Forty years back an unknown entity appeared on earth,he called himself a God but not just any God,he was the God of Games,he wanted humanity to play a game,a game game of Life and death but it was no request,it was just a friendly undeniable invitation and once every one received it,he'll broke lose,creatures of all kind and sized were all over the planet,humanity tried to fight back but their mundane weapons were harmless to the abominations.
It didn t take long for humanity to be pushed into the corner,so many had died,so many loved ones,friends and enemies,rich and poor and so many would soon follow.
All hope seemed lost,many had given up but those that still wished to fight held on to the very end,and right there,at their lowest,they suddenly felt as though they were at their strongest.
They awakened supernatural abilities that defied all logic and it's with those abilities that they defeated the invading monstrosities.
They said they had been CHOSEN,by a being that called its self NEXAR,their ablities and powers were passed on from them,to their descendants,to their descendants' descendants.
It may have seemed like a blessing at first but it was just as bad as it was good.
But all the CHOSEN would soon be transported to another world to take on trials know as CHALLENGES ,this was to get stronger ,strong to fight and live.
And not all those that took on the challenges came back alive.
It was game where the players had to chosen had to risk their lives to fight for a right to live.
In this Game,there was only one simple rule; The strong Live and the weak Die.
It's a Life Death Game,and once chosen you'll either play...or you'll play.
The Pyrax Academy,a governmental institutional school that was set up to help the youth that had been chosen by NEXAR(The Life Death Game System).
It's goal is to equip them with the skills that'll give them a chance of overcoming their challenges and train them to become humanity's defenders known as the Pyrax.
The night was still young and the full moon hang like a glowing disk stuck on pitch black canvas.
Just like every other year,hundreds of youth were being transported to the Pyrax Academy.
They were being transported in massive armored black trucks that were currently driving across a massive empty mountain road that stretched out for miles.
The journey had been long and it wasn't getting any shorter,always to those that were being transported in The trucks,they were pitch black and armored to the bone.nothing unauthorised got In or out,not even the moonlight or the sunlight.,even the oxygennthey breathed was artificial. They weren't taking any risk,not with the kind of people they were carrying.
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Inside most of the armored trucks,many youths were complaining each wanting to know where they were...at least those that were brought unwillingly,some others wanted to go home and some fought each other due to the fear they felt and some even died from the fights,after all,each had inhuman abilities thus weakness was not an option innocent or not.
Inside truck B2_78KS also tagged as the special unit,it was calm unlike the rest that were losing their minds out of fearthis one was calm ,no one even dared to yell for help or cry to go home,they all simply sat there in the deam Amber light.
Everyone had alot on their minds so no one had time to chatter with the rest or make friend's,it was also unpredictable when someone would be dragged into a challenge and god knew if they'd come back,and due to that simple truth,the truck was mostly silent.
Mostly....
At one of the trucks corner ,chuckles could be heard ,despite the situation ,someone was happily chuckling completely care free of the on going occurrence.
It was a lonely girl seated alone in the trucks corner,she was clad in a baggy pink hoody and white girly mean shorts and so pair of white sneakers,her good was up making it hard to map out her facials.
She'd been at it for quite awhile now and it was getting to everyones nerves.so it wasnt long before someone stood up to confront her.
Right at the furthest end of the truck,a figure jolted to its feet and stared in the direction of the chuckling sound,his crimson eyes didn't hide his hostitility by the slightest.
He was a tall fat guy dressed with only a dirty white vest and a pair of dirty black shirts to match it,he had nothing on his feet and he don't seem to mind that.
Everyone instinctively stepped aside simply not wishing for the hostility to be pointed at them,a short path quickly quickly formed between leading to the the chuckling girl in the corner.
He steadily walked toward her,and each of his heavy steps caused the truck to shake slightly leaving the others slightly uneasy.
Not long after,he was towering before her...
The difference in their size was truly big,with one as the elephant and the other as the unlucky ant that had crossed its path.
