《Yowai - Season 1》


 Chapter 1 - Yowai

    "As we were saying last time, there are a lot of islands on Earth," said Yowai''s teacher.


    "Today we will talk about an island called ''Hirta''. This island is one of the most remote islands in the world."


    "So back in 1930..."


    Yowai was as bored as ever, just looking out through the window. The only thing he could think of was going home as soon as possible.


    When the class ended, Yowai, while his stomach growled from hunger, thought `It''s time to eat lunch.` He walked out of class slowly, not using much energy.


    Yowai saw someone approaching him in the hallway, saying "Hey, what''s your name? I never saw you talking with anyone." It was that popular guy from Geography class, with his nice fashioned clothes and styled hair.


    "Ah? Oh, it is Yowai,"heanswered.`What does this dude want from me? Do I Iook friendly or something?` he then thought.


    "Well, that is a unique name! Are you going to the cafeteria?" the guy asked while looking at Yowai. He was full of energy, and looked very happy.


    "I am. Well then, see you later."Yowai replieed after having a sourpuss.`No, seriously. Why did he only remember to talk with me now, two days before summer break? Why does he even talk to me anyway?`hethought.


    "Wait! Do you want to go eat together, maybe? You seem like a nice person," the boy said, and Yowainoticed thathe had a group of girls behind him, waiting for him to come.


    "No, thank you. Go with your friends."


    "Oh. Well, okay. See you around, Yowai." The guy left with the group of girls. It seemed like he wa supset about Yowai not wanting any social interaction.


    After he left,Yowai thought to himself`Phew, that guy is pretty annoying. Why is he so energetic?"He shook his head to the sides, and finally thought`Some weird people in this school I guess.`


    Yowai looked at the clock and thought"Damn, that chit chat took some time, I won''t be able to eat if I won''t be quick."


    "What would you like to eat?" The cafeteria worker asked. "I will take the Beef and Pasta,"Yowai answered in a bored tone, not even looking the worker in the eyes.


    "There you go, enjoy your meal." The worker handed Yowai his food on a big, brown tray. "Thanks."Again, Yowai didn''t even bother to look at the worker while saying that and taking the tray.


    `Now, where is the most un-noisy place around,` he thought, looking for somewhere he could chill his mind at."Oh there."


    While Yowai was eating, he noticed a group of students harassing another pupil, insulting him and dropping his food on the floor mercilessly, laughing at him and telling him to pick the food up, then kick him while he does.


    `That bullshit again? Ah well, it''s not like it''s my business,`Yowai thought to himself. It''s not like he really didn''t care, he just didn''t want to get himself into that same situation.


    `That pasta tastes weird as fuck,` he changed the subject in his mind."Blah, school food."


    A few hours later - Literature class."Ladies and gentlemen, today we will start a poem called "The Road Not Taken," by Robert Frost." The teacher said, looked at the class, and kept on going.


    "So, ''The Road Not Taken'' is a narrative poem consisting of four stanzas of 5 lines each in iambic tetrameter, and is one of Frost''s most popular works." He kept talking, and half of the students in the class didn''t even listen to him. They were all into their own businesses.


    "Teacher, I don''t feel quite well, can I go home?"Yowai said while talking in an even lower volume than usual.


    "If it''s serious, go to the office and call your parents to come and take you." The teacher said. It didn''t seem like he cared much as he just looked at his documents for the class while saying that.


    Yowai balked his talk, then followed up saying"Ah, I guess I''m fine if that''s the case. "Love what you''re reading? Discover and support the author on the platform they originally published on.


    "Okay, open your books at page 67, the title is the name of the poem," the teacher started teaching again, completely ignoring Yowai''s answer.


    `So boring..."`Yowai mulled in his mind.`I want to go home already. Good thing it''s the last class of the day.`


    While that thought ran in Yowai''s head, he looked out the window, at the sun and the sky, wondering where life will take him. What can be changed, and when will he have something exciting already in his life? That''s all he could think of, but he had to study now.


    Forty minutes later, the bell rang to end the class. `Phew, I''m so glad it''s done,`he thought, with a little smile on his face, `Let''s go home.`


    When he got home he said"I''m finally here..."and yawned."Welcome back! How was your day?" said Yowai''s mother from the kitchen. She had a white colored bib around her hips.


    "It was okay. I didn''t feel quite well, though,"Yowai answered, putting his bag close to the dining table in the process."Is there something to eat?"he asked, then sat down the table and moaned.


    "Yeah, I made Pasta. Would you like a plate?" she responded while looking for some dinnerware. "I ate some Pasta already at school, but okay."


    "Here you go," his mother said while putting down the food on the table. "Oh, it tastes quite good,"Yowai said after taking a bite from the food. His expression was a bit delighted.


    "Thank you," his mother responded, starting another sentence afterward "So anyway, Yowai, are you looking forward to summer break?" She also chomped down a piece of the food.


    "I don''t know. I guess it will be the same as every year. So no, not really."Yowai said, playing with the food on his plate, thinking about how his life wasn''t enjoyable at all.


    "Your father and I thought about going on a vacation, would you like to come if we''ll do?" She tried cheering the chat up with the news.


    "Nah, I''ll just stay home, you two have fun together."Yowai looked a bit upset, he was thinking of how every summer break he had was boring. Why couldn''t the last one be good?


    "Oh, well, that''s a shame," his mother said with a troubled face. She really wanted him to come to the vacation with them, but she knew there was no way of convincing him to come.


    "It''s okay, I''ll be fine. I have plenty of things to do by myself" Yowaisaid to calm her down.`Who am I kidding on? The only thing I can do is watch anime and sleep,`he thought.


    "Are you sure? We won''t be here for a very long time." Again, her troubled face becomes even more displeased. "Yeah, don''t worry,"Yowai answered.


    He finished his plate in the meantime as he wanted to end the conversation as soon as possible.


    "So anyway, I will go to my room now. Thanks for the food."


    He stood up from his chair, and left his plate on the table.


    "Don''t forget to do your homework," Yowai''s mother said while she started picking up the dishes.


    "Okay."Yowai took his bag and casually went to his room, dragging around his bag instead of lifting it.


    On his way up to the room, Yowai saw a picture dropped on the stairs.`It''s the picture we took on that day... What is it doing here? Weird,`he thought.His face looked confused, he didn''t understand how the picture got there


    Yowai picked the picture up, entered his room and placed it on his desk.


    He then turned his computer on so he could watch some Anime.


    `Oh damn, I got to finish my homework in Geography first,` he remembered, looking really upset about it. He went over to his bag and took out the Geography notebook.


    "Oh, that''s interesting. It''s a remote island since 1930 in theSt Kildaarchipelago," he said to himself,"Seems cool actually."


    `Oh, gotta take a piss.`


    While Yowai was in the bathroom, he was thinking about the island."To be honest, that Hirta island looks like a nice place to live in. No one around, tons of free time. What else does one need?"He looked up to the ceiling. "I''d like to see it someday," he thenthought.


    About ten minutes later, he finished his homework and returned to his computer.


    While watching his favorite show,Yowai looked at the picture that was on the stairs and saw him and his parents, ten years ago.


    "I can''t really remember what happened that day, but it sure does make me uncomfortable when I look at it. Better leave it in the closet."


    He threw it into his messy closet, and kept going with his stuff.


    A few hours later, Yowai looked at the clock and saw it was already late.`Time to sleep I guess,` he thought to himself.


    Yowai tried to sleep, but he still had bad feelings about summer break.


    `Now that I think about it,it''s the last day of school tomorrow. I actually wonder if this time, summer break will be different.`


    He thought to himself, attempting to sleep now. `Well then, goodnight`


    ~Midnight~


    "PLEASE STOP!" Yowaiyelled."MOM, DAD, WATCH OUT! HE HAS A GUN!"

 Chapter 2 - Nightmare

    Yowai wook up from his nightmare. His eyes changed, things flew all around him. The sheets, his clothes, the things under his bed, everything. It seemed as if he was possessed by something.


