The Boy With No Legacy

In a forest of a surrounded kingdom lies a teenager named Maximus, or Max. His white hair kept in a small manbun, dressed in green and white hunting clothes, his arms holding a bow, while his mouth has an arrow lodged in it, he stalks his prey, a deer, steadily, not making any sudden movements waiting on his opportunity to strike his foe. He strides to the side, As the deer comes to a halt to eat some grass the boy draws his bow slowly, He thinks to himself,

"Aim true, and steady,"

He lifts his bow up to get a good aim at the deer, and he releases, the arrow flies through the air, cutting through as it strikes the deers neck.

"Yes!" The boy said quietly pumping his fist.

"Its been forever since I had a deer like this, mom would be proud." He said to himself, taking out his knife and kneeling to the deer, who is kicking rapidly. putting the knife to the deers neck to put it out of its misery,

"Forgive me, Sweet deer. I hope your soul finds peace in the afterlife"

He said somberly, slicing the deers neck. The deers body grows limp, and the boy gets on both knees and clasps his hands together. He grabs his rope on his hip and wraps the large deer and lifts it on his shoulder,

"Hm, this deer probably weighs around .." He pauses and thinks for a moment,

"200 pounds..?" He thought, putting his finger on his chin looking upwards.

"Well whatever." He said dismissively.

He travels deeper into the forest and walks up to a small wooden cabin in a clearing. He walks into a small garage and placed the deer on a large table with different tools hanging on a wall, and walks into the cabin. He sniffs the air and thinks,

"Home sweet home."

And traverses deeper into the house, he calls out "Mom I'm home!" He stands still as if he's waiting for something. Suddenly his mom comes rushing down the stars screaming his name in excitement.

"MAAAAAAAX~! "

She crashes into Maximus, knocking him down, Ough he lets out, before slamming onto the ground,

"Mom.." He mutters, "You're a lot heavier than you think... I can't breathe.." He windedly lets out.

"Oh! I'm sorry!" She said apologetically, getting up off of him.

He stands back up and dusts himself off.

"So?" She asks, "How was school?"

"It was...uhm..good." He said hesitantly.

She puts her hands on her hips and raises her eye brow, "Really?" She asked, knowing what he actually did.

"Yea.." He said reluctantly, grabbing his neck, out of nervousness.

"You know I know what you did right?"

"Yea.." He said, defeated.

"My dear.. You can't keep running away from school.. You need to learn."

"Mom, Everyone there has a legacy and are soon to be Heroes..and.."

"And?"

"Never mind.."

"My son." She said, very seriousness.

"My son are they bullying you?"

Max looks away in shame, darting his eyes to the floor to avoid eye contact with his mom.

"My sweet child.." She hugs him tightly,

"Its going to be okay. I will put a stop to this once and for all."

"What are you going to do?" Max asks.

"I'm going to go up there and solve it myself, I promise."

Max hugs his mom tightly and begins to sob, after a few seconds Max releases his tight hold on his mom, sniffling says,

" sniffle sniffle, Well, I caught a big deer today, if that's any good news."

"Oh that's great news, Honey! Let's go make food."

The next day.

Max and his mom venture out of the woods into modern civilization, full of electricity, gas powered vehicles, people on their smart phones and traffic lights. They traverse the city to find a large school by the name of {Gifted Academy}. They enter the school and they walk up to the spotless marble desk in the front.

"Excuse me."

"Yes, how can u help you?" The receptionist lady asks.

"Where can I meet with the principal?"

"Just down the left hall you should see his office all the way at the end"

Max's mom dart off and Max follows, the receptionist calls presses a button under her desk, and whispers,

"Its a weak unawakened and his mom."

"Understood." A person said on the radio

Max and his mom storm into the principals office, and he is sitting at his desk, on his computer, he looks up to see Max and welcome them,

"Hello there, how can I help you ma'am?"

"My son is being bullied and you are doing nothing about it."

"Ma'am, if he were being bullied the teachers would have told me immediately, nothing goes under their radar."

"That's not true.." Max softly said,

"They watched as the bullies beat me, untill.i was unconscious." He admitted.

"THEY DID WHAT?!" His mom shouts.

"Ma'am please calm down.."

"Don't you DARE tell me to calm down. My child is being discriminated against just because he isn't an Awakened! And you want me to calm down?!"

"Ma'am I assure you that this will be resolved, if you would just let me-" He is cut off,

"NO. I WONT LET YOU DO ANYTHING I-"

Max puts his hand on his mother's shoulder and give her a soft look to calm her down. She notices, and calm down, they close the door and sit down.

After a short while they leave the school and return back home into the forest,

"Mina" The principal said, referring to the receptionist.

"Yes?"

"Let me know when you've found them." He said sitting in his office, his face contorted with anger as his eyes glow red.

The next day, Max goes to school and sits down in the classroom, the once loud and buzzing classroom become dead silent, and nobody talks,

"What's going on?" He thought nervously.

The teacher walks in with heavy footsteps, Thump, Thump, Thump. The teacher enters the classroom and the class sits down. The teacher begins talking about the study plan and Max suddenly feels tired.

"H-huh..? Why am i... so.. tired.." He sets his head down to rest. As he is sleeping he begins to dream about seeing his mom, and seeing men dressed in black suits with gloves standing around him picking him up, and many other things, but the images are cut off and he awakes in a white space, standing upright.

"Huh? Oh.. this dream again.."

"Ever since i was little I've had this dream many times. In the dream nothing happened its just an empty white plane, and nothing ever happens, I'm just stuck here until something wakes me up.. or i wake up naturally.."

"I don't know what to do.. This is stupid.." He thought.

