Tokyo

Part 2: Masks

I shoot out of bed. My heart is racing uncontrollably, a small tear runs down my face. I reach over to my phone and look at the time 3:45 AM.
My mom walks in.

"Sweety what's wrong?" she asks still obviously still tired.

"Just another nightmare that all," I say

She without hesitation walks into my room closing the door behind her, she sits on my bed.

"what was it about this time?" she asks

"Peter" I say slowly "I saw him get killed. He looked so sad, and in pain, I couldn't do anything to help him."

I feel a pain in my heart and I start to cry small tears. My mom hugs me tight.

"I know honey, I miss him too." she says now starting to cry too.

She lays down on my bed with me. We fall asleep together.

I feel the buzzing of my phone beneath me. I wake up slowly and so does my mother. We climb out of my bed. She walks to her bed room to get changed. I grab a oversized sweatshirt and some leggings and throw them on. I grab a bag out of my closet and I put spandex and a cropped tank top in the bag. I grab my phone off my bed and look at the time.
6:26 AM
"Shit I'm going to be late!" I yell which probably wasn't a good idea since we live in an apartment complex.
I sprint out of my room and a purple mist like thing runs around my hand and once I get to the kitchen I send it at a full water bottle that my mom had prepared for me, and the water bottle flows to my hand as I get to the door.
"Bye mom, love you." I say as I put my shoes on and run out of the door.
I run down the stairs and sprint outside. I burst through the doors of my apartment and I start running as fast as I possibly can. I am really fast for being so small though. I pass though a small ally way that takes me right to
Kota academy.

I slow down as I get to the entrance, and I walk calmly through the entrance. Once I enter, I am greeted my the mayor.

"Welcome, you're right in time for your assessment of power." he says pushing me down a long hallway.

"I'm sorry, what?" I say as he pushes me.

"Assessment of power. It is where we will ask you a few questions about you and your powers. If you are high or low class citizen. Or if you live in one of the apartment complexes. You which ones I'm talking about." he says.

I did know exactly what he was talking about. The apartment complexes are for people with over bearing powers. Every person that lives there has to where a choker that has a stimulant system built into it that stops the power completely, until you take it off. Me and my mother live there. I had to wear one, until I became an assassin. All assassins have usually been the citizens that have to wear the chokers, but sometimes they will be normal citizens that are just extremely good at hand to hand combat and are good at handling a weapon.

"Walk through that door and it at the table and wait for someone to walk in." He says to me

I nod at him. I walk through the door and sit at the small table that kinda looks like a desk. I wait. Then I realize I don't have my backpack.
"What the hell?" I whisper to myself looking around me.
The suddenly a lady walks in. She had platinum white hair put tightly into a bun. Tall and thin she does not look that old she is actually quite pretty, but I remember her she's the lady that did my registration 10 years ago.