Location: A.B.C Labs (Anti-Bending Council Labs)
Cubicles neatly aligned almost adjacent to one another, scientist running tests and practicals for whatever reason they may believe. Furama, a rather chubby man in his mid 40's conversing with a young lady. Discussing on a serious topic.
"Whats the status? " Furama asks with a rather husky and demanding tone. "We are making considerable progress sir. We have run a couple of test. Trials and errors are rather what we have been practicing but that doesn't mean we haven't made progress" the Young female scientist replies. Furama takes the analysis board from her and takes a look. "So what is this so called... 'progress' you've made Mrs Yamada?" Furama asks. She gestures at him to walk with her as she explain and he complies as they walk through the labs of many workers and many Bender being tammed by guards.
After a little while of strolling around the the lab, they arrive at a room with a 'WARNING' sign tapped to it's metallic material. They walk in after a retina scan, they witness an invention which Furama maintains a rather wide and sinister smile across his face.
We are welcomed to a simple apartment with the figure being portrayed as a 13 year old male. Height being approximately 174cm. He is recognized for his short, dark hair and slim build as he is woken up by his alarm. He calmly gets up and prepares for his private school.
Going by the name of Rokan, he is a student of Eliona Academy. A school known for their prestigious and elegant students. With its reputation being known strictly for intellectually built children from elite backgrounds. Rokan being a rather averagely wealthy child of decent parents, he attends this school with a scholarship program due to his academical strength.
Rokan appears slightly late seeing how everyone is seated and the teacher about writing the date. "3rd time this week Young Rokan. It's becoming a habit. This has been established by the school. Classes start exactly 8:30am. Or did you not notice it in your scholarships' regulation run-through." Rokan being hesitant to answer replies "... I did sir... " the teacher calmly resumes his writing and says" Let this be the last time Mr. Rokan. Have a seat." Rokan makes his way to his seat and notices his best friend Sumi asleep.
Sumi was a rather quiet girl who never had a care in the world except for defending Rokan, and Rokan did the exact same for her, they were more of siblings than even friends. Sumi was a girl with red hair, and beautiful Grey eyes. She was standing at 170cm and a slim figure.
Rokan taps her shoulder with the intention of waking her up before the teacher notices her. She slowly wakes up. Barely even waking up, she jolts with joy and bows greeting him repeatedly. Rokan smiles and replies "Good morning to you too".
After the class periods, during it's recess, Rokan and Sumi indulge in their usual conversation about school and other things, but because of Sumi's silence it's normally a yes-no conversation of head movements for her.
Some minutes later they reside on the spectators seat by their schools' field. Rokan's mother, later on calls him to pick up a few things on his way back from his after school lessons, which he promised he'd get and return early.
School is finally over and Rokan, in his prestigious uniform, is on his way back home and tries to alert his mother of his distance but he comes across three differently sized men and a younger male persona with a small, 168cm figure and round glasses. With the younger male being molested, he is cornered in a rather dark alleyway. Rokan notices this young boy is having on his uniform "Could he be a junior at my school?"
Rokan's mind nearly going blank being confused on what action to take, he mindlessly calls out the men. "H-hey!" he slowly takes a little step towards them. "Leave him alone" Rokan states as he trembles gripping the fabric of his uniform trousers. One of the men walks majestically towards Rokan "A friend of yours?", he says strutting toward Rokan as Rokan as well takes few feared steps away from the approaching ruffian. Shortly, they are inches apart, the intimidating, 191cm hoodlum squats to take a look at Rokan's name tag and he scoffs and looks him dead in the eyes," You're a brave kid... Ro-Kan" he laughs after emphasizing on Rokan's syllables.
Rokan feels chills run down his spine as the air thickens caused by the thug's intensely fierce deminor making Rokan suffocate with intimidation, Rokan struggles to utter the words "I said, let him g-" a quick slap connects around Rokan's left cheek hindering his sentence. The pain is imminent, but the fear would not dare let Rokan hold his cheek. "Complete the sentence, and say that..."pauses his statement as he pulls Rokan's hair forcing him to look at him and resumes, "... while staring at me dead in the eye, Ro-Kan" Rokan barely holding his tears in, his mind running through seven thousand things he could have done without interfering, but he chooses to be bold enough to reply with a rather louder tone, "LEAVE-" another heavy slap lands on the face of Rokan, but this time, they are consecutive. It goes on till the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and the last violent slap on Rokan's face. The thug pushes Rokan down to the floor and pulls out a knife menacingly. "You know... everything was fine. We asked for some money and your friend here was perfectly fine with lending us some. A couple of yen, couldn't possibly have hurt him THAT bad... I mean he is from an elite school" the thug says as he grips the collar of Rokan, their faces barely inches apart from one another's. "But kids like you who meddle in matters that don't concern them need to the taught a lesson" he states. The other thugs snickering as they witness the brutal harassment of Rokan, while paying attention to the other kid previously being abused.
The thug slides the knife toward the other student and let's go of Rokan's collar and says "Stab him", the words echo around Rokan's ear as he thinks to himself 'no, he wouldn't, would he?' the knife inches away from the feet of the other student. His physical state visibly hesitant and broken to the point of tears. He shakes his head in refusal. The thug smiles and stands up and walks toward the other student. 'This is my chance...' Rokan thinks to himself, '... I can escape' the idea runs through his mind as he quickly counters the thought of that in consideration of his school mate. Rokan had no idea what these men would do to the unfortunate kid if he left him alone here.
