1 The Day It All Started

It all started in the room of a boy named Stathis Chrysanths. Stathis was a very tall boy about 6'2 and was pale as snow. He had jet black hair which was down to his shoulders. His right eye was blue as the sea, and his left eye was green as the mossy part of the forest. He had some brown stubble facial hair not enough to call a beard but enough not to call him a baby face. He was enrolled in one of the most prestigious high schools in his area, Featherstone High. All of the smartest kids come here and that's why there are only about two-hundred students that attend. Our boy Stathis is number thirty out of the entire student body. Now lets really begin the story, which started on a Monday, he will never forget this Monday, it changed his life forever.

"Get up lazy, your going be late for school at this rate. Why do I have to do this every day with you, why can't you be more like your brother and just get up on your own" said Stathis's mom.

"Okay I'm getting up, I'll be down in ten" exclaimed Stathis with a grunt that clearly showed he was still half asleep. "Alright what am I going to wear today, should I go with the usual skater look or the emo outfit"

Stathis would talk to himself on the account of not having anyone to really care or listen to him when he is doing things at home. His brother never really talked to him and his mom was always at work, working her ass off to try and support her two sons on her own. Stathis's father has not been in the picture for about ten years, he died when Stathis was six in a shooting at one of the local bars in town. Stathis's mother never really had the urge to remarry even if it would give her kids a more normal life, she just did not want one.

"You almost ready up there?". "You are taking quite long up there, there is no reason you should be taking this long, will I have to come up there and drag you down here," said Stathis's mom.

"Alright calm down women". "I'm on my way down now I have to make my self-look presentable for all the girls that are just dying to go on a date with me" laughed Stathis.

Stathis was not really the ladies man, he had a crush on this one girl named Alis, she was an Irish girl about one year older than him, since she was Irish she had very pale skin, its what you would imagine from a person from Ireland. She had very very red hair the same color of a crisp red apple that just was freshly picked from a farm. She never really noticed Stathis, one because of solitude he put himself through, he only had a few friends. Two he was always scared and really never took his shot, that did not just happen with girls it happened with almost anything he did that made him uncomfortable. And third, he did not know how to do it, he thought he would embarrass himself in front of the whole school if he did it.

"Finally you made it downstairs what took you so long? do you think you're better than the rest of us who have a schedule to follow, I have to be at work in a half-an-hour and you're going pull this type of stunt, and if it was only today it would be okay but no you pull this crap every day, you need to learn how to get up on your own and get to school on your own, your sixteen you need to start acting your age" said Stathis's mother with a expression of anger on her face.

"I know I got to start acting my age mother, but you do realize I am always tired because of all the shit I have to do, I have school work and homework and then on top I have club activities after school, and by the time I am all done with that I am tired as hell and most mornings I do not want to wake up cause I know I am going have to it all again" said Stathis with a look of depression and stress on his face.

"Let's get in the car and go we will talk about this later," said Stathis's mother

They got into the car and headed to Featherstone High, it was about a twenty-minute drive from there house to the school. There is not a lot of traffic most of the time because they live in a relatively small town by the name of Casper, Wyoming. There were not many people who lived there, so it was a nice place to raise kids, not a lot of problems and most of the people were friendly. They got Stathis to school on time but with only about five minutes to go.

"Get out of the car the car, you only have five minutes before the first bell rings and please remember to pick your brother up after school because I am going be working a double at the office today". "Oh and one more thing please make sure you do your chores, I know your tired and everything after school but still you got to do them," said Stathis's mom with a forced smile on her face, the kind of smile you give when it's awkward.

"I'll try my best but no promises, I might be a little late to picking him up since I have the card fighting club after school today," said Stathis

Stathis ran into the front of the big double doors that lead into a big open corridor where most of the mornings the kids would wait. It would be packed and loud, even though these were the most prestigious students they still were teenagers and acted just like normal teenagers just with the smarts of an adult who went to college for about four years. He ran up two flights of stairs, to his homeroom class. He opened the door and got in just as the bell rang.

"Good morning Mr. Chrysanths, you were almost late again I'm surprised you made it, you have a history of being late, especially to my class that is," said Mrs. Norton

"Yea you know I have my reasons to be late that is Mrs. Norton, maybe one of these days instead of calling me out on it you can just let it slide you know," said Stathis with a smirk on his face that showed he knew what he said and did not regret it.

