" The colours will not answer no matter how much you stare at it. " Aliza sneered as she watched Emma stare at the colours left behind.
Ignoring her, she kept staring hoping to receive some feedback for what seemed like eternity for some.
She finally gave up there was nothing to work with no single trace spell knew would work.
"See you wasted all our time " Aliza said packing the mysterious colour crystals into her space ring.
"So what do we do, the mission cannot be completed without their location. If I remember correctly you caused us to lose the coordinates because of those crystals. " Emma said increasing the groups anger.
"Well should I give you the crystals has compensation, well am sorry I can't and I apologize for the loss of the coordinates but how can we fly the speed of mana ships and cars. " She pointed out
"If you didn't notice there was a energy reading recorded on your bracelets for heavy ships that move 1000 m every 10 seconds, so if you can run that fast then be my guest " her chest heaved has she took in a deep breath.
Anger surged in her bones, as they never seemed grateful for anything. It seemed like she was wasting her time helping them.
Ignoring her raging feeling she began to instruct them in how to set up the camp.
"I will be back. " she said walking into the darkness.
Emma sat in front of the fire camp hoping someone had an idea or something to do about Aliza.
Silence rang as everyone waited to see who would speak first.
Emma decided to speak since no one could "I think we need a new team leader, Aliza is no longer good enough. "
"Really so what do we tell the headmistress , we are not supposed to act abnormal but you all spoil it. Why do you want to alert her. " June questioned; she was already disappointed with this team who found it easy to dismiss their team mates.
"Yes, Emma you are best friend you acting weird is not what you should do. " Jake said.
It was kind of rich coming from her boyfriend they had dating for a while but it didn't change his greed towards power.
Life seemed mean, she was always there for them but they could betray her for hope of more benefits.
Aliza sat on the mountain top in her blue long sleeved gown, tears ran down her face as she heard the way her friends spoke about her.
A year ago, she could do anything for them. They were all inseparable.
Sweat covered their faces as they struggled under the intense heat of the dragon.
The feeling of helplessness struck her heart as she hung onto the rope for her life. She knew it was her greed for shining rare crystals that led her here.
Watching slowly as the dark blue coloured dragon crawled out of his deep cave exposing in grey scaled head, he had darker almost black scale on its neck making it have the highest defense.
It was obvious the dragon was a male as it had star gazes crystals for attracting a potential mate.
Hanging by the thread she just hoped it would no longer move as there were endless stones on the ground as she looked around.
If the ground was maybe replaced with beautiful 10 feet tall Queen sized bed she would be happy to fall without concern.
Deep in her thoughts, a voice whispered in her ear. "Aliza get ready to climb up. " she immediately recognized it as Jake.
No one could be seen around the dark cliff she hung off but she knew to trust in that voice.
Climbing up, the dragon she was scared of was standing on the mountain being distracted by her friends.
Blades dashed by as Emma tried to inflict injury on the dragon it did nothing but fuel it's rage.
Seeing it self being bothered it set it self ablaze knocking out Emma who was close to it. Jake immediately caught her.
The dragon huge wings were raised as it lift itself off the ground to him this pesky humans were just three, one which was still climbing up. He had no time to think about her, lifting his left wing it thrust with anger ,piercing the wind he hit Jake chest breaking his rib cage.
Noticing Jake was down, Emma grabbed her sword charged it towards the dragons belly. Not looking back she lied on her back as the dragon jumped with rage, she hurried to pick up Jake and ran as fast as she could.
Running she jumped into the mana car ,driving with full speed she moved under the cliff waiting for Aliza to jump down.
Seeing her teammates injured and burned she ran towards the cave and grabbed three of the crystals and another three mana crystal.
She grabbed the inconspicuous old bag and stuffed it into her space ring.
She jumped off the cliff, falling into the car she told Emma to run towards the forest.
The dragon followed setting ablaze the mana car the rode.
The forest grounds were blazing with flames as the dragon was keen on burning them down.
'Oh leave us alone ' She thought.
