An hour after the curfew alarm was sent off, a black robed figure moved swiftly through the shadows of the night between two buildings close to each other. Another man lurked in the shadow, a bulky man who also dressed in black overall and taking care not to make suspicions moves. He was waiting for the other man that was skidding through the dark. After a moment of hiding and running, the dark running figure finally arrived at the point where the other man was waiting for him in the shadow of a bulding. "What took you so long, Hunter? We've been waiting," the bulky man said with a whisper. "Apologies, Omal. I was busy with some things, Hunter replied in hushed tones. "This is why I asked the general for the meeting to be held in the daytime. If we meet like it was nothing much, nobody will suspect a thing." "This is no time to be complaining about the schedules. We just have to be careful of the Mecha-men. Those metal beings from the council pose a threat to our gathering. We mus

Whatever game he was playing was indeed dangerous. Provoking these girls will not only get him beat in front of everyone, he will also become a target for others who saw him getting dragged about by two skinny girls. "I don't even have Loca's pen with me again. I really shouldn't have thought of this," he regretted. "What did you just call me?" the tall, slim girl yelled at him. Leo had thrown shots at her wide mouth and she wasn't getting none of that. Now that he thought of it, he wasn't even sure that provoking Rosa's friends will make her leave him alone. The girl cannot be predicted with things like this. And from the way she acted earlier when she saw her friends, it was obvious that she wasn't that attached to them. The two were probably forcing themselves on her. It might be too late, but Leo realized this tactic won't work against Rosa. He could see that some energy was already building in the girl's hands. Now might be the time to apologize, even though he doubted it wil

"Who did this shabby work?" the doctor asked rhetorically. "I mean, she succeeded in making him sleep but the process was slow, so it's messing with the boy's consciousness. I'm sorry he'll be out for quite a while. Maybe the whole of today. "These annoying low-budget healers, always eager to show themselves only for them to end up with a disaster such as this. See, he's not even fully asleep. That's why nobody can be as good as me. I am the best healer both on Earth and on Luxus. A-ha, I'm not like them. "So, here's what I'm gonna do. I'll press my hand on his forehead instead of placing it lightly like she did. Now this process stimulates some receptors in his brain that starts a series of actions and reactions---" Rosa stood akimbo, eyes staring daggers as she listened to the beautiful but lousy woman explain the process like she was a nurse-in-training. At last she stopped explaining and removed her palm from Leo's forehead. "Okay, since you said he'll be out for the best hour

Four days passed and the weekend was drawing near. Many things hasn't changed in Leo's life at the academy. Mr. Al declined his offer for change of room, Jade and his friend were still throwing him around for fun, he had visited Miss Charlotte of the hospital wing the third time, he hasn't had dinner yet at the canteen because he always land in some trouble every evening, Rosa's appearance before him has reduced for some reason he was thankful of, and he hasn't seen Lam yet since that day at the test arena. Out of everything, Rosa's disappearance was what he was most grateful of. He remembered the night he was frozen against the wall by Sil, she had run up to him that night and rescued him before he froze. He wished she wasn't the one that rescued him since she was the reason he was there in the first place, but he was still grateful that he didn't die from cold. His body wasn't like the other mutants, so he couldn't resist for long. He expected Rosa to pester him like she always do

Leo looked ahead of Hunter and saw that Allan was fairing badly against the mecha-man. He was clutching his left knee as blood dripped down his black clothes. There was no way he could handle a mecha-man with his shadow quirk. The least he could do was hide for a while, manipulate shadows to confuse the mecha-man, and slow down the mecha-man's attacks with the shadows. He was very skilled with his quirk but he wasn't strong enough to deal any real damage to his enemies. Leo had thought Allan was going to leave Hunter to fight this out alone as he said, but guess he isn't a bad man like he appears. He saw that the man needed help, so he thought maybe he could throw the blue device at him to help him. But he reminded himself that Hunter now has the beast weapon, and if he was really a high ranking mutant teacher, then that should be enough to defeat the Mecha-men. "Freak, I'm so sick of these metal butts. Get the shit over here, Hunter!" Allan yelled in pain. Hunter joined him immedi