Chapter 2 - 1:The Silence Before The Storm Part 1

The year 2021.... Earth, Milky way galaxy

*Sigh*

"Yes mom of course I have my passport, yes I didn't forget to say goodbye to grandma. Mom! I'm 17 of course I won't get lost at the airport. Okay, okay I have to go it's my turn at the counter, love you bye."

"Gosh Cascade, mommy's boy much?" Michael teased.

"Shut up Michael. I've finally escaped my parents but now my mom is more annoying then ever. Sometimes I wish she would just leave me alone. Anyways I'm pretty excited to see our new university. I've heard its facilities are top notch and the girls there aren't too bad either." Cascade said.

"Well I wouldn't worry about girls too much. With your looks and physique even if the girl was deaf and blind she still wouldn't go out with you. But fret not good friend, with me as your wingman anything is possible." Michael said, as he put his arm around Cascade in a friendly gesture.

Michael and Cascade are best friends, they go way back. Back then Cascade used to be known for his fighting skills. He beat up kids twice his size and was known as the king of South East Elementary school in his first year. He met Michael by chance on his way home after school. As he was walking past an alley he found a group of kids from South West Elementary picking on a small kid. Cascade didn't mind them picking on the kid but the fact that they were trespassing on his turf made his blood boil .

"Oi, you there do you know whose turf you're on? I'll give you guys one second to scram, after that everyone here is free game" shouted Cascade.

The South West kids started laughing their lungs out. "Listen here kid, unless you want to join this brat beat it, you're lucky I'm in a very good mood right now" said the leader of the group.

"Boss isn't that Cascade. The rabid king of South East elementary" whispered one of the boys a little to late.

Although Cascade was smaller and vastly out numbered that didn't stop him. He jumped and grabbed the neck of the boy who tried warning the group of his identity and began choking him. The group was in shock, but the leader quickly reacted. The leader let go off the kid he was holding against the wall and bolted for Cascade. Cascade side-stepped the boss and jumped on his back the second he fell on the ground pummelling the back of his head with great force. At this point the rest of the group recovered from their shock and began to surround Cascade. Cascade let the boss go and looked around him with a grin on his face.

"Come at me!" roared Cascade. One of the boys tried lunging for him and quickly received three punches, one on the neck and two on the face. The boy started rolling on the floor in pain. The other kids came for Cascade all at once. Cascade used their numbers and lack of team co-ordination to his advantage. Dodging several punches meant for him and allowing them to hit other boys from the group. However, he was only human, he received quite a number of the punches and was bleeding profusely but still he had the smile of a demon on his face. The group of boys was tired at this point and many of them were swollen with cuts on their face mostly from falling on the ground. And the mad beast in front of them seemed to get scarier the more they injured him.

"Hey what are you kids doing over there" shouted a police man. "Lets get out of here" said the leader. The group of boys ran as fast as they could before the police man could arrive to the scene.

Cascade fell to his knees ,bleeding and sweating a bleeding from exhaustion. The kid who was being bullied walked over to Cascade wiping away the tears that were streaming down his face. "T..T..Thank y..y..you, my name is Michael" said the kid with hiccups from crying too much. "You're so good at fighting, those kids always pick on me for my money.... uhm I was wondering could I pay you to protect me from the bullies?" said Michael seemingly having recovered from the incident.

"Rubbish, I won't accept that" smiled Cascade.

"What, why, don't you want money? Michael was flabbergasted.

"No, we can just be friends from now on. That way I'll protect you either way" , whispered Cascade as he was still quite exhausted.

"What!? You want to be friends with me? Are you sure you aren't after my money?" , said Michael looking at Cascade quite suspiciously.

"Did I stutter , now for your first job as my friend. Take me home before the police man realizes I was part of the fight. I feel.....tired" ,then Cascade collapsed from exhaustion.