Aliza wondered why dragons were so damn vengeful. Seizing the wheels from Emma.
"Emma I will create a smokescreen using blind light. It will only last for three seconds, You should take Jake and use the substitute Mana car to transport far away. I will drop you into the vines so the dragon will be distracted. ". Aliza instructed.
She headed straight to the Vines of Geain, she did not want to listen to any opposition
Thinking back there was never any opposition. It was not that they respected her decision or considered her important but that they never cared for her life.
A bright shinning light was released it seemed to work like fire burning things that came close. In such distraction she gently tossed Emma and Jake out of the burning car.
With the car on flames the dragon actively chased after Aliza who had slowly begun to lose control of the car. Thankfully mana car were never that explosive so it could burn for so long.
Seeing as the chase was becoming pointless the disdain in the dragon eye grew. It tossed out three wing blades.
Unable to avoid it she was hit and the car split into pieces.
Before she could hit the ground she was swept up by the dragons wings and thrown into a tree.
"pckrr pckrr....." The sounds of her bone crack was loud. Her ears were ringing, blood spilled out of her nose. With dizzy eyes she watched the dragon fly towards her.
'Most have flown so far ' She thought.
'Have to get out of here ' She had nothing but these in mind. She searched her space ring for the teleportation scroll but it was no where in her ring.
Aliza had no idea how it went missing but that was not what she had to care about right now dragging a floating disk from her ring she attached a tripple mana stone inside and layed on it.
With her legs dangling outside she was dragged quickly into the forbidden vines.
Stuck with a choice of risking its life in the forbidden vines, the raging dragon decided to consider the human lady hateful and dead.
Flying back to its cave in all arrogance it soon remembered he was chasing one not three humans.
The remaining two must have deceived it during that light show.
Till now Aliza had no idea how she survived , the cold forbidden vines were not nice all she remembered was falling into a hole. Whatever it was ; a week later she surprisingly woke up and was scolded for no reason.
Returning to the academy was so stupid. The headmistress punished her for endangering her teammates. If she had remembered correctly. They picked the dangerous mission of going into a dragon cave and she was blamed. Apparently her teammates had shifted all the blame to her.
Despite how much it hurt she remained silent on the pretext that she was supposed to be responsible has a leader.
Her contributions were stripped.
It was like she had never done anything.
Whenever she spoke up on her grievances, she was asked to stop being a baby. The head mistress would then go about how she was the chosen one and as thus she had to suffer a little bit more.
"ALIZA"
Hearing her name being shouted. It was obvious she had to go back.
Dragging her feet, she slowly arrived at the scene after a little wandering.
Emma looked furious and Jake was a little bit flustered. The only one who looked relatively normal was June. Though Aliza could not be sure of she was normal. After all people were not what they seemed.
"Oh the mighty princess is back. How great. Did you forget we were supposed to complete a mission" Emma was reeking with sarcasm; her chest heaved furiously and her eyes stared at Aliza like she wished for her to burst into flames.
She did probably wish that.
"Yeah Aliza, how could you not care about the mission. We are a team and you should at least do your part. Remember you picked these mission.
If you are angry please do not let it get the better of your judgement. " Jake preached. It was not sure if he was trying to console her or reprimanding her for letting them figure everything out.
"If I remember you guys usually pick all the mission so what is your problem. " She asked; snickering on the inside she shook her head.
Deciding to ignore them she asked "June do you have the trace stone. "
" What do you need a trace stone for"
Emma questioned her eyes were on guard.
" Here " June handed it over; As far as she was concerned Aliza was the captain and they should listen to her. She had no knowledge or care of the politics but one thing was sure the team would fall.
Holding the full Trace stone in her hand Aliza split it into three. She rubbed the stones on the hair of the beast.
"Use trace stones to track it tommorow." She instructed; keeping a trace stone for herself she rubbed it on the colour crystal.
Feeling stressed from all the emotional drama she falls asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow.
While Aliza was fast asleep. Jake and Emma sat down next to each other.
