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"Why don't we start, eh? I'm sure a lot want those precious points by defeating you five. Defend yourselves well."
Akalea and the Rankers stayed back to watch the other students battling the five chosen to be defeated one by one. Some have won against one of the five while some lost to them. After battling all the students, the five students were still standing and tried their best to look okay despite their bodies wanting to give up and fall to rest as they were battling nonstop. Even Steffan looked haggard as hell with sweat coming down from her forehead down her face.
The Rankers and Akalea sat on the ground, witnessing the battles between them, not planning to partake in it since they know the seniors/students here had grudges and wanted to battle them themselves. "I think that's alright for now so you guys rest up a bit." Newt says and the five seniors went back to their group, who also battled them for the points earlier, and sat next to them. "After a little break, the real battle with your partner will commence so choose your partner while you're all resting." Newt says and the students begin looking for their partners.
Akalea sits still watching the sunset coming down as she awaits for the one who wants her to be his/her partner. Akalea felt a tap on her shoulder and turns to look, seeing it was Dawn looking at her with his pretty blue eyes of his. "Partner?" Dawn asks and Akalea nods her head, accepting it. "What will you use?" Akalea asks, meaning what power he'll use since he has the power of Wind, Earth and Time Control.
"I'll use earth cause I'm guessing you'll use wind as it's the only one you showed yesterday." Dawn says, trying to figure what she'll do. "Yeah, but its okay if you use wind, too. There'll be a time where you'll have to face someone with the same power or powers as you. Might as well know the ins and outs of wind if you observe it carefully." Akalea says, enlightening Dawn's view of things.
"Since you mentioned that, can I have the honor of you teaching me?" Dawn asks in his deep but gentle tone, looking at Akalea who was looking in front. Akalea's head snapped towards Dawn when he asked that, surprised that he asked that. Akalea just said what she had learned through the years of training from her father. "I can't promise that what you'll learn will be of a big impact or an improvement but I can promise you that I'll do my best to teach you what I can." Akalea smiles innocently, her eyes twinkling, the wind blowing and her hair getting caught up in the wind, the sunset made that moment look magical to Dawn's eyes.
"But what can I teach a 1st Ranker?" Akalea looks back at the sunset as she asks, wondering. "Okay, we'll begin the battles, shall we?" Newt claps his hands to get everyone's attention as he says this. The students, Rankers and Akalea begin to move to their chosen battle circle. Some partners begin to start battling in a way to improve. As Akalea and Dawn was about to start their battle as they let out their wind power, they suddenly felt the ground shaking. Everyone in the academy were panicking by the sudden earthquake. Headmaster Luke and Liliana were talking in the headmaster's office when the earthquake started. Luke and Liliana stood up in alert and walk to the big window that was facing the field Akalea and the others were in and the wide forest.
"Headmaster! We detected something an hour away from here." Someone came bursting through the office's doors to alert the headmaster. "Show me quick." Luke says walking towards the person who came bursting through the door, who now was leading him to the Detection and Navigation chamber with Liliana following behind. 10 minutes went by and night came, the seniors were panicking as to why an earthquake suddenly showed up.
"Okay, everyone. Please stay calm. I'm sure this is just an earthquake and nothing more. Let's all stay-" Newt says and didn't finish what he was saying when he saw headmaster Luke, five knights, five warriors and two healers with him, walking out of the academy and suddenly a big grey three-headed hydra appeared landing on the ground which shook the ground a bit. The seniors and the two instructors were witnessing the mighty grey hydra who just landed in front of headmaster Luke.
"Woah! Isn't that the headmaster's contracted beast?" "How can it suddenly appear out of thin air?!" "It looks so cool!" "It looks better than my own contracted beast." Students started to chatter the moment they saw the hydra appearing so suddenly. Headmaster Luke and his company arrived by the hydra to ride on its back till he sees the seniors on the field in front of him, looking at the hydra. "Everyone, please take shelter inside the academy. Sir Newt, please inform the others who can cast forcefields to cast a forcefield around academy and alert the other instructors, knights, warriors and healers to be prepared."
