CHAPTER 3

Mike went to Mr. Wong's office as soon as he finished packing; he knocked and was told to come in. Mr. Wong was surprised to see him, "Didn't think you would come."

"Why Sir?" Mike asked.

"Most students prefer to hide from me whenever they see me after they fight but I am surprised that you came, anyway that is not what I called you for sit down, "said Mr. Wong.

"Thank you sir," Mike said sitting down.

"What you are going to go through is hard, you need to be strong. I know Winkle and he will not stop there, he will think of many plans. You should protect your sister; he thinks that kidnapping her will mark the end of the war. Your sister is brilliant that is why he wants her, he thinks that she will help him lure all of you to his side and then no children will have anyone to protect them. Where we are transferring you to needs a lot of commitment, you will have to be strong because the training is hard. I know that you will think of giving up but that training will determine whether you lose or win. I will think of something that will stop all of you from giving up, we have hope that you will save the world. Please do not let us down. From the look in your eyes, I can see that you think what I am saying is rubbish. It may seem rubbish right now but eventually you will realize that it is not. I am giving you this box, there is everything that you need for now to conquer Winkle and his evil powers. The school has tight security so it might be hard for him to enter into that area so he will use some of his powers to get to you. Do not worry, whenever you want to use them I will tell you how to do that. As for your permanent powers, you will get them after a year on your graduation day what I have given is for temporary use," said Mr. Wong handing a small white box to Mike.

"Thank you sir, when are you going to tell us how this war started because we are really anxious?" Mike asked.

"One of you will tell you, she will have a dream of what happened. She is supposed to have dreams of future and present events only but this will happen once. She will tell you when the time is right," answered Mr. Wong.

"Do you mind telling me who that person is sir," Mike asked.

"If I wanted to tell you I would not have used the phrase, "one of you," that clearly shows that I do not want to tell you. That person is very close to you but not your sister that is all I can tell you, now go and tell the others to get ready, we have thirty minutes left," Mr. Wong said looking at his watch.

Mike did as he was told; he told the others to get ready. He then went to his sister's room, "Can I come in girls?" Mike asked opening the door.

"You are funny, asking if you can come in yet you are already in. Why did Mr. Wong call you?" Molly asked her brother.

"What else would he say except for giving me advice, did you call Dad or mom?" Mike asked.

"Nope, thanks for reminding me, have to call them now," Molly told her brother.

"Ok, can I please talk to him?" Mike begged his sister.

"Sure, who am I to stop you," she answered dialing her mother's number. She almost jumped with joy when she heard her voice, "hello mom," she said.

"Hello Molly, how is school?" Mrs. Wilson asked.

"School is fine, just missing you. Mmmm you did not even bother to call and see if I am ok. Did I do anything wrong mother?" Molly asked her mother almost crying.

"I am sorry Molly, I have been very busy helping my young sister prepare for her wedding," she said.

"How busy mom, that you forget your daughter?" She asked.

"I am sorry, I will make it up to you. I promise," she answered.

"Anyway, how is dad?" Molly asked.

"He is right here; do you want to talk to him?" Her mother asked.

"Yes," she replied.

"I know that you are angry, please forgive us. We promise to come, I heard that you were kidnapped," her father asked.

"Yes but I am alright," she answered.

"You should always stay with the others, I know that you are used to staying alone but you have to get used to staying with others. You are all we have and we do not want to lose you, we love you," her father told her.

"I love you too, Mike wants to speak to you," She said.

"Hello dad, its Mike."

"Hello son, how are you?"Mr. Wilson replied.

"I am good, how is mother?"he asked.

"She is fine; can you do me a favor son?" Mr. Wilson asked.

"Father never asks, he just tells his son what he wants him to do," Mike replied.

"Please take care of your sister, she is all we have. We are coming next week to see both of you, I heard that you are transferring," He asked.

"Yes we are, to a more safe school," Mike replied.

"That is great, please be strong we are counting on you," Mr. Wong told his son.

"I promise father, please greet mother for me," Mike said. He gave the phone to Molly." Guess what, Nick came to me to apologize."

Molly looked at him and said, "and what did you tell him?"

"I told him that it was not his fault, and he said I should talk to you." Mike smiled.

