Hi ya! Q of the Solar system here! Hope you enjoy this chapter!
Disclaimer: I do not own Little Red Riding Hood, Snow white, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty or Magical girl clithes. I do own 'Ice Heart Arrows' though. They're great for making Popsicles with.
Aiden, The Math Genius. The Knights of Justice Revealed!
"Here you go." Lugh said handing us each a ring. "You might need these."
We each stared at the ring in our hand and back at him. We were meeting in the park again just to touch base and discuss what the side of dark might be planning. Each of the rings he handed us had a different colored gem stone on it. Mine was red, Talia's was purple, Eleanor's was clear and Esmeralda's was light blue.
"Um. Lugh, what are these for?" Eleanor asked. She was sitting beside Lugh on the bench.
"Oh. They'll inform you if one of you gets into a fight or if the side of dark is attacking someone."
"How?" I asked.
"It will start to glow."
"How will we know where the fight is?" Esmeralda asked. She was sitting on the corner of the bench next to Eleanor.
"Oh the knowledge will be put into your brain instinctively."
"Won't people be suspicious of the glow?" I asked.
"Oh it will work out." And he smiled idiotically. I started to feel my blood boil.
"That doesn't answer the question!"
"Please." Esmeralda said. "We're in public Fox. Try show a bit more dorcorma."
"What does that mean?"
"It means whatever you want it to mean."
"Shut up," Talia said. "I want to ask Lugh a question." She was leaning over the back of the bench with her arms crossed.
Esmeralda and I glared at each, but stopped talking. We didn't want to include Talia in our fight. Because when Talia fought she usually punched people. And when she punched you it hurt. A lot.
"Lugh, I don't need this. Whenever there's a fight my regular body goes to sleep and this other body comes out to fight." She said gesturing to herself.
"I know. This is for when you can fight when your awake." He said.
"Will that ever happen?" And she seemed dejected.
Lugh smiled at her and replied "Of course."
She didn't look convinced, but she smiled back at him slightly.
"Okay." He stood up from the bench where he was sitting. "I have to go, mark essays. By the way Esmeralda yours was great, Eleanor's yours was so-so,and Honey and Talia yours were awful." Then seeing mine and Talia's angry faces he quickly added "Telaport!"
"Awful, Fox?" Esmeralda was smirking.
My reply, needless to say had no dorcorma in it what so ever.
The next day in French class I was sitting with Erin.
"So where have you been the last little while?" Erin asked. "It's like we never see you anymore."
"Oh I've just been busy with school and stuff. You babysitting by brother."
"Oh that makes sense. To bad you can't just have Anna tutor you in history. Then we'd be able to see you on Saturday at least."
"Yeah." I was about to say more, but our French teacher came though the door.
"Bonjour, garçons et filles !" Miss. Bonfils said. (Basically good morning boys and girls in French.)
"Bonjour, Mlle. Bonfils." We answered back.
"Have you done your homework?" She asked in French.
"Oui." Though a few people answered "Non." to question.
"Excellent! Today we are going to start a project."
I looked at Erin and nodded. Other people were doing the same to there friends beside them.
"Now since you don't work that well with your regular partners." Miss. Bonfils continued. "I will be assigning partners, for this project."
There was a collective groan. No one liked being assigned to a group or partner.
"In this project you'll be writing a short skit using ir, er and re verbs in there correct tense. Here are the groups: Fairfax and Jennings, Fisher and Smith, Brown and O' Higgens, Blevins and Airaldi, Ng and Orlov, Fox and Argall-"
She went on, but I stopped listening. I was with Aiden. I looked over at him, he nodded slightly and went back to staring at the teacher.
"Now please get in to your groups class!" She said.
I walked over to his desk and sat in the chair next to him. I looked around the class. Chris was with Tim. He looked slightly depressed. Maybe it was because Tim handed in things late. Erin was with Esmeralda and seemed a little frightened.
I looked back at Aiden. "So what do you want to do a skit on?"
"I don't know. You choose."
Sigh. This was going to be an uphill battle.
Just then I saw something market 100 in the corner of one of his other binders. I looked at it a bit closer, it was an algebra test. Advanced algebra. I was impressed. I mean I'm in advanced algebra and I thought it was pretty good when I got an 85 on our last test.
"Wow. A 100. Your pretty good." I told him.
He looked down. "Oh this. Its nothing. You should see the people in my Math club. To them this would be a cake walk."
"No really it is good, for normal people trust me."
He ran his fingers though his short black hair. "I'm the worst person in the club."
"Its still good. Why aren't you proud?" I asked confused. If I got 100 in math I would be celebrating. I would even be nice to Lugh, Esmeralda, Mike, and Chris for the rest of the day. Why wasn't he happy?"
He didn't say anything. Evidently the conversation was over.
"How about we do are skit in a restaurant?" I asked.
"Okay. Can you write an English version and I'll translate it. I'm not very creative."
I smiled "Alright."
We worked hard through out the period. I was surprised when the bell rang. I hadn't even been looking at the clock. I packed up my supplies and walked out with Erin. I was still wondering about conversation earlier.