Luke says before him and his company mounts the mighty hydra. "Prepare for what, headmaster?" Josh asks, confused. "Battle. I'm going to check first in case its just a false alarm. So, just be ready for a battle to happen." Luke says and glances at his sons then at Akalea who was looking at Luke. Luke, his company and the hydra getting ready to take off.
"Wait, headmaster!" Akalea calls out to Luke, remembering that Colton, Zeke and Zoey are still on the cliff and might be in danger. "Can I go with you?" Akalea asks and Luke and the rest of the people look shocked by her question. "Why?" Luke asks and Akalea gave him a worried look. "There are people on a cliff far from here and I'm asking headmaster if we can get them first in case they're in danger." Akalea pleads, knowing that they might be in danger and she doesn't want them hurt.
"Alright.... Rankers, you know what to do." Luke says and the Rankers gave him their nods. Dawn and Shawn look at their father, giving him a nod then look at Akalea who was running towards the hydra to get on its back. Oh, wait I didn't tell her that Hartley, Harvey and Howey doesn't like anyone on them without permissi- Wait what?! Luke was about to warn Akalea about mounting the hydra, Hartley, Harvey and Howey as they were a picky three-headed hydra and doesn't like anyone on them without permission. Until he saw that Hartley, Harvey and Howey themselves, lowered their own wing to help Akalea up on their back.
Luke was looking at Akalea who easily got up with the help of the three-headed hydra which were supposed to be picky and doesn't let anyone on them without permission. Then, looks at the hydra who the three, Hartley, Harvey and Howey had smiles on their lips in hydra form. Luke was distressed and perplexed at what the hydra did. "How come you guys let her on on her first time when my first time I got pushed off by you guys?" Luke talks to the three-headed hydra telepathically as he heard them snicker, trying to hide their laughs remembering that time.
"We like her. We don't know why but we just do. She was somehow.....glowing." Luke hears Howey's voice telepathically and Howey rarely talks which left Luke more perplexed. "Lead the way, Ms. Akalea. We should hurry before anything happens to them." Luke nods to the hydra and the hydra flaps its wings, flying off the ground. The two instructors, the Rankers and the seniors ran inside the academy once the hydra flew off to the direction Akalea told them to go to.
"Be safe." Were the words coming out of the Rankers and the two instructors as they enter the academy. The hydra, Luke, Akalea, the five knights, five warriors and two healers set off towards where Akalea pointed. With the speed they were going in, it took less than 10 minutes until they arrived by the cliff. Everyone on the hydra didn't see anything unusual even though the moonlight is the only thing shining and lighting the way in the darkness of the night, didn't see the concealed cottage, by the cliff until they got closer did they see three people fighting off multiple demons.
"Hartley, Harvey, Howey, lower us to where we can jump off." Luke says and the hydra plummets downwards where everyone on the hydra held on to whatever they could hold to stop themselves from flying off. Once the hydra got to a good enough distance to the ground, everyone jumps off the hydra to aid the three people fighting the demons. "Colton! Zoey! Zeke!" Akalea yells their names to let them know she was there along with some back up.
"Ms. Akalea!" Zeke says trying to fight off one demon with a sword he created, his power creation to create anything out of nothing though he doesn't know that it was the power to create at first. Zeke was using one hand to fight while one hand clutching his sides which was wounded. Luke, the warriors and the knights took over Colton, Zeke and Zoey's positions to fend the demons off so the three can be treated.
Once they took over, Akalea saw Zoey having the worst condition over the three, having burn marks all over her. "What happened?" Akalea asks as she runs towards the three, carrying Zoey in her arms while leading the other two to the healers. "She was the first one to notice the demons coming and one of them suddenly appeared near Zoey. Due to the sudden appearance of the demon, she used her explosion power on the demon and got hit on impact, unable to avoid it on time."
"Please heal them." Akalea tells the healers, pleading. The healers did not hesitate to work their powers on the three, healing them especially Zoey. "How did you know we were attacked?" Colton asks as he was getting treated. "You felt the earthquake earlier, right?" Akalea asks and they nod their heads. "We were having our class when the earthquake happened. We saw the headmaster with them about to go off to somewhere and I thought that you guys might be in danger so I asked the headmaster to help me get you guys first." Akalea explains as she looks at the three with her worried expression.
