Marshal's House

I explain everyone about what had happened back there and how my mother pushed me through that portal. "So...How was it...?" Cyan asks. "How was what?" I ask. "I saw you back then when you dropped out of nowhere in front of the principal, so...I was wondering, how it feels travelling through a magical portal rather then an artificial one..." Cyan says. "I don't know, it all happened so quickly that I don't know what I should say about the portal's feel." I say. Cyan sighs. "Whatever."

"I can't believe that the class I hate the most is the one I am with right now." Sean says. "Yeah, we are acting like we are friends." Casey says. "To be honest, I am only here because of your vice-captain. His a cool guy you know." Sean says looking away from Casey. "Really now? Dude you have been sitting with us for the past 20 minutes." Luis says. "How much time will it take to get to my house?" I ask Jessica. "Just about 3 more hours. "Jeez, I am going to take a nap you know. Wake me up when we reach there." Cyan seems very calm about this situation. "That's a surprise, normally she would be like, '3 HOURS THAT'S FUCKING RIDICULOUS' But she's very calm right now." Sean says.

"It's because she's comfortable right now that she's acting calmly." Ilora says as she keeps looking out of the window. "Huh?" We all look confused. The water twins surely know each other pretty well I am guessing. Guess I will take a nap too.

3 hours later,

I am woken up by Mr. Daniel. "Get up sleepy heads." Mr. Daniel says to us. Guess everyone in the car was sleeping. Oh Cyan is sleeping on my lap and Ilora on my shoulder...

"AHHHHH!!!!" I am pretty sure everyone heard the scream. "What's the fuss about?" Cyan wakes up drooling on my pants. She blinks twice looking at me. Her face turns red...She looks angry at the same time. What's this menacing aura I am feeling behind me?

Several minutes later,

"His a pervert!" Ilora says. "I totally agree with you big sis." Cyan says. But what did I do? What kind of bullshit is this? I facepalm myself.

Anyways, I need to get back to concentrating what's in front of me. "I am guessing this is your house." Mr. Daniel says as I look towards my house. "Yes, this where...My mother was when I last saw her." I say. Everyone arrives behind us. "Your mother was here huh?" Jessica asks. "I wonder what kind of trouble Ms. Marshal got herself into. Only if...I could have helped her somehow..." Jessica looks disappointed in herself. "It's not a big deal." I say. She's taking too much on herself.

"Let's go inside, it doesn't seem that I can sense any kind of strange mana around here." Mr. Daniel says. "Understood!" We all say. I open the door to my house. As soon as I step into my house, it was nothing but complete silence filled with darkness. I need to put the lights on. I try switch on the light but...It's already been a month since we last paid for our electricity bill. Guess no light then. "Well, at least we know you didn't waste your money paying bills." Sean says. "Yeah, yeah..." We start moving in.

The blood outside the kitchen. "That was where I first saw blood and then ran right into the kitchen." I say. "Alright, let's all move into the kitchen." Mr. Daniel says as Jessica turns on her torch. We move into the kitchen and it's complete darkness. Thankfully, Jessica had her torch and it was easy to find a window. I open the window and we get somewhat of sunlight from the outside. There is blood all over near the kitchen sink. "That's where she teleported me." I say. "Hmm..." Mr. Daniel seems to be thinking. "Spread out in groups and search the house, we may be able to find something." Mr. Daniel says. It's convenient to have 8 people with us, everyone takes two rooms. Me and Mr. Daniel search for something in the kitchen.

We search every nook and cranny and we still couldn't find anything in the kitchen. Mr. Daniel seems suspicious about something. "Is something bothering you Mr. Daniel?" I ask. "It's just...It doesn't feel right...Why would there only be blood in this much of area?" Mr. Daniel says. "It's almost as if, she somehow stopped the blood from bleeding or rather teleported here. I know she is a spatial magic user so it makes sense that she could teleport but...With the amount blood and the magic already used on you, it would have been tough even for her to even use any more mana. Especially, with pin point accuracy." Mr. Daniel continues. "So what your saying is...These people...They wanted my mother alive?" I ask. "I guess so...I wonder myself...If they wanted her alive, 'why?' that would be the question? And if not then how did she stop bleeding and if she's dead...Where did her body go...Only if we could find a lead on something..." Mr. Daniel says.

"TEACHER!!!" Luis calls for Mr. Daniel. Seems like he found something. We rush towards him. We reach mom's room and then what we saw was completely baffling... "A secret passageway...Where does this lead?" Mr. Daniel says. I look at Mr. Daniel and we nod at each other. We understand that we must go deeper into the passageway to find more about mom.

After a while, everyone gathered in mom's room. "You all stay here, I, Luis and Henry will go down this way." Mr. Daniel says. Everyone agrees. Mr. Daniel gets a torch from Jessica. She seemed to have a spare one. We all begin to make our way down after that.

There were stairways that lead down the passage. I wonder what mother kept in here...We finally make it down to through the stairs. We immediately cover our noses as this place reeks of smell. "So...Where are we exactly?" Luis asks as Mr. Daniel flashes around this dark open space we are at. I have an idea. "I know this smell..." Mr. Daniel says. He becomes more cautious about this place. I create a bulb which lights up the place.

Our eyes widen from what we had discovered down here...No wonder this place reeked with bad odour. "I knew it...This place...It's some kind of torture chamber...So many dead bodies...A torture chair which cuts your fingers off...A torture needle which slowly pierces through your guts...And I don't know how many more tools this woman had here..." Mr. Daniel says looking at all the torture devices implemented here. "Hey Henry...What kind of crazy woman was your mother...?" Mr. Daniel asks me.