Suzanne entered the bus provided by the hero league.
It was filled with people she knew...well most of them were are classmates. It was calming to see a few familiar faces.
'Who would have thought Suzanne would make the cut?!' a loud girly voice snickered.
Scratch that familiar-faces-thought for a second.
Suzanne turned slowly and came face to face with her worst nightmare.
Annabelle.
Seated on the row next to hers.
'Annabelle,' she regarded coolly. Annabelle snorted. 'I thought I had gotten rid of you when it was time to submit our application forms.'
Suzanne clenched her fists.
Annabelle had played a nasty trick on her during the period of the submission of their application forms to the hero league schools. The representatives were already running out of patience waiting for her as she tore her locker open and turned her bag inside-out in search of hers.
Little had she known that during recess Annabelle had snuck in to rumple hers and had thrown it in the trash can. She had found it out of sheer luck when the representatives were leaving and as she hurried after them to plead with them, she had stumbled into the trash can and all the contents had spilled out, revealing her very own forms right before her unbelieving eyes! Annabelle was that callous!
'Well, luckily I found it were I'd least expected it,' Suzanne replied.
Annabelle scoffed. 'You mean the trash? That's were people like you belong!' Somehow Suzanne had always gotten irritated whenever Annabelle was around.
'Whatever,' she murmured.
'Anyway...that's not what I wanted to discuss,' Annabelle suddenly turned serious. Suzanne couldn't resist pipping a 'What?' at that expression.
'I heard Ryan also made the cut.' Their eyes sort of glared at each other, each with an unspoken war in her head.
Suzanne cleared her throat. 'Of course he would. He's smart and talented unlike you,' she fired.
Annabelle laughed a short, angry laugh. 'My talents are nowhere near his but they sure do surpass yours.' she retorted.
Ever since they were little Annabelle and Suzanne both had had a crush on Ryan. The typical bad boy loner with his dark blue hair with his skills and his killer mode of dressing...his being wealthy was only an icing on the cake.
Since then both girls' interests had always clashed severely.
Ryan had a mysterious aurora around him as he hardly talked nicely to anyone, rarely smiled and was always alone in one training or the other.
He also came second in class every time. The first being Andrew.
A lot of girls found Ryan irresistible but he hardly ever glanced at one. He was cold to everyone, yet the further he withdrew the more attracted and infatuated the girls became where he he was concerned.
'Are you sure of that?' Suzanne's eyes glazed with an inner annoyed fire. 'Is that a challenge?!' Annabelle retorted, her eyes dancing with the same furious fire. They were both standing now, glaring at each other.
'Mind if I sit here?' a brown haired guy clutching his bag pack pointed at the seat beside Suzanne. The two girls stopped the staring contest.
'Um....sure,' Suzanne shrugged.
'You got lucky this time Suzanne,' Annabelle snorted and left for the opposite seat. She sat down tautly and looked out of the window, still annoyed.
Not too long after the tires or the bus turned to jet packs and flew off.
Suzanne sighed. It was going to be a very long day.
'I'm Justin,' the boy beside Suzanne smiled charmingly at her. 'Sorry about what you witnessed earlier,' Suzanne smiled back. She felt the need to apologize.
He laughed. 'Its okay, besides...,' he leaned closer to her. 'That other girl seemed scarily mean,' he whispered, stealing a wary look across at Annabelle, who still had her face plastered against the window, oblivious to the goings-on around her. Suzanne laughed. 'She is,' she confirmed, not giving Annabelle a second look.
'I'm Suzanne.' she finally said as she smiled nicely at Justin.
Justin grinned. 'I'm from Clarins High. Only a few of us from my form were selected. You guys from Milton High sure are lucky,' he commented.
'Um...this bus contains all the people who got in right?' Suzanne asked. She scanned around, Ryan had gotten in but where was he?
Justin laughed again. 'Not all of 'em. Some are being dropped off by their parents,' he explained. 'And besides this isn't the only bus assigned from the hero league. There are others too. We'll all meet up in Superhero High anyway,' he shrugged.
Suzanne smiled. 'I'm so excited I'm attending Superhero High!' she giggled.
Justin nodded.
He looked out the window. 'Looks like we'll be arriving very soon,' he informed her.
Suzanne nodded determined. She'll prove to everyone once and for all that she was hero material.
Her purpose in life was to be the greatest hero that ever lived and nothing would stand in her way.
Nothing.
