Scarring Mischief

~-Medical Facility, Greevsdale Training Court, Greevsdale, Verdius Latium-~

Time: 00:17:49:86

Ryan assisted James to walk out of the medical facility, they sat down to the stairway in front of the facility to rest for a bit, James holds his head where the bandages were as it aches again, Rebecca catches up to them with James's things, Ryan tells James about the pit incident, James replies the question unsure by telling him that he did not know what happened, James then stated that he was only in the ground until he blacked out, and he only remembers standing consciously before he fainted, Ryan doubted the whole statement, Rebecca sits down to join them and asked what were they doing, Ryan replies that they were just talking about what happened. The three looks at the sunset to admire its view, Rebecca says to them about the training of today, Ryan agrees with the statement, Rebecca asks James if he was astonished as well, James replies:

"Well, it was pretty good at first, until this happened," James stated out.

"Hmm, you seem to doubt, what happened," Rebecca asked.

"Sigh* The truth is before the course began I already had a feeling that something was wrong, I felt something was doubting about us being here in the first place," James states what he felt.

"That's just your tantrum, which reminded me, have you taken some medications lately?" Ryan stated and asked.

"Well yes, but that is not what I feel, it's something else," James stated then stands up and started to walk ahead.

As James walks ahead, Ryan and Rebecca catch up with him. Upon walking down the path which leads to the barracks, James deeply speculates about the scenario that happened in the pit, Ryan asks again, James what happened, James exhales as he is about to explain, James then explains, that he begins to see the guard somewhat disappointed towards him, then he blacks out, not only that, he also began to hear a voice, a voice of a girl, Ryan asks James who was talking to you by that voice and what did she said, James replies that he does not know and could be that he forgot it, Rebecca then says to them that they should go back to the barracks. Upon nearing the barracks a group can be spotted ahead, they ignore it and moves on, however, all of them apprehended their direction, and one of them says:

"Well well, look who it is, the brat that defeated our section, how is that going along huh!?" The cadet stated.

"First of all, it's not a competition, and we don't want any trouble, so leave us alone" Ryan tries to calm down the situation.

"Hey you're not going anywhere" the cadet pushes Ryan back.

"Didn't you hear me, I said we are not here to fight so please let us through" Ryan said.

"Haha, scumbag" The cadet punches Ryan.

"Ryan!! Hey! Let go of me, you scoundrels!!!" Rebecca attempts to help Ryan, but she was refrained to do so.

"That's enough!! Let my friends go!! You want me right? Then come at me not at them!!" James defended his friends.

"How cute, very well," the cadet said and snapped to signal his group.

James gets beaten up afterward, James was helpless, Rebecca attempts to save him along with Ryan, they were unstoppable until an unknown cadet shouted at them to stop, the cadets looks at him, the unknown cadet tells them that to stop what they are doing this instant, the cadets laughed, they all look at him at approaches him fearlessly, Ryan and Rebecca helped James up. The unknown cadet then stated the name of the leader of the group, Alfred. Alfred then asks him if he was not afraid, the unknown cadet then corrects him that he is not alone, Alfred looks at the evaters that stands before the unknown cadet, which was Oliver, Keir, Petrosa, and Heldrid, Alfred asks if that was it, the unknown cadet signals the three to escape, Alfred notices and commands them to chase the three, the cadets that chased them were blocked by the guards, Albert then shows up to the scene with his fellow guards, Albert stated the name of the unknown cadet which was Missoรผrri Lavete if these were the evaters that he reported, Missoรผri then affirms the question and tells him that James is already escaped, the cadets earlier then shows up with their hands up as the guard follows them pointed the gun, Albert commanded the guards to arrest them and head them to Solitary Office, Albert then asks a horse to find James, Albert thanked Lavete for the report, Oliver, Keir, Petrosa, and Heldrid then follows Albert.

