Chapter 2 has finally arrived. We apologize for the delay but now that school has once again started, it will take us a little bit more time to translate our story.

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Chapter 2

Night Star

-"Your Highness, an intruder has succeeded in entering the castle", said a woman wearing a white robe.

Lionel felt a pinch in his heart believing being the person in question. He was hidden behind one of the columns that were supporting the royal chamber ceiling. The room was decorated with statues representing many strange creatures such as a brown haired beast with long horns and clawed paws that looked as if they were on fire. Long curtains were hanging down from the stooped ceiling and a white marble throne supported a beautiful woman. She was dressed with a purple dress and her curled green hair was resting on her shoulders. On her right was standing a woman in a gold armor covered with a white cape. She had long blond hair and at her hip was tied a sheath where was resting a legendary sword. All of a sudden, a loud explosion noise was heard from behind the tall golden doors.

-"Do everything that is in your power to intercept the intruder", began the queen. "If you feel that your life is threatened, I want you to teleport yourself out of the palace.

-Right away your majesty," said the woman and ran out of the room.

-"Your majesty, you should leave this place for your own safety," advised the warrior.

-"I appreciate your concern however I insist in being present for my subjects whatever happens," answered the queen smiling at her loyal guardian and friend.

Suddenly the door burst into a thousand of pieces and a silhouette appeared, walking slowly into the royal chamber. A dozen of blue circles appeared around the queen where white-clothed persons stepped out. The silhouette rose brusquely her arms, which made fire appeared under the newcomers. Lionel was looking at this horrible show and did not know what to do. The sorceress walked slowly towards the queen, stepping over the lifeless bodies. When she passed next to Lionel's hideout, the teenager jumped on the murderer but to his surprise, went right through her. Having not noticed him, she continued walking and stopped in front of the throne where the queen was keeping her cool. The latter rose from her seat and looked at the murderer in the eyes. The warrior rapidly placed herself between the sorceress and her protégé, ready to die for her queen. She unsheathed her sword and pointed it towards her enemy who started to laugh at her.

-"You think you can stop me with this primitive sword!?"

She laughed even louder.

-"You'll be in ashes before you even had the chance to put a scratch on me!" Spat she and giving her a blood-freezing look.

-"In the name of Queen Terra," said the warrior paying no attention to her adversary's threats. "I sentence you to perish under Ragnarok for having taken innocent lives and had killing intentions towards her majesty.

-Who said anything about killing her? Tell me, what good would she be to me dead?"

The warrior's eyes opened larger having realized her adversary's goal.

-"Now, do me the pleasure of disappearing!"

On these words, the sorceress rose her arm and a burning circle began to form itself under the fighter's feet. The latter rose her sword and the flames were attracted toward the blade, which reflected a reddish color. She had absorbed the spell of her enemy in her weapon. She then pointed it in the direction of the witch. Flames beamed out of the point of the blade and rushed to their new target. The latter avoided at the last second the attack but was surprised to see on her right the warrior who was about to give her the victory strike. She threw a fireball toward her attacker who dodged it and missed the opening created by her distraction. They took their distance and looked at each other right into the eyes.

-"I must admit that you surprised me," said the witch. " But this little trick won't work a second time."

She pointed with her finger the sword and the knight immediately felt her hands burning. This latter dropped her weapon that caught on fire.

-"Ah! What will you do now that you don't have any weapon?

-Don't underestimate me, witch!"

On this, the warrior dashed. The enemy made appear many fireballs, a smile on her face, and threw them on her disarmed opponent. But none of them touched her target and the sorceress was hit in the stomach followed by a knee blow on her face. The warrior was about to continue her combination of hits when the sorceress spontaneously enflamed herself and let out a high pitch scream. She stepped away from the human torch.

-"ENOUGH!" Screamed the sorceress on fire.

She dashed toward the warrior at high speed, her feet disappearing in the whirlwind of fire. She was getting dangerously closer to her victim when the queen, for the first time since the beginning of the duel, did something. She rose her arms towards her friend and a green circle appeared in front of the warrior. What came out of it was a small green fox with long ears and two tails. The strange animal then made its gem on its forehead shine a pinkish color and a transparent sphere of the same color surrounded both the animal and the warrior. The sorceress crashed against the barrier that was blown into pieces. She got up and the fire on her was now put out. The warrior was about to attack her opponent but was stopped by an invisible wall. She looked at the queen who was responsible for this new spell. The latter smile at her and made appear a blue whirlpool behind her friend.