"We're fine now, Ms. Akalea." Zeke says smiling at Akalea to ease her up as he gets treated. "I'm fi-fine, Ms. Ak-Akalea." Akalea hears Zoey mutter out as she opens her eyes, showing a smile. Akalea smiles at them weakly. "The demons are becoming too many to handle even with our powers!" A warrior says as he keeps shooting ice shards at the demons to catch them off guard while another warrior ends those demons by slashing their heads off their bodies using his sword with fire around the blade.
"Let's evacuate for now! If we want to end this, we need to see where it spawned from. We need to get to the roots!" Luke says as him, the warriors and knights begin to fall backwards as they fend off the demons. Akalea helped the healers help the three onto the back of the hydra after Akalea asked Hartley, Harvey and Howey if its okay, they couldn't say no. After Akalea, the three and the two healers mounted on the hydra, they waited to help the others get on. Akalea and the others on the hydra helped the warriors and knights up as Luke tries to give them time to get on as he fends the demons off.
"Headmaster, hop on!" Akalea yells for him and Luke starts to run towards them, his hand reaching for Akalea's. Akalea could see a demon closing in on Luke so she did what was best. She pulls Luke adding to her strength so fast, whispered something to his ear and jumps off the hydra. Materializing her sword midair and slashing the demon's head off which was closing in on Luke as Luke landed on the hydra's back.
Luke stood up quickly and looks back as the hydra flaps its wings to get out of the demons' reach as they all see Akalea fighting the demons alone. The hydra didn't know Akalea got off when it started to fly away. "Wait! We have to go back!" Colton says to Luke who was looking for something as they flew away, leaving Akalea fighting alone.
The warriors, knights, healers and the siblings agreed to what Colton said. "Are you even listening?! She risked her life for you!" Colton says pulling Luke's shoulder for Luke to face him. "She told me to find the root of this crisis and finish it off. She told me that she can handle it. So, either we find the root to this sudden crisis or we let her down by taking up more time." Luke says giving Colton the look to believe in Akalea.
The hydra found out that Akalea wasn't with them as they heard their conversation. Then, Hartley, Harvey and Howey roared as they flew, their roars meant to encourage Akalea to do her best. "I hope she can fend them off until we find and kill the root." A warrior says and everyone on the hydra and the hydra agreed to what the warrior said as they set off to find the root.
Meanwhile, Akalea landed on her feet after killing the demon. Seeing the hydra and everyone else leaving. Akalea smiles knowing that they'll eventually find the root so she needs to fend off the demons here until then. Akalea readies her sword to attack but the demons suddenly stopped in their tracks. The demons backing to the sides to make way for someone to appear. Akalea's eyes widen, seeing a human looking guy but with demon horns, a demon tail, one eye all white and the other eye all black.
"Didn't think you stayed to give them time to leave... But that doesn't matter anyway. My older sister is at the homing tree with the portal, protecting it. They'll die after setting foot near her. So, for now, why don't we-" The human-demon like guy says, suggesting something but was cut short when Akalea used the power of speed to appear in front of the guy in no time, grabbing his face with her hand as she released the power of strength and negation of powers to stop him from doing anything else by holding his face firmly and to stop him from using his powers.
The human-demon like guy's eyes went wide to what just happened so suddenly and sees Akalea looking at him dead in the eyes, calm yet powerful behind the look in her eyes. The human-demon like guy, for the first time in his 120 years of life, felt fear and powerless in front of Akalea other than his father. The demons around them start to attack Akalea to protect their master but to the guy's surprise, the next thing he saw was Akalea swinging her sword and all the demons fell on the ground in one swoop, dead.
Used 4 powers already. Have 6 spots left to use other powers. Gotta think carefully from now on. Akalea thinks to herself as she grips the guy's face as the guy tries to scratch and rip her hand away from his face, her hand bleeding from the scratching. "That won't work.... I'll let you go but only if you lead me to that homing tree and portal." Akalea says carefully and calmly which the guy looked confused even though she's bleeding. "Never mind then..... At least, tell me your name and why you suddenly appeared? I'll find that homing tree even if you don't tell me where it is." Akalea says which confused the guy even more.
