Chapter 9

Blaine's POV

'Hmm…' I stare blankly at the front of the music room since the teacher isn't here…again. Everyone in the classroom talks and ignoring that the teacher isn't here, 'This is boring.'

I got up from my seat and decide to play the piano since, in I am a music room, and I should play at least one instrument.

'Let's see… what song?' I think to myself quietly as I sit down on the piano seat which caught many student's gazes.

They all starts to gather around me, as they look forward to what song I will play.

"Do you guys have any request?" I asked since I don't have any song in my head.

Everyone starts shouting out random song but there is one song that suddenly strikes me.

"Falling for innocence OST" A soft voice spoke up.

I look around but couldn't find the owner of the voice.

"I will be playing falling for innocence," I announced as everyone looks forward to it.

I gently press my fingers on the keyboard as I play the song, for some reason, my mind starts to wonder way while my fingers still play the song.

Six Years Ago…

'What should I play? What should I play today?' I quietly think to myself as I look at the piano in front of me.

"Please play Kiss the Rain by Yiruma."

I turn my head and I found the owner of the voice to be a woman, I smile brightly knowing who that woman is.

"Of course, Ms. Keane." I bowed to my teacher as she is one of the best teachers in school, she is both English and a Music teacher.

My fingers start to glide down the keys as each note played out happily, when the songs end, Ms. Keane claps her hands, which I return with a bow.

"That was beautiful Blaine." She smiles to me.

"Thank you very much, Ms. Keane, for your compliment." I couldn't help but smiles since her words are always sincere. But this time,I can see that there is a hint of sadness in her voice.

"Is there anything all right Ms. Keane?" I asked politely, "I notice you sound worried."

"Blaine, you are as sharp as always. I think you should meet with another student since he is as sharp as you." Ms Keane smiles, "I guess I shouldn't hide anything from you as well. I am going to move away from teaching in this school."

My mouth drops as I couldn't believe what I am hearing.

"But Ms. Keane you are one of the best teachers that this school has hired!" I said a little bit surprise by the sudden news.

"Thank you for the compliment but due to my situation right now. I need to leave school." Ms. Keane continues to smile.

"I understand," I said dejectedly.

"It's all right Blaine. You will do fine." Ms. Keane said trying to cheer me up.

"Erm… Ms. Keane… I think that there is something funny about the school. Since I can see that the school security camera has increase. Why would their be so many cameras?" I asked while Ms Keane remain silent for a moment.

"I have no idea, I think that you were just imagining things, Blaine. The school security cameras have the same amount as always." Ms. Keane answers which I knew that it is a lie.

We both walk out the classroom as I continue to talk with Ms. Keane but something caught my eyes along the way.

"Excuse me Ms. Keane but I have something to do." I bowed politely again as I sneak away.

As I slowly sneak away, I bump into a boy who looks to be very angry. As he didn't even apologize to me for bumping into him.

'That guy sure has some problem.' I comment in my head.

As I continue to walk a little bit further I look out the window to see a boy around the same age as me sitting quietly by himself at the top of the tree.

I continue to walk further down the hallway to later see a blonde hair girl looking around suspiciously as if she is trying to find something.

I look out the window again to see another sight of someone at the fountain looking for something, which I think that is a bad idea while wearing the school uniform. I couldn't see the person clearly so I wasn't able to tell if it a girl or a boy.

'Why are there people acting weird around me?' I continue to look around my surrounding, I continue to purse for something that I could have sworn saw something.

I turn a little to the right and finally caught a small bug that has been annoying me.

"What kind of bug is this?" I stare at it intensively.

'The eyes of the bug look way too shiny for its own good. The second thing about this bug is that it is as hard as a mental… Why am I so stupid… This is a spy bug.' I slap my head lightly for being stupid for a moment but then something made me feel curious.

'Why would there be spy bug?' I question and start to think if I should tell anyone or not. In the end, I decide to take it home with me on that day.

But I was only able to walk half way to suddenly hear the bug talk.

"Hello? Helloo? HELLLLOOOOO?" The bug starts to shout louder and louder.

"What kind of spy bug is this?" I question while holding the bug tightly on my palm.

"A spy bug that has a microphone kid." The bug answer which made me startle a little bit, "Now kid, bring this bug back to your school since this is school property."

"How is this even a school property, a spy camera bug does not belong in school?" I argue back.

"I am part of the Special X, this is one of the ways to patrol the area without the enemy —" The bug said which immediately became quiet.

"Special X…" I spoke out and immediately run back to school after knowing about something big.

I didn't know why I run so fast but all I know is that I run to the Principal office and slam the door open.

"May I help you?"

To my surprise, Principal MoJo was not on the seat but instead was HIM himself.

"Er… where is Principal MoJo?" I asked a little bit rush.

"In a business meeting." HIM answer casually as if he already knew what I am going to ask.

"You mean by something to do with Special X." I correct, instead of earning a surprised look from HIM, what I got was an ingenious smile.

"Wow! How courageous of you to say that out loud! I see that you want to know more since you are holding one of our bugs." HIM points toward my sweaty palm.

"That is correct." I look at HIM sternly.

"I won't tell you unless you join the Special X," HIM said straight to the point.

"…Fine." I was reluctant but to be honest, I am really curious about the Special X anyway.

"Welcome to the team, I think your question would be answered very soon," HIM said a little bit daringly which I feel like I got gooses bump.

As I open the door, Ms. Keane was outside, and since I am not stupid, I know that she is eavesdropping on us.

"Hello, Ms. Keane." HIM smiles as if nothing happen.

"Hello." She waves with a sheepish smile and turns to me, "Blaine…Please reconsider."

