Blues

Chapter 7 - Preparations.

(Do not start the music until I tell you to ! >:o)

"Why are you here?"

"Huh?"

"Why are you here?!"

Shinji was lost.

He was surrounded by a dark blue , it looked like the middle of an ocean, in which, only Shinji existed.

Shinji, and a voice.

A voice asking him why he was there :

"I moved into this city, because I wanted to become independent."

Suddenly, Shinji asked himself "Why am I talking about the city? Aren't I in the ocean?"

He turned around to face the darkness of the bottom.

"The ocean? Why am I in the ocean?"

"Enough." said the voice, as Shinji would start to be dragged by an unknown force towards the bottom.

He couldn't swim up and has some sort of chains dragging him down.

At some point, the ocean stopped applying any pressure on Shinji. He realized that in this entire darkness, only him could save himself and slowly, he started sendings punches in all directions.

Wroum.

All of a sudden, everything around him became light blue.

He was over the clouds, falling from the sky, and somehow, he couldn't see the ground.

He was falling down and could not stop himself from falling.

Suddenly, below, he saw the city of Kamigure.

"It looks different seen from the sky.." he thought.

But here is when something weird happened..

In the middle of the city, around the Hiromi park, eyes appeared. There was a pair of eyes on the ground.

Shinji fell down faster and faster and right before he reached the ground...

(start the music now)

- He woke up.

He was on a bench, holding his bag in his hands and leaning his back against a wall.

It was 12pm and class was in pause.

In front of him was Atsui, she was reading a book :

"The same dream again?"

"Yeah.." he thought.

"You should ask Samira what it means."

"Huh?"

"Didn't you know?" she asked, biting another part of her sandwich she had in her other hand, "Samira can translate dreams. Seriously, go snore somewhere else."

-

Shinji stayed with Atsui for a few minutes before leaving the classroom.

"It has been 3 months since my powers manifested."

He walked down the stairs of the first years building :

"Since then, a few things changed. Later that night, the police investigated the places where we had our fights, and we had no choice but to tell them the truth after they saw the security camera footage. Only 4 men know about this whole situation. Atsui's uncle, which happens to be living a few blocks away from us. The Police department chief, which happens to be Netsu's father and his wife, and Jijio, the police officer that interrogated us. Netsu's first name is Akmir by the way."

He walked outside the school and looked inside his pockets to see if he had coins, he had some :

"Since then, I have been trying to control my powers and have come to some sort of limit. Kazuya and I train from time to time, therefore lately, I haven't seen any progress. We are now both able to call out our respective auras, Gold for me , Green for him. That aura greatly enhances our physical performances. Superspeed, super strength, enhanced reflexes, ability to see small objects really far, and a ton of other stuff we haven't tried yet."

He stopped at a ice cream shop and asked for one cup.

"At first, we thought everything was happening a little too fast. But slowly, we got used to it. Akmir's father told us the truth behind why we're here and explained me that the mother I lived with was only an foster one. Well, she did really good as a mother, that is why I'll go visit her as much as possible. But somewhere between all these planets, I have a real mother and a real father waiting to see if I grew.. "

He stopped in front of the sea and looked at the horizon as the wind would blow on him :

"Kazuya and I don't really know why we're training. In fact, we just know that we have to get stronger and protect our world.. But as long as Atsui is here, these people that have captured her mother won't stop trying to capture her too. That is why.."

- Back to the classroom -

"That is why I have a plan." Said Atsui, looking at Shinji, Kazuya and Samira.

Samira was polishing her nails, like she already knew about it and Kazuya, Shinji, both looked a little confused :

"What do you mean a plan?" asked Kazuya.

Atsui pointed the sun and said :

"Let's just go there and get my mother back, and help her get her powers back."

Samira sighed :

"Forget it."

"Why?" said Atsui, acting like she as crying, she grabbed onto Samira and started falling to her knees :

"If I had to compare, Atsui, trained as you are, you are worth a 10000 armed human soldiers, I should be around 8000. Shinji and Kazuya, together , aren't even worth 500."

Shinji didn't know how to take that, 500 soldiers was already awesome.. :

"Then we need to get stronger.." said Shinji, looking at the sun.

"Yeah, you indeed do." Said Akmir, walking inside the classroom. He was wearing the same gakuran as Shinji and Kazuya but his had 2 stars on the collar. It that he was a second year.

"Here is mister delinquent." said Samira , looking at her brother from the corner of her eyes.

Shinji smiled :

"Shinji, Kazuya, I registered you both for the Young Gods fighting tournament."

Shinji and Kazuya first looked at him, clueless and then they yelled : "HUH?!"

"Don't worry" added Akmir "I know exactly who can train you both."

After class, Kazuya and Shinji followed Akmir into the mountains.

He was explaining them that the Young Gods fighting tournament was an even that happened every 3 years ad only Gods aged from 16 to 19 years old could participate. Shinji and Kazuya were both 15 but their respective birthdays were soon so they had nothing to worry about, since the tournament was at least 8 months away.

Akmir stopped right in front of a small house, isolated from everything, in the middle of a plain, surrounded by surrounded by moutains. It was located around 10 minutes away from Kamigure but Shinji and Kazuya never thought that behind those mountains, would be an house.

"Grandpa !!! " Yelled Akmir, standing in front of the small house.

After 5 minutes of waiting and 4:30 mins of Shinji complaining, an old man walked out of the house. He was wearing a fedora, an Hawaiian shirt and flip flops.

"Yo." said the old man.

Shinji and Kazuya were shocked by what he actually looked like.

Inside, Shinji saw a teenager about their age, wearing glasses. That guy had glowing blue eyes as he looked at Shinji and Kazuya.

And thus, 8 months of hell began..