"Haaa…. haaa…"
"Am I… huff.. Am I—"
"Safe? How far have I run?"
With a dark atmosphere and the moonlight shining. The light reflected the boy with a thin body as a rake and a pair of fearful eyes as he was being hunted down.The pavement jolted against the boy's feet as he ran, heart pounding in his chest like a drum. The boy kept running until he ran out of breath. He stops for a while and continues running as far as he can and the moon keeps following him all along. He stumbled and fell down to the ground.
"I want to live…. ahhh, I want to live," he spoke in a breathless voice. With his body touching the ground, he raised his hand to the sky as he tried to reach the stars falling and twinkling on a gloomy night illuminated by a waxing crescent.
With his exhaustion he fell asleep soundly under a dreamy night. Hour after hour he has been sleeping, a light piercing his eyes showing that the sun had risen to replace the night. The boy woke up from his place with a growling stomach. "Where should I go? I need to find something to eat first" as he starts walking, he realizes the surroundings as the light reveals it. The green trees illuminated the beautiful morning as if nothing had happened the day before.
The boy kept walking past tree by tree to find fruit where he could temporarily fill his tiny stomach. But not finding a single one. "What's going on, I'm not eaten for the last 15 days, I can't stand it anymore," he complained.
Walking and walking for 15 minutes, he heard the sounds of many people like a market selling food and other goods. His delighted shone on his face. He ran as hard as he could to reach the voice, following it like an ant seeing sugar in the ground.The further he went, the louder the blatant sound became.
"Almost…. Almost, ha.. ha.. ha.." he passed the trees and branches that blocked his path. The bright light comes out of the magnificent city with people bustling about buying goods, delicious food to munch on and vehicles passing by on the road with ear-splitting honking. As the boy goes to the store to find the food that he wants, not knowing the people looking him upside down as he's doing something. With his clothes torn to shreds, his pants are holey and barefoot. His face, hands, and feet were full of dirt and he was so emaciated that his bones were visible.
Without paying attention, he continued walking and went to a shop that sold meat whose smoke alone could make his stomach rumble and his tongue drool just by smelling it. With his dirty hands, he grasped one of the meats served on the table. As no one noticed it, the boy stuffed it in his shirt and started to run away.
"AAAAHHH…..THIEF ... .THAT'S THE DIRT BOY WHO STOLE IT," the screams of a girl who saw it. Such a loud voice was heard throughout the town. People began to focus their attention on the boy. He panicked and ran away with the meat he had stolen, but the shop owner noticed and took action first.
"THE EVERLASTING HANDS " the voice that came from behind the boy. With many hands wrapped around his body, hindering movement and the hand pulled the boy so that he fell to the ground. "Huh… what's going on?" It turned out to be the owner of the shop. He approached the boy and pulled his shirt until the boy was lifted into the sky without his feet touching the ground again and the meat inside his shirt fell down. " Woi brats, who do you think you are dealing with? Do you think you can steal it from me, huh? If you want it so bad, take it as a reward from me."The owner stepped on the meat until it split open with dirt from his shoes. As he kicks his stomach and he throws him to the earth, the boy covers his stomach with his kneel as he's in cramps. With all of the people watching around doing nothing and trying to stop it. The owner goes back to his store and the boy gets up from his place with the dirt meat beside him.
He crouched low, his eyes locked onto his meal. Without hesitation, he leaned in, biting directly into the meat, his teeth sinking into the tender flesh. A slight growl rumbled from his throat as he tore off a piece, chewing quickly before tilting his head to grip another bite. "Disgusting" comes from the mouths of the people watching it. Makes them amuse and throw up seeing him gobble up food like that. The police have come to that place, " here officer, he'sthe one who stole it" the girl from before comes back with the officer with her side. But it's not ordinary police who used to wear a coat and dress appropriately like a policeman, but his clothes are high-tech with small, smooth nano-types without any gaps and blue and white colors like the police usually wear. The nano magnet comes from his hand and he's thrown it and it is stuck to the boy's hand so he can't move. The boy fell down onto the meat he was eating with both hands as if in handcuffs. The police approached him and he picked up the boy. Suddenly-
"Arrrghhh…" the boy turned around and kicked the policeman right in the shoulder. With the unexpected kick causing the officer to release his hand from his shirt. " So you want to play with me boy, COME." a disparaging remark to the boy with a sarcastic smile. " Aaahh ... .I'm full, now I can serve you, fool." The boy jumped and continued to kick the policeman in the same place using his skinny leg. But the kick was blocked and his leg was caught and thrown far away, falling to the ground. The boy immediately got up again and ran recklessly to attack again. The officer used his super high speed punch straight to the boy but he was able to dodge it quickly and followed up with a roundhouse kick that hit the officer's calf causing the cop to fall to his knees. Many residents saw the incident and were astonished by the boy who had not dared to do anything in front of the butcher shop owner before, but among those people there was a man who was just watching from the corner of the alley.
"Hmm… Not bad" said the mysterious man.
As the boy ran away, not even getting 20 meters, the magnet in his hand pulled him back as if he hadn't moved forward and fell down. The officer behind him strangled the boy who was on the ground and the nano magnet that was in his hand was now also around his neck and when the policeman was about to reach his leg to do the same thing but the boy reacted first by kicking the officer in the face. Making the policeman even angrier and punching him with a strong punch right in the boy's face and he took his leg by force but the boy still didn't want to give in by moving his leg in and out, left and right and the police continued to break his skinny leg which only showed the clearly bent bone of his leg.
"AAAAHHHHHHH…. IT HURTS" said the boy who is in pain where it takes months to be able to walk again. The boy fainted and the police picked him up and were about to take him away. "So it his destiny… same like others" as he about to looking back and leaving that place—
"AARRGHH…" the boy woke up from his fainting and bit his hand where it was on his shirt and after releasing the officer's hand, he immediately got up using his legs and the strange thing was that his right leg, which was broken earlier was showing the bones, now it was as normal as if his leg wasn't broken. That made the mysterious man shocked. With heavy breathing, the boy did not run away but wanted to fight back!! " Ohh so you want to fight back HUH!!." with a wrathful face, he used his magnet and!!
"DOMINATION OF— Huh.."
A beautiful and charming butterfly suddenly appeared in front of them but " Paper butterfly ??" Without him realizing it, there were lots of colorful origami papers all around him. Each of them started to attack recklessly but it did not have any impact on the officer. "huh what's going on, these stupid paper just deprived me"
The mysterious man appeared out of nowhere behind the boy and just "clicked" His flicked the nano officer's shirt and it flew away like a piece of paper, leaving only the shirt inside. "Bastard… youuu!!." Embarrassed by the public's gaze, he continued to punch the man, but it only went through the flying origami paper and the man was right behind the policeman.
"how sad…always people like you who get it. They never learned so that's why we never stop" the origami that had blindly attacked him before, suddenly came out of his eyes with such force that blood spurted out. "AAAHH MY EYES MY EYES" and without stopping the origami coming out from his body also. He's looking like origami that's about to be formed back and without hesitation the man immediately swung his hand at the officer's stomach and it flew like paper, his stomach was hollow, separating his upper and lower body, making the policeman cry in fear and immediately stop in silence as he die miserably without can speak his last word. The boy can't speak a thing as he watches it the whole event occurs in front of him. Local residents who saw the incident instantly panicked and screamed, fleeing the place until chaos ensued but the boy remained at the place. " Oi… brats, what's your name? "
"I am REYS'A"