[October 16th 2010]

Vince came to check on Mike’s process again, but was met with disappointment when Mike told him that he found out nothing about who Joy was. Mike also told Vince that he might have accidentally emptied Joy’s head completely.

“Do you still want to keep them?” Mike asked Vince who had been quiet for a while.

Vince nodded “The other boy still works, but I was thinking about what to do with him.”

“Well he still has a 12 or 13 year old’s brain so he would probably learn basic things pretty quick.” Mike commented

“So you’re saying he could still learn everything?” Vince asked Mike.

“I think so, but it'll probably take a lot of time until he could become what you wanted him to be.” He answered.

Vince left the room without saying anything else to Mike, who at first didn’t even notice it, but when he did he immediately ran out the room and yelled at Vince to wait.

“Was the other kid’s name Michael?” He asked first.

Vince turned around confused, but gave an answer. “Yeah?”

Mike said something very interesting to Vince“I think he might be as strong as Five-Five.”

“Really?” Vince exclaimed.

Mike nodded to him. “I think so.”

He didn’t answer him, but turned back around and walked away so Mike wasn’t able to see that he was smiling.

Four days passed during which Joy was taken to that apartment building, Michael was also taken there, but when he woke up he still remembered his life before, so he was taken back to Mike. Finally on the 4th try he had forgotten everything.

Vince had hired Renja and Janko to pretend to be their parents, but he had also hired another man named Jeso who lived in the apartment next to them and was tasked with keeping track of all the cameras placed in the apartment.

[October 21st 2010]

Michael was reading a history book in the kitchen, he was so focused on reading that he didn’t even notice who sat next to him, he thought it was his mom or dad, but was shocked when he looked and saw Joy looking at the book next to him. He was startled, but immediately yelled for his parents.

Janko ran into the kitchen and saw the two of them. “Joy!” He then ran to hug him.

Joy barely reacted so Janko let him go. “Did he walk here?” Janko asked Michael.

“Yeah, I didn’t even notice it at first.” He answered.

Janko poured a glass of water to Joy, he looked at it for a while, but then grabbed it and drank from it.

Janko looked a bit surprised. “I guess the doctor was wrong, they said he would have forgotten how to walk.” He said.

He and Michael showed a bunch of stuff to Joy to see what he would remember, first they gave him different fruits, he knew how to eat most of them, but he did try to eat a banana with its peel still on. They showed him other books too, he did look at them for a while, but it didn’t look like he understood what was written in them.

Two hours later Joy fell asleep and Janko took him back to his room, he then told Michael he was going to go for a walk. Michael immediately asked if he could come with him, but Janko refused saying that he was meeting a friend and left him alone.

Janko didn’t actually go for a walk, but went into the apartment next to theirs where Renja and Jeso were talking next to a monitor rig. One of the cameras showed Michael had gone back to reading the book.

Jeso turned to look at Janko. “I guess the doctor was wrong, they said he would have forgotten how to walk.” He quoted Janko

Janko didn’t realize at first and he looked confused.

“You said that to him when you were confused yesterday when Michael had ‘forgotten’ you.”

Jeso mocked.

Janko tried to come up with an excuse for the slip up, but was interrupted by Jeso, who was changing the subject. “I told Mr. Vince that both of them woke up, he said that Joy needs a tutor.”

“What about Michael?” Janko asked.

“Mr. Vince said that he has someone who is gonna teach him Energy.” He answered.

Janko was surprised that Vince already wanted someone to start training Michael even though it had only been just over a day since he woke up, but he knew not to question anything since he was only being paid to pretend to be his father.

Around the same time Vince had arrived at a large mansion in Cape Town, he was there to meet with Kire, the leader of Aneta Racan. He rang the doorbell and waited until a boy with long tied up hair came to open it. He looked much younger than he actually was and was munching on something, he greeted Vince with a big smile and asked him to come in.

“What brings you here?” Kire asked Vince in a very joyful tone.

