Zion turned around to see who had spoken. Armaros had his
brows partially raised, the backside of his hair which was slightly longer than
the front, was packed backwards and those blue eyes looked pissed.
More bad news, the one revered as a Greek god stood beside
him, those green orbs filled with contained madness.
Nathan stared, his head slightly tilted sideways, a cigar
hanging by the side of his mouth, which he slowly threw and crushed beneath his
foot.
"And who do you think you are to stop me?" Zion asked like
he was unbothered, but those cold blue eyes made him feel small like his
existence wasn't worthy of standing on the same ground as the owner of those
eyes.
"Come over my love", Aros called out to his sister. Tessa
took Sarah's hand and they both started walking over to Aros.
Then Zion made the mistake he would forever wish he never
made, he grabbed Tessa back by her hair.
"Ahh", she groaned.
First, the lights in the hallway went off, then "crack!",
the sound of fist connecting with someone's bones was heard, then came the
"thud!" his body had collided with the wall, from strong impact.
The lights came back on, and Zion was on the floor, his nose
having a deformed shape, red hue trailing out of the nostrils.
That wasn't the whole damage though, two of his fingers had
somehow given life to the letter 'W'.
Dash stared at the guy who stood towering over his elder
brother, but he had somehow become even more scarier as he was no longer
speaking, but his fists were shaking.
Tessa also noticed it, then she stared at Nathan
"he's gone silent Nate", she spoke worriedly, her gaze pleading.
Dash's high school lackeys stared in shock and anticipation
of what was to happen next, but their excitement was short lived.
Tessa ran towards her brother, then hugged him from behind,
"Say something", she pleaded.
Her voice brought him back from his shutdown episode. Aros
turned, then embraced her.
He didn't say anything more, just grabbed her hand
and gently led her out the backdoor, Sarah and Nathan followed suite.
Dash went after Nathan, to take a hit at the unsuspecting
latter. Nate didn't look back but held Dash's fist, crushing his hands slowly.
"I suggest you don't do that again, or else, you'd get your
fingers the 'M' shape, better than your brother's crooked W", Nate casually
spoke, before letting go off the brat's fist, then walked outside.
"Damn!" one Dash's lackeys exclaimed
"That dude with blue eyes is on a whole other level, and did you see his speed, if only the lights
were on when he made that move, I would have confirmed he isn't human" he was
still speaking, when one of his friends signaled him to be quiet, because Dash
looked pissed.
Dash rushed over to Zion, to help his brother up, to which
the latter swatted his hands away, aggressively, letting out an annoyed "fuck
off!".
*
Aros, Nathan, and Tessa walked their way home, as Sarah had
safely departed to hers.
As soon as they got home, Aros quickly checked on his sister,
to which the latter confirmed she was alright, then went into her room, leaving
Nathan and Aros in her brother's room.
"Bro, what's up with you? Don't tell me it's nothing, cause
I won't believe you", Nathan hadn't even
finished speaking, when Aros denied, it was nothing.
"Ahh", Nathan sighed, knowing Aros wouldn't easily give him
an answer.
*
Grey had snuck back home that morning, using his room's window,
but unluckily for him, his dad was already waiting in his room.
"Welcome home Grey", he heard his father speak in a mocking
manner.
"Oh thank you da.., sir", Grey answered, though he had
wanted to say dad, his father had prohibited him from calling him that, because
he believed Grey was too unserious with his life, to be his son.
"Now tell me, where were you? But before that, why were you suspended?"
Mr. Bingham questioned.
"Umm, nothing much really, just a b..b..brawl", Grey replied
hesitantly.
"A brawl!?" his father asked angrily.
"Really, I don't care what you do with your life, just at
least not tarnish this family's name", Mr. Bingham said, then walked out of the
room.
Grey caught sight of his brother give him an hateful,
disappointed glare, just outside the door.
'Not tarnish the family name?' thought Grey. He wasn't even
considered a member of the family, so why should he care?
His mom was too scared to speak, his brother hated him, so
did Mr. Bingham, so why?, Why should he care about the damn name.
"Grrr", his phone
rang, It was Nathan calling, seemed like he finally wanted to apologize, but
when he picked the call, the voice on the other end was distorted.
Then he checked again, and noticed it was an unknown number,
but he was pretty sure he had seen the caller read 'Nate' few seconds
back.
Anyways, he hung up and decided to do a little workout,
afterall the football competition was coming up soon.
*
In the absence of the male rivals of Upper F and duo f's,
Bianca had decided to turn her bitchy character on the girls of duo f, Susan
and Layla. Aside that, everyone one couldn't stop talking about the upcoming
football competition, considering it wasn't everyday they got to leave Da Vere.
Though, not everyone was going to participate, just the
cheer leaders, some high ranked students and the players of the school, were
going to be the only ones taken for the competition.
*
Armaros had been trying to focus on other things for the
day, but he just couldn't push aside the strange incident of him seeing some
flashes of memories, after he had punched Zion.
He could tell those memories weren't his, because the dressing
style of the man was way too old to be his, though, the face looked a lot like his.
The day was gradually becoming night, and he noticed there
was a neighborhood party, going on, just outside the house, opposite theirs.
He didn't attend these things, it was only the parents of the
neighborhood who were invited anyway.
"Knock, knock", he heard his sister call, just outside his
door. Nathan had already gone home.
"Come in", he answered.
"I brought you dinner", spoke Tessa as she took the tray to
Aros, before going back to close the door.
"Thank you Mine", Aros muttered to his sister with a smile.
He was about eating, when he noticed her just standing and watching him.
"What are you doing over there sweet tooth, come here, let's
dig in", spoke Aros in a scary halloween voice, whilst he laughed sweetly.
Tessa laughed along with him, before joining in eating,
seems she came prepared, as she took her cutleries from behind her.
Aros knew she wouldn't have dinner without him.
As they ate, Tessa noticed how her brother ate gracefully,
without even trying, while she had food particles smeared beside her lips, no
matter how much she tried to eat properly.
Then she giggled, when Aros gave her a questioning look.
"Nothing, it's just you look perfect in everything you do,
almost like you were born that way", she spoke.
"Oh", Aros gave a look like he had done something wrong.
"Then how about I do this", he took the soup in his spoon,
then smeared the corner of his lips with it.
"How about now?" he asked and Tessa laughed.
"You still look perfect", she said while laughing, making Aros give up. They both laughed the night out, like nothing had happened during
the day.
***
"I hear he's going to some competition master," Thiriel gave his reports to his master.
"Then we should be prepared too, that snake would surely
have her minions around", Thiriel's master replied.
"But even the Queen isn't the main problem is she?" Thiriel
questioned, with uncertainty lingering on those words.
"No she isn't", The master replied, and even the old castle where they stood right now, resonated with the melancholy in their hearts,
something was coming and just how long was the war going to be? They didn't
know.