Chapter 9: Each to his own

"..So here is my first ever verse..."

We spent our whole break spreading Dark Matter info to every awakened class we could find.

But, as expected we couldn't even spread it to half of the classes.

The school was big after all.

Ryan: "The school is truly big."

Adeel: "*sigh* yeah.. and it will get bigger.."

"...."

Haji: "We can take our time. New and new people will be awakened in these 7 days. We should be there to explain everything to them."

"Right...."

Haji: "What are you thinking about?"

"Well... The info thing is done, I'm not worried about that... the thing is.. how do we actually learn or teach other people 'how to fight'? "

Everyone went silent.

Ryan: "Bro... did you forget..?"

"Forget what?" I asked in a confused tone.

Adeel, Ryan and Haji, all glanced at each other.

I knew this glance.

This glance was a sign that I was an idiot in their eyes.

"...What?" Again, I couldn't understand what was going on at all.

Ryan: "Didn't Akram and Wahab... already teach us the basics of Awakened fighting?"

Oh.

God.

So that's why they had that weird reaction...

"Ohhhh right, I forgot that. Guess we will wait till this week ends.."

And so, a week passed by without hesitation.

...

Ryan: "Hey man, today is the day isn't it?"

"It is. Umer... is going to join us today."

Adeel: "Yeeh, that is going to make our life a whole lot easier."

Haji: "True true."

We all breathed a sigh of relief.

We poor kids with no experience were managing a whole school full of awakened.

But now, Now someone who specializes in managing has come.

We were currently standing at the main gate of school.

It was early morning.

We had asked Umer to meet up with us here.

And.. here he was..

Ryan: "Hey man. Congrats on getting successfully employed here."

Umer: "Yes..."

"Really, it gives us a sense of security with you coming here."

Umer: "Oh really..."

Haji: "So, let's revise the situation again. After a week, we have almost informed every awakened class possible of Dark Matter. Now, we need to train them. The question is, how do we train the awakened in an organized manner..."

"That's what Umer is here for."

Umer: "Yes.."

Why has he been talking in a tone my mother talks in when...

when she is thinking about something..

"What are you thinking about?"

Umer: "Oh!.. I.. it's just that.. your school is... hella big."

Ohhh I see.

"Well you will get used to this. Anyways, what do you suggest we do for training the students?"

Umer: "I got a idea, to train people, we should group all of them in one place. And what better place than this school itself? So first, I think we should get the permission of this school's Principal to use school for certain purposes."

Ryan: "How do we get the perms?"

"It's easy man, just tell her that we need the school grounds for a special event the whole school will go to."

Ryan: "You don't think she will believe it do you..?" He asked with a smug questioning face.

"Huhh we will just make up something bro."

Adeel: "Yeah let's go to the principal together. With Umer, a teacher and a staff of this school with us, our words will have more weight thereby increasing the chances of getting the permission to use school grounds."

"What are you, writing an essay?"

Adeel: "Shut up lol."

"Haha, let's do what Adeel says."

And so we did and so we got our oh so needed permission.

...

The school had ended and I, was standing on a platform.

In front of me was a host of people, mainly including the people of about 14-16 ages from our school.

Yes, mainly.

Somehow, people who didn't exist in this school had come.

"I see some new faces. They don't seem from our school."

-"Oh yes your verses have spread far and wide among the awakened people of this area and by listening to them we got the message that there was a group of people who had awakened." Someone from other than our school replied.

-"We also just awakened like 3 days ago and were clueless about everything. So most of us thought best to risk it and come here."

In short, I accidentally grouped the whole area here.

Ahhh more people who are strangers = more burden.

"Well.. alright. So, first things first, to actually start learning to fight we first need to learn to use Dark Matter and to use Dark Matter we need to learn how to accept the Propertizer (this black stuff) into our body. And to learn to accept Propertizer in our body, we need to keep focusing on a group of Propertizer without blinking straight for 5 minutes."

-"Won't not blinking for 5 minutes straight infect our eyes?" someone from our school asked.

"No, after awakening to see the Propertizer our bodies have become significantly stronger and can handle not blinking 5 minutes straight. The problem is that for all our life, we have been blinking in seconds and it has become a habit. If we can defeat that habit we can probably use Dark Matter easily."

-"Alright."

Adeel: "If there any people who do manage to actually tame the Propertizer, please tell us cause we want you to help us train other people and give your advice on how you managed to do it too."

Haji: "It is best for you guys to only concentrate silently because we also haven't been able to tame the Propertizer. So, please refrain from talking. Now, for us to make the chances of taming the Propertizer high, we are going to enclose each of you in a classroom. The school is big so accommodating at least 20% of you guys should be easy."