"I said stab him" the man repeats as he makes his way up to the student. The young boy refuses again with no hesitation this time. "Well then..." He picks up the knife, if you won't, then I'll handle the both of you. And it's better one leave alive than both dead, right?... Wouldn't you want that to be you?" the learner instantly filled with much fear as he struggles and fails to hold his tears back from falling. The student slowly takes the knife in his hand and walks toward Rokan with shaky movements. The young student takes slow, and unstable steps towards Rokan and when he is finally approached, he mouth's the word "I'm sorry" he raises his arms ready to stab Rokan, but he aims for the legs. Rokan in his desperation for intervention from anyone was now fueled more than ever, his heart told him he could still save this young student from whatever these thugs may have done to him because from the looks of things, this hasn't been the first time they had met. Rokan with his fear of being killed and leaving his mother and father brought about a hidden ability that was forced out of him.
Cracks surfacing the soil, everywhere dust filled and as huge boulders are brought up, one them clutches the arms of the student mid-swing. Rokan gets confused, just as everybody in this situation. As others try to grasp what is going on, the tall thug immediately concluded that Rokan is a bender. He is joyous because now he can do whatever he may please with Rokan and no one would harm the thug due to Rokans banned ability. The thug immediately takes the knife out of the hands of the young student whose arms are still stuck in-between the boulder. He swings swiftly. As the knife approaches, Rokan is left to use his arms to cover his face in brace for pain, but in the middle of his action for protection, smoke ignites. Sparks fly as flames accure around Rokan as a small amount of flare connects with the thug. In the split seconds of the ruffian rigorously patting the fire off his attire and body parts, Rokan grabs the second students and runs away from the dark alley.
The thug(1), after patting out the fire, starts to curse out, throwing out his arms... "We let them get away!!!" he turns to the others. "Do you have any idea how much we would have been rewarded for taking that kid dead or alive...?Nah..." he looks toward the path Rokan and the kid escaped through and resumes "... We're getting that money."
The boys pause their run after arriving to another alley trying to hide. Rokan let's go of the kid's hand as he pants rigorously. The student feeling guilty of his cowardly actions asks" Why... Why did you help me. Even after I nearly hurt you", his voice barely above a whisper as it trembles with self-hatred. Rokan stands erect as he replies," Because... You're alive. And as long as you live... you're worth saving" Rokan's words trigger the student to nearly break into tears. Suddenly, claps echo around the surrounding, Rokan looks over his shoulders slowly as the claps get closer and closer. He turns fully and receives a kick to the stomach sending him flying across the alley. Rokan thought to himself "Such power..." he fumbles as he tries to get up because of the pain, "... Is he even human?" Rokan barely stands back up to his feet but they shake as he puts his weight on it. The young student comes to aid him "Are you alright?", the student asks. Rokan signals he's alright, but all evidence states otherwise. "I used to be a bender too you know..." the thug(1) steps closer and closer toward Rokan and the male student. "... It was wonderful. It was like I had the whole world at my feet. Until..." he pauses as he is inches away from Rokan's face. "... they took it away from me. Now I can kill you, and nobody would even give a fu*k..." Stands straights and spins in joy "... But I... I get loads of cash if I bring you to the A.B.D(Anti-bending department) either dead or alive. So I'm sorry. But this one is a lot more than just spare change now". He raises his arm to swing the knife at Rokan, but is instantly interrupted by the steps of an unknown figure. Rokan can barely see the person's face due to the light reflection of the road lights. As the figure steps forward, Rokan noticed that this person is his friend, Sumi. Sumi casually walks toward the thug(1) and he laughs. He asks "Young lady, are you lost? If you are then this isn't the way home, alright?" she stays silent, still taking gradual steps toward him. "I'm not kidding, lady. Get out while I'm being nice" the thug's(1) smile fades as his tone becomes rather serious, but none of this stops Sumi. He has a devilish grin contouring his face. He suddenly charges toward Sumi. Sumi, unfazed by his sudden outburst of pace, slowly raises her palm toward the approaching thug, smoke clustering across her palms as she unleashes a flame attack that just misses the thug. He stops in shock that she could have such a powerful output of fire manipulation. She takes slow and intimidating steps toward the thug(1). He falls to the floor crawling backwards as he shakes with deep fear.
Rokan is shocked of what his eyes are witnessing. It was as if he was looking at another person entirely. He had never seen the bloodlust Sumi had in her eyes ever before.
Before Sumi could reach the thug(1), he runs away from her as if being chased by evil. After some seconds of silence crept in, Sumi runs over to Rokan and hugs him. Rokan hugs her back and apologizes for reasons only he knows. She pulls away from Rokan and looks at the other student, as if investigating him with stares alone. She looks back at Rokan, as if expecting some kind of explanation, he answers "Oh! This is... Wait a second-" he looks at the student "who even are you? I can see we go to thesame school, but I haven't seen you before. You must be my junior" The boys nods in affirmation. "Yes, I go to Eliona high. I'm Rin. Rin Lorter" he answers finally revealing his name. "Cool. I'm Rokan Akami, nice to meet you" Rokan Introduces himself. Rin is still feeling guilty from the incident where he almost hurt Rokan. Rokan notices his discomfort and walks over to him. "Hey, you were stuck between a rock and a very, VERY hard place. I don't blame you, okay? And also, I notice you tried to get my legs, the place that would cause the least damage... At least, you didn't think to kill me. I'm glad" Rokan smiles brightly as he comforts Rin.
They all together, walk away from the scene as nobody notices a nearby camera capturing all the events occurring in the alley. This was sure to cause some later problems that would affect Rokan and possibly the people around him.
... To be continued...