She's not even your friend

√Sasha

The whole crowd went 'boo' when Talie collapsed to the ground.

"What just happened!?" I exclaimed.

"I'm pretty sure Talie was just winning that fight." Licia also noticed.

"Siche you got any ideas? You didn't hear something suspicious?" I asked Siche who also looks confused with what happened.

"No. I don't know. It's so loud here and chaotic, sometimes I choose not to listen to minds, especially when I'm with hundreds of faeries." I understand him.

"Maybe she fell asleep, she looks so tired earlier." Licia thinking of possibilities.

"Does she look like fuckin' sleeping to you Licia?" Her opinion is plain stupid. "Blaze! Did you encounter something like this when you trained Talie?" We all looked at him. He seemed so, very, really deep in thoughts. Siche needed to tap him before he snapped out of his trance.

"What?" He blurted out.

"Sasha asked you if you had encounter the same when you taught Talia." Siche repeated my question. Blaze did not answer then returned to his trance.

Ms. Azura suddenly appeared on our front. "Blaze, can you accompany Ms. Natalia to the clinic. I think it's better if she have someone she knows by the time she regains consciousness." Blaze still doesn't talk but he stood up and all ready to go to Talie.

"Wait up! I'll go with you." I feel like something is definitely going on, I need to figure it out.

"Then I'm going too." Licia yelled.

"No! Stay here with Siche. I need you two to observe here. Notice anything suspicious, you tell me." I looked at Ms. Azura. "Let's go Miss." She looked hesitant about me at first but she let it go.

We saw Talie lying on a bed at the clinic. Her wounds earlier are now gone, the healer must've already healed her. I shook her. "Hey you need to wake up. Tell us what happened."

"What are you doing? Let her rest." Blaze told me, annoyance on his face. What was that? Is he here as her father or what?

"We need to find out what happened already. If I am right that the girl she fought with used some tricks, it needs to be proven now, everyone would not believe it if it will be dragged longer." I'm sure about it, I just need Talie to wake up so she could tell me herself.

"Natalia lost, that's what happened. And how could the girl you're talking about pulled tricks at her? She's also a second-born, and you clearly saw there was no weapon." Blaze and I are already shouting against each other.

"Blaze you know something was off! You're just going to let it go?" I'm so pissed right now.

"What do you even care? She's not even your friend." He said then sat on the chair beside Talie's bed.

"She might not consider me as a friend but I do. And I couldn't just turn a blind eye at what I saw earlier." I sneered.

"What did you fucking see?" His voice is very deep it gave me the chills.

"This girl here was surely winning." I tried not to quaver since Blaze looked so frightening right now.

"How sure are you? Do you know her full capability? Do you know how fast her stamina is consumed? Do you know the extent of her controlling elements? I've been with her longer than you did but I wasn't sure myself. So how could you be so sure about your claim?" He might be right but I know what I saw.

"Blaze you're being ridiculous. What if the girl really did something that's why Talie suddenly lose control at the end?" I'm sure he felt it too, I know he noticed. But why is he being a dick right now?

"I don't know!" He shouted as loud as I never thought he could. "All that matters right now is that she's safe. If she happened to not able to open her eyes again, that's when you kill the girl, or I'd kill her on my own." He shouted frustratedly. "Can we just wait for her to wake up?" He looked at me with his eyes swimming with different emotions I can't decipher.

I decided to shut up for the mean time. Just until she wakes up, alright. I almost fell asleep waiting for her eyes to open. The door opened and Siche with Licia entered the clinic. "How's it going out there?" I asked them.

"Breaktime!" Licia shouted gleefully. Blaze did not bother to look at her, and I failed to catch up with her enthusiasm this time.

"Just finished battles of Rank Cs. It will be B and A after lunch." Siche said. He already sensed the atmosphere inside.

"She already woke up?" Licia asked. I shook my head. "Not even once?" No one answered her and that's when she realized she should shut up.

"What happened?" Siche whispered to me. The three of us are currently sitting on the sofa while Blaze still sitting beside Talie.

"I don't know but he's all freaked out." I replied with a whisper. "Ugh! When will she get up?"

"Hey! Hey!" Licia got all excited by herself. She stood up then stand beside Talie's bed. "What happened? You okay now?" Everybody jumped from their seats and came closer to Talie. She's now awake.

"She still needs rest, kids." The healer entered then sat at her table.

"Talie what happened?" I asked her impatiently. Blaze' shot me a glare, I ignored him.

"What happened?" She returned the question to us. Is she pissing me off? She sat up. "Shit!" She exclaimed and put pressure on her temples.

"What?" Blaze asked her full of concern, he doesn't show it but anyone knew him better would notice. I knew it.

"My head's still throbbing." She said.

"You must've fell pretty bad." Licia said, her face showing pity.

"Miss do you have any medicine for her?" I asked the healer behind us.

"We already gave her pain relievers, it will subside faster if you're not all piled up there." We ignored her comments.

"She said it will disappear later on. Can you already tell us what you remember?" I asked her again.

"Well, I w-" Talie was cut off by Blaze.

"What did you say?"

"What do you mean what did I say? I didn't even finished because you cut me off! Th- Ahh!" She shouted in pain, holding her hand up on her face where it hurts again.

"Miss did she have any injury or something near her head earlier?" Blaze asked the healer.

"No, sh-" Blaze cut off the healer when he already heard the word he wanted to hear.

"How did you fall?" He then asked Talie.

"What are you doing?" Talie looking so confused right now.

"Head first?" He added.

"That would have been embarrassing." Talie chuckled.

"You think you were not?" Blaze raised an eyebrow at her. One corner of Talie's mouth arches and she did not answer him.

"You think we should stay here longer?" Licia whispered so softly to me.

"How did you hurt your head? Did a rock hit you?" Blaze continued his questions.

"It really felt like that, but there was no rock, or I just didn't see it?" Talie said.

"Blaze what are you doing?" I asked Blaze, irritated that he's just spitting nonsense.

"When did you felt it?" He ignored me and continued to question Talie.

"Felt what? I feel hungry, do clinic food tastes good?" She said. I could see this going nowhere.

"Felt your head ache." Blaze said irritatedly.

"Hey! Are you trying to make fun of me because I lose? My head hurts already, this is enough punishment." Talie put his hands on her temple again. "But if you still wants to scold me, please wait outside, I'll call you wh-" Blaze forcefully pulled her hands. "Hey! It hurts, let go." Talie asks but Blaze did not waver. Talie scrunched up her face showing us that she's really hurting.

"WHEN?" Cool air suddenly blew from the window. Blaze voice is so deep, everyone inside could drown already. Even Talie was so shocked with his outburst.

She pulled her hands from Blaze then answered. "She was right in the middle of my whirlwind and I decided to gave her a storm, I raised the water slowly to the air." She looks like a child telling us a story, also using hand motions to make it more interesting. "And then suddenly, I felt dizzy. The world was spinning, believe me. And then that happened, and this happened and those happened. I don't quite remember but I was trying to fight it but my brain was being hit by hundreds of rocks, but like I told you, there's no real rocks. Am i getting scolded now?" She gave a nervous laugh then glanced again and again to Blaze.

"Sasha." I met Blaze' eyes. It's like he's telling me something.

"Oh!" Realization hits me. "That's what happened. I'll see you soon guys." I stopped before reaching the door. "Licia! Siche!" I dragged them with me.

"Are we going to investigate?" Licia sounding so excited.

"We're going to unravel the truth." We head off to Ms. Azura first.