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Integrity International High, a prestigious school founded in Japan, it accepts students from many nationalities around the globe. The school was founded under the Enhanced education act; a law that was passed and agreed upon by leaders of the world government as well as embassies from the Realm of the Tetrians. The main campus was agreed to be placed in Tokyo, Japan, due to the locality and hot spot frequency of Rogues appearing frequently. Other campuses were located in places such as Okinawa, Hiroshima, Ohio, USA, with many more being planned and under discussion.
The school has 3 tall buildings to accommodate for students planning to study at the main campus, the first being a U-shapped building with 5 floors, excluding the ground level. This building is for teachers and students, common subjects such as Math, History, Geography, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Legal Studies, Other Languages and etc. are taught. Students have to move around classes with designated lockers in the hallways and appropriate classrooms for their subjects.
The second building is the gymnasium with an indoor sports field, beside it is an open stadium for sports events such as football, soccer, rugby and track runs shared by both Enhanced and regular students. To ensure equality, a special dampener rune is engraved in the walls of the building, hindering any Enhanced student who tries to cheat during these events.
The final building is a mock version of the Atrium, a place reserved for Enhanced matches and assessments. To access this building, the Enhanced student must be taking a course to pursue becoming a Rogue Hunter, individuals who have the natural aptitude and desire to maintain order under the Alliance, an organization that monitors the presence of Rogues and dispatches a team to handle the situation. To attain this course, one has to sit through a psychology assessment, sit the entrance exams and attend an interview weighted equally. Successful applicants required a high score in each of the areas.
The school's main purpose is to educate young Enhanced individuals to prevent more Rogues appearing. The ether aura, emitted by an Enhanced individual using their powers causes a disturbance in the barrier holding the two worlds apart, dragging Tetrians forcefully into the human realm, when that happens, due to the instability of how they were brought into the world, forces a combination with the nearest Enhanced individual. That is how a Rogue is born.
The entrance of the school had a gate, with a short walk to the school's main entrance. Lining the walkway were pink cherry blossoms scattered about the sides. The only sound that reverberated aside from the winds dancing in the leaves of the blossoms, were the chattering students entering the gate. The students wore a white shirt, at the ends where the stitches are usually located were an uncolored lining that went vertically down the sleeves accompanied by golden accents. Located above the left breast pocket was the crest of the school, a white lotus within a black hexagon with the name of the school written in a ribbon across it. For the males, they wore grey long trousers and the females had a white skirt with gold tints up to knee length with white stockings.
The students chatted eagerly in an amused mood. Some were introducing themselves to each other, meeting for the first time and exchanging contact details, others were reuniting after a long summer break and catching up on the latest events in their life. The seniors were excitedly discussing among-st themselves, wondering how many new club members they could recruit this year. While a few students,...were distracted by a small dot in the sky growing larger.
As it approached, more students could make out figure, and a distinctive sound produced by the figure; "WOOOHOOOO". In a frenzied panic, the students standing where the figure was about to strike, ran as far as they could from the site of impact. The figure accelerated in momentum, faster and faster and faster until it seemed ready to form a hole just a few meters above the impact site...until rocks came hurling out of it.
The figure decreased in size as rocks seemingly came out of his skin and clothes with no tearing, providing a solid landing spot just inches above the ground. The yellow-haired boy landed face-first on the landing spot despite having jumped all the way to school. "Ow,ow,owww", he brought himself up, but just as he did, a blue-haired girl with wings crashed right into him from the skies.
"TSUYOSHI LOOK OUT!!!", Angela screamed.
"Oh boyy,..", Tsuyoshi had an exasperated look on his face as he accepted what came next. The crash caused the nearby students to whisper about who these individuals are. "That's a hearty bunch if I've ever seen any", "How did she get that much control already?!", "Damm, that dude looks pretty handsome". Angela felt the pain from the crash and as she opened her eyes to take in the situation, Tsuyoshi was staring blankly at her, inches from her face.
"Are you alright?", Tsuyoshi asked.
Angela, blushing at the aftermath, rose up as quickly as she could sheepishly, "Yeah, hahahaha, that was just some weird crash, hahahaha, nothing deliberate or anything, hahahaha".
"What", Tsuyoshi responded.
In that same instance, a trail of fire entered the gate, stopping just beside the two individuals. "Aww man, you guys are just too fast", the orange-haired Tatsuo quipped pouting at the results of their race.
"You've been skipping out leg day, hahaha", Tsuyoshi mused at Tatsuo.
