Left to ponder

I hope you are as excited as I am for David's POV.

++++++++++++++++

David's POV,

After jewel took of, the injured were taken to the health care wing and the new year's party was dismissed.

Bummer I was looking forward to the whole new year's kiss and all.

Well at least we know what her power is now and why it's so powerful.

Right now I'm in my room with etim and he just won't shut up about jewel.

"I mean sure I knew she was weird but to almost kill Hailey, that's just borderline crazy"

I groaned "will you just shut up already? I can't hear myself think"

"But..."

Before he could complete it I hurled a pillow at him.

"Fine then"

I have to find jewel. I mean it's not her fault her father made her that way. But the others may not want to go so I have to sneak out when nobody is around.

I'm sure the queen has already deployed guards to search the entire lucem for her.

But honestly I think she's on tenebras.

I was still thinking about the plan in my head when the girls came in with dodo trailing behind them.

D.F's arm was in a sling and I wondered why she didn't just heal herself.

"Hey girls, what are you doing here and how's your arm D.F?"

They shuffled around awkwardly "it's fine... It's really not as bad as it looks"

I guess etim was thinking the same thing as me cause he asked "I thought you had like super healing power or something why can't you just heal yourself or something?"

She smiled a little before replying "doctor said it doesn't work that way so I can only heal other people but my body does heal two times faster than the average human so I should be using my arm again in no time"

"Oh that's cool then" we were silent again and even though I knew why they were here I wanted them to say it so I asked "so why are you guys here?"

They were silent for a minute before Hailey spoke up "look we were wrong to keep that from jewel and we know that now" she sighed and continued "but we need to find her before she does something she might end up regretting or worse"

I know it'll be hopeless arguing with them so I said nothing but etim on the other hand "WHAT! That crazy girl just tried to kill you and you are trying to save her no no no no that's just plain stupid"

"Etim we understand if you don't want to go so we won't force you but jewel is our friend and no friend gets left behind" Cally said.

I was silently contemplating the matter for a while before I said "fine we'll go find jewel but we leave tomorrow at the crack of dawn so make sure you're ready" they all nodded and then I turned to etim and said "the girls are right you don't have to come with us"

He sighed and I knew he was gonna come "you know I would never let you guys go on a dangerous mission on your own of course I'm coming with"

I smiled. Of course he would come with, he was loyal to the end.

That's when dodo said "um I'm calculating a 63.65% chance of failure so I would not advice you to go on with this"

"That means there's a 36.35% chance of success which is a risk I'm willing to take... Girls let's go get ready" Cally replied and with that they all filled out of the room to get ready for the search.

++++++++++++++++++++

It's almost dawn and we are all currently in the ship hangar.

Cally is with her computer trying to hack into the bay doors so they'll open for us to fly out.

And when she finally did it was when we realized how poorly thought out our plan was seeing as none of us could fly the ship.

"So nobody can fly this thing?" Rebby said folding her arms.

"I think we should have spent a little more time planning" etim said face palming himself.

"Fear not everyone" dodo said "I'm perfectly able to fly the ship just plug me too the main console"

Cally did as he instructed and plugged him to the ship and Immediately the ship roared to life and we flew out just in time to see the sun rise.

"It's beautiful" was all I said and we all remained quiet for the rest of the trip probably thinking about what laid waiting for us in the hostile land we were headed too.

After what felt like ages of flying dodo said "we are here and I'm picking up readings from another ship like ours on the surface of the planet"

"It's probably Jewel's ship" rebby said.

"Dodo, cloak us and set us down next to it" Cally commanded and dodo did just that.

As we landed I started to get cold feet.

What if jewel couldn't be saved?

What if she didn't even want to be saved?

What If all this was just in vain?

I was still having these thoughts when D.F put her good arm on my shoulder and brought me back "are you alright?"

"Yeah I'm fine I was just thinking"

"That's fine but we're getting down now"

I nodded and shook the thoughts away.

Everyone was already out of the ship except dodo who was told to stay behind to defend the ship.

As I made my way out the direct thing I noticed was that we had landed in the middle of the woods.

"Dodo says there's a village if we keep heading north for about fifteen minutes and that's also where they're queens castle is located which is most likely where jewel will be" Hailey was drafting a map in the sand.

"Okay so what's the plan" etim asked.

"The plan is simple we go to the village and try to blend in with the rest of the people there and then when we get the chance we sneak into the castle and get jewel out of there" Hailey said.

"I know she made it sound simple but believe me it's not" I said "tenebras is a bad place filled with even worse people so I'd prefer if we were as careful as we could possibly be... I don't wanna lose anyone here" I muttered the last part but I'm pretty sure they heard because D.F draped her one good arm over my shoulder and said "it'll be alright"

We started our slow journey to the village and all I could do was imagine the worst about the evil place I had heard so much about.

I can't believe jewel is from here.

But well that would explain her rotten attitude but even with that jewel is fiercely loyal and would never try to harm us on purpose.

The symbol must be messing with her head or something.

We really need to find her and fast.

Unknown POV,

I watched as they made their way through the woods to try to save their friend.

It was very Noble of them but also very stupid.

I will really enjoy making them suffer just like I enjoy making jewel suffer.

"Penelope!!!" I yelled and she appeared from outside my quarters "yes my queen"

Penelope was one of most trusted servants. She has been on the inside In lucem for over seven years now and was now very well respected by the lucemians.

She's served me well in the days since I've been queen by giving me regular information on where the lucemians were going to be and where they were planning to attack so I could stay one step ahead of them.

"I want you too get some of the guards and find the rest of her so called friends and crush them too pieces no mercy" she just nodded and excused herself.

I went back to looking at them making their way to the village.

So naive.

Let the games begin.

********************

Sorry for the short chapter I ran out of ideas.

oooooh I wonder who the creepy person is.

Were you really expecting Penelope to be evil? if you weren't well there you have it.

I wonder if I should kill one of them to make it more interesting

Mwahahahaha

The next few chapters are gonna be in the point of views of the other team members to show you what they all think.

Also for all you javid shippers out there I'm gonna be putting some cute scenes in the chapters to come so just stick with me and keep reading.

Also don't forget to vote and comment your thoughts and share with your friends.

I'm tryna get to 1k reads by the end of this month.

You think you can help me do that.

Okay this author's note is probably getting too long but I just love talking to you guys.

I hope I hear from all of you soon.

Love you

XOXOXOXOXOXO

Jassmin️