Competition Announcement

In a cemetery in the back country of Planet Vuilia , morning breeze was blowing with a light haze.

A youth kneeling in front of a grave was reading a yellow paper, tears flowing staining it.

With a quavering voice he vowed"I will do my best to make your wish come true Dad. I Will. I..."

After a while he stood up with difficulty, walked back to his home, the Monastery.

Once he arrived he went straight towards his room, he opened the door and stared at the poster hung in front of him on the wall it was a poster with a SpaceY Starship with a writing underneath it in bold words.

UNLEASH YOUR LIMITLESS POTENTIAL – Mlon Eusk

He walked forward and picked up his phone and saw 20 lost calls and bunch of messages.

"Heyyy!! Darius I know yah mood must be lower than 0 yah, you better come to school today.

The teacher said they were going to make an important announcement yah."

In a frustrated tone he shouted"Fuuuucckkkk, give me a break!!"as he threw himself on the bed, after staring at the sealing mindlessly for a while he looked at the phone to check the time.

"I might be a little late. Just as usual..."he stood up and wore the school's uniform.

He walked out of his home towards a hyper-loop station in the distance.

While he walked his eyes got moist and dried multiple times, as memories of his first time going to school along with his father flashed in front of him, like looking at himself and his father in third person walking in a merry and playful tone with each other.

Without realizing it he arrived at the hyper-loop station.

While waiting for the Hyperloop train to arrive an old wrinkly man with long white hair greeted him with sorrow in his eyes "He was a great man. Don't get dispirited, work hard to honor his memory".

Soon a squeaking sound from the train tracks could be heard.

The station's speakers "Please stand behind the yellow line. Please stand behind the yellow line"

After a dozen of seconds the train stopped in front of them.

Darius entered the train, turned towards the old man he said in a firm tone clenching his fists, "I WILL".

In his train ride countless skyscrapers could be seen, commercial rockets and spaceships could be spotted either leaving or returning to the planet.

Once he could see the destination in the horizon the City, an announcement could be heard "Next stop Photon City. Next stop Photon city. Thanks for riding with Interesting Company hyper-loop."

Him and other countless people walked out at this stop since it was the capital of the planet.

Walking down the overcrowded streets, staring at the sky equaled to staring at countless pillars that pierced the heavens, holograms projected onto them advertising products with attractive male and females. An advertisement even had uncle tom with a space suit and a vibranium rifle "I want you!". Cars and trucks were no where because substituted by efficient escalators and infrastructure through tunnels or overhead walkways.

He arrived to his school a second grade accademy yet still with a fairly high prestige which it's front entry looked rather empty except a few people hastily rushing towards the entrance.

In front of his classroom, before opening the door he hesitated for a second or two , then after taking a deep breath he stepped forward and the door opened sideways.

The math teacher who had already begun class, gave him a mean stare, then kept ongoing with his lecture writing on the wall wide screen. Darius being low-key sat slouched at his assigned desk.

As the lecture kept going Darius's mind was in a mess in a side he tried his best to focus, but on the other side of the coin, which clearly had won the battle of mental warfare, he felt depressed.

Even trying to understand what the teacher explained equaled to listening to Rakin language or in other words foreign language.

Paul a blonde haired guy in the desk beside him was taking notes diligently writing directly onto the desk with a straight back.

The teacher was explaining the foundamental concepts of how vibranium spaces worked in mathematical terms, "The vibranium spaces. Eucledian compressed space in which, your 'string' can be stored, as you all know the string is compressed energy which can be released throghout the body."

Paul raised his hand"Sir, but how does it work? energy simply magically moves in our bodies? is there some kind of conducting path, or some kind of channel to make energy flow?"

"Good question Paul, there indeed are paths which can move energy within our bodies as in ancient times they would've been called meridians, these so called for lack of a better word meridians, grow along with the body and the best time to stretch them, making them tougher is a year above your curre..."

DRIIING

The class was over. The class quickly got really loud because of the students talking to each other, fantasizing about having a vibranium space, along with the strong powers a string brought along.

As the next class was about to begin, the teacher entered with a man who wore a white coat followed her. Soon everyone took notice, the loud ruckus of the students soon came to a halt.

The teacher announced "The school has won a competition against other schools, as such all 15 year old students have the chance to get a vibranium space injection."

When Darius',Paul's and all the other students heard vibranium space injection their eyes began to shine.

Paul clearly excited from the look on his face raised his hand in a split second "teacher how do we get this chance?".

The man beside the teacher stepped forward cleared his throat.

Facing the class he said"Nice to meet you everyone! I am Dr. House from Atlas Technologies, as you've heard you will have the chance to get injected with a vibranium space, I am your assigned referee during the upcoming tests."

The Tests consist of two phases :

First phase shall be physical to see your what your physical standards, also to test your fighting capabilities.

Paul's face quickly began ugly as if he ate a fly.

While Darius listened to the Dr.'s explanation he looked relaxed and brimming with confidence.

The second phase will test your academic ability in a open answers test on all you've studied during the last 3 months and also the upcoming 6 months. The testing shall begin in a month,I sincerely wish you good luck. "

After Darius heard the the academic ability part his complexion began to pale, that was his worst weakness, he was so bad that he has failed theoretical classes multiple times, barely making it to the next class thanks to his PE grades.

Instead Paul sighed with relief.

The teacher followed after the Dr. and added "Also take note that in order to get a crystal seed injection you need to be within the top 50 of the whole school."

After hearing this most students shook their heads clearly thinking the reward's rules were too difficult. Many thinking "As they say there is no free lunch in this world".

Instead Darius felt as if another rock was added on top of the load he was already carrying.

He had to be withing that top 50 else he wouldn't realize one of his father's dying wishes.

On planet Zonia the twin planet of Vuilia

The same scene of what happened on Darius' class was repeating itself.

But this school instead of being in the capital, it was in a hard to reach mountain, all the students here were tough, hardened by their economical status barely above the poverty line.

The competition between them was close to the level of a jungle predators fighting each other for prey.

A tall thin young man was wearing a t-shirt while the other classmates wore heavy jackets and breathed out white clouds.

As their referee explained the testing, the students began eyeing each other as if ready to pounce.

The thin young man chuckled as he heard the conditions to get a vibranium space injected. He stood up and walked away with his hands in his pockets. The teacher with a pissed tone "Marcus where do you think you are going?!". Without turning his back Marcus said nonchalantly "You heard him,the testing will probably be hard were else would i go other than train? Bye." he waved with his arm up while still walking.

In the background could be heard the teacher furiosly threatening him to expelling him or denying his entry to the contest.

When she barged into the principal room to complain about the unruly student, she got shoed away with a "Look i went through endless troubles, just to see him shine in the future. Please just keep doing your job and don't mind him he's probably the best student in the history of this school. Don't forget he's a youngster after all..."