Superhuman [Book 1]

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➟ sam

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I rubbed my hands down my face, frustrated at the training excessive I'd just suffered through. My trainer or, Elder, as she said- Kaya, seemed incredibly pissed at the fact that I had no idea how to control my invisibility, and just let my emotions carry me. We worked for what felt like weeks, but in reality, was no time at all. "So," I heard a voice say, and turned my head to the source. "How was training?"

"Hellish." Tommy said, frowning.

"Boring." Ly added.

"Painful." Hazzy said, wiping sweat off her forehead. I turned to look at Nia, who was curled into a ball on the doorstep of the blue door. She appeared to be shaking.

"Uh, Nia? Are you okay?" Zane asked, and she shook her head.

"Years." She said, trembling. "I feel like I've been in there for years." I made a face, not wanting to even think about how rough it must have been to make Nia that scared. She appeared fearless- well, she used to, at least. Now she just appeared sad. Her form was levitating, the Beta Agility's sign of sadness.

"So m-much for unity and d-determination." I said, glowering. A thought struck me then- it was still only ten in the morning. Peirs came through the front door, smiling at our beaten, broken down team.

"Hey, Alliot! I see your first day of training went well. According to Super, the old Alliot suffered badly during their last training, and you all seem to be doing well. Er, better, at least." Peirs said, smiling.

"Excuse me? Did you just say well? We're obviously broken, and kinda scared. I don't know about them, but Amalia told me to shift while a freaking wolf beast was chasing after me, and I couldn't. I couldn't, Peirs, and it got me, and it tore at me, and..." Kyle said, looking away. "It wasn't easy. We aren't doing well."

It was Zane's turn to speak up. "He's right, you know. After all that, in fact, I don't think I learned a single thing. You just put us through torture, and claim we're doing well? Nia's shaking on the floor, Kyle's traumatized, and it seems to me like we're all pissed. Do not make us do that again. Don't even dare." While I wanted to say something, too, I felt as if everything had already been covered. Peirs shrugged.

"You're not dead. That's doing well in my books." He said, oddly serious. In the entire time I've known that man, he hadn't been serious once.

"Yeah. Whatever." Ly said, pushing past him.

"Normal training starts in an hour!" He called after her, and she flicked him off.

"Wait. Normal training? As in, you're going to make us go through that every day, and then add another heap of classes on top of that? That's shit." Hazzy said, kicking the ground with the side of her foot.

"Listen. I'm not in control here. If you want to complain, complain to Super." Peirs said, and I felt Hazzy grab my wrist.

"Fine. I think we will." She said sourly, walking through the door. "C'mon, Sam." I followed without asking where we were going. I heard footsteps behind us, and turned to see Jack and Kyle coming along as well.

"You g-guys c-came." I said, once we had all exited the studio.

"Well of course we came, Sam. You think we'd leave you to fend against the 'Almighty Super' alone?" Kyle asked, using air quotes. I smiled, glancing at my feet.

"Where are the others?" Hazzy said.

"I think they went to their dorms or something. We only have an hour before normal training starts, and I think they wanted to stay with Nia. She's not doing so well." Jack said, keeping pace as we walked towards Super's office.