I couldn’t sleep until like 3 a.m. in the morning. Blaze had the same problem like me for about an hour, but eventually he fell asleep, while I still couldn’t. I just couldn’t think of anything else, other than my fight. Eventually I finally fell asleep.

  I woke up in a strange place. It looked like some city ruins in the middle of a desert. I stood up and saw that I was in some strange clothes. Then I froze, I saw my hands all in someone’s blood and organs. I looked around all terrified, and saw that all my classmates were, they were all dead. I saw Anthony, Blaze and Hunter lying before me with open wounds and bruises from a sword. I started crying and screaming. My sword was on the floor near my legs in a puddle of scarlet blood snapped in half. Suddenly a dark silhouette appeared. His face was dark, almost like it never existed. The silhouette said in a low echoing voice, “You did all this. You killed them all, Isaiah Blade.” He grabbed the sharp end of the sword and stabbed me right through the heart.

  I woke up in a cold sweat. Blaze was near me all worried. He signed “Are you okay dude? You were screaming.”, I said nothing and hugged him hard. I was whispering into his ears, “Please be real. Please be real.” After a minute I finally let go of him. “Did you have a nightmare?” He signed, I slowly nodded while looking around, I was in our room. “Was it about Anthony?”, “Yes, I think so.”I replied. “Was it like a memory where you beat him up?” Signed Blaze. I wanted to tell him the truth about what I saw, but could I? How could I tell him that I killed everyone? Instead I nodded again, I lied. “Don’t worry. I’m always near if you want to talk about it.”, “Thank you.” I said with my liar's mouth, I didn’t use sign language. “Alright we should probably get going to our first class.”Me and Blaze got ready, and wore our most flexible clothes just in case. Before exiting Blaze removed his bandage from his arm, but kept the neck one. All the students gathered in the center of the campus and waited for the instructions about our first normal school day. I saw Anthony with a headband that covered his hair and a face with bruises, he didn’t look my way. I wanted to talk to him, apologize in front of the whole class. But the stares at me from my classmates when I took the first step towards him stopped me. I realized that it was going to make things only worse.

  Soon Jonathan came and instructed us how the rest of this first week would go down. We would learn the basics of all our classes, but for the most part this first week would be free. We were instructed that we all have to go to our first class with Miss. Anya to building number three. We all went outside and searched for building no. 3, after we found it we went that way. We entered a huge one floored building and after that we saw a long hallway with lots of doors. We entered the first door closest to the entrance. The door to the class was heavy and black, the door had many white flower patterns around the edges. There was a big rectangular golden sign that said, “Room 301”. We all entered Anya’s class. She was sitting at her desk going through some paperwork while rubbing her forehead with another hand. When she noticed us she greeted us with, “Hello students, this is your new basic studies class. Please come in.” She tried not to show us but she looked really tired and a bit hung over. The classroom was very nice. The floors were marble white and shiny enough to the point where I could see my reflection off it like a mirror. The windows were regular school-like with no memorable details. Because the building was only 1 floor, it did not have the best view of the center square of the school. But even though it had only 1 floor, the roof was very high up. There are posters for every subject, especially history, on the opposite side wall from the windows. The desks for students were deep black and were facing towards the front of the room towards the huge see-through board and Miss. Anya’s desk, each with 2 chairs for every table. At the back of the classroom there was a little lounge zone in the corner of the classroom, with a strange patterned long black and white carpet with some comfortable ottoman and a couple of beautiful white drawers that fit perfectly into the room's design.

  Me and blaze sat next to each other almost on the last table at the back of the classroom. Miss. Anya started in a tired voice with one of her hands in her pocket and another holding a clipboard, “Hey class again! I hope you like your seats because they will be permanent. I'm gonna be your general studies teacher, because even though learning how to use your Brands is important, you need to know these classes for any job you choose.” She concluded by putting the paper down on her desk. “Basically I'm going to give you the proper education that you all would receive if you were in a boring normal school. My first day's class for today will end in 10 minutes, so we only have time for some questions that you guys might have. Feel free to ask anything you want related to this class.” After her words a hand shot up from Joshua. Anya said, “Yes Joshua, what question do you have?”, ”Do you have proper teaching credentials?” asked Joshua. “What do you mean by that?”responded Anya. ”Like are you a state sanctioned teacher? Like did you go to college?”, said Joshua. "No I mean, why are you asking?” Said Miss. Snow, a little bit confused. “Because I want to be sure I'm getting 100% proper education!” said Joshua eagerly. “Well um you see..”, Right before she could finish her sentence a loud *DZING* was heard across the whole classroom. “Well as much as I want to answer it looks like it's time for you guys to find your next teacher, He is in this building next door.” Said Miss. Anya while we were leaving the classroom.