"About what and why are you smiling?" Molly asked showing a smile at the corner of her mouth.

"He likes you and he said he is sorry for what happened," Mike told his sister.

"Really, he said that," Molly smiled.

"Wow, I have never seen my sister smile like this. You really like this guy right," Mike said.

"Yes I do," Molly replied.

"Then you should go and talk to him because he is afraid to talk to you after what happened," Mike answered.

"You are right," Molly said leaving Jillian and Mike.

Mike called to her sister who was halfway the corridor, "Hey, I did not say right now, I still want to talk to you."

"No you can wait, i will be back soon," she called back.

She knocked and was told to come in, "Hey, you came didn't think you would come after what happened," Nick said.

"Yeah, it was not your fault. I heard your message and I came to tell you that I like you too," Molly said taking Nick's hand.

"Yeeeeeeees, I am the happiest person today, I now have the girl of my dreams," Nick shouted.

Molly did not think that Nick would do that, she covered her ears and then opened them, "are you done?"

"Yes I am done," Nick said kissing Molly on her chick.

They heard Mr. Wong calling out to them, "It is now time to go, please hurry up." Molly left Nick and went to take her bags. After ten minutes, they were all at the car park. The bus came to take them to the airport. When they arrived, the plane was already there, their bags were packed and then they were told to get in. They then left, all the boys sat together and all the girls sat together. The boys were asking Nick how he was kidnapped and what happened after he was kidnapped while Jillian and Hailey were asking Abby, Anne and Molly how Nick saved them. They arrived at their new school and shown their rooms. The school was indeed protected; it would take a very long time for Winkle and his team to figure out how they would get in. They were told to go to the school hall, they thought that they would only be eight but they were surprised to see many students.

"We would like to welcome the New York students, please help me welcome them. Now there is a tendency of the old students bullying the new students, if I catch you or if one of them reports this, you know me I will deal with you. Feel free and tomorrow we will show you around the campus or else you might be lost because this is a very big campus, it is different from where you have been. The new students your food is ready, Delany will show you to the canteen. The rest you may go back to your rooms," said Mrs. Lee.

All the eight students went to the canteen and sat on the same table. Jillian cleared her throat and said, "hey, did you hear that there are bullies at this school?"

"Yes but we should not be afraid of them, if you show them that you are afraid they will surely get you," Charles replied.

"That is true, we will not allow that to happen to anyone of us. We are a family and no one can separate us, right Abby and Anne," Molly supported Charles. They then went to their rooms and slept. The next day was a busy day; they first went to the hall and shown their teachers. They then went to put on their karate uniforms so that they could start training.

"I know that where you were for the past three months you were being treated like princes and princesses but here we do not do that. We want you to know all the life skills but if we are too good to you, you might forget why you are here. I hate people who waste my time trying to please me, it is not about pleasing me but getting to know what you came here for," said Mr. Yen their new teacher.

"Wow, he really mean what he is saying and he seems to be a tough teacher," Jillian whispered to Molly.

"Yeah he is but if we do what he says we will not get any punishment from him," Molly whispered back. When she was saying this, she did not realize that Mr. Yen was standing next to her; she almost jumped when she saw him but she controlled herself.

"You must be Mr. Wilson's daughter right?" he asked.

"Yes sir," she replied.

"That is what I thought, I taught you father and he always did what I wanted and I am sure you will do that also. Is your brother here too?" Mr. Yen asked.

"Yes he is sir, he is behind you," she replied not looking at him.

Mr. Yen turned to look at him, "I never had a problem with your parents and I am sure that you will behave yourselves."

" We promise sir," Mike and Molly replied.

"Let us go to that room where that smoke is coming from, be quick we do not have time," said Mr. Yen. The room was very hot that they stood at the door afraid of the heat produced by the fire that was in that room. Molly knew that standing at the doorway would mean a punishment so she started walking and went to stand where Mr. Yen was and the others followed.

"You think that I do not know that this place is hot, I know and that is why I brought you here. This is part of the training, it might be a safe place but the training done here is difficult. Some of you might think of giving up but it will not work, our gate will be opened for you when you have graduated. Now everyone stand where there is a trench. The trenches you are looking at have fire and there will be small blocks of wood without fire placed on top of the trench. If you are not careful, you will fall into that trench. Now Mike go, please be careful we do not want to lose you during the start of the training," Mr. Yen said looking at Mike.

