Nereus: A Distance shorte

Before they continued with the great show they were giving for all the other freshmen, someone approached them from behind:

_Hello, my dear students I forgot to give you something yesterday, I hope you don't mind _it was Professor Reiven with his smile and unfriendly face.

As if it was planned the 3 girls looked back with their eyes rolled, and without wasting a second, Aneberlee and Keylan jumped to hit him, Aneberlee took her bow and hit him in the head, while Keylan punched him in the belly that knocked the air out of him, and to avoid trouble Jana was doing her best to hold Keylan and Aneberlee so they wouldn't kill their "professor", In the meantime a mysterious woman approached them, she was wearing a long blue dress, very elegant, and a pair of glasses, that together with her hair tied up gave her a scary appearance, so much so that everyone became serious when they saw her heading towards Aneberlee's group:

_Ejem...._ she said very displeased_ excuse me "bunch of rowdies", but you are disturbing the peace of this place.

_Who is this old hag?_ those sweet words spilled out of Aneberlee's mouth, leaving half of the Guardian Headquarters speechless and rolling their eyes.

The woman looked up at Aneberlee and then turned to the other side, where Jana was holding Keylan so he wouldn't hit Professor Reiven, and Professor Reiven was covering his head:

_Wow, wow I guess from the cluelessness this girl and that other one trying to kill you, I'd say it's Reiven's group....oh, there you are "Professor."

Professor Reiven uncovered his head and said very foolishly:

_Hello, Linda, how are you, that dress looks very good on you....oh.

Stop playing games Reiven, I have to deliver the missions to all the rookie teams and yours as usual, is the only one missing so take this damn paper and get out _and saying this he threw a paper in her face and turned around.

Aneberlee who was waiting for this to happen asked:

_Is that awful old woman called "Linda?"

Well yes and believe me you DO NOT WANT ANY TROUBLE WITH HER, because she is Commander Undine's secretary.

These words made Aneberlee remember the fact that Commander Undine, had helped her to enter the Order of the Guardians and that she did not want to disappoint her.

Professor Reiven, indignant, turned to his team:

_Well, our differences aside, you now have your first mission, which you have to do alone.

Does that mean you won't be accompanying us?" interrupted Keylan.

No, luckily the first mission of the new ones is very simple, so I don't have to teach them anything, I just give it to the oldest member of the team _ and with a simple gesture he gave the paper to Janah.

Hey wait, that means Janah is in charge and why not me?" Aneberlee annoyed him.

And if that wasn't enough Keylan wasn't far behind:

_I want to be in charge too!!!!#####!!!!!!!###!!!!!

Professor Reiven took a deep breath and thought to himself, _Look at me for a bunch of little girls,_ and then he told them:

_ It doesn't matter who's in charge, that's just a formality, just like this_ and took out of his pocket three golden watches with the symbol of the eight-pointed star that characterized the Guardians_ these are your credentials, don't lose them for anything in the world, very well, good luck, you'll need it.

And saying this he took his whip and waved it, it wrapped itself around him and disappeared.

Aneberlee resigned herself to the professor's attitude, as she looked at the paper they had been handed, which read:

ROOKIE MISSION

GROUP:3

LOCATION: ISLAND OF NEREUS.

OBJECTIVE: TO HELP CLEAR THE SNOW THAT OBSTRUCTS THE PATH.

TIME TO COMPLETE: 2 DAYS.

SIGNED BY COMMANDER UNDINE OF THE GUARDIANS OF ARCADIA.

Really only 2 days?" asked Aneberlee, "we'll never finish on time unless we leave right now, I'm going to pack.

Me too, there's a lot to do _ continued Keylan_ And where shall we meet?

At the entrance of the city .... in an hour _ said Jana blushing that she had not said much.

The others nodded and ran off, very excited, while Jana very calmly walked away. She had no idea what was awaiting them.

When it was late in the afternoon, at the entrance of Elenthor, Aneberlee and Jana were waiting for Keylan, very angry because for some unknown reason he had been delayed:

_How slow is Keylan!!!!!, all she does is delay and then she starts saying that I am an idiot.

Don't talk about her like that, Aneberlee, I'm sure she'll show up!

Keylan was approaching, carrying a huge backpack:

Where are you taking that thing?" asked Aneberlee.

Well it's obvious, to the mission and what are we waiting for?

Since they had no way of convincing her to leave that backpack, they set off towards the coast, to go to the port of Elenthor, since where they were going was an island, it was the only transportation they could find.