Maths went about as well as Xarus expected it to go, he used the formulas to get the right answers and he understood how it worked for the easier ones but got confused on the harder and longer problems, that was consistent throughout the entire class so he wrote down the maths topic in his notebook so that he could study related problems later on.

  The rest of the day was pretty straight forward, after maths was english in which he practiced essay and report writing, the rest of the class seemed familiar with writing essays and reports but it was his first time so it was tricky to find the right words, and his handwriting still wasn’t really that good so when the teacher came around inspecting the students work it took a while for the teacher to decipher his.

  Then came lunch which was pretty similar to what occurred during the morning break, only this time instead of Xarus being jumped by Axel he ended up walking to the cafeteria with him instead. There they ate their lunch and continued their discussion about Disc and other video games they both played.

  After lunch was history class with Mr Silva, the lesson was about the founding of the country, Lunara and the establishment of the capital, Solair, which is where Solarius academy is. The information itself was largely uninteresting but Xarus likes history so he really enjoyed the lesson.

  And now he's waiting for his sister outside the school's kindergarten section, lots of kids had already come out by now and were running up over to their parents, he had expected Suzie to already be waiting for him since the school day ended at the same time for all the grades, which includes his grade, but the kids only started leaving the classrooms after he arrived, leading to his current situation.

  ???: “Xaaaaa!” a familiar squeal reached his ears, somehow managing to be loud enough to be heard even among the noisy kindergartners.

  Looking towards the source of the squeal he was greeted with an energetic young girl with a huge smile on her face sprinting towards him at a frightening speed.

  -uh oh, she’s gonna jump- and just as he thought that she did in fact jump, aiming directly for his chest, although being a 6 year old she really didn’t have much strength and so she fell short, crashing into his leg instead.

  Xarus: “...”

  Suzie: “hehehh” she giggled, staring upwards at her brother with a mischievous smile on her face, sighing, he carefully pried her off his leg and held her by the arm pits, he raised her upwards so that they were both relatively on the same eye level.

  Xarus: “that was very cute” he said, she giggled some more and her smile grew wider, being overwhelmed by her cuteness he planted a kiss on her forehead causing a blush to rise on her face.

  Suzie: “H-Hey! You can’t do that so suddenly!” she stuttered out, her face still red

  Xarus: “So I’m allowed to if I give enough warning” he teased

  Suzie: “That's right-! Hey no it's not!” she protested

  Xarus: “Ok ok, I’m sorry” he apologised in a tone that clearly was not apologetic and placed her on his shoulder, being very familiar with this seat she wrapped her arm around his neck to secure her stability and make herself more comfortable.

  They continued their conversation as they left the school “weird how you like hugs so much but hate kisses”

  Suzie: “I don’t hate kisses, It just surprised me” she mumbled whilst pouting her cheeks

  Xarus: “right, well anyway how was your first day?” he asked

  Her face lit up and her smile returned “It was really fun! Miss Moi was really nice and we made drawings and stuff!”

  Xarus: “you drew the entire day? You must of made a lot then”

  Suzie: “No! Not alllll day, we also played games, ate food, then Miss Moi read a story” as she explained she counted the activities off on her fingers “Oh! And we also learnt about Maths then we practised handwriting…" she continued to enthusiastically list off activities and topics that she did during the school day, there was a lot more than what he had expected and she spoke faster and faster the more she spoke so he really had to focus to get all the information.

  Suzie: “Yea! I think that was everything I did!” She finished her retelling of the day's events and cast an expectant gaze onto Xarus and asked “how about yours?”

  Xarus: “mine? It was really good” he answered, he intended to leave it at that but Suzie’s expression indicated that she wanted more information “Well I ended up being late, I didn’t get in trouble for that though so it was okay, I had a few classes, Magic theory, Maths, English and History”

  Suzie: “Maths! Just like me!”

  Xarus: “Yea, all the classes were pretty fun although I had some trouble with maths…” his voice trailed off as he recalled his maths class, he placed his hand over his mouth while thinking about the math problems hoping to come to a better understanding of them, but unfortunately he was still as confused as he was during the class.

  He wasn’t an incredibly talkative person so he would often give undescriptive responses such as the one he just gave Suzie, but regardless Suzie seemed satisfied by his answer.

  He felt Suzie squirm around on his shoulder which was soon followed by a small impact assaulting the side of his face, it would seem he had been decked by a small backpack.

  Xarus: “um?” he questioned

  Suzie: “Whoops, sooorrrry” her apology sounded sincere but she was clearly trying hard not to laugh, Suzie then began rustling through the bag that had just whacked him, “Here!” she yelled out, clearly she had found what she had been looking for, zipping up the bag she swung it back around her shoulders, somehow managing to slam it into the back of Xarus’s head.

