"Oh, the ragtag team assembled to defy me. How quaint!"
My father stepped forward, determination in his eyes. "Your reign of manipulation ends now. We won't let you exploit the abilities of the gifted ones for your twisted experiments."
The school proprietor chuckled, a cold, mocking sound. "You think you can stop me? I control the school and everyone in it."
Cena stepped forward, his powers emanating quiet strength. "We may be unconventional, but together we are strong. Your control ends here."
"You, Cena? I brought you out from the mud to the limelight and this is what you could pay me with!" The proprietor said to Cena.
"Alex saved me some months ago, Mr. Proprietor. You were not bothered by me!" Cena yelled back at the school proprietor.
The school proprietor laughed and responded.
"You asshole!! I should have killed you a long ago, but I was using you to discover more abilities!" The proprietor spoke.
"So you have been behind all the atrocities happening!" My mother asked in a painful voice.
"Yes, Florida. I am taking over the territory and you can do nothing about it!" The proprietor said and added.
"By this time tomorrow, the final stage of the competition would be held and Nikki would win for me. I would be able to fight the pack just after!"
The school proprietor has been the dog amidst the sheep, and we did not know just because we trusted him so damn much. He intended to dominate the territory, and that was why he had been using us for experiments.
"I will be waiting for you, cowards. Come and fight me! I am always available in my pack!" The proprietor said and walked away from us in laughter.
We took my father to a place where he had been treated by my mother while, Jeremy, Cena, and Jason were strategizing on how we could make the school proprietor suffer for the bad he has done in the territory. For seeing us as a fool, and even probably be the ones behind the memory loss of Nikki.
"Cena, thought you are a Lycan?" Jeremy asked Cena. "Yes!" Cena responded.
"Good, why can't you unlock Amaya's abilities?" Jason added to Jeremy's killing.
"That's true, Cena. That would be more profitable than chasing her like flies to dung!" Jeremy added. We started laughing at Cena, and he chased us with little stones on the floor.
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It was on the day of the international contest, and the field was ready to contain the contestants. Nikki was the central figure in the contest because she had all it takes to win, and nobody near to her. The contest began, and the girls started gaming. Immediately, Nikki stood up from her seat, the other contestants slowed down for her and paid her respect even before she joined the contest. Since she had a lot of abilities, they now see her as the moon goddess.
We all stood by the field, watching as Nikki was celebrating her win. Though all she did was make a mockery of those who could not stand a chance to challenge her, others saw it as a mere celebration. I stood close to the pole in front of me, holding onto it as I saw Nikki challenging the students and nobody was ready to confront her.
"Hello, Amaya!" Billie whispered to my ears as she drew nearer to me on the school field. I stylishly nodded my head in disagreement with her as she offered, because I didn't want to be embarrassed.
"What do you mean, Billie?" I turned and asked her. She shook her head one more time so that I could do what she requested.
I looked into her eyes and felt the boldness in them. She was so sure of what she was saying. I felt this force inside of me that I should go and prove myself again to the world. I took the next corner and aimed for my game wear. I appeared on the school field, and the place became so quiet.
"Oh, you want to try your luck, Amaya? Come on. It's a free world!" Nikki dared me as I stood on the school field. There were numerous obstacles on the field that we were expected to overcome each having its dangerous hooks.
The whistle was blown, and we started running, collapsing the obstacles. But then, Nikki began to lag. Her strength seemed to deteriorate as we ran. It was just some minutes to win the race when she fell on the floor.
"What?" The onlookers murmured as the unbelievable what just happened. Even I was so surprised I could win Nikki, but then, Nikki was vomiting blood on the field. Not only that. She grabbed her belly and grunted in pain. Nikki looked like someone who had been poisoned with wolf bane.
"Come on. Stand up, Nikki. Don't be a coward!" The proprietor's voice blasted through the field.
I ran up to Nikki and pulled her up as weak as she was before an emergency bus came and picked her up. I won the last contest of the competition. My mother came to hug me tightly and everyone marveled at my performance.
"Amaya, how come you were able to defeat her?" Jeremy asked, leaning towards me. I smiled and responded,
"I don't know what happened to her, Jeremy. She seemed to have been poisoned!"