    `Ah? What is this feeling? I can barely see what''s going on...`He thought to himself. His mind was getting blurry.


    "Yowai? What''s wrong? What is that noise?" his confused mom yelled from downstairs, after she and his father woke up from the sounds.


    Yowai didn''t answer. His whole room had stuffhanging around in the air like they were being controlled by some kind of force.


    Yowai''s parents ran up, they heard things being smashed in his room but Yowai stayed quiet."What is it Yowai? Snap out of it!" his mother said to him while rushing into the room.


    All the things that flew in his room fell down. Yowai went back to normal. His eyes were full of tears and he looked confused. He couldn''t look back at his mother.


    "I saw them, my mom and dad. That day..." he thought. His mind was scrambled, and he was having some hard time trying to relax.


    "What happened? Did you have a nightmare?" his father asked, looking around the room with all the mess.


    "Ah, I..."Yowai could barely even talk.Hisparents kept looking around the room, then his mother asked"Are you okay? What is all that mess?"


    "I don''t know... Maybe it''s the wind..."he replied while trying to figure out what happened to the stuff in his room.


    "Do you want a glass of water? You seem shocked. What did you dream about?" The worried mother said. "Nothing. I can barely even remember now."Yowai responded, he finally started to calm down. "Can I get that glass of water?"


    "Darling, can you go get him some water?" His mother asked his father in a chill way, so everything will get calm.


    "Sure! Just a minute." The father responded, and he walked out quickly from the room to the kitchen.


    On his way down, Yowai''s father saw lights flying around the neighborhood, and wondered "What are those things outside? They are all over the sky!"


    He was stuck looking at them for a long moment.


    "Honey, where is the water?" Yowai''smom yelled to his dad from upstairs as he took too much time for it."Oh, right," he got focused again. "I''m on it!" he yelled back.


    Yowai sat on his bed. His face was blank. He thought about the nightmare he just had. "It felt so real! Mom... Dad... Is this really what happened?"


    "There you go. Are you alright?" His father asked while giving him the glass of water. "Thanks, I think I am," Yowai answered. He has nowcalmed down."I believe you guys can leave now." He sais then took a sip of the water.The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.


    "Are you sure that you don''t need anything else?" the mother asked.


    "Yeah, have a good night," Yowai replied.


    "Okay, but if you need anything, just tell us. Good night," his mother said, while she and his father left the room.


    `I better go back to sleep now,`Yowai thought.`I hopeI won''t have this nightmare again.What was that though? I never feltlike this before. Maybe the feeling that I had all day has something to do with it?`


    `Well, no use thinking about it now. I really need to sleep."


    With that thought,Yowai went back to sleep.


    ~The morning - Last day of school~


    "I feel different. Reminds me of what happened at night,"Yowai woke up slowly thinking that. He didn''t have another nightmare.He took his bag and went downstairs to get ready for school.


    "Good morning! How do you feel?" Yowai''s mom asked as soon as she saw him. She was making breakfast.


    "I''m okay," he replied."Did you hear anything about the wind that made the mess in the room?" Yowai then asked."No... It seems as if there was just a burst of it," his mother said. She was still confused about it herself."But as long as you''re okay, nothing else is important."


    "Mhm," he answered back."I better go get dressed, though."


    His mother then followed up saying "Do it quick and come to eat so you don''t miss the bus."


    "Okay," Yowai responded while going to get dressed for school.


    After Yowai dressed, he thought about what happened at night.`How is it possible that all these things were just floating around? Eventhe closet..."He finished getting fixed up and thought`Let''s go eat breakfast.`


    While eating, his mothertried to ask about the event at night."Do you seriously not remember what your dream was about? It seemed like you were really shocked."


    "No. I just remember it was horrible," he answered, then thought"I do remember it, but how can I say it out loud? It''s too much."


    "I see. Well, if you don''t feel well at school today, just call me and I''ll be right there," she replied.


    "It''s okay. It''s the last day of the school year, Idon''t want to screw it up."Yowai seemed happy yet upset about the year-end.


    "Alright, but don''t hesitate if you need something."


    "I won''t."He answered and kept eating.


    A few minutes later, he finished eating and said"Okay, I''ll go now. The bus is almost here."


    Yowai took all his stuff and headed to the main door."Have fun!" the mother said. She then suddenly got reminded of something. "Wait! I forgot. Me and your dad are coming to school today to talk to the principal about your next year."


    "Ah. Since when do you know about it?"Yowai seemed unhappy about it, he didn''t like the idea of his parents coming to his school.


    "Your school called all the parents yesterday when you were already asleep, and asked them to come," his mother responded.


    "I see... Well, I hope he won''t say any bad things,"He replied, having a bit of a sour face."Goodbye now, I got to go," he said thenleft."Bye," she answered and went back to her business.


    Yowai came out and waited for the bus. When it arrived, he went in and sat on his regular seat, alone.They got to school about fifteen minutes later, and Yowai noticed something different about some of the students in his school.


    He felt a weird thingin their presence. `Well, that''s strange. It feels unusual when I''m around these peeps,` he thought, looking really confused and unfocused. `I wonder what it is. It''s disturbingly annoying."


    Thebell then rang for the first class


    "Oh, it''s time."

 Chapter 3 - Last Day

    The first class started, Yowai was just drawing on his notebook, still feeling uncomfortable around the students with the weird vibe.


    He kept on running in his mind everything that happened to him since yesterday. He was very confused.


    `I can''t stop thinking about this...`He mulled. `First, I feel weird after eating at the cafeteria,next, the picture from ten years ago is somehow on the stairs of my house, then, I have this awful nightmare with my room going crazy, and last, I can''t walk around some students at my school without feeling pressed on andhave my mind run thoughts by its own.`


    `My vacationcreates the impression to get potentially worse and worse by the moment.`


    "Can I go to the bathroom, sir?" A guy from Yowai''s class asked, after pointing his finger up for a minute.


    "No, you may not. The class is almost over, hold it in until then." Thedisciple hesitated, "Okay then," be responded in a calm, yet despondent voice. Approximately five minutes later, the class ended.


    Yowai took a bit of time to stand up from his chair. All he did now was thinking about his lasttwo days and try to get a clue about what it could be.


    "Hey, you look a bit pale, are you alright?" the same guy that asked to go to the bathroom asked Yowai after approaching him, instead of doing his toileting activities.


    Yowai returned to himself and replied "Oh, I am. No need to check for me."


    "Alright then, I guess," the guy said.


    Yowaitook his stuff and left the classroom, then went to English class.


    On his way to the class, he had his headphones on, and he watched somefunny videos.


    While doing that, a girl of which he never saw in schoolreached his path from behind, she slightly patted on his shoulder to get his attention.


    Yowai turned around casually, stopping the video in the proccess.


    "What do you want? I need to get to class." He didn''t have even the slightest interest in talking with her.


    "I''m from the student council," she told him.Yowai didn''t even flinch hearing that. All he wanted was to get to class, and continue his day normally.


    "I would like to ask you a question if you don''t mind," she then said, totally ignoringYowai not giving a shit about what her.


    "Well, I do mind, but if you''ll do it quickly, I guess it''s okay."


    "That''s great! Now let''s get to it. As you may or may not know, if our council president gets enough positive opinions about him by the end of the year, he''ll keep on being the president for another year. So, I would like to hear your honest opinion about the current president."


    Yowai looked at her for a few seconds, then finally told her "I don''t even know who the president is, nor do I care. If you really need an answer, I guess he is a good president if I didn''t hear about the council screwing up this whole year."


    "Oh, that''sunfortunate. I will still take that guess as a positive opinion." She responded.


    "Thank you for your time!" The girl proceeded to say. "Hm, whatwas your name again?" she finally asked"It''s Yowai," he answered, already pissed off by all the time she took from him.


    "Oh, my name is Hayai, nice to meet you," she added. "Thank you again for your timeYowai. See you around, and good luck next year!"