  Xarus: “Oi”

  Snickering she managed to speak out a “Sorry… again”

  Sighing he responded to her apology with “Maybe I should put you down now”

  Suzie: “No! Not yet!” she tightened her grip around his neck, looking towards her he was met with big puppy dog eyes.

  Xarus: “...”

  She continued to stare without saying anything

  Xarus: “...”

  The staring continued still

  Xarus: “...ok fine…” he gave in, sighing in defeat

  Suzie: “hehehe” she giggled, wearing a proud and smug expression, she was clearly very pleased with her victory.

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  Suzie: “Here you go” she said, thrusting her small hand in front of his face -what's this? A pity offering?- he raised his palm upwards and held it underneath her hand, she dropped something small into his hand, inspecting it he could clearly see what it was “A lollipop?” he asked in surprise.

  Suzie: “Yep! It’s what I was trying to get when I kept… whacking you” she covered her mouth to prevent herself from laughing.

  Xarus: “Where did you get this from?”

  Suzie: “Miss Moi gave them out, It was hard but I went all sneaky and snagged one for you!”

  Xarus: “I see… oh so this is for me?” he asked

  Suzie: “Duh!”

  Xarus: “Ah… thanks” he was quite touched she had thought of him and he felt a warm sensation in his chest, he brushed his bangs back, they fell back into the same position immediately but that was fine, he unwrapped the lollipop and stuck it in his mouth. Suzie started humming happily as they walked home.

  They were still on their way home when Xarus heard someone approaching from behind them which was soon followed by a loud yell.

  ???: “Hey!”

  Xarus: “Hm?” he turned around and was greeted by an angry middle aged man, he was shorter than Xarus and had blonde hair that didn’t really suit him, -He looks familiar?- he thought as he examined the man.

  ???: “You’re that stupid brat from this morning!”

  Suzie: “Xa isn’t a brat!” she yelled out, angrily defending her brother.

  -Huh? This morning?- noticing that the angry man lacked a tooth he finally realised where he had met the man before.

  Xarus: “... shouldn’t you be in jail or something?” he asked, completely unconcerned with his presence.

  Angry man: “YEA! I was! Do you have any idea how much the bail for 8 people cost!”

  Xarus thought for a moment before replying “I thought there was 7?”

  His face growing redder and redder he responded loudly “Who cares! There were a lot of people and it was a lot of money! And you’re gonna pay me all of it back!” he demanded spittle from his mouth flying everywhere, one such location was on Xarus’s face, he remained composed but uttered out a “ick, that’s so gross” as he wiped the spit from his face with the sleeve of his jacket.

  Suzie: “Hey you can’t go spitting on people! That’s so gross!” she said, sticking out her tongue in disgust .

  Xarus: “Yea… dude I’m not paying you anything, I mean come on… do I look like I have the money for it?”

  Angry man: “Then hand over anything that is valuable! you can pay the rest back later or you can do jobs for me, You're clearly not incompetent so I'll find a good use for you” he snickered sinisterly.

  Xarus: “...”

  Suzie: “Big bro… just whack him, Like this!” she violently punched the air, the sudden movement causing her to lose her balance and tip forwards, Xarus gently caught her before she reached the ground and carefully placed her on the ground.

  Angry man: “If you don’t hand over anything I’ll just have to beat you up and take it from you” he threatened, he sneered menacingly as multiple people showed up from behind him, entering from around the street.

  Xarus: “... did you just have them waiting there for dramatic effect?”

  Angry man: “er… no…” he sputtered “that kinda thing would be stupid” a faint blush had appeared on his face.

  He inspected the men that had just appeared, a quick count revealed that there were twenty three people, twenty four including the boss, -although none of them seem to be sorcerers- he thought as roughly half the group spread out to encircle him.

  Xarus looked at the man with a bored expression “are we really gonna do this? You remember I beat your asses earlier?”

  The man put on a smug face “you took us by surprise, and we have more numbers now, what are you gonna this time? he said confidently “Once we’re done thrashing you we’ll move onto the gir-Hrk!” He was cut short by a fist smashing directly into his face, blood spurted from his mouth and two of his front teeth were flung from his mouth, now the man had three missing teeth instead of one.

  Xarus: -Thrashing? Really? Who even says that unironically- he thought

  Suzie: “Woah! You sent him straight to sleep! So cool!” she said, staring at her brother with wide admiring eyes, as soon as the man mentioned Suzie, Xarus’s expression changed from bored to angry and he immediately attacked, he was extremely protective of his little sister and refused to tolerate any threats against her. Xarus looked down at the unconscious man in disgust before shifting his attention to the stunned spectators that the man had brought with him.

