"Attention everyone" Mr. Samuel shouted at the mumbling crowd. The students weren't listening or probably couldn't hear him as they all were busy talking to themselves with nasty gossip and funny jokes.
"Did you hear that the Shimer Queen can easily put in a request and it will be granted if it meets the required expectations of Glitz."
"Yeah and Cassandra can easily apply for a permanent banishment for a student if they talk back or stand up against her." A small clot in Ella's stomach just crawled inside, getting bigger.
She recollected her first day at Glitz and remembered that she did all those things to Cassandra on that day, except that back then she wasn't the Shimer Queen. It's been a few weeks after her inauguration as the Glitz Queen for this year. Ella quietly looked down trying to avoid getting in any rash gossip.
Mr. Samuel being on the front observed the students and did nothing more than a normal hand gesture. He shoved both of his palms at them and gently clenched them in the air. He further moved his thumb in a circular motion while keeping his hand still.
"Lid and Echo shell formation"
The tough sun rays which were directly reaching down were now gone. A big shadow was created among the learners. Before Ella could get a gist of what was happening, a large blue bubble formed around them. It was like a big shell.
A thwack sound jerked their minds to notice that something was above. But the more gawks the students gave the more talks increased and new topics enclosed for chatting. This is what true takt is.
The curly haired cape man created a cover crust around the learners. The outer voice slowly became faint and stopped after the thwack sound.
As the outside noise was cancelled, the sound inside the shell was getting higher with each passing second. They started to hear a lot of vibration and increased sound of their talks. The inside voices of the students were louder and repeated at several intervals. It was like an infinite loop of sound.
"Jareth" Aubrey called the Mentalian Shimer's name in an anger worried tone.
"It's like an echo," Jareth said, covering his ears.
"It's like an echo"
It's like an echo" He was true, his voice ranged after he said it. The echo was not like a faint one. "What the hell is this?"
"What the hell is this?"
"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?" Ella pressed her hands with her fingers reaching deep into her ear to shield it from the catastrophe outside.
"Stop talking already." Isla's lips were pushed down in agony as well as her body was bent down in denial.
"Stop TALKING ALREADY."
STOP TALKING ALREADY."
The effect of the sound after their words were spoken was so powerful that if there was a hole in the ground, Ella could have easily jumped into that hole to avoid this dreadful sound. It was really making them almost bleed their ears or maybe they will be deaf if none of them became quiet.
Ella pushed her hands forcefully on her ears more to stop the concussion and pain. It was not bearable but it was increasing and with the amount of it they will be nearly deaf.
Somehow she quickly understood that the inner voice will keep hanging on to the others creating an echo irritating all the students to shut their loud mouths. She nodded looking at Jareth whereas he blinked his eyes in assurance at Ella and then at Isla.
After some time some of the students halted their talks and they noticed what was the reason behind it. The vibrations gradually turn into muffled tones. Some of them realized what was happening and why it was happening. He smiled after discovering that the learners were able to understand his takt and the reason to stop talking.
"Echo Formation release." He pressed his hands in the mist of air and swiftly roasted his thumb in the anticlockwise direction. A slice squeal attacked their ears.
"So you all are pretty smart," Mr Samuel's smile stretched to focus right on the learners.
"This is what you have to learn to create within two days," He said, looking at his line of successors, showing the big formation made by him. He looked up with his face straight and a small smile stretching on his lips.
"Heh, A bubble?" Isla pulled up her upper lip in confusion.
"What? Seriously!" Students were doomed due to the big surprise which was just this big bubble.
"It's not even cool" Isla heard a guy say in disappointment to his group.
"I wanted something cooler and amazing," Another guy implored sadly rising their attention.
Isla nudged her to scanned over the other students to locate Kellen.
After this Lid and Echo fiasco, She looked around the huge hurdle of students and saw Kellen almost racing forth towards them and stopping right in front of her while scaring the shit out of the brown haired girl.
"What the...?" He stumbled, his leg almost tripping over to his front where Ella was standing. She noticed his stumbling figure and went back with her foot while her hands in front went straight towards the jacket bearer stopping his tracks so that he wouldn't fall. There was no time for her to dodge him as he was almost near to her body, a step away.
Ella closed her eyes while her hands caught hold of his jacket lining with his inner torso. A jerk was forced onto her but she quickly gripped tighter on him. A short slipping sound thrusted her ears and her hands passed graciously down from his leather jacket. 'Why on earth would he wear a shiny jacket like this on which I couldn't even catch my hands with a tighter grip!!' She cursed herself mentally.
"Hehe." She heard giggles coming from across Cassandra's face. Her diamond-shaped face enhanced her cheek bones when she smiled. Her pearl blue eyes smirked at the coffee haired girl before she collided with Kellen.
She eventually enhanced her face up in glory with her friends beside doing the same thing as her but failed to replicate. Their grunted sigh and worked up faces depict how harsh coping with her was.
"I can't comprehend the fact that you are still talking to that bitch." Aubrey snarled as she heard his footsteps near.
As Kellen stumbled, it wasn't that hard to notice a small obstacle in the shape of a stone which appeared out of nowhere when he was near them. His last step before reaching where Ella was standing, collided with the placed up obstacle stone and the next thing they knew, was he trying to balance his body on the edge.
Ella again cursed herself inside her mind as her upper body went down on her back towards the ground. Kellen's muscular hands passed towards her waist while she felt a sudden force exerting over her upper torso.
"Rip"
"Good grief," Aubrey hushed her breath and turned towards where Mr. Samuel was about to say something.