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章節 5: Skydancer Exams (4)

The curse jumped and drummed against his soul happily because it had finally been used. This curse was also the power he was born with, unable to be taken away, left to rot with it till he died or was killed.

"Flap Flap!"

What seemed to be the flapping of wings engulfed the area around Hugo, the wind generated from the flapping lifted his clothes, making it seem like a black storm descended upon the area.

"This..."

Loudmouth's jaw hung open, if not for the help of his assistants there would be more than one fly taking his tongue and teeth as a temporary residence.

"Boss. Please keep your mouth closed!"

The head assistant exclaimed and tried to pull Loudmouth's jaw closed, but it just didn't move. The assistants frustrated at this finally thought to turn to look at their boss's reaction.

"It's him again!"

The head assistant yelled when he saw Hugo's unmistakable figure, and covering him was a pair of black wings... The wings were bird-like, obviously modelled after a type of bird.

The span of the wing alone could make up five grown men lying on the ground, with each flap of the massive wings the wind in the area went wild and the waves on the artificial ocean grew stronger.

"FLAP!"

The wings flapped once and Hugo shot into the air under the stunned gazes of many candidates. Each flap of his wing came about with a fistful of black feathers falling off from the wing.

The reactions he received were mostly of people shocked. But then weirdos like Raoul, Hyena, and Alpha2 had mixed reactions. They were shocked that was for sure, but it was more than that.

Raoul for one seemed turned on by Hugo's appearance.

"Oh my, he looks like a demon god. Ohhh, I want to see what makes him tick so bad. If I don't I think I might just go crazy!"

Anyone who heard would have assumed this fellow was gay (not hating xD) from the way he had acted around Hugo, his behaviour irked everyone who was around him, Raoul had no care of that, he was used to weirding people out; adding a few hundred people made no difference to him.

Alpha2 and Hyena's reactions were not as exaggerated though. The former thought something along the lines of; "I want to fight him!" and the latter felt an even stronger urge to question this youth.

"Flap!"

The wings became less loud with each flap, and that was what Hugo was waiting for all this while, he controlled all muscles within his body and commanded the power within to obey him, the power resisted at first, but after a while allowed Hugo to use it however he liked.

"Hmph, people who can only talk!"

An ethereal voice echoed within everyone's ears and awakened them from the stun they received from Hugo's transformations. They had only heard this voice once when Raoul was harassing him, the speaker was the 'shy' Smithson boy, who had shocked them over and over again.

"Flap!"

The boy; Hugo crossed the artificial ocean with the final flap of his dark wings. He reached the end of the sea where some other candidates stood on the shore.

"Congratulations on passing this stage of the first exam!"

A 'congratulation' bot popped up from nowhere and sprayed confetti on top of Hugo's head.

"Huff."

He took a deep breath and dispelled his skill.

"Hmm, a little cold for such a warm climate," He said breathing against his palm.

A lot of the other candidates who were keeping their cards hidden couldn't bear to do it anymore and rushed across the ocean like bolts of lightning. Most of these special attacks hidden in store were just excuses for burning up all their energy in exchange for short-term bursts of speed.

In a single second, over one thousand congratulation bots popped up and sprayed confetti all over the space. Meanwhile, some of the more unique figures were still on the other side of the ocean, not crossing just yet.

Hyena was still there for obvious reasons, but people couldn't understand Raoul and Alpha2's situation. Raoul should be able to easily pass with his almost inhuman speed, and with such a small figure Alpha2 shouldn't find it so hard to cross the ocean.

"Look, they seem to be moving!"

Someone on Hugo's side pointed out, and it seemed they truly were moving a little, trying to... push the other towards the ocean.

"Can anyone hear what they're saying?" A gossipy person asked evilly.

Hugo didn't know when he did, but he answered the question flawlessly.

"Uh, Raoul seems to be saying: 'No, you go first!' and then Alpha2 says: 'Why should I go first, you go first!', Raoul responds with a; 'No, I don't wanna go first!', then Alpha2 asks 'Why don't you wanna go first, anyway?'

Raoul answers him with a smirk: 'Cause, I wanna see you go and set the bar for me surpassing you. I have to look magnificent in all I do, otherwise, there is no point in it anymore!'. And then as you people see, Alpha2 begrudgingly agrees to go first."

He stared at them confusedly upon noticing their strange looks, "What?" 

He stutters nervously and hoped he didn't say anything wrong.

"How did you hear them?"

A random candidate swallowed his spit and asked.

"Oh, that? I just read their lips, not hard at all!"

When Hugo said it, it sounded as if he was speaking about eating beans. What the hell was not hard about it, and why or how could he even see their lips from such a distance?!

A lot of the candidates who had used up all their strength struggled to stand and held on to each other in other to not fall from this madness.

"Swish!"

Candidates on Hugo's side heard swishing sounds and turned to look for the source... they hadn't even realized that Alpha2 was no longer on that side.


創作者的想法
Purple_Midnight Purple_Midnight

Chapter!

Edit: Lightly edited this shit. I hated Hugo's reaction to certain things. I'll probably edit the entire Skydancer Exams when I have time.

章節 6: Skydancer Exams (5)- Candidates

Only when the candidates heard the congratulation bot throw out a bunch of confetti did they realize that someone just reached the island.