Mike stepped on the first block and stopped. "Hey, do not stop. You only have three minutes to walk to the end of this trench and come back," ordered Mr. Yen.

Mike knew that Mr. Yen was serious; if he took more than three minutes, he would get a punishment. He started moving not looking into the trench; he reached the end of the trench and came back. Mr. Yen smiled and said, "Well done, now you are next," he said pointing to Nick.

Nick looked at Molly and stepped forward when she smiled. Nick took less than three minutes; Mr. Yen was impressed and said, "two minutes, which is excellent. What is your name?"

"Nick Lighs sir," he replied.

" Ok, Molly you are next," said Mr. Yen.

Molly took less than two minutes and Mr. Yen clapped his hands, "did you see what she was doing. She did not step with both legs at a block but she would step with one leg that is why she did not take a lot of time. Well done Molly, next." All the others did well and it was time for Hailey and she was the last one. She was very slow that Mr. Yen was bored and shouted, " hey, we do not have the whole day, please hurry up." Hailey was startled that she jumped and almost fell into the trench. She started screaming and Mr. Yen signaled to Molly to go and help her.

" Young lady, we are not here to play. Be serious or we will take you back to your former school. Are we clear?" asked Mr. Yen.

"Yes sir," she answered.

"Now you can go and eat, we will meet in the hall and I will tell you where we will be going. It is now eleven o'clock; you should all be here by two o'clock. If I am here before you, you will go back to the trenches," said Mr. Yen.

They all went to their rooms to take a little rest before the lunch bell rang. Jillian and Hailey went to Charles and Mike's room whilst Molly went to her room. Molly was different from the others and so was Nick, they did not think that spending most of their time together was a great idea or meant that they were so much in love. Of all the couples, Nick and Molly loved each other but they were unique. Molly fell asleep but woke up when Jillian and Mike came making noise. She covered her head with a pillow so that she could try to sleep again and it worked. She then woke up at half twelve to get ready for lunch; she went and took a bath. She then started playing a game on her phone waiting for the lunch bell to ring. Ten minutes before the lunch bell rang; Nick came to pick her up.

"Hey, where is Jillian?" Nick asked looking around.

"Where else would she be than in Charles and Mike's room," Molly replied.

"Yeah, I should have guessed. Come on let us go for lunch; I do not want to be late for Mr. Yen's class. Do you want to take a walk after school?" Nick asked.

"Yeah sure, that is a great idea," Molly replied.

They then went to the canteen, they thought that they were the first ones to arrive but they were surprised to see almost half of the school already there. They took their food and found an empty table to sit. The other six students came to join them and by one forty-five, they were all in the hall.

"You really are afraid of the trenches; now with me here I have eight seniors who are going to help me train you. Do not worry; this training is easy. They are going to teach you how to fight when blindfolded. Many enemies, especially those who use black magic make their opponents blind because they know that one can do nothing if blind. It is going to be easy and probably the only easy training you will get, now you can blindfold them," said Mr. Yen.

The seniors blindfolded them and led them to a room that was outside the hall. The room they entered had eight big images of these eight seniors.

One of the eight seniors stepped forward and said, "in front of you, there are eight big images of us. These images can move in every direction, you have to follow them and fight them. No one is going to take off until the image is down. You can step forward and start," the senior said and stepped aside.

When explained, it seemed like an easy task but it was not easy. The images moved very fast that you would hit the air. Molly got the trick, the images were making shapes but they would start from where they had ended. She knew that she had to use her sense of feeling. She waited for a minute so that she could see their pattern of movement, since she was blindfolded she used the sound they were making to determine the direction.. When she waited, she saw that it was making a triangle, then a rectangle, followed by a square. After making a triangle, it started from the last point to make a square moving clockwise. She then started following this and within three minutes, her image was down. The seniors were surprised; they did not think that someone would take the image down within that short period. She was given a senior to fight with, although she had done well with the images this was hard. However, she was lucky that she got a senior who was not cruel, she taught her how to fight using the sense of feeling only. Since she was a fast learner, she quickly got it. The others took a long time to get their images down but they won. They then fought with the seniors and were taught many skills.