    She then left him by himself, but only after she gave him amuffin like she did to everyone else that provided an opinion.


    After he took the muffin, he thought to himself `What a nicereward to get after helping another student!`then threw it to the closest trash can and kept going to class.


    Just before entering the classroom, another thought popped in his mind saying "Wait, isn''t that dude from Geography class that asked me to go eat together with him yesterday the president? He and thatirritating girl are quite alike, to be honest."


    A few minutes later, the teacher explained to the class that next year they will focus on Literary Analysis and Essay Writing to get their writing skills in shape.


    Of course, Yowai wasn''t glad to hear about anything related to next year, or even school in general. He was having a sourpuss and mumbled to himself about how shitty it is, then as thestudy went on to the last English class of the year, Yowai took a nap until the class was over.


    When he wakes up from the high volume of the bell, he notices that it is actually the ring to enter the class, not go to the break, which means he''s late, seemingly too late to even enter the classroom, as it''s at the other building in a quite a long distance so he doesn''t even bother to run there. As he gets to the room, approximately after 15 minutes of walking like he normally does, he attempts to join in, but the teacher instantly kicks him out saying "Stay out there until the class ends. You better be here when I come out again." And closes the door afterward.


    Yowai thinks to himself "Ugh, who cares. It isn''t like I wanted to be there anyway." Then goes to sit on a bench close to the place.He continues to watch the video that he started before English class. Leaving all histrouble for some long minutes.


    As the class is called out to an end by the bell, his teacher came out and said: "It''s a shame you couldn''t join us in the last lesson of the year. Why were you so late?" Yowai replies saying: "Well, I fell asleep accidentally and only woke up when the bell rang to end the break, I tried rushing here, but with no success. Obviously he bluffs. At least the part about him rushing. Fortunately, the teacher believes him and decides not to give him a punishment, even though he slept. "I see, you can go eat lunch now, have fun in the summer." She then says and leaves the place.


    "Why the fuck does everyone mention the vacation or next year? It isn''t something that special."He thinks to himself, looking a bit mad."At least I can eat now, been waiting for that last meal at school the whole day." Yowai then thinks. He''s heading to the cafeteria. Lucky for him, it''s in the middle of the main building and the building he''s in currently.


    "Where do you think you''re going?" A group of students reaches Yowai while he''s on his way to his faraway spot at the cafeteria, a short time after he took the special last-day-meal from the cafeteria worker. "I''m just going to take a sit and eat, please move." Yowai tells him then thinks: "Oh great, just what I needed on this shitty day. Getting oppressed by some unintellectual people. I am pissedoff enough already." He tries going from the side but he''s stopped by the group."Well, you ain''t going anywhere as long as we''re here." The seeming leader of the group said to him, then they all started to insult him, dropping his food on the floor as well.


    They say stuff like "You''re a piece of shit with no friends! LOL."; "Why are you even alive still? Seriously, kill yourself!" And much more of this type. Then, someone said something that made Yowai just freeze on the spot and look at the floor with his face down. "I bet your parents are ashamed of you, having such a miserable kid must be damn irritating." That thing was.


    Everyone laughed, unreasonably.Yowai stillhas his face directed to the floor. The bullies think he''s just too shameful to look up, but that''s not the case. "Oi, why don''t you answer? Can you not talk from the humiliation? Well, all we said was true. Someone just needed to tell you that directly." The leader says, he''s getting a bit closer to Yowai''s body and tells him: "Or is it because of your parents? Don''t think I don''t know about them." After that, Yowai slowly pulls up his head and looks at the leader, although his face is somewhat different. He has a cold look, one that could even make an elephant run away in fear. His body looks like it has some kind of an evil aura around it. I mean, it''s not like you can see it, but you feel it... The vibe of it is just all over the room.


    While the group is frozen in absolute fear, except their leader who is confused about why is everyone like that. Then, after a few short seconds of silence, Yowai''s dropped tray with food starts levitating, along with the bullies'' phones and such, the same way the things in his room did that night. But now, it seems like it''s controlled intentionally by Yowai. Half of the group run away in fear, screaming "WHAT IS THIS MONSTER?!" The other halfare all still frozen, again, except the leader who says "Is this some kind of magic? Ah? Do you think it''s funny or something??" Yowai ignores his question, then tells everyone in a strange, deeper voice: "You all better get the fuck off before things will get bad for you, believe me."


    The other half that stayed frozen slowly start to escape, probably for their lives. Anyone could tell how serious Yowai was at that moment."Wait, everyone! Where are you cowards going? He''s just some nerdy kid!" The leader yells at his group, he''s not affected at all by Yowai''s presence and threat.Yowai tells him: "It''s your last chance, flee." While looking ever more scary than before."Ah, fine. You won this one, but don''t worry, we will get you again, sooner or later. And it''s gonna be soon, trust me."Then he leaves,clenching his hands in the process.


    Yowai comes back to normal. His face is still cold though.He picks up his food, thinking:"It was dangerous right now... But I also felt strong in a different way. A good way if I''m honest." After putting all the food back to the tray, he looked up at everyone in the cafeteria, he sees that they''re all shocked and look at him like at a beast in the wild. "Oh, sorry for this you all, go back to do your things, don''t mind me." And they all do, totally ignoring what just happened.Yowaithen thinks to himself: "It''s too much, I''ve got to check it out... All these things that happen to me lately, they''re too weird."


    The bell rings, Yowai is annoyed by the fact that his food was on the floor and that he didn''t even have time to eat."FUCK! I''m hungry as heck right now, but there''s that last Geography class and I want to hear more about the ''Hirta'' island."He then remembers that the class is in another building. That means he''sprobably going to meet the bullies again. He knows the leader, he won''t just give up after Yowai made him look bad in front of the whole cafeteria. Yowai tries to rush to the class, avoiding anything in his way... He understands that he has some strange powers he can''t just use on everyone, they''re too dangerous.


    "Well well, who do we have here, just a few minutes later? I didn''t think me saying we will get you soon will actually work this quick?" Thebullies caught him, just before he''s got into class. The students in the groupotherthan the leader are still a bit afraidof him, but it seems like the leader calmed them down sayingYowai just did some magic tricks on them and they all fell to it. "Listen, guys, I really need to get in... I already missed one class today and I''ll get screwed if I do again." He tells them, being damn irritated by everything they did."Well then, you should''ve thought about it before you got beef with us. Let''s go to a quiet place." The leader then replies, slightly smiling afterward.


    Whilegetting led outside the building, just behind the office, Yowai cynically thinks "Awesome! This day is the best! I''m missing another class, just when the year is about to end. Great." A few seconds later, the group leader says "Okay guys, it''s here." And they all stop. He then tells Yowai "I hope you''re readyfor this faggot. It''s going to be painful."


    "If you say so. Let''s just do it quickly."Yowai replies to him. "Dude, why the heck am I being confident right now? A group of about 9 students wants to kick my ass... How can I be so calm?"He then thinks.


    "I guess we will, but I want to have you myself first." The leader tells Yowai. Then turns around and says "Stay out of this guys. I''ll take care of it. Join me when I tell you." They all nod to him and he walks up to Yowai, although surprisingly, Yowai isn''t scared at all from the bully''s big muscles, enormous bodystructure and huge hands the guy has. All he can think of is him going back to class as soon as possible. Hoping that the teacher will even let him in from his longtardiness.


    "Well, that''s not what I should thinkabout in this situation... Let''s focus."

 Chapter 4 - Island [Part 1]

    While standing in front of each other, the size differences make it look like Yowai could be the guy''s son or something. Although that idea changes when Yowai tells him and the crew behind him "Didn''t I tell you to get the fuck off earlier?" With a similar voice as in the cafeteria, but less threating.


