HARDCORE

CHAPTER 1

MORIOM HS:

CLASS 10-4:

The teacher is doing attendance at the end of

the day. Everyone left class after attendance.

Kai walks towards the gate but a crowd on the

other side of the entrance caught his attention.

'Eat it! Eat it! Eat it!' they all shouted and

exclaimed in excitement. He arrives at the crowd and makes his way to the

source. It's Draco. The school bully. Mostly his bully. Draco is holding a kid,

2 years younger than them, upside down by the legs.

"Come on, Zach. Eat your veggies!" he yells with

a wide grin on his face while pressing the boy's face into a bowl of mushed

vegetables.

He looks up as Kai caught his attention. "Hey, back

chi! Draw this real quick." He yells while grinning.

"No, put him down, Draco." Kai responds to the

request given to him.

"Oh, come on, man. You got your sketchbook in

your hand. I bet you can draw this in less than a minute." Draco replies

struggling to point at the sketchbook in Kai's right hand.

"I'm not drawing you Draco. Put him down- don't

eat that, man, it looks gross." Kai explained while looking at the boy who's

still being held upside down.

"Take out your pencil and draw." Draco's voice

now stern and a bit annoyed.

Kai sighs shrugging his shoulders and stammers a

bit.

"I'm not- Draco, put the kid down. Put him-

Drac- Draco..."

Sigh

"Put him down! Vincent!" Kai finally yells out.

Draco's smile faded within seconds after hearing Kai call him out by his given

name. He throws the kid to the side almost breaking his neck. Kai walks up to

Zach trying to help him up but is stopped by Draco.

They both lock eyes for a second before Kai gets

sucker punched in the face. He falls to the ground and gets kicked in the gut

as Draco stands over him.

"Stay down, Kerrel! Stay down!" Draco yells as

he dominates over Kai.

Kai rolls to his side to face Draco and responds

in a wheezing voice. "I'm still not drawing you." He mumbles, his voice barely

above a whisper.

Before Draco could land another kick, a girl

intervened and confronted Draco.

"You're disgracing the family name. What would

father think?" she whispers to him in a stern voice. Draco doesn't respond, he

just ignores her and walks past. She follows behind.

Later that day:

So much for helping those in need. All that got

me was a black eye and a sore stomach- Kai thought to himself as he walks

through the park. He doesn't usually take this route home, but he wanted to get

home quicker. He has his headphones on as usual, on full blast. He looks up as

he can hear some noise through his headphones. He looks up and sees nothing but

a child playing in the street with her ball.

The hell is that kid doing playing in the

street? Her parents don't seem to be present. – he thought as he looks around.

He looks to his left and a car catches his attention. It's moving. Yes, of

course, it's a car so it would be moving. But this car is moving fast, too

fast, and it's heading straight for the girl. His eyes widen as the realization

of the situation sets in. He runs towards the girl as fast as he can while

screaming for her to get out of the way, but she does not respond, nor does she

even look up. The car is approaching faster and faster. Kai barely reaches the

girl and pushes her to the sidewalk. He didn't have any time left to react to

the car and gets hit. He gets sent flying more than 10 feet away from where the

girl was. He went unconscious and wakes up in a hospital.

It was quiet. He hadn't expected a hospital to

be this eerily quiet. The bed he's lying in is cold, the room he's in is cold.

It feels like a refrigerator. He looks around and notices that everything looks

different, lighter. He scans the room he's in and notices someone staring back

at him. It was him, well, his reflection to be precise. His eyes widen at the

sight of his new appearance. He jumps out of the bed and walks towards the

mirror on the wall. The cold tiles making contact with his bare feet. He grabs

his face trying to make sure that it's him staring at himself.

"What the- what the hell happened? My eyes…

They're- they're blue."

He yells as if being stabbed with a thousand

knives. The doctor and a few nurses came barging in the room and grab Kai while

trying to calm him down. They lay him down and calmly explain what happened and

why his eyes are now blue. Kai denies everything that was just explained to

him.

"No, that can't be true. I don't remember that

happening." He responds nervously.

"Sir, you were unconscious when that happened."

"And how do you even know that happened?"

"Well, the little girl you saved told us. It was

her parents that brought you here." A nurse responds to him.

A knock is heard on the door, and everyone turns

their head. It's the girl and her mother. "May we come in, please?" the mother

asks nicely. The doctor lets them in and leaves the room, the nurses following

behind. They sit down nervously.

"Is she alright, ma'am?" Kai asks, breaking the

silence like glass.

"Ah, yes, yes. Thank you for saving my

daughter's life. I don't know how I can repay you!" she exclaims while bending

down on her knees. They're both Asian, probably Japanese, so that's why she's

on her knees.

"No, no. There's no need, truly. I'm just glad I

could help her out of the way." He responds humbly.

"My daughter wanted you to know what happened

after you went unconscious."

Kai shook his head in agreement.

"Mister," she starts.

"There was this man. He was in a black suit.

Like the one my daddy wears to work. The man looked scary. He got out of the

car and ran up to where you were laying. His dreadlocks were as white as snow,

and he wore an eyepatch on his right eye. He injected multiple things into you

with needles." She continues while holding her mother's arm tightly.

"After he was finished, he turned his head to

look at me. His eyes were blue, it felt like he saw through me and into my

soul. His eyes are like yours and he has a scar by the left side of his mouth."

She got done talking and they left.

After that day, Kai's life changed drastically.

END.