The new kid

Midnight Blaze was walking through the town of Preston, lonely and also a bit depressed, mainly because of everything that had happened to him that day.

It was getting to be that bad that he had a mental list.

1. Picked on again because of his name

2. Picked on for not being as strong as everyone else

3. Beaten up and tossed into a bin full of the schools rotting garbage

4. Made fun of in class for answering one question right (I mean seriously ONE!)

5. Being suspended for finally being tired of Mat Johnson bullying no one but himself and smashing him in the face with a chair.

and last but not least getting thrown out of the care home for no reason at all.

His parents had died in a hit n run when he was younger, apparently his father had tried to stop them peacefully by talking to them and was shot in the face, his mother had gone into a fit of rage and had run at the men, she was trained in karate so she had broken one of the men's necks, she was then shot in the stomach by one of his accomplices  who was wielding a shotgun, they died in that bank and Midnight was sent to live at the local orphanage.

The people that were supposed to 'look after him' beat him, ignored him and basically forgot that he existed. All of the other kids that were there hated him, the smaller kids that were under six didn't really understand why nobody liked him and they probably didn't care, the older ones that were usually in their teens would push him over while they were walking, beat him up when nobody was looking (not that they would have cared) and overall make his life a living hell.

School was pretty much the same, he got good grades (A+'s and A*'s) but the teachers didn't seem to care. All of the nerds stayed away from him and all the jocks bullied and hit him. When he walked past any girl they would laugh at him and move to join others in a group.

Apart from that life, was great!

He was wearing some black skinny jeans, grey t-shirt, a hoody with the hood pulled up and some small boots.

He had been walking for at least an hour now only stopping to look for cars before crossing the occasional road. Why did life hate him? It was like everything he did and everything he tried to achieve was crushed, destroyed and finally dropped in the bin, blocked off from the world.

Well at least he had something to look forward to, his only friends, Crimson inferno and Teal cyclone had told him to meet them at their usual spot, which was a rundown park near the overgrown part of the city, telling him that they had something to show him that would brighten up his day.

Considering all that had happened today and the fact that it was 10:30 at night that seemed highly unlikely.

As he approached the few bushes that cover the entrance to their secret den he heard a massive 'SPLASH' he ran through only to see a few minor ripples coming from the pools center.

Next to the water inside a hole in an unbelievably tall tree was a piece of paper attached via a piece of sellotape with a symbol for fire, wind and darkness emblazoned on it.

This was the tape that he and his friends had made together, it was manufactured so that they would know whether a letter was junk or from each other, yes it may have seemed babyish but hey it was handy when the others were on holiday with their family going to parties and getting hot chicks to go back with them so they could errrrr errrrrm anyway getting back to the story.

Midnight walked over to the tree and pulled off the note it read, 'Midnight, what you are about to read is extremely important. Now you may have heard us jump into the lake, no, we have not just committed suicide, we have traveled to where we came from originally, we did not tell you much about ourselves for a reason and that is because we are not from your world'

"not from my world, what the hell is that supposed to mean", he said quietly to himself

'Yes like we said not from your world now shut up and read on, we originally came to your world because we wanted to explore,unfortunately the portal only connected to one place,(which was a bit of a downer) so we decided to explore, that's when we met you and because our names were different to standard ones ,much like yours, we thought that we would hang out with you, now we know what you've been going through and we know it's been tough but, we promise that if you jump through the portal (which is the pool), everything will get a lot better.

Crimson and Teal'

Midnight was left with the derpiest look on his face (not dissing derpy hooves in any way, shape or form)

"Okay I am really confused right now. So, my friends are from another dimension and if I want everything to get better I have to jump into a murky, disgusting pool probably filled to the max with viruses and parasites"

He thought about for a good few minutes.

Ok so i have no family, everyone here hates me and i'm homeless, I guess I have nothing else to lose.... but what if something goes wrong, what if I don't go through the portal and I drown, that wouldn't be very nice.

No you know what I trust my friends.

"Okay well then here goes nothing"

He stepped back a few feet and then ran as fast as he could towards the pool.

"YOLOOOOOOO"

For a few seconds he fell and then a white light engulfed him and he was left completely unconscious.