Vince had to think what to say to not upset Kire so he took a short pause before saying anything. “I, um.. asked Five-Five if she could come to Serbia to teach Energy to a boy.” Vince’s voice had a unsure tone to it.

Kire’s joyful tone had turned into a serious one “Why did you come here then?” He asked

They had walked into the living room where Vince saw someone was on the couch, but he could only see their legs and couldn’t tell who it was. He was a bit distracted by it, but did answer Kire. “She actually told me that I should come here to ask you whether it’d be alright.”

“Yeah it’s okay.” Kire responded back in his joyful tone. He then walked to the couch and a girl sat up.

Vince could now see her face and immediately recognized her. “She was here?” He asked.

The girl smiled at Vince. Unlike Kire, she looked much more mature than him even though he was 26 and she was only 19. She also had long hair.

Kire asked Vince to come sit with them, but the moment he did Kire attacked him knocking the chair over, he had pinned him down on the ground and was holding a dagger in his left hand. “What’s gonna make this new boy different from Kate?” He demanded an answer.

Vince was terrified and couldn’t answer at all until Kire threatened him more. “She was just a bad choice.” Vince squeaked.

This only angered Kire more, he hit Vince in the qut pretty lightly, but it still hurt him alot. “And how do you know this new one isn’t?” He yelled.

Vince had no answer to Kire who shook him demanding an answer. “I don’t know!” He finally cried out.

Kire got off of him and looked very disappointed. “She’ll come and train him.” He exasperated.

Vince immediately looked at him and turned visibly happy. “But, if he hasn’t killed Kate within a year I’ll kill both him and you.” He added.

Vince was completely quiet. Kire put the dagger down. “Is it worth that much?” He asked.

Vince nodded to Kire. “If she trains him.” He gestured towards Five-Five who looked slightly amused. “He’ll be more than capable of killing Kate in a year.”

“That’s a lot of confidence.” Kire said. He then sat on the couch. “Now get the fuck out of here.”

Vince quickly got out of the mansion, he got in his car and drove away. He was frustrated by how Kire had treated him like he was nothing, but knew he couldn’t do much about it.

Two days passed with nothing out of the ordinary happening, Michael spent most of the day reading and trying to teach Joy how to speak as well.

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Renja and Janko had found a tutor for Joy and Renja was meeting with him at a cafe. She walked in and saw a man waving at her.

He got up and introduced himself when Renja came to the table. “Hello, you’re Renja right?” He asked. Renja nodded, and he continued talking. “My name is Ratimir Georgijević and I'm a trained elementary school teacher.” He introduced himself.

Renja awkwardly sat down, she was completely clueless, what she should ask him. “What made you want to become a tutor?” She uttered.

“I just felt under pressure in a school environment so I thought It’d be easier for me to teach only one child at a time.” Ratimir explained.

Renja had an awkward smile while she was nodding. “Okay, umm, you’re hired.” She said while getting up. “I’ll text you our address, you can come tutor him tomorrow after 12am.”

She then left, leaving the confused Ratimir at the table. Ratimir stayed there for a while, but soon also left. He came to their apartment the following day a bit after 12. Renja introduced Joy and Michael to Ratimir, she then told Ratimir that she had to leave for work. In reality she joined Janko and Jeso in the apartment next door.

Ratimir had been told about Joy’s memory loss so he was aware that Joy couldn’t speak and since he hadn’t been told what to teach Joy he decided that teaching him to write for now would be the easiest thing. Michael was very keen on helping Ratimir teach Joy.

Meanwhile in an office Vince was also meeting with someone, though he didn’t know it. He got a surprise visit from Kire and Five-Five who came in there.

Vince was very surprised. “Why are you here?” He asked them.

Kire had a mischievous smile on his face, Vince immediately thought that he had come there just to play with him. “She came to train your child.” Kire answered.

Vince was trying to hide his frustration. “He’s not my child.” He corrected Kire. “I was asking why did you come here?”

“Iro is in Romania, I’m going to get him back from the GA.” He answered.

