Green and Blue | Part 4

When Callista looked back Ivan's eyes sparked and turned yellow as lightning flickered in his palms with the clouds darkening above him. It was not like she didn't care about him it's just he's strong and won't be able to be defeated easily but also wanted him to get hurt, of course.

It was like Ignis had read her mind because he sighed "Ignis, do you think you're able to defeat her on your own?" she suddenly asked "Don't tell me you're going to push all the work at me after you ran so confidently like that?" he raised a brow.

"It's not like that. It's just I.." she winced and automatically touched her throat when she felt something choking her. Ignis quickly understood that it was happening again and quickly nodded.

"I guess I can, but it will be hard" he truthfully said because he wasn't allowed to use that. "That will be alright," she said "I can at least back you up from here," she said "I see. Then I'm off," he said as she stared at his retreating back. She clicked her tongue as she leaned down and coughed blood dropping down the ground.

She was pissed.

Spirits are her creation thus she wasn't able to touch even a strand of hair. She took deep breathes to calm herself and her eyes glowed with their usual color saying that she had successfully put the protection magic in Ignis. Then suddenly, the ground shook as an explosion was seen a few meters away from her and she prayed that Ignis would be okay.

On the other hand, the ground cracked below Ignis's feet. A white ball with a mix of black appeared on his palm as he threw it at the poisonous tree a few meters away from him. Once the white ball went through the leaves, an explosion happened and nearly destroyed the tree. Ignis looked down at his palm and opened and closed it "I see. So that much power isn't enough" he said to himself while Callista was amazed at what he just witnessed.

Her Ignis is something else!

It seemed like he had angered the woman as the leaves that were attacking them that were like blades earlier stopped and flew in groups in different places and began moving simultaneously and made a whirlwind. Huge veins began growing from the ground and attacked anyone who was near.

"Attention, all faculty staff! Please evacuate the students safely outside the school grounds!"

Professor Calvin's boomed in the speakers so Callista was distracted for a moment that she didn't notice the vein that grew near her and was about to attack her. When Callista was able to sense this it was already ready to attack, she had two choices, either set it on fire or teleport away.

She was not that good in elemental arcane and might set the whole garden on fire, so choice A is a big no. Teleporting is a big no either as she didn't like to feel that teleportation sickness again.

She doesn't have a choice but accept the attack, doesn't she? She swears that she would hit that woman at least once. She blankly stared at it as she didn't care about the physical pain when something suddenly stabbed through it.

It didn't give it time to regenerate as continuous attacks from what she thought was a diamond stabbed into it and destroyed it into pieces. Callista was baffled at this sudden situation and turned around to see where that attack came from.

"Oh?" Her head tilted when she saw who it was "You came back earlier than I expected" she said and noticed the difference from when she last saw them "With a whole stronger aura, I see" she smiled.

"It's nice to see you again, Callista," Jackson said with a smile with diamond shards floating around her "It seemed like Hugo kept you busy, huh? Explains why you didn't send me a letter after a month," she said and walked towards them. She knew without them telling her.

Jackson was sitting in his wheelchair but rather than the boy who wouldn't even hurt a fly has now learned a new ability. It seems like Hugo had taken him in as an apprentice.

As for Jake, he was standing beside Jackson with his usual grumpy look but she could see the earring hanging in his right ear, the gold hanging shone underneath the sunlight. His eyes showed a beautiful dark shade of purple eyes but she still thinks that Ignis's beautiful clear purple eyes were still the prettiest.

"And oh?" she looked at the man Jake was holding into "It seemed like you brought Hugo with you. That's a bizarre sight to look at considering how he hadn't left that mountain for fifteen years" she blinked and looked at the blood soaking his shirt

"And not in a good shape either", she added "You brat. You're continuing your dirty mouth even after seeing it?!" Hugo exclaimed with a wince so she rolled her eyes "Geez, you're as loud as ever old man" she complained "Callista, I'm sorry if I'm asking you for a favor after we just arrived but please!" Jackson bowed his head again.

"Please, save my Master!" he pleaded. She stared at him for a few seconds before sighing "Even how much you grew stronger you are still the same person who would easily bow to anyone" she said and walked forward.

"I'm surprised that Jake is not sick of you," she said "Why you..! I haven't spoken because you'll just piss me off but don't expect I'll let this slide!" Jake exclaimed as he glared at her "Whatever you say" she said and glanced at Jackson as she kneeled in front of Hugo.

"You should tell me the story of your journey after this," she said making Jackson smile understanding fully well what she meant. Callista studied Hugo's injury making a smirk appear on her face "Sebastian, that fucking bastard.." she muttered and looked up at Jake.

"Let me guess, an alchemist attacked you," she said and stood up "How did you know?" Jackson asked in confusion and amazement "It's not that hard to know. All alchemist has the same magic scent and it stinks" she said and softly sneezed.

"That's right. It was a sudden attack" Jake nodded "We were meant to stay at the mountain for another month when a boy appeared wearing a mask. He suddenly attacked us but targeted Sir Hugo because he was the only one who stabbed him with gold blades. We were lucky that we were able to escape when I quickly teleported us here" he explained.

"A boy?" she asked "Yeah. About 10 years old. He has black hair and he was a silver alchemist, he only used a silver coin to attack us" Jackson said "But what happened here? It's only been a month but the Academy is already a mess" Jake said as he looked around.

"It wasn't originally like this. I'll explain later" she said and looked down when Hugo grunted in pain "Oh, right. I forgot about you" she chuckled "You brat" Hugo glared but she ignored it. Callista kneeled again and placed her palm in front of his wound, a black shadow came out of his wound and formed a small ball in her palm.

Hugo who had felt that burning sensation that felt like his whole body was on fire sighed in relief when it disappeared but was replaced by a bearable pain from the stab wound.

"That should do it," she said and stood up and closed her hand as if crumpling a piece of paper "What did you do?" Jackson asked in confusion as he stared at her hand "That's something you should find out yourself" she said as an arcane circle appeared by her side as her hand went through it as if looking for something inside a bag.

"Here it is," she said and retracted her hand to show medicine and a bandage "Catch" she threw it towards Jake who caught it "You'll be able to treat him with that," she said and looked at Hugo who was putting pressure on his wound.

"I must say, old man. I didn't expect you to get weak after a few years of not seeing each other and got defeated by a ten years old kid" she teasingly smirked "Why you..!" Hugo enraged when he heard that "Just see, once I get healed! I'll hit you in the head, you fucking brat!" Hugo was continuously cursing at her nonstop that already became a normal occasion for Callista.

"Wendy" she called as the red butterfly appeared beside her "Find Ignis and see if he has any message" her wings fluttered as she flew away.

It seems like everything is more complicated than she thought.