Aoki Matsumoto is a student of Itachiyama junior high.

Some people are trying to debunk his video, while some genuinely wants to know how he did it. He became the talk of the town within hours. News coverages, interview offers and even talk show invitations piled up. You might be wondering who is this boy? What is this video about? well.

He can fly. Quite literally.

The details are blurry but he was filmed while saving a mother and her child from a failed parachute.

It's quite easy to assume ones daily life after such exposure and the discovery of said ability, or not. Aoki was still the same.

Apart from religious repercussions, the legitimacy of the fact did create naysayers more than supporters, but the majority that knows him did not care or didn't want to express it because of his family background.

Flight was just the smallest peice of the puzzle, the social media sensation will die out the next day or after, it always does. What lies ahead of him will change his life forever.

***

An evening after class he was dragged down into a dark alley and was cornered by four boys. They pinned him between two dumpsters filled with garbage.

"guys it's not voluntary, I wasn't focusing on anything, really, I somehow thrusted upwards"

Aoki mumbled while backing against the wall.

"that wouldn't do now, would it? Here's what you're going to do, hug kiske over here and shoot up this instant or else we all beat the shit out of you. Sounds good?"

One of them threatened Aoki.

Kiske came out in front of Aoki and opens up his arms ready to hug. He tilted his head up with an evil smirk while the others started giggling.

"guys seriously this is not at all a good idea, I've tried. I can only carry so much. Kiske is like, what a 100 kgs? That's way ou..."

Aoki continued to reason with them.

"So you're calling me fat?"

Kiske interrupted and punched Aoki.

"better watch your mouth "shitoki" scum bags like you will always remain inferior to me, don't run your mouth however you please you piece of shit. I don't care if you breath fire or fart rainbows.

You are a worthless worm, you'll always be the son of that bitch who killed her own father; freak!"

Kiske said and spat on the ground.

Aoki's moan echoed the dumpster filled back alley, reverberating around buildings and gaps.

Aoki held on to his bleeding noes and fell on his knees, dropping down. Laying on the floor side ways, he shut his eyes tight with pain.

why this is happening to me?

These delinquent jerks just wants to re administer their dominance over me. Kind of a reality check, so what if I'm a super, I'm still the same helpless, hopeless, weak, good for nothing outcast as always. Because...because I believe in you mom, no one else did...on one does. They think you're a murderer, but I believe you. Always will.

He remembers his mom's words at that instant.

"You will understand one day, why your grandpa is not here anymore. Not only that...you'll understand everything, why your father left, why I have to go now, all of it. I know this is hard Ao, it's hard for me too. You're the best thing that ever happened to me and it pains me to let you go"

She paused and held both of his cheeks with her bruised hands.

"behave and be a good boy. You're tolerant and humble so people may take advantage of that but keep in mind that you're stronger than all of them"

she said, lifted her hand and pointed to his fist and his heart. "both here and here" she showed.

"Ao, you are special, really special. You are not what people think you are, you yourself don't even know it yet. You will be entitled greatness. I promise you. believe in yourself!" She said

His memory fades after she was taken away in an ambulance. By remembering those very words, waves of trauma whaled over him.

Aoki's lips quivered, tears rolled down his cheeks, he heard the laughter of those bullies drilling his ears, he curled himself on the ground bringing his knees close to his chest and covering his face with his hands, while he felt thrashes of kicks on back of his body.

He opened his eyes slowly. Through his finger gaps he saw something in a distance, in between the buildings stood a cloaked figure with a hood. A strange person stood there just watching with folded hands while leaning against a wall, only shines of his red eyes were visible through the darkness inside his hood. Aoki expected him to come over to help but on second thoughts the man seemed scarier than the bullies.

One of the boy pulled Aoki's bag away from him.

"You want this? Then make Kiske fly," he taunted.

A gentle breeze blew by Aoki's ears, like someone's warm breath.

"THEN LETS MAKE HIM FLY!" A female voice whispered in Aoki's ears.

All of a sudden they stopped. Aoki was trying to get up, his face was a blank. A strong breeze blew all around them; dumpster doors closing shut with loud thuds.