Stathis day usually consisted of him just going to all of his normal classes and keeping to himself but today would be different in many ways, but just not yet nothing happened until the fourth period, chemistry class. Before we go into the class you need to know that there is one kid in this prestigious high school who is a total asshole to our boy Stathis and his name is Hiroki. He is a Japanese transfer student who is the number one kid in the school and thinks he is better than everyone else. He has never liked Stathis and that is on the account of in freshman year Stathis beat him in the national championship for Vanguard, after than Hiroki quit the Cardfight club and swore one day he would beat him, so Hiroki became an asshole to Stathis. He has picked on Stathis for the past two years and Stathis would never let it get to him, but today was the day he was not going to deal with it anymore.

"Hey Stathis, I think you're doing this all wrong, you should let should let me take a look at it maybe and I can fix it you know cause I am the number one student in this school" exclaimed Hiroki with a laugh of disrespect.

"I'm good, go back and do your work before I tell the teacher cause I am not in the mood for this today, so just leave okay? asked Stathis.

"What's wrong, you having issues at home, having more arguments with your mom, or is it your daddy issues," said Hiroki

"You know nothing about my life so you need to shut the fuck up and go sit back down at your table before we have an issue, and if you say one more thing about my dad I will not hesitate to punch the shit out of you" said Stathis clenching his fists and getting angry and feeling his hands grow warm.

"Your not going do anything, you would not risk getting kicked out of this school over a little comment I made about your deadbeat dad, or should I say your father that is dead which sounds more, fitting and the only reason your dad died and everyone knows is because he was apart of a gang and had it coming to him" said Hiroki

"You need to shut the fuck up right now Hiroki, I will not hesitate to hit you I don't care if I get kicked out of here if means defending my father I will do anything" yelled Stathis

"Do it for your drug addict father" Hiroki teased

Stathis screamed very loud, and in a moments notice the room got very bright and very very hot. Everyone looked at Stathis in fear. His hands were of fire. The glow that they have had the memory of being a kid and looking at a campfire. Stathis looked down at his hands with a little bit of fear at first and then acted like everything was fine. The flames that came off his hands were gone and everyone was confused. That did not stop Stathis from keeping to his word, Without another thought of what just happened he ran up to Hiroki and punched him straight in the face. With one Hiroki was down and on the floor. The assault was not over Stathis got on top of him and kept punching him in the face, with every hit he let out a scream as you hear in all the fighting movies. After about twenty punches to the face, Stathis was done, there was blood all of his hand and over Hiroki's face. Stathis was now just sitting on his chest breathing heavy, he did not say a word and nor did anybody else everyone was still scared of what they saw moments ago, his hands of fire. He got up and went to sit at his desk.

Stathis's mom got called in and he got expelled from his school. Stathis got all of his stuff from his locker and headed to his mother's car and put all of the stuff in the trunk and sat in the passenger side seat. Stathis's mother got in and turned on the car and drove away and they headed home.

"Is there a good reason you beat that poor kid half to death?" asked Stathis's mother

"He had it coming to him mom I promise you that, he has been picking on me for that past two years of my high school life and let all the shit he has done to me slide, but today he started talking about dad and how he was a drug addict and a gang member and it really got to me, plus everything else that he has said to me I just finally lost it" said Stathis with a single tear rolling down the side of his face.

"I understand it's hard without your father around and I know it sucks when people talk about him sweetheart but you can't just go berserk and Beat the living hell of a kid because of what he said honey," said Stathis mom with a look of shame and forgiveness on her face. "There is another thing we must talk about what happened today, there are plenty of your classmates and teachers that said they saw your hands catch fire, is that correct?" asked Stathis's mom

"Yea it is I don't know how it happened, but my hands lit on fire and it was really crazy I have no idea how it happened, but it was really cool I just wish I knew how it happened I felt free and alive and felt like I could do anything and in the moment I just wanted to use it but my hands went out before I could get any hits in" said Stathis with a grin on his face the size of the moon

"I think its time I finally tell you something son, its about your father and who he really was". said Stathis mom