He asked, a bit concerned.
She checked a list on her phone that was live updating. “Milo is in Germany.” She answered.
“How long do you think it would take you?” Vb had already practically accepted that Eaco was going to go to Serbia. He completely understood Eaco’s concern for someone like Michael to fall on the wrong path.
Eaco got up. “I’ll be back by today.” She rushed out onto the roof where a helicopter was waiting.
One hour after she left, Kire was already walking right in through the prison’s front door.
He came wearing military gear and sunglasses, the man who was working at the front desk was weirded out, but his head suddenly exploded. Kire continued into the cell block, while destroying the door to every cell freeing every other prisoner that was in there while killing all the guards that were there, but his flow was finally stopped when he came across Vb who was looking right at him from a higher floor.
After a brief staring contest Vb jumped down and immediately fired a plasma ball at Kire, but he very easily blocked it with the forcefield. Vb then went in for close combat first hitting him very hard, but when he realized that strength would have no effect against Kire’s force field he continued with a combo exchanging strength for speed and quantity, he was only trying to buy time and prevent Kire from getting to Iro’s cell, but their exchange ended abruptly when Kire hit him so hard he flew right through the closest wall. Vb didn’t get knocked out, but it still gave Kire an advantage, as Vb was rushing back in he only saw the top of Kire’s head as he was falling through a hole he had made. Vb jumped after him, but it was too late, the only door on the last floor was melting away, Kire started holding his breath and another man walked through and Kire ripped a wristband off of him.
“Been a while Iro.” Kire said while grinning and kept holding his breath.
Kire was grabbing Iro’s elbow who now also started holding his breath. Vb knew he was fucked, he tried to jump up, but Kire caught up to him and threw him down where Iro started hitting him. Kire also fell back down and they were both hitting Vb who was laying on the ground, he was able to block most of their hits, but was sure that he would not last long enough until anybody got there, so he decided to risk his life while trying to get away.
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Vb started heating up so much that the ground below him started melting. He sank through until the stone liquid started solidifying. Kire and Iro didn’t go after him, but ran away instead.
They went to an empty bar that was pretty close to them. “Why’re you dressed up like that?” Iro asked Kire.
Kire got behind the counter and poured a beer for both of them. “I found this in the back here.”
“So no real reason?” Iro asked. Kire ignored his question, he drank the entire mug in one breath and poured a new one for himself. “Did Laray visit you?” He then asked.
“No.” Iro answered “Only Tatadoro came, of course Ganz and Riley were the guards so they came pretty much everyday.”
“Who caught you in the first place?” Kire asked.
“Tatadoro, Ganz.” Iro was thinking for a while. “There was a third one, but I can't recall his name. Someone pretty strong.”
Kire stared at Iro for a while. “I’ve 2 candidates that could infiltrate The GA.” He then boasted.
“Really?” Iro had some doubts. “Who are they?”
“Do you remember a man named Samuel Vesna?” Kire asked him.
“Yeah.” Iro
“His grandson and Aia.” Kire
“Isn’t Aia only 5 months old and why Vesna’s grandson?” Iro asked.
“He was enrolled today and that’s why Eaco left.” Kire
Iro turned from doubting to surprised. “How strong is he then?” He asked.
“I don’t know, I haven't asked Luna.” Kire answered.
“Luna’s teaching him, then where’s Aia?” Iro asked him.
“With her.” Kire
“That makes sense.” Iro
“Do you have plans on what you’re going to do?” Kire changed the subject again.
“I want to meet whoever Luna is teaching.“ Iro answered.
Kire waited for a while expecting Iro to continue. “Nothing else?”
Iro shook his head in response.
“Ok I want you to help me kill Milo and Monika Petrevska.” Kire requested and Iro accepted it immediately.
Back at the prison Vb was being dug up by 2 children that looked like they were in their early teens, both of them had slavic facial features and were practically identical except one of them had bright red hair while the other one had dark brown.
“Good morning sunshine.” Vb was greeted by the wide smile of the red haired one.
Vb looked at him for quite a while. “You’re not Milo.” He then stated.
The boy then backed off while the other one helped Vb up.
“So where is Eaco?” The red haired boy asked. “Thought you were both supposed to be here, or did she die?”
“She went to Serbia.” Vb answered.
The boy chuckled. “Who conjured her to do that?” He joked.
Vb didn’t take it as a joke. “It was our collective decision. There is a boy there who could be as dangerous as Kire.” He defended.
“Where in Croatia?” The boy asked and as soon as Vb said the school he vanished right before their eyes.
Later that day Janko went to pick up Michael and Joy, but they weren’t where Renja had asked them to come after the school finished. Initially he thought not much of it and assumed that they were picked up by Kire and 55, but then realized that Joy wouldn’t have been picked up.
