SO aren't you that force that causes death and destruction? The force that undermines all good and light? Are you not the evil that plagues this land?
Here's my answer to people who say that.
EAT ME.
People are so simple minded. Good and evil is a choice. I save people's lives. I'm a high-schooler. I've never killed in my life. I think I'm going to be pushed to that edge soon enough. I've got a lot of problems with my life. A few of them are:
- I just broke up with someone. I still talk with her.
- One of my best friends has been kidnapped.
- My sister is pure evil. My younger sister is always trying to prank me. But she makes it too obvious, fortunately.
- I used to be emo, and now I'm transitioning. Everyone who knew the me before who wasn't really friends with me thinks I'm begging for attention, so that's fun.
"Hey, Tenka, I'm talking to you, can you hear me?"
Huh? Oh, Lilli's next to me, and we're working on a project in school. I seem to have drifted off in my thoughts. This is 10th grade magic chemistry, and we were doing a collaborative project on trying to create a new form of magic.
"Uhh....yeah. Sooo.....maybe we could find a way to use Essence as a medium for necromancy?"
"You dunce. I know your mind's on the tournament, I know it's today, but can we please just get through this so the day will go by faster?? I already told you- each ethereal, astral, and physical plane of existence uses their own mediums for magic. Essence in our world can't work to bring back the dead. Hell, it's so weak it can't even conjure up a bone two feet into the air," Lilli says. Do I understand what she's saying? NO. I don't at all. I'm more of a slashy slashy person. Magic isn't really my thing, so I don't do well in this class. And there's the other factor.
"Well, telekinesis-"
"You know what I meant."
"Okay. How about this. We can use Essence.... as a link between two people's bodies so that their magic can fuse into one. For instance, your lightning could be capable of degenerating matter if fused with my Chaotic Split. You could absorb my attack or I could absorb yours."
"That's actually a good idea. Quick, write it down before HE gives you detention."
"Ughh. I hate him. And he hates me for no reason." No, there is a reason. People who hate demons hate me and my three siblings. And the teacher hates me specifically for whatever reason, even though I never did anything to him.
"Yeah, he's really unfair," Lilli says. "But seriously, did you write the thing down-"
"I don't see anything on that paper. Explanation." And the other factor comes in right now. Mr. Vyhall.
Cue Applause! Then shoot him dead. He's terrible. He's kind of a jerk, because he looks down on anything that isn't human.
"Why am I not surprised that the one who does absolutely nothing is you, Nevans? Never in my teaching days did I ever see a kid as lazy as you."
I open my mouth to retort, Lilli tries to stop me. I ignore her. Aaaaaaaaaaaand.... someone else beats me to the punch.
"Maybe because there wasn't a mirror, so you never saw your lazy ass when YOU were in school?"
My first thought is to hold back laughter. Roxi is one of my best friends, and she was my first friend. Literally. Vyhall looks at her in disgust.
"I'm disappointed in you, Yuki. I think that'll be detention for you for an insult. Nevans, Eris, that goes for you too."
Frankly, I'm a nice guy. But I'm also a jerk. So how do I respond? "No. And my name is Nevans, Alexander." Did I mention that's his first name? Did I also mention that he hates that name?
The bell rings. Good thing, because Vyhall seems like he's about to punch me. But whatever.
"That's no detention for you, so you two owe me," I boast to Roxi and Lilli.
Zane waits for us in the hall. "So I heard all the commotion. Do you guys have detention?"
Everyone is laughing while pointing at me. But I think they're laughing for me instead of at me.
I grin. "Nope! Not in trouble at all."
Boy, was that a huge lie.
I'm sorry. I just never thought I'd become a liar.