Alright, everything has been going smooth so far.

...

It is my time...

Is everything in the room closed?

I checked every corner to see if there was anything and welp it was all closed.

Meaning I am good to go.

In front of me was the board and the Propertizer was lurking in the space that was made for me to tame the Propertizer.

To warm myself up, I closed my eyes and reopened them, checked if I had any itchiness which I did so I blinked again.

This time I didn't have any itchiness, So I started the staring contest.

But after a minute my eyes gave up or in this case my habit.

I did what I did before again. But this time, I closed my eyes teeny weeny bit to keep eye water in my eyes.

And the result? My time increased from 1 minute to 3 minutes.

Seeing the improvement in my result everytime, I knew I was going the right path.

15 minutes later...

I was sweating.

From head to toe, I was sweating.

The room was hot alright but not hot enough to make me sweat this much after 15 minutes.

The reason I was sweating was... I had successfuly tamed the Propertizer.

"YES!" I did the victory hand and shouted.

Well anyone would, seeing the hell I had gone through.

After taming the Propertizer my body became so hot that I sweated a ton.

-"Bro what happened? Why are you shouting..? Why are your clothes so wet? Did you bath yourself?"

The guy who had been outside guarding my door asked me in confused tone.

"Oh no, it's nothinh I just managed to tame the Prope-...."

"DHUK!"

-"HELLO!!!? WHAT HAPPENED HELLO!? AGAIN!?"

The guard boy ran outside and told Umer to come and check on.

-"What happened?"

-"Sir he just collapsed right after he said he had tamed it."

Umer: "So it happens to anyone who has tamed it?"

-"WhaT? What do you mean everyone?"

Ryan's POV:

this is ryan's perspective in talk

"Hmmmmmmmm... This room..-" I was serious

"I have never been here."

-"Bro be serious."

"Alright alright but this..." Everything seems sus but...

"This is exhilarating.."

-"CAN YOU STOP SAYING THAT SO SERIOUSLY AND START WI-"

"Slam!" I pushed my guard out and closed the door.

"Alright, let's start." Let the show begin.

8 minutes later....

"FINALLY! WOHOOO I HAVE DEFES-"

-"Hello? Are you done? why are you shouti..."

"DHUK!"

-".... (Touches face, sees condition) ...WHY IS HE SWEATING SO MUCH AND WHY IS HE SO HOT!?"

-"....? (Sees someone strolling around the area, tries asking for help)"

The random girl who was strolling around the area: "Are you. . .? I never thought I would meet someone like that in my life..."

-"(Stops his advance) -NO YOU ARE WRONG MY WORDS ARE NOT WHAT I MEANT!"

-"NO WAIT I MEANT WHAT I SAID BUT NOT IN THE CONTEXT YOU THINK!"

Girl: "You cannot take back what you have said... bye, I shall go now."

-"NO YOU ARE WRONG I AM NOT G-"

Umer: "What happened?"

-"AHEM SIR HE JUST COLLAPSED THERE. HE IS SWEATING ALOT AND HIS TEMPERATURE IS HIGH!"

Umer: "Ok ok why are you shouting?"

Girl: "(Hears the word temperature, realizes). . . . I am sorry, I m happy you are not umm... what I thought."

-"THANK GOD!" is what I, the guard wanted to say but for the sake of this girl I shall only nod and restrain my anger.

"Again I thank god." - The student guard.

Umer: "?????"

7 minutes after Ryan's Collapse:

Umer: "WHAT HAPPENED!?"

-"SIR HE JUST COLLAPSED AND AND"

.....

"..."

Ahh my head...

I feel dizzy...

-"Oh he woke up."

"Wh.at?"

Umer: "Hey, you and Ryan successfully tamed the Propertizer. Ryan was the first one tho. There were other people who also managed to tame the Propertizer."

"Ohh niceee. Did Ryan wake up?"

Umer: "Yes, 7 minutes before you did."

"Found anything common in the tamers?"

Umer: "Alot."

And then I was told what happened and the similarites between us etc.

Ryan: "HEY HEY I GOT AN IDEA!"

"What bruv don't shout."

Ryan: "But it's a cool idea so listen."

"Alright alright go on."

Ryan: "SInce we know how to accept the Propertizer, how about holding it in one place for people to stare at. This will fasten the taming process and make it very easy."

Umer: "..."

"....."

Ryan: "What?"

For the first time....

"That's actually a very cool idea!"

And so we started on a new plan: Operation DONE

—————– To Be Continued —————–

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