-"It's time to go Celes," explained the queen.

-"No! Terra don't do this!" begged the knight putting away the formal titles, addressing herself directly to her friend in danger.

The queen answered her with a smile and addressed herself to the small green fox.

-"Watch over Celes," ordered she.

The animal nodded. The sorceress then started to laugh.

-"You're making my task easier," said she crossing her arms.

-"I will not let you take anymore innocent lives," answered the queen her eyes now serious and cold.

Her body began to light up and a dazzle light illuminated the room. Lionel put his arms in front of his eyes and when he put them down, he jumped with surprise seeing the new look of the queen: all her body and her hair now touching the ground were a pure white with a purple glint.

-"That's all the almighty queen of the espers can do?" laughed the sorceress.

The queen rushed toward her enemy like a fierce beast. The latter then picked up Ragnarok that was still laying on the ground and plunged the weapon in the queen's body.

-"TERRA!" frenetically screamed Celes who had just saw her best friend being transpierced by her own sword.

The body of the queen slowly returned to its original form and fell on the ground. The warrior hit with her fists the invisible wall but did not disappear.

-"Hmph! Looks like her magic saved her from death," observed the sorceress seeing that the queen was still breathing.

-"If you touch a single hair on her I swear I'll kill you!" screamed Celes.

-"Really?"

She bent down, pulled out a hair from the queen, and laughed.

-"Say goodbye to your dear queen!"

The sorceress then put her hands over the unconscious queen and a bright light illuminated from her. A moment later, instead of the queen was now a stone with a star in its center. The sorceress picked it up and smiled. The green animal, seeing that the warrior was not about to move, jumped on her making her fall in the blue whirlpool that was beginning to disappear. Suddenly, a loud noise resonated in Lionel's head. He squeezed his head between his hands but the noise was still there. He screamed out of pain and all went black.

-"Lionel…" called a distant voice.

The loud noise was still present but now he was hearing someone calling him, someone he knew.

-"Lionel!"

The voice became louder and now had something like annoyance in its tone.

-"Lionel! Stop your alarm, it's giving me an headache!"

The teenager opened his eyes and was surprised to be in his bed. Jimmy was next to him, his hands glued to his ears.

-"It was only a dream," thought he turning his alarm off.

He got up slowly still shocked by his troubled dream. Jimmy went out the bedroom followed by Lionel. They prepared themselves for school under the supervision of their mother who was eating breakfast. When Lionel was about to leave for school, Clara went to him and made him remember not to hang around Riki. This made him a second time angry and left frustrated at his mother. He walked rapidly, his head filled with rage, and did not even notice that a woman was stalking him. He continued his path until a voice behind him called his name.

-"Lionel! Wait for me!"

The teenager turned around and saw Riki who was running toward him. However, there were no traces of the mysterious woman.

-"Since when you go to school without me?" asked his friend a bit out of his breath.

-"Since my mother doesn't want me to see you," answered Lionel crossing his arms.

-"What!?

-The school called my mother to tell her that I didn't go to my classes…

-And what does it have to do with me?

-She thinks you influence me in misbehaving."

Riki started to laugh, which brought back the smile on Lionel's face.

-"It's true that it was a bit my fault yesterday…" admitted Riki.

-"Bah, don't worry about it," reassured Lionel giving a friendly tap on his friend's shoulder.

On that, the two boys left together toward their school. They passed under a tree where, dissimulated by the leaves, the mysterious woman was watching them. When they arrived at school, the bell had already rung. The two teenagers hurried to take their school effects and ran toward their Mathematics class.

-"You're late young men," said the teacher seeing them entering the class.

-"It wasn't our fault mam," began Riki, "we were attacked by aliens!"

All the students laughed which did not please the teacher.

-"Silence!"

The students stopped immediately.

-"Your agendas, now!"

The two boys gave her what she asked and took their place. The class waited after the teacher who had now a smile drawn on her face.

