The Key 2

"So... Why am I here?" Without looking at her direction, I looked around her office with a curious face.

"...." She didn't answered.

Because of this, I spoke, "I'm serious here. Was kidnapping me necessary if you're not gonna say something?" I turned my head to look at Eva's direction. She was silently looking at me with a bored look.

𝘞𝘩𝘺 𝘥𝘰 𝘐 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘐 𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱...? 𝘐𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦, 𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘰𝘸𝘯.

"Not really," She said. "Anyway, I'll get straight to the point." Standing up from her seat, Eva took something out from the drawer before she went and gave it to me. It was a hexagonal-shaped key with a human skull as a design.

"What's this?" I took the key from her and examined it throughly. "What does this key even for anyway?" I asked, turning my attention back to her.

When she heard this question, Eva crossed both of her arms as raised a brow. "Your mother gave you the orb, didn't she?"

"....." I was silent. I didn't know what she meant, so my mouth remained close.

"...She didn't?" She pinched the middle of her brows in contempt. "Well... I guess I'll be visiting her soon. Your mother, Celestia, really needs to learn proper discipline."

I sighed hearing this and nodded. "True, but... Seriously, what do you mean by 'orb'? And what does it do anyway?" Crossing my arm, I tilted my head to the side in confusion.

"It's an orb..." Resting her chin on the back of her right hands, she exhaled. "For what it can do, you'll find out soon after you got it."

Slowly, she turned her attention towards one of the black cloak guys behind me. Then, she heaved out a deep sigh before making a gesture, ordering us to leave.

"Leave. I want to have some time alone." She said, taking a secret glance at me.

𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘪𝘵...?

As I was about to head to the mirror portal one of the guy, probably Leo, created, I noticed some glittering light from her back. Taking a closer look, I saw that it was locked black box.

"What's that?" I pointed my finger towards it and questioned.

She turned her head towards where I'm pointing at and when she do, I suddenly noticed a glint of seriousness in her eyes.

"That question is irrelevant. Go, now." Her voice changed from being moderate to being cold. She stared at me deep in the eyes, with her's was about to falter.

At this point, I became even more curious about it that I unconsciously excluded my intention to steal the box from her. Of course, she noticed this.

"If you ever try to steal it from this room, you won't be seeing the shine of light tomorrow." Eva threatened me, making my curiosity rise even further.

"You know, if you say more things like that, there's a huge possiblity that the 'secret' object behind your back that you were hiding might end up disappearing."

The air around Evangeline became denser, and her hair raised up.

As Eva hair began to twist, it began to fall in random direction across her face.

𝘚𝘩𝘪𝘵, 𝘮𝘺 𝘨𝘰𝘥 𝘥𝘢𝘮𝘯 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘺 𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤. I thought, as my eyes remained focused at her and the box.

***

(Evangeline's POV)

𝘕𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦, 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘦, 𝘯𝘰𝘳 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦. I bit my lower lips as my eyes remained focus to him, and only him...

𝘐𝘧 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘣𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘪𝘧 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘶𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦, 𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵-𝘕𝘰, 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘯 𝘒𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 '𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵' 𝘨𝘶𝘺.

While I was about to take my wand from the table, I suddenly noticed something dark coming out from his palm. Is he really planning to take it by force?

Soon after I got my wand, I immediately aimed towards the boy as I began casting my magic.

"If I saw you move even a dmall parts of your body, I will immediately blast you off. Although my spell won't be able to kill you, you won't be able to move nor use any of your magic for a month." I said in a threatening voice. I thought that he won't probably listen to me even after I said that, but... It look like his reaction was quite the opposite than what I was thinking.

"Fine..." He turned around.

Blinking a few times, I shook my head and asked, "You're gonna leave?"

"...Yeah. What else could I do anyway?" Athan took a quick glance at me as he walked away. "Let's go. I need to properly teach you guys a lesson. Leo, William and Xavier, you guys come to my room tomorrow. If any of you try to escape, I will hunt you guys myself." He said, smiling at the three sweetly.