"Now you can come, it is now time to go," called Mr. Yen.

All the sixteen students gathered into the hall. Mr. Yen came to dismiss them, "quiet please, quiet. I am impressed that the new students are doing well in their exercises except for a few but they will get it soon and the seniors I am also impressed, I never heard any complaint about you. You can now go, Mike and your team, tomorrow we will meet at the highest tower of the school."

All the students ran to their rooms, obviously Jillian and Hailey went to Charles and Mike's room. Molly found something warm to wear as she waited for Nick to come, she texted Mike telling him where she was going. Nick came and they left, they walked towards the ground where there was a garden and they found somewhere to sit.

"You know what, every time I think of you I smile," Nick said holding Molly's hand.

"I wanted to ask you during lunch but I forgot. I saw you smiling when we were in that room," Molly replied.

"Yes, I thought of how lucky I am. Having a brilliant girl like you as my girlfriend, I never thought that you would agree," Nick said.

"Come on, we are all lucky. Hey, are all your parents alive?" Molly asked.

"Yes, they are and I have a brother," Nick replied.

"I was coming to that, anyway you have already answered. Where is your brother?" she asked.

"He is at home helping my dad run his company," he replied.

"Wow ok," Molly, said.

There was silence for more than two minutes and then Nick decided to break the silence, "hey, you are shivering; maybe we should go back inside."

"No, I will be ok. It is just that I have been indoors and now that I'm outside, it seems as if it is very cold yet it is not," replied Molly.

Nick felt pity for her and moved closer to her, he gave him his jacket and kissed her. "I can't let you shiver whilst I am here; I think we should go inside."

"No, please believe me I will be fine. If I go inside I will sleep and I do not want to sleep, I want to be with you," Molly begged Nick who was already up offering his hand to her.

At last, Nick gave up and sat down and this time he sat holding her close to him.

"Nick, I have an idea. Don't you think that if we try to find out what happened to our parents on the internet we will find something that can give us a clue why we are here? We have almost four months after we came and no one has told us anything," Molly said turning to face Nick.

"That is a great idea, why didn't we think of that when we found out that no one would tell us. We will start today after supper right," Nick replied.

Molly replied still looking at Nick, "yes, you can come to my room after supper."

"Ok, I will," Nick, answered.

They looked at each other for a minute and then Nick drew closer to Molly and they started kissing. A senior named Gerald who came and sat next to them interrupted them.

"I am sorry to interrupt but Molly can I talk to you for a second. I waited for you to come back but you never came back so I decided to come, sorry Nick, she will be back soon," Gerald said looking at Nick who looked worried.

"You just come from nowhere and expect me to leave my boyfriend alone just because you want to talk to me, what is it that could not wait until I was back," Molly said not standing up.

"It is urgent, please I will not take much of your time," Gerald begged.

Molly looked at Nick and he nodded, "fine I will come but five minutes only."

"I promise," replied Gerald.

They walked somewhere where Nick would not hear what they were saying and sat down. Gerald kept quiet for a moment thinking of a way to say what he wanted to say without making Molly angry.

"It is now a day since you came at this school and since yesterday I have been looking for you but you were busy, I even tried to talk to you when we came to train you but I could not. I like you Molly, I really do. You are the only girl I think is the perfect one for me, you are just cool and not talkative. Please if you can just give me a chance to prove my love for you, please," Gerald said.

"Wow, I have never seen anything like this. So you could not wait until I was back and came to tell me this whilst my boyfriend will be sitting alone, you really have guts. Well, I am sorry Gerald to disappoint you but I already have a boyfriend and you are cute, I am sure most girls would die for you," said Molly standing up.

"Molly please, do you think that I did not know that you have a boyfriend, I knew Molly but he does not deserve you. You are too cute to be dating a young boy like him, just give me a chance and if I am not perfect then you can go back to Nick," Gerald almost knelt.

Molly laughed, "So just because he is young, you think that he should not date cute girls only you can. You are funny; please I have to go back to Nick. If you have nothing important to say, I am leaving."

Gerald saw that Molly was serious but he decided not to give up. He let her go and decided to try sometime when he met her alone.

