Chapter Twenty-One

Darla Vindbrigger sat down at her office desk. She quickly glanced at her planner and closed it; after she made sure she didn't have any plans besides discussing with Rose Knightly's roommates about her disappearance, which were basically lies. After the meeting, she had to flee from the campus and visit Chronos.

The door creaked opened, and a head poked in, "Ms. Vindbrigger, I'm sorry, but we were suppose to meet about ten minutes ago, and we've been knocking, I was just wondering if we could come in?" The voice of Raider Rex squeaked. Darla jumped, and looked up with her startled face turning to relief; quickly turning to her computer she closed the program that was running before looking at the girls with a smile on her face.

"Please take a seat," She said with a welcoming smile, and her voice sounding fake. She shoved school papers to the side, and everything Triangular Power related into the garbage bin, though her sparkling eyes never moved off of the three girls in front of her.

"So..." Angel* said, "You said you have some things to talk to us about Rose's disappearance?"

"Oh, yes," Her cherry blossom colored lips released the smile that had rested on them, and let her face form a more serious look. She might have failed a lot of her high school classes, especially her math, but she was always perfect during her high school plays. She loved the Drama Club. She opened a drawer under her desk, and pulled out a manila folder and slid it across the desk towards the three girls. Ameena picked it up with the other two peeking over her shoulder. "You can open it if you like. I'm sorry girls, but Rose Marie Knightly, is dead. She was found murdered yesterday afternoon. I'm sorry but your roommate will not be returning."

Shock appeared on their faces, and tears began to swell in the three's eyes. Ameena began to open up the folder, but before anyone could react, the brunette fell to the floor, and lied there unconscious. The papers in the folder flew in the air and twirled to the carpet landing next to Ameena. The Headmistress dialed 911 with the phone on her desk, and then hung it up. She got up and walked over to the body of Ameena.

"I don't think she fell from shock about Rose," She said observing the girl. "It seems like it was because a medical reason. Does she have any medical problems?"

Raider shrugged her shoulders. "You're the one with her medical records. Don't you know anything?"

"Just her name and that's it, I haven't studied much about my students yet, I've been... busy, working on a very important project?"

"A project that comes before knowing what your students are allergic to, knowing if they have deadly illnesses? This project must be more important than the lives of others than Ms. V!" Angel said in a serious way, but she really meant it to be sarcastic.

"Sure..." Darla committed, as the paramedics walked into her office.

"What's happened here?" One of the strangers asked.

"She's passed out. I think she needs a doctor. She's really hot, and it feels like she has a fever," Darla said getting up off of her office floor. Angel began cleaning up the scattered papers as the paramedics put Ameena on a stretcher. Once she was done she began examining them. Her eyebrows knitted in confusion. She shook off the puzzled look and held them in her crossed arms and watched her friend disappear with the paramedics.

"I'm sorry this meeting had to end so, harshly ladies," The Headmistress said, grabbing her items, and secretly including the papers in the trash, "But I've got to go with your friend. Please, do not visit her until further notice, I don't want you two sitting in the hospital until we know what exactly happened, perhaps she just got a little too hot, I don't know. I'll call you girls later and let you know about Ameena. You are excused from the rest of your classes today. Goodbye!"

As the Headmistress fastened her seatbelt, she put the key in the ignition. But instead of turning the direction to the Magix hospital, she turned the other way. She made her way to the business building, where Chronos works. Darla had no idea what happened to Ameena, but she had no plans of seeing her until later that night.

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Angel and Raider sat down on the couch of their dorm. Angel handed Raider the pictures from the manila folder. "They're out of order of course, but something tells me we shouldn't trust Headmistress Vindbrigger," Angel stated as Raider browsed through the pictures she was given. Her face went pale.

"What kind of sick person has pictures of someone's murdered body?" Raider shouted in disgust, looking at Rose's dead body in the pictures she was handed.

