ARC I: CULTURAL FEST

5:35 A.M.

Helbram's at the School’s Rooftop, sitting near the Water Tank.

Helbram, he has a black and indigo gradient on his hair. He is fair skinned and wears an eyepatch to his right eye.

The weather’s great and so is the temperature. In his surrounding’s, books and notebooks alike, are scattered messily.  The boy’s looking at the notebook with a ‘not-so-elegant’ handwriting saying:

“The Abomination”

It has a poorly drawn and rushed monster figure with notes in them. Helbram stares at it with a skeptical look.

“Abomination, huh?” He muttered. “All of Rose’s claims in regards to this monster, I believe I have written them in this notebook. Just so I could look it up to support my claim that it was never real to begin with.”

He looks at the Sacred Book with a Latin Text saying:

“Sacrae Litterae”

 He opened and read the Story of Creation.

The Story of Creation

In the beginning, there was a Supreme Being, a Supreme Deity. He’s the Light that illuminates darkness. He had 2 children; Rafaela the Nativity Deity, and Heil the Doom Deity. Their Father's splendor inspired the Siblings to create just like their Father.

The Father knows what his precious children wanted, thus, he entrusted a part of The Origin (Omni verse), which the Siblings named “Cosmos” later. Heil and Rafaela filled the Cosmos with their Ideas of Creation.

In their Father’s Will, the Earth and its System were created in 7 days.

Their deed is good; therefore, the Supreme Deity is pleased with them. Alas, gaining their Father's compliment is the Sibling's greatest achievement.

On Earth, a man named Liam, Rafaela's Masterpiece, is appointed as Earth's Shepherd. But the man is only one of his kind, thus, leading Heil built Maeve, Liam’s wife, and is bestowed life by Rafaela. Liam and Maeve lived happily ever, have 7 children that'll shape the present civilization of Earth.

This family of Shepherd thrived but— not for long.

Sin has entered the Earth, and its first prey are these Lovely couple. Leading their wonderful story to an unprecedented tragedy;

Maeve, the Wife of Liam, died in unnatural way.

The Supreme Deity summons his children and convict them.

"Who among thou hast murdered Maeve, the wife of Liam?" [spoken in Latin]

Their mouth was shut; thus, the Supreme Deity repeats his question. Without hesitation, Rafaela points at Heil. The Doom Deity paused and confessed.

"Rafaela's right Father, it is I who's responsible for Maeve's declining condition." He said. "I... Envied Rafaela. She can create life, erstwhile me, anything I touch, withered and— die." [spoken in Latin]

As he speaks, his body is crystallizing.

"I will seal your brother and when the Day of Judgment comes, Heil, the Deity of Doom, will be freed from his imprisonment and arise as your enemy." [spoken in Latin]

Heil looked at his sister.

“Depart from me, I no longer knew you." [spoken in Latin]

Heil’s completely crystallized and is imprisoned somewhere in The Origin (Omni verse), waiting patiently for the Judgement Day.

[Few pages turned]

In Judgement Day,

The long years that the Doom Deity imprisoned has ended. And his imminent return on Earth is nearing, to enact Judgement. His arrival will plunge the world in Peril as he is the Sovereign of Death, Time, and Emotion.

In the midst of trouble, Humanity's Savior, born in flesh and blood and is blessed by the Supreme Deity, will rise and stands valiantly in the face of 2 unstoppable forces;

The Doom Deity and “The Damned”

The Savior will protect Humanity till the very end, and His Blood will set the world in Peace and Cleansed the world tainted by the Sin that entered the world.”  

Back at Helbram…

Helbram scratches his head and checks the notebook containing the Abomination's info.

“Strange.” He said. “In the Sacred Book, I found no clue in regards to this Monster, The Abomination.”  

“Uum- wait!”

He rereads the Judgement Day chapter.

“Perhaps I’m wrong!”

“In the Judgement Day chapter, there’s this thing called ‘The Damned’. Does this creature associates with this monster?”

“The Abomination?”

He crosses his arms.

“Why does it feel like— the Sacred Book hides... something? As if some parts are deliberately hidden for futuristic reason?”

He stares again at the Notebook and let out a great sigh.

“Never mind! My stand remains unfazed; The Abomination is a myth, fabricated its story by those crazed heretics from that detestable Cult who worships the Doom Deity!” He slams the notebook aside. “They performed such blasphemy that stirrs confusion to the believers!”

He puts the Sacred Book beside him, gently.

“Tch! May those who spread false story be thrown in the pits of Tophet!

Helbram proceeds studying Basic Calculus.

6:45 A.M.

At Eastern Empire College — Main Campus, students are now entering the school's premises.

At the staircase, there's a tall teen male with Eyeglasses, heading towards the rooftop. The teen's name is Bryan. He looked around, searching for someone.

Bryan, he’s a tall chubby guy. He wears a circular pair of eyeglasses and a fox eye. He always has a runny nose.

"Where in Tophet is that guy? The Science class is about to start."

When he opened the door, he's at the rooftop.

"Hmm... this place is quiet, an ideal spot for chilling, and studying— especially that Water tank over there! Hehe! I'm definitely 100% he's there, resting!"

Bryan headed to that spot and he’s right; Helbram's sleeping, having his eye patch on. He clapped and woke him up.

"Huh? Explosion??!”

"Did I surprise ya?"

Helbram clicked his teeth. "Damn it, Bryan! I told you to stop doing that!"

Bryan scratches his hair, shyly. "Sorry, sorry.”

“Anyways, I hate to break it to ya but 1st period is almost up. It's time to go."

Bryan lend his hand and Helbram stood up. cleaned himself, and tidy his belongings.

"Geez! No need to tell me twice."