    The leader smirks then say "Do you think we''re scared of you and your magic tricks? Let''s see how you handle it alone, big boy." He goes around, walking from side to side then attempts to punch Yowai in the face with a quick, powerful jab. However, as Yowai looks at the leader''s hand, the punch is stopped mid-course. Stones and stuff start to fly around. The skin and fingers of the bully begin to stretch, slicing up in the essence. Yowai''s mouth is silently saying "Tsch, you guys never fucking learn, don''t you? You pissed me and my host off too much already, bear the results now. If you can..." And his aura gets even tenser. "Bear the results? Host? Who is using my mouth? I''m saying things I don''t want to... What is going on?" Yowai is then deeply thinking and loses any facial expression he had.


    The leader barely replies, saying: "W-what the f-fuck are y-you... D-doing to me?" Yowai doesn''t answer. His eyes change and the skin of the bully is getting really slashed. Yowai is out of control with no one being able to stop him, until out of the corner of his eyes, just before he stopped seeing and lose any authority on his body, he notices his parents heading to the school''s office.


    Everything calms down, the shocked group and the hurt leader look at Yowai, then they all pass out from the fear and the amount of pressure he put on them. Yowai''s face is slowly going back to normal. His hair is coming down again and it is no more dangerous, but everything that floated is still in the air until Yowai says "Phew, I felt like I would kill the dude if I stayed like that for a few more seconds." Everything falls to the ground again. Yowai doesn''t seem to be too surprised about the current incident. All the things that happened to him until now made it look normal for him. "Gotta go to class again, though!" He says and quickly goes back to Geography class.


    While rushing to the class, and now it''s for real, he looks at the school office''s windows and sees his parents there. "Yowai is a really smart boy, all of the teachers keep saying that, but he just doesn''t participate in anything even though his intelligence is so high. It''s not bad, but school is not just for education, but also for learning values and have experience with being a part of the society." The principal''s words were told to Yowai''s parents after he welcomed them into his office and talked a bit. They all seem to not notice what just happened outside. "We are aware of that." Yowai''s mother responded. "But that''s just the way Yowai is... And as you know, he''s been through a lot, so we can understand where it''s coming from and why he''s like that. You can''t just change a person''s personality overnight. Especially after they got used to themselves."


    Yowai, being outside and not able to hear what they said, tells himself "I hope that they are saying some good stuff about me..." And turns away from the window, then keeps on going to his destination. He gets to the class about 5 minutes later, gasping heavily. It''s probably the first time he ran like that. Or even ran (outside of gym class). Yowai knocks on the classroom''s door and gently opens it up while asking the teacher if he can come in. The teacher then asks him "Why are you so late? The bell rang quite a long time ago, you know." Yowai remains silent for a few seconds, trying to find a good enough answer to give him.


    "Well, I..." He attempts to make up a story. However, the cool guy from the day before stops him and answers the teacher instead: "It''s okay sir, I asked him if he could help the student council with something and he agreed. It is my fault for not updating you with it earlier." The teacher then tells the boy at the door: "Oh, I see. I guess you can enter then." So Yowai goes to take a sit while saying "Thank you, sorry about that." and turns his head to the cool guy which is, as Yowai thought- the school council''s president. Yowai sits down, looking at the guy, he wonders why did he help him. The president winks to Yowai and the teacher keeps on going with the class.


    Sometime after, the class comes to an end. Yowai is thinking about how he should go and control his powers or whatever that is. He then looks at the board and sees the things about the Hirta island and wonders maybe it will be a good place to go and train. Yowai leaves the class, still concentrated about what he should do. The guy from the school council tries to call Yowai from afar, but he just keeps on going while thinking what he needs to take to the island if he chooses to go there. "I''m sure mom and dad will leave enough money for me to handle the time when they''re gone. I gotta make a shopping list and go buy everything as soon as possible, though." He then heads off to the last class of the day and the school''s year.


    Yowai is happy that the last day is always so short and he can get out of school early, and he keeps on going. When he arrives in the classroom, he sees that everyone there is talking about what happened with the bullies just one class earlier, although none of the students in the bully group is willing to tell anything, so they don''t even know who did it. Yowai is lightened to see that they don''t accuse him about that, but he still thinks that he has to learn how to control his powers so he won''t get in more trouble like that in the future. He also feels strong and finds it enjoyable when he controls it so that gives him another reason to be unlazy for such a long time.


    Quite a while later, class ends. "You''re free to go, kids. Have fun in summer!" The teacher says while everyone leaves the class. Yowai is finally going home and school is on a break for two months. It is now his last summer vacation, and actually; it doesn''t seem that it will go that bad now.


    Yowai gets home a bit quicker than usual, and his parents are already there as well. "How was your last day?" His father asked while Yowai is entering the house. "It was nice actually. Though as boring as always." We all know he''s lying. It was the most exciting day he had in school. "Oh, that''s good. I think." the father responded, then his mother suddenly said: "So, our meeting with the principal was okay. We talked about how smart you are and a few other things on your school life. Do you want to hear?" She asked, only to hear Yowai saying "No, thank you. I got to go do something right now." Then, when he was about to leave the living room and go upstairs to plan what to do, his mother asks him: "Say, Yowai. Are you sure you don''t want to come with us today? You will be alone for a whole two months. You should come and have some fun with us once."Love this novel? Read it on Royal Road to ensure the author gets credit.


    "I prefer being alone, actually. I always did. You don''t need to ask me so many times, mom." He answers and finally goes up. His steps are quick as he tries to have time for everything. Preparing for two months of being on an island by yourself is quite the task. Yowai starts his planning. He sits down and thinks about what his powers are... "So, at first, I made things in my room float up after that nightmare, then in the cafeteria, I controlled the tray and the food that was on it with only my will. Then, when I fought the bullies, I made stones fly around and unwillingly, I made cuts on the bully''s body." He realizes it has something to do with controlling things with his mind.


    Yowai remembers there is something called "Telekinesis" in comic books and it matches to his powers. He then thinks "Maybe I can even move my own body with it? I can get to Hirta by moving myself and somehow make myself fly." Another thought came afterward "But I better not try it now, as long as my "parents" are still home. I guess I will try it later, though it should work if my theory on these powers is correct."


    Yowai goes and starts packing everything he needs in a big bag he has from the trips on his school. He packs things such as clothes, some canned food he has, sunscreen and his pillow so he''ll stay comfortable there. After he finishes packing the stuff he already has, he goes on and makes a shopping list for the other items he needs. When he finished that as well, he went downstairs, where his mother told him: "We are leaving soon. We will leave you with enough money and call you every once in a while to check if everything is okay. The bills are already paid for two months so you don''t need to worry about that." Yowai nods and asks "So, when is your flight?" while heading to the kitchen. "We will leave in about 3 hours, why?" His father asks, and Yowai replies saying "No reason, I was just curious." He takes something to eat from the kitchen, then goes back to his room.


    A few hours later, Yowai finished preparing everything and he now needs the money so he can get the other things he needs. His parents are about to leave, and they tell him that they put all the cash split in 8 for every week in his drawer. They then tell him that it is for the whole two months so he should only use it when he needs and the limited amount per week. Yowai approves and they''re saying goodbye. While they both hug and kiss him, his father tells him that if he wants to do something with his friends in the house he can do it. "Just watch out not to break anything." He adds.


    Yowai says okay and they finally leave. The instant that happens, Yowai goes up to his room and counts how much money is there, then he tells himself that it will be enough, and he goes shopping. He reaches the market a while after with the list he made for things to buy:


    1. Instant tent + sleeping bag for sleeping purposes


    2. A lot of food that can survive for a long time


    3. Tubes of toothpaste and some spare brushes


    4. Firestarters


    5. A compass


    6. A phone that is only able to receive calls


    7. First aid kit


    8. Another backpack for all the new things


    9. Bandana, just to have some good looking


    10. Cards, legos, spoons, tennis balls - Everything that will help with training


    11. A calendar, as well as an alarm clock


    12. Some manga volumes to pass the time off schedule


    Yowai then proceeds to buy all the stuff and goes around the market. While shopping, he notices that a friend of his mother is close by and tries to avoid her so his parents won''t know that he''s buying things then get suspicious. After succeeding in that, Yowai goes on and buys everything then gets to the cashier and pays for it all, the only thing that cost him quite a bit was the instant tent. Which he''s glad he got. He goes back home with all of his stuff and starts packing the second backpack he just bought with everything.


