Sutton and I were now standing in front of a large outdoor auditorium. It was already filling up with students and teachers alike. You could really see the security detail in place now; especially up by the stage. Each one wearing neatly pressed black suits and ear pieces to keep in contact with each other.

"Darn," Sutton said, "All the seats up by the stage are taken already."

"That's okay, we can just sit wherever there's room." I reassured him. So much had happened in the past couple days, I really wasn't too concerned about being up close to the stage for a concert.

"Are you sure?" Sutton asked me.

"Yeah, I don't mind at all." I smiled.

Sutton and I met up with Jasmine and Cara and the four of us ended up sitting in the middle section of the left side of the stage. All the way to the right was a group of what must have been elementary students grouped with some teachers so they could see the show too. The rest of the crowd was a mixture between middle school and high school students and some teachers mixed about too. There were so many people here. 'How is it that this many people have these amazing talents and outside this school, nobody knows anything about them—especially children? You would think there would be an outrage on the news about people's children being taken away from them.'

A roar of cheers and applause broke out in the crowd as Principal Adkins took center stage. He waved the crowd silent, "Alright, alright everybody, settle down!" he voice was filled with pride as he talked about 'Katsu, Kingston Academy's pride and joy'. And went on to talk about the school's history and everything it's overcome to get to this point.

After Principal Adkin's long drawn out speech, he finally introduced Katsu. I can honestly say, I don't think I have ever heard screams louder than what I heard that day in my entire life. Katsu then ran on stage and began his own speech about how excited he was to return to the Academy. He was tall—attractive. His hair was a dark brown and spiked up with gel. But as good looking as he may have been, he was cocky and that didn't sit well with me.. no matter how much I enjoyed his music.

"Hey Jasmine," I leaned over in my seat, "Where's the bathroom at?"

"Hey!" Sutton chimed in, "You could have asked me, I am basically your tour guide."

Cara chuckled which made Sutton blush, "Yeah, but you're a guy, I figured I should ask a girl." that and I've asked him pretty much every single question I've had all day.

"It's fine." Jasmine smiled, "I'll walk with you to the top of the seats and point you in the right direction from there." it also gave Sutton and Cara a second on their own.

"Thank you!" I hadn't gone to the bathroom all day. Jasmine and I walked up the steps of the auditorium and she pointed me towards a small building. I walked inside the girl's room and did my business and such. The big thing here was when I walked over to the sink to wash my hands.. I could hear voices on the other side of the wall. I thought it was just regular chit chat and I didn't think anything of it until I heard someone say 'Black Cat', but that was all I could really make out.

Black Cat. That's what Mamoru called Christopher earlier today in the classroom.. Was it connected?

I opened the door to the girl's bathroom a crack and peered outside to see who came out of the guy's bathroom. Two adults emerged from the other side. I hadn't seen them yet today.. They were definitely adults, but they didn't look like teachers. Around their necks they had security passes on. 'They must be part of Katsu's team.' I thought.. But what would they want to do with Christopher? Could they mean a different black cat? I wasn't sure, but I got a bad feeling in my stomach. I needed to find Sutton. If I had a bad feeling, I wonder if his intuition had any bad feelings.

"SUTTON!" I yelled and waved my arms. It was a miracle that he turned around and saw me. "SUTTON!" I called again.

He jumped up from his seat and ran towards me, "Nichole, what is it?"

"Okay, I don't mean to sound crazy, but is there anyway you can tell me if you're having any kind of gut feeling about Christopher right now?"

He looked confused, "Well, not particularly.." he began to scratch his head, "I mean I haven't learned to make it work on command like that yet. Usually my intuition is situational or just random. Like when you were calling me. I didn't actually hear you, I just felt like I needed to turn around. Why, is everything okay?"

"Oh. I see.. Yeah I guess so, I just had a gut feeling of my own I guess." Just then I could hear Katsu's band start playing the intro to their first song and everyone started cheering again. And right at that moment James ran past us, bumping my shoulder and sending me off my feet a few steps. He was running towards one of the school buildings,

"Woah!" I steadied myself and looked at Sutton, puzzled, "I wonder what that was about.."

"Nichole." Sutton started, "Follow him."

"What?" I was so confused.

"Follow him, Nichole!" there was a sense of urgency in his voice, "Follow him, NOW!"

I looked back at James, he had a good lead on me, but I felt like I could catch up, "Sutton, if I don't come back in ten minutes, come find me!"

And I took off after James. Sutton's intuition must have acted up. Which means maybe I was right about my own gut feeling. James and Christopher are friends after all and he seemed panicked. What else would cause James to panic? "James!" I yelled out, "James!" nothing. I was too far behind for him to hear me. I picked up my speed and chased him down a path of the school I hadn't been on yet.

It had trees on either side of it and at the end of the path was the biggest building I've seen on this campus thus far. It sat in a large clearing, but the rest of it was surrounded by the forest. A sign in front of it read, 'Kingston Academy Center for Health and Science'. James was standing by the sign. He must have stopped to catch his breath.

"James!" I cried out once more. That time he heard me. I could tell by the look on his face that I was the last person he expected to see at this very moment.

"What are you doing here?!" James asked harshly.

I tried to search his eyes.. Something was definitely up. I looked back at the sign again.. It must be like a hospital.."What's wrong with Christopher? Is he hurt?"

At first James looked shocked at my question, then he looked down at the ground, "Mamoru hurt him worse than usual with his punishment this time.. It's not the first time this has happened. Every time Christopher does something that school doesn't like, they punish him... It's not fair."

"Oh my goodness.." I held a hand to my face.

"But there's something else.." He looked me straight in the eyes, "It's Katsu. My cat here," his cat was hanging onto his shoulder, "her name is Carissa.. she overheard someone on Katsu's team talking about taking Christopher... I have to stop them."

"Take him?" It was an instant flash back to Mel. "They can't.." I muttered under my breath. I looked up at James, my mind set, "Let me help."

"No." he replied immediately.

"Why not?"

"It's dangerous! You don't even know what your talent is!" he argued.

"I don't care!" I shouted, "I can't let this happen to anyone else!"

That took James back, he looked confused, "What?"

Shoot. I said too much.. "Nevermind." I said, "Christopher is my partner. It's my job to help him, just like he's supposed to help me. And while you're wasting time arguing with me about this, we could be up there helping him!"

"Fine!" he steamed, "Just don't get in my way. And if something happens to you, I'm not going to help you. Christopher is all I care about right now."

James' face was harsh. It didn't fit his look. It fit Christopher, but not him.. But that didn't matter. Right now we had to help Christopher. That was our priority.