Chapter 3:
∞My Life∞
And this is where my story begins. So, I go to Riverside Academy. Among all of the schools, this holds the smartest kids of the smartest kids. Mentor, his friend, my father and a few others are still trying to figure out what in the air is making us so productive.
Anyway, students of Riverside, along with being injected with 1% of sapphex and 1% of nomei, have also been given a drug to increase the percent their brain has been unlocked.
Since I’m only in 15th grade, I take the pill for 20% but Mentor, the headmaster of this school, takes 70%. Oh, and Mentor tells me that you didn’t have 15th grade. Well, since everyone is so smart even if they are only a year old, Mentor made the grades started at one year old is first grade. I’m 15 so I’m in 15th grade,
Enough with the boring statistics. Each person has a new special talent that comes with the pill that gives you brain power. Some have several. I can go into the minds of others, read their mind for some time, give them memories, take away memories, etc. I have a few (ha! Make that many) more, but I’m not about to reveal all my secrets just yet. You will find out about a couple of them though, as this journey goes on.
So. What’s a day at Riverside like? Well, let’s take today, for example. I’ll try to make this sound interesting. Because of the difference in atmosphere and world, everything is completely different here. So, most Riversiders take 5 hours of sleep even though we only need 2 hours. We sleep more though, so that our brains can develop more. My dorm mates, friends, and I wake up at around 4 everyday.
Because the entire civilization is underground, we take an elevator up to the surface onto a cloud. We go outside to see the 5 suns rising in the sky. One directly up and then one to each side – east, west, north and south.
Our androids are basically our life. We use them everyday for everything. Food? Android. Clothes? Android. Homework? (and yes, we STILL have homework) Android. Computer? Android. So, when we go outside, we’re charging our androids for the day. They are attached to our skin and are immovable by hand. Ironically, they can only detach themselves from us. But don’t worry. We’re still the bosses of the droids.
Anyway, we use the sun to power up our droids. Obviously, they still run from the power of our blood moving, heart beating, muscles working, and other actions but just in case, this is necessary. You don’t even WANT to know what happened to the girl whose droid discharged. You might be thinking – What is this? It’s a crazy technology, geeky world, why would something be discharged? But hey… We all have our flaws.
Moving on. After charging up, we head to breakfast for around an hour and then we have a half an hour until class starts at 8:30. The first half of our classes consists of just brain training. We do puzzles, take quizzes, play memory games, read books and a plethora of other activities.
In the middle of our brain activities, we take a mini break. And then we have a nice healthy lunch. Ugh. We aren’t allowed to have junk food, which honestly sucks. The one boy was caught smuggling junk food and well, to say it nicely, he was punished.
After lunch, we train for war. Our prophecy teller, we call her the croyhepp for private reasons but she predicted that a faraway galaxy with strength in numbers would come attack us in the future. We pressed the croyhepp for more details but apparently there were none. Not the near future, not the far future, just the future.
We practice mind-magic and other tricks on our peers and usually, I battle two peers at once, as I am sort of the smartest of the smartest of the smartest. Meaning, once I take the I.Q. test at the age of 16, everyone thinks that I will set the new record of googolplexian.