He immediately called Jeso and Renja and they all panicked. They weren’t sure if it was their fault because Vince had given them the order to enroll both of them, but neither him or them had accounted for the possibility that they would disappear.
All their theories of the worst scenarios were wrong because Michael and Joy had simply gone to a park with a few of their classmates. They spent the entire rest of the day there until all of their classmates had to go home. Michael remembered that they were supposed to be picked up by their mom and didn’t know how they were going to get back home, but Joy seemed very confident because he suddenly started walking away and Michael of course followed because he didn’t know what else to do.
While they were walking away Joy subtly looked behind and stared right at Eaco who had been watching them the entire day, Michael also looked back and saw her. She was shocked, but felt that doing anything sudden would raise more suspicions.
She was the only other person in the park so Michael started walking towards her followed by Joy, Eaco started panicking a bit, but when they finally came to her she was relieved to hear Michael only ask for her help to get home.
First she looked around for other people and then asked where they lived.
Michael realized that he would have to know where they lived himself for anyone to be able to help them.
Eaco knew where they lived because she had seen the paper that had all of Michael’s information, but obviously couldn’t just take them home. She was shocked though when Joy started drawing a map on the ground from the park back to the school and then their address. She was quiet for a while, but pretended to take a picture of the directions and then drove them there.
Eaco said her goodbyes to the boys and drove a block away from the building. She had heard what had happened in Romania after she left, but still felt that it was worth coming to Serbia instead, especially now when she had a slight idea on what Michael was like and also because she was sure that Michael wasn’t the only brilliant child that family had.
Since she didn’t need to go back to guard Iro she decided to stay in Serbia to look more into Michael and Joy. She returned the car she had borrowed and stayed at an apartment that had been built into the school for GA officers and such to reside for a while. Eaco then called Vb and arranged for a briefing at the school about the attack.
Meanwhile Michael and Joy had gotten to their apartment’s door, but it was locked and nobody was answering when they knocked. Renja and Michael were actually in Jeso’s apartment right next to them, but they couldn’t do anything from there, but to watch Michael and Joy through the security camera.
Michael sat down and started talking to Joy. Their conversations were very one sided because Joy could only answer with nods, he wasn’t mute like 55, but just hadn’t learned to talk yet.
Mike had evaluated that Joy would speak his first words 2 or 3 months later. Even if Joy was mentally a toddler his brains were still that of a teen’s and would learn much faster. In reality it was even faster than Mike predicted because while having a conversation with Michael, Joy spoke his first word calling Michael by his name. He had quite a bit of speech impediment, but it was still clear enough.
Michael went quiet as soon as he heard it, but soon after his smile widened and he got very excited. He thought that Joy could never speak, especially since he had met 55 who was an adult, but could not speak. He immediately started saying words for Joy to repeat.
Janko, Renja and Jeso listened through the camera’s microphone as Michael taught words to Joy for 30 minutes. That was when Jeso got fed up and told Renja and Janko to jump out his window and pretend to come back home.
They did so and when Michael saw them coming up the stairs he got so excited that he couldn’t even explain it properly. He stumbled all over his own words, but did get some type of sentence out and then told Joy to prove that he had learned how to speak.
Janko and Renja nodded while they had the world’s fakest smile on their face. They let Michael and Joy in and sat on the couch with them while Michael kept teaching Joy words. They had completely forgotten that they were supposed to ask where they had been the entire day.
2 hours passed and Michael and Joy were equally excited, just in those 2 hours Joy’s speech impediment had completely vanished and it had turned from Michael teaching Joy words to them reading a book aloud together. Their antics had put their parents to sleep.
When Renja woke up the next morning she saw the boys wide awake reading a book. She asked the boys if they had even slept and as she expected got a no as an answer.
“How’re you two going to stay awake in school?” She asked them, but got no answer. She then remembered yesterday and asked them what they did after school.
Michael told her that they were at the park with a few of their classmates. Renja believed him and didn’t think it would be a problem, but Jeso who had stayed up the entire night was listening in and immediately informed Vince about it. Vince responded to him almost instantly and his message said, “Not a problem.”
While Renja was taking Michael and Joy to school that day, Michael asked whether they could get cellphones.
Renja responded immediately, “Of course you can.” and soon dropped the boys off. On their way to their classroom Joy saw Eaco looking at them in the window, he pointed it out to Michael and they both waved at her. Eaco got even more committed to preventing them from going down the wrong path.
As soon as their class started, their teacher brought in a girl and told everyone she would be a new student joining their class. Everybody except Michael and Joy were surprised that a new student was joining just a day after Michael and Joy did.
The girl had bright red hair and looked to be in her mid teens. She was wearing a plain white t- shirt and long shorts, she also had a necklace with a diamond pendant around her neck and she introduced herself to the class as Sara. From the moment she stepped into the classroom to when she finally sat down she only looked at Joy.