"C-mjk-ey." The guy's word was muffled by Akalea's hand squeezing his face. Akalea turns her sword back into the ring and used her hand to grip on the guy's wrist then releases his face. The guy rubbing his face to rid off the aching from being squeezed. "Corey." The guy says again, properly this time. "Why did you and your sister suddenly appeared?" Akalea asks and Corey sighs. "It's complicated." Corey says as he looks away while Akalea was thinking of what to ask next.
"Well, we can talk about it while you lead me to the homing tree and to your sister." Akalea says with a smile, outright scaring Corey, making him jump a bit when he turned back to answer but was met with her smiling. "Fine. Just don't kill me." Corey says as he begins to walk, leading the way. Akalea smiles once more, knowing she won. Corey explains as he lead the way which was suppose to take an hour and a half but thanks to Akalea's speed it just took them 30 minutes.
Akalea understood the gist of Corey's explanation. Corey was just brought here by force by his sister and was threatened to do what she says or he dies. Does his father not care? Akalea wanted to ask that question but by the sad look Corey has on his face, she kept the question to herself. "We're almost there, we just need to pass this tree then-" Corey didn't finish after passing the tree as what he saw made his eyes go wide.
Corey seeing his older sister on the ground with two swords directed to her neck, beaten and wounded. Akalea passed by Corey to see why he stopped moving when she saw what he saw. Akalea sees Colton and Luke standing in front of the human-demon like girl with their swords pointed at her neck. Akalea loosens her grip on Corey's wrist because he might feel devastated that his sister might die. To Akalea's surprise, Corey didn't look devastated at all but had sighed in relief and had a little smile on his lips.
"I've always prayed for my sister's downfall every time she beats me to a pulp ever since I was a kid till now. Now that it's happening, I kinda feel relieved and bad for her. She's my sister after all..... even though she beats me to death." Corey says, having a sad look again. "I don't know what father will do next if you guys capture or even kill us. He's been out of it for I don't know how long because mother died so he doesn't really care that much about what we do."
Corey says, losing the smile he had earlier and was replaced by a thin line. "Why are you here? Why are you wreaking havoc with those demons? What's your motive for coming here?" Luke asks the human-demon like girl as she laughs at the two men in front of her. "I was bored." The girl says with a wicked smile not minding that what she attempted to do was going to kill innocent people at some point. Luke looks at her disgusted as Corey felt shivers run down his spine, memories of her saying those words to him came flashing.
"Sorry, I was bored." His sister says with a smile, standing up, hands bloody as Corey was on the floor, on the verge of death in his room, beaten. "I was bored." His sister says with a smile, with the knife she plunged into Corey's stomach as blood spilled out from the wound and from Corey's mouth. All the memories came flashing back to Corey and he trembles in fear as if those words triggered something inside him, making him lean on the tree with his head down.
Akalea looks at Corey, doesn't know what to do but hugs him gently, facing him away from the scene. Corey was thankful to what Akalea did as it was the first time someone gave him a hug after everything he's been through. Corey couldn't stop the tears from flowing from his eyes as he hugs Akalea back, tightly. Akalea continues to watch the scene in front unfold, feeling angry towards the sister.
"What the fuck is wrong with you? You're bored? So you planned to just release demons to kill innocent people to ease your boredom?" Colton asks in disbelief. The sister just laughs with no remorse nor regret. "We'll see each other soon." The girl says which left everyone confused. "What do you mea-" Luke didn't continue to say when suddenly, time stops. Everyone unable to move except for the girl who stood up, wiping dust off her as someone came out of the portal, wearing a butler uniform. Akalea, who somehow wasn't affected, watches the scene trying to not move as much to not make any wrong move because everyone could be in danger.
"Young miss, why are you causing a ruckus in the Middle Realm? Your father is disappointed in you. You almost ruined his plan. He ordered me to bring you back." The butler, who Akalea thinks was the one who stopped the time, says to the girl and the girl shrugs her shoulders. "I was bored, okay? What about my idiot of a brother? He's still out there." The sister says and the butler pretends to look around, then glanced at where Akalea and Corey was at, turning away to look at his young miss.
