The tension rose higher,everything around them seemed to be getting engulfed into an unbearable hollow of darkness.
As they raised their head due to a tingling sense of instinct,they were not disappointed for their unfortunate fate to come to witnesse a thing,have they never once witnessed before...an eclipse solar-
This was a really rare thing of which the much they only knew about was what have been depicted in books.
"Why now..!"asked sillias to herself.As if she could find answers just by doing so.
Infront of them the shadows and torned flesh creatures were roaming in hope of finding feast and vessel to sustain their needs.
Appeasing their torturing rage and filling their blackholed,never ending stomach.
Sillias had little time to think but she had to....and fast before the night falls on them forever.
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"Those "Nondead"look so much different from the one I have met back then in so much aspects...hmm back then..wait a minute..yes I got it!"
Like a pie being freshly out of the oven,sillias imagined and planned out of a vague idea which could barely reach the twenty percent chance of success in her head but still...it was an idea and a plan,she thought that it still deserved recognition as it might probably change the course of things for them even if it had to be poorly executed due to a lack of time and skills.
It was better this than nothing.
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Frankly speaking...everything was better than nothing in their situation.
She took a few steps back,swayed eft and right to have a perfect visual of everyone of her classmates position and those of the Nondead.
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In a rush of adrenaline she hoped forward and ran in a zigzagged pattern around the Nondead.
"Some Nondead are pretty smart..but those one..they seem too..basic..to not say kind of prehistoric."
Sillias theory confirmed itself.
Those Nondead were unable to follow her steps,seemingly lacking in critical and logical thinking...
Not being able to predict sillias moves frustrated them and exhausted them like tamed boar.
Though sillias couldn't let her guard down so easily...for not being smart enough,the Nondead were still largely compensated in their strengths and speeds.
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Following sillias flow the others did the same too.From what they could understand from sillias earlier the plan was simple but with high risk,but they have no other choice than to comply.
...the task was easy...exhaust them to the point of death...don't miss or you'll end up the dead one..use the ability as a last resort only...they didn't know where they were so they couldn't use their ability correctly to its fullest...not like it would've been of big much help either..they're not yet developed for this kind of situation..not for the kind of situation they found themselves into out of nowhere...they were still way inexperimented so it was a clear and big NO.
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So running around,using and maxing out their energy was the good option for them,thus why they didn't oppose sillias on this one.
Not like they would have disagreed with sillias in any case...they're witnessed sillias ability as a leader and capacity in working in large groups before with their own eyes and executed her order with their own body...like she was a Captain or general and they were her undeniable loyals knight officers..
"In tougth situation...there's Noone better to have on your side than Sillias.."..truly an admirable boy-";thought all of them amidst the chaos as they were having trouble breathing .
Their breath were getting slower and slower almost unexistant...but their heart was still beating so they had to keep their hopes up.
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"We're going to suffocate at this rate but-;"
"This is our last chance!"Shouted sillias while she activated her ability,creating a massive white,round shaped and by the way also looking strangely similarly alike abit or should we say the truth a lot like the moon,was propulsed and placed itself in the sky above their heads.
"Hmm?"thought everyone wondering why sillias used her ability but mostly...why choosing this appearance?
Some of them was wondering if they really took the right choice..
Even sillias started doubting herself..but she refocused herself and...
The event that followed was beyond imagination.
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The synthetical moon made by sillias exploded,a blinding light than almost blinded them all illuminated everything on it way.
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Hopefully they all closed their eyes exactly on time.
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A silence fell behind them as the sound only being hearable now was the sound of..dusk flying in the wind.
"Whats going on-"asked Francis eyes filled with amazement.
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Colorful sparkling dusk of all colors were flowing among them,like the remains of a rainbow that been shattered into tiny pieces.
The dusk flown among them,brushing against their cheeks,eyes and hair...surrounding their thight,neck and front head..
They felt as if one of those enchanting spells from fairytales book they once read as kids have been cast on all of them..amidst these shower of colors more beautiful than others...sillias peeked out a glance at kayven...
And..for the first time..on his face was a smile showing sincererity and pure satisfaction.
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Sillias felt a weird burning sensation in her cheeks,she took it as the effect of the adrenaline and started to slowly breath as the colorful dusk around started to disappear in thin air like sugar being mixed with water.
Around them,only twelve small grey crystals were left.
