Time Turner

The CDC's captain along with Henry were surprised with his progress in the practice fight. He might not be as good as Henry as of yet, but the Captain praised him for having his own fighting style after only a little over a week after joining the club. Four days had passed since they had debated about Harloz in the Art Gallery.

Since then, Vianzo was a bit too easy to irritate, especially when Frans decided it's a good time to tease the other teen. In return, the smacks that Frans got, were also harder than the usual one.

After the arguments four days ago, Alfizar couldn't shake off the weird feeling. Something told him that he forgot something, something important.

The captain cleared him for the Combat Simulation and he finally got his own Nerve Suit! They might think that he was good in fighting, but the truth is, Alfizar recently recovered a lot of fighting visions. And what he unconsciously displayed them was not really a fighting technique, but a mere reflex and muscle memories from the visions.

That helped Alfizar a lot with his progress. His endurance and stamina improved greatly with the help of his Aura control. This confused Henry to no end.

But a simple mention of Aura made the 'older brother' shut up.

Alfizar was currently trying his new Nerve Suit in the changing room, though his mind was not really there since he kept trying to recall the "memories" .

And a really old memory came back to him.

***

It was years ago, when Alfizar was merely a five years old happy boy; he was in a private party with his parents and little sister, but he was currently alone in the beautiful garden behind the lively mansion.

Well, he was not really alone. There were some other children, their parents were probably inside the mansion. It might seem like a party, but the conversation going on between the a.d.u.l.ts were just like a meeting between shareholders of the company.

The party has already been going for over 2 hours, they should be done anytime soon. Alfizar were already bored because he had nothing to do. He was sitting on a swinging chair happily, but he suddenly heard a child's voice crying out in pain.

Being the curious little boy he was, of course he looked for the source of the painful cry. Soon enough, he found a crying boy. Alfizar was not exactly quiet when he approached the crying boy, soon the dirty blonde haired boy looked up at Alfizar, sure enough, his brown eyes were red and still leaking tears.

But what caught his attention the most was that, the boy, who was probably also a five years old, had his small hands up on his quickly bruising cheek. Not far from there, Alfizar could see a retreating back of a man wearing a fancy black suit.

Ah, wasn't this boy the one who keep trying to talk and following him around an hour ago? What happened to him? Did his father hit him?

Alfizar approached the boy hesitantly.

"Are you alright?" Alfizar crouched down. The looks full of anger directed at him full force, Alfizar was surprised, what did he do to be the receiving end of that anger-filled stare?

"It's you!" The boy shouted angrily as he shoved Alfizar back. Then he quickly stood and avoid Alfizar like plague, he pointed at Alfizar with an accusing finger as Alfizar regained his footing and stood up.

"You should have just talk to me before! Why did you leave suddenly like that?! See?! Because of you, he hit me!!" At this point, the young Alfizar was really confused. What does it have anything to do with the boy getting hit by his dad, and him leaving the boy alone was because he was so annoying?

"Of course I will leave, my mom called for me." The boy did not bought the 'innocent' excuse Alfizar suddenly brought up. It's not like he could just say, you were so annoying back then, so obviously I would just leave, right?

"Vi! What are you-" Another boy suddenly ran to where they were standing, but he stopped his sentence midway when his eyes landed on the boy's bruised cheek. The boy shrieked in shock. "Your dad hit you again?!" He quickly fussed over the crying boy.

Unfortunately, his good intention was replied with an angry glare.

"Stop it, Har!" Vi snapped at Har, he slapped the hands away harshly then he ran from the garden to get away from Alfizar and Had. Har could only retract his hands with a sad face. Har looked at Alfizar with a short sorry look before he went after the blonde boy.

***

Alfizar was a little taken aback, that memory was a really old memory, he was probably just a few years old and didn't understand a lot of things. And it's really odd that he suddenly remembered such an old memory.

Though, both boy looked really familiar. Then again, it was a memory, of course it was familiar.

Alfizar remember after that day, the blonde boy kept trying to befriend him with a really rude manner, especially when he blamed Alfizar every single time his father hit him. Alfizar couldn't stand that accusing eyes and mouth, so he always tried to get away from the blonde boy when he saw him. Soon, a year passed by with Alfizar avoiding the blonde boy along with his friend, Har, as if they were virus.

After a year, Vi stopped appearing in front of him and Alfizar didn't really think much about it, he thought that the blonde boy had finally gave up.

And now that he remembered, how's Vi right now? Har also disappeared not long after. Were they alright?

Alfizar shook his head, kept thinking about the past distracted him from doing his club's activity. His body went on Autopilot as he tried his new Nerve Suit. Suddenly, his phone rang. Naturally, he picked it up.

"Brother! I completed it!" A happy voice from the other side of the phone said. Hearing the news Alfizar smiled widely, finally they were going to find the culprit! Aurina told him to meet her in the Tech Club.

"I'll be there with my friends!"

He quickly hung up, then sent some messages to his friends to CDC's room. He speedily changed back to his clothes and store away his nerve suit in his assigned locker.

Soon, Alfizar with his friends quickly made their way to Tech Club. He was impatient, especially Vianzo after the arguments few days ago.

Without knocking, they opened the door to Aurina's workshop with much anticipation.

"Aurina?" Alfizar's voice called out. But there's no one in the room answered him.