Tatsuo smiled sheepishly "Haha, I might've not been working out as usual".
"Serves you right for making us wait", Angela smuging, folded her arms and replied, "You'll never be as fast as Tsuyoshi at this rate"
"Heyy, what's that supposed to mean?" Tatsuo replied, clearly annoyed.
All students please make your way to the gymnasium for the morning assembly, a voice echoed across the campus from the P.A. intercom. "Oh, I guess it's time", Tatsuo focused his attention on the voice. The trio made their way to the gymnasium with the other students taking in what was around them the walls of the school had a blue and red coloring, with vibrant colors and decorations in place to welcome the new first years.
The teachers were also another special thing in the school, some of the teachers wore a black attire with an overcoat, those were the signature attire of Rogue Hunters. Other teachers were strange humanoid beings, there was a female cyan catlike person with purple spots across her body, another was a tall golem with granite coloring with a rune in place of the eyes and nose with the mouth being two symmetrical rocks that could open and close the crevice running horizontally. Another teacher had a metallic body with two spherical drones floating beside her, next to her was an elven person with a scar running across his face, on his arms and hair had runes inscribed into it. Aside from the Tetrian teachers, there were normal average human adults teaching in the school as well.
"Wow, this school is pretty diverse", Angela remarked as the trio stood in line with the rest of the students. "Yeah, I'll say, they even have a pretty cat person!", Tatsuo responded with a thoughtful serious look in his face. "Get your mind out of the gutter", Tsuyoshi replied as he elbowed Tatsuo while staring forward, knocking the wind out of him in the process. As the events went on for the duo, a person wearing a black overcoat with glasses walked up onto the stage. With a grin, he spoke into the microphone; "Welcome everyone to Integrity International High, for the new first years, we have an amazing event in store for you, for the rest of the years, it's good to have you back. I'm the Principal of this prestigious school, as well as the head of Squadron Alpha at Alliance, Adrian Klaus".
As the principal finished his welcome, the students were already buzzing in awe, the trio were looking up to the princial with zeal. "I hope we can become like him one day" Tsuyoshi whispered to Angela and Tatsuo. The principal resumed once more; "In this very school, we have a few of my fellow squad members who will be teaching in this school, so don't be alarmed if you see one of them in your class, hahaha", the principal joked, "We also have two new teachers here with us today who will be joining us from the Tetrian Realm, so please treat them with respect like you would to anyone else", he looked at the cyan cat lady and the metallic person who waved and smiled at everyone. "Firstly, some few things to announce, bear with me, for the first year students, Enhanced students have to go to the Atrium, don't worry there's no assessments yet. There you will be given a new Tetrian Delta System, TDS for short. The current devices given to you since kindergarten was only enough to help control your powers from going berserk till you were old enough, with these upgraded devices, we will be able to teach you on how to use it responsibly for everyday life to make it easier for both you and those around you. As for those pursuing to become Rogue Hunters such as myself, a version for learning how to summon your partner and learning TerraFusion will be available for you"
"Yes!, we're gonna get one step closer to our dream!" Tatsuo gleefully whispered to Angela and Tsuyoshi. "Pipe it down", Angela responded. "Sorries, couldn't hold my excitement" Tatsuo replied sheepishly with a wide grin. The principal resumed once more; "The second announcement, for today, we will be hosting a live match between the two top Enhanced students from the first year batch at the Atrium, this is just a spectacle for everyone to enjoy so please make your way to the Atrium!", the principal concluded. "Wait what", Angela panicked, "the only..top students this year were...oh no...", as she turned back to her friends, there was already a menacing aura surrounding Tsuyoshi and Tatsuo as they butted heads.
"SOOO, I gUeSs We DeCiDe WhO's StRoNgEr AfTeR aLl ThIs TiMe?" Tatsuo butted heats with Tsuyoshi with a grin on his face.
"NAHHH, OnLy TiMe WiLl TeLl" Tsuyoshi returned the headbutt with a wide smile across his face. Both of the boys were now headbutting each other as the students surrounding them started whispering in disbelief. "Boys", Angela sighed in disbelief at the spectacle.
"Alright, alright," a quirky robotic voice came over to them, "We're going to have a match soon, please follow me, my name is Miss GTU-00, but you can call me Miss Giut", she smiled at Tatsuo and Tsuyoshi as her two drones hovered around them curiously.