The cloaked man unfolded his hands and stood stright. The wind got more violent by time, it revealed a few scars across his face as he held on to his hood from falling back.

"Mel, you idiot" he whispered.

The atmosphere dimmed due to the thunder clouds.

Aoki pushed his hands against the ground to get up.

But his palms were not touching the ground, he pushed against thin air and raised up. The strong wind gushed his hair down covering his eyes. His look evolved into something ominous. He stood up, both his feet being visibly contactless to the floor as he was slowly and steadily moving upwards to the point where he was most certainly. Levitating.

He turned towards his bag and the boy who was holding it.

"So if kiske flys ...you give me the bag, right?"

Aoki asked with a changed tone, almost seeming like someone else was talking along with him, like a double voice.

The boy nodded.

Aoki raised up looking down at the boys who were slowly backing away looking up at Aoki except for kiske, who was furious!

"Don't act all high and mighty you worthless bastard come down here and fly me"

Kiske shouted while taking a firm step forward.

"So kiske are you ready to hug me?"

Aoki asked...this time his voice was synchronised with a female's voice louder than before.

Kiske spread his arms like it was.his turn at an amusement park ride.

"No!"

The cloaked figure whispered.

Aoki moved Swiftly and grabbed kiske. He flew away really fast, so fast that his movements were unregistered by others, they just saw Aoki and kiske disappear right in front of them and they all looked around with immense confusion. Suddenly they heard kiske's screams of excitement from up above. Their confused faces changed, they clapped and cheered and pulled out their phones to started recording.

Both were a good 200 feet above the ground.

Aoki was neither speaking nor moving.

Kiske felt a little whiplash but he pulled it together.

He looked around holding on tight to Aoki, the hight with no fixed enforcement to stand on is scary to think of but it was thrilling at the same time. Kiske yelled a few more times and turned towards Aoki.

"Fly around you moron, this is boring, come on" he demanded.

Aoki stayed the same without responding to kiske.

Kiske was frightened a little, Aoki's 'vibe' was not reassuring to him.

"Okay then take me down this instant. I can't stand your breath"

He ordered him while hiding his nervousness.

Still nothing from Aoki.

People from the buildings near by stood on their balconies pointing at them and started talking to themselves.

Fear hit the ceiling within kiske.

"This isn't funny man. look, get me down I'll give you your bag, how about that, huh?"

Said kiske who was visibly scared.

Aoki looked at kiske with his eyes glowing green through his hair and a sinister grin on his face.

"Oh I have my bag with me alright"

Aoki said with the same female voice layered with his.

The boy who thought he was holding Aoki's bag realised he didn't have it anymore, which put an end to their fun.

Aoki removed his hands off of kiske, slowly.

He began to slip.

His amusement quickly turned into a terror.

Kiske continued to threaten Aoki with violence.

"you darn ugly pig; You still can't look past your fucking superiority complex even at the brink of death. You consider begging to me is so shameful that you rather die?"

Aoki said with the female voice dominating more this time.

The Cloaked figure is hesitant to interrupt for some reason he clinched his fists in anxiety.

"you.., you won't get away with this, You will pay if l die. Your life will be a living hell... I'll make sure of it, If you don't hold me, I... "

"Shut the fuck up" Aoki commanded.

" you're going to die, there's nothing to make sure of anymore. You know how I may let you live? Huh?... Beg. beg to me for my mercy, lick my boots while your down there you filthy dog. That's right, that is where you belong; hanging at my foot, holding for your dear life beneath me. Yeah, that's what you get, all these years kicking me around like a dog's chew toy. Now who's the low life?" Aoki said with intervels of heavy breathing.

"PLEASE!!!"

Kiske shouted.

"I beg you , you are right I'm all that you say now PLEASE just hold on to me, I'll give you anything"

Kiske begged holding on to Aoki's shoes.

Aoki looked down and stopped smiling. He glared at Kiske for a good minute.

He only heard one thing over and over again in his head at that very moment.

"You'll always be the son of that bitch who killed her own father; freak"

echoing in his mind.

And the face of kiske without an ounce of regret, Aoki imagined kiske smiling at him as he always does.

Enveloped in rage, Aoki was completely out of his mind at that moment. Anger and vengeance boiled within him.

