How positive are you that you are really you? I know how that question might sound strange but look at the question from my perspective .All my life the only thing I was certain of was that I was human and was born and lived on the twenty-third frontier settlement on AIFS but apparently that was all a lie.
I woke up one day, got out of bed and sat up on my bed and looked around my room. It was just as the same as usual, wood flooring, log like walls and a ceiling with, you might have guessed it, wood. As I gazed around my room, I saw what I saw everyday for the past seventeen years, my Scope is on the wall that I use to watch shows that are broadcasted from Earth.
Also hanging on my wall is my school uniform, which is a black parka jacket with cargo pants that match colors. The pants are tucked into black leather boots that go past the ankle, and those uniforms are for fourth years who have already been accepted as future Custos. Upon seeing the uniform, I get a sick feeling in my stomach knowing what today is, and I begin to get nervous with the weight of my new responsibilities as team leader of Inferno squad of the Cadet company Canis.
It's funny how now I'm a senior in high school, and I'm regretting ever choosing this life. Who knows with my exam scored I could've been a Princeps or a Viatorum, but no, I chose to become a Custos.
After sulking for long enough, I pull myself out of bed and begin to put on my uniform. Once I got myself together, it was down the stairs I went passing my sisters room and then my parents room, trying not to wake them. I go down the spiral staircase descending further down the four story house to the very bottom ending at the kitchen where I grab a blueberry muffin and take a water tablet then head out the door.
I don't know if it was because of the new school year, but for some reason that morning was bright and sunny with a steady breeze blowing in the air making me feel calm and easy, up until I heard my best-friend in all of the worlds call my name.
"Hey Kato,, or should I say Team Leader Sir!?" she yelled from behind me.
I turned around to see my best friend, Crista, standing at the front steps with a smirk on her face and staring at me with her blue eyes beating down on me. Seeing the six foot tall Crista staring at me I'm thrown back to my first time meeting her in grade school.
"I told you to not call me that, Hollow." I replied back prepared for what was gonna happen next, I let out a chuckle.
Hearing the name I called her, Crista's face changes and turns stone cold and is quickly filled with rage.
"Oh you're a dead man"! she says and immediately sprints toward me. Already knowing her plan of attack, I get my footing and prepare to defend myself. Upon being within arms reach of me, Amara clenches her hand into a fist and cocks it back preparing to unleash all her fury. She shoots her right hook at me and I take a step to the right dodging her punch, she turns to the right trying to hit me using her elbow.
Seeing the elbow coming at, me I simply spin around her narrowly missing her blow. After missing me with the elbow, she landed on her two feet after struggling to not lose her balance. Once getting her footing back she was on the offense again determined to land a shot.
"Hold still!" she yelled in annoyance and anger, throwing blow after blow but not hitting anything but air, which only fueled her anger and desire to land just one hit on me.
I gasp in shock "Does the notorious Hollow need me to stand still to land a hit?" I say stepping back and dodging every punch she throws sends my way, after the sixth failed attempt to punch me I figured it was time to end the match.
"Hey isn't that Kai behind you staring at us?" I said looking behind Crista
My words hit her better than any move I could've done, she stops dead in her tracks forgetting about our fight she stops and turns around to see...no one.
"You liar he's not-"
Before she can I finish sweep her leg and once it's in the air she's caught off guard and balance, seizing the opportunity I waste no time and hook my left arm under her leg that is up in the air and place my right arm across her chest grabbing her shoulder.
Once I am done she is trying to stay on balance and is hopping on one leg
"Hey you liar I swear when I get free i'm gonna-"
Raising her leg higher and pulling her closer to me simultaneously Crista is cut off before she can finish her sentence. I then pull her closer and say
"You as well as I know that I don't want this job as much as you do, but here we are you are stuck as my second in command and I don't know how to do my job but all we can do is make the best out of the situation got it.? Crista takes a look down at the floor and then without looking at me she says
"Okay"
I then push her with my right arm as she falls down I let go of her leg but is not in time to keep her up and she falls to the ground. After falling I reach out my hand to help her up which she accepts.(To be continued)