    Yowai is ready to go. He goes around and checks if all the house is locked before he goes to the backyard and attempts to leave, a few seconds later, he understands something he didn''t really think about. Originally, he planned to use his powers and fly as in his theory to get to the island, but he doesn''t really know how to control his powers yet. The only thing he can do now is to try and control them, so he does. His first attempts don''t work that well, as nothing happens, and he keeps on going for about half an hour. Then, just as he was about to give up, he makes it. He flies up in amazing speed, he can''t even control it, almost getting stuck in a tree when he started flying. It''s more like he flies straight to the direction of the island, but doesn''t manipulate his way there.


    While flying, Yowai, with a big smile on his face thinks: "This is incredible! I can''t believe I can do these kinds of stuff! I mean, I knew I had powers, but this good? I''m starting to get super excited about what is going to come..." He keeps on flying then starts to calculate how long will it take him to get there; "So, if I''m correct, the island is about 400 Kilometers far, and according to my speed, I assume I will arrive there in about 20 minutes if nothing screws up with my powers." He pulls out a manga volume from his bag, and while reading, a third thought comes up to his mind: "Although it is weird I can fly, and at this speed as well. I somehow can''t feel the wind touching me, nor that I hear it around me or get affected by it... Hm, I don''t care, though. I''m just glad I found a way to get there. It could be a real headache if I couldn''t do this." Then his manga volume keeps on getting read by someone that can fly, in a way.


    As Yowai assumed, approximately 20 minutes later, he''s almost there. He can already see the island. The big, remote island that he learned so much about. When he gets even closer, he thinks "Shit, I was so excited I forgot thinking about how I am going to land. What should I do?" A few seconds afterward, he has an idea... All at once, he attempts to slow himself down by pushing his body backward, but with no success for many times as when he tried to start flying. Although now he can''t get himself to succeed, he just made himself a bit slower than before, but he''s still reaching to the island extremely fast, and he needs to think about something. Quick.


    Yowai then looks at the island and he''s reminded that the island has a huge bay on the east side of it, which is in the direction he flies to. So he quickly takes off his bags while still flying and drops them down from afar after aiming for a good place for them to land on. His plan is to let his things hit some soft plains and try to slow his body down as hard as possible while heading to the water near the bay. He knows that he can''t fully stop himself from flying, but he can at least slow down enough for him to survive the fall into the water... So, after trying to decelerate as hard as he can, he goes down to a reasonable velocity and head-dives into the bay''s water.


    Landing successful.

 Chapter 5 - Island [Part 2]

    "What a nice place! Am I right, darling?" The wife said. "Yeah, it is. Although it''s a shame Yowai didn''t join us. I think he''d like this place." The husband then replies. "Should we call him to see if everything is okay?" She asks while unpacking her stuff. He is doing the same.


    "It is aboutmidnight at home right now. He is most likely sleeping. I don''t think that''s a good idea to check if he is not." He says and goes on to pour some wine. "You''re probably right. Let''s just call him tomorrow." They almost finished unpacking, Yowai''s father gives her a kiss on the head from behind and as in every vacation of lovers, they proceedto do their stuff.


    "Where the fuck did I drop it? I thought it landed in those bushes over there. Maybe I didn''t aim well? This place is so silent as well, I think I''ll like it here." Yowai is walking around the island to find his dropped backpacks while saying that. "That was one hell of a fall. And that shark, he almost bit my ass off. Good thing I have these powers, else I could never take a shit anymore in my life. I hope he can survive without his head though... These rocks I moved were quite the sharp ones, lol."


    "When I think about it, even though I can control my powers a bit, they lack on almost every aspect. I can barely move anything, nor do anything precise. I guess that right now, their activation is about as random as it gets." ; "Well, at least it will make my time here more fun."Yowai keeps on talking to himself while walking around, then a few minutes later; He finds hisbags."There it is. I was already afraidI missed the whole island and it landed in the sea. Guess I''m lucky."He then opens them up to see if anything broke. Fortunately, his pillow and softitems inside protected the other things.


    "Better go find a place to build my tent at. I think that the village at the bay withall the abandoned buildings will do. Also gotta get myself dry, I got soaked up from landing in the sea. Though I''m not as wet now."When he gets there, he starts unpacking his bags, slowly, pulling out his items and instant tent while he whistles the music ofa jazz song he likes. "Damn, John Coltrane makes me think about his songs all time. I only heard this one about 3 times. Good shit, I have to say.." Yowai thinks and goes on.


    "Now that the tent is done and I got everything inside, let''s make a plan." He says, looking a bit tired from the day. Although he''s got a few more hours until the day ends as he traveledthis long distance and the time zone changed.


    He took out a pen and a piece of paper then started thinking about how to train his abilities."So, first I''d like to work on precision. It will help me improve my control at the beginningand let me grab a catch on my powers. I can do that by using all the little things I bought. Like the legos. I can even use small objects from around the area."Yowai writes it down and goes on: "Now, I need to work physically for a bit, even though I hate doing it. There is that steep area on the north side of the island which I can run on to increase my stamina, then when I get enough general control on my powers, I can do stuff like gravity training. Although I can''t push myself so much. We''ll see about that."


    After adding some stuff and fixing, he has a schedule to work on. Two months, whole free time, alone on a remote island. Things might actually work well for Yowai."I have just a little bit until the sun is down... Let''s just read a few manga chapters and go to sleep."He says, his face is somewhat dirty and so are his clothes which got wet from his landing. He gets fixed up and then sits down in his tent to read. His next day will start his adventure, and he can''t wait.


    In the morning, Yowai wakes up and gets organized for the day. He wears normal clothes, a t-shirt, and long pants. After doing all his waking up ritual, he starts the schedule. It''s Wednesday, so he starts it with the plans he made for that day, which include working on precision and a bit of stamina.


    He pulls out some legos from his bag andbegins. At first, he tries using his head and focuses on the legos. When nothing happened, Yowai attempts to use his hands now. He looks hard at the blue lego piece and aims his right hand with his fingers forward at it. The piece starts to shake a little, Yowai notices and he concentrates harder. The piece is now in the air but Yowai still needs to use all his focus on it so he can keep it in the air.


    When he stops the control and let the lego piece fall, he gasps quite a bit."It''s way harder than I thought... I will need to work way more if I want to get somewhere close to control these powers."He thinks."Maybe I should try going softer?"


    About 3 hours later, Yowai sits with his legs crossed. He has 6 pieces of lego flying in the air, all under his control. It seems as if he starts to figure out how his powers work."Whenever I focused too hard, the harder it was for me to control the pieces... I already got a few legos in the air but they require tons of concentration from me. Though if I''m honest, it is actually going well... Might as well try to the spoons now that I can do some lego tricks." He mulls.If you stumble upon this tale on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.


    He puts all the Lego blocks in the bag and takes out the spoons he purchased. Yowai looks at them and thinks"If I''m correct, I should be able to bend these spoons the way I want. Just moving them won''t work though, perhaps I need to affect them from multiple sides at once?It might work actually."


    By doing the same thing as before, Yowaiholds a spoon and try to apply his powers on one side. It takes him a few seconds, but he succeeds doing so and the spoon is slowly getting crooked backward like magicians do. With that working, Yowai now thinks about what else he can do and then tries to bend it to the side. Again, heaccomplishes that and thinks that it''s enough for the precision training for now. He then goes out of his tent and starts walking over to the steep area he planned on using for physical training.


    "Oh shit! It''s way too steep when you look at it from up close. Damn, my legs are going to cry after today."He says while reaching the start of the hill and lookingon it."Maybe I should start slower than I thought... Let''s just go up and down 10 times for now. I''ve got some hours to spend until the second precision training and object moving in the evening." ; "Gotta do my best here."


