The boat docked.
The water had really been the fastest route they could take.
The port was extremely busy as people walked up and down, boarding huge ships while some well built men hauled huge vessels into their containers.
"We've arrived at civilization," Ryan said pleased.
Their boat struck dry land making them all jolt forward.
Ethan was the first to jump out of the boat, unto the white sandy beach.
Some people threw them curious stares but that was it, they still went on about on their way.
Simply because this was Herotapolis, and weird things happened so it wasn't a strange sight to see five teenage kids jumping out of a rickety boat.
Andrew had smartly advised them to put on the clothes they had on when Aiden left them off in the jungle.
In this way they all had their code colors on, along
"Hey Suzanne!" Annabelle rushed to Suzanne's desk.Suzanne kept her books inside her bag."Let's go home, I'm ready," Suzanne said looking at her."No..., no time for that! C'mon! Let's go quickly before it's all filled up!" Annabelle said breathlessly and grabbed Suzanne's wrist and yanked her out of their classroom.Annabelle ran across the hallway, pulling Suzanne along.The hallway was unusally crowded as people were headed the same direction as Annabelle.Annabelle roughly shoved some people aside as she made her way through until they got to the front.It was rowdy as lots of people were yelling at each other, shoving themselves as they held their pens.What's happening? Suzanne wondered with wide eyes as she saw Ethan holding a fistful of someone's cloth angrily. A senior that was in C-rank was t
The doorbell of Suzanne's house rang.Shane who was eating chips while watching some football as it was Saturday groaned as the doorbell rang again."Go away!" He yelled.He didn't want to get up and open the door, he couldn't even get up to grab the remote to change the channel away from the sports channel he kept.He felt like watching documentary but due to his laziness he refused to get off the futon he laid on.Though the remote was on the center table he was too lazy to reach for it.He had a huge bag of chips opened beside him and a can of malt by the futon on the floor where he could easily reach it. A pizza box was lying on the futon as well.The doorbell rang again.Shane groaned aloud.He and Suzanne were the only ones around as their parents had earlier gone to a couple’s program and they were
Suzanne groaned and kept her head on the desk.Ethan curiously peered at her, leaning over in the process to see her face as she had the back of her head turned to him."Suzanne?" Ethan called.They were all locked in a class as Aiden had given them all a time-out when he caught them stalking him.He was standing behind the classroom door waiting for the time he would release them.Ashley walked to the window.Even though they were being punished she was satisfied she had found out the true identity of the girl.She was Aiden's girlfriend.Ryan glared at Ashley angrily.He on the other hand wasn't happy about being punished by Aiden. Apart from the fact that he was their CIN, he was also a sort of elder brother to him."I'm really disappointed in all of you. Especially you
Andrew walked to the window and looked out of it. He wasn't seeing the scene before him but the scene of what happened eight years ago."Big brother," Andrew raced into Asher's room.Asher was packing his bag. His Squad, Squad 7 were supposed to supervise some kids camping in the woods. Asher faced his younger brother with a smile. "Andrew, what's up Champ?" He grinned. Andrew plopped down on his brother's single bed.Andrew made a face. "Are you really going on the camping trip? Why don't you just stay home with me?" Andrew asked with a small pout. Asher laughed. Andrew always acted differently when they were alone, freer. But when with his mates or other outsiders he tends to be curt and reserved.
The alarm clock beeped.A brunette stirred lazily on the bed. She tried to find the snooze button all to no avail.She clenched her hand into a fist and knocked the alarm clock away from her bedside table, sending it up in the air and crashing into her room's wall, making a big dent and destroying the alarm clock along with it.Suzanne turned to her other side to resume her sleep.This was Herotapolis, where the heroes lived.In this city there lived real, breathing heroes. You could tell already by the name of the city right?Hero League was an organization that pooled together normal people and trained them to become heroes. From chasing of bank robbers to extinguishing of fires inburning buildings, to serving as body guards to important people as well as getting stranded animals down from trees, or odd places, the heroes were ever available.&
"CIN! CIN!!" Ethan shouted in an excited tone.Aiden faced him. "What?" he asked indifferently."Say, when do we get our first mission?!" Ethan asked with a big grin."That's right!" Suzanne stood up from the desk she sat on. She moved to where Aiden was seated."When's our first mission CIN?!" she asked leaning a bit closer to him.Aiden rolled his eyes."Back away," he told her, frowning slightly.She laughed nervously and stepped back a few paces.Andrew continued using his laptop, unconcerned.Ryan rolled his eyes. "Suzanne, you act like you'll even add any good contribution when we're given a mission. You know you're quite a disturbance," he said.Ashley turned to him and clasped her hands around one of Ryan's.He raised a quizzical eyebrow at her.&nb
"Good morning LIN!" Ashley bowed shortly.Alex patted her head as he walked by. The rest greeted him with less vigour, Andrew way less than the others."I suppose you are Squad 10, aren't you?" he looked at them."Yup! That's us all right!" Ethan affirmed, smiling widely.Alex adjusted his glasses and smiled back at him. He turned to them all. "Okay then. Let's get down to business as I have somewhere else to be."Suzanne moved a little closer to him.Andrew rested his chin on his palm.Alex looked very serious now."Squad 10, you have been assigned a class C-mission file!" He brought forth the file he was holding.Ashleys' eyes glowed with pride. She and Ethan exchanged excited looks."All five members are needed for the total completion of this mission. A report on the mission must be mad
"Here!" Ashley closed her eyes and smiled as she handed over an ice cream cone to Ryan.He looked at the vanilla flavored ice cream she held out for him to collect."What?" he asked in confusion.Ashley was one human being that confused him so much.She opened her eyes and blinked, "It's yours!""Why?" Ryan questioned her, annoyed. They came to the park to solve a case not to bask in the warmth of the sunshine."Cos I got it for you, silly!" She laughed."You wasted your money," he snorted coldly and looked the other way.Ethan folded his pants up to his knees and plunged into the frosty fountain water.He folded up his blue shirt sleeves and crouched to pick the pennies that had been thrown into the water.Andrew was already using a device to track footprints beside the berry