Arlo walks through the hallways early Wednesday morning. Terrance follows him unnoticed.
Keene: You know an apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Darren: Yeah okay buddy, guess who is the school nurse?
Keene: You are.
Darren: Yeah, so I'll be the expert on what's healthy and what isn't.
Keene: Wanna bet on that?
Darren: Why you! Oh hold on, I got a text from Lialah.
Keene: So how are you doing, you look mad all the time, be happy, she sounds like she's super hot. Come on fill me in on the deets, what's she like?
Darren: Relax, we only went on like three dates so far. I got another date this week. She says she has something important to tell me.
Keene: Oooooh, sounds like she's breaking up on your ass!
Darren: Shut up.
Darren: She's some sort of project manager, really smart, and also a high tier, ... and she's a looker.
Keene: Hot hot though?
Darren: Like an eleven.
Keene: Yeah right, I need to see some pics.
Arlo: Ahem?!
Darren: Ah uh Arlo, how long have you been standing there.
Arlo: Heard you got a super hot Girlfriend, congrats doc.
Keene laughs.
Darren: Oh you little... What happened to your face?
Arlo: I may have provoked John.
Darren: Jesus, how many times do we have to say it, no one cares about order Arlo, all people want is power, and qualified officials. So why don't you stop focusing on how you're gonna run as king and not who's gonna be king.
Arlo scoffs, not knowing how to respond.
Arlo: Not really here to talk about it, I just need to heal up so no one knows who did this to me. I don't want the school to freak out over my injuries.
Darren: Aw Jeez why do I do this for a living.
Keene: This is your first time stopping by.
Arlo: Yeah.
Darren: Here you go, this will work in three hours, but your visible wounds will be gone by the time class starts.
Arlo drinks the tonic, he looks behind him to see green glowing eyes, only for them to fade away.
Arlo: Thanks doc, I'll stay out of trouble.
Isen, Remi, and Blyke look at the newspapers written that morning, The top two articles.
Arlo seen in Infirmary, could there be a new King coming?
underneath that read.
Students Cause's Bomb threat at Wellston Mall.
Isen: Aw what the hell? My article didn't get chosen.
Blyke: Well at least your name is in the paper.
Isen: That's not how I wanted to make it there in the first place.
Blyke: Haha, well at least technically you made it onto the front page.
Remi: Guys, I'll find out who wrote this, look what they wrote about Arlo.
Blyke: Aww shit.
Remi: Wouldn't Arlo make sure to do it in private?
Isen: Exactly, I think I know who it is.
Remi, Blyke, and Isen, would you please report to the main office.
Arlo is sitting on the roof when John walks in.
Arlo: Oh, it's you. You ready to be king?!
John: Nope.
Arlo: Well then the roof is for Royals only, get lost before I throw you off.
John: Ha, if you were really bothered by me you would have thrown me off ages ago.
Arlo: Haha, yeah.
John: I'll take that as you're not mad anymore.
Arlo: No, I just have more pressing matters on my hand.
John: Oh yeah?
Arlo: Yeah, Cecile sent Terrence to school early this morning, I saw his green eyes right outside the infirmary.
John: Oh shit!
Arlo: What?
John: I gotta call Sera!
Arlo: That dumb broad, man you really like her don't you.
John: No man she's endangered! I'm being tracked.
John pauses,
John: The teddy bear! Tracker!
Arlo: Uhh, you good.
John rushes off the roof. Calling Sera.
John: Please pick up, please please please! Sera for the love of GOD, PICK UP!
Sera: Hello?
John: Sera, burn the teddy bear!
Sera: The one from the mall...
Sera freezes
Sera: Wait, it still might have a...
Sera runs up to her room, she grabs the teddy bear and rips it open, she pulls out the tracker and throws the stuffed animal away. She snaps the tracker.
John: Sera?
Sera: John, I have to go out, I might be watched, stay with Blyke tonight.
John: No, I'm coming home now, don't move.
Meanwhile with Remi.
Remi heads into the press room.
Remi in her head: So, this is it, The Bounty Huntress in her castle.
Remi said as she walked into the press room. Cecile puts down her paper and stares at Remi with a cold and calculated stare.
Cecile: Remi, what are you doing here?
Remi: Cecile, I want you to tell me who the anonymous writer is.
Cecile laughs.
Cecile: Don't you understand the meaning of anonymous? It MEANS the writer wants to keep their privacy.
Remi: Yeah no shit Sherlock, that's why I'm here asking for it. Don't make me pry it out of yeah.
Cecile: Is that a threat?
Remi: I have to do what's best for the school, as Queen...
Cecile: Oh, now what's your evidence that the school is somehow in danger.
Remi: Well, I have a feeling.
Cecile: Please,I'm not giving away confidential info without a reason.
Remi: This is something big, I'm going to have to ask you...
Cecile powers up and charges at Remi.
Cecile: You want me to give you the name, then make me!
Remi: I, no, I'm not stooping to your level.
