Scarlet looked around and moved from Alex's support and pressed both her hands against the wall for support moving a bit forward.
She conjured a spell that enabled her to produce a red wave of magic that she sent throughout the entire wall allowing her to feel everything that was in the railway tunnels, I feel no living thing in these halls so we must safe for now." She explained thrusting her weight off the wall and back to Alex's shoulder for support. They all seemed surprised that she was now using magic well apart from Argus who knew how the trials were and that they come back stronger than they were before. They started walking further in the tunnels since the surface was crawling with more spiders.
"What happened in there?" Alex asked keeping her tone down so that no one can eavesdrop on their conversation as they walked through the dark tunnel. "Well, not much really Chaos was seeing if I was worthy of her power and so she fought me." She chose to leave some things out while explaining. Alex giggled from excitement by those words, "Unbelievable, and you winning must have been epic not so…"
"Yeah it was but it's better if we kept this a secret from the others okay I will explain later about this." She begged.
"I promise I won't." Alex crossed her fingers and smiled.
They all stopped abruptly after reaching a dead-end of the tunnels because the remaining tracks moved upwards to the surface which they wouldn't dare to because of the spiders above. Jack moved forward and produced a ball of light from his hand that lit upmost part of the station. Next to the wall looked like a ticket booth that maybe was used for selling tickets for the trains. He started to draw magical runes on the wall each glowing a gold light after being completed then they all merged to form a white door with a golden doorknob with light glowing from its slightly open edges. He opened it and the others followed, this was all part of Jack's ability to evolve and so he would do such random spells occasionally. Through the door, there was a bright flashlight that disappeared instantly after passing through the door and they were now in a park. Jack looked up and saw the building that they were supposed to be at. "Guys…" he pointed upwards showing everyone the building. It looked short from a distance when they were still at the school. The building had all sorts of windows broken to cracked with green vegetation on the walls.
Scarlet moved from Alex after feeling some progress in recovery then slowly walked to Jack and said, "I think we should go in during the day. These things...I fought a girl she had black eyes something about her was different like she had…."
"Magic," he said, "yes they have magic, and am not sure if any of us is strong enough maybe you and Argus can keep up a fight with those things but all in all this is suicide that I am one hundred percent sure about that." He looked very worried as he stared at the building and Scarlet could see that his hands were trembling. She held his hand to calm him down and it was warm and felt soft holding his hand for the first time in a while, the fact is that she still had deep feelings for Jack and yes he broke her heart a long time ago back in high school but looking at him being so vulnerable now is something she had never seen from him and she found it.
"We are going to be okay don't worry so much," she said. "If we do this right all we will have to fight is the girl I need a rematch with her." she joked
Jack smiled and held her hand, "Well I just don't want you to get hurt. I was worried sick just hours ago thinking you weren't going to come back to us."
Scarlet was touched by his sudden concern for her, maybe because they were close friends and that's why he was worried. she didn't want to get her hopes high so she quickly withdrew her hand. He turned to face her but her chicks and face had turned red from being shy, "Anything wrong…did I say something…"
"No no no absolutely…I…. I…. I just have to go to something." She stammered trying to hide her shy face from him by looking down
"Okay…" he was surprised by her weird behavior.
Once she heard that she rushed away heading back into the park. Leaving him confused from what she had just attempted.
The evening closed in and they were still in the park, Argus, and Alex and made analysis that Dr. Lin could be on the top floor of the building and that the girl was maybe the leader of the spiders so the strongest of them meaning Jack and Scarlet had to fight the leader to her slow down or if lucky enough kill her and all this was planned to take place at nightfall so that they use the night to their advantage. They were to fly into the building and retrieve the doctor without bringing up any noise. After that, they all had minutes of rest as Jack conjured a cloaking spell to hide their presence with Alex.
Scarlet was standing staring at the sky with her arms both crossed before Argus paced in on her, "Are you ready for this?" his voice was breaking. "Actually am not, am goddamm terrified I woke up after a fight with Chaos-"
"Wait you fought Chaos in your trial." His eyes turned wide from shock.
"It didn't happen in yours?" she asked
"Nope, I was told to choose between a sword and a feather only one, and then if I picked the wrong one I was to die." He said.
"What did you pick?" Scarlet questioned
"I picked the sword and Chaos confirmed am truly a champion and after that, I shared my power with a few friends and we became superheroes till things got out of hand and the normal humans we used to stop turned to actual villains with powers. And now I just wish I never picked the sword because I know I wouldn't have lost my world." Argus was facing depression and all he wanted was to die but his drive for revenge was all that was keeping him alive.
"Don't say that it wasn't your fault your friends fought till the very end, just live long enough to save more lives so that their sacrifice wouldn't be in vain." she believed, "am sorry for your loss I too can't imagine losing Alex and Jack, but you have to stop blaming yourself and move forward."
How do I do that am just fifteen and so scared I may never see my mom and dad ever again," tears began to pour from his eyes then scarlet pulled him in wrapping her hands around him for comfort as he cried even more. Scarlet remembered the dead kids she saw when she had projected to the cave where she first saw Talon those were probably his friends that had been killed.
"I am going to kill Talon with my own bare hands," he whispered in her ear.
"And you will but first we need to get the anchors of chaos first in order to succeed."
She looked at the sunset with Argus, "Then let us do this."
Argus pulled a small blade from his right pocket that turned to a golden sword instantly that resembled Argus' but smaller. Then lit it on fire using his powers one side being fire the other being ice.
"Where were you hiding that?" Alex asked as she walked in with Jack by her side. Scarlet didn't want to look at him after what had transpired hours back.
"It drains too much magic from me so I can't use it for long I have like sixteen swings left." Argus explained, "it was the sword that was given to me after my trial."