A young dark boy ran across the school field as two as two bigger boys chased him.
Aren increased his pace, darting into the school's soccer field then he stopped.
Aren glared at the boys chasing him then raised his arms. "I give up dudes."
The boys caught their breath.
"You don make us run tire." One of the boys said.
"C'mon, chill, I'm exhausted!" Aren panted.
"Next time, I no go allow you escape, this one na warning, you no go follow men dem play game." A big boy said, slapping Aren on the cheek.
"Ehen, Chike make I dey move jare."
"Sharp na," Chike replied, "Sam, we'll catch now."
The other guy left.
Aren exhaled and inhaled then he left the school.
Aren walked home, his face bruised. Aren reached his house and entered in, he entered his room after mumbling some greetings to his parents in the living room. He knelt on the ground for some minutes then stood up and lay in his bed.
Aren shut his eyes for some minutes then he locked his door and changed into a Real Madrid jersey and a pair of shorts, then he put on his crocs. He walked back to the living room and sat on the sofa.
"Can't you greet?"
"Good evening mom." he said again.
"Go and have your lunch, it's in the kitchen."
"Sure." Aren groaned.
Aren's Dad, Mr Odion, stared at his face and saw the bruise. "What happened to you?
"Nothing."
"Someone beat you, right?"
"Most likely."
"Your mates are bullying you at school, but at home you'll be proving strong man."
Aren rolled his eyes and walked to the kitchen, he opened the pot and saw jollof rice, A West African dish of rice, tomatoes, onions (though Aren hates it) and seasoning, then he fetched it in a plate and walked away humming, he stepped back slowly and saw a leak from the gas cylinder, he looked outside and saw his parents outside, he dropped the food in the kitchen sink and made for outside, unfortunately, before he could reach outside, he heard a 'boom!'
Aren's parents rushed inside to see what happened, they entered the smokey kitchen, then saw a faint light as the smoke cleared, Aren crashed on the ground, coughing with flames around his body.
Aren's oldest sister, Ohise, gasped. "Powers?!"
Aren slowly stood up with the flame enhaloing him, he stared at his body in shock then grinned.
Mrs Odion stepped back. "Are you demonic?"
"No way." Aren scoffed. "Most likely God protected me."
They heard a knock on their door.
Aren's younger sister, Gho, ran to open it, surprisingly, they saw a really handsome Indian wearing a suit. He had white hair, a blue snowflake symbol on his forehead, white eyes and a smile.
"Mom, it's some guy!" Gho yelled.
Mrs Odion, ran out. "Hey, who are you?"
Mr Odion walked out too.
"I'm Raj Mukhbar. And I'm here to talk to you about your son."
"Come in"
Raj walked in and sat in the sofa. "Your son has just awakened his abilities, so I'll go straight to the point, we want to train him to control his abilities."
"Only you?"
"No," Raj brought out a business card and handed it over to Aren's parents. "We at LMA, London Mutant Academy, will teach him."
Mr Odion and Mrs Odion walked into their room.
"What are we going to say?"Mr Odion asked.
"Of course, yes," Mrs Odion replied, "he needs to learn that or he'll probably kill someone."
Mr Odion sighed. "But it's in London."
"Sure, let's forget that and send him there."
They walked out.
"What did you two come to? Yes or no?"
"Yes, but where will we get the visa? He doesn't have one yet though I wanted to to get one for them."
"Don't worry, we'll handle it."
"When do you leave?"
"Tomorrow?"
"That's good." Mrs Odion nodded.
That night, Aren spent his time packing his luggage then the electricity tripped off.
"What happened?" Raj asked Mr Odion.
"NEPA has taken the light." He replied.
"Gross, I wanna leave this country! So there isn't always electricity?"
"Everyone does."
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The next morning, Aren packed his bags and got ready to leave.
"Ready boy?" Raj asked.
"Yes." Aren replied with a grin.
Raj sighed. "I finally get to leave this God forsaken dump!"
"Jesus, language." Ohise said.
Raj held Aren's arms and a mist slowly enveloped them, the mist grew and then it settled down and the both of them had vanished.
"Strange." Mr Odion muttered.