Trouble

Some years later...

"Good morning students", a middle-aged woman whose body was in good shape, greeted the group of students as she entered the class.

"Good morning madam!", the students answered in unison.

"Okay, we are going to talk about how the Cursed entered our planet and also how to use your various superpowers to fight off the Cursed....", the middle-aged woman began to teach, getting straight to the point as soon as she placed the books in her hands on the teacher's table.

"Hey Travis, Are you enjoying this lesson? It's so boring! Mrs Rose never teaches us what normal people like us without powers can use. Like maybe how a normal person can protect him or herself when there is an attack from the cursed. She is always teaching us how to fight with our superpowers when she knows we have none. How can she be a good teacher?!", a young boy whispered to another young boy who was sitting near him.

"Yeah, It's so boring. The only good thing about her is her nice body. In fact, watching her body is the secret trick I use to prevent myself from sleeping in her class", Travis whispered back.

"I heard that she will supervise the Magic Selection Program. It's going to be amazing. Even though only the ones with superpowers are participating in the program, I can't wait to see what will happen! and who will eventually have the qualifications to be enrolled in The Four Seasons", the other young boy replied happily.

"Yeah. They should also let us participate. Maybe, we have a superpower we are not sure of," Travis said.

"Hmm," the other young boy nodded his head earnestly.

*******

"Hey! What are you discussing over there? Stand up! Now!", the madam said angrily as she pointed to Travis and the young boy who was currently talking.

'She fell for it,' Travis thought as a scheming smile emerged on his face. Both Travis and the young boy then stood up with guilty expressions on their faces.

"Now, tell me what you guys were talking about!" the madam said angrily.

"We were talking about how the cursed entered our planet", Travis replied. His voice was oddly filled with confidence angering the madam even more.

"Are you sure? I'm definitely sure that you guys were talking about something unrelated to the subject. Hmph! You better tell me about how they entered earth then!" the madam asked.

"They entered the earth through one-way wormholes," Travis replied calmly seemingly unfazed by the madam's angry face.

"Tsk, How did you know? I never said that! Even if you know it, there is nothing you can do because you have no superpower. Trash like you only know how to commit crimes in society and don't forget that a trash like you should be studying so that you could be someone in future. "

"But not only are you not serious with your studies, but you also don't even have a superpower. Don't you see Bryan? Even though he has a very good superpower, he is also serious about his studies. People like you can never be compared to someone like Him"

The madam said angrily. After rebuking Travis, she turned to Jim,

"As for you Jim, you can continue following that trash and you will also decline in your studies. You were better when you started, ranking as one of the best students in the class. But now, look at you! You are not even serious with your studies anymore!", Mrs Rose, the madam said leaving a sour taste in both students' mouths.

"Mrs Rose, Why are you calling me trash? I am clearly not Trash! Trash is a teacher that calls his or her students a waste! How can you even be a teacher? I thought you had manners not knowing that it was all for show!"

" You are treating normal people like us who don't have superpowers like trash. It's not like you have a cool superpower!", Travis said totally disregarding the madam's authority.

"Hey Travis, stop it!", Jim silently urged Travis to keep quiet. He knew that with Mrs Rose's temper, she will definitely punish them. She could send him to the dungeon to work. Or even worse, she might agree to report to the Director.

Sure enough, just as he thought, Mrs Rose exploded into anger,

"How dare you? Apologize now else, I will report you to the director!", Mrs Rose said. Travis then looked around him and noticed that everyone in the room was looking at him with wondrous looks on their faces. He then turned back his head towards Mrs Rose with his bright blue eyes with a meaningful look. He then said something that shocked everyone in the class,

"I won't!"

"Hmph! I will report you to the school director then!", Mrs Rose angrily got out of the class whilst stamping her feet on the floor.

"Travis, what have you done? Don't you know that you will be punished?" Jim asked with worry. Fear could be seen on his face as he thought that they had provoked a calamity.

"Don't worry! We won't be punished. And —" Travis took a huge breath, "—don't ask me the reason why. Just watch and learn!", Travis said as he sat down.

~~~***~~~

"Did Travis just rebuke Mrs Rose? He is dead for sure!"

"No! Mrs Rose was rather wrong! How can you call your student trash? She likes to discriminate too much! Serves her right!"

"You think so too? I also think she deserves it! She always treats us like we are not worth her time. She always insults us by calling us trash! I think Travis had the bravery that none of us~ the normal humans~ have. I like him now!"

"No, he is just foolish! How can you rebuke a teacher? From my perspective, he is just courting death!"

"Yeah! I also think so."

After the initial silence, the class went into chaos the moment Mrs Rose got out of the class. They divide themselves into two groups. One group thought what Travis did was simply courting death. They thought what Travis did was absolutely foolish! This group mainly consisted of students with superpowers.

As for the second group, they thought what Travis did was absolutely right! They thought Mrs Rose liked to play favourites and she definitely deserved it. This group also mainly consisted of students without powers; the normal ones.

******

Director's office...

*Bang!*

A loud sound echoed through the director's office as Mrs Rose forcibly opened the door, startling the middle-aged man behind the office table.

"Mr James, please I want you to suspend a student! He doesn't respect me at all!" Mrs Rose said as she entered the room.

"Mrs Rose calm down. Now tell me, what is wrong?"

After his initial surprise, the middle-aged man asked calmly.

"Sigh~", Mrs Rose breathed in calmly then said, "A student from Class A insulted me in front of the whole class. He also refused to apologize! I want him suspended for disrespecting me!"

"Hmmm! This going to be a big problem. But before I do anything, I have to know if you said anything to him that made him react that way. Did you do anything to him? Or did you say anything to him?", the director asked calmly.

"No, I didn't. I just rebuked him for talking in the class and he replied with an insult!", Mrs Rose said angrily.

"What is his name?", the director asked.

"Travis!", Mrs Rose replied.

"Travis?", Mr James made a confused face. He had never heard of the name before! Mrs Rose could tell that he was quite confused so she said,

"He is class A!"

"Him? But he isn't troublesome at all. What really happened?"

"Are you suspecting me of lying?" Mrs Rose said sadly showing an expression of being wronged.

"Wait a bit"

Seeing the look on her face, Mr James opened his drawer, taking out a book that had the inscription, 'Students File'. Flipping the book open, along list of students' names could be seen arranged in an orderly manner.

"This book contains all the information about all the students in the school. I will surely find his parents' contacts! I will check the list to see if I can find his parents' contact and I will contact his parents now!" the director said as he picked up the phone.

Seeing this, Mrs Rose whose face was full of sadness a second earlier changed as a bright smile formed on her face.