"I heard what he was saying, Molly I am ready to do whatever it takes to keep you. I might be a person who gives up easily but on this I am not going to give up, I cannot lose you," Nick said trembling with anger.

"Come on Nick, you know me. I will not give in to that, I love you and nothing is going to tear us apart," Molly said.

Nick leaned towards Molly and kissed her. They then went to the canteen for supper, when they entered the canteen all the seniors were looking at them. Mike and the others were surprised and decided to ask them if they had done something wrong.

"We did nothing wrong, will tell you after supper what happened," Molly told them.

After supper Mike, Charles, Abby, Anne and Hailey crowded in Molly and Jillian's room.

"Come on guys, It is not something serious, it's that boy Gerald who thinks that he is superior to others. He came to the garden where Nick and I were sitting and said he wanted to talk to me, I thought that it was something serious but it was not. He just wanted to tell me that he liked me and did not think that Nick deserved me," Molly told the others.

"He really has a mouth on him, so who deserves you?" Jillian asked.

"He thinks that he deserves me," Molly replied.

"You should be careful Nick because I heard a group of seniors planning to take Molly from you saying that they deserve her," Anne warned Nick.

"Do not worry Nick, Charles and I will be there for you. You should not stay on your own because they will be waiting for a time when you will be alone to get you. We must also be careful because Winkle might use one if not all of the seniors to get to us so we must walk together," Mike warned the others. Mike, Charles, Jillian, Anne, Abby and Hailey left, Nick and Molly remained behind.

Molly saw that Nick was worried and went to sit next to him, "what is wrong Nick?" she asked.

"Nothing Molly, I am just worried that the seniors may kidnap you if they see that you are not giving in or they might kidnap you," answered Nick.

"Nick, I am not afraid of anyone" We have a big war ahead of us although we do not know when so why be afraid of small wars, if you really love me promise me you won't give up," Molly said.

"I told you that I will not give up no matter what it's just that I'm worried that's all, hey I will be back I have to go and take my laptop so that we can start searching," Nick said standing up.

"Ok," said Molly walking to where he was standing and kissing him on the cheek.

Nick went to his room, took his laptop and came back.

"I am back," said Nick.

"Ok, I am going to type, Events that took place between 1985 and 1990 in New York and see what I will get," Molly said.

"Why 1985," asked Nick.

"Because that is when my father was fifteen, I just figured out that what happened must have happened maybe when he was fifteen or more but less than twenty," answered Molly.

"Ok, I will type, Wars fought by Mr. Winkle and see what I will get," replied Nick.

They were both quiet for more than ten minutes and no one had found anything. They were beginning to get tired but decided not to give up. They tried using other keywords like, New York wars but they got nothing. Just when they were about to give up, Molly found something but the causes of the war were not there. She just found the names of the people who fought the war and all their parents' names were there and Mr. Wong's too. She kept on going down where she found a video but it could not open.

"Seriously, just when I think I have found it," Molly said.

"What is wrong?" Nick asked.

"All I am getting are the names of the people that fought a war with Winkle in which many teenagers were killed. Mr. Wong is one of the people who fought the war and our parents. I have found a video but I cannot open it. I can't find the whole story or how it started, it's boring and I am now feeling sleepy," Molly complained.

"So that is why Mr. Wong kept on avoiding us, he knows why we are here and doesn't want us to know and that is why Mr. Winkle said that he failed to stop him. Maybe Mr. Winkle's parents started the company but Mr. Winkle fought the war with his parents. What we want to know is what caused the war and what has that have to do with us?" Nick asked.

"Hey I have an idea, my parents and Mike's parents will be here next week. We have to think of a way to make them tell us before they leave," Molly said.

"Mine are coming too; maybe all our parents are coming. They might be coming to tell us what happened and if they do not tell us, we will think of something like pretending to be sick or threatening to leave this school if they do not tell us," Nick suggested.

"Great idea, let us wait and see," said Molly.

"If you are feeling sleepy, I will leave you to sleep," Nick said seeing that Molly's eyes were looking sleepy.

"No please, don't leave me. I still want to chat with you," Molly pleaded with Nick.

Abby and Anne were in their room when Abby had a vision. In her vision, she saw a group of boys going to Nick's room and she knew that Nick was in trouble. Abby and Anne ran to Charles and Mike's room to tell them.

