Friday, March 15, 2013

Chapter 13

N.Z~

AN : This is getting more and more excitingg~ (•̪┌┐•̪)

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Cindy's POV

    "Hey, you!"
    I was sitting on the garden, reading a book about elementals that I borrowed from the central library when suddenly I heard someone shouted to me. There are 7 libraries in Seinze, one in each academy plus one central library. Academy libraries only have books about a certain element according to the academy they're in, whilst the central academy has the most complete informations. Books that include informations about elementals only available in the central academy.
    I closed my book and looked back. A boy is walking towards me. "You called me?"
    "Who else?," he replied with a very cocky tone. I hate it.
    "You don't need to answer in that tone! Do you have any problem with me?" I stood up.
    "I want to ask you for a star-fight!"
    "Star-fight? What are you talking about?"
    "You don't know what it is? Unbelievable! How can a careless person like you got five stars?!," he smiled sarcastically.
    "Hey! Watch your words!"
    "Cindy? What happened?" Christian landed beside me. There's some sauce sticked on his cheek, I bet he just finished eating and immediately search for me. I refused his offer to have lunch with him. I still felt uncomfortable because yesterday we had a fight.
    "There's some sauce on your cheek," I said, try to avoid an eye-contact.
    "Huh? What?"
    "Sauce. On your cheek."
    He wiped his cheek with his hand, but it's the wrong side.
    "The other one, idiot!," I can't be patient and took a piece of tissue to wipe his cheek. Fortunately, he closed his eyes. I don't need to avoid his eye-contact.
    "Hey! I'm still here! I don't need to see a lovey-dovey scene in front of me!," the stranger shouted. With a cocky tone again for sure.
    "What does he want?," Christian whispered on my ear.
    "Star-fight. I don't know what it is," I answered quietly.
    "You asked her for a star-fight?," Christian asked him. He nodded.
    "Which academy are you from?"
    "Fire," the stranger answered.
    "And your name?"
    "Wincent. Wincent Cooper."
    "Okay. When? Where? How many stars you wanna bet?"
    "Today, after school, Fire academy, 3 stars."
    I understand nothing from what they're talking about. What I know is, when Christian finished talking with him, he nodded and ran away.
    "What did he want?," I asked, still avoiding any eye-contact.
    "I'll answer it if you don't avoid my eyes again."
    God! He realized it! I gained all my might and looked him in the eyes. He smiled.
    "Finally."
    "Now answer my question. It's related to me, isn't it?"
    "Come here, I'll explain it to you."
    We flew to the central academy.

***

    "So it's the same like yesterday's practical fight?"
    "Nearly the same. The only thing that's different is if you lose, you lose your stars. Star-fight is an individual fight. The students arrange it by themselves, so the teachers won't give any stars to the winner. The winner will get stars from the loser," Christian explained.
    We're standing in front of the announcement board, looking at the list of the most-star owners from each academy. My name's in it, but I don't know why. Christian's name also there, he represents Wind Academy. I don't represent any academy, why is my name in it?
    "Hey! There's no Sound Academy student here! That's weird," I said to Christian.
    "Well... You know... Sound Academy is famous for it's 'bad students'. They always get bad scores, weak at practical tests, and have no hesitation to learn more about their powers. I heard that their practical test went out so badly that the teacher didn't want to give them any stars," Christian whispered.
    "Ahh... So that's why...," I mumbled.
    RINGG!!!, the bell rang, time for students to get back to their classes.
    "Oh! It's finished. We must meet again on the second break."
    "Sure. I'll see you on the central library," I replied. Today I study in the Fire Academy, so we can't meet except on the recess time.
    "Okay, I'll see you there."

***

    "So there are also Gnomes, Salamander, Undines, Ljósálfar, and Seraphim?"
    "Yes, and they all have special signs. Things like our earrings."
    Me and Christian are studying about elementals on the central library. Elementals are Sarah Williams' guardians, and they all divided into 6 elements.
    "How many are them in total?," I asked.
    "Who? The elementals? Six of course. One for each element." Seems like he knows a lot about everything that are related to Sarah. Why does he still need to study?
    "But why are we both Sylphs? If there's only one Sylph, then the reincarnation will only be one."
    "That's what I still searching for," Christian looked puzzled. "Before I met you, I thought that I'm the only descendant. But when you appeared, all the informations I had are useless. How come there are 2 Sylph? And also, how can a person has 2 different elements? Moreover, it's from different bases."
    I stared at him, watching him searching for informations intensely. The same questions are spinning in my head. How can I have two elements? Why are there two Sylph? What am I?

***

    "Fighting!!!," Christian hugged me from behind.
    "What are you doing, Chris?! Get your hands off me!!!" I can feel the glares of envy girls inside this room. So sharp, feels like they're tearing me apart.
    "Are you ready?," asked Wincent, who already finished preparing himself. I walked forward, stood straight, ready to begin the battle.

***

    "You won! Great job!," Christian cheered.
    "You don't need to be that happy, Chris. It's not that big."
    "Why can't I? It's a very tough battle and you won! I can't believe it lasted for almost 5 minutes."
    "If I didn't end it hardly on the last moment, it'll be a tie game and I'll get no star. So... It only leave me one choice, to attack him seriously. But I'm glad that he's okay. The wound heals fast."
    I remember how the battle ends. It's very frightening, even for myself. I attacked him and he almost can't protect himself. My fire burned parts of his uniform, but he's okay. I quickly healed him with my wind power and he thanked me. I got four stars from him, one as a thank you gift. Gentleman, isn't he?
    "By the way, I'm really amazed with his power, you know? He's stronger than I think."
    "I don't think he's that strong," Christian replied with a straight face.
    "What's suddenly got into you?" I looked at his face and accidentally hit someone.
    "Owww..."
    "I'm sorry!!! Are you alright?!"
    I saw the person whom I hit, a water-academy guy. A light-academy guy, maybe his friend, help him stood up. Then, he raised his hand, offering me help. Just when my hand almost touch his, Christian lifted me and help me to stand. Even after that he still hold my hand.
    "Oh! You're the special scholarship student, aren't you?," ask the light-academy guy. Yeah... That's what I'm famous as : 'The special scholarship student.'
    "Yes," I answered.
    "I saw your star-fight with Wincent. Really good fight." This time, the water-academy guy talked.
    "Thanks."
    "We should fight sometime. Must be very interesting. Oh! By the way, I'm Albert Midford," the water-academy guy introduced himself. Hmm... One of the most-star owners.
    "Anthony Boyd," said the light-academy guy. Another most-star owner.
    "I'm Cindy Laurent and this is my friend Christian Russel."
    "Ah! The Wind-Academy champion! You're both boyfriend and girlfriend?," ask Albert. I realized that Christian's still holding my hand. I shook it off.
    "No! It's-"
    "Albert! Anthony!," a girl shouted from afar. She's the weird girl we met on the garden maze yesterday.
    "Oh! Reina's calling. We gotta go! See you later, couple!" Albert winked and ran towards the girl.
    "Playboy...," I mumbled.
    "No doubt," Christian replied.
    A second later, I saw something shiny on the ground. I bent my knees and took it, a gold pendant.
    "What is it?," asked Christian.
    "Dunno. A gold pendant?" I gave it to him and his eyes got bigger.
    "Ljósálfar!!!"
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AN : Me and J.L are going to post Seinze's uniform designs and Seinze Academy map shortly. J.L designed them, and I'm the one who drew it. Hope it's not bad (>_<) Thank you for reading~

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