"No need. Your father specifically told me to bring you back. Your brother's useless so he's of no importance." The butler says and the sister shrugs her shoulders, not caring as she went inside the portal while the butler stayed for a bit, as if to say something. "Take care of young master and tell him I said sorry. I've been with him and his family for a long time. He's a good kid so I don't want him to get dragged into his family's mess. So long and I hope we won't end up facing each other soon." The butler says, releasing his aura of his strength which is impressive to Akalea, before getting inside the portal as the portal closed after he entered. The homing tree withering away as time went back to normal.
Everyone can be able to move again as they all look confused to not see the girl anymore. "-ean..." Luke continues and looks confused to not see the girl anymore. "Where the hell did she go? What the fuck happened?" Zeke asks as he looks around, irritated that she disappeared. "Corey? Go to sleep for now, okay?" Akalea calls out then says this to him gently before using the power to make people sleep, on him. Corey shuts his eyes, sleeping as he should as Akalea carries him bridal style, pulls his arms to wrap them around her shoulders.
Akalea walks towards everyone else who were looking everywhere to find the girl with Corey in her arms. "She's gone." Akalea says and everyone looks in her direction, walking towards them. "Ms. Akalea, its you! I'm glad you're oka-" Luke says walking towards her but stops in his tracks when he sees the sleeping human-demon like Corey in her arms. "Who is that? No, what are you doing with him in your arms? He's a demon!" Luke says, walking towards her with the intent to throw Corey off her.
"Headmaster, stop." Akalea says and Luke once again stops in his tracks, perplexed. "His name is Corey. He's the brother of the girl from earlier." Akalea says and was about to explain more but Luke interupts. "We'll have to interrogate him then kill him. He might be a threat to everyone if he stays alive after interrogating him." Luke says, without thinking properly as the memory of Lisa being killed by the demons' pets who suddenly attacked them. "Headmaster, calm down. He was forced to come here. His sister threatened to kill him if he won't. Besides, I feel like he's a good guy. We should take things slow for now and head back." Akalea says slowly, trying to calm Luke down which worked.
Luke sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose, closing his eyes as he calms down. "You're right. I'm sorry, I got overwhelmed for a bit. Let's head back. Hartley, Harvey, Howey!" Luke says, already calmed down as he called for the hydra who appeared and descends down for everyone to hop on. The warriors and knights helped the two healers, Colton, and the siblings get on the hydra as Akalea pushed Corey up for Colton to take but was hesitating to. "Because you say he's somehow good, I'll think of him as that as well for you." Colton says, putting aside his hatred for the demons, he stops hesitating, pulling Corey up on the hydra and laying him down as Corey sleeps.
Luke helped Akalea up and gets on the hydra himself before taking off. "I'm sorry if I brought him with me even though he's a demon." Akalea apologizes and bows her head to everyone on the hydra also to the hydra. "It's alright. If you think he's good then, why won't we think so as well? We trust you. Plus, we might know what those demons are up to now that we have him with us."
Akalea nods her head after standing up. "Thank you for trusting me even though I just got here two days ago." Akalea thanks them, bowing again and stood back up then walks towards the hydra's heads. "Thank you for helping us and bringing us back." Akalea thanks the hydra while caressing the middle one's neck, which was Howey's as the one on the left, Harvey, and the other one on the right, Hartley, were jealous of Howey being caressed.
"We want to be caressed, too." Hartley and Harvey say telepathically, knowing that it won't get through to Akalea but to Luke. Luke shakes his head, snickering. "Oh, I'm sorry. Here you go." Akalea says, going to Hartley to caress him first then to Harvey to caress him next. Everyone including the hydra were shocked. More so to the hydra and Luke. "Who were you talking to?" Colton asks, confused and wondering who she was talking to.
"I was talking to the hydra. I was caressing the middle one as thanks to them. I then heard two voices that they want to be caressed, too. So I figured it was the other two who wanted to be caressed as well." Akalea says truthfully which made everyone more shocked. "Why? Is something wrong?" Akalea asks as she looks at everyone's expression. "Only the contractor and the contracted beast can communicate to each other but you're saying you heard their voices and replied to them and even did what they wanted." Luke explains, perplexed and in wonder.
