Kidnapping

Alex was yanked into a dark alley. A shadowy, hooded figure was dragging him by the collar of his uniform so a but of his back was exposed while he was being dragged

"Aargh!?" Alex cried out in pain.

He then set himself on fire expecting his assailant to let go of him but it didn't seem to affect the attacker at all, in fact, it seemed like he didn't notice.

His assailant bludgeoned Alex on the head and knocked him out.

***

The blond kid that Alex bumped into in the lunch hall was standing atop the school's wall, watching Alex getting dragged into an alley with a smug look upon his face.

He jumped down back into the courtyard and walked back into the school as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened.

***

Claire was walking beside her new friends who were talking about the new trip.

It seemed as though she had no interest in the topic and was trailing behind them.

It looked like she was in a world of her own, her face also looked blank.

She was thinking about Mei and Connor and what kind of trouble they were in, the last time she saw those two was back when they separated at the arena.

"Those two are tough, especially Mei, I'm sure they'll survive." She thought but she couldn't quite convince herself so she started thinking about something else.

She had been feeding an orphan boy who started planting seeds that had begun budding at the greenhouse which was stationed at the back of the school.

***

James returned to the capital by scaling the wall while the lookout guards were watching the other way. He leapt from the wall to the nearest building which was quite far mind you. He then slipped over the side and held on to the edge with his fingertips. He let go and dropped into the alley on the side of the building to on top of a stall with a stretchy tarp covering it so it didn't break even though his full weight was on it. He went down to street level gracefully from the tarp and walked into the open streets while holding some clothes in hand. The stall had a handful of those weird coins placed on it with clothes missing from the stand. The Person who ran the stall was flabbergasted, he had never seen that amount of money in his entire life. James walked into a toilet stall and almost immediately came out with the clothes he had just purchased. He was wearing a beach themed t-shirt, baggy shorts with a plethora of pockets, His usually messy hair was slicked back but a few strands of hair were down. He placed his hands in his pockets and continued down the bustling street while whistling.

***

Alex snoozy woke up, it took a while since his eyelids were heavy but he managed it anyway. He yawned and tried to stretch his arms when

"CLANG!", His arms refused to move any further, or rather he was chained to a wall and he hit the limit Of how far he could extend his chains. Slowly but surely, the memory of him getting kidnapped came to him. He observed his surroundings, he was in a pitch-black room and with what he could observe by fumbling around as much as the chains let him. Suddenly, a blinding flash of light hit his eyes at full force. He rubbed his eyes and saw a hazy image of around 30 people standing in front of him. Once his eyes went into focus, he could see them clearly, at the head of the people watching Alex was a man with short blond hair and a scar running from his left

right cheek to his right eye which was covered by an eye patch.

" So, you've finally woken, huh, don't worry about your safety, we only want your parent's money." the man said in a deep, grating voice

Alex didn't answer and ignored the man until the man walked up to Alex's face and shoved the se mask that he uses to disguise himself at school.

"This is an extremely rare item, if memory serves, there's only about 80 of these in circulation so don't even try to act dumb, also it's seems that you attend the" A horrified look crept upon Alex's face.

"If they took the mask of my face, surely my identity has been revealed." He felt his face and didn't feel his natural face, rather, he still had the face of the boy who worked at the inn in glaciers. Sure of himself, he began shooting flames out of his feet and the palms of his hands and aimed it at his chains but nevertheless, it didn't work, the chains weren't melting, so he tried shooting the wall but even that didn't work. He was sweating bullets, as long as they didn't know his identity, he should be fine.

***

The blond haired kid who alex had bumped into in the cafeteria was pacing up and down in his bedroom

"The ritual is already in motion, the gears of fate are changing and ill finally have my revenge on this God forsaken city hahaha!" He cackled madly with an insane grin on his face.

*Click* The door opened and someone peered through, looking at the blond boy. Whoever opened the door turned around and began to run off while the blond not who tried playing it off and chuckled but he knew that whoever opened the door had heard and seen enough but there was no point in chasing them since this city's fate was sealed.

***

The two agents working for Davies we're trudging through sand dunes with only sand in all direction and nothing in sight but they still carried on walking into the unknown. Inside the drug that was injected into them were the modified blood of Alex and Claire. It gave them a strength boost as well as being able to sense wherever their respective blood donors were, and it was north.