Roy and the Knights of Squad Five entered the school entrance looking very annoyed and perplexed. The girls in the Institute were in a mood, running around and some of them were trying to wash away a blood trail outside of the entrance of the school. Not to mention, some of them were in the middle of packing up for the holidays and wanted to be as far away as possible from each other.
"Cole, what`s this emergency your girlfriend was talking about?" Dylan asked from beside Roy.
"Yeah, because judging from the blood trail, they already solved it," Mike pointed out.
"All she told me was that there was an emergency and that we all needed to be here," Cole repeated himself again for the third time. His so-called teammates had pestered him the entire flight from school to till now and he was really annoyed. He knew as much as they did and hated repeating himself. Who knew a bunch of boys would complain this much?
"There better not be another girl fight again between them," Tristan said with a frown.
Cole shrugged, "I don`t know. Maybe? She just said-"
"Cole!"
The boys all glanced up to the top of the stair case where Zoey was running down with tears in her eyes," Something`s happened!"
Cole pushed passed the other knights until he stopped at the bottom of the stairs to receive his girlfriend. His little blonde held him tight and sobbed," Hey, what happened? I can`t help if-"
"It`s Jia, Cole," Zoey revealed as she leaned back to look up at his face. Behind him, all the Knights tensed up. The blonde sorceress then looked behind him straight at Roy," She`s alive and she`s back."
"What?"
"She`s in the Infirmary and I- "
Suddenly a loud scream tore through out the school and Zoey jumped.
"That`s her," Roy whispered before breaking into a run.
"Roy! Wait!" Chase exclaimed. They all ran after him up the stairs. They ran up and past the classrooms before pushing through the other sorceress in the hallways who were crowding around, trying to look into the Infirmary. Head Mistress Aline and some of the Professors were ushering them away, telling them to go back to their rooms. When she saw the Knights, she stood aside and gave way to them. Roy gave her a grateful nod when he ran past her.
When they finally burst through the Infirmary doors, Roy saw red. His cousin was being held down by Clary and Fiona as Nurse Irma finished injecting her. He made a lunge towards the Nurse when Chase pulled him back by the neck of his jacket," Calm down, man!"
Roy pulled himself out of his friend`s grasp before yelling at the Nurse, "What did you do to her?! She doesn`t like sedatives!"
Fiona stepped forward and held up her hands to try and pacify him, "Calm down Roy!"
"Don`t tell me to calm down!" Roy snapped at the red haired girl. He still hadn`t forgiven her for stabbing his cousin.
Nurse Irma moved to cover the bed where Jia was resting with a curtain before turning to the fuming Knight, "It was the only way I could save her. She needs to be asleep so I can perform surgery and a diagnostic spell, your cousin is severely hurt and I need to do everything I can to save her and the other woman by putting them to sleep!"
Roy frowned, "Other woman?"
"The woman she came with," Clary informed him and pointed to another bed on the other side of the Infirmary. Roy quickly glanced over before he did a double take as he took in the figure asleep on the bed.
Cole gasped, "Roy- "
"Aunt Marina?" Roy whispered, his throat suddenly grew dry and his stomach felt hollow. He slowly approached the bed before falling down to his knees," She`s alive...She`s….Both of them are…"
Chase took his place beside his friend as Dylan moved closer to the bed to scan the face of Jia`s mother," How is this possible?"
"How did this happen?" Mike asked Kyra as Tristan nodded in agreement.
The shadow sorceress shook her head," We don`t know. One minute everything was fine and suddenly, they appeared in flash of light in front of the school."
"The blood trail? That was their 's?" Tristan asked.
"You all must leave, I have to perform surgery now," Nurse Irma said as a woman entered the Infirmary dressed in a lab coat and scrubs. Her blue hair was tied up in a ponytail and she was holding two clip boards," Please you must go, the Doctor is here."
Chase helped his friend to his feet before the Knights and the Sorceress left the room. It was then sealed off with a spell.
"If you all wish to wait, you can wait out here," Aline told them all as the other staff members left. She then transfigured the urns near the Infirmary into chairs. Roy nodded his thanks as he took a seat.
The Headmistress took a single seat and sat down with her hands clasped. Cole, Zoey, Kyra, Clary and Rose took the remaining seats. Chase, Fiona and Mike sat on the floor near the door while Dylan stood beside Roy with his arms folded. He was watching the door with a weary expression. Tristan stood on the other side of the room near Cole`s chair and did the same. Minutes few into one hour and then into two hours. Still everyone sat there. In time, Kyra and Clary left to get dinner for everyone. They came back with Gillian and Jasmine carrying lunch packs from Chicken Shack. Anyone who had an appetite ate and the Head Mistress left to go and have her dinner with the promise of returning after. Jasmine had gone to sit next to Tristan which earned the Knight a glare from Rose. When Tristan glanced at Dylan, he wasn`t eating, instead he was shuffling his food around. Roy must have noticed as well and tapped his friend`s arm.