Meanwhile, James, Ryan, and Rebecca rest for a while, Ryan looks at James if his doing fine, the galloping sound can be heard approaching them, Rebecca looks in the direction where the sound is, she sees Albert, she then waves at him to locate them, Albert locates them head towards them. As he arrives, he went down to see James beaten up so bad, Ryan tells Albert that he just got recovered from the injury, Oliver, Keir, Lavete, Petrosa, and Heldrid approaches them and could help him out, Albert then tells them that to assist James upon going in the medical facility, James however slowly blacks out, until he collapses, Ryan creams to James that to hang on, the voice of Ryan fades as James loses consciousness.~~~~~

~-Location Unknown-~

Time: --:--:--:--

James wakes up on his bunk rises and feels unstable motion up in his head. James kneads his head to relieve the ache, James was unnerved of the surroundings of his space, the barracks was ghostly empty, destruction by the wall, James glances around the bunk, his bunk disappears and he realizes that he was wearing a battle uniform, a rifle he sees and then grabs it to defend himself, he pulls out the bolt of the gun to see the remaining bullets, he scoured his bag to load it until he hears a disturbance at his back, which were double doors that leads to the hallway, James sighs and loads the rifle, push the bolt back in as the bullet gets loaded in the chamber, and immediately draw and aimed to the direction of where the disturbance is, he sees nothing but the door swings, the wind blows in to feel the mood.

James slowly approaches the door, as he reached it, he sweeps his view to make sure things are clear, as he draws the rifle at the end of the hallway, a figure flees from his sight, James calls it out, and somehow, it ignores the call, James slowly walks towards the end of the hall, he scarcely checks the room and other hallways in his path, one of the rooms contained an inverdellin feasting onto its host, it grins as James pass by, James not near enough to the end gets tackled by an inverdellin, James gets pins down and swiftly guard against it with his rifle, James severely downed and grunts down in pain, James looks around to see a brick, he looks at the beast and tries to reach for the brick, as his finger barely grasps, he hits the beast hardly and made it weak enough to let James loose, James sees the opportunity to escape, as he crawls out, he then aims his rifle towards it, he opens fire and hits the Inverdellin by the chest, it did not hit the heart however, so he rechambered a bullet and fires and hits the heart, the inverdellin tumbles down and fades into ashes, James aighes in relief and then again sees the figure, only this time, the sillouette resembles a girl as its hair was drawn by the breeze.

James seeing the silhouette wanders off again, he yells out to get its attention, James yells out the name of Ryan and Rebecca to know if they are near, James did not get any response, he swiftly follows the girl as it wanders off the training grounds, as James gets out of the military facility, the eerie moon glimmers through, James looks back at the destruction, he sees the base too old and abandoned, he mutters to himself how did he get here and where was everyone, the breeze intensifies the mood as the girl looks at him from afar, James notices her and calls it out, the girl only this time did not move, James stares at it cautiously, he slowly approaches it in attempt to communicate with it. The girl slowly backs away and heads to the forest, James sprinted as the girl fades slowly through the woods, as he edges himself by the forest, James looks back at the facility and faced the woods, he grasps his rifle and moves in to chase the girl, he dodges every tree on his way, branches hitting him everywhere, until he tumbles down and falls into an open in the woods, he grunts in pain, he looks ahead and sees the girl looking at a tree that is centered in the open, he slowly rises to grasp his rifle, James talks to her of why she'd run away from him, the girl did not respond with his question, James asks afterward who is she, the girl slowly raises her arm, and she slowly turns towards him, James frightens by here action slowly grasping his rifle, the girl faced James and points at him, James asked why is she pointing at him, the girl's replies this time:

"๐”œ๐”ฌ๐”ฒ๐”ซ๐”ค ๐”™๐”ข๐”ฏ๐”ก๐”ฆ๐”ž๐”ซ, โ„‘ ๐”Ÿ๐”ข๐”ฐ๐”ฑ๐”ฌ๐”ด ๐”ฑ๐”ฌ ๐”ถ๐”ฌ๐”ฒ ๐”ฑ๐”ฅ๐”ข ๐”ค๐”ฆ๐”ฃ๐”ฑ ๐”ฌ๐”ฃ ๐”ฑ๐”ฅ๐”ข ๐”ˆ๐”ฉ๐”ก๐”ข๐”ฏ ๐”Š๐”ฒ๐”ž๐”ฏ๐”ก๐”ฆ๐”ž๐”ซ๐”ฐ." the girl states the will.