"Whatever happened was not right." Jake spoke quietly.
His eyes darted around as he spoke searching for Intruders.
"I am sorry I overreacted but she was acting strange. First she picks her own mission then she does not help us. Now it seems like she does not care about the twin of us. "Emma paused and watched as Jake furrowed his eyebrows.
A realization struck Jake. " She is acting out. Do you think she found out something and is angry. "
" Can she even think for herself. It is impossible. " Emma sneered ; her conceding tone made it clear she thought absolutely nothing good of her so called best friend of five years.
"You are right..." he paused.
"It is just a little strange maybe she is in a bad mood. " He thought of a simple excuse.
The two of them discussed some more. Their voices quiet as the whispers in the tree at night perhaps only they knew what they said to each other and wind that blew softly by.
The stars twinkled ever so brightly and she was soon among them. Like when she was young she wanted to touch but but as usual they were far away.
She stretched her hand some more and soon the stars began to flee. That was if stars could move. Like a silly child in the field she ran after the stars like they were butterflies ever so bright and beautiful.
Tired she sat down abruptly, she found herself silly 'How can I chase stars. 'She thought ' Ha... If anyone sees me acting like these my poor cool nature is completely done for. ' She sobbed.
Her hands clenched into a fist as she tried to get up. Soon she realized that the ground seemed cloudy and the stars were brighter than ever.
' A white cloudy ground beautiful bright stars. 'A dream this is Aliza thought.
A weird fog surrounded the area it was so thick she could not have a peep of what was beyond but she had a feeling it was not good.
Aliza raised her hands and tried to touch the stars again when she felt the ground or cloud below her give into gravity.
With no way to be saved she fell.
Her heart pounded loudly and she could hear the beat in her ears.
Holding her hand up to her chest she begun to breathe in and out. To reduce the heavy panting.
The dream was beautiful but falling from it was scary.
With not another sleepy thought she packed her belongings and decide to wait out the rest of the night.
Coming out of the tent, her eyes fell upon the walking duo.
Dearest Jake and pretty Emma her friends they were obviously so distracted to notice that she was watching them.
Her eyes grew cold as soon as she heard them.
" We should inform the headmistress we won't work for nothing. " Emma whispers.
So now they had plans to steal her contribution without having them say the rest she knew they meant the colour crystals.
When she packed it up she had seen their eyes tearing up with greed.
It did not matter what the wanted to do she had plans of her own.
Ignoring them she climbed the top of the tree and begin to rest.
It was going to be a long day tommorow.
The birds were chirping and the sky was so clear and bright. It was definitely a sunny day. It was just morning and the sun was up.
The skies clearly lit with blue in tainted beauty.
In every corner of the forest you could here it come alive, this was the great difference from the night before.
Right on the tree Aliza rested upon a bird landed on her head and began to rest. The possibility of it suspecting her hair was it's nest was extremely high.
Feeling uncomfortable Aliza sat up and soon she began to feel prickly.
Her brows furrowed she raised her hand and swatted her head.
The bird squirmed as it flew off it's nest due to impeding danger.
Shocked by the bird, Aliza panicked and hurried down.
'Stupid ' She thought of herself; how could she think that sleeping on any tree was safe.
Her careless could have cost her life trees had markings and that was not hard to find.
Dismissing her thoughts she walked back to the camp.
" Where have you been " Jake spoke calmly ; his eyes were filled with patience and a supposed love.
He seemed to be care but she was not buying that crap.
" I fell asleep outside " She said while yawning.
Emma walked up to her instantly saying. " Aliz I am so sorry, you must have been upset by how I treated you yesterday"
She sobbed " Please forgive me and....."
" If you no longer want to be my friend again I understand. "
Such drama Aliza sneered Emma eyes were a little swollen and her tears kept rolling down.
"It is fine " She uttered against her heart.
Keeping up with pretense despite there being no audience was more frustrating.
Aliza smiled and thought 'they were definitely going to pay starting tomorrow '