The turquoise eyed Knight looked up at his friend who pointed his fork at his food," Eat. When she wakes up, she`ll want to know that you`re okay."
Dylan nodded. When Jia was gone, he had talked with Roy about his new discoveries concerning Jia. Even if that talk began with a fight, it ended with his friend respecting him and pitying him. Then there was the subject of his best friend, Tristan.
It was they were in the middle of eating when Marcellus arrived. Roy looked up when he heard the approaching footsteps and his heart died a little at the sight of his favourite uncle. He had circles under his red eyes and he looked like he was sporting a beard and shaggy hair. He also now wore black civilian clothes. He had really suffered the most when Jia was gone. He had lost both his wife and daughter.
"Roy?" Marcellus asked gravely.
Roy stood and put down his dinner before approaching his uncle, "Uncle Marcellus. Thank goodness you`re here."
Marcellus scanned the group, mentally taking note of who was absent before looking down at his nephew, "What is going on here? Are you okay?"
Roy nodded, "I`m fine."
"So why was I called back here?" Marcellus asked a he folded his arms. He didn`t like being back at Viola, it reminded him of his daughter.
"U-uncle, it`s…it`s…" Roy stuttered.
"What Roy?"
Roy ran a hand over his mouth, "It`s Jia and aunt Marina…. They`re alive."
Marcellus eye`s instantly darkened, "Roy. This isn`t the time for games. You know as well as I do that - "
"Uncle, they`re in there," Roy turned to point at the Infirmary doors," They're here." He then turned back to Marcellus," They`re alive."
Marcellus shook his head," No, Roy. They`re not. They were killed. Taken away and we- "
"Uncle!"
"I can`t go through this again!" Marcellus shouted and everyone jumped.
"And neither can I! But they're here! I just saw them! Everyone saw them! They. Are. Alive!" Roy punctuated very word with clear precision so his uncle would get the message.
The doors to the Infirmary opened as the Doctor and Nurse Irma stepped out.
Irma pursed her lips before nodding at the Doctor beside her, "Everyone this is Doctor Lucy Quin, she operated on the two patients."
"Hello, you all must be the family," Doctor Lucy deduced.
"We are," Roy confirmed with a nod.
"Doctor, may we see them?" Clary asked.
Lucy and Irma exchanged glances, "They aren`t awake yet,"
"We just want to see them, please," Gillian pleaded.
"Very well, try not to disturb them,"
They nodded before entering, the last one being Marcellus. He paused in the door way and tears began to fall from his eyes. His daughter was alive and back, she was heavily bandaged and lying in bed. Her friends were surrounding her and crying as they took in her features. He left them and instead moved to the other bed where his wife was.
Just like their daughter, she was covered in bandages and asleep. She hadn`t aged in eleven years and Marcellus reached out to cup her cheek. If she were awake, she would nuzzle against his hand like she always did. She looked younger than him now. What would she say when she woke up and saw him now? He was older than her. Before it was passable but now, people would look at them really weirdly. And Jia. The last time Marina saw her, she was six. What would she say now if she saw her daughter? He pulled up a seat near his wife and reached out to gently cradle her hand. He leaned down to kiss her hand gently before staying there.
"Marina," Marcellus whispered against her hand.
"So how are they?" Roy asked. He was seated beside Jia`s bed and scanning her bandages. She`d have more scars, she didn`t need more scares.
Doctor Quin cleared her throat before speaking, "They both lost blood and…they both have very extreme cases."
Marcellus winced and looked over to see his Jia. Why couldn`t the universe just leave his family alone?
Rose`s lips trembled and she sniffed from beside Chase," What…what do you mean?"
"First of all, Jia. Not only did she suffer from a sever sword wound and lose blood but she also has brises, which can be easily taken care of," Doctor Quin revealed," She will heal and in due time, the physical scares will be gone."
"So what`s the bed news?" Dylan asked.
Irma stepped in and answered, "She seems to be suffering from some kind of energy blast that has given her amnesia. "
Doctor Quin nodded, "I`m not sure how bad the amnesia is but I will know more when she wakes up and talks to me."
"And my wife?" Marcellus asked as he leaned back while still holding his wife`s hand.
"I`ve closed her wound and she should be okay but…" Irma trailed off.
"But?" Marcellus asked.
Doctor Quin sighed heavily before delivering the hard news, "Sir, your wife is in a state of rest that I haven`t seen before. She`s breathing and dreaming but she isn`t responding to anything. It`s not like a coma that I`ve ever seen before. "
Fiona stepped towards the Doctor, "Can you try to wake her up?"
The doctor pursed her lips, "When she has recovered from her stab wound, we will try giving her Ruby Essence."
"That`s good to know," Zoey spoke up. Gillian and Jasmine shared happy smiles.
Irma then raised her hand up, "There is another concern. When I did a diagnostic spell on the both of them, I checked their magic levels, and…I didn`t see any magic within both of them."
Marcellus sat up straighter, "What are you saying? Are you telling me that my wife and daughter no longer have any magic?"
"Yes."