"Past leaders. Past Guardians. They have set so many examples that most of us chose to ignore. Millions of years ago, there were fights. Wars. Amenix fought one another. We were divisible. Spells were tainted. Harmful spells erupted. But now, everything's peaceful again" Mr Wright said
Mr Wright have short blue and pink hair with pink eyes. He was tall and thin and walked with a swagger.
They were heading to a hall now, although he didn't disclose which one.
Students gave Fina, Zo and Shelly different looks.
"Mr Walker released them? They must have begged him when they realize they would starve"
Shelly rolled her eyes at their silly whisperings.
"Some great Guardians died a hero during the war"
"Mr Wright?" Beau Harrison with the short blonde hair asked
"Yes?"
"Why would Amenix fight each other?"
"A very interesting question" Mr Wright said "Before order, there's chaos. Before chaos, there's order. The world moves in black and white. Nothing is permanent. Amenix has scars. Some have been healed. Some hasn't. Each succeeding Queen have fought their battle. We have evil and bad. Some wanted to rule evilly, they planned to take the Queen's life. They rebelled. Half supported them and it was bloody. Blood has been shed so many times"
"How many rebellions were there?" Kylie Davies with the white hair asked
"Rebellions?" Mr Wright asked as he stopped in front of a big door. "Many. That they can't even be counted. Queen Frida lost her Guardians too. They were her most trusted Guardians"
Everyone was silent as something like cold air breezed through them all.
"But the Queen Guardians are complete" Kylie asked
"Yes. They are more than her Guardians. They are special. Those are whose names must never be spoken. The Queen still mourns. She kept all records of them too. It's like they never even existed" Mr Wright said "Her grief is palpable. She cherished them a lot"
Mr Wright blinked so many times as if trying to blink away tears.
"Can you tell us about them?" Nancy asked
"No!" Mr Wright shouted. "It's not in my place and what the Queen orders, it must never be disobeyed. The Queen is the most powerful Guardian of magic. She feels. She hears. And she sees. She also have a seer. She protects every one"
"If the Queen can see, how did spells got tainted?" Talon asked
"It all started million of years ago not today. You cannot uproot what has been planted for a million years. It grows everyday and as you rest, it's still growing"
Mr Wright opened the door and they all gasped in awe.
The hall was big and have different shelves like the library. It looked like a museum. Bones decorated everywhere. Different kinds. It was like an Hall of Bones…
Fina looked around, glancing from the gray chandeliers, the golden glass walls.
The hall might be perfect, but it felt like an holy place.
"It's different. Why are the bones kept here?" Michelle, an Aries student asked.
"Most graduated from Elfina. It's like an honor being kept here but these are bones of a million years ago not yesterday"
Mr Wright moved to four glasses bent like a coffin.
"This is Annabelle and Arabella. They were Guardians. Geminis" Mr Wright said, pointing to two skeletons. "Keith and Kyle. Both Gemini Guardians too. They were the last Gemini to ever be a Guardian. They died during the fifth Guardian Queen war"
"Aren't bones supposed to like, decay?" Zo asked
"Some do. Some don't. I've never seen a Guardian bone decay. It's impossible. Look around. I'll be sitting there"
Mr Wright walked to a chair beside the floor to ceiling window.
Fina walked around, looking at different bones. Humans. She could hear chattering of different scared students but she wasn't scared. She was amazed, wanting to know more. Her enthusiasm getting the best of her as she fingers different glasses. Zo didn't even move. It's very obvious she was scared while Shelly looked bored.
As she skimmed through different glasses moving from shelves to shelves, her eyes stopped at a tiny word scribbled on a bone. It was so tiny anyone wouldn't even notice but she could see it clearly.
The words wrote....
Carly Brooklyn
Carly Brooklyn.
The bones were broken and put on one another. It was in a very small glass case that no one would ever believe that it was that of a human. It looked like that of a cat.
It was in different pieces that even it's fingers were missing. No head was there either.
Broken.
Fina's heart dropped so much the pain was almost tangible.
Carly Brooklyn is dead. She was killed.
Not just killed. Tortured.
No head. Broken bones.
Fina tried to calm herself at the brutality.
She stilled when she felt a presence behind her.
"Oh. That's Aubrey Mason" Mr Wright said "She was a lovely cat. A spell went wrong and she broke. Just like that"
Fina turned to him.
"A spell went wrong. And a cat bones broke. And it's head? Please, do tell. What sort of spell was that?"
Mr Wright looked at her with a weird expression before giving her a fake smile.
"It was a normal spell. Normal spells when gone wrong becomes bad"
"When did it happen?"
"1900, I think? My teacher told the story every time. It was his cat"
"Oh. Fina said
"Burying the cat was hard. The Queen laid it bones here"
Fina head told her they were all lies.
"How's your teacher?"
"Dead" Mr Wright said with so much convincing sadness.
"Oh"
Dead, just like Serene Berry's Lucius.
"Thank you, Mr Wright"
"You can ask me anything.. Um…"
"Fina Clark" Fina said brightly.
Mr Wright turned and walked away.
"Class dismissed everyone!"
Students rushed out as if they couldn't bear to stand a single moment in the hall.
Fina turned back to the bone again.
She shook her head and walked away.
As she got out, a white banshee ran out of the wall, surprising everyone. Students who were still recovering from the bone fear screamed harder than the banshee herself.
"A white banshee" Shelly said with a frown.
"A white banshee means an already dead person. A black banshee means a death warning" Zo said in horror.
"Who could that be? A teacher?"
Fina scolded herself for letting her thought drifts at once to Mr Walker.
"Not a teacher. A student" Fina said
Shelly and Zo looked at her.
"Serene Berry" Fina said firmly.