"Mike and Charles please come out here Nick is in trouble," Abby shouted.

"What do you mean Nick is in trouble?" Mike asked not opening the door.

"Mike, I am serious. The senior boys are heading to his room and if they do not find him there, they are going to Molly's room," Abby said.

"Mike and the others came out and ran to Molly's room. They just went in and locked the door. Molly and Nick were surprised to see this and asked, "Have you ever heard of the word knock?"

Mike laughed and said, "Will reply you later now let us think of a plan. The seniors are looking for you Nick and I do not think they are looking for you for a good reason except for torturing you. I have some powder that Mr. Wong gave me, I am supposed to use it when Mr. Winkle sends one of his evil people here but I have to use it now. This is the only way we can defeat them because truly speaking, we are not yet fit to fight them. They will break us into pieces, so here is the deal, we will all find somewhere to hide and leave Molly and Nick. If they come, Molly will open the door and let them all in then close the door. We will all come out from where we will be hiding and blow the powder. After blowing the powder, we will all leave the room, lock them in, then go, and call Mr. Yen."

"Great idea, I think they are coming. Let us hide before they reach the door," said Charles.

They all went to hide leaving Molly and Nick. They tried to open the door and saw that it was locked. Gerald started shouting, "Nick, I know you are in there. Come out right now or else…"

He did not finish what he was saying, Molly unlocked the door and said, "or else what Gerald, what will you do. He is right here, come in and let us see what you all have."

All the four boys went in and then Molly locked the door. Mike and the others came out from where they were hiding and blew of the powder, Nick took Molly's hand and they all left locking Gerald and his team inside.

"Open this door you cowards, you could not fight and decided to blow that powder on us," Gerald shouted.

They all ran to Mr. Yen's office and opened the door without knocking. Mr. Yen looked up and said, "Didn't your parents teach you how to knock?"

"Sorry sir," Molly said.

"What is it?" he asked.

"Sir, the seniors came to fight us, we locked them in Molly's room and came to tell you," Charles replied.

"These seniors, I thought that they had dropped their bad habit. Let me guess, Gerald was their leader right," Mr. Yen asked.

"Yes sir," answered Jillian.

"Ok, you remain here and I will go and get them," said Mr. Yen and left his office.

"Gerald is such a jerk, he thinks that I will fall for a bully," said Molly.

"Thanks guys for helping me out don't know what I would have done without you," Nick said.

"Come on Nick, we are always here for you. That reminds me, Abby, how did you know that Gerald was coming after Nick," Mike asked Abby.

"I had a vision, sorry guys I wanted to tell you but didn't get the chance to. I get visions of what has already happened and what is about to happen," answered Abby.

"Wow lucky you, Jillian gets dreams of what is about to happen," Molly said looking at her friend who did not approve of what she had done.

"Really Jillian and didn't bother to tell us," said Charles walking to where Jillian was standing.

"I am sorry, didn't think it would be that important," Jillian said.

"So you are the person Mr. Wong told me about," Mike remembered.

"About what?" all the other students asked including Jillian herself.

"He said that someone was going to have a dream of what happened in the past, he said that it is someone close to me but not Molly," Mike told the others.

They all looked at Jillian who started shaking her head, "I did not have a dream of what happened in the past. If I do, I will tell you," said Jillian.

Mr. Yen came with the four boys and pushed them inside. Gerald looked at Nick and said, "you think you are clever, I will deal with you."

"Gerald, I thought that you had left your bad habits after I sent you home. I should not have let Mr. Lee tell you to come back. These students are here for their training not to be bullied by you. Are you not ashamed of yourself, going after these kids instead of fighting seniors like you? I am giving you a last warning, if they come to report again, I will send you home for good. It applies to the three of you, aren't you older than Gerald to be pushed around by him. You should think for yourselves and not let fools like Gerald control your lives, now leave my office," said Mr. Yen opening the door for Gerald and his friends.

He turned to Mike and said, "Now you can go, I am sure he has leant his lesson. Most students run away from him but you faced him, you did well, if he continues doing this, report."

They all went to their rooms except for Nick who went to Molly's room to get his laptop. He gave Molly a good night kiss and left.