BANG!
Patter______Patter______Patter
A piercing sound rang out in the bus.
Unfortunately, nobody on the bus was in state to see what happened. Their ears were ringing and smoke was spreading on the bus.
Thud_!
The sound of loud footsteps echoed at the entrance of the bus.
"Okay, kids, nobody talks unless you have my permission."
The smoke receded and all the people on the bus could see the scenery.
A hole was behind the driver's seat and blood was profusely flowing.
Through the hole they could see the scenery outside the bus but the brain's 'flesh' and blood were scattered around on the ground and on the nearest students...
"HYAAA!"
"AHAHAAHAHA!"
"KYYAAA!"
The students on the bus screamed in fear, ignoring the masked man's words.
BANG!
The man who was masked with a scarf and hat fired his gun at the ceiling of the bus.
Silence_______
"Yeah, it's better now."
'Wh-what the hell is happening...?!'
Orion was shivering from head to toe. Fortunately, he was in the back seats but it was very scary.
Looking around, he could see that they were all scared, but few were keeping calm, surprisingly.
The four beauties, Andrew, Austin, the Hawkins brothers and Ryan. The others were either crying or already fainted.
"Wh-what do you want ?" The teacher asked in a quivering tone.
The man turned his gaze to the teacher and spoke.
"All the students get off of the bus except the teacher."
"Oh yes, calls and messages will not work, so don't waste your time and also mine. Don't forget to take out the fainted brats." He added in a cold tone.
"NOW!"
"HII!"
Seeing that nobody moved, he shouted and they all got out of the bus by the second entrance.
Upon getting down, the students fell in despair, as there were six other guys waiting for them outside also masked.
"Wow, so that's the special foreign class!"
"YEAH! With their parents we will get hella money!"
"Right ? The boss was right, I recognized a few famous faces!"
"Hey, look at those four girls ! Aren't they hella hot ?! Even a few others!"
"Y-Yeah true! They are the most beautiful I have seen in my life, even better than those actresses !"
"Couldn't we keep them a few more days ?!"
All the girls shivered from the guys' loud conversation. Even the four most concerned ones, but they still kept a strong face.
"Don't look at them with your filthy eyes, assholes."
Jordan stepped forward like a hero.
Soon, Austin and Andrew followed behind him. They all had a good upbringing and, more importantly, they were prideful of their origins.
If they were so daring it was because they knew the terrorists wanted them alive to get a ransom.
Looking at the three of them standing like a wall before them, one man burst into laughing.
"AHAHAHA! Man, look at them! I'm dying!!!"
"AHAAH! TRUE!"
"OH the totally spies are here to save you guys! AHAHA!"
Another guy said, pointing at the students behind the guys.
"Y-You!" Jordan was bright red from rage and was ready to pounce on the men.
"Wait!" Austin caught his hand before he moved.
"Leave me! I will kil..."
BANG!
A gun's sound rang out and they all turned toward the bus. They couldn't see anything but there was nobody on the bus except the leader and...their teacher.
Sobs_!
Screams_!
Again, the students cried but they recovered more quickly thanks to their current predicament and the three guys before them.
"Why are you laughing like idiots..."
The leader asked as he climbed down from the bus.
"N-Nothing boss!"
"Hm ?"
The leader narrowed his gaze.
"A-Actually couldn't we keep the girls for a few days...?"
One of the guys asked while looking at the girls behind Jordan and the other two.
He was particularly looking at Aura, Elena, Anna and Sienna.
"Bastards..." Jordan gritted his teeth.
"Hmm..."
The leader looked at the girls and they all shivered at the same time.
They couldn't see his expression with the mask but somehow they could tell that he was smiling creepily at the moment.
"Whatever. Their parents wouldn't know until they got them back anyway."
He replied, putting the girls into more despair.
BANG!
"""HIII!"""
He shooted again.
"Guys acting like they passed out, it's the last warning. Wake the fuck up!"
He shouted, scaring the hell out of most of the students.
Immediately, all the young actors woke up, surprising the others facing the danger.
"Good."
"What do you want ?" Jordan suddenly asked.
"Hm ?" The leader turned his gaze to have a better look.
"If you want money, my father will give you all you want but you must release..."
"Wait. What are you talking about ?" The leader asked in an icy tone.
"My father can..."
"I have your lives in my hands, so why the hell should I release you to get my money ?"
"..." Jordan closed his mouth.
"Boss, what about the police ?" His mate asked.
"Don't worry, the others teams are distracting those idiots. In five minutes our bus will come and we will flee amidst the chaos." The leader replied, looking at his surroundings.
The students followed his gaze and gasped.
They finally noticed that fire was burning in several places, as smoke was rising in the sky.
"Hey you !" The leader shouted suddenly.
"M-Me ?" A brown-haired youth asked tearfully.
"No, the guy behind you."
The brown-haired youth sighed in relief and stepped aside to reveal Orion's figure clenching his chest or rather his pendant.
"Y-yes?" Orion asked with a quivering voice.
The leader approached him and all the students made way for him, forming a circle around them.