The girl sat with her jackets' hood over her head and her focus pinned to the small sketch pad on her lap so she failed to acknowledge his presence,it had an odd sketch of some thing that looked like it had been pulled out of a nightmare,it looked horrible but at the same time funny which explained her chuckling.
"Hey...what are you doing ?"
He asked but there was no response from the girl,instead she just flipped to the next page of the sketch pad revealing another hideous sketch .once again she couldn't help but chuckle at the sight.
He was being ignored,like he didn t exist at all.seeing this asked,his voice making his rage clear.
"Hey you,what the he'll do you think you're doing huh"
But just as before,no response.
He gritted his teeth
And his glare deepened and his eyes flared in outrage.And with no effort at all,He grabbed the girl by the collar and lifted her off her feet and brought her closer to his face.
"Who do you think you are little bitch huh!...
How dare you look down on me"
He yelled.his voice not suppressing his anger.
And right there,the hood slowly slid off the girls head and revealed her vermilion eyes and short crimson hair... and all thise that saw her had their eyes widen and jaws hung.
She was...ethereal
So much that once her hood fell,there was a slight shift in the air as though something divine had been exposed to the mortal world.
"Um...am sorry..do I know you?...
Fighting through the fear,she spoke her soft innocent voice was shaky
After the short pause she added.
"And why are you holding m___
He yelled,cutting her off midway
"Do you think all this is ok ?why the he'll are you so happ____
"Yo bro...why the fuck are you shouting "
"Tsk !"
Someone spoke behind his back,hearing them he quickly turned his head to see who it was but there was no-one behind him...
Or.maybe they were gone...but where?
Something was very wrong,realising this he turned look at the girl he was holding but she was gone...instead,his hand held a stuffed teddy bear.
Someone was playing games with him and he wasn't happy about that.he quickly ripped the poor thing in two.
Still holding the halves,he looked around and his eyes immediately spotted the owner of the stuffed bear.
It was a young man dressed in a white T shirt with a baggy grey hoody over it,with a pair of black sweat pants and white sneakers over his feet.
His hair was curly and black as the deepest of shadows,with low fades on the sides.
His eyes were were a glassy silver and their gaze was sharp as a bla
"Man it was a good prize...but I can still sew i__
Those hopes quickly left just as they'd appeared,because almost immediately the ,the two halves decomposed and instantly turned to nothing but rotten pieces of cloth.
Seeing this,he sighed then added with a hint of sadness in his voice.
"Um...may be not..."
"Don't worry Karze we'll get another one."said the girl beside him.
It was the same girl that was being held earlier.
She stood beside him with her arms wrapped around one of his.
"Oh trust me Evae.. we're so gonna get another one and you know who's paying this time round....
He paused ,giving her time to process.
Evae stared at him for some time not knowing what he meant by that.
Then she asked
"Um...who is it ?"
He smirked as his gaze met that of the big guy.
"Is it obvious,its our new friend here"
"But what if he___
He cut her off .
"Don't worry I'll make sure he pays for it "
And with that, he pulled up the goodies sleeves halfway of his forearms and walked towards the big guy.
The others that were in The truck didn t need any interpretation to know what was about to unfold,they quickly pushed to The walls,give the two of them space.
Seeing this, the big guy giggled,his deep voice sending shivers running down everyones spine.. everyone besides Karze ofcouse.
Then he abruptly stopped and turned his focus on Karze who was only a meter.away form him.
His bloodred eyes stared at Karze as though trying to see through him.then he grinned as though he'd seen something inside Karze.
"Am really going to enjoy kil__
He cut him off.
"Cut the villain talk,this isn t a movie so come at me already... the bear was three hundred box by the way."
"And also,your mouth stinks so do us all a favour and say it your pit."
After those words,the others didn t know what to think of Karze,but one word came to their minds,stupid,actually anyone who dared to fight Mich was was considered suicidal.
Mich wasn't happy with that last statement.
"Arrogant prick"
He yelled in outrage and shot out his hand to grab Karzes face.