"Don't worry." Erin said.
"Huh?"
"I won't tell, Milly you worked in a group with a member of the LOAHG."
I hadn't even thought of that. "Thanks your good friend."
"Don't mention it."
Later that, evening I was working on my History homework (blah), when my Mom called me.
"What is it?" I called over the stairs.
"We're out of milk. Can you pick some up?"
"Sure!" I ran downstairs, put on my coat and walked to the store.
Oh my way back I bummed into Aiden.
"Oh Hi. Why are you out?"
"Picking up some cough syrup for my little sister. You?"
"We were out of Milk." I replied. "Anyways about that test.."
He sighed.
"Why aren't you happy about it? I mean it was 100."
"I don't care about scores. I just doing math. Its fun."
Wow. I mean it sounds dorky written down. But the way he talked about it did make sound cool. I felt immature in comparison. I only thought about getting good grades, I didn't try to enjoy what I did. Maybe that was his secart.
"That makes sense."
He smiled and it seemed, familiar somehow. Why?
"Excuse me."
We both turned. A woman bundled up in a heavy coat stood behind us.
"I heard what you said young man, and I think you are the material for our scholarship. What do you say?"
Who offers people scholarships on the street?
"No thank you." He said.
"Why not?" The woman whined.
"It seems kind of shady to offer people scholarships on the street."
See what I mean?
The Lady looked at us. "OHOHOHOH! I knew this wouldn't work. Still can't blame a girl for trying."
I knew that laugh! Could it be..
She snapped her fingers. The coat came off and revealed Angerona.
Great. It was her.
"This boy is still a prime candidate though. All that great, passionate, scholarly energy. Plus I get the girl's as a bonus."
"Honey, ran away." Aiden whispered.
It would good opportunity to transform, but I'd still feel like coward leaving him like this.
"Do it!"
I ran away in to an allay, between the video store and the drugstore.
"Riding Hood Transformation!"
I ran back. She had frozen him like Damocles had done to the day care workers.
"Hold it!"
She looked up. "Oh its you. Where all your friends?"
"Oh don't worry they'll come!" I hoped, anyways.
"That's right Riding Hood!" Eleanor said.
"Cinder!" It least she was here.
"Don't forget us." Came a chorus of voice I didn't want to hear.
I looked to my left and sure enough the costumed knights were there. But there was only three of them. Oh well. This was cold season after all. Maybe one of them was sick.
"Don't Aiden! We'll save you!" The shortest one called.
That was weird. They'd never showed that much concern for the victims before.
"Five of you? Oh well more pricks of hatred for everyone then. Speaking of which," Angerona said. "Pricks of Hatred!"
The tallest of the knights of Justice, quickly said "Wall of Protection."
A barrier seperated us from the pricks of hatred.
"It will only hold for a limited time." he warned. "So make a plan."
I listened to what he said, but was distracted. The leader of the group had his mask broken by a stray prick of hatred. He was currently holding it to his face unsuccessfully.
"You might as well show us who you are. Its not like we're going to tell anyone. Right?" I told him.
He let go relclently. The person behind the mask was Charles.
"Charles Strak!" Eleanor and I exclaimed. I look at the other two and they took of their masks as if they knew that resistance was futile. The shortest was Tim from my French class and the tallest was his brother Phil. Three guys from LOAHG. That meant that Aiden was..
No time for that! We needed a plan. Suddenly I got an idea. I whispered it to Eleanor.
"Are you sure it will work?" She asked me.
"All we can do is try." I replied. "Be ready when the barrier comes up."
She nodded and stared at Angerona. A minute later the barrier came up.
As soon as it did, I jump out of the way of the pricks of hatred. Luckily the knights of Justice did the same.
Meanwhile Eleanor cried "Soap Revelation!"
One of the jet streams of soapy water hit Angerona's left hand. She got distracted and the pricks of hatred stopped. That was my cue.
"Flaming Spirit Spear!" I called as it came into my hand. I swiped once though the air.
"Not this again!" And as she said the words she was blasted away.
How were we going to help Aiden unfreeze, though?
A woman with long, pink hair wearing a shimmery purple dress popped out from nowhere. Without saying anything to anyone, she walked over to Aiden.
I was about to say something, but Charles, Phil and Tim didn't seem to worried so I guess it was someone they knew.
She said some spells over him and he sputtered awake coughing slightly.
She helped him up and brought him over to us. "He's going to be okay. Just needs to catch his breath."
She smiled at me.
"Excuse you me but who are you." I asked.
"You should tell people your name before asking their's." She replied sweetly.
Eleanor and I looked at each other , but said "Release!"
The boys stared at us in shock.
"Honey?" Tim and Aiden said.
"Eleanor?" Charles said.
The woman seemed unfazed though. "Oh you must be Lugh's girls! Pleased to meet you! I'm Lugh's sister, Uilleag."
His sister? They didn't look much alike besides their smile.
"I'm glad you guys met. Now we can fight the creatures of darkness together!"
I looked at her and the knights of Justice or if you rather the members of LOAHG. I couldn't figure out if that was good or not.
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