Chapter 5
The remainder of
the day went pretty smooth, surprising to Krono, president of the student body
who monitored the activity of the students.
The school administration asked that he watch the students and see if he
could find anything that would help reduce the breakout of fights and petty
theft. The school board worried about
their students, especially Nova and Cupid.
Those two always picked a fight with everyone, but today Nova seemed
calmer than normal. They only saw her
like this when she had some sort of sickness, but usually that meant she would
skip school altogether. At lunch, Krono
started his rounds across the cafeteria checking up on the students. Krono crossed passed the “Satanists” table,
while heading for his “snotty” friends.
He waved to Styx and she smiled back at him. One of Styx’s friends noticed her waving to
him. “Seriously, I don’t see the
relation between you and your brother.”
She said as her lip ring bounced against her teeth. “Are you sure you’re twins?”
“Well, he did
come out after me, made something happened in those couple of seconds.” Styx and the others laughed.
The guidance counselor
pulled Krono to the side. “Have you
noticed that the Vulcan siblings aren’t fighting today, Mr. President?”
“Well, yes, if
you ask me it’s a step forward.” Krono
said.
“But, Mr.
President...”
“Please, don’t
call me that. Go back to your office and
rest; I’m sure everything is fine.”
Krono said.
“Well,
alright…” The counselor said taking out
a handkerchief to wipe off his brow. He
seemed so nervous despite everything going well. “But it won’t last all day, if you ask me.”
“That’s why no
one asked you.” Said Cupid followed by a
different girl latched to his arm. The
counselor became frightened at the sight of him and hurried from the cafeteria. Cupid and the girl laughed. “Guess I’m too tough… scaring little old men
away…” He laughed and flexed his
bicep. “You guys need to loosen up
Krono.” He slapped him on the shoulder.
Krono laughed.
“Alright, but I don’t think they know the meaning of the word. They take my office so seriously.” Cupid took his girl by the arm as another
girl approached him as well. Krono
feared the girls would fight over him, but the girl walked away without
incident. His girl joined him at the
table as he sat down next to Nova. Cupid
asked Nova to hand him the salt. Nova,
busy staring at Apollo sitting on the opposite side of the lunchroom, handed
him the pepper instead. “Salt… salt I
said! Gees, doesn’t anybody listen?”
The girl beside
him sprung up. “I’ll get it honey!” She said.
The salt was on the other side of the table. Standing from the table, she stepped back
into another girl. “Oh, I’m sorry.”
“Yeah I know,
and you’re going to be even sorrier when I’m done with you!” The girl who sat with Cupid on the bus fumed. “How dare you try to take my boyfriend?”
“Your boyfriend,
he’s all mine and he’ll tell you!” They
turned and looked at Cupid who just shrugged.
“See, you’ve gone and confused him!”
The girls
bickered back and forth Cupid just sat laughing. Another guy strutted over and grabbed the
girl by the arm. “Hey, I thought I said you’re
my girl! What are you doing fighting
over this little boy?”
“Little Boy?” Cupid stood up, but Nova pushed him back down. She stood up and stared the boy in the face;
the same troublemaker from the bus that morning.
“I remember
you!” She said to him. “This one’s mine, Cupid. Once I’m finished with him, you can take his
girlfriend and the other girl if you want both.
For now, you can take his flunkies.
I have a score to settle with this one.”
She cracked her knuckles and waved for the kid to come on. The kid thrashed his arm forward, Nova moving
aside to dodge him. Then he threw an
uppercut and she did a back flip onto the table.
Just then the
troublemaker’s friends ran up to the table.
Cupid tossed down his jacket. “Let’s rumble!” He took on three of the kid’s friends at
once, blocking and dodging all of them.
He grabbed a cup of soda, knocked one to the ground, threw the drink in
one of their faces, and chucked the empty glass at the third. With one stomp on the floor, the whole
cafeteria shook and they dropped to their knees.
Krono watched in
amazement at their fighting skills. Styx
came up behind him and shook him from his trance. “Hey! Mr. President! Aren’t you going to break them up like you
usually do?” She asked.
“Are you
kidding? Nova has mad skills. Want to bet on her?” Krono nudged her.
“Yeah right, who
would take that? You know she’s going to
win.” She laughed.
The troublemaker
was a chunky kid and his arms grew tired.
Nova was too quick on her feet for him; she floated and buzzed around
like a hummingbird. He suddenly stopped
swinging. Out of breath and working up a
sweat, he fell over catching himself on his knees. “That’s it… I’m going to prove that you two
aren’t as tough as you seem! The reason
you win is because you ain’t never been hit before! You’re too darn fast! I dare you to stand still!” He shouted.
Everyone stopped fighting, including the two girls.
Nova looked
over, and saw Apollo’s eyes on her. In
fact, the whole cafeteria watched them. Nova bounced down off the table and
stood in his face. “Do it!”
“You’re going to regret it!” The boy laughed and
ran his fist into her stomach. It took a
while to set in, but everyone heard a crack when his fist hit. They all waited and watched. His face contorted in pain from the fracture
in his fist. “Ow!” He grabbed his hand and fell over. Nova stood perfectly calm looking down at him
wallowing in agony.
All the kids
were stunned, most ran out of the room in terror. “How can she do that? Is she some sort of freak?” They crowd of whispers said as they ran
passed her.
The comments
tore at her soul and she threw her fist through the table breaking it into
pieces. “If you have something to say,
say it to my face!” She shouted. The room fell silent again; she looked to Apollo
but he no longer sat there. Looking down
to her feet, she felt her cheeks turning red with embarrassment. Then the school’s security came up behind her
and Cupid, and handcuffed them.
“You’re coming
with us you two!” Principal Corona said.
“Okay…” Cupid
shrugged. “But we ain’t wearing
these.” He lifted his arms up and broke
the chains; Nova did the same. They
walked after the principal and out of the cafeteria. As they exited the cafeteria, medics
surrounded the bully who still lied on the floor in agony. Shiva did not have an ounce of pity in her
face for him. Before leaving she locked
eyes with Dai; his worried expression tugged at her heart.
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