A few hours after their conversations with their parents, the three friends scheduled a conference call to plan how to bring an end to the Enlightener's Club. They believed that Legion created the group in order to recruit these innocent students from New World High.
So, what do you guys suppose we should do? I'm telling you, if we allow this to go on any longer, the New World will be left in ruins, and not only New World High! " "I agree," Elena said, supporting But you all know we cannot go and say 'hello Perry, we've come to crush the party'. It doesn't work that way. We'll need a disguise, or ears on the inside. " "About ears on the inside, I think I can do that." Jason chipped in, " I mean, she doesn't know that I can shape shift, does she?" "And her baby demons are too dumb to recognize it too. Come to think of it, what if they know it's you? I mean, spirits can see spiritual stuff, right? " Everyone went quiet for a few seconds at what Aires asked. A feeling of concern began to be directed at Jason. I've heard this saying that a witch knows a fellow witch when she sees her. Elena replied, "But I think it's just some made-up crap." Jason said with a laugh. Aires began to feel concerned for her male friend. She knew he was the type that would make a joke about important things instead of, well, taking them more seriously. "I'm our best option right now," Jason insisted. "They didn't realize a swap the first time; they won't notice it this time either." Okay, Jase, I'm just being careful. I wouldn't want anything to happen to you, "Aires replied. As she took the phone off her cheek, she whispered a prayer, "Please help us God," and restored the phone to her ear.
"I had no idea my wife cared this much about me," Jason joked, "young man, don't push your luck!" Aires said, causing her friends to laugh. " But I'm honestly doing this; at least we should; it's what we have as an only plan," Jason persisted. "Okay dude, fine, you are." Elena replied. She then heard a knock on the door, so she jumped off the bed to go and see who was there. "Dad!" She shouted, wrapping her arms so tightly around him and doing the same in return. Elena's heart was excited, but she quickly remembered the vision she had seen a few weeks ago, in which her father became possessed, and the excitement began to fade. "You don't look so happy to see me, Ellie," he said,as her grip on him loosened and she took a step backwards, revealing the joy turned to tears. "What? "No! " She tried to defend herself, "Nobody gives a killer hug like that if not for the joy of missing you. I've missed you so much. " She hugged him again in order to not raise suspicions, but was she going to succeed in hiding her feelings of fear from him for long? "We miss you too, Mr. Morrison!" "Jason!" he shouted, ruining a father-daughter moment. "Is that Jason?" Elena's father asked, and she took the phone to his ear and said, "Who else would do that if not him? Buenos Aires is on the line too. "Hey young man, how is it going? Did you two take good care of my princess for me while I was away? "How are you doing?"Elena's father was like a friend and a father to the two; he could invite them over for dinner, give them words of advice to feed their curious minds, and even more, he took them out to the zoo and mall on holidays, so the connection existed strongly. "I'm fine, sir. We give thanks to God for bringing you home safely. Aires responded politely, "The Princess' babysitting was difficult this time, since she's growing fat by the second, thanks to us. That makes you owe a thousand dollars. " Jason joked, making everyone laugh. " Thanks for the prayer, and thank you both for taking care of her. I heard some things happened, but that's for later. I'll pay the thousand, but be sure to bring back a change of nine hundred ninety-D's. " Mr. Morrison replied and said good night to them all as he departed from the room for them to continue their conversation.
"So now, back to business." Aires prompted, "So now one way of getting information is through Jason, right?" "Yeah," they all agreed, "but we must also think about how we can catch up with class. We were missing for a week, "Elena said," I want to suggest that in order not to just sit back and leave it all on Jason, we can get another set of ears on the inside. We should befriend other members of the group and get more from them. By more, I mean not just the group's gossip but also notes of lessons they studied while we were on our magical honeymoon. " "Haha, you !" Aires laughed as she rested her head down on her pillow. "Really? Honeymoon for three is what you could come up with as a name for it. "You're right, El," she affirmed. "I think I'll pick Vanessa, the girl Jason impersonated." Elena announced, "She looks more... committed? Yeah, something like that, so I think I'm going with her. " "Wow!" "Good for you!" Aires zealously replied, "I'll monitor some of them and see whom I can befriend. Meanwhile, I'll be in contact with The Reformer. She didn't teach me how to drag those demons into the abyss. So I'll need you two to put in some effort to keep an eye on everything that goes on within the group. When the right time comes, we will intercept their plans and make sure to put them where they'll never return. " "Oi oi Cap," Jason teased, though he hadn't been paying attention, "I'm really sleepy. Can we continue tomorrow?" "Yeah, sure!" both Aires and Elena responded, "I think I'm tired too." Elena added, "Bye," they said to each other, bringing an end to an awkward day.
