Almost the whole group of school faculty members all ran towards a classroom that, even from a distance, could be heard with all the commotion that was happening inside.
All of them had given all their best to run; some were leading the way, who were actually quite faster than the other ones, since those who were a little bit slow and having a hard time to catch up with their colleagues were a bit over weight.
Through their attempt to reach for the class, they could still hear the noise that was coming from the class. There were screams, something banging against whatever it was that was banging against.
When they were close to reaching the class, at the far safe distance, they saw the teacher of that classroom standing outside, leaning against the door and looking all afraid. They rushed to her, and one of the faculty members helped her step away from the door.
He must have been the one leading the group, because when he removed her away from the door, he handed her to her colleagues, and they didn't protest, they just took her. And when it was time to open the door to see what exactly was going on inside there, the principal hesitated when he reached out his hand to touch the door knob. He froze for a moment, and his hand was actually shaking.
Since he was the boss and leader, he had no other choice but to be the one who actually does open the door, because before he got the courage that he needed, he first turned his head around and looked at his colleagues to see who was the one feeling so brave to take this kind of weight from him. But all of them stepped back, and some even nodded off, while others used each other as shields.
The principal took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and managed to calm himself down, which really did help him, cause he did stop shaking, and he opened the door.
And once he opened the door, what he saw seemed so surreal, as he fully opened the whole door.
The principal saw a classroom full of students lying down on the floor, all of them beaten, battered, and bruised. Some were even groaning in so much pain, touching parts of their bodies that were actually broken. From that state, it seemed more like their bodies were torn, just like their clothes.
When he raised his eyes to look around, the principal saw one boy who was left standing tall, finishing off one last classmate. Sure, he too was a little bit beaten and bruised, but compared to him and the other students, who were the ones who looked like they needed emergency help, to him it seemed more like a stratch.
And the name of the boy who was left as the last man standing was known as Neo.
After kicking the last remaining student, whom he sent flying against the chalkboard wall, by the way, Neo went to take a chair so he can sit down.
After he did so, Neo took the chair and placed it in the centre of the students' bodies, and he sat down, raised his head, and looked at the principal and his faculty members that were standing right behind him, and Neo have them a satisfactory grim.
They didn't know what to do. The principal was not only speechless but also helpless, that the only thing he could do right now during this moment was just gulp.
After the whole unexplainable situation, Neo was expelled from school, and when he stepped out in the school yard, all the students that he had beaten were either being attended by the paramedics. The others were so badly hurt they had to be pushed with a stretcher, and Neo saw a girl who had locked eyes with him. Then he continued with his exit.
He reached his home gate, and he really didn't seem like a person who was concerned on how or even where was he going to start explaining things to his parents.
Neo didn't even bother to open the gate so that he can get in. He simply just jumped over it and walked on towards the house.
When he looked around, everything felt off and different. First things first, the curtains and windows were all closed, which was something odd, because his mother loved to open them, and around this time she would be standing in the kitchen sink and washing the dishes.
Even outside, the clothes were just left there in their basin, and not hanged to the line, which was something of an everyday thing when it came to Neo's family to washing, all thanks to Neo, who, by the way, this wasn't his first rodeo.
Neo always came home after fighting someone, somewhere, and it didn't matter if it was his peers, his teachers, or even strangers he came across. Neo's clothes were always stained with blood. Now, the funny thing was, it wasn't even his blood, but the blood of his opponents.
All the little things that he saw that were definitely out of place, Neo didn't think much of it, because he was also tired. After all, taking on a class of a number of a group of students around twenty wasn't a walk in the park.
So he just reached the door and opened it.
"Before you start asking me questions, just give me a chance to change out of these school clothes, and let me eat first and turn on my video game."
Neo told his parents, even before he raised his head to see what was really happening.
Once he finally raised his head, Neo saw something so devastating that no child should see, even for a child like him. His parents were lying cold on the floor in the pool of their own blood and not moving.
Neo felt his whole world crumble into a million pieces.
"Mom, dad?"
He couldn't believe his eyes.
He dropped his bag and ran to check on his parents. Once he got next to them, he didn't even think of checking their pulses. He just tried to wake them up.
"Mom, dad, please wake up."
Neo was now crying, not knowing what to do. His parents were not responding to him, and once he turned them around and made them face up, was way more devastating than the sight he first saw them when he got there.
Both his parents were slashed opened with cuts that he'd never thought he would see first hand. His father was slashed twice on his chest with a slash mark of x, and his mother just once, but her slash would was bigger. It started from her shoulder to her waist.
And there was also some kind of black mist eminating from their wounds.
"Who did this to you? Come on, tell me!"
Neo asked his parents, but it was hopeless, because it wasn't like they were going to answer him.
Just as he was trying to figure out what had happened to his parents and who was the monster who was the reason behind all this monstrosity,
The door was shut closed behind him, and when he turned his head to look who was the one who did that.
Before Neo could actually see who was the person behind all of this, he started to look at him from his shoes, which were really stylish alligator skin shoes, and as he raised his head and studied him all the way to his face.
Neo saw an old man wearing a priest's garment, but his was a little bit different from the ordinary garment. His was more like a black and white striped suit, and the man's hands were covered in blood. In his mouth was a blood stained cigarette, and on his hand there was a walking cane that was dripping and drooling with blood.
And, and from the type of structure, it was obvious that it was the one that caused those slashes to his parents.
"Well, well, well, we finally get a chance to get acquainted, kid. My name is—."
Right even before he could finish off introducing himself,
Neo cut him short.
"Are you the one responsible for doing this to my parents?"
"Huh, where are your manners, kid? You didn't even allow me to formally introduce myself."
The old man was surprised.
"I don't give a rat's ass about your name, so I'll ask you one more time. Are you the asshole who did this to my parents?"
Neo was facing down the first time he asked that question, but now he slowly raised his head and gave the old man one disturbing look.
"And if I was, what are you going to do to me?"
The old man got serious.
Neo put down his mother and father down gently and put them to together.
Then he got up, looked at the old man.
"I asked because I'm going to fucken kill you!"
Neo didn't waste any time after that. He actually ran towards the old guy.