"Who? and who are you? and why did you lead me here?" James asked.

"โ„‘ ๐”ž๐”ช ๐”ฑ๐”ฅ๐”ข ๐”ญ๐”ฏ๐”ฌ๐”ญ๐”ฅ๐”ข๐”ฑ ๐”ž๐”ซ๐”ก ๐”ช๐”ข๐”ฐ๐”ฐ๐”ข๐”ซ๐”ค๐”ข๐”ฏ ๐”ฌ๐”ฃ ๐”Š๐”ฒ๐”ž๐”ฏ๐”ก๐”ฆ๐”ž๐”ซ๐”ฐ ๐”ก๐”ข๐”ž๐”ฏ ๐”๐”ž๐”ช๐”ข๐”ฐ."the girl introduced.

"How did you know my name?" James asked.

"๐”—๐”ฅ๐”ž๐”ฑ ๐”ฆ๐”ฐ ๐”ซ๐”ฌ ๐”ซ๐”ข๐”ข๐”ก ๐”ฑ๐”ฌ ๐”Ÿ๐”ข ๐”ด๐”ฌ๐”ฏ๐”ฏ๐”ฆ๐”ข๐”ก."

The girl apprehended the question.

"So why am I here, and Where is everyone?" James asked cautiously.

"๐”—๐”ฅ๐”ข ๐”Š๐”ฒ๐”ž๐”ฏ๐”ก๐”ฆ๐”ž๐”ซ๐”ฐ ๐”ฅ๐”ž๐”ณ๐”ข ๐”Ÿ๐”ข๐”ฐ๐”ฑ๐”ฌ๐”ด๐”ข๐”ก ๐”ฒ๐”ญ๐”ฌ๐”ซ ๐”ฑ๐”ฅ๐”ข๐”ข ๐”ฑ๐”ฅ๐”ข ๐”ค๐”ฏ๐”ข๐”ž๐”ฑ ๐”ค๐”ฆ๐”ฃ๐”ฑ."

The girls speak out the message.

"What gift? Whoa!" James asked as his rifle fades away, he then approaches her.

"๐”œ๐”ฌ๐”ฒ ๐”ฐ๐”ข๐”ข ๐”ฅ๐”ข๐”ฏ๐”ข ๐”™๐”ข๐”ฏ๐”ก๐”ฆ๐”ž๐”ซ, ๐”ถ๐”ฌ๐”ฒ๐”ฏ ๐”ฌ๐”ซ๐”ฉ๐”ถ ๐”ช๐”ฆ๐”ฐ๐”ฐ๐”ฆ๐”ฌ๐”ซ ๐”ฆ๐”ฐ ๐”ฑ๐”ฌ ๐” ๐”ฏ๐”ž๐” ๐”จ ๐”ฑ๐”ฅ๐”ข ๐”ฃ๐”ฌ๐”ฏ๐”ค๐”ฌ๐”ฑ๐”ฑ๐”ข๐”ซ ๐”ญ๐”ž๐”ค๐”ข๐”ฐ, ๐”ฑ๐”ฅ๐”ข ๐”ข๐”ฉ๐”ก๐”ข๐”ฏ ๐”ค๐”ฒ๐”ž๐”ฏ๐”ก๐”ฆ๐”ž๐”ซ๐”ฐ ๐”ฅ๐”ž๐”ณ๐”ข ๐”ฅ๐”ฆ๐”ก๐”ก๐”ข๐”ซ ๐”ฑ๐”ฅ๐”ข ๐”Ÿ๐”ฌ๐”ฌ๐”จ, ๐”Ÿ๐”ฒ๐”ฑ ๐”ฌ๐”ซ๐”ฉ๐”ถ ๐”ถ๐”ฌ๐”ฒ ๐” ๐”ž๐”ซ ๐”ฃ๐”ฆ๐”ซ๐”ก ๐”ฑ๐”ฅ๐”ข ๐”ฐ๐”ž๐”ฆ๐”ก ๐”Ÿ๐”ฌ๐”ฌ๐”จ," The girl speaks as she casts a spell unto the mists of the tree.