"Oh, really?" Akalea asks and looks at the hydra's three heads. "You're becoming more and more interesting and mysterious." Luke says putting a hand on his chin as he smiles, not regretting in taking her in. She'll may become the most powerful person if she keeps growing. Luke thinks to himself, happy that he'll witness a great miracle soon.
They all soon arrived at the field of the academy, seeing the ordered forcefield around the academy. They got off the hydra's back as the hydra flew up and disappears, flying to somewhere. Akalea has the sleeping Corey in her arms, bridal style using a bit of her strength cause damn he was heavy. "What are we gonna do if the other students see him? It might cause a ruckus and some issues." Akalea asks as they walk towards the academy as Luke was thinking of a plan about that.
"Since we don't have something to cover him, we should make a wall around Akalea with our bodies to not let any of students see him." Luke says as they got nearer to the academy's double doors. The warriors and knights immediately went to Akalea's sides, surrounding her with their bodies properly as they happen to be bulky and tall and forms an unbreakable shield. Luke sees the instructors outside the double doors trying to maintain the forcefield.
Newt was one of them and he saw the headmaster and everyone else behind him. "Headmaster!" Newt calls out which the other instructors there snap their heads to where Newt was calling out to. "You may put down the forcefield and please tell everyone to be at ease and to go rest for the day. Classes will resume three days from now since I'll be conducting an investigation during those days. Just tell everyone to wait and rest up till then. Don't tell them about the investigation. Now, go." Luke says and Newt and the other instructors nod their heads, releasing their powers and quickly heading inside the academy to announce this news.
Luke and everyone behind him enters the academy after waiting 5 minutes and sees that there were few people around now. Luke leads everyone to his office and once everyone was inside, Akalea gently lays Corey on a comfy looking couch. "Everything that you've witnessed today should only stay with us until we can figure out what to do." Luke says as he walks over to his desk and puts his hands on his chair, looking at everyone. "Thank you for helping us back there and please keep what I said earlier in mind. You may go rest up because you guys deserve it." Luke says with a smile towards the 5 warriors, 5 knights and two healers.
The 12 nod their heads at Luke and heads out of the room, waving goodbye to Akalea. "Now.." Luke begins to say as he sits on his chair, putting his elbows on his desk and his hands on his lips. "Let's introduce ourselves. I'm Luke Blackwood, the headmaster of this academy that you're in. May I know your names and where you guys came from?" Luke introduces himself and asks them the question, curious as to who they are especially Colton since he helped Luke with the demon girl earlier.
"I'm Zeke, I'm 20 and this is my sister Zoey, she's 19. I'm sorry but we don't know our last names nor do we remember where we're from. We were kidnapped at a young age and did some bad deeds for bad people who we do not really know but they often talk to someone who they call their master though. I guess they called him.... Ar- No... Demo- No.... There was something before the demon word..... Arc- Oh! Archdemon Zeph. That's all I can remember since we were always on the sides." Zeke says truthfully like an innocent kid, trying to remember with the look like he's about to burst from thinking too much.
This made Akalea nudge Zeke to stop as she tries to fight off the laugh trying to stay serious as it was a serious situation. Zeke's face calmed down and just looks at Akalea as to why she nudged her while his sister, Zoey, just shakes her head. "I'm Colton Maverik, I'm 20. I'm from the Holy Kingdom in the Divine realm. I've been tasked with protecting the pri-mmjf...." Colton didn't get to finish his sentence when Akalea quickly covers his mouth with her hand. Akalea lets out a sheepish smile, nervously laughing as well.
"Oh! Why don't we wake Corey u-" Akalea didn't get to finish her words nor walk to Corey to wake him up when Luke says the next words. "It's okay to reveal who you are to me, Ms. Akalea Knight or should I call you Princess Akalea, the daughter of Lord Akane Abernathy." Luke says carefully, to see Akalea's reaction. "Wai- Where did you get that kind of information? That's not something to joke about-" Akalea stops talking as she sees the serious look in Luke's eyes. She drops her head in defeat.
"If you're wondering where I got this from... Your father told me himself when I went to the Kingdom's palace where the king and his family stays. I can assure you that your father is fine and that you're secret is safe with me. Only your uncle, who is your father's brother, Kalid, your father, me and Liliana knows about this." Luke explains and Akalea snaps her head up by the mention of her father being okay over Luke knowing that she's his daughter. Her father's health and being is her number one worry.