Few people wanted to step in but were restrained by their friends. Notably, Aura, Austin and Elena.
Reaching Orion, the leader tore away Orion's hand from his chest to find a beautiful pendant with a metallic blue ring on it.
"Hm ?" Reaching his hand out, the leader tried to remove the pendant.
"N-No!" Orion pushed the leader's hand away, shocking everyone.
His life was at stake after all!
"What...?" The leader asked in a deadly cold voice.
Orion shivered but he couldn't let go of his pendant that he got from his family.
"P-Please I got this pendant from my la-late family, it's the last memory of my family" Orion asked as tears were pouring out of his eyes.
BAM!
"Orion, we are going out for a week, so be a good boy in our absence, okay ? We asked a baby-sitter. She will come soon." A beautiful lady said, patting a ten-year-old boy. "NO! I also want to come!" Orion shouted. "You can't dear...We will come back as soon as possible" The mother hugged her son tightly. "Mom *sniff* I don't want to part from brother*sniff*." A cute 8-year-old girl said with tears as she clenched Orion's shirt sleeves. "Saria, you will see your brother soon. Don't worry..." An extremely handsome man said, patting his daughter's head. "Orion...we have a gift for you." "Gift ?" Orion asked with glistening eyes. Moving away from Orion, the mother smiled and took out a box from her pocket. Taking the box from his mother's hand, he opened it and saw a beautiful silver chained pendant with a metallic blue ring hanging on it. "I-It's for me...?" Orion asked as tears poured out. He was sad that his family left him alone for a week and happy that he got a gift.
Bang! "Kyaaa!" A girl's voice rang out as she saw Orion's right hand bleeding profusely. Orion looked behind him to see the leader with a gun, in his good right hand glaring at him. "Nobody touches him. He is mine." The leader spoke to his mates who were on the verge of shooting Orion. Ignoring him, Orion continued to walk toward the last part of his broken ring. Bang! Orion's left arm gave out but he still continued to walk. His pains dulled and on his mind now was just the memento of his family. Bang! Crash! Orion crashed on the ground as his left leg refused to budge. "Ah...ah...ah...ah...ah" Crawling on the ground, little by little he reached the second part of the ring and retrieved it. Turning his body around, he laid down on the ground while clenching on his chest the two parts of the broken ring with his left hand. "I...am...sorry...mom...dad...Saria..." Orion muttered and tears flowed out. "O-Orion..." Aura put her hand on her mouth and knelt on the ground lik
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“You had a tough day, Aita.”Selena said with a glare.They went back to the palace and the first person who welcomed Aita was Selena. She had an exhausted complexion but she still looked like a perfect princess. Her sapphire eyes were staring angrily at Aita and mostly the knights of Lunarstella. She told them to look after Aita so he wouldn’t do anything, threatening their truce, but they couldn’t do anything. They all averted their faces in shame. They couldn’t tell that Aita at that time was too scary to speak to. More than that, they were also angry at Rex and the others for what they had done.“...”Aita stared at Selena. Her face overlapped with the mature Selena of the recording. Her tears, her sad expression, her helplessness, everything overlapped with the current Selena. He couldn’t understand why that woman he didn’t know at all was making his emotions stir that much. He cared for Selena Luna Lunarstella, but not her great-great-aunt.“Aita?”Selena called out to Aita sinc
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“I am going with the name of Selena Mona Lunarstella. The First Princess of the Great Lunarstella Empire.” Her domineering voice echoed. Looking at her, Aita started to understand why she was hailed as a heroine back then and even now. He could understand how she alone was able to defend Lunarstella from enemies everywhere. She really had the aura of a leader. “I do not know who you are, but I know that you are here with the help of my blood. How many years had gone since the war ? I just hold the hope that my Empire is still there flourishing like it should…” She said in a nostalgic tone. “You, who discovered my tomb. I am going to reveal what I discovered in the hope that you are my blood, or at least someone of my Empire. I gave my spear to my brother so he could give it to his children. I engraved runes on my spear that will serve as key to entering this place when the time will come. I transmitted this emplacement to my brother before leaving the Empire forever.” Selena spoke
“I did nothing! B-Believe me, please!”Elena’s quivering voice kept ringing in the hall. She was speaking to Aita, who was standing, looking at his surroundings. He didn’t seem to care about Elena’s words. Stretching his limbs for a minute, he removed his shirt.“Ah! W-What are you doing, Lord Aita?!”Elena turned her head away with a flushed face.Aita ignored her and took out a new white shirt and put in on while making sure to hide his pendant so Elena wouldn’t see it. He glanced at the ground and saw the silver spear. Stooping down, he took the spear. As usual, it looked like a newly crafted spear as its silver color shone with purity. Swinging the spear a few times, he turned around. Elena was looking at him nervously.“How long have I been out?”He asked. Vivid memories of Artemis were still present in his mind. Memories he shouldn’t have as he wasn’t even born at that moment. Why had he the memories of other people? Anyway, it felt like years had passed, so he wanted to know.