The three friends walked into the classroom, but they realized a meeting was being held in the front. Most of the people they had seen present at the Enlighteners' Club meeting a day ago were there, listening to what their leader, Perry, had to say. As the three drew closer, the loudness of her voice began to decrease, as though she didn't want them to hear anything. They pretended to have heard nothing, so as they passed by the gathered crowd of ten, they wished them a good morning and went on to grab their seats. As they sat and relaxed, Aires shifted her seat to the side to face Elena and told her what she heard as they passed by. "She said the group would be legal today, and that they'd get a reply from the principal in a few hours." "How did you hear all that?" Elena replied, quite amazed. Aires defended: "We passed by them, I slowed down, and even when she lowered her voice, I was paying attention to her lips and reading every word that fell out," Aires defended. "Well, it appears that doomsday is approaching at breakneck speed." Elena replied. "We'll be there to welcome it." As they kept on talking, the noise in the atmosphere slowly died down and everyone's focus turned towards the visitor they had, the Principal. "Good morning, Principal Flemming!" The students greeted her as she took her stand in the front. "Good morning, students," she greeted in return. "I hope you're all fine." You must be wondering why I'm here so early; it's not something you see every day. A couple of days ago, I was in my office when I heard a knock on the door. I wasn't sure what to expect when I saw Perry walk in. When the conversation started, I heard her wanting to start a group for students to express themselves, to build their confidence, to grow the urge to shape the society they wish to see and partake in leadership. Isn't that magnificent? It's about time we let you students bring up something, something outside the traditional football team, cheer leading, and others, something out of your fresh minds. "Get over here, Perry," she walked over to her side, and she wrapped her arms around her, "that was brave, my child, trust me I don't know how you're going to pull this off, but I don't want to interfere either. I'll only interfere when it's against school principles. But I'm here to say "Congrats! The Enlightener's Club has been approved. I'm rooting for you. " " Thank you, Ma'am," she responded politely, "It will be like nothing you have ever seen. We will take over the school, the neighborhood, and make you proud. " "Wow, that sounds revolutionary!" Mrs. Flemmings said with a fond look. Have a nice day you all," she said with burgeoning excitement, "and I hope you help the Enlighteners' Club grow for the better of all of us. "Study hard." With smiles all over her face, she departed the class. "Well, well, well, it looks like the sun has finally set," each of the three friends heard Perry leer in their heads. "The clock has started ticking," she added, as she grinned in the front. The three friends were the only ones who could hear her, and each one of them was covered in chills, so Aires looked over her shoulders and, in a shuddering voice, she asked Elena, "Did you hear what I heard?" "Oh I did, but chillax girl, let's have a soda. She can brag all she wants, but we won't back down. "We'll drag each one of them back to hell, where they belong," Elena assured.
Though it had a weird beginning, the rest of the day went quite well. Elena was able to befriend Vanessa. It turned out she was the friendly type, so they got along well. Somehow, Elena gained her trust in just a few hours of getting to know each other, and she agreed to go home with Elena to give her the notes to copy. Aires' catch was Nella Stetson, a girl who happened to be a former best friend of Perry's. According to the girl, they broke up because Perry tried flirting with her man. To cut it short, things got back to normal when Perry returned to school last Thursday and introduced the idea of helping people develop themselves. That sounded fascinating, and she trusted that Perry had changed. Aires badly wanted to say, "You have no idea the demon she has become," but to keep things going smoothly, she played along like she knew nothing. On the other hand, Jason went on a hunt for someone who was far from the General Arts class. Since most people had no idea about the existence of the new club, he went to the business class and befriended Eliot, an eighteen-year-old who was self-reserved. The boy was too quiet and innocent to even hurt a fly. By befriending Eliot, Jason started without hesitation to learn a few things about him in order to be able to imitate his every action when he transforms into him. After school, Jason immediately slipped into the men's washroom and shifted into Eliot. He then met the secretary of The Enlightener's Club and signed up to become a member. His phone number was taken, and he was informed to wait for the next exclusive meeting, which was going to be held later after school at Perry's house. As soon as he left, he called both Aires and Elena to inform them where he was going to be later after school. He then informed them to look for him if by eight he had not texted.
Later, at six thirty, each of the three got to work. Aires informed her mother that she was to go meet up with The Reformer and learn everything regarding how to drag the spirits into the abyss using the book she had been given. She had dinner and went upstairs to her room, sat in the middle of the bed, crossed her legs like a monk, and began whispering certain lines from the books she had read during her boring training where she had to memorize spells.
AIRES' PERSPECTIVE.
