[Michael pov]
Ptui!
Spiting blood from his mouth Michael tries to get up from the ground. His limbs were bruised and It was hard to stand but Michael was stubborn. His current 10 year old scrawny body looked like a skeleton due to insufficient meal.
Usually many orphan looked like him. He himself a orphan grown up in this hellhole. But older ones usually have some influence and fear over other.
'I hate them but they are strong'
Michael had some scruffle in the past with them and he is getting that result till this date.
'Fuck!, fucking bullies and their bloody cocksuckers'
Ptui!
'Fuck this garbage body..'
He can only blame himself for being weak.
Putting his bruised hands on the ground he gave pressure on them and tries to get up.
'Argh!'
Cleching his teeth he suppressed his groan and slowly got up on legs.
His face was aching from constant pain, his legs were wobbling. He felt like he could collapse in any moment.
Step, step, step,...
Taking slow steps Michael walked out of Alley. He looked around with cautions.
He saw children similar to him walking around alies, they have similar physique to himself.
'Pathetic'
He saw older better dressed people walking around the road and driving vehicles.
Some looked at him.
Their expression have no pity. They are telling him only one thing.
'Pathetic little fuckers'
He clenched his teeth and controlled his anger.
His eyes landed on one specific duo.
A mother and a child.
The child a little year below him walking on the road with clasping his hand together with the woman. He is smiling and telling something to the woman. The woman laughed and responded to him happily. They walked away and Michael only followed them with his eyes, Seeing the duo, unknown emotions stirred inside him.
The woman with child who walked past him looked back.
Her eyes held a emotion that stirred anger in him
Pity.
She looked at him with pity.
Anger bobbled in his eyes.
'How dare this woman pity me ?'
Clenching his fist he tries to suppress his anger.
He took a deep breath and release them.
'Pathetic fool'
'Laugable, an orphan dreaming of parents'
Sigh....
'Alright, no one here'
"Well, who care for a beggar ?"
Commenting himself he walked towards the road.
Step, step, step,...
After walking for some time he arrived near a building. It wasn't something grand, a simple two-story building.
Michael clenched his teeth and started to look cautiously near it. Seeing no one present near the building he sighed in relief and stared to take steps towards it. He walked towards the building's right corner and entered inside it's alley. Walking out of the alley he found himself in a yard. Many broken things were haphazard thrown on it. Turning to right he found a small cottage connected to the building. Seeing it completely intact Michael smiled. He walked inside and and sat down on the ground.
He laid on the ground slowly and looked at the roof of the cottage. Slowly his eyes turned blurry from exhaustion and pain. Closing his eyes he uttered a sentence before falling asleep.
"Good night, fucked up world".
_ _ _ _ _
Next day
Same things happened. Michael got beaten by other kids after he procured some food for himself. He got beat often because he is scrawny and weak.
He clenched and unclenched his fist few times.
'If I were a little bit longer in height...'
Other kid make fun of him.
He sighed and put that thought back in his mind. He got up and started to walk when...
Looking forward he suddenly freeze on his step.
Something out of ordinary happened today.
He saw a person standing near him leaning on the wall.
Michael's mind froze.
He slowly took step back.
The middle-aged man chuckled.
Gulp....
Neither of them said nothing. Sometimes passed. Impatiently, Michael opened his mouth.
"What do you want..., Mister ?"
The man chuckled again.
"Guess ?"
Michael was already thinking what a person want from a nobody like him. He narrowed his eyes when he comes upon a conclusion.
'Is he a trafficker ?'
His heartbeat quickened.
Michael looked around for any escape route.
'The wall is blocking me from behind. There is no windows or gap high enough for my battered body to climb'
Michael looked at the stranger. He was standing on the middle of the alley.
'He has already cornered me. Nowhere to escape..., dammit!'
Seeing Michael's frantic reaction the man laughed.
"Don't worry kid, I'm not here to harming your rather..."
He grinned.
"I'll take you in"
Michael become confused.
'H-huh ?'
'Is he crazy ?'
He didn't let his guard down. Keeping vigilant eyes on the man he asked.
"What does that mean ?"
The man sighed. He picked up a stone from the ground and showed it to Michael.
"Look here kid. If I was to harm you..."
Michael frowned and looked at the stone in his hand.
Boom!
The stone broke and it's fragments scattered everywhere.
"Then I would have done it already by now"
Michael's eyes widened. He gulped down his saliva while looking at the broken stone.
'He is a superhuman. I wasn't able to escape from the start even if I wanted to....'
Michael relaxed his posture a little and looked at the man's eyes.
"what do you want from me?"
The man sighed again.
"Kid I've already told you that I'm going to take under me, should is repeat again ?"
Michael immediately spoke.
"I'm nobody"
"You're expecting something from me by adoption"
His eyes become deep.
"So, what do you expecting from me by taking me under you ?"
The man's lips twitched.
"Hahahaha~, good. You're pass"
"As for your question...."
The man paused for a little. He looked at the sector. His face somber.
"I want to create a organisation in this rut and I want your help with that"
'organisation ?'
'Is this guy nuts ?'
"What type of organisation ?"
The man put his hand on chin.
"Hmm..., it is not strictly a organisation but like a firm where we keep the 'sow'...., is that satisfy your question ?"
Michael looked at the Man if he is joking but his serious expression say the same things. Unknowingly Michael's lips also twisted.
'Well, let's see what is in for me then ?'
Michael relaxed his posture and walked at the man. Arriving near him Michael locked his gaze with the stranger.
"I'm Michael"
The man looked at him with a smile. Then he opened his mouth.
"Alright, Michael you can call me hmm....., Oldman"
'Oldman ?. Should I had also given him a fake name too ?'
Michael shaked his head and addressed Oldman again.
"It will be a pleasure working with you Oldman"
Oldman grinned. He turned back and started to walk.
"Follow me"
Michael looked at his back for sometime then he started to follow him.
_ _ _ _ _ _
Michael learned many things from Oldman. He taught Michael how to read and write also how to deal with the bullies. Slowly Michael grown attached to him.
He also no longer live in the cottage. After he started to followed the Oldman he begins to live with him. Michael had gone to his cottage few day after living with the Oldman but found it broken. Everything he piled has disappeared.
"Well, there was nothing significant in there to begin with"
But he felt angry for his broken cottage. He searched for the bullies and found some. He beat them up and asked who destroyed his cottage. Only to found nothing. The beat up bullies doesn't know who wrecked his cottage.
Oldman's house was bigger then his cottage. The oldman was living in one of the tallest building in their sector.
'Wow, everything changed like it was a dream. Did I made a deal with the devil ?'
Bullies also no longer bothered him.
Michael searched them. He found some but they ran away seeing him. He wanted to take revenge but seeing fear in their eyes he simply changed his mind and decided not to pursue them anymore.
"They will have some use in the future"
The Oldman told him.
After that he didn't bothered searching them. He started to work out under the guidance of Oldman.
Time passed. Michael turned into fifteen years old. He was no longer a skinny and small boy from the past. He has turned into a Lethe and tall teen.
Michael also slowly got idea what Oldman has told to him from before.
Slowly, when Michael turned fifteen. His doubt become clear when he saw the old man in his room.