Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Eh... oh well... Its been so long. My laptop has been confiscated by my dad thanks to my sister's PSLE so it took a while for me to find an alternative... Ah... I've been busy. Im supposed to write out this Zhan Tai Feng Piece for Chinese Orchestra for the performance... Heheh and I still havent write finish yet heheh. Anyway, I watched the entire series of Naruto le and now waiting for the Naruto Shippudden 27 to come out. I've bought a Sasuke Pocket watch yeah! It costs about $20. I bought it in Comics connection and it was really nice! I was thinking of buying the Kakashi one because the inside was artistic but the picture outside was Kakashi without any expression and I thought it might be better to buy the Sasuke one even tho the inside was abit cartoonish... Ah well... enough of all this. TO the Story!
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It was the first time Karl toured the school with a friend... well... at least with some company. Aries seemed excited about this and she was not, and has not done anything annoying yet so Karl didnt mind her company. It could be the best time for him to get to know his new school better too.
" Hey Aries. " Karl started the conversation.
" Yeah? "
" Err... Do you... err... know... anything... about..." Karl stammered abit. "... about... about this school? " He wasnt proud he didnt know anything about the school. He was expecting Aries to give a surprised look too, but it seems Aries, somehow or rather, was expecting the question.
" Hmm... Lets see..." Aries stopped by a bridge above a small pond. " Well, this school is formed 12 years ago. The main school was formed earlier though. The main school is situated in Japan Tokyo and its called 'Tokyo school of Rare and Practitioned Arts'. There had been rumours about a major crime incident which took place there and this school was probably set up to either deal with the chaos or probably set up here for investigation. Ah but you do not have to know that. Just rumours."
" Then, do you know what we will be studying in this school? " Karl felt really stupid asking these questions. Everybody should have known about this...
" You dont know? Well, I guess its abit complexed, but you've asked the right person." Aries still did not look surprised, just abit 'trying to show off' sort of attitude. "Everything we need to know will be taught in the first year so theres no need to worry. In the second year, we will be training on our specialties so that we can be streamed to where we want to go. There will be 3 main streams. Sports stream, arts stream and science stream. If you feel that you do not solely belong to one stream, you could choose the mixed stream. It is a stream which many look down upon though. However, theres another stream which is the combatter's stream. It is unique to this school only. It is a stream which only elites, top of the elites, can enter."
"Combatters stream?"
"Yes. Its sort of like commander training or what you call army training or something like that. Usually, students of other schools are only allowed under strict circumstances to enter combatter's training after completing the four years of education. They have to obtain top grades in order to enter. The normal route to enter is to complete tertiary education and get in through an entrance exam. So this school is very special. It is granted permission to set up a combatter's stream so that 14 year olds can enter."
"Its a strange school." Karl murmurred. He had never heard of such streaming, well, of course he hadnt since this was a special case. Usually boys in Singapore enter the army at 18, well, if tertiary education meant the polytechnics, they go in at 19. But still, entering the army at 14?
"Yeah it is." Aries agreed. " Oh, tell you something interesting." She smirked.
It caught Karl's attention. "What?"
"Do you know the first and second year student campus is separated from the third and fourth's? The combatters stream students also have their very own separated campus? The third and fourth year's campus is a few times larger than ours and the combatters stream's campus is the largest. It is a few times larger than the third and fourth year's campus. The whole school is so huge that even its students might get lost in it."
"Wow." Karl could not think of any other things to say. Besides, how big is Pulau Tekong anyway?
"And so, they laid down a special map of the entire school. Due to previous students taking it and made a mess out of the third and fourth year campus, they kept all the maps and hidden it somewhere in the school. Its such a waste. I wanted to see it." Aries complained. " I wonder where it could be hidden?"
"Well, why dont we just tour our compound first?" Karl didnt seem interested. "It seems we will take some time to tour our school too. We could have already graduated from year two on to year three before we could even familiarise ourselves with this compound. Theres no need to hurry."
Aries gave a grunt and continued walking on with Karl. She didnt seem satisfied with the response but she did not complain. They continued on the touring with Aries silent all the way. And when they were walking towards the school's activity centre, something, or someone seemed to have caught Aries' eye. It was a boy. He had grey eyes and long silver highlighted hair tied up in the ends and he was leaning cross-armed against the wall. He seemed to have thrown a glance at Aries before disappearing into the shadows of the corridor. Karl had not noticed the boy since he was busy inspecting the school's facilities and admiring the view.
"I'll be back soon!" Aries shouted cheerfully and suddenly to the unexpecting Karl and sprinted away in a flash before the surprised Karl could even turn to face her, leaving him wondering what had happened.
Meanwhile, in the darkness of an alley, two shadowy figures met up at a junction at the same time. It wasnt long before the third figure appeared. The first figure, supposingly a boy started to speak, "You... Its going too fast."
The second figure, supposingly female, replied "I think its fine. He wont notice. The faster the better."
"No." The third figure, a man, finally spoke. "No. Go according to plan. No extras. Understood?"
"Understood.", a unison answer by the girl and boy and the three figures immediately dispersed.
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