The morning sun crept over the horizon, bathing every sides of Aetherion city in streaks of gold.
To ordinary people, it looked like any other city – busy streets, cars and other transport are tearing through the mist, giving the street a clumsy and entertaining look.
Students in uniform heading toward the giant building of Aetherion college. But beneath the noise, the atmosphere hummed with power.
Aetherion college was standing among the top strongest in the world, inhabitating the world strongest and powerful humans. A place where only the strongest and gifted survive to dominate, crushing the weak ones.
Ethan walked in with his quite and calm self, perfectly ordinary..... Or so it seems.
He had long learned to suppress his murderous aura since he was young, not even his mother had ever sense the depth of his power fully.
He wore a jacket over a plain shirt, a small cross – bag slung carelessly across his shoulder. His hair shimmered faintly under the sun light, his aesthetic body bagged him all the human aura he needed, his beautiful skin glowing under the natural radiance of the early morning sun.
As he stepped on the college grounds, the massive gates closed behind him with a faint hum if magic.
As he walked through the building, students in their curiosity whispered, glancing at his striking handsomeness.
Ethan's gaze swept across the buildings. Entertaining itself with the beauty of the towering buildings, the floating magic rings and catching atmosphere that hummed with power.
"Wow..." He murmured quietly to himself. " This is ... huge".
He took a deep breath and started walking deeper into the courtyard.
As he walked toward the space he had thought to be his classroom, the hum of chatter grew louder, he could hear small group of student laughing, arguing, the sound of magic, clashing against the atmosphere.
Immediately, he knew something was wrong.
He started heading toward where the commotion was coming from.
And yes, he was right – something was wrong. He saw a group of student – about seven of them, ganged up against a young beautiful girl. Her books were scattered across the ground, her uniform cover with dust. She was beautiful – not the shallow kind, but the kind that looked peaceful. Her long pink hair framed her face, her sapphire eyes trembled admist fear and the humiliation from the young bullies.
" A commoner like you should know your place, you don't think you are so special to reject anybody's proposal" he snared. " Do you?, idiot"
Another boy angrily kicked one of her books away, laughing as the crowd watched silently.
Ethan's expressions didn't change.
He stood there, hands in pockets, watching.
He was feeling the disgusting and irritating effect of the scenery in his veins. He badly wanted to punch those boys at their face, but his mother words kept echoing in his head:
" never act unless it's necessary."
But then he said to himself:
" if this isn't necessary, then what else is?"
" Should anyone tag this unnecessary?" He asked himself
"should anybody who is in their right state of mind, say this brutal behavior of crushing and humiliating weaker ones is unnecessary?"
One who appear to be their leader grabbed the girl by her chin, forcing her to look up.
"You don't even have the right to be here, you bi...."
But suddenly the boy froze mid-sentence.
Ethan's hand had wrapped around his wrist.
Since he doesn't use any magic, no one sense his attack. One second he was standing a mile away and the next, he was standing beside the boy, holding his hand. His grip was calm but unbreakable.
"I think you are going too far" Ethan said calmly, admist the tightened air.
The spectating student gasped, some whispered quietly while some took cautious steps backward, as if the tension wasn't enough. The boy whose wrist was in between Ethan powerful grip winced, his pride dominating the fear in the atmosphere.
"Let go of me, you bastard!" He barked.
Ethan looked straight into his eyes, and suddenly his expression changes, a bright smile cover his handsome face. Everyone was shocked.
"Looking into your face makes remember one of my precious friends" he smiled. "Are you, by any chance, related"
"huh? What are you talking about? " the boy snapped
"Oh! My precious Mackey" Ethan face brightened. "He was quite the handsome one, you know?"
"And who the hell is Mackey?" Someone from the crowd curiously ask.
Ethan slightly tilted his head forward, still smiling.
"Well, Since y'all are interested in knowing Mackey, I'll tell you"
"Mackey was one of my dearest friends, we hunt, eat and do everything together, with him and other friends of mine" he narrated.
"In short, Mackey was a wonderful, handsome gorilla" and this striking resemblance make me wonder... "
Ethan turned to him and stare into his face.
"Or maybe, you guys are related"
The atmosphere went dead silent – but then, exploded. Some student laughed so hard they nearly pass out, some ran off, covering their mouth, trying not to burst out in front of the bullies.
The leader's face turned red with rage.
"Did you..... did you just called me a gorilla?!" He roared. " You're dead meat"
He charged forward, carrying a ball of fire in his palm as he screamed with every muscles in his head.
--------------------********------------------
" It's hard to believe I'm sitting beside you right now" Ethan whispered to his sitting partner.
"I'm unable to tell you my name earlier" she replied. "I'm seraphina and you?" She asked
"I'm Ethan" he replied.
"Putting that aside, what's the business you had with those boys" he asked.
"Those boys are not the ones I'm having problems with, it's their leader".
" You mean that gorilla lookalike? Ethan guessed.
"No he is not the leader, the leader is in class two.
SOUL – that's the leader's nickname. He is year two student. He is very brutal. He is the worst human to have issues with, he bullies every freshers or first year students. He found 7 member of his type, and together, they called themselves inevitable ones, preying on freshers"
"Apparently, the one you thought was the leader, was actually the number 3rd of the gang, the other two are nothing like him, they are brutal and heartless"
" so, can you tell me exactly why he is after you? " Ethan asked
"He is arrogant", seraphina said. "He thinks any girl can be his. He proposed to me, but I rejected him. Since then, he's been after me, making threats"
"Hmmm" Ethan took a deep breathe " but we shouldn't conclude yet since I'm just joining you in second semester, it would be difficult to know who we are against"
Just then, a voice tore through the class room wall.
"Oh ..... oh.... oh, and where is the sweet, handsome boy who humiliated one of my boys" the voice echoed.
" Boss, I already told you to stop referring him as your boy, he has failed us" another voice echoed.
Instantly, two second year students breaks into the Ethan's classroom.
"Ok! Hand over the pretty little brat and enjoy the rest of your life kiddo. But otherwise..... " soul roared.
"boss, look at what we have here, lover birds, sitting and gisting. What a wonderful love scenero "inevitables rank two – Bam, spoke admist mockery and laughing
"Oh wait, bam, is that the popular pretty boy sitting next to my girl?" Soul asked admist mocking tears
"he stole your girl boss, let's kill him!"....
★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
NEXT CHAPTER : FIGHTING THE INEVITABLE ONES.