I had dinner at the earliest, and at about six thirty I went upstairs to speak with The Reformer. In the room, I sat in the middle of the bed, crossing my legs like a monk, and sat there quiet, meditating to gain complete focus in order to get my imagination straight and not end up slapping my body on the ground like last Sunday. As I began to recall what I learned, I felt a strong force around me, causing my room to grow darker and colder. Even though I had turned the lights on and shut the windows too, the curtains started to tremble, moving in the direction of a whirlwind that came out of nowhere. Paranormal slipped out of my bag and suspended itself in front of me. I did not know what was happening, but it caused the hairs on my arms to stand erect, and my body began to shiver. I started to hear voices all around me, and the book began to flip pages, each one showing pictures that were in motion. I saw my school on one page as it flipped by. The next were pictures of students chanting at the two teams. One was our school team, and the other was a team I had no idea about. All of a sudden, the page flipped again. This time I noticed the day growing dark, but I could see on the wrist of one student that the watch was telling a time of two thirty. Yet again, another page flipped and what I saw was Perry. She had blood on her lips and her dress was stained with dirt and blood. Once more, the book flipped, and this time there was a picture of a circle in the center of the football field, but it was very wide. Then I began to hear voices from nowhere and everywhere, saying, "Master the spell, Master it!" Then I saw the demons coming out of all the people they had possessed in great haste and force, but as they did, the bodies of the people they had possessed burst open, leaving blood spilling everywhere. It was an awful sight to behold. I could not watch any longer, so I shut my eyes to escape. A few seconds later, I felt the atmosphere around me grow calmer and quieter. Then I heard the soothing voice of The Reformer "Are you going to just stand there?" She asked. The never-ending smile was on her face again, looking as beautiful as always. "What on earth was that ? You saw it too, didn't you? Seat! " I clapped, calling out a seat out of nowhere. A little trick I learnt from her "Oh that?" She said, "That was just a booster, it's how this war will end." "And we all die." I speculated, "Not really, some things are not for you to know, but here is a tip for you. In just a little while, one of you is going to fall. But as to which one of you it is going to be, well, it's not for you to know. " She announced, "I felt an immediate sharp ache in my stomach, and fear gripped me." "If you were trying to speak in parables, trust me, you failed because it's in plain language," I replied, trying to relieve myself from the fear that I'm covered in. " Here's one for you," she commenced, "What if the beloved father has a past never addressed, and he is to take up a quest in these last days when or after a best friend is stuck in the devil's claws?" The light blinked as she mentioned the last two words, then I saw another vision. A man crying hard. He seemed to be moving up and down, trying to come to a conclusion on something, but he was confused. He aligned himself with the legion, and just as they were about to attack, the vision stopped and I fell back into my seat.I won't ask you the meaning; I don't want to know something which I will have to keep as a secret to myself," I replied, bemusedly, "but I need your help. Please teach me how to drag them back into the abyss." "It's not difficult," she affirmed, "I'll teach you. It's just a few lines, but if you want to use it, make sure your target is in sight and within the circle." "Err, which circle are we talking about here?" "There's a circle, representing the sun. It has six ears, like the rays of a mid-day sun. "You must make your target stand in it and say the words without doubting even one word, without a shiver, and you will succeed," she explained. The spell will be written for you, but memorize it because your friend will need your help or else." or what? " "I'm afraid he or she will die." "Which of them?" "You ask too many questions at the same time, you will know when it's time, but the countdown has begun," eye ordered, "no I persisted," "you're not here," she whispered, and immediately I felt my body pressed against a mattress, and I looked over my shoulder and groaned when I realized I was back in my room.
JASON'S P.O.VAn hour after signing up to become a member of the club, I received a message which said that the venue for the meeting was no longer Perry's house but the second floor of a hotel that was about twenty minutes away. I grabbed a black hoodie and a pair of gloves for weather protection, a black pair of trousers and black sneakers, then I went downstairs to have dinner. When asked where I was headed for the night, I just said, "to a meeting. We've got a new club going on, and you guys are going to love it. It will be announced at the PTA this coming Sunday . I should be home by eight, but if I'm not, call me. " I had my breakfast in haste, and almost choked when I was asked "At school?" by my Dad. "Not really," I replied, "the hotel is twenty minutes away, directly across from the gymnasium." "A student meeting in a hotel?" "Are you crazy, Jason?" his dad asks with a sigh of irritation. "Dad, I swear I thought the same, but here," I said, showing them both the message I rec
Sirens filled the entire neighborhood, they could be heard from at least a one-mile distance, the colors, red and blue, were swimming in the shadows and everywhere as the three friends drove through the crowd, hoping that Jason was still alive, and even if he had been possessed it was fine, because there was hope that he could be freed from the possession. When they drew closer to the hotel which had been utterly destroyed, they started questioning the policemen and the fire fighters if there were any deaths, but the good news was that there were only injuries. Aires recognized a woman she had seen in an earlier vision while they were at the campsite, just like she had seen, the woman held a baby wrapped in a white linen clothe, so she got closer to her and asked "Did you see what happened? Everything I mean" the poor woman shivering from fear replied, "Yes, I did. There were people not older than you. Do you know them? The boy... ... he looked like a good person, but it's his fault t
