Better

I sit criss-cross on a rock. Kaminari told me to meditate, and apparently, sitting on this rock helps, but I feel like a fool.

"Focus! I didn't come out here just to watch you goof around!" Kaminari demands loudly.

"I'm trying, but I'm not feeling anything." I tell him

"You're not supposed to feel anything yet. You need to just sit there. Clear your mind and listen to the sounds around you, focus."

I do what he says for about three hours. The sun is burning my back and the rock, which in turn burns my ass, but I continue to meditate.

Suddenly, I begin to hear a popping sound. It sounds like one of those plasma balls from my old industrial electricity class.

"What's that noise?" I ask Kaminari.

"So you hear it!?" Kaminari asks back.

"I guesse. I hear some kinda of popping sound. It sounds like static electricity."

"Good!"

Suddenly, the popping sound gets closer to my location. Quickly, I duck my head down. But that wasn't where the electricity was going. The electricity was aiming for my torso.

I get blown off the rock, landing on the dry, rough ground. I take off the ribbon that covers my eye. Looking at my stomach, I see that the electricity had burned a whole in my shirt where it hit me. Some of my stomach is also burnt, but it's barely a first degree burn.

Standing up, I see Kaminari leaning against the van. The van is a little over 100 feet away.

From my research, before I got here, I learned that Kaminari comes from an exetremly powerful line of lighting users, per say they have the ability to control lighting, and it's exetremly powerful.

That means he was the one who was causing the electricity. So I heard the electricity from over 100 feet away. I didn't even know that was possible.

"Impressive that you heard the sound from that far away, especially when you consider I was creating a very small surge of electricity! But it seems you still need practice! You heard the sound getting closer! But you were unable to comprehend where it was aiming! Again!!" Kaminari yells from a long distance.

I climb on top of the rock and tie the ribbon around my eye yet again.

This is gonna me a crappy training period if I don't dodge all of them.

Two hours later, I managed to dodge one. Kaminari, of course, made it difficult by either waiting longer to shoot electricity or he instantly shot the electricity. This sequence made it incredibly difficult to dodge, but my hearing was most definitely getting better.

I could now hear the wind making noises as the electricity shot through the air. This development made it a whole lot easier to predict what it was aiming for, but my hearing wasn't perfect yet. I still had a lot to improve, but we ran out of time.

While driving back to the dojo, Kaminari says to me.

"You seem to be fine in terms of injury."

"Yeah. The electricity themselves weren't bad, but after many of them hit me, it started to add up."

"Well, I'm curious about something. It's about your incredible physical capabilities."

"What about them?"

"How are you so physically inclined? it's not genetics, nor is it training. Something is not normal about your physical capabilities, and I want to know what makes them so abnormal."

I take a moment to think.

I absolutely can not tell him about genetic engineering, but what do I tell him.

"Well... I'm a prototype." I say.

"A... Prototype?" Kaminari asks, looking at me suspiciously.

"Yeah. I was abandoned as a child. Not long after my abandonment, I was kidnapped by a group of scientists. These scientists performed numerous amount of test on me. One of test was something they called... DNA makeup. I don't know the specifics, but it changed my physical capabilities big time."

Obviously, everything I just said was a huge lie.

"Really... Do you know where these scientists worked?" Kaminari asks, still eyeing me suspiciously.

"Yeah. In the PF laboratory in Missouri.." I answer.

"I heard that place got taken over by a group calling themselves Perfect World."

Damn. Word spread about us all the way in a somewhat abandoned city in Colorado. Well, now that I think about it, it's not too bad that word is spreading about us.

"Yeah. That's why I'm free. That group isn't as bad as they say." I say, giving Kaminari a side glance to see his reaction.

He seems to be considering what I said.

"Maybe in your eyes, but in my eyes, he is just a person who kills heroes to show off."

My whole body tenses up from anger.

"Theirs always a motive." I say, trying to argue against him.

"I suppose." Kaminari says, clearly trying to end the conversation.

The whole ride after that conversation was silence. Clearly, we didn't share ideas. And for some reason, that really pissed me off.

Pulling into my normal parking place. I turn the engine off and get out, Kaminari following my lead.

As we walk in, we both realize that we are late.

"Took you guys long enough. They have been waiting for 15 minutes." Taylor says from behind her desk.

Quickly, I jog into my position on the line, which is to the far right.

Kaminari walks in front of the horizontal line.

"Today, we will be testing just how much this dojo means to you. As I said yesterday, I have picked people who have little potential, I have also picked people who have potential. To be specific, I have chosen five people who have potential, and five who don't. I'll be paring the people who have potential to the people who don't. Now, this in your eyes is unfair, but in my eyes, it's an opportunity to prove yourself, and that goes for both sides' potential or no potential. Now, let's get to the matches. Luke and Lollipop. Zero and David. Magnus and Caleb. Lucy and Patrick. and finally, Vanessa and Daniel. Oh, and I almost forgot, normal match no hand to hand combat or abilities just pure Kendo."

Kaminari claps three times. Then, he walks off to the side.

I walk to an empty mat, Vanessa, closely behind me. We then stand across one another. Our wooden katanas aim at each other.

"You know you can give up right. Why would you want to fight someone who has potential and a left eye?" Vanessa says

The people around us start laughing at her comment. I notice Zero, Taylor, and Kaminari are not laughing.

"Let's begin." I say in a cold voice.

Vanessa dashes at me, performing a slash attack, but for some reason, she aims for my right side. Everyone usually aims for my weak spot. I parry her attack. She then tries to kick me, but I dash backward before she can hit me.

"Tough being rich ain't it. All that sitting around and letting other people do your work is starting to catch up on you, ain't it." I tell her, trying my best to agitate her.

"What the fuck are you talking about!?" She yells at me.

"That's right. I know about the Coalbolt family. A family that made some good business choices and is now living the life. Must be nice. I saw your father. He could barely fit in that Mercedes-Benz. He must be the person who owns that donut shop a couple of buildings down. I feel sorry for all the cops around here. They must not get too many donuts, huh? considering your father shoves all the donuts in his mouth."

"I'm going to kill you!!!"

Vanessa dashes towards me. This time, she does attack on my left side. She thinks I won't be able to do anything cause I can't see her, little does she know.

Vanessa swings her sword with such velocity. I don't even think I would need the training to hear the air coming from the blade.

I quickly duck underneath the blade. I look at the expression on Vanessa face. It's an expression of complete shock and astonishment.

While I'm still ducked down, I thrust my katana into her stomach as hard as I can. Vanessa drops her katana and falls to her knees, covering her stomach with her hands.

"It seems failure runs in the family." I tell her with a cold voice.