“Today?” Vince was confused, why was Kire laying around in his mansion when Iro needed help. He almost asked that from Kire, but he knew Kire wouldn’t be happy. “Wh… Do you need help?”

“No need to hurry.” Kire answered. “I want to meet that boy of yours.”

Vince thought he understood Kire now. “Oh, so that’s why you also came here.“

“No. I came to wait. Right now, Vb Ganz and Eaco Riley are in Romania guarding Iro.” Kire explained.

Vince had more questions, but he thought it would be better not to pry further. “I’ll take you to their house.”

Vince drove them to an apartment building that the Aneta Racan owned, everybody living in it was in some way related to Aneta Racan or Vince. They took the elevator to the 5th floor where Michael and Joy lived. They entered Jeso’s apartment instead and saw Janko, Renja and Jeso having a conversation. Renja and Janko immediately tried pretending to be doing something when they saw Vince while trying to hide their embarrassment.

“These two are pretending to be his parents while Jeso here is tasked at informing me about everything unnatural that happens in that apartment.” Vince explained. “Renja or Janko introduce Michael to these two.”

At first they were a bit surprised that Vince was talking in English to them, but they quickly understood that Kire and Five-Five probably didn’t speak Serbian. Janko then volunteered and shortly left the apartment with Kire and Five-Five.

“They’re Michael’s teachers?” Jeso asked in Serbian.

“They’re Kire and Five-Five, but I originally only asked her to teach. I've no clue why Kire is tagging on as well.” Vince explained

Jeso and Renja shared a horrified look because they hadn’t shown any respect to either of them, but Vince caught onto it and assured that neither Kire or Five-Five cared about that. “They won’t do anything if you don’t treat them like kings only if you ask stupid questions or are annoying.” Vince told, he was acting as if he knew better, but he had done just that 2 days ago.

Janko came to the living room with Kire and Five-Five where Joy, Michael and Ratimir were.

He first introduced himself to Ratimir in Serbian and then explained to him that they were going to be teaching Michael in English. He didn’t use names since he didn’t know them nor did he tell what they were going to teach Michael.

Kire went for a really close look at Michael. “Come with us.” He said in perfect Serbian, surprising everybody who thought he didn’t speak it. Kire then grabbed Michael by the waist and left with him and Five-Five.

Janko didn’t run after, but was really confused, 10 seconds later the entire building trembled.

Ratimir was even more confused than Janko. “Why did they leave so quickly?” He asked.

Janko had no answer to him, at first he thought of just staying there to not arouse any suspicion, but he just decided to go into the other apartment.

Vince was alone in the computer room sitting on a couch holding his head, he was in a very bad mood. Renja and Jeso had moved into the kitchen and called Janko there.

“What the hell was that?” Janko almost yelled.

Renja tried shushing him. “Try to keep it down, Mr. Vince is in a very bad mood now.

“Why?” Janko asked.

“I don’t really know.” She answered. “But they were Kire and Five-Five.”

Janko went completely pale. Everyone in Aneta Racan knew who they were, Kire at the very least and most were unaware of what he really was like, so most of his reputation had come from stories that had been shared between people. Now most people thought that he was a scarier version of Vince who already was very precise.

“Mr. Vince said that he doesn’t care about formalities.” Renja told him. “Honestly he seemed nothing like Vince.”

Vince then walked into the kitchen. “Where did they go?” He asked.

“I’m not sure, I didn’t hear them say anything.

“I fucking hate him!” Vince yelled. “I’m leaving, if he brings Michael back, act accordingly. I’ve no idea what Kire is trying to do.”

Vince then left. “One of you should go back to Joy at least when Ratimir leaves.” Jeso said.