Cecile: Just as I thought, Rei's death made you soft.
Remi in her head: You BITCH, first you work for his killers, then you insult him when he can't even defend himself, you're a coward.
Cecile: First your brother screws up our school, destroys the Hierarchy, treats everyone as equals, giving us high tiers unnecessary responsibilities. As a result people fought constantly, and the school was left in complete chaos. At least Seraphina and Arlo were able to clean up his mess. Now get lost princess.
Remi: This won't be the last you see of me.
She walks out of the room, tears start to form
Cecile takes her phone out and calls a number.
Cecile: Attack target A now... Just do it....Good. Thank you Mr. Negative.
Remi in her head: Dammit Rei, what was it worth, what did you die for?
Arlo and Roland are walking together when he receives a text.
Remi: Are you busy today?
Arlo: No, wanna talk?
Remi: Yeah.
Arlo: I'll be in the park, meet me on the third bench.
Remi: okay.
Later with Seraphina.
Sera in her head: Damn it, I've been really stressed, I'll tell John to meet me at wobba bobba.
John goes into his house.
John: Dammit, not here!
John checks his phone.
Sera: Meet me at wobba bobba.
John rushes out of the house, scared of what could be in his.
John slams the door behind him and runs out.
Meanwhile Remi is on her phone.
Remi: Arlo, before we meet, I need you to ask Cecile something.
Arlo: Name it...
Later that day with Sera.
Sera: Okay, I'll just go get a drink, nothing crazy.
Blond woman: Excuse me young lady!
Sera looks behind her.
Sera: Yes?
Blond Woman: Sorry to bother you, would you mind telling me the time I lost my phone.
Sera: Yeah sure.
Meanwhile in the distance: Yeah, target spotted.
A sudden rush of fear flows through Sera.
Sera: It's two thirty two.
Blond woman: Thanks, you've been really helpful.
Sera: Strange, really excited over the time.
John is rushing through the town, he just stopped by The Wobba Bobba and can't find Sera. A panicked feeling rushes through John as he struggles to stay calm.
Cuts between different perspectives
Arlo: Okay, just gotta stop by the press room.
John cuts through an alleyway.
Meanwhile with Sera.
Sera: Strange, I can't stop shaking since that woman stopped by.
A van almost hits Sera, missing by just a couple of centimeters. Sera using her abilities manages to doge the two ton death machine.
John at this point is calling out Sera's name. Sera hears it. Men start to come out of the van checking to "see if Sera is okay".
Man 1: Holy shit are you okay?!
Sera: Yeah, I'm fine.
Sera feels uncomfortable at this point. She hears John's name, wanting to go find him, figure out what is going on.
Woman: Let us take you to the hospital.
Sera: No I'm fine really.
Sera said as her hand was pulled by the driver. Another man appears from the ground through a portal, slowly ascending to the surface.
John (in an Armin Arlert voice): SERAAAAA! RUN AWAY!
Sera: JOHN?!
Woman: What's that matter, you seem uneasy.
Sera: I have to go, I'll.
STAB!
She felt her neck pierced by a needle as the man from the portal wraps his arm around Sera's neck. He then grabs his wrist to secure her as he injects the mysterious liquid from the syringe into Sera's neck.
John (In an Eren Yeager voice): SERA NOOOOOO!
He powers up and charges at the people. Taking the first person he sees and decking them twenty feet back into the alley. Sera uses her ability to get away from the situation.
Sera: John, what's going on?
John: Sera, they were tracking us, I knew it.
Sera attempts to rewind her injection site. A woman appears from behind and stabs her. She looks behind in horror, her eyes widen as she tries to use her ability, but finds herself growing weary by the second.
She looks over and sees multiple people jumping out of the van pulling out knives.
Sera: What the hell, I can't rewind this. John, what's going on?
John: Doesn't matter right now, we have to get out of here.
John takes Sera's hand, the two run out of the alley and head for the streets.
A lady jumps Sera out of the corner and stabs her in the lower kidney area.
John: SERA!
John blasts the stabber with his laser eyes (Bright Burn Style), right in the face immediately killing him. More people start to show up with knives.
Sera: John, I think they tampered with my ability.
John in his head: Shit, I think she's right, her wounds aren't getting better.
John: Don't worry, I got this.
John copies Sera's ability, he grabs the knife out of her, he rewinds her ability and rushes at the goons, slitting their throats open out of rage. He then grabs Sera and carries her, rushing her out of the area so she doesn't see the bodies. John uses her ability and rushes out of downtown to get to his house. Causing accidents and running into people. The two leave behind a pile of corpses at the alley way, they head back to the house.
John: Oh fuck Sera, I'll start rewinding the other wound.
John starts to rewind Sera's wound, but the drug in Sera is resisting John's ability.
John: Oh fuck, Sera! SERA!
At that moment John feared for the worst, never in his life did he ever feel his heart race with fear.
SERAAAAAAAAAAAA!
To Be Continued.....