"I Don't get it, a book, I can't find that book," James said.

"๐”œ๐”ฌ๐”ฒ ๐”ฃ๐”ฆ๐”ซ๐”ก ๐”ฑ๐”ฅ๐”ข ๐”ฐ๐”ž๐”ฆ๐”ก ๐”Ÿ๐”ฌ๐”ฌ๐”จ ๐”ฑ๐”ฅ๐”ฏ๐”ฌ๐”ฒ๐”ค๐”ฅ ๐”ฐ๐”ฌ๐”ช๐”ข๐”ฌ๐”ซ๐”ข,"The girl replied.

"And who could that be?" James asked.

"โ„‘๐”ฑ ๐”ด๐”ฆ๐”ฉ๐”ฉ ๐”Ÿ๐”ข ๐”ž ๐”ช๐”ถ๐”ฐ๐”ฑ๐”ข๐”ฏ๐”ถ, ๐”ฃ๐”ฌ๐”ฏ ๐”ซ๐”ฌ๐”ด, ๐”ฑ๐”ฅ๐”ข ๐”ˆ๐”ฉ๐”ก๐”ข๐”ฏ๐”ฐ ๐”ฅ๐”ž๐”ณ๐”ข ๐”ญ๐”ฒ๐”ฑ ๐”ฒ๐”ญ๐”ฌ๐”ซ ๐”ฑ๐”ฅ๐”ข ๐”ฐ๐” ๐”ž๐”ฏ ๐”ฃ๐”ฌ๐”ฏ ๐”ช๐”ข ๐”ฑ๐”ฌ ๐”ฃ๐”ฆ๐”ซ๐”ก, โ„‘'๐”ณ๐”ข ๐”ฐ๐”ข๐”ข๐”ซ ๐”ถ๐”ฌ๐”ฒ ๐”ฃ๐”ฆ๐”ค๐”ฅ๐”ฑ, ๐”ž๐”ซ๐”ก ๐”ฅ๐”ฌ๐”ด ๐”ถ๐”ฌ๐”ฒ ๐”ฑ๐”ž๐” ๐”จ๐”ฉ๐”ข ๐” ๐”ฅ๐”ž๐”ฉ๐”ฉ๐”ข๐”ซ๐”ค๐”ข๐”ฐ ๐”ž๐”ฅ๐”ข๐”ž๐”ก ๐”ฌ๐”ฃ ๐”ถ๐”ฌ๐”ฒ."the girl said as she fades off.

"Wait don't leave me here! What the... Wait" James gets wrapped by the roots as he horrifies as the tree grabs him and gets pulled.

~-Room 47, Medical Facility Main, Greevsadle Training Court, Greevsdale, Verdius Latium-~

Time:01:14:23:64

James wakes up and rises immediately from his bed, Rebecca and Ryan hooked of the scene and comforts James, Ryan calls out the doctor, Rebecca concerning asked James if he was ok, James looks, sweats intensely, and could not forget what was the dream all about, the doctors come in as Ryan catches up from the back, the doctor checks James's vitals to see If he's fine, and to know if he has another feeling other than a headache, the doctor claims that James is stable, the whole cadets sighed in relief. The cadets inside of the room were Ryan, Rebecca, Keir, Oliver, Heldrid, and Petrosa, they were assigned to be the guardians of the patient, which they have to look over James, the doctor soon left the room to attend to the other patients. James asked them what happened, Recca confused about the question, replied to him that why can't he remember anything, James asked how long was he out, Ryan replied that he was unconscious for twelve hours, James replies with great despair as he heard his reply, Oliver then states that Alfred and his group are kicked and detained for bribery, assault, and battery, and fraudilation under the committee office, Keir then connects the statement that they were doing troubles even before James was picked on, Petrosa agrees and connects that they bribed officer for their release, however, one of them was caught and demoted and was under suspension for their wrongdoings, connected statement by Heldrid, James thanks them for the news, James, however, asked to them that he did not know them well enough, then Oliver starts the introduction:

