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Warnings: language, blood, explicit violence, abuse, character death, underage drinking, underage drug use
Notes: Please review, favorite, follow but I will not and never tolerate flamers or vulgar reviews. Thank you for all the feedback, especially from my old reviewers! I hope you all enjoy this chapter and story! Oh, my partner wishes just published her first story! You should go check it out and give her some feedback. My goodness, I'm so sorry for not updating sooner! This chapter took longer than expected to write because I'm being drowned by homework and projects and practice. I hope I didn't disappoint but since I'm going to have a three-day weekend (no school on Monday for me), I'll try to write extra chapters if I can so I can easily publish for you guys. Once again, I apologize!
—dreams
Reviews
To Guest: thanks!
To a fan: Yeah, this Cammie is very different, somewhat, from the Cammie we know and love in the series. I mean, I'm trying to keep them in character as best as I can but it's hard since I'm no Ally Carter.
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Part I
The Beginning
Chapter 4
"…wickedly sharp dagger…"
"Kiss Me Again" by We Are The In Crowd (ft. Alex Gaskarth) was running through Liz's mind as she frantically tried to calm herself down. Bex was pacing furiously in front of her, one hand resting on the small of her back, the other running through her hair. Macey was talking to someone on the phone, someone Liz wasn't familiar with, Grant and Zach were conversing with one another softly, every once in a while searching something up on the internet.
Mathew Morgan was blinking in a daze next to her. Rachel Morgan was speaking to two members of the RG, a blonde and a tall redhead. Mr. Solomon was sitting on Mathew's left, gently patting his hand for comfort.
Liz didn't really know what was going on, to be honest. She had woken up where she'd fallen when Macey had screamed bloody murder. Of course, it caused Bex to jump to her feet instantly, a wickedly sharp dagger in her hands. Which, of course, caused Liz to scream bloody murder — because, honestly, who kept a dagger underneath their pillow?
"It's a safety mechanism!" Bex defended herself against Liz's glare.
Liz huffed and muttered, "Safety mechanism my butt."
It caused Mr. Solomon to crash into their room, hands ablaze with his element, as he looked for the source of danger. Even now, Liz hadn't known why Macey screamed as if something terrible had happened.
And then they learned that Cammie, along with ten or so other students, had disappeared in the dead of the night. There was also a small puddle of dried blood in a corridor, which raised many flags and alarms.
There was also the small fact that two Earth Elementals had gone missing in Roseville, only shortly after one had been murdered.
"You are not shutting my school down, sir!"
Liz flinched at the venom that was practically pooling in Rachel Morgan's mouth. She was one daunting Alpha Female. It was horrible to even consider shutting down Gallagher, even temporarily. It would tell the Circle Guild that they were calling quits, giving up, showing weakness. It meant that many Elementals had to travel out of the country to get back home, giving those foul murderers free game to the unsuspecting students.
There were many opportunities for an ambush and a mass murder if Gallagher Academy was closed. The blonde RG seemed to understand it too for she placed a comforting hand on the redhead's shoulder. The man relaxed visibly and it made Liz smile, despite the seat-gripping tension that cloaked the room, since it was totally obvious that the two RG were life-partners.
Life-Partners were the equivalent of mates in a Guild or, well, anywhere on earth. Some call the pairs soulmates or soulbound. It all meant the same thing, really. Each person was fated to someone somewhere on the earth, whether you lived in California and your other half lived in Japan. Some never found that person, the one said to share the other part of your soul with you, and those depressing stories always made pity and terror curl in the bottom of her stomach.
Macey touched Liz's elbow. "Come on," the Senators' daughter whispered, "We need to have a meeting."
Liz blinked but nodded as she got up from the couch, grabbing her bag and AP Physics textbook and notes before the teenagers slipped out of the Headmistress' office with the adults non the wiser.
"Where are we going?" Grant asked as Macey and Bex took the lead of their group. People in the hallway stared and gaped or gave them sympathetic glances. It was common knowledge by now that Cammie Morgan and Wilhelm Kreutz were missing, along with several other students, such as Eva Alvarez and Tina Walters.