"What?" I just gave her a confused look, "I am going to join in Special X since they will answer some of the questions that I have asked you before but you never answer me."

"I understand, I wish you luck." Ms. Keane smiles and her smile never fails to be sincere.

End of Flashback…

*Clap* *Clap*

Everyone starts to applaud as the song ends. I look at my classmate as they have enjoyed the song that I have just played. I got out from the seat and let other people to go and play the piano instead.

I scan around the room to see that nothing is unusual and everything is back into places. As my mind starts to wonder again, my eyes caught a white hair girl sitting by the corner of the room. I slowly walk toward her as I recognize her immediately.

"Bell," I said her name, immediately lift her head up.

"B-Blaine!" She sounds surprised as I think she didn't think that I would recognize her.

"Were you the one who told me to play Falling for innocence OST?" I asked since after hearing her voice calling my name, I am very sure that she is the one.

"Y-Yes." She shyly answers.

I sit down next to her since everyone else in the room just watches other students playing the piano.

"Hey, Bell." I called Bell again and she looks at me, "Why isn't Mr. Lumpkins in class?"

"I don't know, and I miss Ms. Keane." Bell comment which surprises me since I didn't know that she was in the same class as me six years ago.

"Yeah… me too." I answered and look at the door in hope of seeing Ms. Keane came barging into the door for being late.

"When will Mr. Lumpkins be fired so that we can actually have a music class?" Bell comments as she sounds upset.

"I think we should address this to the Principal," I suggested.

"Some of the students had already tried but the Principal just couldn't find any evidence to fired Mr. Lumpkins. Even though there are many students to witness but the Principal still said it wasn't enough." Bell sighs.

"I think Mr. Lumpkins must have cornered the Principal or something." I continue to think, suddenly starts to feel like being in the Special X.

We both became silent for a moment as we think really hard about the situation but the alarm broke our train of thoughts.

"ATTENTION STUDENTS! PLEASE REPORT TO THE FOOTBALL FIELD NOW! ALL STUDENTS TO THE FOOTBALL FIELD NOW!"

'Who is controlling the speaker?' I question since I do not recognize the voice at all, I turn to look at my class to see that they all have the same confuse look at me. When I turn to asked Bell, she suddenly disappear.

"Where is Bell?" I asked no one in particular, which I feel a little bit dumbfound.

Students start to rush out the door since they are all curious to what is going to happen, I also am as curious so I follow the tide outside the classroom toward the football field.

No One's POV

"ATTENTION STUDENTS!" Fuzzy Lumpkins announce into the microphone, "I WOULD LIKE TO REVEAL TO YOU ALL A SECRET!"

Students start so to talk since they are very curious to what this secret would be.

"I —" Fuzzy Lumpkins was cut off when suddenly a roar was heard, "I WAS NOT ABLE TO SUCCESSFULLY CHASE OFF A MUTANT RAT! NOW IT IS GOING TO DESTROY THE SCHOOL!"

Fuzzy Lumpkins quickly end his speech and runs away. The students start to scream in panic as they all were desperately trying to escape.

All the Special X members start to dress in their uniform when a strange red cloak flew out of nowhere and gave the mutant rat a shot. The mutant rat immediately starts to shrink and it reduce back into a normal size.

Everyone looks at the red cloak in amazement at the same time the Special X members are all stunned.

"Hello students, I will be your new protector from now on, as the Special X seems to show how inefficient they can be." The red cloak send a daring look at the ten members, "I will take my leave then."

The red cloak then disappears leaving everyone to hang in suspension, but everyone in the end claps and cheers for that one single red cloak.

"Meeting now!" Number 1 said into the communicator leaving everyone scared.

…

"Who is that red cloak? It couldn't be one of us since we were all at the football field." Number 4 said in amazement.

"At least we will have lesser work now." Number 5 said positively.

"That is not good!" Number 1 said as he got up from the table.

"But Number 1 I don't see what is so bad about having someone else helping us with the situation." Number 7 question innocently.

"That is bad since we don't know who is that person and what is his motive." Number 1 answer.

"But don't we all also don't know each other's identity?" Number 9 said bluntly which made everyone stunned.

"That's true…" Number 3 trail off as he also didn't know what to say about this situation.

"Still isn't that red cloak guy suspicious, I think he is a fraud." Number 2 said.

"I agree, that red cloak guy is a fraud." Number 10 stands up to support Number 2.

"I also agree." Number 8 stands up to support Number 2 and 10.

"We couldn't just blindly assume that he is a fraud so sit down." Number 1 said as he sounds, even more, stress, at the same time Number 8 and 10 went back to sit.

"All I know right now is that having that guy around is going to cause us some trouble." Number 6 said, "If he continues succeeding, then we all won't be here anymore."

"I feel like I have a mixed feeling of happy and sad since the good part would be we won't have to do any hard work anymore. But the downside is that we couldn't trust that guy and we all won't meet each other anymore." Number 9 said.

"That isn't the only downside Number 9 if we all remember, we all will be targeted by that red cloak as well. I can tell that he is going out to get us." Number 3 said.

"I think he is also trying to make the other students stop worshipping us too." Number 7 adds on.

"To sum up what everyone is thinking, that red cloak is trying to get rid of us all right?" Number 1 said as he sounds a little happy.

Everyone in the room nodded and Number 1 couldn't help but feel a strong bond of unity.

"Then we need to up our game for the Halloween event then since he is going to give a grand opening of himself on that events anyway. Or I should say that we will be having a competition against him for the first time." Number 1 said.

This causes everyone to feel a sudden thrill of challenge as everyone all thinks at the same time that 'we will win.'