Chapter 8: Back to School? Making Friends...

-4 months later-

*haha*"Son you need to get out of bed its time for your first day of school!"

"I SAID IM NOT GOING"

"You have to go to school. how else are you going to make friends and learn?"

"I don't need to make friends with a bunch of little kids! and there is nothing to learn! its KINDERGARTEN!"

*HAHA* "You are only 5 yourself, what do you mean little kids? And you better get up now before your mother goes up to get you down! She had a long night after the amount of damage the villain did last night to the bystanders. She stayed up all night healing the innocent and she is not in a good mood!"

Sprinting down the stairs in record speed I arrive in front of my dad with my backpack on ready for my first day of school!

"Why didn't you say so before? I can't wait to go to school and learn all about... shapes... and animals?... and whatever else they teach kids in kindergarten. On top of that think of all the friends, I will make with kids who might still pee themselves at night! I can't wait!"

My father noticing the sarcasm rolling off my tongue like waives decide to ignore it and usher me to the door and into our black Mercedes.

30 minutes later we pull up in front of your typical elementary school with the name "Little Legends Elementary School" written in stone letters across the front of the building. Still sitting in the car I can see all of the other children with their parents as they hug, smile, and wave their children into school. Some are crying and I can only assume that they are parents of other kindergartners on their way to their first day of school ever. As I and my father get out of the car I give him a hug and head into the building. Knowing this day was coming I already knew what class and where it was located before I came so I head straight to class and get ready for the next 8 hours of my life... *sigh* this is going to be a long day.

-Jason Braveheart POV (Davids dad) -

As I watch my son head off for his first day of school I can't help but shed a tear as I thinking about the fact my little hatchling is heading off into this dangerous world for the first time. looking over I see some other parents in a group talking about their own kids heading off for kindergarten, feeling this would be a good opportunity I head over to them to join in the conversations?

"They grow up so fast don't they?"(Jason)

"They really do is your kid also heading into kindergarten?"(random parent 1)

*haha* "Yeah this is his first day, he did not want to go at all"(Jason)

"Ohh I know the feeling, it was so hard getting Shane out of bed this morning! the only thing that convinced him was the fact I would be dropping off his friend chad and that they are in the same class" (random parent 2)

*HA*"well hopefully our kids are in the same class! My needs to make some friends, it seems all he cares about is training!"(Jason)

"yeah, that would be nice! where is your boy? Can you point him out?"(spouse of parent 2)

*points* "that one there is my boy, oh how they grow so fast"*tear*

"... You said your sons in kindergarten, right? Are you sure he isn't a 5th grader? how old is he anyway?" (parent 4)

"Yeah, he's only 5 and this is his first day to kindergarten. Why do you ask?"

"..."(parent 1)

"..." (parent 2)

"..." (spouse of parent 2)

"..." (parent 4)

"???" (Jason)

-Davids POV -

Walking into my classroom I look around and see what amounts to the typical kindergarten classroom. There is the alphabet running along each wall, different colored shapes with their names on the walls sporadically. A whiteboard with the name "Mrs.Thomas" written on it. Desks shaped like a circle in the middle of the room, off to the side and in a corner is a play area with different toys, blocks, and coloring books. By the entrance are hooks with everyone in the class names on them for jackets and backpacks, while under those are cubies for storing shoes and other personal belongings.

Standing in the middle of the circle of desks is a middle-aged African American women with a big smile on her face. she seems to be talking to different students as she waits for everyone to get to class. looking at the desks I find a few empty ones by two boys who are talking to each other rather animatedly. One of them has blue eyes and hair that is almost black. He is wearing dark clothing and is rather tall for his age. He isn't as tall as me, but let's be honest there is probably only a handful of 5-year-olds on this planet who are as tall as me. The other one has blonde hair and blue eyes, he seems rather shy as he is looking around to see if anyone is paying attention to them while his cheeks blush from embarrassment, but that doesn't stop him from arguing with his friend. I am unable to hear their conversation until I get closer when I finally approach close enough to hear their conversation my interest is instantly peaked.

"No my training is much harder I have to fight my sister every day! and she is already in the 2nd grade! Plus my grandfather is always making us do crazy training! with weights and stuff!"(dark hair one)

"well uh, my mom and dad make me train really hard too, because if I want to be a superhero like them then I have to be really, really strong."(blonde hair one)

"oh, are you guys training to be superheroes too! that's cool, but I want to let you know that I'm going to be THE GREATEST HERO EVER!"(David)

*HA* "In your dreams! my grandpa is captain starlight! and he said that whoever wins between me and my sister get to take captain starlight as their hero name!"(dark hair one)

"YOUR GRANDPA IS CAPTAIN STARLIGHT!?!? That's so cool!... Oh yeah, what are your names?"

"My names Shane Desoto, but you might as well call me captain starlight."

"... my names Chad Taylors, nice to meet you"

"Well my name is David D. Braveheart, and before you ask, yes the D does stand for danger!"

"... I don't think either of us was going to ask, but nice to meet you."(chad)

"I heard you guys talking about training earlier, well this is what I do every day for my training..."

I go on to describe my daily training regime to them including the new weapons training which takes the place of the daily "durability" training making it only every other day training with weapons training taking up the days between. When it comes to weapons training it's pretty simple really, my dad throws me in the pit with the robots that represent different power levels of villains and has me fight wave after wave of progressively harder robots until I'm beaten into a pulp! It's really effective, I promise and it only hurts a lot! :)

Hearing what I go through on a daily basis both of them look horrified for some reason? Shrugging I keep talking to them about superheroes and training all day barely paying attention to the teacher. I feel a little bad for the teacher, Chad, and Shane but both of them are smart and I'm sure they already know how to read so they don't need to learn the alphabet.

This common goal of being superheroes and the struggle of our training leads to a great friendship where we would spend all day talking then during recess we would go and train together, well mostly me training them helping them get better at fighting and putting on muscle. After school, we would watch the superhero tv channel together learning about how different super teams work together. Everything was going great with all of us being best friends. Until one day halfway through the year, neither one came to school. thinking they were sick I didn't think anything of it. until the next day in class Mrs. Thomas came and told the class that both Shane and Chad had moved out of state and that they wouldn't be coming back.

that was the last time I saw those two idiots for a long time. But I didn't worry because I had a feeling in my gut that I would meet both of those dults one day in the future, and when I do I'm going to beat the shit out of both of them for not saying bye. Assholes.