Suddenly as Max lies down and looks up into the infinite white void. He hears something *plop* Max raises his head and sees a purple blob with black beady eyes,

Max squints his eyes to get a better view. He sits upright, and questions what he is seeing,

"What is that?"

The blob creature notices Max and begins to move to him,

Max begins to recall what he read, "Purple and blob-like with black beady eyes, a red core and leave a trail.."

"That's a un-evolved haze!" Max shouts becoming terrified.

Max gets up and begins to run into the white void hoping to get away from the creature, "I can't let it get close, it will absorb me and become me!" He thought, running away sweating, his run becoming more wimpy and uncoordinated.

"I've never been confident in myself."

He though, tripping and tumbling over. The blob gets closer and closer to him. Max backs away with all of his might, trying desperately to get away from the creature, his breathing accelerates as the Haze gets closer.

"Is this it? Is this how it ends?" He thought while backing up faster.

His back hits an invisible wall,

"No!" He thought banging his fist on the wall *Thud* *Thud* The blob moves closer and closer shuttng his eyes tightly Max begins to say his goodbyes,

"I'm sorry mom, I'll never be able to see you again, I'm sorry uncle Eddie, I've never made you proud, I'm sorry Tim, I won't able to see you again.."

"Why is this thing taking so long..?"

He opens his eyes to see the blob face to face with him,

"AH!" *BUMP* Max hits head on the wall.

"You done?" The blob asks, in a male voice

"Huh?" Max asks.

"Are you finished crying?" The blob asks once more.

"Y-you can talk?"

"You never let me, you started screaming and running as soon as I ever approached you, or you would randomly disappear." It said, moving backwards to give him space

"Wait what? You've been here, every time?" Max asked, easing up.

"Yes, you just don't remember.. for some odd reason.."

"Oh..Well why are here?"

"For the past few years, I didn't know myself. However, now I do. I have to tell you something very important."

"Huh?"

"You and your mom are in great danger."

"What?!"

"You must find the Void before its too late."

"The void? What? Slow down! This is all too much!"

"It seems my time is up. Remember what I said Max.. Max.." the blobs voice begins to fade and is replaced with a female voice calling his name,

"MAX! MAX!" Max opens his eyes to see 2 people, a boy and a girl

"Rise and shine, zombie man. Classes are over, it's time to go." The boy said.

Max lifts his head slowly and utters

"Hm..? Jaku, Rose? What time is it?"

"Two o' clock."The boy said.

"TWO O' CLOCK?!" Max shouted getting up from his desk quickly.

"Yes, you have been sleep all day." Rose

"Agh, I hope I didn't snore." Max said embarrassed.

"I hope you did." Jaku said, jokingly.

"Of course you do..Lets go, you nitwit."

"Don't get mad at me because you snore so loud.."

They begin to walk out of the class talking and laughing, suddenly their laughs and conversation is halted, the stop walking and stare at the boy leaning on the wall,

"Well well well." The boy with red hair said.

"If it isn't the Goblin and his little rat friends."

"Max get behind us." Jaku said, "What do you want, Josh?"

"It seems you haven't heard.." He said getting off the wall facing the group, "You're little Goblin friend there, told the principal about some pranks that we did to him."

"You know they weren't jokes." Rose said firmly.

"They were jokes! But it seems you all are too blind to see it. So here's what we'll do."

Josh snaps his finger and multiple evil looking boys come out the classroom doors into the hallway.

"You have 2 options." Josh lifts two fingers,

He puts down his middle finger, "One, you two take the beating for your little Goblin friend over there."

Josh puts his pointer finger down, and flicks them off, "or two, you hand that little weakling over."

"What'll it be?"

Snickering fills the hallway as the gang of boys begin to taunt the group.

"We aren't handing him over." Jaku said, he and Rose prepare to fight.

"Guys.. No. Just let me go-"

"No." Jaku said, cutting him off. "Give it up. We've made up our mind."

"Aw how touching.. it almost makes me want to shed a tear..." Josh said mockingly.

"Get them." He said seriously.

All of the boys rush past Josh and begins beating Jaku and Rose, while Max sits on the floor hopeless, unable to do anything,

"i.. am so weak." He helplessly thought.

Josh walks over to Max and puts his hand on his shoulder and leans over, "You tell anybody about this and you're next you white haired freak." He whispered in his ear.

After 5 minutes all of the gang members leave and only Max, Rose and Jaku remain. Jaku and Rose begin to rise to their feet, stumbling and staggering, the manage to stand upright, while holding eachother up,

"Don't look so helpless man..! We did this for you." Jaku said with a smile, blood dripping from his mouth, his arm limp and bloodied.

Max walks Jaku and Rose home, as they are siblings who live in the same household. Max waves them off with a weak smile, as they go into their house Max's smile fades, and his baggy eyes hang low, he begins to somberly and slowly walk home, he passes by a convenience store that's open 24/7, and he decides to stop there,

"Do you guys have Fate Testers?" He somberly asked

"In the back." The employee on his phone said annoyed.

Max walks out of the store with a fate tester, and goes to a large building called {Hero Lounge} and walks up to the front desk,

"I would like to be tested, please."

"Of course. One moment."

She types something on the computer, then says,

"3rd room on the right hall."

"Thank you."

He walks to the door, and enters the room. The room is plain white, with white tiles and white marble walls, and a podium with a metal plate on the middle.

[Please place vile with blood on metal plate] A robotic voice said.

Max grabs the needle and inserts it into his skin, drawing blood into the needle and pushing the blood out of the needle into the vile.

He places the vile onto the metal plate and the vile sinks into the podium. A paper shots out of the podium, with colors and explanations for the colors, He waits for a 10 seconds go by and the vile pops back up, Ding!

Max's eye widen..As what he is seeing is unbelievable..

A/N: Word count: 2,300+