"It's fine, I'm Kent Oliver, from Pacific, born in Julynsol(July) 11," Oliver introduced.

"You're from Pacifica?" James asked.

"I'm mainly was in Lethronn, we just moved to Pacifica," Oliver said.

"I'm Keir Coll, I'm from Monoulovska" Keir introduced.

"Anne Petrosa, born on Marctol(March)5" Petrosa introduced.

"And I'm John Heldrid, born in Novebeton(November)" Heldrid lastly introduced.

"Well thank you all, for the help, I don't how to owe you at some point," James thanked.

"It's fine, we just have to do what is right" Oliver stated.

Albert then walks in along with Lavete to check on James as they heard that he was awake, Albert stated to James if he was ok, James replies that he is fine, Albert states a good impression. Unexpectedly, Reniel walks in the room, all of the evapte except for James salutes to Reniel, Reniel salutes back and gives them at ease affirmative, Reniel checks on James if he was doing fine, Reniel sees James was wrapped around the forehead with bandages, a black eye on his left, and bruises all around, Reniel then gets frustrated on what he sees to James, he then asks Albert if the detainees are punished severely, Albert replies to him with a direct report, that he is trying his best to punish them severely. Reniel turns to James and started to him that he apologize for the incident that happened to him, James, however, replied to him that it is fine and he will continue training, even in his state, Rebecca did not agree about what James said, James still stated he still needs to continue.

James was then discharged from the medical facility a day after, on the training grounds the whole section was stationed and stand in attention in the fields to be instructed, their next course was basic shooting and will be assigned to each individual, James carefully listened to the officer instructions until he notices a figure standing behind the officer, the figure resembled a familiar face, he tries to focus and to see who it was, the figure shows up even more slowly, as it slowly exposes itself it becomes to resemble a girl with no eyes and seems to smile inverdonly, James snaps back to reality as his officer shouted to them if things are clear, James's drop of sweat flows down, the cadets replied to the officer with sir, yes sir, James muttered to himself what was happening to him.

The cadets settle in Course 21 which is the shooting range, in a row of the section where James, Ryan, Rebecca, Oliver, Keir, Petrosa, and Heldrid position themselves to shoot targets at within 50 yards, the officer ready the signal, the section aims and pointer ready at the trigger, as the officer commences a weapons-free, all of the cadets' fires as the signal commenced, the officer yelled out to shoot it wisely and never waste their bullets, and be swift of their reload. James however besides the rest, aims at the targets swiftly, but in the last target he aims to focus at it, the target slowly morphs, James wonders why he wipes his eye that he thought could have been an illusion, no it did not make the morphing of a figure until the figure begins to resemble someone, James shooks up to who it was, the figure glows white and seemingly James was the only who can see it, he looks to his cadets but they were focused on their targets, James looks back to his sight and sweats, the officer who noticed James yelled at him, James bewildered by the yell, and focuses to the target, which seemingly the figure disappeared that make things back to normal, James's cadet-mates sees that there is something wrong with James.

In the barracks after the course, James went to the showers for a quick rinse, Rebecca saw James went and signals the group to a talk, Oliver, Ryan, Keir, Petrosa, and Heldrid gathered, and started to talk about James's behavior:

"Have you seen James? he is acting kind of weird today" Keir stated.

"I've realized too, I somehow try to image what his up against himself," Ryan said.

"I heard James keep on seeing things" Heldrid stated.

"What things was he seeing actually?" Ryan asked.

