176 Assassination attempt.

Leaving the jewellery shop, Nyx thought about what else is left for her to do.

Thinking there's nothing else to do, Nyx shrugged before walking to leave the shopping centre.

Suddenly her phone started vibrating.

Taking out her phone, Nyx picked up the call.

"'ey, vhen are you coming back?"

Hearing Ana's voice from the other side of the call, Nyx smiled.

"In a day or two, everything is finished here. I will spend some time with aunt Cassie before coming back home." Replied Nyx putting on an earbud.

She also notified Belford to come to pick her up as she is finished shopping.

"What, are you missing me?" Nyx teased Ana

"Yez, I'm mizzing you..."

As the two started to talk about their day, Nyx has already left the shopping centre.

Walking towards a corner, she waited for Belford to come.

A minute later, a silver sedan stopped in front of her.

Nyx furrowed her brows.

She doesn't recognise the car but thinking since it's a public parking stop-way in front of the shopping centre, someone might have called their driver or someone to pick them up.

Nyx was vigilant about possible kidnapping or anything so she kept her guard up.

As she was about to move to another place, Nyx saw the driver staring at her.

The look on the driver's eyes was way too familiar to Nyx.

Nyx was used to seeing that look every day in her previous life.

The look of fear and death.

The driver had a fearful expression on his face, he was sweating and his lips were trembling.

Alarm bells rang inside Nyx's mind.

'Not good!' Her instincts were telling her to run as far as she can.

Nyx dropped everything on her hands but her purse and the gift bag with the pendant.

She turned around and ran.

"EVERYONE RUN!!!" Nyx shouted as loud as she could.

She only made a few metres of distance from her previous position when the car exploded!

*BOOOOOOM*

~~~

"That's not how a troll looks like!" Aaron said looking at the scene, where Harry and Ron are fighting against the troll.

"What do you mean, look at it! If it's not a troll then what is it?" Li Hwa said turning to Aaron.

Ever since they started watching the movie, Aaron has been making comments about how funny the movie is and how nothing magical make sense.

"A troll doesn't look like that, trolls have horns and they look like humans but hideous. They got the height right but not all trolls are fat and dumb. They don't have skin colour like grey skin or blue skin either. That Hagrid looks like a troll than this troll. About that Hagrid, he's a half-giant right? His mother was a giant. How can a regular-size man make love to a giant? Imagining the scene of a regular-size man making love to a giant woman is so cursed that I will definitely have nightmares tonight. The regular-size man can fit into the giant woman's 'thing', how can the man have sex then?" Aaron said waving his hands around looking at the TV.

It's not his first time watching the movie series. Aaron still can't get used to the way this movie series has portrayed wizards, witches and the wizarding community.

"Well, it's fiction. Magic isn't real." Li Hwa chuckled hearing Aaron's explanation before she shrugged her shoulders.

Just as Aaron was about to refute Li Hwa's words of 'magic isn't real'.

He stopped.

"Aaarrggghhhh!" Aaron screamed in pain holding his head.

Li Hwa was startled by Aaron's painful scream.

"Aaron what happened!" She called out in distress.

"Aarrghhh!"

Li Hwa was panicking, she doesn't know what to do.

"What's wrong, Aaron! Tell me, what to do!!!"

Getting up, Li Hwa looked for her phone remembering something.

Ana once said to her that if anything happens to Aaron? Call her or any of the guys of the misfit group.

Li Hwa going through the contacts called Ana.

But Ana's phone number turned out busy.

Then she called Sabastian's number.

That too turned out busy.

She then called Erisviel's number.

Li Hwa turned around to see Aaron's condition.

When she looked at Aaron, she saw Aaron had his eyes closed and he was not moving.

An overwhelming feeling of dread dawned upon her!

Li Hwa's heart skipped a beat.

Thinking of the worst, she called out to Aaron.

"AARON!!!"

Seeing that Aaron was unresponsive, Li Hwa quickly checked on Aaron.

Finding out that Aaron has only fainted, she looked for her phone.

Seeing that the call to Erisviel went through, she put the phone near her ear.

"ERISVIEL! AAR-AARON I DON'T KNOW WE WERE WATCHING A MOVIE AND WERE TALKING SUDDENLY HE SCREAMED IN PAIN HOLDING HIS HEAD! HE IS UNCONSCIOUS AND NON-RESPONSIVE! PLEASE COME HELP, I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO!!!"

Tears were trickling down Li Hwa's cheeks, as she explained to Erisviel what happened.

"Li Hwa, don't worry. Calm down, stop panicking! Nothing will happen to Aaron. He will be fine!!! Help is on the way, just stay with him. Don't call the ambulance or anyone else besides the misfit gang. Li Hwa-" Erisviel tried to calm Li Hwa.

She is also feeling anxious but panicking will not do anything.

Erisviel stayed on call until helped arrived.

