3 Life is Good

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Location: Deven's Apartment

DING! The elevator doors opened on the ground level as Deven walked out keys in hand. "Time to explore a bit" Deven walked up to the front desk and asked the lady "Know any good malls around here". She handed him a pamphlet with the location of several stores. He thanked her and he went out to the parking garage. Beep Beep his car sounded as he pressed the automatic keys. The GT roared to life as he hoped in programing his GPS to the nearest mall Deven smirked as he pulled out the lot. A couple of minutes later he was in the mall parking lot, he handed his spare keys to the man working the valet. 'Hmm, let's see there's a couple of stores here that I'm interested in'. Deven walked through the mall store after store till he finally found it 'BK's shoe store this place has the best J's!' Deven looked around the store and decided he wanted a few different pairs. His favorite was a pair of 12's that were black with bits of crimson red. He continued through the stores and brought skinny jeans and hoodies. After getting just about everything he could dream of Deven went home. When he got to the hallway of his room he found all the groceries he bought online at his door looks like he'd be busy tonight.

Meanwhile, a toned woman sat at a large desk as she looked over files. "An interesting one indeed we will have to keep an eye on him I suppose," she said in a stern voice. "Yes, principle Cannon," said her assistant as he walked out the room. Mrs. Cannon thought to herself for a moment 'If this boy proves to be as strong as we think there's no telling how things will end up this year'.

Location: Deven's bedroom

VrrrVrrr VrrrVrrr Deven's phone rang*

He reached out his arm shaping his phone "Yes who is it". A man replied, "Hello Mr. Yang, will you be attending the ninth grade orientation today?" Deven's mind went blank as he struggled for an answer he had completely forgotten these details. "Yeah, sure what time is it at?" "Be here in 45 minutes. I will await you at your personal parking space number 218 that is all." The line cut right after that, Deven sighed as he got up and started his morning routine. He had salmon and rice for breakfast and dressed in his favorite new outfit with his black and red shoes and the watch general Troy gave him as well.

When he got to the ground floor the receptionist called on him "Ahh Mr. Yang we were expecting you here is your school ID it just came in." Deven thanked her as he headed off to his car Deven was just about to leave when he realized he had no idea where he was going. He scrolled through his GPS checking all the places that had been set up his house and the mall where all there finally he found one labeled school. When he clicked on it the GPS calculated his arrival time it would take about 20 minutes. 'Wait 20 minutes I only have 12 left' Deven groaned as he stepped on the gas. It seemed he always found himself speeding whether it be for fun or he just had to. 20 minutes later he drove up to the large campus on both sides of the gates were dorms for students a little bit further he found parking lot 2. Still driving unnecessarily fast he sped into the two hundred parking lot quickly finding 218. There were far fewer people as it was only the 9th graders today many looked at Deven in jealousy not many people their age could drive to school many stayed in the dorms but here was someone driving a supercar to school. He stepped out of the car looking around as a man sitting on a bench waved at him; he appeared to be a staff member by his age so Deven approached him. "Hello there Mr. Yang I see you've made it on time shall we be on our way?" Deven nodded at him as the man began to guide him, "You see Deven we needed you here today because we think you should be this year's class representative." Deven was in shock why he needed to do more work. He already had a great life, more attention was unnecessary. Deven just asked why the man turned to him and said: "Each year we pick a new class rep usually the same person remains class rep but with your arrival, we think your the new strongest of 9th grade." Deven was once again shocked 'They think I'm the strongest geez man, what do I have to do now take over the school.' "Ahh, that makes sense so do I need to do anything specific?" The man smiled "Not much after the opening speech all 9th graders will go to the great rock and have their level graded after that students can battle the top 200 for their rank." Deven nearly turned around and left, he had been tricked here and now he had to duke it out with other students this was too much work for him. Before he knew it the man was practically dragging him to the auditorium he gave him a seat all the way in the last row and told him to wait until called. Deven thought nothing of it as he sat through the speech for almost 30 minutes.

The host then said "Now we will end off with a speech from the new class rep" students cheared as the host opened the note a confident-looking guy stood up as if he knew it was him to be called up as others cheered on. "Ninth grade class representative Deven Yang" please come to the front." The auditorium became quiet as people tried to put a face to this name but nothing came. Deven stood up and walked down the long aisle as students looked at him in confusion. The guy who had just stood up called out looking for confirmation "Are you telling me I'm weaker than him." The host looked over and just shrugged this infuriated him as he swore he would whip this kids ass other high ranking students were mad this nobody had taken a spot they so longed for. "Hello everyone my name is Deven I'm new to this area so I'm sure that's why no one recognizes me I'm looking forward to a good year hope you guys keep up." Deven tried to sound as friendly as possible but his words were mistaken by many stronger students a challenge.

The host then gave the students instructions on where to go and how the next event would work. They all funneled out the auditorium and into a line in front of the great rock. Despite many people being in groups with their friends, the tension was still overwhelming. These rankings would put you as a target for the main event of the day. It was only right though the prizes for being in the top 200 of your grade were extremely high not to mention the reputation that came with being one of the mighty 1200 students that stood at the top of this city. Slowly students revived their grades. The great rock was extremely accurate and stores were based on 100. Anything higher than 100 surpassed A rank and allowed one to go on to S or higher. Most students ranked in low D's there were some who could get high C rank but the majority was around 65. The elite students always came last, this made them the showcase of the grading, numbers began to rise as some students got 73's or 78's. They were considered geniuses in today's society. Less than 20 students were left now they were the few who had made it to the top ten last year. As expected the first B rank came from them topping the charts at 86 now it was Devens turn as class rep he went last. The spotlight was on him as others stared daggers at him; he pressed his hand on the rock and released his energy all 3 of his quirks amplified as he put his all into the rock. Words appeared on the rock as it struggled to calibrate his score it changed between 91 and 87 settlings at 89 in the end. Deven could not keep his max output for too long resulting in a lower score than he hoped after more practice with his new quirk he would become A rank no problem.

Principal Cannon sat in her desk overviewing the event as she smiled. "Seems we have a new A rank," she said, raising her eyebrows. "Ma'am it did land on 89 you can just call him A rank even a 90 means nothing to others." She smiled wider at this remark "Yes but you saw that just now the rock couldn't come up with a number that means there's much more power hidden in that boy, best learn to pay attention to details Mr. Stew"

Location: Campus lunch room

It had been an eventful day so far but it was just getting started. 'I wonder how many people will challenge me for number 1 it's sure to be a pain' Deven thought as he chomped on his prime rib.

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