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Thalia's mind fazed into the void, the memory of previous events haunting her. her face scrunched up in confusion,
"my dad really did all this?" she muttered quietly
"...Thalia!" a lingering voice echoed before she snapped out of it, Ravi's hands waved quickly close to her face.
"Huh? Oh sorry guys, I'm a bit sleepy" Thalia yawned
"I don't blame you, we've been in here for an hour now" he groaned. "But, you shouldn't take what they said to hear okay?"
Thalia's eyes widened, before a chuckle escaped her lips. "yeah, just a bit surprised, don't know why they blamed me, my dad hasn't done anything" Thalia smiled weakly. "I haven't done anything right?"
Nerina stared out the window, her face blanked at she stared at Thalia in the reflection. she didn't respond
"I can't believe there's an ex guard in that place, from Aquaria too." Ravi added. "Kinda crazy, I thought they were all you know, taken."
"I don't think so," Nerina spoke.
"You might be right, it's hard to get rid of an entire group of people into one place"
"How can you think that when we saved a group of them" Thalia said
"No I meant aquaria. I haven't met anyone from Aquaria."
"What are you two talking about?" Hinata's ears twitched.
"Nothing really, just what happened recently. " Ravi slumped against the seat.
"What's happening there?" Thalia pointed to her seat
"It turns out, Kyomi gets motion sickness, and Kento hates people who puke," Hinata said nervously.
"Double kill" Ravi chuckled.
"Seriously guys, one more of this and I'll barf!" Kyomi covered her mouth as Kento moved closer to Hinata.
"I'll kill you if you even do that." Kento shuddered with disgust.
Kieran laughed. "It seems everyone has a weakness"
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"Everyone, it seems Nana has located who we've been looking for," the guard said.
"Oh really?" a voice echoed. "Relay the message to the royal family, we found her before the Eden empire" a smile formed.
"Congrats you" another voice appeared.
"I knew it wouldn't take long, we waited 16 years for this"
They all laughed. "it should be easy to find them, they were with the princess after all"
a guard snickered as the door opened. "that Eden king would kill us if he realises his precious child saw that"
the voice from earlier spoke "true, but we don't even know if it's true, they could be in Lumora, we know how they are of those fishes"
they both laughed while existing the room
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"Sabina, who did this to you!?" Rei gasped.
"Those stupid teachers, so protective over their students." Sabina hissed.
"We need to regroup and form another plan, especially when two are far away." Nabu clapped. "That Eden king is getting impatient."
Rei giggled, "he's here"
The door slammed open. "Well done Sabine" a familiar voice appeared. ""Because of you, we now know who possesses the first gem. The most important one."
"Yeah, no worries, I also found a secret weapon, there's a tracking user in there" Sabine snarled
"OO I like trackers, i think we should kill that one first!" Rei chirped
"I'll create a plan" Nabu clicked a quill
"Yes, yes! How simply delightful, but I have a plan, for us Eden descendants to have two gems." He gently stroked a cat's fur.
"It's really possible for 2 nations to have two gems?" Nabu questioned.
"Well yes, from what he told me, we just need to start with the plan I created."
"Fun. I'm digging into this" Rei smiled.
"Of course," he laughed. "Let the fun begin."
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"Welcome to our school!" A group of teachers stood at the entrance, the light radiating behind them.
"Friendly!!" Nami exclaimed.
Xiang waved her hands softly.
"Okay everyone, we are now in Lumora, please do not disgrace our school, be friendly to everyone" Kasem warned. "Now, we will let you all out carefully. Be patient."
"Talk about scary, they all have wings" Thalia gasped.
"They are descendants of angels after all," Ravi said.
"I think they hide it because it takes magic energy when they let it out"
"probably opened it to welcome us!" Ravi added.
Kyomi paled "new people!!" she covered her mouth "Oh I envy people on hard ground"
"Ew!!" Kento turned around.
"Guys come on, it's our turn to get down," Hinata tapped.
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FLASHBACK-
"what do you want to write for dad?" Keith held the messenger's bird tightly. "hurry, we have three days until we leave silver-dust"
"tell him we found the gem, and we just need to figure out where the gem is placed" Kieran sat on a new polished wooden chair.
"right, he knows Nerina is a gem user" Keith frowned.
"we finish this mission and Eden can be saved" Kieran added.
"safe from what?... I mean we are the ones starting things.." Keith shuffled his hair in frustration. "if father's right, why do we have to put others down.."
"don't question what father does" Kieran stared. "he knows best, we just have to follow"
"I guess..." he slid down the chair "how can I question dad's plans.."
Keith whispered the information into the birds ear before letting it fly off.
"do you think Thalia is using Nerina to get the gem? did dad give her the same mission?"
"I doubt, you know how ignorant she is, she probably got given a different mission" Kieran's jaw tightened in anger.
"I knew it" Hinata appeared in the shadows, her tails flowing unconsciously. "you two were planning something.."
she moved closer
"you two are mist and siren from the fight"
"cats out of the bag" Kieran muttered.
"so what if we are?"
"how did you get into the school? you two were kicked off" she brought her fan to her face.
"none of your business" Keith watched the bird fly.
"how interesting, I'll figure it out, just like how I did" Moves closer to Keith's face. "and how you you have magic"
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"Good afternoon! Welcome to Lumora upper school" A lady with curly black hair smiled. "I'll be your teacher- my name is Luciana…"
"I've heard so much from this place! The gem user too!" Nami jumped happily.
"I heard he's barely in Lumora." Kasem laughed.
"Well, I heard he fought the largest dragon" Hoa chirped in
"I heard he has made countless peace treaties with smaller towns and villages" Xiang held her umbrella tightly.
"Yeah.. that's our gem user for you…" Luciana replied nervously. "Surprinsly, he's inside today, we just had a feast so everyone is here.
"Feast!? Count me in!" Nami grinned.
"Hey!! Luciana!" A voice eroded from behind the door. "Are they here!?"
"Ah yes, so are the students" She replied back.
The door slammed open. "Welcome everyone! My name is Nicolas, but people just call me Nico" he moved quickly, waving everyone's hand firmly.
"Yo! Students!" He quickly moved to the students.
"Um guys, why is there a man running towards us?" Kento hid behind Ravi.
"He's so cool!!" Kyomi waved back happily.
"Maybe he's a teacher?" Hinata said.
"Hmm?." Nerina hummed.
"Kyomi is right! He looks nice!" Thalia laughed.
Nico waved everyone's hands. "I'm Nico, a gem user, I know, I know, I'm so cool!" He flexed.
"Hell yeah! Kyomi cheered.
"hell yeah!" He moved towards Nerina before pausing slightly.
"Yo!!!" He waved her hand frantically. "Aren't you a special fella!?"
He moved towards Thalia, his eyes still lingering onto Nerina.
"a princess!!" my lucky day!" He laughed loudly.