-"Well well, looks like your lateness got both of you a nice detention during lunch time!"

Thirty pairs of eyes turned toward the two teenagers who stayed indifferent. They took back their agenda and the dictator started her course. After Mathematics came French. Lionel was quite good in this subject because he found his teacher friendly, which motivated him to listen instead of playing portable video games in secret.

Lunchtime came and the two boys went toward the detention classroom. When they got in, the supervisor waved at them.

-"Alright, what have you boys done this time," asked the man with a big smile.

-"Bah, like usual, late," answered Riki sitting on a chair in the back of the room with his feet on the desk.

There was nobody else in the room but them. Lionel and Riki knew well the supervisor after many detentions due to their rebel behavior regarding the rules. Lionel sat on the chair beside his friend. The latter took an electronic game out of his pocket and started bashing on the buttons. As for Lionel, he was about to do the same but the newspaper the adult was reading got his attention. On the front page was a picture illustrating an archaeologist showing his discovery: a stone with a star carved in its center. It was the stone he saw in his dream!

-"Can I borrow you this page," asked Lionel to the adult pointing the one that had the article on the stone.

-"Sure," answered the man giving him the page.

Lionel started to read the article without paying attention to his friend who was watching him with a confused look.

The French archaeologist Daniel Despres did a big discovery yesterday night when searching the grounds of Saint-Mathieu's church in the East part of the city. He found in an underground cavern a translucent oval stone about 15 centimeters big with a star carved in its center.

-"I heard some noise that resembled a scream from a savage animal in difficulty, which intrigued me. Guided by those screams, I discovered an opening dissimulated by a bush that was going down in the ground. It is in that cavern that I discovered this mysterious stone however, there were no signs of the animal. I must have scared it," explained Despres laughing.

Due to the carving in its center, the archaeologist named it "Night Star". Scientists were not able to find out the composition of the stone. Many questions are being asked on this mysterious discovery. The "Night Star" will be exposed at the Archeology Museum in Dahlias for a period of 15 days. It will then be sent to the United-States for further analyses.

Lionel, still astonished, was asking himself if he had had a premonition.

-"Euh…Lionel? What's that?" asked Riki seeing his best friend reading for the first time a newspaper.

-"What? Oh this…it's eee….

-What?

-Promise me you won't laugh.

-Yeah yeah…what's the matter?

-I had a weird dream yesterday.

-So? I have weird dreams too.

-No, not like mine.

-Oh, I'm sorry. The dream of mister is not like others."

Lionel looked at him severely and Riki promised a second time that he would not laugh at him.

-"Ok. I was in a Middle-Age castle. There was a queen with her bodyguard in the room where I was. Then, a servant comes in and tells the queen that there's an intruder in the palace. Then suddenly, there's an explosion and the door flies in pieces. A lot of blue whirlpools appear and more servants in white robe come out to protect the queen. The bad woman in the doorway raises her arms up and all the servants catch on fire! The witch walks to the queen but the woman bodyguard blocks her. They fight each other in a duel and it was a really cool fight! But the queen stops the fight by surrounding her bodyguard by an invisible wall and tells her to run away with her two-tailed green fox. Then the queen transforms herself in a white werewolf but much more prettier than in the ones in movies and then she rushes to the witch. The witch takes the sword of the warrior that had been in fire during the battle and plunges it into the queen's stomach! But she's not dead and the sorceress transforms her into a stone! This stone!" he finished by pointing the photo of the newspaper.

-"Ok…You really should stop playing video games. It's not good for you," recommended Riki by tapping Lionel's shoulder.

-"I knew you wouldn't understand," said Lionel returning to his contemplation of the mysterious stone.

-"Ah, if it bothers you so much, we'll go see your rock…"said Riki rolling his eyes.

-"You'd come with me at the museum?

-Yeah, yeah…but promise me that you will tell nobody or I'm gonna tell everyone that you play with Barbie dolls in secret.

-I swear."

When the clock indicated that the detention was finished, the supervisor let them go.

-"After supper, we meet at the bus stop that goes to the museum," said Lionel in the corridor.

-"Ok."

What is going to happen at the museum? You will find out in the next chapter!

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