Fillion Drake's Room
Bianca slowly rises from the bed.
"Are you sure your okay?" I ask
"Am fine Valerus. Thank you." Bianca smiles.
"Are you sure now I dont wanna-"
SMACK
"OWW" Ezekiel yells. "What was that for man?"
"You are so oblivious man" Jericho says. "We'll be waiting outside." Jericho drags Ezekiel outside like a lion picking up its cub.
"Thank you again. Professor Fillion" I said in a sincere tone.
"Your welcome Valerus."
"Thank you professor." Bianca bows in gratitude.
"Please please save your thanks"
We prepare to leave the room.
"So what are the plans now?" Fillion asks.
"To bring Bianca home." Erielle says.
"Wait you guys-."
"We have too. It seems like someone is out to get you. We have too stay by you side." She said.
"I agree with Erielle all five of you guys would be best. Maybe you can confront this stalker."
"Here's the thing though, this stalker is supposedly untractable too the normal" I respond.
"Untractable like invisible or camouflage? " Fillion asks concern.
"Is there a problem professor."
"No no. Just please be safe and stick together."
"We will see you tomorrow professor." i said.
"See you soon." he smiles.
SHUT
Fillion's smiles fades as they leave as he walks over too his desk with the needle taken from Biancas arm sits in transparent cup.
Picking up the cup he examines the needle further.
"Forze. Your poison has gotten stronger. That means there all back" he says to himself.
Fillion puts his hands over his mouth like a cup "Ecko. Percival Caldwell."
Outside the school by the entrance
"Really he showed concern when you said that?" Jericho asks.
"Yeah like he was in shock almost. Like he knew?" I said.
"Why wouldnt he want us to know? What wouldnt he want us to know?" Erielle wonders.
"There's something he's not telling us. Like the needle."
"Needle?" Me and Erielle wondered.
"Yeah there was a needle he removed from Bianca's arm. He did very quickly while Ezekiel was doing that gullible challenge thing."
"That was stupid test. However it did my hunger." Ezekiel responds.
"How did you feel it Bianca?" I asked.
"It just felt like a mossiqutto but I quickly dismissed it and thought it would subside overnight. When I arrived at school this morning I felt slight fatigue which is never the case because I sleep early. When noon time hit I talked to Professor Ariana about it she said to head stay hydrated and visit the nurses office. The fatigue went away and I felt normal not until I meet up with you guys after homeroom where I started to feel a slight light headed and feverish."
We all nod and listen.
"The good part is that your okay. Bad part that stalker is still out there." Ezekiel says.
"Ezekiel is right we have to stay on guard from here on." Jericho adds.
"We should accompany you from here until we arrive at your home." Erielle says.
"Its for your safety." I add.
"Okay."
We create a formation around her.
Myself and Erielle in front of her with Jericho and Ezekiel watching the rear.
We enter the backstreets of Oriana. The sun sets as shadows gets casts over the buildings leaving the last of the sunlight hitting partial parts of the homes in between where we were walking.
The vibe of the area feels different.
We watch every corner above the buildings within the connecting streets.
SNIFF SNIFF
Ezekiel sniff's around.
"Stop"
Everyone gets ready in a stance.
SWHOOSH
A dart like objects nearly misses Bianca.
"Where did that come from?!" I yell.
I frantically look around too see where it came from.
SWOOSH
KICK
Ezekiel kicks the dart away with a kick.
"How are you-"
"Mana" Jericho says.
I look at everyones eyes as they have a light gloss too them.
"Step to your right. Valerus dodge" Bianca demands.
I listen as I hear a brief clank on the floor. I looked down as it appeared to be a very thin dart and inside and very thin needle.
"This is the culprit" Erielle says.
"We just gotta find out where he's hiding."
"I got them now" Forze says clinging too a nearby building. "They dont know what will hit them."
"Haha you all look so ridiculous." a voice says.
Everyone averts too there attention too a rooftop where a sole figure wearing a hooded robe that covers his face.
"Thats gotta be him." Ezekiel says as he charges in jumping up at the target.
"Ezekiel wait!" Erielle yells.
AHHHHH
KICK
The hooded figure kicks Ezekiel in the face in the meantime backflipping back onto the building they were on.
Ezekiel comes crashing down.
"Oh no" Bianca says as she puts her hands too the ground creating a green magic circle where Ezekiel was about to land. Giant balls of cotton the size basketball form from the magic circle cushioning the fall.
"Soft" Ezekiel says as he lays in them.
"Who are you? The Phantom Order? The Stalker."
"HAAHA. The hooded figure laughs again. "Am not a member of the Phantom Order or The Five Deadly Venoms."