Karze simply smirked and tilted his head slightly to his right,causing the hand to miss his face by only afew centimetres.
He felt a small gust if wind caress the left side of his face showing him how lethal the attack was.
But the big guy wasn't done yet,after his failed attempt he quickly tried to throw a fiat with the other.
Right now Karze was viewing this fight in another way...in his eyes,every thing looked slow asthough time had been slowed down.
Of course he couldn't stop time,he was just to fast and for that reason he saw Mich prepare his next attack.
"Why is every idiot I meet weak "
He sighed
He lowered his body and pulled his hand back and clenched it into a powerful fist.
If Mich knew the pain that was to come ,he would have apologised and gladly paid for the bear,but unfortunately he had no idea.
Karze landed the blow right into Mocks guy,it was so powerful that once it hit,there were small shock waves.
"Ugh !"
"Bh ugh"
Mich remained standing for a few seconds after the hit,and just as before ,one of his ams forward and the other pulled back halfway.
His body had never felt that amount of pain before so it was still trying to process it.
And once his pain was registered,he collapsed to the steel floor causing the truck to shake a bit.
"What just happened ?"
The other asked with bewildered expression. To them,Mich dropped right after karze stood before him.
But its just that it all happened so fast for them to see...
They may have unlocked their abilities so they were nolonger mundane humans but even they're eyes couldn't keep with Karze.
So they don't know what he'd done to Mich to put him down.
They all stared as Karze freely walk away as though nothing happened .
He walked to the isolated corner of the track and sat beside Evae ,who held a small black sketch pad with ugly funny sketches.
Seeing him she smiled with joy in her lovely vermilion eyes.
"Hey Karz__
He quickly snatched the sketch pad from her and put it away from her.
"Hey give it back !"
She exclaimed as she tried to reach out for it but Karzes arms were much longer that hers making her attempts fruitless.
"Why,so that you you keep laughing at my art,no way"
He said as he moved his hand sideways making her miss the sketch pad once more.
"Ofcouse not I was__I was just__i was motivating you.."
She said jokingly as her hand made another failed attempt.
He scoffed
"Oh really. Guess what ?,thanks to your so called .motivation I never want to draw again,I was gonna draw you next."
She laughed at the mention of it.
Karze couldn't help but laugh.
But its moments like these that made him doubt their time together.
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A few hours past by and most of everyone was asleep,among those awake,Karze sat there with his eyes glued to the trucks' ceiling.
He seemed deep in thought .
"We've been running for far too long,and I feel like we're out of places to hide,but I won't let them take you and use you for their twisted evils,and I'll find away to save you Evae from your horrie Fate,but until then,I'll kill anyone or anything that tries to harm you, be it monsters or the government and it's Pyrax or my stupid cult of a family,I'll show them no mercy and that Bayard,the God of Games,making us risk our lives to play stupid death games,I'll make you pay ,not today ,not tomorrow but some day that's a promise."
"Hey Karze"
He was pulled out of these thoughts by the sound of Evae,.
He turned his head and looked at her,he didn t respond,reason being she was speaking in her sleep.
She continued her sleep talk .
"Are we really just best friends...
She paused taking in a deep breath but still asleep,then she continued.
"If we are,why can't we be more ?...
"I wan_t us_ to be mo_
Her voice kept breaking until she full fell into the embrace of sleep.
Karze remained staring at her.
there were so many things he wished to say to her ,so much he wanted to show her ,,so much to confess but all those he'd chosen to keep them in the dark ends if his black heart,because if they ever came out,he lose the only thing he loved...he'd lose her.
A few more hours past by with him just seated there in silence,but what could he say that would change the heartbreaking truth that only he knew.
Suddenly the truck stopped,the change was subtle but he felt it.
His face darkened and his lips curled up into a smirk.
He spoke his voice low and dark as though a dark part of him had been met loose.
"So we've arrived...to our last hiding place."
The others were still asleep so they were completely unaware ,that after all their days of travelling ....
They had reached their destination...their promised land...
THE PYRAX ACADEMY.