Jake walked out of the elevator, and the room was the same as it would be, only the room's theme color had been changed, it was now a gold like room theme color and it fitted well with the intricate yellow-gold lion skin on the floor. The room was a three hundred square meter room, it had high ceilings and ample natural light for an airy feel. It had the usuals, a living, dining and sleeping area.
The living room occupied not less than a hundred and fifty square meters, and it was adorned with couches made with a glowing leather like gold jell material, there were four in total, there was also an office table and couch setup at the corner of the living area. A slide door separated the three areas, making it so that the living area would be the first to come to view.
In the room was Jake's dad, who was sitting on the only cabriole couch in the room, dressed in a gold designed glowing suit. He was a young man, roughly between thirty-five and forty years. He had long wavy golden hair that went down his creme smooth skin until it rested perfectly on his shoulders.
On his two sides were two men dressed in black suits, on the camelback couch was a man in white suit who also had two men by his side in black suits. "I'd consider your suggestions Eric,"
"Thank you for the time Bryce," "My pleasure," Mr Silverstone said, he the stood up and shook his guest before they walked past Jake into the elevator. "Leave us," Jake's dad commanded, and the two men left the room.
"What are you doing here?, Your second session doesn't end until next month," Jake's dad asked in an assertive tone.
"We'll be on our way, I just thought I should see you before we left" Jake answered with a frown.
"We?, You brought a friend, I already told you not to leave school, how'd you even leave the academy, I made sure it's far away".
"Yeah, that you're always busy and you have no time for my incompetence, I also wanted to ask you about something," Jake announced.
"Have you ever heard of a place called Sinothe?" Jake's father raised his eyebrows up in reaction to the words that came out of Jake's mouth.
"No, Sinothe, I've never heard of it before, what gave you this idea?" Jake's father asked.
"I've been having visions lately, visions of a place called Sinothe, they've been very blurry, and I have a sense of familiarity when I dream about it," Jake replied.
"Bury this thoughts and visions, I won't let no son of mine behave irrationally, you need to go back to school right now, I had to cancel a meeting because of you, we've never being to Sinothe and what's wrong with your energy, it seems different," Mr Silverstone's eye shimmered yellow and so did Jake eyes, the two couldn't stop the glow in their eyes for a minute.
A sudden pull of force, forceful got Jake down on his knee, he was fighting the force, his face crunched up, but he soon found himself on his right knee, giving a bow to the dominating glow in his dad's eye. "You have a significant improvement, but that still doesn't make you worthy of my blessing,".
"You come home against my warnings and commands, and you think I'll happily welcome you home, you must think me a joke, I won't hurt you this time," Jake's father said and moved closer bending down until he was eye to eye with his son. "Next time, your punishment will be very inhuman," Jake father whispered.
Jake eyes shimmered a golden color and a wolf silhouette appeared atop his head going for a bite at Jake's father. Mr Silverstone reacted quickly pulling his face away from his son till he was upright, and his heart was rapidly beating, his reaction gave breath to the force that commanded Jake, he looked up and could see a panicked facial expression on his father's face.
Jake's father could see that Jake was finally free of his force, he quickly changed his face into a stern. "You can go now, next time I won't be so reasonable," Jake's father moved to the other room, and he soon came out with a credit card. He then flung it to Jake who caught it with ease.
Jake left the room with a frown on his face.
'What was that, did a wolf just come out of his head, or I'm I seeing things, was I afraid of him?' , How did he get to know about Sinothe, I thought that place was a myth, a forgotten story his kind would always tell, he's grown stronger, the siphonization process slowed him down, but every minute he spends with me here could lead to his awakening, I must make sure he doesn't come near me again,' Bryce thought and made a call.
'Two years, and I'll be free from this burden, I just have to continue the process,' Bryce thought as he moved towards the wall and pressed a button, a tether holo beam tube appeared around Bryce and he was soon transported into a dark room. "Well then shall we begin," Bryce's lips stretched into a grin.
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"Wow, your room's amazing you even have a personal game capsule," Xadia said to Jake as soon as he noticed his presence.
"Yeah, it's an awesome place, we're leaving," Jake informed with a frown in his face.
"What? We just got here," Xadia questioned
"We have what we came for, we need to confirm if the others made it, we can't stay here tonight, we must get to school before tomorrow," Jake replied, showing Xadia the credit card.
'What happened, he seems angry, who did he meet up with?' Xadia thought as they walked out of the hotel. "Jake?, who did you meet up with?"
"My father, and knowing him, he would make sure we leave the city for school as soon as possible, this way, we're being followed," Jake replied, taking Xadia past another route. "We're using the building tops, can you take me up, you're going to be using the building tops with me, we'll be spotted if you keep hovering with your sneakers," Jake suggested and they both got up on the building tops.
Leaping from buildings to buildings until they were far away from the hotel. "We lost him," Jake looked back from where they came from, "Now we go to the nearest travel portal," He announced.
"Uhm about that, I just had a realization, when I was coming to our academy, I was scheduled for a specific time to travel, meaning we can't get back to the academy if the portal at school is not operational, there won't be a schedule for our return," Xadia explained.
Jake slapped his hand on his face. "Uhhhh, I forgot about that, that means we can't return to the academy, and we'd have to wait till the next semester, and we can't do that, no place to stay plus my dad and, fuuuckkkkkk!" Jake exploded, imagine it, Lots of laughs, I can do this right, can't I, it's my novel, right? right?.
"Don't you have Ivy, Tyson or Jasmine's watch ID's so we can ring them if they're at school, and they can find a way to help us," Jake asked.
"ID's I don't have any, and even if I did, we won't be able to, my watch was spoilt during the battle with the demon," Xadia showed his left arm to Jake. "What are we going to do," Jake said, digging his fingers into his hair.
"Uhm, I have an idea, we will be able to get to school, but only if it works I'm not counting on it," Xadia explained. "What do you have in mind?" Jake asked.
"I'll explain, but first we need an energy crystal chalk," Xadia informed. The duo soon made their way to the emitters shop to purchase their item, they then returned to the building top they came from, it had a roof balcony that could shield them from prying eyes.
"Remember when those jerk second years," Xadia began. "Yes?" Jake replied. "When they drew on our heads and injected us with the glowy stuff, although it didn't affect you, it did affect me, I was able to usurp their leader's body and control it," Xadia explained, and then sat in a meditative position.
"I still remember the energy, and I think it's still in my body, if I can tap into it, I'll be able to channel the same sensation and experience hopefully triggering a response back to him, and from there I can make my way to the portal station,". Xadia concluded, and looked up at Jake's perplexed face.
"You're I don't know the term, a deranged genius, the plan sounds good, but it's chances are one in a million," Jake noted.
Xadia held the crystal chalk in his hand. "Well with this, we can broaden the horizon, a rune symbol," He drew the same rune symbol from his previous encounter on his forehead.
"Okay, here goes nothing," Xadia said, closing his eyes as he began to remember his encounter with the second years.
He slowly imagined the scenery, the feeling, the worry, the sensation, the sweat and the breath of air. Xadia could feel a vibrating energy powering through him, the rune symbol then lit up on his head, and a rush of electricity surged right through him rendering his body unconscious.