Chapter 2 New Friends
A few days after team PLNT transferred they are still settling in. Lief and Titania are finishing up unpacking their stuff. "Titania I can't believe that you know about the transfer and didn't tell me or Nova."
"Lief you know Parang had his reasons can't you trust him?"
"Not anymore, why should I trust him if he won't tell us why we transferred."
"Because he did it for us Lief, he's not being selfish."
"I don't care! I don't trust him anymore." He throws one of his shirts on the ground "I don't talk about it, I'm going to walk around and get some air." He leaves the room and slams the door
"Lief when will you understand that you don't have to know everything." After some time walking Lief finds himself next to a couple of trees, he leans on one to rest for a second and clear his head and closes his eyes. After a few minutes, he hears someone playing an instrument close by. He gets up and follows the music to its source, once he reaches the source he finds a girl with long dark green hair wearing a white dress with music notes on it playing the flute. Lief walks quietly closer to her so he can keep listening to the music, Lief then steps on a branch causing it break and make a noise. The girl hears the noise causing her to jump a little and stop playing, she then turns around to see who is behind her.
"Who are you, are you trying to spy on for me?" Lief steps back with his left hand near his dagger.
"I'm Lief and I'm not trying to spy on you, I just heard you playing your flute and I wanted to listen to you play."
"Oh that changes everything then, did you really enjoyed my music?" The girl calms down and then smiles at Lief.
"Yes, it was so soothing and pretty, it was just what I needed to hear."
"That's nice to hear, it's been a while since someone complimented me on my music."
"Really? Why it was really good… I don't know your name yet."
"Oh I forgot my manners, My name is Melody Winds it's a pleasure to meet you… lief right?" Melody says with a smile on her face as she turns to Lief and does a curtsy. "So are you new around here?"
"Yeah my team just transferred here, I haven't really learned my way around here either this school is big."
"Yeah the school is big since you're new here would you like it if I showed you around?"
"That sounds great it would be good to know where I'm actually going instead of wandering around."
"Just follow me and I'll show you all you need to know to get around here." Melody says as she turns around and starts to walk with Lief following behind her. Meanwhile back at team PLNT's dorm room, the other three members decide to learn there way around the school and the three eventually find themselves in the courtyard of the school.
"Wow this school is beautiful don't you guys agree?" Titania asks as she is looking around.
"Yeah" Parang says almost like he didn't hear the question while Nova nods appreciating the scenery. After walking around as a group Titania decides that they should split up so they can learn more about the school, Parang heads off towards the dorms, Titania goes to the cafeteria and Nova starts wandering around the classrooms. After walking around for some time Nova witness's a boy bullying another boy or girl, Nova couldn't tell from where she was standing. The point is that this person needed help and Nova won't let it go on any further. Using her semblance Nova turns invisible and sneaks up behind the bully and pants him then trips him, she reveals herself to the person being bullied and offers her hand to them, the person looks at Nova with bewildered eyes and hesitating before grabbing Nova's hand. Once the person does take Nova's hand, Nova can finally see that the person being bully was a girl, now that the two were eye level with each other she pulls the girl along with her to get away from the bully and everyone else and after some walking they find an empty classroom to stay in. Nova lets go of the girl's hand who is still processing what happened. Nova looks at her with a confused face when she says something to the girl.
"Are you all right?" The girl looks at her for a second and opens her mouth to speak but hesitates to find her words, then after a brief silence, she replies to Nova.
"Y…yes I'm fine." Nova gives her a small smile and asks her another question.
"Do you need help finding your team?" She says to the girl, the girl looks at her and shakes her head.
"No, I'm all right by myself."
Nova leaves the room while the girl just sits down and thinks about what happened to her. After leaving the classroom Nova returns to the dorm room to see both Parang and Titania sitting on their beds relaxing.
"Oh, Nova your back did you find your way around the school?" Titania says to her.
"Yes"
"An actual response from you, you must be in a good mood." Titania says back to her.
"Its good that you are getting used to being quicker than the rest of us Nova." Parang says to her. Nova smiles and walks happily over to her bed and lays down. "Hey, Titania do you know where Lief is? I haven't seen him since this morning."
"No Parang I haven't seen him at all I figured he was still venting, maybe I should go look for him he might be lost." She says wondering if Lief is okay.
"Don't go looking for him, it's finally quiet and he'll just end up yelling at me again, he will come back eventually so don't worry about him."
"I can't just not worry about him, he does depend on me sometimes, I think I will go look for him." Titania gets up and leaves the room and starts looking for Lief.
"Well, great I'll have to get ready to yell at him again. Hey, Nova, I want you to be ready in case Lief tries something stupid." Parang looks over at her and sees that Nova is asleep. "She must be exhausted but now that I can get a good look at her I wonder why she wears that mask over her left eye, I don't think she has ever said anything about since we met." Meanwhile, Lief and Melody are at the library, Lief is walking down the isles looking for a book while Melody follows him.
"So are you looking for something in particular or do you just want a good book to read?"
"Yes, I'm looking for a book on dancing." Melody giggles at Lief.
"Dancing? You don't look like someone who would learn dance, so you must have a good reason for learning right?" Lief nods at her then answers her.
"A friend of mine said she would teach me how to dance but we're both busy so we didn't have that much time to dance. So the next time I see her I'm going to show her that I know how to dance, so we can just spend all night dancing together."He says with conviction and making eye contact with melody.
"Wow under that rough exterior is a gentleman who would've thought. So this friend of yours is she special?"
"Yes, she is." He reaches into the top of his shirt and pulls out a necklace with a toy plastic ring on it. "I know it's just a toy but to me its something more, She has one of these too so we can always be near each other even if we're thousands of miles apart." He puts the necklace back under his shirt and then goes back to looking for a book.
"That's really romantic Lief she must have been very lucky to meet someone like you."
"Actually it's the other way around I was lucky to meet her." Lief finally finds a book and pulls it out and looks at the back, he smiles and heads over to the desk to check out the book. After that, the two leave the library and start walking towards the dorms as the sun was setting. "Hey Melody, when I met you earlier today why did you accuse me of spying on you?"
"Uh well that's a complicated story, I've just been paranoid recently I'm really sorry about accusing you of spying on me." She says almost losing her upbeat attitude. "Oh if you ever need a dance partner I'll gladly dance with you." She says trying to change the subject hoping that Lief wouldn't question her further. At that moment Titania finds the two.
"Lief there you are, I was wondering where you went. But I see you made a new friend so are you going to introduce me to her or not." Lief gives Titania a quick hug and then stands next to her.
"Titania, This is Melody Winds, she was showing me around the school." Melody reaches out her hand to shake Titania's hand she does the same.
"Nice to meet you Titania, I'm guessing you're one of Lief's teammates."
"That's right we're teammates and since it's starting to get late I'm going to drag Lief back to our dorm, we just transferred here today so we still have some unpacking to do."
"All right I'll hopefully see you two and the rest of your team in class or at lunch tomorrow, bye." Melody walks off in one direction while Lief and Titania go a different way and after some walking, they return to the dorm. Inside the dorm, Nova is still sleeping Parang has just gotten into his bed as they walk into the room Titania stops Lief.
"Lief, I want you to behave yourself from now on okay I don't care how angry you are at Parang but you need to trust that he has our safety to think of as the leader of our team."
"But he's just doing things without asking us what kind of leader does that?"
"One that carries a burden on his shoulders, so please just trust him for now."