Bryan put his hands on his waist. "I know Science is your Bhae so—"

Helbram flinched and glares at Bryan. "Shu— shut up!"

Bryan’s leaving. "Whatever, you Science nerd."

6:30 A.M.

Inside the classroom, the setting is semi-circle with 4 rows, 9 columns. Each row is elevated 1.2 meters, stacked each. The room is well-lit and air-conditioned.

There, some of their classmates are seen talking, answering their assignments, some just arrived, and so on. Bryan sits at the front because he's a tall guy as for Helbram, he's sitting at the central part near the windows,

"I- I’m pretty sure I had a dream last night, but I can’t seem to remember? Also, I can’t believe I’m trying to make sense to Rose’s crazy belief about this monster called ‘The Abomination’. *yawn* Now, I’ve used my brain so early and it’s making me so… sleepy." his eyes all droopy.

7:00 A.M.

Finally, the school bell rings, 1st session starts.

Their teacher came in. "Good morning class! I'm Tyson Han, your Science teacher."

He's all cheerful while the whole class is quiet. He looks around for a bit.

"Is this G12-A, with a total of 29 students whose composed of 2 Strands, 12 STEM & 17 HUMSS?” He observes.

“Hmm... Seems like it. The records say so."

He took the records.

"I... have the official list here and I'll call your names as a form of attendance and confirmation. Pay attention or else I'll mark you absent."

*clears throat*

"Bryan V. Bourgeois?" , "Present!"

"Rose M. Elefteria?" , "Present!"

"Sydney K. Fleur?" , "Present!"

"Fredrick A. Hudson?" , "Present!"

Minutes later....

"Helbram M. Wilheim 21st?"

Just then, Helbram fell asleep and Sir Tyson keeps calling his name.

The rest of his classmates were looking at him, worried.

"Is Mr. Wilheim present?"

“Hey! Helbram, the teacher’s calling ya!” His seatmate wakes him up but the boy is fast asleep.

"MR. WILHEIM!!?" 

When Tyson’s voice raised, it disturbs Helbram’s nap and quickly stood up.

"PRESENT SIR!"

The teacher sighs and Helbram sits again, looking all sleepy.

"Alright, good morning once again class."

"Good morning Sir Han!"

And class session starts.

"Today's lesson is all about Combustion. So, anyone here kindly state the 3 components of fire?"

The class went silent.

"Well, this is expected. So, time to move on to my next strat." He mumbled and starts walking.

"Anyone?"

As Sir Tyson busy searching for students to answer his question, the surrounding classmates of Helbram starts gossiping.

"Hey, isn't that guy nicknamed 'Patched-eye' because he's been wearing eye patch since?" Student(1) gossips.

"True and none in campus seen what's behind that eye-patch though. Some are bold enough to ask Helbram’s little bro but no to avail! Some rumor spreads that there’s someone, claiming she accidentally glimpsed what’s behind in it.” Student(2) whispered.

“Eh? How fortunate of her! So, what did she say?” Student(1)’s intrigued.

“Hmm… She happens to be crazy one but she mentioned something that it is dated back to ancient belief, saying that his right eye portrays bad o—"

Student(2) halts when he saw their teacher drawing closer to Helbram.

It would seem their teacher found out he’s dozing in his class, again. He draws near, crossed his arms, and tapping his feet.

"Mr. Wilheim, how dare you doze off during my class!" The teacher slammed his hand to Helbram’s desk and he jolts.

"Si— sir Han?" Helbram looked at his teacher, confused.

"Mr. Wilheim, you sure had the audacity to sleep in my class. Is weekend not enough for you?" Helbram yawns and stand up.

"I'm sorry sir, it's just—" Helbram gone quiet, after all, it's his mistake.

"I apologize for dozing in your class, Sir Han."

He rubs his eyes and the teacher sighs once more.

"Alright, alright. I'll let this act of indiscipline slide. And may this act not repeat again during my lectures." *clears throat* "Anyways, since no one's gonna answer my question, I'll be asking you instead. Now, state the 3 components of fire, in order."

Students starts mumbling and—

"SILENCE!"

The class becomes quiet. Helbram look up and decided to answer.

"The 3 components of fire were: Oxygen, Fuel, and Heat. There's no specific order because it's a trigram of fire. You can't start fire if one of them is missing."

Tyson claps and the rest of the class were looking at Helbram.

"Well done, Mr. Wilheim. It seems you aren't slacking in your studies. Now, you may take your seat." The teacher leaves Helbram and now headed to the front.

"As what Mr. Wilheim said, those are the 3 components of fire. If you paid attention to his answer, there’s no specific order for they are trigram." Tyson faces them all, looked glad. "If any of the 3 is missing, you can't start a fire. *smile* Try understanding the fire drills and basic steps of putting out fire and which of the 3 comments were eliminated." Tyson takes a closer look to his watch.

"So that's it for today's session."

He grabbed his lesson plan and his belongings. "I'll be dismissing you early because there's an emergency meeting in regards to the Upcoming Cultural Fest.”

“Alright class, you are dismissed."

The science teacher left the room and the whole class celebrates. Bryan kept his belongings and about to leave but he glimpsed Helbram who fell asleep again. So, he approaches the slumbering man and wake him up.

"Hey, class is finally dismissed bro. Let's go at the cafeteria! The snacks on me!" He kindly offered.

Helbram's still sleepy. "I... need some 3 Iced... coffee."

Bryan helped him get up. "Yeah, I know. Time to sober you up man! You looked wrecked. So, is it about nightmares or your Clash of Belief with Rose again, haven't you?"

Helbram clicked his teeth, again.

"Don't even mention that! You knew already why I act like this."

Bryan giggles. "Anyway, let's go bro and let ya drink that caffeine for temporal boost!"

And so, the two of them now heading to the cafeteria.