    Yowai starts running up the hill. He pants in exhaustion like 20 seconds later, barely even moved. Taking semi-heavy breaths, he says"Holy crap that shit is hard. I didn''t think through it too much, Ithought I could nail it easily! Well, that is what I get for participating in Gym class once a year."He takes a couple of sips from the bottle of water he took beforehand and keeps on going.


    The next two hours that include Yowai running up and lies down exhausted a few seconds later, he finishes running the hill 8 timesout of 10. His face is so red, it seems like he is going to die."I think that will do for the day. I can do 10 of these the next time and increase the number every once in a while."He says at the same time he''s lying down looking at the sky. "What should I do when I''m out of here?"He wonders and his mind remains silent for a few minutes


    After the long pause in activity, he says "I better go on and return doing precision training again then eat something and try object moving."Yowai then goes to his tent, but only after he washed his face with some sea-water.


    In the next one and a half hours, Yowai managed to increase the number of legos he can control at once toseven and he now can even start connecting them to each other and build something out of it, Although with difficulty. He continues for another half an hour afterward. When he finished, he took a sealed meal that his mom made not many hours before they left the house and ate it."What am I going to do fortwo months without this kind of meals? I don''t think I can survive on canned food for this whole time... Got to think about something later."Yowai claims.


    Quite a short time after that, he kept on training with spoons and succeeded when he tried to add another spoon for the bending attempts. It is now time for trying to move objects around."These tennis balls I bought will work for that I believe,"The boy says while taking the 3-packed tennis balls package out of his bag. He then puts the three balls in front of him with them being in a reasonable distance from each other.


    He lifts his arm up then aim his hand to the middle ball."If I can make Lego bricks fly then move around, and I can also bend spoons by activating my powers on the desiredside of it, then maybe I can combine both of the ways I do it into pulling an object? Let''s try."He then assumes.


    Woosh!the ball flies straight into Yowai''s hand at a speed that could be barely seen."Ouch, what the fuck! It fucking hurts, damn."He loudly says while shaking his hand after trying to catch the flying ball."Well, at least it works. Should try using less power so it won''t fly so fast into my hand again."He says and continues"So, I found out about three ways of using my powers until now. The first is by focusing on things and let them levitate around in the air or move in a way. The second is using my powers as an affecter that can bend something by putting enough force on it."


    Yowai stops for a couple of seconds and then adds"Although the third is a bit tricky. I used the concept of the first way to use my powers and added the force applying to it, then it allowed me to move an object in a specific way to a place I choose. It is dangerous if I can''t control it though. Let''s keep training on it then go to sleep."


    Four hours later, Yowai sits downoutside his tent. He already finished all of his training for the day and he is now reading a bit of manga."Today was kind of fun, actually. Even though I don''t do any physical activities usually, I enjoyed it. Two months of this can really get me somewhere... My powers are also pretty nice to use honestly."He says,"Now my mind is getting unfocused as fuck though. I''ll go to sleep I guess."


    Morning, the day after, Yowai''s parents call and ask how is he doing, he finds something to say and they fall for it.I mean, not that they would believe him if he''d say that he''s on an island alone, 400 Kilometers away from home. It is Yowai after all. They finish talking and he keeps on training for the whole day, increasing his control to the point where he can control an amount of Lego bricks that is enough to build a nice tower. He also tries adding laps around the village at the bay to his physical training and found a way to makesome small objects orbit around his body. His growth rate is good, reasonable for this type of ability.


    Yowai eats his dinner in his tent the same day. When he finished, he suddenly hears a large crash noise coming from not far by on the island. He stands up quickly and rushes to the place where the noise came from. He looks around the place and sees something from afar in a small crater made from the hit. Yowai gets closer to it and can''t believe what he is looking at.


    The school-council president is lying there.

 Chapter 6 - Island [Part 3]

    "What the fuck are you doing here? How did you even get here?" Yowai asks the guy and freezes on the spot for a mere second. He hears a small voice back in his mindwhispering "THE SPEED..." to him and wonders. "The hell? What was that voice?" ;"It feels like what I felt in school on the last day when I was around some students... It is damn weird," he then thinks.


    The boy doesn''t answer and Yowai goes on;"You activated your powers, didn''t you?" The guy looks at him surprised and answers "I don''t know what that thing was, but how would you know about it, anyway?" In a quick, curious voice. "That is the only way you could get here, idiot," He replies after a short time of thinking."Well, can you help me get up?" The guy then asks while still lying back in the crater that was made.


    Yowai helps him and carries him to his tent. "It is Yowai, right?" He then asks when they arrived there, his body only has some scratches on. Quite surprising he is not even hurt from that crash."Yeah. You never told me your name though." Yowai tells. "Thought you will never ask... I''m Jinsoku. So, what are you doing in this place all by yourself?" ; "You are alone, right?"


    "I am alone, yes. Much as you, I also activated some sort of power so I came here to train myself for it... Do you remember what happened before you crashed here?" He says and opens his bag to take outsomething for Jinsoku to clean his face with. "Not much, it was too fast for me to realize what was going on."The guy answers then add "The last thing I know, I was running away from home, as always..."


    "Then you just crashed on this island? Do you understand how far are we from home? Well, it doesn''t matter, actually. We need to find out what your powers are." Yowai says."I didn''t think about it when I talked with him earlier because of the adrenaline I had, but there are more people with powers like me? I thought I was the only one... A strange thing is going on. Need to focus on the situation though."He then thinks. "Wait, you didn''t tell me what can you do with your ''powers''," Jinsoku says.


    "Oh, me? I can move things with only my will only. I believe it is called ''Telekinesis''."Jinsoku looks really focused on what he says and nods every few words.Yowai then continues"I''m here since the last day of the school, training my powers and body... Anyway, I think I havean idea on what your abilities may be."Hesays and keeps going"Let''s go outside."


    The guy nods again and gets out the tent with Yowai, who holds one of his tennis balls in his hands. Yowai stands in front of him, aboutten meters away, and tells him"To test my theory, I need you to try and dodge this as quick as possible."In a different tone from usual.Jinsoku then asks "Wait, do you think my powers have something to do with reflexes or something?" Yowai doesn''t answer and as Jinsoku finishes his sentence,the tennis ball is flying straight into his face at an extreme speed. It seems like Yowai also figured out how to push objects away, aside from just pulling them.


    "Ah? Why is everything slowed down?"Jinsoku thinks. He moves his eyes around and sees that the ball that just a moment ago was almost invisible to see from the velocity it had, is now moving so slow that it looks like someone is dragging it while walking over to Jinsoku''s direction.


    The boyattempts to move away from the ball''s track and he sees that his movement is so fluent, it doesn''t feel real."That stuff is insane! Though now that I dodged it, how do I bring everything back to normal?"The second he thinks that; it all comes back to the usual speed. The ball impactsa rock at the other side of the bay and bounces off to oblivion.


    Yowai looks at Jinsoku who just moveda distance of two meters away and made a burst of anair around him in a time that looked like an instant for our boy. He blinks at him for a few secondsthen says"So as I thought, you have some super-speed thingy going on. Can you explain what just happened?"Yowai is surprised from the incredibleability Jinsoku showed and waits for a question.


    The guy looks at him and thinks about how to explain, then a few seconds later he starts "Well, I didn''t really do it on purpose, but I guess my body reactedon his ownto the danger and let me perceive everything faster, so I saw the worldway slower. I could feel my speed when I moved and it was hard to control, yet it felt like I moved very naturally. A weird experience I would say."


    "Oh, I see. My powers worked about the same way before I started training. Although it is still very difficult for me to use them how I want. The only things I can do now is some pulling and pushing of objects, as you saw, and force applying on things such as spoons along with small-objects manipulation." Yowai says then adds "Your ability seems really good though. If I understood correctly how it works, then you need to learn how to control the amount of speed you move at. As well as yourcapability of actually moving around whileusing your powers. If you won''t, more things like crashing in this island might happen, and you can hurt everyone around you."Did you know this story is from Royal Road? Read the official version for free and support the author.