The tremble from earlier was Kire and Five-Five, when they got out of the building Kire let go of Michael and told him to get on his back, Michael was confused, but thought nothing of it and obeyed. Both Kire and Five-Five then winded up and jumped over 2 kilometers high. While up there Kire saw a gymnasium building, something appeared below their feet and they jumped again towards the gymnasium. Michael was mesmerized by what was happening. When they landed they created quite a bit of commotion. Kire let Michael down, they walked into the gymnasium and past the front desk into an empty indoor court. A wall emerged from the ground in front of the door, Kire took a deep breath and then tried to hit the wall, but his punch stopped right before it hit.

“What was your name?” he asked Michael.

“Michael.”

“Do you know what energy is?” Kire asked

“No.” Michael

“I’m not really good at explaining it, but basically it’s what humans decided to call the ability to control the form of energy within ourselves. Everybody does it subconsciously, but someone amazing discovered that if you try hard enough you can do all kinds of awesome things.” Kire grabbed Michael by his elbows. “Your parents told me that you would be much better at it than most people.”

Michael suddenly felt like his fingertips were burning, he instinctively got startled, but the pain didn’t vanish, he looked at his hands that were shaking, he slowly got accustomed to the pain, when he finally stopped squirming Kire let go of him. “Try replicating this.” He said as he raised his hand toward one of the walls and a beam of light shot out of his palm.

Michael was amazed he then raised his hand, but nothing happened. Kire then grabbed his hand. “Try to focus on what happens in your body.” A beam of light shot out of Michael’s hand. “Did you feel it?” Kire asked.

Michael nodded and Kire let go of his hand. Michael took a deep breath and focused really hard, shortly after a much smaller beam of light shot out of his hand, it didn’t travel far until it vanished, but Five-Five was still clapping.

Michael looked at Kire and was visibly excited. “We’ll teach you a lot more.” Kire grinned.

A young man was walking down a hallway, he entered a bedroom at the end of the hallway “Kate?” The man spoke. A girl turned around in bed, she looked very sleepy, her short black hair was very messy and her shirt was almost coming off. “What?” She muttered.

“Vince has found a replacement for you.” The man told.

Kate quickly got up, she wasn’t wearing pants or underwear, but that didn’t stop her, she stormed out the room. The man looked around the room and saw a pair of pajama pants on a chair. He grabbed them and went after Kate. She had gone into the kitchen and was chugging down an entire carton of milk. “Brown.” Kate called for the man.

“Yup.” Brown grabbed her by the waist and tried putting the pants on her

“Who told you about that?” Kate asked.

Brown had gotten both of Kate’s legs through and was now pulling the pants all the way up. “Me and Bobby got some old friends who work for him and heard that he was hiring 2 people to pretend to be parents.” Brown explained.

“I’m going there.” Kate declared. “I wanna save whoever that rat is grooming.

Brown was shaking his head. “Kire is in Europe.” He warned.

“I’m guessing you’re stopping me from going then?” She sighed. “Why tell me then?”

“I told you because I don’t want to keep it a secret, but I won’t stop you from going, all I’m asking is that you won’t just barge in there.” Brown pleaded. “They want you dead and from what I’ve heard you are somewhat a celebrity amongst them so if a word gets out that you’ve been seen anywhere Kire will continue searching for you with everything he's got.”

“So what do you want to do?” Kate asked.

“Bobby is there, he’ll get some people to find out who the replacement is. Then you can directly go there and bring him here.” Brown advised.

“Ok.” Kate sighed, she kissed Brown. “I’m going back to bed then.”

Brown looked very concerned. He took out his phone and dialed a number.

“What’s up?” The phone answered.

“I told her.” Brown

“Let me guess, she wants to come here?” The phone

“Yup, I got her to back off for now, but she still wants to take the replacement away from Vince.” Brown

“Yeah bad news, Kire isn’t just in Europe, he came here to meet the boy.” The phone

“What?” Brown was shocked. “You already knew who it was.”

“Sorry I didn’t tell you, I did it for you and Kate.” The phone

“Ok.” Brown was silent for quite a while. “Thanks Bobby, I’ll keep in touch.”

“Yeah no worries.” Bobby said and ended the call while Brown sat down to ponder.