Catastrophe: Flame Part 2

"Who are you then?" I snapped my fingers again and a big fire is on my hand.

He held my hand and our fire dies.

"See you around." He kissed my knuckles and turn back. I shook my head and run to the quarters.

I enter the quarters without glancing at their stares. I jog on the corridor to my room and turn on the iPod on the music box. Now playing is Taylor Swift's 'I'm Only Me When I'm with you'. I remove my shirt as I enter the bathroom. I throw all my clothes on the laundry basket and turn on the faucet on the bathtub.

I pour the liquid soap. It is impatient waiting for it to fill the tub so I open the faucet on the sink and I gently waved my hand as the water followed my move. It went to the bathtub. I turned it off when it is enough. I dipped my feet on the tub and sit there and lean with a satisfied sigh.

"Catastrophe!" Marissa calls and she peeked in the bathroom where I am. "Oh, there you are." Good thing that I was covered in bubbles. "So, I heard that my brother taught you how to handle the sword."

"Hmm," I respond.

"He's not harassing you, isn't he?"

"Not at all," I answer monotonously. She laughed at me.

"Just tell me if he's harassing you." I heard Eliza's voice and she leans on the other side of the door frame.

"Why are you all gathered here while watching my bathing?" I asked them. They laugh.

"It is nearly time for dinner. We need to eat together. Andrew's request." Eliza answers with a little laugh.

"I will be there in thirty minutes," I answer.

"Alright," Eliza said. "Oh, by the way, I had brought you a dress for tomorrow's Night Ball."

"What's the occasion?" I asked.

"Tomorrow is the opening for the 145th anniversary of Mystical Academy." Marissa answers. "Since this is your first time to celebrate with us in the Mystical Academy, Eliza had brought you a very beautiful dress. Also, someone asked to be your date."

"And who would that be?" I asked as I pick my phone from the stool near the tub. I check the message from George. He's doing fine in Italy for now.

"He's a very handsome one," Eliza said with those dreamy eyes. She looked creepy to me. When she caught me looking at her. She grimaced at me. "Don't give me that look. He's not a psychopath. He's handsome and sexy. You will meet him soon."

"Alright, if you say so. But I don't like dating." I said it bluntly. My phone rings and it was Jake who's calling. Why is he calling now? I thought that Andrew had hypnotized him already not to call me ever again.

"Okay, enjoy your hot bath," Marissa said. She closed the door and I answer the call.

"Yes?"

"Hey, C." he greets.

"What is it now, Jake?"

"I just missed you. Hey, tomorrow is my birthday, wouldn't you come back to our town?"

"No. Tomorrow we have a celebration too and I am too busy. So please, stop calling me. Why won't you delete my number and I delete yours? I will block your number for now."

I hang up and I did block his number. I put back my phone on the stool and lean my head on the air neck pillow. I furrowed when there's another knock on the door. The door slightly opens.

"Dressed up in five minutes, we need to talk." It sounds like a man. Is it Andrew?

"I am tired. Why wouldn't you leave me alone?" I asked frankly.

"There is another incident. You have to see this," I immediately pull the towel and stood and I wrapped it around my body.

It only takes three minutes to dress up and I and Andrew run to where students are gathered. Andrew shouts telling them to move away. They do and in the middle of the corridor is a body of a man wearing all black. He was lying on his blood. His eyes and nose are covered in the hood that he's wearing. His neck is wreck like some animal had attacked him.

I look at the dagger that he is holding. It was familiar to me. It is used on killing me. I didn't notice that I was already walking closer to the body. I wished that I killed him with my own hands. Nick duck down and pull the hood away from the face and I wasn't wrong. He looked up at me.

"Go back to your rooms!" Patrick ordered.

"You know this guy?" My mentor asked me.

"Yes. He's one of the men who attacked our house and tried to kill me." I told him.

"Flame." He called someone that is named Flame and the body of a man started burning. Nick took the dagger from the man using his handkerchief. He studied the dagger. "This is Era's gold and steel." He spoke to the man on the dark corner. The man walks as his shoes click on the floor.

"I don't have any idea about that, Nick." I look into the young man's attractive face. He looked straight to me with a lopsided smile. "What do you think this man from Era is doing here, Eliza?" he asked her. Eliza shook her head and narrow her eyes on the man's burning body.

"They shouldn't be here. If it is from Era why an Aēr assassin would be here with the Era's steel?"

"What are they talking about?" I asked Marissa who is beside me.

"They are talking about the Kingdom in their world."

I nod. I look outside to see a pair of blue eyes on the dark woods. Is that beast outside protecting me?

"You shouldn't burn his body here!" The Headmistress Leona scowls as she is walking toward us. She stopped when she looked at the burning body and looked at the dagger that Nick is holding. She gasped. "Oh my…" she was too surprised that makes me curious why she's acting that way. "Why is an Aērien here in the human's world?" she asked.

"Hey, I should ask the same thing too, step-sister."

"Oh, Flame." She said his name mockingly. So, Leona and Flame are step-siblings. I need to take time to smirk at my mind. I can use Flame to get to my plan. What's the plan?

The plan should be a secret for now.