"Die!"

He Said and remove his shoe using his other leg completely disconnecting himself from kiske, who fell down face first and screaming like an animal, he snapped a few electrical lines generating sparks.

The cloaked man disappeared and reappeared in front of Aoki.

"You went too far Mel"

He said and head butted him, releasing a shockwave of wind around them.

The green glow in Aoki's eyes vanished. His pupils rolled back and his lids closed. Aoki fell backwards unconscious.

Kiske hit the ground and his brain splattered all over the concrete floor, his steaming hot blood spreading around his head, his face appeared as if smashed under a hydraulic press, his skull broke open in multiple locations with brain matter sticking soaked in blood.

Kiske was dead.

All of his friends started screaming and crying while loosing their minds by witnessing instant death in a very close proximity.

The Cloaked man landed next to kiske's body with unconscious Aoki on his shoulder. He placed him down and removed his cloak. He was a bald man with a pony tail worth of hair behind his head, a scar going from above his right ear over his right eye till his left cheek was prominent, he was fairly muscular and lean, his clothes looked considerably outdated but still new, his upper body was covered what looked like darkly coloured fabric rolled around his body similar to a Bandage made of wool. And his lower bod had loose bits of the same fabric hanging, tight and rugged.

He sighed looking at the barely conscious boys and snapped both of his fingers..! Suddenly time stopped completely, except for him, birds frozen in the air, noise and wind everything stopped all around. It was unbearably calm. He walked up to those boys and placed his thumb finger on all three of their foreheads one by one, his finger was glowing all the while, then he went behind them and Karate chopped their heads. As his hand touched their hair, they disappeared. He made all of them disappear the same way, one after the other.

Later he turned towards Kiske's body, he slowly strolled around it observing and thinking. He then crouched down close to the head region and touched the pool of blood, which was still warm, he proceeded to draw a circle around the body using the same blood and moved away.

" Esrever emit yb eraper " He whispered.

All the blood coursed back into his body, the brain matter that came out of his head slipped back in and sealed the wound, his dented head plumped back into form and he was completely back to life in seconds. He made kiske disappear too. The man was worked up, he sighed and snapped both of his fingers again to resume everything. The flow of time continued without skipping a beat.

He turned to unconscious Aoki. "Seriously! I'm doing way more than what I signed up for"

***

Aoki felt the cold concrete floor on his exposed skin. He woke up to a twilight sky. He raised and looked around to realise that he was on a roof top of a building. He felt heavy headed. His vision was foggy which gradually got better, he rubbed his eyes and noticed the same cloaked man on top of a water tank looking down at the City.

Aoki slowly got up and tried to leave silently.

"AOKI MATSUMOTO"

The Cloaked man called.

Aoki stood where he was.

"I'm sorry that you had to save me from them, I truly appreciate your help but I should go now, I... I have to get back to my mom she's bedridden... and alone at home, it's getting dark now"

Aoki said quickly and bowed that was when he realised that the man somehow knew his name. His curiosity spiked a little but he was mostly scared and wanted to leave.

"I have to talk to you Aoki" the man said.

"Sir please, I don't want any trouble, I have nothing to offer you, they must have taken whatever I had as usual, today wasn't anything new"

"It seems like life is unfair" the man said casually

He paused and inhaled.

"Im not complaining, I've accepted this. After all, I'm living, walking, talking, eating 3 meals a day and have a chance to attend school. Not everyone can say that, I'm grateful for life as is but.. I've had enough for Today, I just want to go home. Please"

He said still bowed, tears dropping from his eyes.

The man stood up and floated down in front of him.

Aoki lifted his head as the man landed.

He was very much surprised and didn't know what to say.

"Am I seeing things?" Aoki said with gaps in between every word.

"No. You don't have the slightest idea of what's possible, do you? I was there and everywhere.. in every single day of your life. Well...most of it. for the last 17 years! I was non existent, alone, looking at you, expecting you to see me but... Nothing. You walked right through me. Until today. I know Aoki, I've seen it all, all that you have done, all that you have been through, I've seen, It's all going to end now" he said and walked closer.

