Red X.

Chapter 1- Red X.

It was a bright sunny day in Florida, mid October weather so the temperature was a mere 55 degrees. It was strictly 7 am sharp, bright and early as the sound of boots would be heard. Mel would be seen running, he was wearing a United States marine core shirt, black sweat pants matching his black shoes. He was running down this road. Mel was a bit bigger, standing at a height of 5'7 160 pounds with 5% body fat. Mel would have medium length hair, and fully recovered, anyways. Mel would be jogging through the empty road with his father to his side. His father would be running next to Mel as they both were taking a jog together. The two were six miles in before mels father finally stopped for a second to take his breathe. Mel would skid to a stop, looking over at his father. "What's up oldie done in already?" Mel would laugh a bit. "Not done in son..just gotta catch myself." Mels father would laugh a bit as he looked at his son. "Proud of you.."

"You're still on about the enlistment?" Mel would roll his eyes with a smirk. "Following in my foot steps. I like it." Mels father would smile brightly. "Bootcamp will be fun, trust me you'll enjoy it."

"That's what they all say, they won't ship me out until after senior year is done. So we got what? Two years? I'm a junior so I gotta finish this year, then next year and BAM, shipped off."

"Yeah I know, I was suppose to be in the delayed entrance program but instead we faked our ID's and decided to just go in."

"Clever fuck." Mel would say adjusting his robotic arm.

"Let's go inside..Rachel cooked dinner."

"She reminds me a LOT! of my mom."

"She could be." Mels father would chuckle as the two began running back to the house. The father and son both in excellent shape as they eventually made it back to their little house. Mel stepping inside getting slammed with the cool refreshing AC as mel took off his shirt tossing it to the side, his father doing the same thing as both their bodies were drastically scarred up.

"Hey boys." A women would walk forward. Jet black hair, a height of 5'3 and a very magnetic personality. "I'm making dinner!"

"That's good baby." Mels father would walk over towards Rachel, wrapping his left arm around her waist and pulling her in for a kiss. Mel would roll his eyes chuckling walking towards his room. Upon entering his room. He would close the door, turning on his AC as he collapsed on his bed, laying down as he slowly pulled out a picture of him and lyla out his pocket. The picture was taken last year with Mel in his Red X suit and lyla sticking close to his waist. Mel would then pull out another photo looking at him and Killer x. The last photo he made Kat take of them as he sighed. He tossed both the photos on the ground and got up, looking over at the clock the clock read 7:45 am. School in Florida started at 8 am sharp. Mel would get up, walking out of his room and into the bathroom, he stripped from his outfit and showered, making sure he was clean and fresh as he walked back into his room. Slamming the door shut he began to get dress. Slipping on his black boxers, black sweat pants then his black socks, then his black shoes but putting on a white tank top. Mel would grab his iPhone XR off the counter of his room, a message from: Lyla. Appeared on his phone, Mel would look at the messages as it read:
[GM] "good morning baby!! I hope you have a great day today!! I can't wait for you to visit again, I miss you so much! Everything is secure over here in liberty, I'm keeping the town on lock! I love you!! Text me when you get this!! <3"

Mel would chuckle, brightly smiling as he responded back: "hey baby girl. I'm glad everything is going good over there, I'm starting my first day of school today so I'm pretty excited. I can't wait to see you neither, I love you more than anything I'll see you soon baby girl. I'll text you in a bit I gotta get in my car." Mel would slip his phone in his right pocket. Mel would grab his keys off the counter. Walking out to their driveway and looking at his 2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee. Mel would open the door hopping inside, starting up the car as the engine would roar. Mel reversing out his driveway and flooring it down the road to his school, blasting his music. Mel would make it to the school, watching multiple kids flood inside the building. Mel would park his Jeep a few blocks away, looking in the back of the car, a simple USMC back pack would be laid on the leather seat. Mel would grab the backpack and sling it around him. Walking out his car and walking into the building. Almost instantly people looked at mel, his robotic right arm at this point was a direct giveaway that he was 'different.' He didn't let it bother him as he walked inside. The school would be much bigger than his old school, three floors high along with 3 cafeterias for each floor. Mels locker number was "420." Mel would begin to walk around the building, trying to find his locker before finally finding it on the second floor. These lockers didn't have locks, they had a mini keypad to open them, this school was slightly more advanced than your average school. Mel would punch in his own code, the locker adjusting to the code, asking for Mel to retype it. Mel punching in the code 0819. Lylas birthday. The locker would open as mel would toss in his backpack, only grabbing a simple notebook and pencil out of the bag. He would then close the locker and begin walking towards his class, on the walk towards his class Mel would bump into this guy in the Hallway. "Oh shit. My fault homie." The guy would look at mel, he was 5'9, a rather strong male as he looked at mel. "We're good. Just watch we're you're going next time. Don't wanna start any issues."

"Cool man." Mel rolled his eyes walking away. The school day would go on as normal school day. The bell ringing for lunch as Mel got up and walked to the third floor cafeteria. Hoping no one was there yet but to his surprised the cafe was stacked with people. Mel would sigh and roll his eyes. People looking over at him and chuckling a bit, Mel walked up to the lunch line. Grabbing a tray and a plate as he walked forward into the line. Upon making it towards the food section, mel would grab a slice of pizza and some milk. Getting off the line looking for a place to sit, mel would look towards his left to see a girl sitting down, a boy next to her. The boy noticing Mel waving his hand for Mel to come sit with him. Mel shrugged as he walked over towards the table. Sitting down across the boy and the girl. The boy would speak. "Hey, you look new here. What's your name?"

"It's carmelo..but my friends call me Mel."

"Well Mel I'm kayuke, this is masmai. Pleasure to meet you." The boy had on glasses, jet black hair with a red jacket on matching his black pants and shoes. The girl would look at Mel, she had jet black hair, pretty face with pretty blue eyes as she waved smiling. "Hey Mel."

"Hey." Mel would chuckle taking a slice from his pizza.

"Where ya from Mel?" Kayuke would speak looking over at Mel.

"Well.. my hometown was BloodLust, but I came from maple."

"Bloodlust..? Never heard of it." Masmai would chime in.

"Better that way." Mel would take another slice.

"I've heard of maple, decent town but wayyyyyy to many fucking problems bruh like nah I gotta GO."

Mel would chuckle a bit. "My brother is in maple..too bad I lost contact with him.." mel would look down at his slice, remembering the last image he saw of his brother being pinned on two rusty steel pipes. Mel would flinch a bit and look away.

"I'm sorry to hear that bro." Kayuke would speak.

"Don't call me bro..please? Not to be a dick that word is just reserved is all."

"I respect it homeboy." Kayuke would drink his water. "You wanna hang out with us after school? We kinda just walk around town and hang out."

"Sure. We can take my car, I'll just let my father know is all."

"Sounds great." Masmai would say smiling.

The bell would ring.

"Well, see you around mel!" Kayuke would speak as him and Masmai walked away, mel would shrug. Walking away as well, continuing on the school day as if nothing occurred.