Sweaters of various varieties overwhelmed the school, as a fairly surprising cold morning welcomed the students of New World High School. Serious looking faces were all over the place, everybody was eager to get to class for warmth, however among the classification of serious appearances emerged a new sight, Perry and Jason snickering as they strolled next to each other to class. "Wow that is something you don't see consistently " Aires and Elena shared with one another when they saw where all the chuckling was coming from, "we ought to presumably become acclimated to this, cos we may be seeing it a ton from now" Aires moaned, speeding up to cruise them by, yet right when she drew nearer Jason got her in her tracks, pulled her nearer and inquired as to why she claimed not to have seen him, "wow that is masculine my companion!" Perry remarked, "Please accept my apologies" Aires apologize "I didn't see you, just got a ton at the forefront of my thoughts recently" "Aires hold up" Elena y
School was finally over for the day, Aires, Elena, Vanessa and Jason decided to walk home together like they usually do so that Jason, or the new him will not get suspicious or go psycho. Elena trying to break the silence as they walked, started a conversation about a holiday she had spent with Aires and Jason together with her father. They had visited the new Chinese Mall on the day of it's opening, and decided to set a record of being the first to taste every food their restaurant had to offer. "Yo Aires let's tease this guy a lil, do you remember when he mistook the fried frog for a chicken.? " They all burst into laughter when Elena brought it up, "I knew they were frogs immediately I remembered chickens couldn't be this smallish even to a pandemic of shrinking" Aires added to the laughter party, Jason just stood there, looking at them in the dumbest way possible, but his three companions pretended it was not weird at all for him not to be laughing at something so funny as that. "
Mr Morrison's initial plan was to visit the park with the friends and at sundown he'd surprise them with tickets to go see the new Black Panther movie, little did he know that fate had its own plans. After his conversation with Jason which he told no one what it was about, his mood swung, even though he attributed it to a headache which he had began to feel after that nearly half an hour meeting, he was quiet and only said "I don't think I feel so good" when he was asked "What's wrong?" by his caring wife. "Are you sure?" She pressed, "Nothing, it's just this sharp pain, lingering in my head" turning towards the friends, he lowered his brows and said " Will it be okay if we do it at the end of the school games? It's being held in your school right?" "Yeah" they responded, all but Aires and Mrs. Morrison knew what was really wrong with him "Ouch I thought we were going out today, I got my dancing boots on" Aires joked "I know honey, can we do it some other time? Like, after the games at
During breakfast at school the next day, when Aires and company except Jason, had barely tasted what they were given to eat, Aires told them about the dream she had seen and how she was confused whether it was just a dream or a dream telepathy. When Elena heard about the safe house, she also revealed what she had dream about on that same night. "I think it's a dream telepathy, cos I was given the other piece you weren't" she said "around eleven last night I woke up to drink some water cos I felt a headache. When I came back to bed and fell asleep, I had a dream, in it was my father, he told me he was going to show me a place where we were to deliver our friend, he said we had only one chance and if we failed we never will be able to meet him again. We got into a car and drove off to the church twenty minutes away from here. Next the church was a new house, I call it new because the painting looked fresh. He got out of the car and gave me a key and kept a set for himself then we went in
It felt like Friday was never coming for the friends who were anxious to see their male best friend brought back to fit their description of 'normal state'. Well, it finally came, just as planned the day before, Elena and Vanessa were absent and just like Aires was expecting, the demon in Jason would do everything to impersonate him at a hundred percent, he came to cheer her up by keeping her company until the hour struck for the meeting when his job to apprehend Aires, was cutout for him.When the time had finally come, Aires noticed his switch from brown pupil to red in an almost unnoticeable haste, she knew she had to make her move. There in the corner where they had been sitting alone for nearly fifteen minutes to digest their breakfast at least a little before training session in preparation for the upcoming inter-schools event, Aires decided to speak to his heart, by so doing she had the hope of connecting with him, earning his trust and weakening his hardened heart. She cupped h
During Sportfest every year, magazines containing information about the Sportfest are distributed to all parts of Rocksville to remind people who already know about this event, that it is time to come together, to those who are new to Rocksville like Aires and her mother, these magazines are a way of kindling their heart's to engage in this auspicious occasion which brings the entire town together. On that very year when for the first time ever Sportfest was going to be held in New World High, magazines came out a little late, about two days before the Sportfest. Aires got one to share with her mother on the Monday, which was two days before the event commenced, during diner. She took it upon herself to read it out to her, while they waited for the food to cool down, 'Sportfest' the first page read 'comes once every year. It is characterized by sporting events of all kinds. During this period, every high school student in any school within Rocksville is expected to participate to bring