    "I guess you are right. I have one question though... Is this place what I think it is?" Jinsoku asks. Yowai opens his eyes a bit and smirks then answers"It is. We are on the Hirta island we learned about at school. But unlike you, I came here on purpose, which is training in order to not hurt anyone accidentally, which I sadly already did..."Jinsokulooksdown and nods then replies "That is cool, actually. It seems really chill here. I see why you choseto come here." Yowai then looks atthe guy and at the bay that is behind himself, and says"Yeah, although we need to find a way to get you out of here now."


    Jinsoku seems surprised and says "What do you mean? I thought I am going to stay here alongside you. At least you made it look like that." Yowai quickly changes his glance to Jinsoku and tells him"I did? I simply told you that you need to train your powers. I mean, don''t get offended, but I don''t really like you and I came to this island so I can be truly alone when I develop the control on my ability."


    "I see. If I may say, you do look like you need someone to talk with in my opinion. I always see you alone at school and you don''t seem like you want it. By the way, if you worry; my parents won''t evennotice I am not home as well, and if they do, I can just tell them I need to do something for the school council." Jinsoku answers. He looks at Yowai which has his eyes aimed at the far ground, then he continues "Anyway, when I tried talking with you a few days ago, it didn''t feel as youreally didn''t want to talk with me,but you still threw me off. Is there any reason why you don''t like these interactions?"


    "Mom, dad, please don''t!"Yowai remembers his nightmare, he has a tear falling from his eye while he''s still looking at the ground. He wipes it off and answers Jinsokuwhich looks at him in curiosity"I don''t really want to talk about it..."He then lifts his head up and glances at Jinsoku. After a few silent seconds, he adds"It wasn''t always like this. But, it doesn''t matter now. You can stay here."


    "Oh, you changed your mind? That''s awesome. Let''s go back in the tent, it''s a bit cold and my whole shirt is torn off from the impact on the island." Jinsoku says."Listen, I only packed up stuff for one person, so I don''t think we both canlive on this."Yowai then claims.


    "Hm, I think I have an idea." The boy tells after some moments of thinking about it. He sits down in the tent along with Yowai and explains; "I was in a couple of survival courses when I was younger, so I know how to get my food and such in places and situations like this. I believe you have a fire kit?" he asks."I do. Thought it will be important."Yowai answers and Jinsoku continues "Great, that will help a lot. Anyway, I saw some wild sheep around when you carried me here earlier. My idea was to hunt them down for some meat if we don''t have enough food, and I assume there are plants around that can be eaten."


    "Itis also a really goodadditional way to train. We can use our abilities in order to attack the sheepand be physically trained when chasing them and much of that type. What do you think?" Yowai thinks about his question and all that he said, then he replies"It is a good idea, actually. I just ignored the animals around before, but they are doing some annoying sounds so it can also be a nice way of me revenging them as well."He chuckles a bit and Jinsoku looks weirdly at him."You should eat something, anyway. I already ate my dinner but you look like you didn''t." Yowai adds, andhe goes to get canned food and some cooked potatoes.


    Sometime later, Yowai gave Jinsoku a shirt of his since the one he had got ruined, and they sit down to talk about the plans. Jinsoku looks at Yowai seriously and says "Explain to me what you have got done until now, please." Yowai goes straight into business."Well, mainly I just wanted to get a sense of control on my powers. Now that I know that there are other people that also got powers, I think a change of plans will be the right thing to do. I also thought that we can mix up our training together sometimes."


    "Maybe we can train your object moving along with the pulling and pushing abilities by you lifting up stones and such into the air, then shoot them at me one by one. It will help me as well as I will need to dodge them quickly." Jinsoku asserts,then Yowai answers"It can work. We can do it three times a week and every second Saturday when we are chilling. When I do my training parts that need focus, you can go outside and run on the island,until you get enough control to not crash into things. The island is big enough and you can explore it for the plants you were talking about earlier as well."


    "I think we are good to go then. Do you have any more training left for the day?" Jinsoku asks and looks at Yowai."No. I just finished eating my dinner when you came crashing into the island. I originally planned to do a few more precision practices but to be honest, I am too tired for that."He then replies.


    "Oh, okay. Wewill start tomorrow then I assume. I can sit down and read the schedule in the meanwhile to see if I can change something to be better. By the way, you don''t have any other sleeping bag, right?" Theguy asks Yowai."I told you I only planned for me to be here."He answers.


    Jinsoku looks around the tent for a second then says "It is alright then, I can just sleep normally and put a bag or something as my pillow." He prepares his sleeping place after Yowai nodded at him and pulled out his manga so he can read a bit beforehe goes to sleep.


    They both lay down to rest for the night and Yowai thinks "It was a long time since I talked with someone this much... Although this dude is still annoyingme."The boys turn to their sides and attempt to sleep after a strange day such as this.


    "Have a good night, Yowai." Jinsoku lastly says."Yeah, you too." He answers,and they slumber.

 Chapter 7 - Training [Part 1]

    Yowai is asleep, he dreams of him standing in a large field, filled with grass. The wind slightly touches his face and then a black-blank figure appears in front of him from no-where "Yo, can you hear me? I didn''t have a host for some long ass time so it is hard for me to communicate." That figure said. It had a deep voice yet it was chilling to hear and Yowai enjoyed its presence.


    "I think I can. Who are you?" He answered. The field suddenly changed into a place which was similar to the ''Hirta'' island, and the figure kept ongoing. "How can I put it down so you''ll understand... Oh, it is simple. I am you, but myself." The figure that has an absolute lack of details in their look continues; "Let''s say we are two sides of the same coin. Although, you are the side that shows the amount and I am the side that you don''t look at when you use the coin as a currency, for example. But if one were to play coin flipping, it might land on me."


    "Okay. Why are you here then?" Yowai asked after processing the information. Though it took an instant as it was all in his mind, anyway. "That is a bit more complicated, actually. You better take care of what''s going outside for now. See ya." The figure suddenly vanished and a large crash sound came from outside the tent which Yowai was sleeping in. The only tent in the island, actually.


    Yowai woke up quickly, he forgot what he just dreamed about and rushes out from the tent to check what is the source of the sound. When he looks around, his eyes struggle to handle the sunlight and he assumes that it is still the morning. "What in the heck are you doing?" The surprised Yowai suddenly says to Jinsoku, who''s crashed into a rock not far away.


    Jinsoku looks at him and chuckles a bit then replies "I just tried practicing my powers while you were asleep."; "You sleep a lot by the way... I woke up a few hours ago." Yowai looks at him with wonder in his face "I don''t understand what you mean. I usually wake up in the noon and even then I take my time to get up." Jinsoku looks a bit surprised, but he puts the whole ''waking-up'' talk aside.


    "I should''ve probably guessed it. But that''s not the point now... I found some interesting things about my abilities. Want to hear? Because you can go back to sleep." He says and gets up from the ground. Yowai hesitates but avoids the idea of going back to doze and replies "Ah. I already woke up, and I am also curious to know about how these powers work. So whatever you found, talk it out."


    Jinsoku holds his chin and thinks about how to explain what information did he find. After some long seconds which included Yowai yawning, he begins explaining. "Okay, hear me out."; "Basically, when I started practicing after I woke up, it took me some time to understand what is going on. At first, I tried running around normally but nothing happened."


    He looks at Yowai and saw that he is listening to him, then he proceeds "When that failed, I tried standing in the place and really focus so I can start seeing the world in that slow motion as before. That also failed. When I came back to the tent, I almost tripped over from a stone that is stuck in the sand." He stops for a little and shows Yowai the stone, which Yowai then uses his powers to move it away. Much to even his surprise, it was bigger than it looked and he moved it around like a piece of lego. "When did I gain that much control over my powers? Lol, maybe it was just a one-time thing." Yowai secretly thinks.