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  Hunter’s classroom didn’t really have a big difference from the previous class we just came from except this time it said, “Room 302” on the golden sign. Hunter in contrast to Miss. Snow was ready for us when we entered, he announced, “HELLO MY WONDERFUL STUDENTS! WELCOME IN!” Me and Blaze this time sat in front of the classroom right before Hunter. He then proceeded to continue his speech, “This class will teach you how to use your Brand abilities with all 100%! Also you will learn the origin of all your Brands and hidden secrets they have. I will do my best to help you learn how to use your powers with maximum creativity and effectiveness. At the end of the school year you will all receive a ranking that, me, Miss. Anya and Mr. Cole will give you together! But these rankings will only be approved during summer break! I don’t want to spoil everything so you guys will have to wait to find out what I mean by that. Does anyone have any questions?” This time I raised my hand, “Yes Isaiah what question do you have?” Said Mr. Stoll, “What do you mean exactly by ranking?” I said. “Oh well basically you will be given a certain rank according to these categories: Strength, Usage, Achievements and Grades in school. During this year you all will be graded by these categories separately, when the school year ends there will be a complex procedure that will sum up all your scores from each category into one score. I don’t want to go into details right now because I’m afraid we don’t have much time left before the class ends. So after you will be given a rating, the students will be… Oh I almost forgot I don’t want to spoil everything for you kids, there won’t be any fun otherwise. Back to the point, the ratings are very simple: S(excellent), A(Good), B(Not bad), C(Bad), F(Kicked out of school or organization). Don’t worry you can get an F only if you do basically nothing or something not good. As long as you try your best you will all get at least a B. Your rating will be determined by the end of each year while you are here. Each year you will get a new not connected to the previous ones ranking. After 4 years, when you finish high school, you will all get an average of all the rankings you had. There are only a few hundred S’s around the world and there is a secret ranking that only S’s have between themselves, but I probably won’t really talk about that this year.” Hunter finally has finished and right then a loud *DZING* was heard around the classroom again. As we all left Hunter shouted, “Oh I almost forgot your next class is in the combat facility!” Finally we made it to our final class with Mr. Cole in the combat facility. We didn’t go down to the arena and just stood in the gym, while Cole looked at something on his clipboard, he then finally said, “Ok class, You all are here so we can start. You probably don’t need any explanation on what this class is for, but I’ll still explain. This is P.E. but for Brand users, so this P.E. will be 10 times harder than your previous P.E. classes in regular schools. It's pretty straight forward. You will all improve your skills like strength, power, speed, flexibility, agility and combat. Any questions?” This time no one raised their hands. “Well since this is your last period for today you can play basketball if you want for like 30 minutes.” He then pressed one button on a remote and 2 basketball hoops appeared simultaneously on opposite sides of the gym. We didn’t play all together, each of us just grabbed a basketball and threw it into the hoop, while talking about stuff with each other.

  After 30 minutes we were all instructed by Cole to head out to the center square again, Principle Jonathan was waiting for you all there. Mr. Jonathan was once again standing up on the podium. “Alright students, you might have realized that this school day only lasted an hour. That is because there is a new assignment for this class! I'm sure all of you are familiar with the game "capture the flag.” This is what we’ll be doing for the rest of the week, 3 days exactly. We will make teams of you and your roommates. This is optional! But whatever team has the most flags will win a prize. If one dorm mate won’t participate the second student won’t either. If you don’t want to participate, step up now!” No one left. Jonathan then continued, “Good. There are only 2 rules during this game. No fighting and no leaving the school territory! All of your flags are waiting in your rooms, the game starts today at 11:59 pm!" Everyone immediately looked at Robert and Shade’s team knowing that they were gonna be an absolute pain in the a** to deal with because of Roberts speed and Shades teleportation. “Have fun students, and Good Luck! You are all free to go, I suggest all teams have a great lunch and dinner before the games!” After that the Principal has left. We all just stood there thinking about all this.