A Challenge From The Headmaster!

What is this place...? Everyone is throwing paperballs at each other, the teacher doesn't care about what is happening in the class, some students are sleeping while others are playing games on their mobile. A paperball comes flying towards me, I step back and dodge it.

"Huh?! Who have we got here? A new kid?" A girl with short blue hair questions with a confused tone. "Did you say a new kid? But he wasn't at the opening ceremony was he?" A boy with a big black mohawk who sits like he owns the place questions the girl. "I guess his a last second recruit to this academy." A girl with glasses and black twin-tail says as she adjusts her glasses. Everyone seems to be talking about me.

"New kid or not, let's find out..." The mohawk guy gets off his sit and jumps right in front of me. My heart beat begins to raise as he lands right in front of me and my eyes widen. I also begin to sweat. The teacher is asleep and I can't do anything here. "Hello kid, welcome to class 1-D or also known as squad Rizing. Are you ready to be tested?" The mohawk boy questions me. "Tested?" I ask the boy. "That is correct, if you are in squad Rizing, it means that you must have done a dangerous deed. We all have, every single one of us are criminals, failures or even people with dangerous potential. Which one are you, kid?" What is he talking about? Criminals in such a famous academy. That is isn't true in a bit...Is he trying to test my resolve or something like that? Because if that is the case. I will not give in so easily for my only objective is to be the best knight in this country. "I am no criminal." I say with undying resolve in my eyes. "I see...Your eyes do speak the truth. So...I must wonder, why that old bastard send you here. Anyways, my name is Caster Daniel and I am your teacher and I will be testing your strength...RIGHT OF THE BACK!" I see a punch come towards me and I dodge it. I move towards my right.

That was way closer then I expected. "Well done, kid." Caster says to me. "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR?!" I scream out my rage. "It isn't over yet." I see Caster jump to attack me. I roll out of the way of his attack. His smacks the ground. This teacher is crazy. The hell is wrong with him. His trying to kill me. His charging towards me again. I run towards the bench at the right where the other students are sitting at. Shit! I am in a bad spot here. "Well, that's just how it is everytime." The girl with glasses she's right behind me. "Everytime a new student arrives, he likes testing their limits. That's just how our teacher is." The girl with glasses says to me. "This teacher is kind of crazy." I say to the girl with glasses. "Not my problem." She says with a smile. "You can't dodge this next attack or else the girl behind you will be a smashed potato." Shit! I am in a big trouble. I have to use magic to stop him but what do I use? I don't know what my element is. I definitely have the affinity to use magic but I do not know what my element is. I am in a big trouble and I can't dodge or else this girl will get hurt.

If only...If only I had something that could protect me and this girl from that crazy teacher...Something strong...If only I knew magic...I could have helped mom...If only I had such power...If only...I block my face in hopes of a miracle.

"Damn you kid...What are you so afraid of? You are no fun if your afraid." I unblock myself and look at the teacher who stopped the punch right in front of me. I quickly back off looking at his fist. "I see what your problem is...Your too weak but your too calm for someone with such a major weakness like not knowing your magical element. I thought you definitely would have learnt something." His a completely different person now...Even his smile is calming as he makes his way back to his sit. Wait then, who was that other teacher taking a nap?

"Are you going to sit near me?" I look to my right and the girl with glasses smiles. "Eh? No! I was just...." I was soon interrupted by the mohawk teacher as he pushed the person sitting in the chair down with a kick. "Get off my sit, I take nap for few minutes and I see some random teacher taking my sit. Remember, this is my squad, Rizing!" The teacher says with anger in his eyes. "Y-Yes sir!" The man seems really scared. "Now scram!" The teacher says. "YES SIR!" The other person runs away. I wonder who he was.

"Anyways, let's begin with introductions. My name is Caster Daniel, you already know that. So how many of you failed this year?" The teacher questions and almost the whole class raise that hands. "Eh? What the hell?" I look to my right and the girl with glasses doesn't raise her hand. She seems to be a new student just like me. "What's your name?" The girl asks me. "Oh...It's Henry Marshal." I reply. "Nice to meet you Henry, mine is Erica, Erica Coaster." The girl says to me with a smile. "Now which of you are newbies here." I raise my hand along with 2 other students but Erica doesn't. I am kinda surprised that she didn't raise her hand for being the new student of this class but she isn't an old one too. What's with that? "Down!" I keep my hand up.

"Huh? What do you want new kid?" The teacher questions me. "Earlier, why did you attack me and why did you say that this class is filled with criminals and failures? Rodeo academy is the best of best and such behaviour...Wouldn't it mean that your job is in danger?" I question the teacher. The teacher smiles. "Kid you are an idiot if you think if that's how things work in my squad. You should thought long and wild before coming to class 1-D because if other classes are the best of best as this academy represents, we are the worst of worst. That is only because we work as we please and we do not give a fuck about what the outside world thinks about us. I only take in the worse people with the best heart, not the peeps the best people with the worst heart. Do you understand kid?" The words this man spoke...Does he truly believe that training criminals are capable of changing? Failures...Those are a completely different matter but criminals...I sit down thinking about what was said to me.

