The Earth After Rebirth

This frustrated their interrogators. That\'s why they were using foul language, because they weren\'t getting what they wanted. They knew it wouldn\'t reflect well on them. They absolutely wanted to impress the principal.

"You kids have no idea, you have no idea how far we are allowed to go with physical punishments."

Loki, LJ and Matthew watched this from the safety of their headquarters, which was just the pair\'s room. Loki was quite sure that they\'d tell on who put them up to this.

They were surprised when the two of them took the beatings the three guys were giving them. They looked in horror as there was even a bit of blood.

"Are they even allowed to do that?"

"It doesn\'t matter, we will have all of this recording. Maybe this school will have a change of its own." Loki smirked, impressed that the two would rather be beaten black and blue instead of throwing Loki under the bus.

His mouth widened at seeing such loyalty from people he didn\'t even know prior, people who\'ve only heard about his little influence and decided they wanted to follow him to the death, it was strange, but he allowed it.

He wasn\'t the idiot everyone thought he was. He\'d done some things and ended up eavesdropping on his brother and his friend one time.

He had unwittingly learned about the sanctum, not the name itself, no. Just that there was definitely a secret society that ran their world in the shadows. And that his brother was planning to destroy it from the roots.

That\'s why he was kind of recruiting, only the most loyal of the bunch. Only those who were absolutely without a doubt, trustworthy. Nobody but himself knew within his group of friends and he didn\'t intend to tell them.

He wanted more than anything to help Yuri by bringing their father back. He obviously wasn\'t sure, but the fact that there was a glimpse of hope made his insides warm and grateful.

His brother didn\'t know it but there were ways to get around the house without getting caught and their rooms seemed to be connected more than any other rooms in the estate. So he always had to pass there before going on his dumb adventures.

He\'d noticed his brothers change of course but he wasn\'t exactly too interested in that. His adventures turned into something else the day he overheard Kiro and Hiro, speaking in code.

It was not easy for him to catch on, but the more he heard their many conversations the more it made sense to him. And the more he wanted to do something about it.

The things he did in school may look like random mischief to people who weren\'t him. But he knew that, the secret society must have people high up in society controlling everything, he wanted to investigate who those people were.

Though seeing the kids being tortured for simply being out of bed when they shouldn\'t be made Loki skeptical about principal Hale. He didn\'t suspect her before, but he did now.

He was also sure that getting the tape out to the world would do little to help. As the principal would simply just blame her henchmen, and deny any involvement whatsoever.

\'She\'s definitely a smart witch. She was present when the chase took place, but now that they need to torture for information she steps out so that this doesn\'t come back to her.\'

"Oh my words. There\'s blood, Loki, do something!"

Loki didn\'t know what to do, if they went out now they\'d be caught, making the hard work of not talking Julio and Jason had accumulated over the hours useless.

But one thing was on their side, the sun was rising. They\'ll soon be able to go out of their rooms, and not breaking any school rules.

"We will leave to them the moment the clock turns to 7."

No student was allowed to be out of bed and about before 7am. They were very strict about this, their only saving grace was this. Loki was sure of it.

Thanks to his drone the size of a fly, he knew exactly where they should go. He knew they\'d look suspicious finding the place but he didn\'t care about that now, they hadn\'t talked. He needed to rescue the two allies that were still refusing to talk.

They still walked the halls with utmost distrust. Even though it was well past 7 in the morning, they couldn\'t be sure that this wasn\'t a trap either to catch him.

The torturers clearly wanted to bust Loki, a Waynworth. There was definitely something amiss, something much more to what met the eye.

They arrived at the door and dumbly opened it.

"Oops, I thought this was the—wait what is this?" Loki asked, pretending this sight was foreign to him.

"What the hell, kid, go back if you don\'t want to be in the same position as them!" The man was angry and tired and sleepy. So he snapped at the first sight of other kids.

"You\'re, you\'re torturing them!" He yelled louder, still pretending.

"There are intruders!" LJ played her part too, and she hit the alarm which went haywire.

Most within the school, whether they be staff or students, were still just waking up around these times. So the sudden alarm awoke them right proper.

Running outside thinking there was truly an intruder. The three men ran out of the window, their cover was blown so they had to play the part of being the criminals they were being accused of being. This would make it easier on Principal Hale.

Sure enough, she arrived right after their escape. She was already barking orders, on the phone telling, what Loki supposed were fake policemen, to find whoever snuck into the school and tortured some students.

He was grinning from ear to ear, satisfied that it turned out in his favour. He quickly ran to the comrades that refused to run their mouths, he untied them and saluted them for a job well done.

"Are we, are we now part of your brotherhood?"

"That\'s not what it\'s called, but you went through all that, that\'s really the first question you want to know?" Loki was shocked.

"Of course, we endured because of it after all." Julio shrugged.

"Alright, yes, you\'re part of us. We are also a part of you. We are now one, nothing can separate us but ourselves. Loyalty was the first test, but can we endure what life throws at us?" Loki whispered a little motivation, hoping they didn\'t run away when the time came, when the real time came.

"Yes sir!" They both cited.

"By the way, if we aren\'t the brotherhood, then what are we?" Jason asked confused.

"I don\'t exactly know, I guess that then?" Loki looked to LJ, thinking she would be against such a name but she nodded agreeing.

"It\'s settled then."

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"Isn\'t that Loki\'s school on the news?" Freya asked concern plagued her face. She almost dropped the two children that were clinging for dear life on their mother\'s arms.

"Goodness, can\'t our kids be safe anywhere. I thought the school was a really safe place!" Sekani complained, with a bitter and annoyed expression on his face.

They watched as the news told them what happened and how it happened, as explained by their principal. While she ensured every parent that none of that would ever happen again.

That she was upgrading the security system. To ensure that their kids were safe, so they needn\'t worry, or try to get their kids out of the school.

Freya sighed. She wasn\'t sure what to do anymore, she was certain though that, getting them out and homeschooling them was a much bad idea. So they decided to take a chance at the school again.

Plus Loki told them he wasn\'t going anywhere when they called and told him their thoughts. They decided to respect their child\'s wishes. And let him enroll for a lot longer.

Sekani was happy at home with his wife and his four new children. He wasn\'t sure if he wanted to ever go back to work again. Philip was doing a much better job, taking care of the plant and the employees.

Their butler, Wilfred, occasionally went there for him to check if Philip wasn\'t messing up and bringing in girls. But Philip was very grateful for his second chance at life, he wasn\'t going to ruin it for anything at all.

So he diligently worked to better the plant and its employees. This gave Sekani a very much needed break to take care of his wife and children.