Tsuyoshi and Tatsuo walked across campus accompanied by the metallic Miss Giut, anticipating the battle that was to come. As they got closer to the mock Atrium building, Tatsuo piped a question to break ice with the teacher "Soo, Miss Giut, what do you teach here?", Miss Giut turned her head 180 degrees while walking to respond, "Ahh, I'm going to be mainly teaching geography, science and IT. Due to my abillities, my drones can become clones of me, allowing me to be in three places at once". Tsuyoshi was impressed, "Wow, that's actually amazing, are all Tetrians from the Metal Clan able to do that?" he asked. "No, no, just me, Tetrians each have their own unique abilities and the Enhanced partners whom we're summoned to have access to our ability as well", she replied with a soft smile.
"Wow, I wonder what my partner is like", Tatsuo wondered, "Same", Tsuyoshi responded. "What? The both of you haven't met your partners yet? Your powers are already active based on my scans" Miss Gruit inquired, "That's very strange, usually when a human undergoes Enhancement, they summon their Tetrian partner for the first time". "Yeah but we've had our powers since we were young kids if I recalled" Tatsuo responded. "Oh, we're here", Tsuyoshi redirected their attention to the Atrium building loud with music and cheering from many different students. Miss Griut handed both of them a metallic object, shaped like a smartphone with a blank glass.
"What's this?" Tatsuo questioned. "It's the TDS device", Miss Gruit responded, "unlike other primitive devices, it can serve all of their functions such as communication, information gathering as well as other functions such as ether reserve tracking, monitoring of vitals, summoning Tetrian partners, turning into specialized weapons and measuring ability strength and class."
"Wow, that's handy", Tsuyoshi responded. Miss Gruit continued, "For now, you'll need to infuse it with your ether, as each Enhanced has a unique ether aura, the TDS will respond only to the individual that infused their ether into it. Just focus and feel the energy flowing from the center of your body to the device."
With focused expressions, Tatsuo and Tsuyoshi centered and released a flow of energy. For Tatsuo, an orange aura radiated off his TDS and it turned a crimson-orange hue. For Tsuyoshi, a brazen brown aura radiiated off the TDS and turned into a rocky-brown shade. "Cool", both of them responded. Miss Gruit continued, "Awesome!, now both of you need to learn a few phrases the TDS responds to before you proceed!"
Meanwhile, amidst the cheering and loud music in the Atrium, Angela was having the jitters and shaking her leg. "What's taking them so long?, that's what you're thinking right?", Angela turned and a mature looking girl came standing beside her, "Mind if I sit next to you?, my name's Rei by the way", the girl inquired. "Sure thing, my name's Angela", Angela responded. The girl with purple hair sat down next to Angela, "Sorry for reading your mind earlier, I'm still trying to control it", Rei apologized. "Nah, it's alright, at least you can weed out fake bitches that way", Angela replied before laughing in union with Rei. "Never thought of it that way", Rei smiled, "Are they friends of yours?", she inquired. "Yeah, couple of knuckleheads but good people, why not hang out with us sometime?", Angela proposed. "Really?, you guys don't mind a psychic type like me?", Rei responded. "Nah, I'm sure they won't mind as well, don't worry, we'll be BFFs before you know it", Angela smiled. "Thank you", Rei responded with a smile.
"AND NOW FOR THE MATCH TO BEGIN!", the announcer cried out. "Ahh, it's beginning", Angela looked down at the battleground. From the left wing, Tsuyoshi came in with a different attire, a black suit similar to those of the Rogue Hunters, except it had a circuit design. The tightness of the suit highlighted Tsuyoshi's features, his abs, biceps, triceps and well-worked legs. From the right wing, Tatsuo strutted in the same attire, grinning widely as he felt the rush and thrill of the audience reverberating through him. "Alright, now to settle our draws once and for all",Tatsuo taunted, his hands ignited in flames with the air temperature dropping around him until a visible cold breath could be exhaled, taking in the heat from the surroundings as his flames grew brighter. "Yeah, let's see who's the stronger one once and for all", Tsuyoshi grinned, stomping once on the ground breaking the ground around him in a small radius, calling the stone to envelope him as he did earlier this morning. With the ether flowing through each of them, the circuits on their suits lighted up and took on the same color as their TDS respectively.
Both boys steeled themselves, eyeing each other and sizing one another up, hearts racing and pounding as the echoes of all the students cheering from the audience shook the stadium. As the protective dome activated, the announcer cried out, "LET THE BATTLE COMMENCE!"