"Does anyone have any other questions?" The teacher asks but no one questions him. "Alright then, do your own thing, I will be doing my own." The teacher gets off his desk and stands in the back row. "So, we were playing paperballs, shall we continue?" All the students scream out, "YESSSS!!!!" And with that everyone begins to play with the paperballs again. I sigh.

"You can leave the class if you want." Erica says to me catching my attention. "What do you mean?" I question. "That Caster is going to continue to play with his students. His just here to enjoy just like all of us. We don't study like other students do, our study is fun and enjoyment. Do you understand?" I understood what she means. I nod my head. His quite an unique teacher but...How am I suppose to defend myself or even fight a battle if I can't learn about what element I control?

"Oh yeah before I forget, hey new kid!" The teacher called for me. "Listen, you wanna know your element right?" The teacher questions me. "That is correct." I say. "Good!" The teacher makes his way towards me. He begins to march towards the entrance. "Follow me." He says. "YES SIR!" I say as I follow him quickly. "I will be back soon kids, wait for me." The teacher says and he moves out and follow him out of the class.

"Alright kid, listen up, we are going to the principal's office to find out about your element." The teacher says to me as we walk our way to the principal's office. "The principal's office? But I was with the principal few minutes ago." I say. "Oh really now? Your an acquaintance to that old bastard huh?" The teacher questions me. "Well not me but my mother was." I reply to him. "Your mother huh? What's her name?" The teacher questions me. "You might know her, she was quite a famous knight, her name was Jill Marshal." I say to my teacher. "Jill huh? I have heard stories about her but never met her in person. She is quite an interesting person through the stories I have heard." The teacher says to me. "What kind of stories?" I ask my teacher. "Well stories like she took down 3 dragons at once, she took down an evil mage and all of their armies down all alone, she was on par with the 7 most powerful mages and stuff like that. To be honest I never believed those stories. I just think people exaggerated the stories more then they should have. I hate those kind of rumours." The teacher replies. "I see..." I wouldn't believe that too but my mother did use a level 3 magic...What are levels of magic? To put it in simple terms the higher the level of the magic, the more mana you exert and mana is not something that can be exerted easily. It takes a lot of stamina out of you. You need to have a very strong body to even cast a spell that's close to level 3. The max a person's level of magic has reached so far is level 7 and to cast a level 7 spell is more or less destroy your body unless you are one of the 7 most powerful mages of the world. They can cast spells of such calibre with no problems whatsoever. I sometimes wonder, how much mana do they have?

"We reached the principal's office." The teacher says as we stop right in front of the principal's office. "Let's go." The teacher says as he opens the door. "Teacher, shouldn't we knock on the door first?" Before I question the teacher opens the door and gets into the office.

Inside the office, I see the principal and two men who seem to be around teacher's age. One of them has long black hair, he also seems to be Asian while the other guy had blonde messy hair. "Oh hey there, both of you." The teacher greets both the men. Both of the men look back at the teacher with anger. "I didn't expect you two to be here." First the teacher looks at the Asian guy, "Jian Xong and..." Then her turns towards the blonde guy, "Bruno Olivia." The teacher had a smug look on his face as he took their name.

"I wonder myself, what would the worst teacher at this academy be doing here." Mr. Olivia mocks my teacher. "Nothing much, I am just here to help one of my students figure out his element." My teacher says to them. Mr. Xong chuckles. "You mean an unregistered student? Funny you would say that." Mr. Xong says with a smug. "Anyways, we aren't going to be in the same room as the worst teacher of the academy, we will discuss about the details of the case we were speaking about later sir." Mr. Xong looks back at the headmaster and says. "Huh?! Yes! Yes! Sure thing...." The headmaster looks away. Both the teachers leave.

That was a strange confrontation. Seems like those two hated Mr. Daniel. What would that be for I wonder. Not to mention, they said something about unregistered students. "Ah yes, you needed help." The headmaster looks at us with smile.

After Mr. Daniel went through the details about how I needed to still know my element. The headmaster brought out a strange device from his drawer. "Alright, time to know your element." The headmaster says to me hands over a glove that was attached to the strange device. "What's this?" I ask the headmaster. "This will help us know your element within a week. So by next week, you could start training on whatever your element is. The device is called element checker. I gave it a simple name because I didn't want it to be anything complex and people could easily remember it at any time." The headmaster answers me. "I see..." I say as I put on the glove which was wired with the element checker. "Pretty cool right? The glove idea was mine." Mr. Daniel says to me. "Really teacher?" I question. "Yes, he was the one who suggested it. He said, students would find it cooler if they had a glove on their fist." The headmaster answers my question. "That is so cool!" I say with stars in my eyes. "Yeah yeah, I know, I am cool after all." Mr. Daniel says in a cocky tone. I stayed with the glove on for a while. While I was with my glove on I had some questions.