They all grabbed one with them and rushed to sillias who also was holding one with her.
They wished to praise her and ask her what was all that but just as they were about to reach her.. She abruptly fall unconscious.
Fortunately kayven got a hold of her in time
"Sillias-"they Shouted as they tried to wake her up..
In her faintly unconscious state sillias still found strength to mutter something under her breath.
"The crystals..are the key."
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"The key..?"
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They all took out their crystals and stared at it instantly.
Thats when a nauseous feeling hit all of them down..and like a chain of dominoes falling,they all fell unconscious on the ground surrounding sillias and kayven,who holded into eachothers as the vision darkened into complete darkness.
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Sillias open her eyes gently,the rays of glitter of the sun sting her eyes as she adjsut correctly her position.
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Whats going on-"
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"This is...nonsense."
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Around her was green grasses and summer trees smell,and old wooden benches.
This...was the part of the arcahdale that sillias planned to have lunch with the others at.
The others...they were all laying on the ground too..they were soundly asleep.
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"Did I fall asleep..Hah..maybe all of that was just a dream.."she thought as she wiped the sweat off her face.
It was unusually hot.
As she was about to stood herself and wake the others,she realized that there was something poking her hands..
"Hm?"
She opened her hand and in the left palm of it,was a shiny crystal of white,greenish blue color scintillating through it.
Sillias eyes eqarquillated.
At the same time the others were also waking up,and all stood and stared at their crystals..
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They crystals were not gray..but all had a distinct color of their own now.
"What happened-..
How?";asked Catalina while clenching onh her crystal.
Her crystal was of a reddish orange color..as flamboyant and dense as magma.
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"Moreover how are we back..?"
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"So this was not just a dream.."sighted out sillias .
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"Of course not. "Replied kayven.
"These are the proof and there's no rational explanation about this for sure...but we can't still deny the mere existence of these crystals."he added.
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"I may have an explanation."
Whispered a low feminine voice out.
That was Scarlett Gemslow.
A viscount daughter of a decent family closely tied to the royal market buisness.
Dark blue hair and gray steeled eyes color.
She was of calm and timid nature.
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"Have you ever heard of a spiritual voyage ...sometimes...souls can be thrown into another realm or in another period of time...without them knowing."
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"Spiritual voyage."
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This was a weird concept that the students couldn't fairly comprehend clearly.
"Well..Talking of...which time is it?"asked divion in curiousity.
They all turned and raised their head to look at the giant golden clock from which tgey could see from afar,adorning the school church.
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"One hour has already passed.."slipped out Divion.
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Realization fell on them like snow in summer.
"So...should we be shocked that only one hour passed..or should be in a panic since this means lunch time ended."asked out Marklov.
"Marklov Lucas Radovidge "a foreign student from a cold and snowing empire where the horizon look white as cotton all year.
He should have normally enrolled in an academy from there but for personal reasons he chose arcahdale instead.
His brownish hair,red ruby eyes and refined jaw line were an aspect of him that embodied seduction in person but...his personality..was more of an airhead and almost icy attitude like at first..but then the class soon found out he had also a kind of humouroustic side..but the things is..
He spilled jokes out like written essay on historicals war.
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"I think we should run..like NOW."yelled Catalina while running .
They all agreed on postponing the conversation about the crystals and everything that happened to them in those recent hours for later.
They started running,hoping that the teacher was not yet in class.
They kept their crystals in their pockets and kept them in during all the afternoon.
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When the school hours ended,they're organized a meeting to summarize all that happened at the exact spot they woken to.
They had few spare free times until going to dorm.
They sat on the soil in the shape of a circle.
"Lets start summarizing everything by the starting point-"stated sillias.
As a windy breeze brushed on them,a thought came to her.
"A storm is coming...we should be quick and get back.."
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`Two hundred meters away from them...two shadowy blured figures discussed on the topic of destiny.but somehow the real topic of the conversation seemed to be hiding far beneath it..a fact more intriguing that simple faith.
"Destiny main source is faith..faith is stronger from youth..youth should be enjoyed only once...and that's the cycle of life.
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But what to do if some entity enjoyed it more than once...more than it is normally allowed...does this make them anomalies-"
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"It must be indeed something like this or that..don't you think there's thus no real such answers sir-
Years told me to be a wise thinker when its about destiny faith and cycle of life..
..What I know is this story...their story..started right now just as we are talking."