Once the bus arrived she rushed out.'Hey Suzanne! Hold on a sec!' Justin was saying, trying to quickly get out but his bag strap which was hooked to a random iron. Other people got out too.Annabelle snickered as she passed Justin, who was trying to untangle himself. He scowled at her, annoyed. Yes, she was truly mean.~~~Suzanne stood at the entrance, hesitant and unsure. She didn't realize it earlier but everyone right from the bus had on a certain color of uniform.Why hadn't she been given one?She took a deep breath and stepped into the gigantic crystal building dazzling in the warmth of the morning sun. It was quite huge and there was no other settlement in sight.Just a lot of different training grounds and other buildings belonging to the hero league.Suzanne took in a deep breath. This is it! She thought pr
As she crouched there bemoaning her fate, someone who was running tripped on her, causing them both to tumble on the floor.'Hey!' she cried.The guy huffed as he dusted himself. 'What were you doing back there, weirdo?!' he fired at her angrily.Suzanne looked the other way as she humph-ed at him.'I was thinking like a normal person when you came rushing like an animal--- Hey!' she faced him. 'What did you just call me fatso?!' Suzanne scoffed as she dusted herself.Ethan huffed again. Girls were nothing but a bother!'Fatso?! You're so dumb! The puff is from the armored suit I'm wearing.''Say what you want fatso,' she replied.Ethan fired her a nasty look. He looked away proudly. 'Anyway I don't have time for the likes of you. I'm a Slad now, so that means you're looking at one of the super gre
Lots and lots of strange faces. She felt like a little fish in a big pond, luckily she sighted Justin the guy from earlier. And he had not been unfriendly.'Hey Suzanne!' he waved at her. She stood by him. 'Hey! What's going on?' she asked.He smiled. 'Nothing much. The instructor was just briefing us on the rules of this place and explaining the different rankings of a hero. And Slads like us too. Besides where'd you run off to?' he asked.Suzanne scratched her head. 'Umn....Sorry I kinda got mixed up in all the excitement of arriving here. I guess I just kind of ran off.' Justin laughed warmly.'No worries. Besides what did you do to that blondie over there? The girl from the bus?' he pointed discreetly so she wouldn't see him. 'She's been glaring at you every two minutes since you ran in.'Suzanne had a good idea of who it might be.'Does she o
This was a huge mistake. Suzanne's feet refused to move.'O'Izzy please join your team mates,' the instructor told her, a bit annoyed. 'Um....you're...you're sure those are my er ....squad?' Suzanne asked uncertainly.He looked quite irritated now.Andrew scoffed, not looking up from his book. Ryan didn't even glance at her or look in her direction. Only Ethan waved. 'Oy! Over here!''That, O'Izzy is your squad for sure now stop asking rather dumb questions!' the instructor replied sternly and stopped what he was doing briefly to focus his undivided attention on her.Suzanne gulped. 'Kay,' in a small voice, noticing that every one was now staring at her. She felt several jealous eyes of the other girls piercing her as she remained rooted to the spot.She walked towards them and it seemed like slow motion as she moved.She fina
'Silverstin?!' Suzanne quipped, amazed.The guy that stood before them was the hero league's best student. It was rumored that he had worked for Shades for a while but his power was too much for them to contain and in order not for him to be eaten up by darkness he was sent back to the hero league since they'd assumed being around his mates would bring out his positive side.Nothing changed.He was the most popular hero. Even new born babies knew his name.But he was rumored to be strict and rules-abiding. He also didn't do anything fun.He was a Rolex. His powers weren't fully known yet but so far, he could turn people within a sixty mile radius into ice. He mainly dealt with ice-based things.When he was still a kid, about three different series of painful experiments were run on him by his dad, who worked for the rogue heroes.He
'Let's go,' Aiden said to the rest of Squad 10.'But...' Ethan looked in the direction Suzanne had run out through. 'She'll come around soon,' Aiden said without looking back as he kept walking away, the rest of the squad tailing him.Reminds me of Ryan. Ethan thought.Aiden led them round the building, getting them more familiar with the grounds.He gave them each a map in order for them to survey the whole place on their own.Afterwards he led them to a spot outside the garden where they'd meet up with their coach.'While we wait, I'll like you to keep me acquainted with your skills and strengths,' Aiden told them.'Shouldn't you be more concerned about our weaknesses and ambitions?' Andrew asked. Aiden scowled. 'A hero has no weakness, so if you think you're hero material you'd know that fact!'
Suzanne got down at her bus stop.'Bye Suzanne, till tomorrow!' Justin waved from the bus. 'Yeah. Bye!' she waved back and started walking home.She heard quiet footsteps, she looked out of the corner of her eye. Someone was following her from the shadows.She frowned. I can't conclude yet. He might be a passer-by.Suzanne took the next turn and walked left and suspiciously, the steps also moved in the same direction.She hid behind some buildings and as the person moved forward she rushed behind him with a dagger aimed for his side. She secured a tight grip on him but was unable to see his face.'Care to tell me why you're stalking me?!' She asked in a low, dangerous tone, or at least what she thought was a low dangerous tone.He scoffed. 'Why would I stalk you?' She quickly released him.That voice
Suzanne woke up quite alarmed. She was feeling quite odd today. She freshened up and went downstairs to get her breakfast. She munched her cereal slowly.Why did it feel like she was forgetting something? Something important?Shane looked puzzled when he saw her downstairs.'Um--' he started. But Suzanne continued slurping her cereal. 'Call me loser one more time and I promise to cut off your tongue!' she said to him.He scratched his hair.'Actually that's not it. You know I always skip first period in class everyday, so I go late.'He replied.'So?' Suzanne asked, irritated. He was stating a fact she already knew.He smirked. 'So if I, a usual late goer am headed out by this time, what does that make you?' he asked cockily.Suzanne gasped and dashed into her room.