" We are supposed to search for them here?"
"Yes, now stop acting up and go search near the pond, as the other one was spotted going there." The man in a maroon T-shirt with a harsh voice replied.
" Yes, sir." came the reply.
" Hey, steve, try not to scare her, okay?" asked the guy in maroon.
"Will try, sir," Steven replied with a dramatic salute and turned.
After walking away from his Superior, Steven mutters, "Steven Reed, a top elite student of Eliferous academy is now working on a babysitting mission, isn't that nice. They said I would be the ranger, the protector, the whatnot, and now look at me, an elite nanny. What would the girls think now."
Eliferous Acadamy is and was one of the top and prestigious schools of mystic arts, famous and popular, and Steven Reed, one of the elite, a member of a top student group, and also quite famous, was always looking forward to leaving this school and joining the world.
And the world gave him this, a babysitting project, he was angry but the anger washed away a little when he got to know about the fact that he and the superior who is going to watch his performance on his first project are going to travel from 'Aaill-PV', the machine designed by our government to travel to the human, the non-mystical world, or as steven usually calls it the blind world.
It was always a thrill in the mystical world to get to travel to the human world. But as per the mystical society and government's law, we get very little chances for that, if you are a ranger, or politician or any higher up you get more than 4-5 chances to go, but if you are just a student or common folk you can get 1 chance per year by spending some money.
Steven was one of the common folk but now he was a ranger in training and this was his second time traveling here.
"Ahh, what a waste of time." he sighed while looking around, the pond was 15 to 20 feet away from him and he could only see the clear blue sky's reflection on it.
He walked while surveying the area and saw a figure or a silhouette of a man standing under the shadows of the tree and turned his eyes towards the pond which was now much closer and saw a girl standing in the water, floating and with a sudden jerk, as is woken from sleep, panicking and slapping her hands on the water.
As soon as the realization hit Steven, as to what could have happened here, he turned towards the man in the shadows and saw him running.
Without thinking much, steven remover his plain white shirt and hurriedly got out of his black jeans, and ran inside the pond.
Taking a long inhale he pushed his head inside the water and saw that girl sinking low towards the bottom and started swimming towards her, her hands were loose and directed upwards, her hairs flowing in all directions, the panic was rising in Steven's mind as he was getting near her.
Steven saw the sharp and rhythmic jerk of that girl's head as she was letting the water inside as if she had already accepted her death, with more force Steven pushed his legs and finally was closer to the girl, her eyes were closed and her mouth open, he took hold of both of her hands and pulled her towards him, the sense of touch made the girl pull open her eyes in shock while holding her from her waist, Steven started swimming upwards.
It was already hard to swim alone and now he was supporting another human, the girl just after seeing Steven fell unconscious, Steven's mind was running wild with thoughts of her well-being, this was her second meet with Miss. Rain Foster and she already was dying, though not from his good looks.
As soon as Steven hit the surface he swam towards the shore and dragged Rain on the grounds with him. Her eyes were still close, naturally, when you drown with more than enough intake of water in lungs and stomach, the body stops working, the respiratory system starts to shut down to save the victim for at least 3-4 hour, and after that cardiac arrest, and to release that one needs to pump and push the water out of the victim through CPR.
Steven tried the CPR 3 times and hit correctly on the 4th attempt, Rain started to cough the water out and Steven helped her get turned, he could faintly hear running steps with all the coughing and her heavy breathing but didn't want to take his eyes off Rain.
While running, Oliver sees Rain laying on the ground sideways and some guy patting her on her back, while she was coughing water out, before realization could hit him, he was hit by Kaitlin pushing him aside and running towards her daughter.
"Rainnnn… Oh, my baby… Rain…" Kaitlin slides down on the ground beside her coughing daughter, without even glancing at the guy beside her, with heavy tears in her eyes she asked, "What happened?"
" I… Don't… Know…" Rain couldn't stop coughing and inhaling sharply, her lungs were burning and she wanted to get as much air as she can get inside. Without thinking much she slides and hugged Kaitlin tightly and tried, "I… was… dying… he…" and another fit of cough took her.
" helped me." Steven completed her sentence, " I helped her, I saw her going into the water and I just did what I thought would be good"
Kaitlin was overjoyed because of the hug and also scared and protective towards her daughters and nodded. While Rain was still hugging her she motioned Sophie to take off her blanket and give it to Rain and Sophie did that, while crying softly herself.
Oliver bent down and hugged Sophie and Steven watched awkwardly this hugging family while he was still in her shorts.
"Um, can I… um, wear my clothes," he remarked silently and 4 heads turned towards him and Rain was the first one to laugh. Her laugh was pretty he thought.
As the family was still hugging and soothing each other steven decided to get dressed when his superior turned up, "Can't act as a spy, can you? always gets caught.
"Excuse me, this was not a situation where I can spy, Rain was dying and I had to save her." steven replied annoyed.
"Yes, he is right." came the voice of Kaitlin, who was just behind them now. " and I am here to thank you properly for saving my daughter and also to ask you if you would like to have dinner with us tomorrow as a token of thanks?"
Steven looked at his superior and said, "I can come if he can come too" with a smile.
which made Kaitlin chuckled, "Yes, of course."
"Then, sure." The superior in maroon replied and Kaitlin turned to walk away smiling.
After the address and phone numbers were exchanged and both the families were on their way Steven started, " Someone tried to kill her by making her go inside the water and drown."
" you mean..."
"yes Ace, someone took her mind under control and made her do that, I saw her... This is something more than what you guys thought."
"No, why do you think we made the elite of top school get into this mission?" Ace smirked. "we know and we wanted you to discover it by yourself."
"you mean... really?"
"yes." Ace replied
"Ohh yeah!" Steven cheered
"Don't cheer now, if what you say is correct then, you are in more danger than that kid."
"ahh, why are you like this, can't handle my happiness?" Steven replied annoyed.
But he knew, Ace was right, this was nothing to cheer, this was something bad and dangerous, this was a proper mission and also he needs to grow up, from getting bloody attracted to a kid.
Although time works differently in both worlds still today she is a 15-year-old and he is a 19-year-old.
"This sounded so wrong even in my mind." steven unknowingly murmured.
"what?" Ace questioned while walking towards their car.
"Nothing" Steven replied and walked a little faster.
In no time they were out of the other side of the park and were near their car and saw a yellow note on the side of the door sticking.
'Don't get in between me and her, or else you'll face the devil itself' the note said.
Laughing loudly and after throwing the note in the bin both of them sat inside the car and started it towards their temporary home.
As soon as they were ut in the moving car they frown. because it was getting twisted and no one likes twisted things especially when it includes kids into it.