"Hey headmaster..." I call for the headmaster. "What is it boy? If it's about your mother, I am still working on it." the headmaster says to me. "No, this isn't about my mother." I say. "Then what is it about?" The headmaster questions me. "Well, those two teachers...They said something about unregistered students. What was that about?" I question. "Ah jeez, I knew you would ask that question." Mr. Daniel face palms himself as he realises my question. "Well, no use hiding from you but you must have already known by now that the students of class 1-D also known as squad Rizing are filled with criminals, rebels, failures and such people." The headmaster says to me. I nod. "Well, to be exact, the military would never want such people in their squads...That is why, they are known as something called the freelancer. Meaning that they work more or less like mercenaries. So, those students aren't going to be ever put into the registry of Rodeo academy." The headmaster says. "But don't worry kid, I plan to put you in squad Silence as soon as possible. You will be one of our registered students soon." The headmaster smiles as he says it.

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"And with that you should know your element within a week." The headmaster says to move as I remove the glove. "Do the students of Rizing know about this?" I ask. "Unfortunately, no...Their hearts would shatter if they ever knew about this..." Mr. Daniel answers my question. I feel something inside me break...

"This is the best of best academy...It would make sense that criminals and failures wouldn't be allowed here right? But doesn't that just mean...That these people they are just holding the students back...These students...If they weren't held back...I am pretty sure...They wouldn't be called failures. As for criminals...Aren't they here to change their lifestyle? To be someone else...Then what they want to be...I don't know anyone from that class but those people...They were enjoying themselves with Mr. Daniel and I saw that, I saw them smile. My mother...I don't know if she will make it out there alive or not...What I know is...She thought me something...A very important lesson...If I ever want to be a knight...I will first have to protect a smile." I clench my fist. "IMAGINE IF THEY COME TO KNOW FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE THAT THEY WILL NEVER BE KNIGHTS, WOULDN'T THAT BE MORE HEARTBREAKING?!!!" I carry a strong sense of weight in my question. I don't know why...Those are criminals...Those are failures...All those people...I don't even know them...All I know is...That these people had a smile on their face when they were having fun with Mr. Daniel and I feel like helping them to become knights...

"Tell me something, Henry Marshal." The headmaster says to me with a smile. I look to the headmaster's left and I see Mr. Daniel smiling. "What is it headmaster?" I question. "Do you truely wish to be a part of the unregistered class?" The headmaster questions me. I answer without any hesitation, "YES SIR!" Mr. Daniel smiles and keeps his hand on my left shoulder. "Then let's make our class a registered one, what do you say?" Those words from Mr. Daniel's lips...Satisfied me for some reason. I wholeheartedly say, "Yes sir!"

"Then this is your task as you put this idea forth. I am pretty sure you are for a challenge right?" The headmaster questions me. "Yes sir, I am ready for any challenge." I answer the headmaster. "In 3 days, I want you to get me 4 students other then you that belong to your class. We will talk about what happens next after that." The headmaster says to me. 4 other students huh? "Alright sir! You got it! In 3 days, 4 students, you will have it." I say to the headmaster. "It's not going to be easy kid." Mr. Daniel says to me. I wonder what's not gonna be easy. It's just 4 students...Oh I get...It's a class with criminals and failures. It's obviously not going to be easy to convince any of them.

With the challenged issued by the principal I walk out of the headmaster's office alongside Mr. Daniel. "LIKE I SAID I AM NOT A PERV!" I have heard that voice somewhere....I turn to my right to see that spiky haired guy from earlier. He was fighting that one girl in the corridor. Seems like he is surrounded by some guys. "That's Jacob...What is happening there though? His all beaten up. It's not like him to be beaten up...Don't tell me...The headmaster used his magic on Jacob." Mr. Daniel seems to be talking to himself. His my classmate huh? I see that these other class boys are ganging up on him and beating him up but earlier today he was able to defend himself easily. I would say he easily surpassed a lot of people in this academy. "Tsch! I can't do anything...Let's walk back to the class." Mr. Daniel walks back ignoring Jacob. "Why though?" I question. "Because if I use my magic on those kids, their teacher will have a feud against me and...-HEY KID!" I quickly leave without hearing Mr. Daniel's explanation. I can't just let this happen. Even if the guy did something wrong...To beat down that person to near death is just wrong.

"Hey Sean, behind you!" A guy warns about my coming to the guy in the middle who has brown chocolatey bedded hair, has freckles and wears glasses. I sidekick the guy that was called Sean with my right foot from the right side. He blocks. "LEAVE!" I quickly keep my right foot on the ground, turn my body and punch his face with back fist. "HIM!" I see two people coming towards me from left and right. I run towards the guy to my right. I step on his chest and kick his face. Once I kick the guys face, I use the force from the kick to pounce on the other guy. I clothesline him as I jump onto his body. "ALONE!!!!!"

"How dare you....Interfere in our personal matters." The guy from earlier Sean gets back up. "From the fire it rises, from the water it flies, form the metal as of where I lie, Magic Element: Iron Spikes!" Spikes made of iron rise from behind Sean and it begins to make it's way towards me at an unimaginable speed. Shit! I am in a huge trouble.