The Third Retainer
America
A university classroom
The classroom was filled with students awaiting their graded papers. You can see the many disappointed faces of students after they looked at their grades. The teacher had stopped at one particular student and placed the paper on his desk.
"Another amazing essay, Mr.Donaldson." the teacher said.
"Oh thank you Mrs. Wheeler, I couldn't write at this level without your guidance." He replied, oozing charisma. The teacher flushed red and then continued to hand out the rest of the papers. He smiled the most genuine smile he could give.
This man was a genius having graduated highschool with the highest GPA possible, perfect scores in every test he was the ideal student for anyone. The word people associated him with was honor student.
Not only was he an excellent student but he was also a top athlete, teams would fight over him every year to have him join their program. At one point the young man was registered to every team in his high school. That was the year every team reached nationals.
He volunteered his time whenever he could, he was a model student and a good samaritan. Loved by all, he was perfect. He knew he was perfect… He KNEW he was better than everyone else. Under that honor student facade hid the arrogant man who believed himself to be a god.
Dumb bitch, of course its going to be amazing. Your work is way too easy, he thought, he looked around at the commoners and saw that the majority of the students looked dejected. " What a bunch of losers." He scolded.
He could never acknowledge any of these people as his equal, they were subhuman to him. As the honor student was walking to his car, multiple women and even some men would walk up to him and try to speak with him. He would put on his fake smile and gave a little small talk to appease the commoners.
He knew he couldn't let out his real feelings, in order to control the world and have an easy life he needed to fake being the honor student he was. It was one of the rules his dad and mom had told him.
"You are better than these people so show them do not tell them."
He did follow that rule but sometimes he would delight himself and crush someone's self esteem. As he was saying his goodbyes to the last commoner, a man walked up to him yelling something as he held a knife.
"Yo asshole, You think you can mess with my girl?" The man's knife was headed straight to the honor student's chest. The man screamed and then fell to the floor, he was still holding the knife but his wrist was limp and broken.
"Aghhhhhhhh you bastard." the man cried out.
The honor student grinned, this was one of the moments where he could let his mask slip, he moved his face closer to the man that had just attacked him. "I don't know trash like you, I also don't know or care who your girlfriend is. If I want someone or something I get it. Do you know why?" He paused for the man to answer but he didn't say anything. He just stared and whimpered.
"Because I'm the greatest human to ever be born, everyone wants to be me, everyone wants to be in my social circle, and everything is easy to me. Your girl got with me because you weren't good enough. And you never will be."
The honor student stood back up and left the man who just tried to kill him on the ground crying. He turned around one last time, "I'm just better than you."
///
Above Earth
Sub-space stratosphere
Ra had taken his time searching for his retainer, he had only two requirements for his retainer. They had to have Egyptian blood and they had to be very strong stat wise. Ra had lost last year and he is not going to bring shame to his fellow Egyptian deities again.
Ra's plan was to start in Egypt then work his way around the globe, his next stop was North America. He saw a few random humans until one soul caught his eye. This soul had a small taint in it but the energy it had was incredible. He raced down to see who this human was.
Ra had watched the entire interaction between the honor student and the man. He had held back looking at the honor students stats, he wanted to focus on this interaction before looking at anything else. He looked directly at the honor student's soul just as the honor student turned back to deal the final verbal blow.
Darren Donaldson
STR:<0/0/0/0/0/_>
INT: <0/0/0/0/0/_>
ATH: <0/0/0/0/0/0>
RES: <0/0/0/0/0/0>
Ra's beak opened in shock, this human was extraordinary. He moved his eyes to a building to his right. "Oh Freya, you need to try harder to conceal your presence from me." He thought. He looked back towards Darren and called to Damaris.
"Angel girl."
Nothing, he called out again and she didn't come either. Ra was getting rather pissed off, the flames on his body were getting fiercer with each Angel girl he shouted out. Achilles appeared holding the tablet.
"Where is the Angel?" Ra spat.
"She didn't want to come, you scare her." Achilles had a nonchalant tone.
"Hmph.. you will suffice then, Judge. Does that boy have Egyptian blood in him?" Ra asked.
Achilles took a picture of Darren, he whistled as he saw Darren's stats. "This kid is a monster, he's twenty-one, bit of an asshole… he's African-American… No way."
"What?" Ra said as he shifted to get a look at the tablet but Achilles playfully moved away from him. "You're in luck, he has Egyptian blood in him. Too bad for the other deities, with his stats and the demi-god role this kid is going to be one tough retainer to kill."
Ra's flames exploded and took Achilles by surprise. "Yes this is the retainer closest to a pharaoh. You may leave Judge, your work here is finished" Ra walked towards Darren leaving Achilles behind.
"Yeah you're welcome by the way… Jerk." Achilles warped out, ticked off.
///
Darren felt ecstasy, he always felt this way after breaking one of the spirits of a commoner. He was walking past people who didn't move a inch, he noticed it but paid no mind.
Wonder what I sho– Darren was mid-thought when he bumped into someone. "Hey tras– I mean you should watch where you are going." He saw that the person he bumped into wasn't moving. He looked all around and everyone was frozen in place, time had stopped for everyone other than him.
What the fuck is going on? he thought. Suddenly he started to feel an extreme heat behind him, he turned around and saw the tall flaming humanoid bird.
"I need a human to fight for me, and I'm picking you." Ra said. Darren stood in place and then looked mad. He looked around trying to find something in the bushes " Where are the cameras? I don't get pranked." Darren said.
"Prank? This is no pran–" Darren was ignoring Ra and was poking the frozen humans trying to get them to move. " Are you ignoring me boy?" Ra flames raged as he shouted. " Yeah I'm ignoring you and your shitty chicken costume. I don't do pranks. No one makes a fool of me" Darren said.
Ra was losing his patience he instantly warped in front of Darren, grabbed his face and did the transfer technique. BOOM, an explosion came out of his hand and engulfed Darren. Whose body fell to the floor.
Ra had just killed his potential retainer. Five minutes passed and Ra still stood there waiting, he reached his arm out and then Darren's body got back up and returned to Ra's hand. It was like Ra rewound time.
"Do you believe that was a prank boy?"
Darren gasped reaching for air, He had just died and been brought back to life. He looked at Ra who, before he killed him, transferred the knowledge of Tryfing to him. Any sane and normal person would have been freaked out regardless of the transfer. Darren was no sane or normal human, his eyes sparkled and he smiled at Ra.
"If I win this battle will I be able to do that?" Darren said unfazed.
This human kept surprising Ra, who gave Darren a slight smirk.
"You truly have the soul of a Pharaoh."
3rd Tryfing
Official judge: Heroic Greek deity, Achilles.
Support judge: Angel, Damaris.
Chosen deities:
Ra:Demi-God: Darren Donaldson
Lugh: Knight: Ariel Morales
Zhong Kui: Exorcist
Inari: Polymath: Kento Sanosuke
Freya: Assassin
Nuada: Conqueror
Minerva: Tactician
Team Arc-Angel: Hero
Fantasia world: not yet created.
Starting year: not yet decided.
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