Board Thread:Short Stories and Fanfictions/@comment-44483614-20191209065030/@comment-44483614-20191223064648

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Chapter 3

No! No! No! This could not be happening. Sophie felt tears slip from her red eyes, and she looked away from Elwin.

“His mind…” Elwin nodded, giving Keefe another sedative.

“I’m so sorry Sophie.” Sophie ran out of the room, needing someone to be with. She needed to talk to someone. She hailed Dex.

“Hey Sophie! Wait did something bad happen?” Dex asked after seeing the state of herself. Sophie nodded, wiping her tears from her eyes.

“Keefe… his mind broke!” She whimpered loudly, and Dex looked surprised.

“R-Really?” His voice shook of desperation for her to tell him it was a lie, or that it wasn’t:t as bad as it seemed.

“Really.” Sophie found herself starting to sob again, not wanting to face the reality of things. Dex looked conceded and told her,

“I need to think. Bye Sophie.” He left with tears in his eyes. Sophie assumed he spread word of the event, because when everyone was at Everglen the next day, no one said a word about Keefe. Everyone seemed solemn, even Grady.

“How’s Keefester?” Ro asked quietly, breaking the silence.

“He will be declared dead in the next week.” Sophie choked out. This made the mood even more gloomy, and no one was brave enough to make it cheery again.

“I-I need to go. I’ll see you guys later.” Sophie rushed out of the room, tears slipping from her eyes.

“Foxfire.” Sophie managed to sob out at the Leapmaster 5000. Everything whizzed around her as she rushed over to the Healing Center, and when she got there, Keefe was thrashing. The sight brought Sophie to tears, and she broke down and sobbed. Elwin rushed over to Keefe, dark circles sticking out under his eyes.

“Sophie. This isn’t healthy.” Elwin scolded after giving Keefe a sedative.

“I know.” Everything went silent at that. Elwin sighed, messing up his hair up.

“How about this. I ban you from coming here for a week. Get some sleep. Plan things. Do whatever you and the Blackswan do. Just forget about Keefe alright?” Sophie shook her head fiercely.

“Then I guess I will just have Sandor lock you in your room for a week.” Elwin told her, and Sophie quickly agreed to the first deal. A week wasn’t that long, right? That's  what she told herself as she looked at the poor boy in the cot.

“Bye Keefe. See you next week.” It was time to arrange a meeting with Team Valliant and inform them about the information hidden in the cache.

“Do you know why we’re here?” Everyone nodded, and continued munching on their mallowmelt. All of Team Valiant was in the shade of the Panakes tree, and Sophie was about to tell the the Forbidden secret.

“Good. Then I will project the scene to all of you.” Everyone nodded. “Good here goes nothing.” Then Sophie projected the memory into their minds.

Click. The jewel on the cache melted away, revealing a small blue circle. The circle floated into the air, and revealed two transparent people standing in front of them. One of them was Oriale, the other Sophie didn’t recognize, but Oriale seemed to.

“Councillor Retana?” Sophie looked at Oriale, but then looked back at the scene.

“It’s time I resign Oriale. I hope the Elvin world will pick someone good to be a Councillor, but I need to tell you something first.” Past-Oriale seemed intrigued, and urged Councillor Retana to go on.

“It’s about Stellarlune, the 4th prime source. A combination of all 3, yet no one recognizes it as the 4th. They used to until a rebellious group managed to recreate it. Their name is the Neverseen.” Oriale nodded, and shifted a bit in her chair. “You see, when Stellarlune is mixed with madigasgin (I can’t spell) it creates a beam strong enough to kill, but can also change someone. The change can be good or bad, and when the Neverseen ‘experimented’ with it only one person survived and had a change. I hope that person becomes the new Councillor because he will be very helpful. The other 5 elves died unfortunately. Now I am telling you this because I hope it will be helpful one day. Goodbye Oriale.” And with that, Councillor Retana left the room. The scene melted away and Oriale whispered,

“I remember. The new Councillor was Councillor Terik. That is why he is a Descryer. I need to think.” Oriale left Sophie, and the memory stopped.

“Wow.” Biana breathed, which was an understatement. Just watching the memory again was breathtaking for Sophie, and it left an impact on her.

“Why didn’t you show us this earlier?” Stina demanded, and Sophie had no reply.

“I uhh… umm…” Biana came to her rescue luckily.

“One of Sophie’s very close friends were injured. She took care of him.” Biana emphasized the word ‘very’ making it seem like they were more than friends.

“Yea, one of my friends.” Sophie emphasized the last word.

“Friend, Yea right.” Sandor mumbled under his breath. Biana giggled. Sophie’s face was red, but it turned pale when Stina asked,

“Wasn’t it Keefe? Wasn’t he struck with Stellarlune or whatever.” Sophie considered the question, then shrugged.

“All I know is that he was hit with a combo of Madigasgin and Shadowflux. I’ll ask him -” Sophie remembered his situation, and the room became very quiet.

“Well I have to go. Lihn wants to talk bye!” Wylie left, leaving Biana, Stina, Dex, and Sophie behind,with all their bodyguards. Stina soon left, clearly not enjoying being with her former enemies. Dex had brought over some color-changing elixirs, and they set to changing Iggy’s style.

“How about a purple with fuzzy fur and golden glitter! How do you like that Iggy?” Biana asked Iggy, and he replied with a loud burp.

“Ok maybe not that. How about gold and ice blue? Cause gold is kinda the color of Sophie’s eyes and…” Biana looked evil at Sophie, and Sophie blushed.

“How about no.” She replied and Dex and Biana grinned.

“Well now I just have to do it!” Dex told her, and started changing Iggy’s color. IGGY turned out with a golden colored fur that was fuzzy, and ice blue sparkles all around him.

“Aww aren’t you sooo cute!” Sophie cooed, picking up him. He gave her a loud, stinky fart. Sophie set him down, fleeing for safety.

“Never mind.” Everyone laughed for a few minutes, and then Biana had to leave due to Fitz getting locked in Biana’s room for some reason and Biana being the only one with a key.

“How’s everything going with the love triangle?” Dex asked, drawing a triangle in the air. Sophie rolled her eyes.

“Fine.” She replied, not even caring to answer that question honestly.

“Who do you like?” Dex asked, and Sophie shifted on her bed.

“You already know.” Dex shook his head, and Sophie answered the question.

“Well I don’t know. I thought I like Fitz but… I think I might have a tiny tiny crush on Keefe.” The confession made something change in Sophie, and when Dex left she felt complete for once, like life was going to be ok.

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