"hear me out, I have a very important information for you Aoki, you are not who you think you are, greatness awaits you, you have been chosen by the gods as the successor to the most legendary line up of individuals known as the Eternal Tenjin. The protector of Heavensworth"

The man said with pride.

Aoki looked up to him with filled eyes as the man's speech about greatness reminded him of his mother's words, he knelt down in front of him and wiped his eyes with his shirt sleeve, and chuckled...

"Greatness?!"

He said with a warm smile. All this time he thought that those words were of a encouragement and only a display of motherly love similar to what everywhere recieves from their own but, now after hearing the same from someone else, makes it difference, those words actually meant something, the value of those words had Increased...greatly.

Aoki felt something, deep down. This strange situation felt more real than anything else in his entire life. So he wanted to believe it, believe him!

But there was much more to know.

"Wait. Who Are you?" he asked the man.

"I'm Tarou Zanguro an Airentine worrior, My attribute is time manipulation, I'm also the lieutenant of the 3rd defence team, I was dispatched here 17 years ago by my captain in attendance of the supreme Province"

Tarou said.

"What..?"

Aoki asked in utter cluelessness.

"I didn't understand a word you just said.

17 years?!, really?

Im overwhelmed with information right now!

"Wait but, wha ...h, okay all that seems like, unbelievable, but I can fly so. Nothing surprises me anymore. Still, You?!, ah my head hurts!" He cried

Aoki, walked back and forth with a lot of confusion, doubting weather any of this was real, he still had that gut feeling though. Aoki realised that he also got his real life to go back to.

What if none of this is real?

"sssssoooo I need some time to process this, Mr...Zanguro... sir?. But before all that I really need to get back home... It was nice meeting you"

Aoki Said as he turned around to leave.

Tarou held Aoki's hand and chopped on his head.

Reality warped, every source of light was elongated and stretched around them and everything other than light turned into darkness like the edges of a black hole.

"Waohaaahhh...noo..no WhAT iN ThE HeLl iS THiS"

Aoki yelled as it happened, he closed his eyes tightly, and when he opened, both of them were in his bedroom.

"Never do that ever again...!" said Aoki while breathing heavily. He sunk into his chair, and sighed.

The room was silent for a bit.

Aoki reflected on all the information.

"17 years, you were waiting, you had hope, you believed in me. Why? why did you waste away all those years here? For me? Who the fuck am I? Is it because I can fly? Am I an alien host or something?"

He asked Tarou, who looked outside the window with a gentle breeze on his face, relieved and relaxed.

"The answer to that is beyond both of us, and no, your not an alien host, but I'll tell you something, it wasn't my choice, the gods chose you and I'm just serving them, But in my 1764 years of life, those 17 felt really really long, You know what?, I wouldn't change a thing, I agree with the god's decision. You deserve to be the chosen one Aoki"

Tarou said as he climbed outside the window and looked at Aoki with a smiled. He jumped down on to the roof and walked over to the edge. Aoki followed him to the window and started asking.

"1764 years old? You..?"

"Wait"

Tarou interrupted and said.

"you are only going to have more and more questions as I speak, So get some rest, There's always a tomorrow"

Tarou disappeared with a smile.

He landed on another building afar and looked at Aoki from there.

"I like him"

A woman from behind said to Tarou.

"Is that why you made him kill his own classmate?"

Tarou asked without looking back.

"I was just getting used to being a mage's spirit again after a while, plus you covered for me perfectly, I knew you would. expelling me out of his body was rude though"

She said as she approached Tarou and placed her elbow on his shoulders..

"A mage will choose his spirit, he has zero experience what so ever, I'm not letting you near him until he learns to channel" Tarou said and slid away from her.

"Uhh whatever, Zanguro!"

She replied.

"Anything else Mel?"

Tarou asked.

"Oh yes. One of your colleague entered prime earth"

"Which one?"

"The worst one"

"I knew it, he's up to no good, I'm sure of it"

He said with frustration.

"Don't use "good" in the sentence to describing him"

Mel expressed.

"That's all the information I have, I'll be back when the spirit vacancy is open again, and quit stalking, 17 years wasn't enough for you?"

Mel said in a mocking tone and turned away.