"Who is it?"

Confused murmurs ran amok in the crowd as the candidates asked each other.

"Oh, that would be me."

Like there was some sort of magic involved, the area around the speaker cleared, revealing Alpha2's skinny figure, this kid was sneaky, fast, and had a freaky amount of strength to top it off. He was a perfect human child.

Some of the other sensible candidates sat down to think his abilities through, a lot proposed super speed, while others gave a bizarre suggestion that he had some sort of power that allowed him to teleport to someone he had touched.

"What are you guys thinking of?"

Alpha2 appeared behind some of the thinking candidates and asked, giving them the shock of their lives.

"Wahh!"

"Stop doing that kid!"

"Huh, what are you talking about? I've been here all along."

The candidates sighed knowing very well that they couldn't refute the statement.

"We were just trying to figure out your power!"

A black-haired candidate who appeared to be quite air-headed answered loudly, drawing the attention of others who were trying to recuperate.

"Goddammit, Ron, you have problems!"

Many of the candidates cursed angrily, ignoring the fact that Alpha2 was still in front of them. Alpha2 giggled joyously at this amusing situation.

"If you want to know so bad, I can just tell you,"

Alpha2 spoke in between giggles and said something that made everyone presently on Hugo's side freeze.

"Well, what is it?"

Someone took a deep breath and asked him expectedly.

"I am an Awakened, not an Evolutionary and my power is..."

"Get to the goddamn point!"

A young candidate with spikey brown hair yelled out, voicing out everyone's thoughts. The candidate was a man in his twenties who wore a white traditional Japanese robe, tied to his waist was a long samurai sword with a red hilt, decorated by two artificial skulls hanging onto the hilt.

"Calm down will you, Shiro!"

The person who spoke was wearing the same make kimono robe but in the colour blue and white instead of pure white. The robed man had sleek blue hair with squinty eyes that could barely showcase his radiant amber eyes. He also held a samurai sword that looked ready to taste blood.

This one very much seemed to be the more sensible one out of the two and tried to mellow out the one named Shiro to avoid the case of a fight breaking out.

"Stop it, I'm not gonna listen, Kenji! This kid is obviously bullshitting us!"

Kenji might have known that, but still chose to keep quiet just in case this kid wasn't really bullshitting them.

Upon closer observation, the Japanese teen with the fiery personality; Shiro was inwardly celebrating as he thought he just fooled everyone.

'Nice! Now the kid will feel pressured to tell us his power, now that I've taken my first swing.'

There were different types of people in the world according to Hugo. The first was the Annoyers: they talk too loud, make noise a lot, and bother the peace of the environment. A very apt description of people like that is Raoul Sutherland.

The second kind is the Reserved: don't talk too much, it's frustrating to be around these types of people if you do not share in their interests. An example of such a person is Hugo's very self.

Then there is the Cunning: they pretend to be one of the annoyers to gain more information on subjects that catch their interests. Hyena and Shiro fell into this category of people, and there was no hiding their characters under his watchful eye.

He very well noticed what Shiro was trying to do, and felt that it would not work.

Although most of the world's population were the three general kinds of people, a large percentage still existed as variants and sub-types. Alpha2 is one of those variants.

'He is somewhat of a mix between an Annoyer and a Reserved, he generally does not feel that anyone or anything can threaten him. Alpha2 is the kind of person who shows their will unconsciously, even before anybody said anything, I bet he was planning to explain his ability before he even discovered the others are trying to figure out...'

Hugo made swift deductions with his genius-like intellect and successfully predicted Alpha2's next move.

'... And so, it leads me to the conclusion that he will answer just as planned in five, four, three, two, one.'

Just as he finished counting backwards from five mentally, he heard Alpha2 begin to speak again.

"The name of my ability is Blink."

Without waiting for others to interrupt his explanation, Alpha2 continued.

"This ability allows me to traverse the void and pass from one location to another in an instant, as long as I have the fixed spatial coordinates within my mind, I can easily get to the place, and fixed coordinates are no longer needed as long as it is within my line of sight."

Alpha2 gave a brief explanation that explained everything; he thought the people were worthy enough to know.

'Wow, how great would it be to have a normal ability?'

Hugo silently fantasised about being normal when he suddenly heard exclamations from his and the other side of the ocean.

"What the heck is that?!"

"It looks like some sort of metal man, maybe an advanced AI placed within a human body?"

The speculations were directed towards an incoming ball coming towards them from the other side. The people made space for the projectile to land so they would have a clear view of whatever it was when it landed.

The candidates stood there for a few seconds waiting for the smoke to clear off and the congratulation bot to pop up. The smoke did clear, but the congrats bot still didn't pop up.

"Where's the bot?"

Alpha2 asked confusedly and voiced out everyone's thoughts.

"Oh, you mean this?"

There he was, the figure coming out of the smoke, holding demolished pieces of the bot.

PS: When I first introduced Alpha2, I didn't mention his age, so I went back to correct this mistake, he is fourteen years old.


創作者的想法
Purple_Midnight Purple_Midnight

This is sort of a candidate introduction chapter. I thought of making it when I realized that I made no mention of the other candidates a lot, so I made sure to put my brain cells on the line and think of more characters you can relate with, so as to make the reading experience more immersive.

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