Back in the Day Part 1: A Quick Rise to Power

It was seven years ago that Kaos came to Sepra's introductory school. This particular introductory school, similar to all the others, had a massive amount of fights that helped determine the hierarchy of students.

Kaos was ten at the time, and was beginning the switch from Quarter-School, for younger children, to Introductory School, which was an umbrella term for all the years from ten to sixteen. He would have enrolled at the same time as Sepra, but his paperwork got lost for a while and he ended up coming in a quarter of the year late.

Young Kaos was no stranger to occasional children's fights, but the difference between Quarter-School and Introductory School was that in Introductory School, it was an unspoken rule that teachers let students settle disagreements.

This may sound irresponsible or cruel, and it may be, but that was how the world worked outside of school, so why not inside of it. The strongest make the rules, and the weak obey, that was the way of life.

It had been the first day of classes for him, and Kaos walked outside to see a group of ten or fifteen other kids watching two of their peers fight.

Fight was a strong word though, and the duel was mainly just one student pounding the other one.

Sometimes these fights would break out over disagreements, and sometimes they were just to re-evaluate the food chain of students. There were forty-four kids in Kaos's class including him. This class was mostly made up of ten and eleven year olds, although there were older kids at the school, the classes were segmented by buildings, so they rarely saw them.

Kaos reached out his hand towards the student who had just received what looked like the final blow of the fight. In an instant, the majestic wings and halo of Kaos's wish flashed onto him, quickly healing his wounds, and causing the fight and onlookers to all pause in confusion.

The onlookers quickly connected the dots, seeing the same golden light of the halo also emanating from Kaos's eyes. The weak student looked at Kaos, and he nodded assuringly.

The student nodded back and rushed directly at his opponent, instinctively using the wings to leave the ground and tackle his opponent to the ground. His opponent's arm turned metallic, and knocked the winged student off of him with a wild punch.

The student was only disoriented from the pain for a moment, before the halo did its work and he was once again advancing against his opponent, pushing him back, and knocking him to the ground with a flying haymaker to the jaw.

Kaos stayed out of trouble himself, but always lent a helping hand to the weaker students when he came across one of the fights.

This benevolence wasn't a kind hearted gesture though. Kaos was weak without others, but all he needed to be strong was others who were weak without him.

Then it happened.

Kaos was leaving the classroom, and an eleven year old boy yelled from behind him, "Hey cheater! Let's go for a round with just the two of us!"

The point of interfering with these fights, no matter how lopsided, had all been to prepare for a moment like this, and as long as there were people that supported him in the vicinity, he would win.

"Sure." Kaos replied blankly, as if he was completely unphased by the challenge.

"Outside, now!" his aggressor replied.

The boy was in no way small, and Kaos had seen him fight before, so he knew he wouldn't win on his own. He just needed one person. "Plese!" he thought, "Let there be just one person I can use!"

A small crowd of five people had formed, Kaos glanced over them to see if he had anyone present who owed him.

"No, no, no, no, no!" he said under his breath, counting out the unfamiliar faces.

"Are you ready or what?" the kid yelled at Kaos who was clearly focused on other things.

"Small crowd is all" Kaos said, sarcastically, hiding his fear.

"Are you actually going to win this?" came a voice from behind him.

Recognizing the voice as Karn, a student who he had helped just the other day, he relaxed a little bit before turning around to face his ally.

"No…" Kaos replied with a smirk and a flick of his wrist, "You are. Better together I say!"

The student smiled back and nodded before using Kaos's newly bestowed wings to launch himself at the enemy head on. Karn got hit by a few punches and kicks initially, but it didn't matter in the long run of the fight.

With Kaos's halo on him, there was no way that Karn could lose.

After the other student had admitted defeat, a few of the onlooking students came over to congratulate Kaos. This was the beginning of how he would protect himself. The weak would become the strong, and in return they would gladly be his shields.

Kaos's strategy to become king of the class without raising a finger was flawed though, there was already an emperor of the class, and she wasn't going to be as easy to deal with.