Chapter 8: Ms. Drake?

Well this isn't good. I thought I could trick them for longer but it seems they are a lot more observant then I thought. Mathew should be here soon enough if he didn't run away or leave me for dead that is. I don't think he would do that because why would he have told me all that stuff if he was just going to betray me.

I notice Mr. Hall move and see him taking out a gun from his jacket.

"Apparently these two so called friends of mine have magic so why do you need a gun. Are you that scared of me?" I smirk at him.

He looks at me and glares as he points the gun in my direction.

"No I am not scared of you Sam. I just want to be the one to kill you if you don't come with us."

I sense that three people have entered the forest. I think it is Mathew but there should only be two people then. Maybe he brought someone else. If that is the case I only need to stall these guys for another minute.

"Why would you want to kill me? You have gone through so much trouble to get me. Why waste it all by killing me?"

"You see Sam. You are not as important as you think. We need your magic not you. Our boss has a way to use you and your magic even if you die so it really doesn't matter. It's just easier if you are alive."

"How can he use my magic if I am dead. That makes no sense."

I can feel Mathew, Noah and the other person are getting closer. I just need to stall for around 30 more seconds.

"Well our boss can take over a dead body and use its magic so it is pretty easy. We just need you, dead or alive."

"And who may your boss be. Mr. body snatcher or what."

"If you must know, his name is Soul. He is the strongest magical person." Jane proudly explains butting into me and Mr. Halls conversation.

"Did we ask you?" Me and Mr. Hall say at the same time.

"Well at least we both agree that butting into conversations is annoying." Mr. Hall says still glaring at Jane.

As he says that Ms. Drake walks into the clearing followed by Mathew and Noah. Mathew has a gun and Noah looks ready to punch someone.

"Good job stalling them Sam, I will take it from here. Do you know their magic by any chance." Ms. Drake asked me.

"Sorry Ms. Drake, all I know is that Mr. Hall doesn't have magic but he has a gun. The other two do have magic but I don't know what."

"It's alright and call me Riley."

"I know what magic they have. Jane has a sort of dark matter magic and Ace has a magic called Lancer magic. Jane can create black stuff and shape it and use it to attack. It is very dangerous. She however has only a small bit of control over it. Ace can summon horses with these human like creatures on them that have lances and he can summon a lance for himself. He can only summon three lancers though." Mathew explains to Riley.

"Thank you Mathew. That will be really helpful."

"Stop talking and just fight. It's clear you are not coming quietly." Mr. Hall says as he points the gun at Riley.

Riley starts to run at Mr. Hall and he shoots her. However, Riley just disappears into a thin cloud of dust as the bullet hits her. Then ten Riley clones appear into the clearing and rush at Mr. Hall. He shoots at them but only manages to hit two before one of them hits him in the head with a large piece of wood.

Mr. Hall falls to the ground unconscious and that seems to be the signal for Jane and Ace to attack. Jane instantly summons that black stuff and starts to attack all of the, what I assume are, clones of Riley.

Ace however summons his three lancers and they start to charge at us. I jump out of the way with Mathew as he shoots at one of them. Noah, however, stands his ground and when one goes and attacks him with a lance he grabs it with his hand and lifts the entire humanoid creature off the horse and throws it at the 3rd one.

"Damn, so you have some strengthening magic or something Noah." I say as I look at him in shock.

"Body Enhancement magic actually."

I give him a thumbs up as the three lancers get ready to attack again. This time as they run at us, I use my magic and trip the three horses over. The three riders hop off the horses and come running at us as the horses disappear and Ace summons a Lance for himself and also runs at us.

Noah runs and grabs two of the lances and stabs them onto the humanoid creatures as I use the roots of the trees nearby to entangle the other. Mathew starts shooting at Ace but he is dodging or slicing them with his lance. The three creatures disappear like the horses and Aces lance gets bigger and harder.

Noah runs at Ace and grabs the lance as I start to attack him with vines and roots. Ace drops the lance and falls to the ground unconscious as we hear an explosion from behind us. We all turn around and find Riley standing a meter or so away for Jane who is on the ground. We see a small crater under Jane and we guess Riley caused it.

"Sam, can you use your magic to tie all three of them up please." Riley asks as she starts dragging Jane over to use.

I trap the three in some vines and turn to Riley. She is looking at me like she knows what I am about to ask.

"How did you cause that explosion and how where there so many of you?" I ask her.

"I have two types of magic. One which is clone magic, I can only clone myself though, and the other is trap magic. The explosion was caused by Jane running over one of my traps."

"That would explain it. Why are you here. Not that I'm not happy or anything, just curious."

"Well I live in the same apartment as Noah and overheard Mathews conversation with Noah so I said I should probably tag along and help since it is my job."

"What do you mean your job?" I ask really confused.

"Well they probably told you that your dad was a spy in their organisation. Well your dad actually worked at the magic school Soul-Heart Academy. He also went to that school when he was young and I was his classmate and friend."

"But why was it your job to help me?"

"You dad asked me to protect you if he ever died. He asked this before he went undercover." She explains as she texts someone.

A few minutes later five men come into the clearing and Riley tells them to bring Jane, Ace and Mr. Hall to the school and then she says that we all should go back to the apartment and talk about everything and clear anything that needs clearing up.

So we all go to Riley's apartment and have a nice, long chat about everything. She then decides she should go to my house and explain things to my mum as Riley has suggested that I go to Soul-Heart Academy since it would be safer than staying here.