The Earth After Rebirth

Kids from that age were the same everywhere. Although rich folks clipped it sooner than most poor folks. Instead, they mostly taught their kids superiority complexes.

But here was Loki and LJ toppling the status quo that existed within the school, making rich kids relearn the ways their parents advised them against.

Thanks to being the younger brother of a \'famous\' person within their country, they didn\'t mind making him their leader. Loki\'s roommate, Matthew was amongst the kids who followed him around.

Even though it was like this, he didn\'t treat them like they were lesser beings, his brother had longed warned him to never let this luxurious life get into his head. It was one of the things he promised himself that, he would do.

And because there were so many kids who wanted to be part of his inner circle, he devised a plan. Since he didn\'t want to outright reject them, he made it so that they had to pass various tasks he would personally assign to them.

The other kid who bowed in front of him, receiving his task introduced himself as Jason Whitmore. Loki had insisted he stopped bowing but he refused him every time. Since he was bulkier and seemed way older than thirteen, Loki let him do whatever he pleased.

"What did you say your name was again?" He was referring to the transfer kid.

"I\'m Julio Kyi, a second year and would love to serve under you sir." The kid repeated without missing a beat, he\'d clearly practised well before coming here.

Loki gave them the task. They were absolutely forbidden going around the school at night. Loki ordered them to break into the library and bring them a very specific book. They disappeared the moment he told them what to do.

Amongst the things he\'d bought back home, one of them was a little drone, the size of a fly. He decided to use that, to see if they followed through.

"You think they\'ll pull it off?" LJ asked looking at the small screen, showing two individuals walking like they were paranoid.

"I bet you anything that Mrs. Hale will bust them, there\'s no way they\'ll be able to pull it off. I don\'t even know if the book exists, I just made up a name on the spot." He said grinning.

LJ licked her lips, impressed. Her eyes never leaving the screen.

They were simply kids, they were easily entertained by extremely dumb things. He let Matthew join him as a courtesy of being his roommate, he couldn\'t leave LJ, they fought a lot but they were like bread and butter. They were very good at causing havoc together.

Walking in a crouched manner, Julio decided to take the lead. Jason was simply too big, he lacked the stealth and agility to perform what Julio could.

He\'d be faster to get out of the way and hide in small spaces if they encounter someone they shouldn\'t.

The school felt very dead and strange at night. The lights, all of them were off, in the corridors. Their only source of light was the ones coming from the rooms they passed.

"Warning. Warning. Warning. Students out of bed."

A shrieking sound alarmed the whole school. It wasn\'t anything they anticipated, they at most guessed that there would be a human caretaker, not a robot.

"Wh-what should we do?" Jason asked stuttering, he looked back from where they came. Red lights came and went, he wasn\'t sure whether to abandon the mission.

"You can go back, I\'m seeing this through." Julio didn\'t wait for his partner to convince him otherwise, as he sprinted forwards.

It didn\'t matter now if their footsteps were heard, the principal was coming. The alarm masked them well though, it wasn\'t something they needed to worry themselves over.

"Jul—that damned idiot. Dammit." He said through gritted teeth, following suit.

He could faintly hear footsteps hurrying behind him. That\'s when he decided, he was going to go through with it no matter what. He sprinted after Julio, who was already turning a corner.

They were still very new so they weren\'t sure where the library was. By a stroke of luck, the door to it stood right in front of them. Julio was working hard to pick the lock.

"Hurry, hurry, they\'re here already."

The lock clicked, they quickly entered, closing the door behind them shut. They didn\'t stop running until they were behind giant book shelves. They waited.

They weren\'t sure that someone wouldn\'t enter here while they were looking for some book. Sure enough, the principal and her people didn\'t want to leave any stones unturned, they opened the library.

"Show yourselves, I know you\'re in here. Your punishment will be much harsher if we have to go through the whole library to look for you." She threatened, standing at the door, in her night gown.

Jason was ready to give himself up but Julio held him back and slowly rose a finger to his mouth, telling him to shut up.

They couldn\'t even hear themselves breathe, their hearts were rummaging in their ribcage, as if they were at risk of dying from too much blood pumping in that lone moment.

"Not coming out, are you? Then I guess I\'ll just have to come in and find you myself." She warned.

When her threats were met with absolute silence, she sighed heavily, not wanting to give up but the thought of going through the giant shelves just to find a couple of rebels seemed like a lot of work for her. She wasn\'t even sure they were indeed in there.

"Maybe they\'re not here." She whispered to her companion.

"Maybe, the door was locked. I don\'t know any rich kid who can pick locks." A much deeper voice responded to her, seemingly tired and angry that they had to wake up for this.

"You\'d be surprised." She licked her lips, as if reminiscent of something that happened a long time ago.

Like that, they closed the library door back up. The fading footsteps didn\'t convince them to start moving.

A whole five minutes passed before they could breathe freely. They sat on the library floor, laughing. The rush of almost getting caught was absolutely addictive, they felt more alive than they\'d ever felt in their lives.

"I thought my heart was gonna explode!" Jason said in a much better mood.

"Same here, that, that was something. Hopefully, this is something that awaits for us, as we\'re being inducted to Loki\'s faction." He said breathing heavier.

"Faction? There are factions in this school?"

"Yes, and Loki\'s is the newest one. I\'m sure others don\'t like that, but they can\'t do anything about it, he\'s Kiro\'s little brother."

"Kiro? That rumour is true?"

"I think it is." He shrugged, helping himself up by pushing against the big shelf.

They started looking. They had no idea how the library was set up. They started checking by alphabetical order.

But they soon realised that, the books were put there by genre and in alphabetical order. They realised that, they had no idea what genre the book was.

"You take that side, I\'ll take this side." Julio told him.

They split and started looking. It was nearing midnight when they finally stumbled upon \'Dawn at sunset\'.

"Isn\'t this an erotic novel?" Jason was confused.

Julio laughed maniacally, Loki didn\'t seem like the type that would read such novels, so this was surprising in a good way. He was truly a rebel through and through in his eyes.

"You sent them there to get an erotic novel?" Matthew\'s sides hurt from laughing at the scene unfolding at the small screen they surrounded.

"I didn\'t even know it existed." He said, his face crimson from blushing too hard.

He may know what happened in those kinds of books, but his mind was still very immature to think about those things properly. So he was red from shame, and utter embarrassment.

"Didn\'t you say they\'d get caught?" LJ said giving him a sinister smile.

"Hehe." That\'s all Loki managed to get out.

The pair in the library contemplated opening the book but they decided against it. It was now time to head back, they supposed the alarm would ring again, but they figured they could just run like madmen.

Julio did the same thing, he picked the lock and a minute later they stepped out of library. Feeling very accomplished.

"Okay, we have to be careful, maybe there\'s a way not to trigger the alarm." Julio whispered.

"I wouldn\'t be so sure about that!" A stern voice said from behind.

They were both frozen where they stood, they couldn\'t even turn their heads. Their legs betrayed them as they refused to move from the fear of getting caught.