Hyun Ki (Ethan)

He got close to my face smiling, lightly slapping my cheek, and then he bent down to give me his full power into my stomach. I let out a small grunt as his goons lifted me to my feet. Everything was burly; the only thing I could see was Decon's golden tooth shining at me. He then put his hand on my shoulder, which made me jump.

"All I asked for was five more dollars, and you couldn't deliver," he said.

I slowly looked up at him, and I opened my mouth...I regretted it quickly.

"Why give you something I don't have? This is reality." I let it slide out of my mouth.

Yeah, I know; why would I say something like that knowing what will happen? It felt good to see his face get so big and ugly from weak old me talking back. Still...I regretted it.

Decon then headbutts me in the face and walks away.

"That is reality, Hy-Shawn-Kiwi." he mocked.

He mocks my name using some fake Chinese language. I always smirk on the inside because people like them don't know the difference between Mandarin and Korean. I felt my nose leaking, and a frightening noise came from one of his goons.

"Jeez, Decon, that's a lot of blood; why headbutt him?"

The dude is freaking out; I'll not be shocked if some start running off because of this. Some are on the strike system, where they have several chances before getting the boot. Others don't care about anything anymore; that's why many ex-students are hanging around here, including Decon.

They don't care about anything significant about our school; they try to sabotage the sports teams and other school activities. We had some great players in different sports until unexpected injuries and players leaving had the sports clubs closed down. The other clubs, like Art, Home Economics, etc., are safe because many of their crushes and girlfriends are in them. Students in those clubs must be going through hell because of them tho.

I let out a cough...

I wish I hadn't because Decon stopped to look at me and paced back and forth, frustrated from talking to whoever was freaking out about me. He quickly moves towards me and uppercuts me in the face. My head went backward until I was looking up at the sky.

I gasped, trying to breathe,

No air.

I started to gasp again and began to cough.

"Damn, Decon, you could at least hit his mid-section; you might kill him!"

"Shut up," Decon yelled at him, "If he does die, all we have to do is tell the teacher that we beat him up, left him alone, and somehow fell down the stairs...if you catch my drift."

My eyes widen upon hearing this.

"If you idiots still don't understand, let me put it in simple words for you," said Decon, " He died, we push his body down the steps, and we DON'T get into trouble."

"Dude, you're kidding, right?" asked one of his goons; hopefully, it was the same one who'd been speaking up.

"No, I did it a few times already," answered Decon proudly, "and guess what? I got away with it."

Bull-crap!? Don't tell me these guys are dumb enough to believe him!

No!

It's me that seems to believe it; I started to freak out hearing nothing he was saying.

"Somehow, they've all awakened, and each time they hear my name or see me "visiting" they pretend not to remember anything," laughed Deacon.

Shit!

I'm going to die! He did this before!

I was going into full panic mode.

I looked at the sky towards the top of the school building; in one of the windows on the third floor, something kept peering out. I squinted my eyes to look closer; a head popped out from the window. I know it was stupid, but I was pleading for them to at least scream or help.

The head went back in...

That little hope I had went away, and fear started to come over me again. I looked at the third-floor window again; this time, I saw two little lumps slowly coming out and quickly went back inside.

"What's going on?" I asked myself.

Then it happened, and it happened fast.

The lumps appeared faster, like being thrown out the window, and a black crystal-like liquid came and spilled all over Decon and the others around him. They all yelled and cursed and tried to look up. Before they thoroughly looked up, a rectangular box shape came crashing down with a beeping alarm. It looked like some bomb, and a thin cloth was coming out of the box, and the other end was on fire. Looking at the ground, the liquid looked like oil, and without thinking, Decon and his boys dashed out of there.

I tried getting up, and a red water balloon came crashing down, putting out the fire. The water revealed a small reddish box, and inside was a sound recorder and a couple of small white rocks. I sat down on the ground, put my finger in the liquid, and smelled it.

It's water...and a smell of paint.

I smirked, laughed, and removed the sound recorder from the box. I looked back up to the third-floor window, smiling.

"Today is not a good day, but I'll return this to you with my thanks."

I hope I can find out who it was, but I know my search is on the third floor around this hour. I got back onto my feet and slowly walked to the school building door.