"Thank goodness that father is fine." Akalea sighs in relief as she leans to the wall. "Thank you, headmaster for telling me my father's fine." Akalea says as she looks at Luke with sincere eyes and a smile which Luke smiles back, could not hide the smile as he saw her as his own daughter the moment she stepped in his office the first time. "I won't push you in telling me you're purpose of being here Mr. Colton but I can tell that you're a good guy and here for Akalea. Do you three have a place to stay?"
Luke asks the three in hopes of letting them stay here also with the intention to let the siblings become students and Colton an instructor of the academy after seeing his strength. "We don't actually. The cottage on the cliff was where we stayed last night." Zoey says and Luke looks confused, not seeing a cottage on the cliff. "What cottage? I didn't see a cottage there." Luke says perplexed and sees that the three turn to look at Akalea who became flustered by their stares.
"I.... Uhm.... Have.... Uhm.... The power to conceal things...." Akalea says slowly and Lukes eyes widen as it was rare for someone to have the concealment power. "Alright. Seeing that you said it yourself then I won't pursue it. You, three, can stay here at the academy however long you want but I have a proposition for you three. I won't force you to accept but I want to try nonetheless." Luke says which Zoey, Zeke and Colton look at Luke not knowing what he's going to say next.
"How would you two like to be students here in Abernathy Academy and for Mr. Colton here as an instructor? You can have and teach in the same classes as Ms. Akalea here so you guys won't be apart from her." Luke says in hopes of them accepting. Zeke and Zoey looks at each other then looks at Luke with smiles on their faces, excitement washing over them. Finally having a place to call home or somewhere to stay where they won't do any bad deeds for bad people anymore. Colton nods his head and bows. "I accept! Thank you for this opportunity." The three of them say at the same time.
Luke nods his head, excited and happy to have new students and another great instructor. "How about Corey?" Akalea asks and Luke looks over to Corey who was sleeping soundly on the couch. "Will you be able to go with me, Liliana and also bring Corey tomorrow to the palace? We'll have to talk it out with the king first and you can also be able to see your father." Luke asks and Akalea nods her head, wanting to see her father and also want to see how everything will play out for Corey.
"Okay, what time?" Akalea asks. "At around 9am but be there before that. Let's meet at the field." Luke says and Akalea nods her head. "Where will we be staying?" Colton asks which the Zeke and Zoey were wondering where as well. "We have rooms available near Akalea's room but they aren't prepared, yet." Luke says as he thinks of what he should do. "They can stay in my room. I don't mind plus I don't think Lisa will, too." Akalea says to Luke who slowly nods his head, cause there'll be boys in his daughter and Akalea's room but he trusts Akalea that nothing bad will happen till their rooms are ready.
"Okay, but no suspicious stuff, okay?" Luke asks, gently warning to all of them as they all nod. "How should I do this?" Akalea asking herself as she looks at Corey's sleeping form, thinking of how to get him and the three in her room without looking suspicious. "I'll conceal him and piggy back him, then." Akalea tells herself, not realizing she's talking to herself and that there were people in the office with her.
Akalea grabs Corey's arms to wrap them around her shoulders and neck, then grabs both his thighs, carrying them up into a piggy back ride. Akalea lets the concealment on Corey and he disappears out of everyone's view while Akalea clasps her hands to look like she's just holding her hands. "Let's go!" Akalea says as she gets out of the office while waving goodbye to Luke, the three following behind her.
The five of them arrive in front of Akalea and Lisa's room when the door suddenly opens-
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Hey guys! How's the chapter going??? I know I'm not that good with writing yet but I'm tryinggg. I hope you guys like this chapter and the previous ones as well as my entire book huhu. I would like to recommend reading my other book which is My Wishing Star which can be found in my profile! Its a Kpop-korean related book that's kind of a fanfiction and a fantasy where the mc has- okay not going to spoil itt so why not reading it yourselves!
Thank you for reading my book and hopefully my other book as well! Love you all and see you in the next chapterrr!
-Aki