As everyone was paying attention to Damian's new development, Jason on the other hand, wandered deeper into the forest to try and focus more on his
"I can't do this on my own while everyone is sucking up to the new kid," Jason bitterly whined as he walked deeper.
After a few minutes of endless walking, he reached a tombstone which had the initials written on it:
"W.M.D.T", he read and wondered what that stood for.
He continued observing the tombstone up close and saw something was written in bold and read, " HERE LIES A CURSED GRAVESTONE OF AN UNSPEAKABLE ENTITY," but could not continue as the other part was covered in dried up blood.
"I wonder what the other part says but I hate touching blood," he said and pulled his tongue out of disgust at the mere thought of touching it.
"Oh, wait!! That pond could help me out to clean this stained blood.", he thought as he saw a pond a few meters ahead of him.
He reached for the pond, dipped a torn part of his clothing into it and went back for the tombstone.
"Alright! Here's goes nothing!", he said and wiped the stain off the remaining words.
To his surprise, there was a warning which read, "DO NOT TOUCH THIS TOMBSTONE'S TEXT WITH WATER FROM EPPILOCUS' POND OR TRIHEXA WILL CURSE YOU FOREVER!!"
As he pondered what this meant, there was a loud rumbling and a black cloud appeared from the tombstone and started moving towards Jason.
"Ughh!! Stupid cloud!!!! Get off of me!!", he cried as he battled to make sight out of this mysterious cloud that just suddenly enveloped him.
It completely covered Jason for a few seconds, and later vanished.
" I don't know what happened now, but something tells me that wasn't any normal cloud," he reasoned and continued with his project.
"Ugh!! Why won't this stupid crystal work?!," he cried in displease with his effort to make the crystal react and threw it into a nearby pond in anger.
As he decided to leave, he noticed a red glow from the pond and reached out for his crystal.
"It worked!! From what Teacher said, I'm a Fire type!!," Jason shouted in delight but later his mood changed as he remembered about Damian's crystal and looked back at his.
"Mine's just red. Too bad it isn't as great as Damian's," he sighed and threw his crystal back into the pond and left to catch up with his class.
Without no one noticing, except a shadowy figure up in the trees northwest to the pond where Jason was formerly, the crystal in the pond changed from red to blue to yellow to pink to green and finally, gave out a really bright white light, reminiscent of the sun.
"He's a Sun-Mana user!!," the figure sad in utter shock. "This is not good for the organization at all. I must warn them!!", it said and disappeared yet again.
All this was oblivious to everyone except to a young Vincent who was in another group nearby and was perching on a large rock.
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After the commotion that recently happened, Jason finally reached closer to his group and a worried Stoxius started scolding him from disappearing from the group.
"Jason Howler, where have you been??!! I was worried sick and I heard a loud rumbling from your direction!," Stoxius questioned Jason out of fear and worry.
"Sorry, Teacher. I tried doing my Gannite crystal color transformation when I noticed a tombstone which had some weird writings and a dark cloud tried to attack me after I cleaned it!!", Jason explained to him, but rather made Stoxius panicked.
"PLEASE DO NOT TELL ME YOU USED THE WATER FROM EPPICOLUS' POND TO CLEAN IT OFF??!!," he asked Jason in utter fear and shock.
"I don't really know what's that, Teacher, but I saw a pond and used the water to clean it."
"Great Athena!!! Jason, you've ruined everything!!", Stoxius screamed and ran off to the direction of the tombstone as fast as his legs could take him.
"Huh???," Jason and everyone else wondered as he was left confused after what he just witnessed.