"Well, I'm not sure, I heard that he keeps seeing someone when he is serious at something" Heldrid speaks out the rumor that he heard.

"Wait I've heard this before" Rebecca stated.

"You have?!" the cadets asked.

"Well the book that James read, I was able to read a little, specifically about hallucinations, If we can find it" Rebecca stated her intel.

"It's here" Petrosa locates the book.

"Thanks. Here, this is what I was talking about, The Ivactun Semoรผlt" Rebecca reads out the title of the chapter.

"What does it mean? I don't understand its language," Heldrid asked.

"It means The Illusions of the Prophets" Rebecca translates the text.

"Wait, how does a prophet have to do something with James's situation?" Petrosa argues.

"I...You have a point" Rebecca stated.

James comes out of the showers, and dressed, sees his friends gathered to his bunk, he approaches them to know what was going on, the group notices and confronts him to know if James has a problem. Ryan says to him that to be clear and tell them what is his problem, James replies to him in denial, Rebecca forces him to spill the beans of what was going on with James, and why was he acting weird, James sighs as he has no choice but to spill. James afterward sits down as he tells them what was going on:

"Well, the truth is, something is bugging me throughout these days, I just can't picture what it is" James stated the problem.

"Did you at least try to make a solution to it?" Oliver asked.

"No, actually it's not something, it's someone" James revised his statement.

"Wait did you said someone, is it her huh?" Ryan jokingly stated.

"What that's ridiculous, it's not her, I don't what it is, I just kept seeing this figure every time I do something serious," James said.

"What figure?" Petrosa asked.

"Well...I don't know what it is if I can remember, I dreamed about this figure telling me to get a book of..." James gets cut off.

"The Mischief of Evastanika," Nicole said out of nowhere.

"Maam!" the group salutes to her.

"Settle down, I've heard the situation that you're up against," Nicole stated.

"What, how did you know all this?" Rebecca asked.

"I've read the book a copy of James's, it is called, The Calls of the prophet, James that scar in your hands, that tells me that something is hunting you" Nicole stated.

"Wait, how'd you know I have a scar," James asked in confusion.

"I was observing you, even today, during your shooting range course, I somehow saw a familiar figure by your left arm. And for now, I should not be here, however, you must go to the library your answers are there for you to seek." Nicole said.

"Wait, what did you mean the calls of the prophet? and what does it have to do with the scar?" Keir asked.

"James, tell them about the dream, that's the answer. I have to go, like I said the library may have the answer you seek." Nicole said.

"Thanks, ma'am," Ryan said.

"Oh don't call me ma'am, just call me Nicole please, I should get going I have an appointment with Albert" Nicole walks on.

After Nicole left the barracks and went to Albert's office, James opens the book and finds the chapter that Nicole stated, as he finds the chapter, Petrosa points a girl she sees in the chapter, James looks at the image of the girl, he realized that the girl was the girl in his dream, James then tells them about it, Keir stated to him that this girl was the knight's wife according to the myths, James mutters that things make sense. The officer then yells to them all that it is lights out, the group then goes to their bunk and will continue the talk by tomorrow.

James somehow in the middle of the night, still awake, opens his book and read the chapter, he turns his light to mild so the officer won't notice, he reads the first part which stated, 'that an evatin will be rewarded with a scar that symbolizes the knights' power, and only the chosen one will be bestowed by the said scar. The evatin will then be visited by the Prophetess Virnia to tell the tale and will lend the mission, afterward the Evatin will then must be awakened from misfortune, and will see thee of the huntress of the Evatanika,' James attempts reconstructs the whole chapter and writes down a note to it. Later then by the day, the cadets are said to have free time of the day since its a holiday, the groups settled to their hanging spot, as then disturbed by the crowd ahead of them, Keir tells them to go there to see what was going on, Ryan agreed and the group went to see what was going on, upon arriving at the crowded place, they were told that Charlie Team 6 will be out on a mission and the crowd was there to give them good luck.

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