The Strange Man

Although these two students were unsure of what to do, they were quite sure of one thing. The fact that someone who worked at the school had spotted them, definitely meant that they would be getting into trouble. As such, one of them was hoping that they would be able to bribe the man to keep his mouth shut.

"Hey, man. What's up? Why are you…?" One of then trained off in his speech,as the man began to laugh ominously. "Aren't you okay with the deal? What could you possibly want?" The boy continued to ask, sweat dripping down from his face as his body trembled, taking one slow step backwards then another.

"You know, the only reason I'm here is because of him, but I guess I can spare some of my time for you two," the man said, as be quickly ran forward the next second, catching both of the students off guard as they began to run in the other direction, hoping that they would somehow outrun this strange man.

"Don't even bother running! Your faith were sealed the moment I laid eye on you!" He yelled, quickly closing the distance like it was nothing. The student who was closest to him was the principal's son. Grabbing him by the arm, he pulled his body forward, then kneed him right in the gut, causing his body to hunch over forward and gasp from the impact.

Not stopping there, the man grabbed him by the throat and began to suffocate him. Slowly, he struggled, struggled to take in the oxygen around him as the grip the man had around his throat was gradually increasing.

Standing a few feet away, his friend was still gripped with fear, as the reality of their current situation began to Dawn upon him.

'This guy… doesn't work in this school,' that was the only reasonable explanation he could come up with, as he was currently witnessing his friend being strangled by the strange man. Upon taking a closer look at the man's face, he realized that his entire face was covered in a dark-coloured mask with holes through which he could breathe just fine.

Still, that just confirmed his suspecions pf this guy being a criminal.

'Shit! What the fuck am I gonna do now?!' he screamed in his mind, his heart race increasing as his legs began to move on their own, doing the best they can to escape the current situation he was in.

He ran, as fast as he could, and it wasn't long till he had made it to the entrance of the clinic. Breathing heavily, he couldn't afford to run any further. Gripping the handle tightly, he pulled it down, but the door refused to budge.

'Fuck! Why won't this stupid door just open?!' he screamed in his mind, as he proceeded to bang at it repeatedly, his eyes lingering above his shoulder, praying that the man wasn't still after him. 'I need to get to safety before that deranged man kills me! He can have Carl for all I care! But I wanna fucking live!'

From inside the room, Hakim could hear the sounds of someone banging against the door.

'Who's that? Is it the school nurse? No, I don't think so. If she was the one outside the room, then she would've just opened the door with her key. So who's that outside that's knocking?" He wondered, going over to grab a long metallic pole attached to a bunch of medical devices and substances.

Taking out everything else that was attached to it, now there was nothing but a long metallic pole in his hands.

'If the person actually manages to come in, then I'll be ready for anything,' Hakim then placed the pole above his shoulder, his hands pulled back, ready to swing it at whatever comes through the door.

However, after a while of knocking, the person on the other end had suddenly stopped.

After a couple minutes, Hakim's guard began to lower, as he was wondering just what on Earth was going on.

'Did they leave?' he asked himself, but the next second, he could hear the sound of someone screaming, and the sound of something banging against the walls repeatedly.

"Next time you'll learn not to disrespect your eldera!" He heard a voice come from outside, causing his hands to tremble as he gripped the metal pole tightly.

'This is getting really dangerous now,' he thought.

On the other side of the door, the strange man had finished dealing with the student named Carl, and now, he was on his way to deal with the other student. Having run as fast as he could, the other student was hoping that he would be able to outrun the man, but after running low of stamina, he had found himself standing in front of the school clinic.

In a desperate attempt to get in, he struck, hit, and even banged his head against the door, hoping it would open. His fists, legs, and his head were bleeding, but he didn't care. All he wanted now was to be far away from the man he had encountered in the hallway.

'Come on, open!' he screamed in his mind, feeling the red liquid trickling down his nose. Looking down at his hands, he could see his blood slowly dripping towards the floor. 'I need to get out of here before that guy finds me!'

Suddenly, he began to hear footsteps coming from the direction he had just come from. Wanting to turn his head to see who it was, his body just wouldn't respond to him. The adrenaline coarsig through his veins quickly went to work, urging him to make a run for it, but just as he was about to take the first step, he felt a hand grip against his own tightly, forcing him to remain in place.

Almost instantly, the man had closed the distance between him and the other student.

"Don't make this harder for me that it already is," he said, before proceeding to bang his body repeatedly against the walls. He didn't stop until he felt like the student had finally lost consiousness, before letting his body fall against the floor.

Now, all his attention was focused on the bloodied door in front of him.

'Time to get this over with,' he thought to himself, walking towards the door before placing his hand on it. 'Explode,' he commanded, and the door suddenly burst open, catching Hakim by surprise, still, he was prep and ready for someone to burst through the door, as he quickly rushed forward, swinging the metallic pole towards the side of the man's head.

Seeing this, the man quickly went to grab the pole with one hand, before crushing and breaking a large potion of it and checking it to the side of the room.

'What a pain. I'm over here trying to help him but this guy just wants to make he use force as always,' he thought, feeling irritated by the current situation. 'I guess I just have to stick to my old ways of doing things.'

Still holding onto a piece of the pole, it allowed the man to pinpoint where exactly he was, before delivering a blow to the gut, knocking the wind out of him.

'Now, to get him out of here,' picking up the student from the floor, he casually made his way towards the entrance, before disappearing into the shadows, taking him to a different location.

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After a while of being unconscious, Hakim's eyes slowly flew open, and the first thing he noticed was the stench of rotting fish, causing him to regain his consiousness fully.

"Ugh! Where am I?" He asked, struggling to keep himself from vomiting. "And who are you?"

The strange man who had taken Hakim away from the school stood before him, his arms folded as his head faced his direction.

"Don't you plan on answering my questions? Who are y-" cut off mid-sentense, a blow was delivered to his gut, forcing him to keep his words to himself. "Aaahhh!" He yelled, his body shaking uncontrollably.

"Shut your mouth! Aaahhh! Don't make this job harder for me than it already is!" The man ordered. "If you don't want me to kill you, that is!"

Hearing the fact that this man would kill him if he didn't choose to remain silent, was all it took to prevent him from speaking another word.

Once he saw that his words had an effect on the boy, he nodded his head in approval, before he began to explain what was going on.

"Let me start this by saying that you, Hakim Nes, are one of the first Immune in the entire Earth, and because of that, you will not be affected that will strike humanity before the end of this year," the man started off.

'Huh? Immune? Virus? Just what in Earth is this lunatic babbling about?' he wanted to ask a lot of questions, but knew what would happen if he did so, so he chose to keep his questions to himself for now.

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I hope you all enjoyed the chapter.

I was meant to post this chapter the previous day but ended up being too busy to do so.

I will still see if I can write the two chapters meat for today as well.