  After a moment of hesitation one of the men charged towards him and soon after, some others followed his lead, the man in the front threw a punch towards Xarus’s face which he easily avoided by tilting his head to the side, he retaliated by swinging his fist across the man's face which resulted in him falling to the floor unconscious.

  -One hit per person should be easily doable for these pricks- he thought as he stepped backwards, turned his body around, picked up Suzie and kicked a man who had tried to grab her from behind.

  Suzie: “WOAH! Hahahahha” she giggled as Xarus pushed off the ground leaping upwards onto the roof of a nearby building.

  Xarus: “Wait here for me ok?” he told her, placing her down on the roof.

  Suzie: “Sure! Be careful” she yelled cheerfully as she watched her brother walk off the building and fall into the street below.

  -What the hell happened!- he thought as the boy and the girl launched into the sky.

  ???: “Terry! Hey Terry! Wake up!” He looked over to his right to see his friend Frank slapping his other friend Terry in an attempt to wake him up, he was a victim of the boy’s attacks along with two others, the boss and a newbie that he hadn’t really met yet.

  Giving up on trying to wake up Terry, Frank turned towards him “Fuck’s sake Paulie, that brat just took them out in a few seconds and went and fucked off! What do we do now?”

  Paulie: “What the fuck are you asking me for!?” he yelled out, confused by the sudden change in leadership.

  Frank: “The fuck you think why? You’re the closest thing we have to a 2nd in command!”

  He looked around and was surprised to see the remaining men staring at him expectantly.

  Paulie: “Fuck! Fine, Fine, Wake them up!” he said, indicating to the unconscious men “the brat’s gone we can find him later…?” His voice began trailing off when he noticed a dark shadow appear above one of the men and it faded completely when that man was slammed into the ground, crouching on top of his body in a landing pose was the boy that had just left.

  Paulie: “Huh? What the hell!” Just like the rest of the men he was frozen in shock but having been in perilous situations before he recovered the fastest out of all of them.

  Paulie: “w-well don’t just stand there! That's the kid! Get his ass!” his voice snaped the men back to their senses and they quickly reacted and charged towards the boy, one of the men, George, attempted to kick the boy but he avoided it by jumping backwards off the unconscious man he was crouching on, in the same movement he also grabbed George's extended leg and with one hand swung him into a nearby street pole.

  George: “...Ergh…”

  Boy: “that's gonna suck when you wake up” he mumbled

  Two more men who Paulie didn’t know the name of ran up to the boy from behind him and threw a punch each, without even turning to look at them the boy tilted his head to the left and then the right avoiding both punches, he then dropped to the ground, extended his leg and rotated his body, dragging his leg and sweeping the legs out from underneath the two men.

  They landed flat on the backs painfully gasping out moans, witnessing that the 4 men closest to the boy hesitated for a moment and looked at each other with nervous expressions and then before they could turn their heads to face the boy once more they were met with a fist impacting their face, during the few seconds they exchanged looks with each other the boy had lurched forward and attacked each one of them, knocking them into unconsciousness with one punch each.

  Xarus: “That should be something like 10 right? So that should be around half of them…” he mumbled to himself as he inspected the hand that had just beaten the 4 men.

  Paulie: “What the fuck…” he said his voice shaking, he was told by the boss that this kid had beaten him up along with a few of their men but he wasn’t told the exact details, now he was realising the lack of details was probably because he was beaten so effortlessly and was embarrassed by it.

  Paulie: “Shit…” he pointed to Frank on his right with his thumb and the man on his left, Rick, and said “Ok let’s surround this brat, me in the lead you two on either side, yeah?” he asked nervously

  Frank: “Sure Paulie”

  Frank: “No problem”

  With those shaky voices offering meagre encouragement he charged screaming as if he hoped it would make him stronger “YOU GODDAMN BRAT! I'll TEACH YOU TO RESPECT YOUR ELDERS”

  The boy slowly raised his head and carefully examined the charging men, his eyes were covered by his strange black and white hair but in between the gaps of his hair he could see a Sapphire blue eye peaking through, suddenly the boy moved and in an instant he closed the 15 or so feet of distance that was still between the two of them.

  He saw Frank on his right take a punch and heard his nose break with a wet crunch, blood from Frank’s nose splattered onto the right side of his face, then he saw rick on his left get kicked in the stomach and set flying backwards, coughing up saliva onto the other side of his face, he couldn’t even react in disgust to the blood and split landing on either side of his face, he didn’t have the time and even if he did he wouldn’t be able to, and that was because his eyes were locked in on the boy in front of him, his fist raised and poised to smash directly into his face, strangely enough though the last thing he saw before he fell into unconsciousness wasn’t the boy's fist in front of his face, it was instead the boys eyes, maybe it was because the boy was moving but his hair had parted revealing those cold and terrifying sapphire eyes… Yes, that was the very last thing he saw before everything went dark.