    After that, Jinsoku keeps going "As a reflex, my hands pulled up so I can stop my fall, but it was different. When my hands came up, I didn''t actually know they did. There was simply a blur, and they were suddenly there, stopping the slump." He stops to breathe for a bit and lastly adds "If you didn''t understand yet, it seems like my powers currently work as a reflex. Same as when you were about to hit me with that tennis ball. Was it the same for you at first?"


    The focused Yowai moves his look to Jinsoku''s eyes and replies "I don''t really know how to explain it. Although it wasn''t a ''reflex'' by a meaning, it was more like a random use of power. Think about it as a chance. As when you flip a coin and wait for one side to show up."


    "I think I got it, but there are two other things," Jinsoku says after Yowai finished. He then continued "When you shot the tennis ball at me and my powers activated, they made me see the world in slow-motion and move my body as I want. Why did it show a different effect this time? Could it vary as the danger is bigger?" He adds, "Either way if I manage to control my powers; will I always have to be with the slow-motion effect active in order to avoid danger?"


    Yowai doesn''t really know how to answer, so he goes one by one "I will just answer each question. First, when my powers randomly activated it also changed the degree of power extracted, so I believe it affects you the same. But we can''t rely just on that, we need to test both our powers and see." Jinsoku nods at that and Yowai goes on.


    "Second, as I said, we will need to test and see. The impression I got until now is that the randomness of my powers and your''s reflexes will activate in the face of danger no matter your level of control. But I don''t believe it works like that."; "The random effects we have might will decrease as our amount control increases. Although that, only time will tell. We need to focus on our training now."


    Jinsoku nods again and they both go to the tent without saying a word. When they are about to enter it so they can eat breakfast, Yowai remembers, "Wait, didn''t you want to ask another thing?" Jinsoku looks up and pats his chin with his fingers, trying to think. He finally recalls the other thing and asks Yowai, "Yes, I forgot, I believe you can''t really answer me but it still makes me curious." After Yowai turned around and started to listen, Jinsoku starts to talk. "You know how I crashed onto this island at an extremely high speed? How come I didn''t get hurt even a little?"Help support creative writers by finding and reading their stories on the original site.


    "It isn''t that obvious for someone to survive this, let alone not even getting damaged." At this question, Yowai lifted his black eyebrows up and really thought about it. A few moments later, he came up with an answer, "I think your abilities protect you from side effects while you use them. Say, the amount of fraction you made with the air when you dodged the tennis ball was enough to at least set you on fire."; "Correct me if I am wrong, but you also crashed head to head into the rock at the bay?"


    "Oh, that''s right. Maybe what you are saying is correct. Still, we will only be able to test it when we gain enough control over our powers." He finally says and after a "Yeah." From Yowai, they enter the tent and eat.


    While eating, Yowai sits on his side of the tent and slowly eats his food. Jinsoku deeply thinks to himself "It isn''t obvious that he is talking that much, with me especially. The first time we really talked was yesterday. I wonder what made him avoid everyone until now." And after that thought ran through his mind, the minutes of silent continued and as the boys finished eating, they both started their training.


    Yowai sits down to practice precision while Jinsoku is running across the bay. About two hours later, Jinsoku succeeds in willingly activating his powers but sadly, he couldn''t control it and the slow-motion effect broke. Yowai also had some progress, and he manages to steadily handle his powers.


    An hour later, Jinsoku got a small understanding of how to use his powers, and they both head to the dual-training.


    They met each other at the bay and Jinsoku says "We need a lot of stones for what I have in mind... I will go pick up some, wait here." while Yowai yawns and nods afterward.


    Jinsoku attempts to activate slow-motion mode so he can collect stones a lot faster. He stands still for a few seconds, breathing in and out slowly. Shortly after, he gets in focus and the whole world becomes slow for him... The waves of the sea look frozen, Yowai picks his nose so slowly, it seems like his finger is stuck. Jinsoku relaxes, and when he started moving, he thought "This is really unstable. I have to stay focused the whole time so it won''t turn off by its own."


    He has a chilled face and moves his body like a leaf in the wind. Moving around so fast makes Jinsoku look like a blur for Yowai who stands far and watches. "Wow, I am keeping it up for quite a while!" He thought. Ironically, his powers deactivated that instant, and the world was back to normal.


    "And... Obviously, this happens. At least I got enough stones collected." He walks over to Yowai with his hands full of small stones and says "So, you will have that pile of stones close to you and I will stand in front of you. When I tell you, shoot out the stones with your powers and try to hit me with them."


    "Are you sure you can dodge it? I don''t know how fast the stones can go even." Jinsoku already started walking away, so he turns his head around and tells Yowai "It''s okay, even if I won''t be able to activate the powers myself, there is still that reflex thing going on. I will be fine."


    "Okay then." He replies and levitates two stones from the pile to the sides of his body. Jinsoku gets to where he needs to stand and yells "I will count down from five, when I reach one, shoot them! Ready?" Yowai prepares to throw the stones over and loudly replies "I am. You can start."


    Jinsoku takes slow breaths and is about to activate his abilities. He counts down from five and they both focus. When he finishes counting, Yowai crossed his hands quickly like he caught both stones and threw them with his hands. Jinsoku tried to enter the slow-motion mode, but much to his surprise; the stones were about to hit his body already.


    "This is way faster than the tennis ball!" He thought and in a blur, his whole body moved sideways. Lucky for him, he made it just on time as one of the stones almost shaved his hair off.


    Jinsoku had some sweat sliding down his face and he looks at Yowai, who didn''t get used to Jinsoku''s speed yet. "Hey Yowai, might wanna watch out a bit! You almost killed me there!" He yelled angrily at Yowai who looked at him with a blank face and said: "I told you I don''t know how fast I can shoot the stones, it is not my fault you didn''t listen."


    "Ah, you are probably right. But can you try to slow it down a little?" Jinsoku asked and calmed down. Yowai in response nodded to him and got ready to shoot again. This time, Jinsoku tried going further so he will have more time to react. He succeeded in dodging one stone, but the other one hit him in the shoulder. He was only in pain for a moment from the hit, but he didn''t have any damage done.


    The boys trained like this for at least four hours, and they both saw a sharp increase in the control over their abilities. Jinsoku could enter his slow-motion mode faster and could avoid double the amount of stones now, and Yowai, on the other hand, could shoot a few more objects at once and at much higher speed than before. After they finished this part, they ate lunch and proceeded with the schedule.


    Jinsoku and Yowai kept training non-stop for the next few days. They both started to bond as friends and they can now control their powers in a basic way with no problem at all. They did have conflicts, but many minor ones as it was mainly Yowai thinking the school president is an idiot.


    When a week passed since our boys arrived, they added the other training part one of them thought about (hunting wild sheep around the island), into their schedule.


    The next day, Jinsoku woke up early as usual and started doing his morning ritual of running; going across the bay four hundred times without stopping to rest even once. He kept on adding to the number of laps with each day that passed. And in that day, he also planned to explore the island for a while after running.


    A few hours later, he came back running to the tent and told to the just woken up Yowai that he found something interesting on the other side of the island, and took out a piece of some old paper from his pocket. It had drawings that looked quite ancient and a word in an unknown language written in it.


    "Why are you showing me this?" Yowai said and looked confused. "I am sure that it is from an old history book or something. Don''t you see how cool this is?" Jinsoku replied and Yowai blinked at him with nothing to say. He sighed and told Jinsoku that he can enjoy his piece of paper, but he needs to eat and train. He then left the tent.


    Jinsoku looked a bit bumped and thought "How can he not be excited about it? Oh, wait. It is Yowai, I forgot." He turned around, about to go outside then another thought came to his mind saying "I will search for more pieces like this later. I also need to start training now."


    He puts the paper back in his pocket and leaves the tent, then sees that Yowai is passed out on the on the floor a few meters away.