"Shh." Bex hissed at the Greek Adonis before they ducked into a different hallway, this one darkened. It took a while (and a lot of blinking) for their eyes to adjust to the surrounding darkness. "This way," the fire Elemental murmured before pressing her hands onto a piece of the stone and applying force.
"How'd you find this?" Liz asked at the same time Zachary blinked, "Oh, so you finally discovered this passageway?"
The wall trembled and moved, giving way to the once obscured hallway that servants' once occupied back in the 1800s. Macey's phone provided the flashlight as did Bex's palm, which was completely engulfed in flames. It was then that Zachary's question finally registered in their minds.
"Wait — what the bloody hell do you mean 'finally discovered'?" Bex whirled around to face Zachary, who chuckled and rolled his eyes.
"Honestly. Cammie and I—," He began.
"Oh," Macey narrowed her eyes. "So, you were alone?"
Zach glared. "As I was saying, we found it during the first week of freshman year."
"Great makeout spot, Goode," Grant said, nodding his head, acting like any teenage, hormone-driving male would. "I approve."
Zachary gawked, too shocked to do anything. "I'll kill you, Goode!" and then Macey and Bex descended on him as if they were vultures and he were the dead carcass left behind. The thud of their bodies hitting the concrete floor echoed throughout the passageway, as did Grant's loud chortles, and Liz's mind was too busy whirring with possibilities, scenarios.
Of what?
She didn't quite know.
And that's what scared her, the not knowing. Zachary's yelps of pain, along with Macey's and Bex's yelling, and Grant's laughing at his roommates' unfortunate beating, faded from Liz's ears as her mind raced.
My God…why didn't I see it before…Cammie — Cammie's in Tina's Guild!
Miles from Gallagher, deeply entrenched in a forest, laid a medium sized two-story cottage belonging to one Earth Elemental Wilhelm Kruetz. On the first floor, in the only bedroom closest to the back patio door, occupied Cammie, Wilhelm, and Sabine. Cammie was still in her pajamas, her head was still throbbing, and her previous question was left unanswered and she unsatisfied.
Sabine chuckled. "It's cute. You're like an insatiable kitten."
Cammie glared. "Who're you calling a kitten?"
Sabine threw her head back and laughed heartily, causing Wilhelm to smile. Cammie sighed. "Alright, please just answer the question. Is this Tina's Guild?"
Sabine and Wilhelm shared a look, stretching out the unneeded silence much longer than necessary. Just when Cammie thought she'd burst, Wilhelm said, "Yes,"
"Oh." Cammie blinked. There wasn't much of that satisfying emotion of getting told the truth in the pit of her stomach like normal. Maybe it was because she already knew, albeit subconsciously, that Tina had created a Guild, and that she was smart enough to keep it a secret.
Well, Cammie thought, that secrets' out now since there's probably been twelve riots at Gallagher by now.
"I'm sorry," Cammie finally said. "For, you know, accidentally unveiling the secret of your Guild."
Sabine laughed again. "It never truly was a secret, Cammie. Everyone knew Tina created the Guild, they just didn't have enough proof for it or thought she'd be so egotistical she'd paste it all over the internet proclaiming what she's accomplished." The golden-eyed, ebony-haired girl snickered. "Only a fool would do such a thing, risking their Guilds' safety and state-of-minds so early in the bond."
Cammie breathed in deeply. "Are we going back to Gallagher?"
Sabine blinked. "Oops, I sort of forgot about that tidbit. Of course you're going back, I don't know where Tina is, though."
"Is she the Alpha?" Cammie asked.
Wilhelm nodded his head. "Yes."
Cammie's stomach growled, allowing the three to know of its' displeasure in not being fed for breakfast. Cammie blushed, Sabine laughed, and Wilhelm blinked. "Come," Sabine said to the two Earth Elementals. She opened the door, and scents of crisp bacon, sausage, and eggs wafted to Cammie's nose. "I think Ava is making her normal delicious concoction."
Now or never, Cams, she thought, breathing deeply, as she took the outstretched hand and began her walk to meet the Tridus Guild.
Tina's Guild.
Wilhelm's Guild.