"Five deadly Venoms?" I question.
"Really are you all that behind. Are mages from Aiz really that stupid?"
"What did you say." Erielle asks.
"Who is this guy?" Forze asks himself.
Erielle materlizes into light as she instantly teleports.
The hooded figure stands there and yawns as he reveals that he has a dagger in his right hand.
"Why violence?"
CLASH
Erielle 's rapier clashes with the dagger.
"Woah your pretty fast. Erielle ."
"How do you know my name?" she asks.
"What you dont even recongize your fellow classmate. Am truly heartbroken."
"How am I supposed to know that when you dont even show your face." Erielle says.
"Aww cmon we had all those interesting conversations together. Not together just me eavesdropping a bit" they respond.
"Wait he's the presence I've been feeling. That feeling of someone watching us." I thought to myself.
I summon my scythe as I prepare to strike from the other side.
CLASH
"He blocked it? Hes fending both of us off?" I ask myself.
"He's fending both off?" Jericho questions.
"Bianca, Valerus, Ezekiel, or Jericho cmon guys." he egss us to remember whilst holding me and Erielle back.
"Wait I know you your that guy who wouldnt sit down at the Opening Ceremony yesterday. Your wearing that same outfit." Jericho realizes.
"DING DING DING. The great Jericho Pearson the only Dragonclad attending Aurora Saint Academy. But I wont reveal myself just yet and my intentions just know that am our your side. If you see me at school give me a simple hello." the hooded figure pushes Erielle off and throws her into me. He jumps off the building too the farthest building away from us. "Here. I'll help you guys out a bit." he throws both daggers too the right of u.
SLASH
"ARGHHH."
Forze drops from the building he was camouflaged on.
"Just know theres alot of moving pieces within this city. You guys are part of it. Well you could say am apart of it as well." the hooded person stops and looks too his right "I'll be on my way dont wanna saty here and be labeled as a Phantom Order member."
SNAP SNAP SNAP CRACK CRACK
A wall of ice forms mere feet away from us as we dont have any time to process what just happened.
Forze lays on the ground trapped in ice.
STEP STEP STEP
Footsteps are heard from the direction from the ice.
A man with jet black spikey hair, brown eyes, scar in his cheek an imperial hat that had a 4 on it holds a katana. Wearing a black coat, a frost blue color integrated with federations cursive F, and the octagon logo being filled to 4 with four diamond shaped symbols pointing up down left right being colored in that same icy blue with four other diamond shapes in between in white.
"Are you all alright?" the man asks.
"Captain Pericval" I said softly.
"Valerus is that you? You've grown."
"Captain!" a young male voice calls out from the other side of the ice wall.
"What is it. Should I pursue that other hooded figure?"
"That guy he took on all of us easily and all he had were just daggers. Jericho mentioned he's the same grade as us too" i look down with a irritated look.
Erielle looks at me in concern as she looks at my closed fists.
"The hooded fellow he's long gone. This one too." Percival says as he knocks the ice wall with the back of his middle finger as it melts into the ground.
We all stand around as we stare at the piece of shedded skin left in soaking water.
"He escaped?" Jericho asks.
"Barely. As soon as he got shot down from the building he instinctively moved too the side some of of his body got caught as he was simply able to slip out shedding his skin " Alekzander Hart explains.
"How were you able to find us?" I ask.
"Professor Fillion Drake." Percival responds. "He gave me the location of Bianca Roche's home and we just followed it there.
"Am I going to be safe?" Bianca asks.
"You'll all being put under watch by the Federation." Percival opens his hands to reveal three lady bugs as they fly too Jericho, Ezekiel and Bianca.
"Huh isnt that invasion of privacy?" Jericho demands.
"Am fine with it" Ezekiel says.
"Under watch too what extent." Erielle asks
"When you leave your home and when you go back home from school. Valerus and Bianca you both should be fine because you already been on watch."
"Huh how?" I asked confused.
"The ladybug Okina gave you."
Me and Erielle look at each other. "She's been watching us since!"
The Federation Headquarters Squad 7 Barracks
RUB RUB
Captain Okina Tenmu rubs inside her ear.
"Whats wrong Captain?"
"Oh nothing must be someone mentioning my name. By the way are all the ladybuys in place to watch those three mages."
"Yes captain also the antidotes have arrived were all set to administer them tomorrow morning."
"Excellent." "How do always up class me Fillion? I swear one of these days I'll be able to develop something even you cant create" she talks to herself.
"Oh there she goes again."
"SHH she's going to hear you."
Fillion Drakes Room
ACHOOO
"Haa."
FLUTTER FLUTTER
A ladybug lands on his desk.
"Still watching and learning huh Okina."