"Did he really wanted to kill him or was it you?"

Tarou asked looking behind his shoulders slowly.

Mel stopped.

"I heightened his emotions, that's all, his mind was in his own control"

She said as she turned towards Tarou again.

"his mother is a very sensitive topic!, That's for sure, because he genuinely surprised me when he let that kid die"

She added.

"I wouldn't otherwise..."

"Yeah I know"

Tarou cut her off as she tried to justify.

Mel was flustered. He never interrupted her before.

"And Mel, keep your ears open, A portal mage has gone missing, There is also a prisoner on the loose, there could be a strike soon according to my calculations"

She listened carefully, jarred by his seriousness when it comes to Aoki, she nodded and disappeared with a blast of wind.

Tarou looked at Aoki's house as the lights in his room went off.

"Hinaro sama, He's all that you dreamt of and more! But..."

Tarou said to himself as he disappeared.

Shallow sea water sparkling in the sunshine.

An elf on a Pegasus was flying over it with a prisoner on its back, the horse flew low tracing a splash lines with its legs on the water surface.

It was flying towards a half submerge piece of Roman style architecture having white pillars holding the huge roof up barely. It was enormous in scale, also it was unevenly placed on the sea bed tilted to a side. The structure got even bigger as they approached.

They flew inside and landed on a stone raised from the water, the creature was refusing to go any further. The elf dismounted and pulled the prisoner down with him. Both jumped into the water and swam towards the steps leading to a higher level.

The elf climbed the stairs dragging the prisoner. they reached a tilted room, where the chandelier was hanging to the right, similarly everything in the room has been cornered to the right side exept for the throne on top of the podium where a man sat sipping on wine.

The man was a human in an old timy attire with a long over coat, his hair was perfectly combed, and his face was charming and pleasant. The elf threw the prisoner in front of him as he struggled to Balance himself. The prisoner rolled over and clashed into the furniture in the corner, the man in the chair chuckled. The elf was going to bring him back.

"Let him be" the man said.

"Who is he anyway?" he added.

"This is the portal mage we abducted, he was refusing to open the portal, he knows the coordinates to reach the time mage"

The elf explained.

"That "time mage" who has got an apprentice now, a Tenjin candidate, am I right?"

"that's our latest and reliable information sire"

The elf replied.

The man let go of his wine glass, it fell towards the pile of furniture, He stood up and his throne fell to the side too, he levitated while gesturing his hands on the prisoner. He telekinetically lifted the prisoner along with a chair and a cutlery knife. The prisoner floated in front of him on the chair and was fixed on the ground while being seated on it and the knife hovered pointed around his neck.

The man removed his over coat and dropped it. He lifted both his hands and screamed, the entire infrastructure was shaking. The base of it was slowly leveling to normality. The floor was gradually inclining to the center of gravity, he screamed louder applying more force while veins were visible on his forehead, the chandelier slowly pointed straight down and soon the ground was even and was available to stand without any discomfort. The man dropped his hands down and sighed. He looked up and cracked his neck.

"Ok. Now. Why won't you open a Portal, Mr portal opener?"

He asked with a joyful tone.

The prisoner with fear cried out.

"Please. Let me go, I don't want any part of this. I beg you, just let me go"

The man gestured the knife to stab the prisoner's hand. He screamed.

"Now, don't make me ask again" he said to the prisoner seriously this time.

"The location you're asking for already has a portal from Heavensworth. A planet can't have 2 portals opened on at the same time. That's catastrophic"

The prisoner said in pain.

"So what do you suggest us to do Mr portal opener? Because Useless people should be disposed of according to me"

He said as the knife went from his hand back in front of the prisoner's throat, he screamed again.

"Wait. wait! I can open a portal inside the current one, you can use the existing one to the same location"

The prisoner said as he cried in pain.

"Fear brings out the best ideas, doesn't it Armslong?"

The man asked.

"Yes sire" the elf replied.

"Now take this man to the Armoury and get him ready to make the portal as soon as possible. I'll crush that boy with my own bare hands and that will be just the curtain raiser of the massacre to come. This time, Hinaro sensei won't be there to stop me"

He said with a sinister smile.