HARDCORE

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.