~~~

"Aurora are are you okay!!!" Takashi asked in concern.

Aurora was holding her head with both of her hands.

Her head is pounding like someone is hammering on her head.

She was talking with Takashi about his younger brother when suddenly she felt a sharp pain in her head.

The pain was intense, she doesn't know what caused it but she has a feeling that it's related to Nyx or Aaron because she can't contact both of them through the telepathic channel.

"I'm not fine... I'm sorry, I need to go Takashi!" Aurora said holding her head. She is feeling dizzy.

"Then let me help you! You're in no condition to walk, look at yourself. You're wobbling, can't even stand straight!"

Takashi said offering his help but Aurora declined.

"No... There are people nearby, my people will take care of me. I'll call you later Takashi but I need to go right now, I'm sorry!"

Aurora managed to send a text message to the team leader in charge of her security.

Soon 8-10 people in black suits arrived and escorted Aurora to their transport.

Inside an SUV, Aurora was trying to contact Aaron and others.

But everyone's phones were busy, which was very unusual for the misfit gang.

"I hope everything is fine..."

"Go to the headquarters, make sure they don't follow." Aurora instructed the team leader.

"Yes, ma'am!"

~~~

"Ughhh..." Sabastian groaned in pain.

"*Huff huff*" he was panting hard.

Sabastian was taking cover behind a flipped table.

He turned to his side and saw a little girl who was trembling and had tears in her eyes.

She was looking at Sabastian in horror.

"You- you- you-"

The little girl was so terrified that she was having trouble speaking.

"*Huff* Do-Don't worry. *huff* I'm fine, girly... *huff* This is nothing but a scratch! *huff* I want you to stay strong for me, can you do that?" Sabastian asked the little girl.

The girl already saw her parents die in front of her, she was clinging to Sabastian like, he too will disappear if she let Sabastian go.

The little girl looked into Sabastian's eyes before she nodded.

Sabastian turning away from the girl looked down and saw a bloody mess on his clothes.

'Fu*k, that's bad!'

Today, Sabastian finally understood the true meaning of his 'sword'.

'It is hard to protect something or someone than destroy something or kill someone. Is that it, Artoria?' Sabastian said in his mind.

'The heavy responsibility and burden that comes with it, is unbearable. But that's what it makes you stronger, ah I see. A sword that only knows how to kill won't ever be able to protect anything...'

He finally understood why he was always the weaker one between the two of them.

"I'm not going to die!" Sabastian tried to get up.

"I just need to run until help arrives!"

Taking the gun on his side he checked how many bullets that the gun has left.

'3? That's more than enough.' Sabastian thought in his mind.

He turned to the girl by his side.

"Get ready, we are going to run again!" Sabastian said to the girl.

The girl nodded hearing Sabastian and got ready.

Sabastian can see the people who attacked him were here.

They were approaching their location.

Taking a deep breath, Sabastian got up and shot at them.

he then kicked the table in front of him before shooting at the fire extinguisher nearby.

Sabastian took the girl and dashed out of the store through the back.

He only needs to buy time before Zulkernyn comes to save him from the people who are after him.