Time keeps moving forward and affects no two people the same.
Chapter 10
Little Trouble
“Miss Ember! Miss Ember!” The group was met with shouting as they exited the elevator.
“Plum!” Noelle shouted and waved.
“Plum, what is it?” Judith asked.
“It’s Miss Law. She needs your help!” Plum said out of breath.
“Ha! That Diana is a hoot,” Noelle laughed.
“Quiet! You don’t know what it is. She may need some real help. So how much of the gym is decorated?” Judith asked.
“Umm, well you see a bunch of students have been waiting to get started for awhile and she never showed up. So I was elected to go look for her, cause she might have gotten lost-“
“Again,” Noelle interrupted.
“Umm, right well she wasn’t lost. I got to the storage room and she was trapped under a box of supplies!” Plum finished explained and Noelle burst out laughing.
“Come on Noelle, let’s go get her out,” Judith said, trying to hide that she found it funny too.
“Uh, umm, wait! No-Noelle?” Plum was fidgeting and looking at the ground.
“Yea?” Noelle stopped and looked at Plum.
“Well,” she gulped, “tonight is the night when parents come to see everything and I umm, don’t think my parents are going to come so could you, you know for me?”
“Aww!” Noelle had a really big smile on her face. “Sure thing! You can count on me!”
“I’m going to go get ready!” Plum said and ran off.
“Hey what is the deal with those two?” Ally asked Slash.
“I’m not really sure, you’d have to them yourselves or Judith, but for some reason Noelle has a soft spot for Plum,” Slash said.
“Crap! It’s almost four! The parents are going to be here in three hours and the Gym hasn’t even been started!” they could hear Judith shouting from the gym.
Earlier above the city things were a lot less light hearted.
Kari and Saya were inside Umbra scanning the city. Umbra looked like a giant black sphere with hand like wings protruding from the side. Although no one could see inside Umbra, the people inside had full vision of what was going on outside. Coupled with Saya’s visor she can view life signs of creatures as well as elemental alignment.
“This is no good,” Saya said all of a sudden.
“What is it?” Kari asked.
“The drones I keep send over the park keep disappearing,” Saya sighed.
“Let’s head over there and see what is taking them out,” Kari instructed.
“Alright. Umbra could please head to the park?” Saya asked.
“Yes ma’am,” Umbra answered. She jolted and turned left heading over the city. As they started getting closer to the park Saya jolted up.
“What is it?” Kari exclaimed!
“I’m picked up a lot of signals! It’s Baja Daemon! There are a lot of them in the air over there!” she exclaimed. “Oh no! They’ve noticed us!”
“I’ll go top side and take out as many as I can!” Kari said. “Phase 2!” She shouted and donned her tonfas, white dress, wings, and blind fold.
“Alright. Umbra enter your battle form and teleport Kari up top!” Saya instructed Umbra.
“Yes ma’am,” the dark sphere flattened and expanded producing a jet like shape the wings moved to the back. With a flash of light Kari appeared on top.
“Be careful! I can only go to phase 2, Umbra doesn’t have any skills she can use on this plane!” Saya warned.
“Don’t worry! These are Daemon! They’re naturally weak to my Holy skills!” Kari said.
“But you are just as weak to their Dark skills!” Saya warned.
“I’m not a certain blonde idiot! I won’t get it,” Kari said.
“Alright, here they come!” Saya yelled as human looking winged beast in crimson colored cloaks came rushing at Umbra.
“Holy Shot!” Kari yelled and started firing white orbs out of the tonfas. Each one found their mark causing the Baja Daemon to convert back to Mana.
“Watch out behind you!” Saya yelled, but it was too late. It fired off a Dark energy from its palm and hit Kari.
“Ugh! It’ll take more than that!” she yelled and fired three Holy Shots.
“There are too many of them! I’ll see I can find the Catalyst!” Saya yelled.
“Don’t worry about me! Take your time!” Kari shouted while firing more shots into the ever increasing cloud of Baja Daemon.
“There! I’m sensing an Arc Daemon! He’s standing in the middle of the park; he must be guarding the Catalyst!” Saya exclaimed.
“Let’s go get it!” Kari yelled while taking out more Daemon.
“He’s surrounded by trees I can’t get close enough with Umbra. I’m going to land away from him! Umbra can you land over there,” she said and pointed to the closest parking lot to the Arc Daemon’s location.
“Yes ma’am,” she said and moved over the lot. “I’ll teleport you out two down now.”
The two landed in the middle of the parking lot and Umbra vanished. The Baja Daemon are summoned for their numbers more then their intelligence. The could not figure out where everybody went and just stood in the air confused. Saya lowered her visor and looked around trying to find the Arc Daemon’s signature. Once she found it she pointed to the location and the two headed off into the forest. While running Saya was charging her arm canon until two energy orbs was circling around her. The two stopped suddenly. The Arc Daemon noticed them.
Arc Daemons are different from Baja Daemons in many ways. The more obvious difference is the size. Arc Daemons can grow to be over 10 feet tall. The Arc Daemon lack wings as well. They have massive hairy forearms and slouch when walking. They have horns forming out of their fore head making an arc shape. Another difference is the Arc Daemon is fairly intelligent.
“Well, well ladies. I bet you came looking for the catalyst. Guess what? I took it inside of me. You know what that means right? If you want all the Baja Daemon to go away, you’re going to have to take me out!” he grinning showing his fangs.
“Wouldn’t have it any other way!” Kari shouted. “Holy Shot!”
“Arc Barrier!” the daemon shouted and waved his hand created a red barrier stopping Kari’s attack. “Try again!” he said and back handed Kari. That sent her flying into a tree.
Saya was studying the barrier. She started darting around the daemon taking a couple of weak shots at it barrier.
“Heh heh, don’t do that,” he said wagging his index finger. He formed a fist and punched at Saya. She took this opportunity to jump on his arm. He flung her off. Using this new altitude the readied her canon taking the two orbs she charged earlier into it.
“Double Impulse Shot!” she shouted and fired a large slow moving energy ball. The force caused her flip back wards. When she turned back around she fired another energy ball into the first causing it to ripple and four beams popped out the back and homed in on the Arc Daemon. They hit the barrier and disintegrated, but the barrier was destroyed. The larger energy ball picked up momentum and fell into the Arc Daemon converting him back to mana. Saya landed on the ground. Kari walked up beside her rubbing the back of her head.
“Good show,” she said.
“Yea, but after all that we didn’t learn anything,” Saya sighed.
“I wouldn’t say that. Arc Daemons are good at stalling. Whatever is about to happen is not going to be anywhere near here or the school,” Kari explained.
“Why the school?” Saya asked.
“Because Judith and Noelle are going to be there tonight. So whoever murdered Jordan knows about us and the layout of the city pretty well,” Kari explained.
“Hmm, are you thinking what I’m thinking,” Saya asked.
“If you’re thinking it’s Rachel?” Saya nodded, “then let’s head to Shamshel.”
TO BE CONTINUED
“Hello everybody! It’s me Lethe!” Lethe yelled.
“What are you doing here!?” Ally yelled at her.
“I’m hosting the post chapter thing!” Lethe exclaimed.
“Hey! That is my job! I still have stuff to teach!” Ally pouted.
“You’re not doing a very good job!” Lethe pointed out.
“Why you little!” Ally said and pounced on Lethe.
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