Chapter Twenty-Seven — Reordering The Plans (2)

At The Gardens

In Skye Evander High School

"So how far have we gone with the plan layout?" Shelbie asked Khloé.

"Almost close. We're just at 96.72%." Khloé replied as she ticked something in her book. "Just bought and tested the receivers. We're making steady progress by the day, don't you think so, Jemima?"

Jemima was just so lost in thoughts. She was body present and absent-minded. The magical scene between Desha and that veiled lady disturbed her. As she was sinking deep in her thoughts, Shelbie touched her from behind and she jolted quickly from her thoughts.

"What are you thinking about?" Shelbie asked Jemima. "It's as if you're worried about something. Everything okay?"

Jemima nodded. "It's just that I think Desha is not who we actually think she is. That veiled lady…it's as if I've seen her somewhere. I can't just place my attention on it but she looks familiar."

"Her name is Ashe. She's just an underling from the past but she's very powerful." Khloé explained. "My granddad told me that back then in the past when Ohreja practiced monarchy, Ashe was among the rebels that ousted Ohreja. They threw Ohreja all from its mighty throne and now we're the forgotten country."

"Ohreja practiced monarchy?" Jemima asked with her purple eyes dilated. That was a new fact learned. She never knew that Ohreja, her country practiced monarchy in the past.

"Yeah, he told me that there was a powerful woman named…Xi…Ximena Chroust, she ruled Ohreja by then before the Great War took place." Khloé explained further. She remembered those times when she travelled to her village to spend the holiday with her grandfather. Her grandfather worked in the village church so he had little experience of eerie things like witchery and sorcery and he also told her stories about some of these.

"Ximena Chroust?!" Jemima asked. She was getting confused by every new fact learned. "Desha, Ximena Chroust and Ashe. I think I need to research deeply on these three people."

"Why are you so intrigued about these people?" Shelbie asked. She was a bit grumpy when Jemima started taking interest in trivial things like that. "Just forget about them and focus on the plan and also the contest at hand too."

"I don't feel like participating in the contest. Desha can have her privilege back. I just want to research on these people and clarify my doubts." Jemima countered.

"Why don't we do the research after the contest, okay?" Shelbie asked. She pulled up her smart trick this time around.

Jemima nodded. "So how far with the plan layout?"

"Going well, according to Khloé, we're just at 96.72%. Why don't we put in more effort?"

Jemima narrowed her eyes when she heard that. "Are you trying to kill us? Haven't we tried enough? What is there to put in more efforts? We just drug her and get her into the soothing room, confront her to tell us the truth and nothing more."

"But it's not easy. Desha isn't a person that stays at a place for too long, that's why the stability of this plan is dwindling. There's every tendency of her escaping if we get hold of her so I advise we nest up a backup plan." Khloé chipped in after scrawling some unknown things on her notepad.

"I agree with you. So what should we do now?" Jemima supported. She wanted to squeeze out the very truth from Desha. Desha was like a bottle holding so many secrets inside but too stingy to let them out.

"That actually need very critical thinking. Okay, what if Desha has some other plans? What if she knows our plans?" Caitlyn said as she popped out from god-knows-where. Where was she all this while? The resolute didn't see her leave when they came to the garden.

"What if she has some accomplices with her?" She asked again, looking eyeball to eyeball with everyone. "I just found out that Desha has joined forces with the Teacube Triplets and the Sunset Flirts."

"The Sunset Flirts?!" Jemima asked. Her eyes didn't widen this time around but there was an expression of shock on her face. She was lost in thoughts again.

"Yeah. Their names are Kitty and Dawn and as for those triplets, they are Troy, Trevor…and Tristan, yeah." Caitlyn chipped in.

Khloé couldn't help but quaver. "Things are getting more byzantine. Desha now teamed up with some dumb triplets and flirts. In fact, our plans are no match for them. We need to devise a new plan." Khloé turned to a new page in her notepad and started scrawling unknown things again.

"When the Impeccable Contest is just the day after tomorrow?" Shelbie threw that at them.

"Anything is possible. We shouldn't lose hope like that. Why don't we join heads together and put up a very powerful plan that can beat theirs." Khloé scolded. "Desha joined forces with some crazy flirts and senseless triplets and so what? We are THE RESOLUTE, the stanch. We stand thru thick and thin, we can't just be beaten by this little temptation."

"You call that temptation?" Caitlyn retorted. "This is real trouble in disguise. Do we actually know what we are getting into?"

"Let's just devise a plan first. Let's save this girl and trash things out later, okay?" Jemima clinched. She was bent on saving this unknown but powerful girl.

'Maybe this girl would be of great importance to her. She might help her know more about what happened to Ohreja in the past. Did Ohreja really practiced monarchy back then?' So many thoughts ran in her mind and for a second, she was confused. She slightly shook her head and looked at the girls.

"Are we gonna stand here? Let's get inside and do something."