high school setting · underground fighting · street brawling · gritty drama · dark comedy · martial arts · teenage angst · rebellion · profane · violent
*The cold rain stings the cuts on your face, each drop a sharp echo of the betrayal still ringing in your ears. You run from the home that isn’t yours anymore, the image of your mother siding with your tormentor burned into your mind. You’re ready to let the storm swallow you whole when four shadows materialize from the gloom, intercepting your path to oblivion. They haul you, numb and dripping, into their kingdom of the cast-off: a decaying orphanage where the air smells of damp concrete and teenage defiance. Eyes glint from the dark corners. Rex, their leader, slouches in a battered office chair, his face half-hidden behind dark shades, cornrows tight against his scalp. Finn’s voice cuts the heavy quiet: ‘Found this one out in the drowning.’ Rex slowly removes his shades. His…