""Yes..."" They replied in synchronized. Their expression was showing that they were already regretting their actions.

Seeing them like this, I couldn't help but breathe out a long sigh of relief.

But...

*Zuuuup!*

Even though it came fast, I managed to take a glimpse at the dark energy that went pass through my line of sight.

"Y-you!?" I turned my head towards the box to see if something happened to it but, to my surprise, it was still there.

"..."

Eventually, I slowly turned my head back towards Athan to ask about it. "Wha-?" Without even noticing it, they were already gone.

"What was that...?" I asked myself. Shaking my head, I sat down to my chair comfortably. "I guess I really need proper sleep. I'm starting to imagine things."

***

(Athan's POV)

A few hours later.

"Now, go. Seeing your faces is only causing my annoyance to rise in extent." Saying this, I glared dagger at the three, who was in their knees, before opening the door for them.

When they saw this, they looked at each other before nodding.

"What are you guys waiting for? Christmas? Hell, it's still four months away, so leave!" I raised my voice after seeing them frozen on spot. Hearing this, they promptly stood up from their knees and went out from my room.

Soon after they left, I looked around my room to see if the principal didn't send any hidden cameras, the three could have hidden inside my room, and sighed deeply after I finished making sure that there were none.

When that's done, I raised my hands up and slowly opened up my fist.

[Secrete • Release]

Small particles of a dark energy appeared on top of my palm, slowly forming an octagonal-shaped object that was about the same size of my fist.

"Kufufufu..." Chuckling to myself, I began examining the object.

Luckily for me, I managed to steal this item inside the box when Eva let her guard down for a moment. Also, she probably won't figure it out since I made a clone of this using my dark magic. Though, as long as she didn't try and activate the fake item, she won't figure it out... Probably?

𝘐 𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘐'𝘮 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦. 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘦'𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵, 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵? I reassured myself, thinking of only positive thoughts in my mind.

"Now, then. How do I make this work anyway?" Resting my chin onto my fingers, I said to myself. "Why don't we try solving this like a rubik's cube? I think that'll work..." Saying this, I placed both my hands onto the octagonal object and tried shifting some of it's parts.

"Nothing..."

Seeing that none of it's parts didn't budged, I tried something else. I threw it lightly to the wall, which still didn't show any changes.

"...Why don't I try this?"

Again, it didn't work.

This lasted for thirty minutes before I finally decided to give up.

Sighing deeply, I raised the octagonal object above my head. "How can I activate this thing?" I asked myself, as I once again heaved out a sigh.

I was playing around with it, spinning it around my fingers when my index finger went inside the hole below.

"....."

It was then I noticed it.

"A button...?"

There was a hidden button on the small hole below.

𝘋𝘢𝘮𝘯. 𝘐 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘺 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘰𝘣𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴. I facepalmed inwardly. I was too embarrassed on myself for being an idiot and forgetting to check the bottom part.

After reflecting on the corner of my room for a few minutes, I finally decided to click the button.

Almost immediately, the world around me were drowned in immense mass of darkness. Whispers emitted from the black mass, and the air around my surrounding grew denser.

"This is new..." I said to myself, letting the immense darkness swallow me whole.

The next thing I knew, my vision turned black.

...

....

.....

"Ugh..." Groaning, I forcedly lifted my heavy body from the bed... Bed?

I sat up from the bed and looked around my room... No, this place wasn't my room.

"Where am I?" I was about to stand up from the bed when I unexpectedly lost my balance, falling to my butt.

"Ahh..." I grabbed onto the table beside the bed, to help myself get up. Soon after, I pulled the chair from the table and sat down.

I inhaled and exhaled a few times feeling tired, before calming down.

Slowly, I opened my eyes once again to look around, but...

Around the corner of the room, was a mirror big enough to show my whole body sitting on a chair... Actually, it was someone else.

With bright golden-yellow eyes that glistened underneath the lights of the room, long-cascading reddish hair, and pale white skin, it was obvious that I was in someone else's body.

"What in the ACTUAL fuck is going on?!!"

It was then...

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