"That's the thing," Angel said. "Look closer at the pictures. I'm an artist, not just a painter and a drawer, but I know digital artwork when I see it, those pictures are fake, Rose is most likely still alive."

"Then why would Ms. Vindbrigger tell us those lies?" Angel shrugged her shoulders at Raiders question.

"I don't know, but let's go talk to Professor Wizgiz, we can trust him, he's not teaching today, he got a sub. I don't think he left yet, so let's hurry and catch him, before he does leave."

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Sienna Birthstone walked calmly down the hall of Red Fountain, standing next to one of her best friends, Kristina. The halls were flooded with the Red Fountain students, rushing crazily to their classes during the class change. Her, Kristina, and the other girls, were ordered to go to Saladin's office, they had no idea why.

"Roxanna!" A voice shouted out. Kristina's eyes widen as she recognized the voice. A hand rested on her shoulder, and now, there was not a chance to make a run for it.

"Who are you?" Rosli asked kindly. Kristina didn't bother letting the boy reply to her friend.

"What do you want?" She rudely said to the boy. "Can't you just leave me alone?"

"I'm sorry, for bugging you," He said. "I was just wondering why you're here, shouldn't you be at-"

"It's none of your business Logan, now if you don't mind; we've got places to be!" Kristina turned around and angrily walked away.

"That was Logan?" Tanya asked, "Your twin brother? He looks nothing like you in my opinion."

Kristina ignored Tanya's comment and Jasmine opened the door to Saladin's office. Teachers, the specialist, Rose, three of the witches, and a stranger sat in the room.

"Good morning ladies," Alexander Cairo said. "Nice to see you finally joined us."

"Sorry," Sienna said her eyes watched her angry best friend. "We sort of ran into someone, I guess we shouldn't have."

"It's alright, but now that you are all here, we have some sad news we'd like to share," Saladin said. "Tanya, I'm so sorry, your cousin Thalia, and the other two, Gwen, and Beatrice, are dead. Lucia murdered them, but lucky for us, we don't have to deal with her again."

"My cousin?" Tanya asked, her face turned puzzled, she had no idea what he was talking about.

"You don't know?" Griffin said. Tanya shook her head. "Tanya, does the name Calliope ring a bell? She was your grandmother's sister, she was going to receive the throne first, but, Calliope married a man with no magic, she was disowned by the royal family, your grandmother Clio received the crown instead. When Thalia was six, people from the planet of Psirius, were commanded to assassinate the lost princess, they killed Calliope, her son, and her wife, in other words, Thalia's grandmother and parents. Thalia was raised by her grandfather Albert, the mortal boy who caused this whole problem. I'm surprised you had no idea."

Kristina leaned over and gave her other best friend a hug. "I'm so sorry," She whispered to the girl. Tanya politely brushed the fairy of stars off of her.

"It's alright, I hardly knew the girl anyways, and it's the veterans, the ones who worked with her last year that you should be hugging."

"On top of bad news, we have some good news, everyone, this is Amelia Sunrise!" Griselda said pointed to the orange haired girl, with bruises on her neck. Amelia waved her hand. "It is important that she must be protected as well, if Chronos gets a hold of her, then he will be even more difficult to take down. You all know the first rule, when it comes to battle, always go the easiest way possible to defeat your opponent."

"And that is sort of why we called you here today," Codatorta began. "We do know that his man will attack us, but we don't know when the battle will begin. We don't know how he plans to defeat us, we don't know what he is going to do; all we know is that he will attack. Chronos has the power of time, he can reverse or fast forward it, but he can not change it, only some holders can. Chronos can also blink, which is just like our friend Liberty Bell's power to orb, but there isn't any blue lights or any lights at all when he blinks. He'll pop up out of nowhere and all of you need to be prepared for that."

"We have set up a training course," Mandy said. "Actually, a couple training courses. They should help prepare all of you, fairies witches or heroes. And Amelia, you will be taking a martial arts class of Codatorta tomorrow while everyone else is in the training courses."

"The first course is sort of like a maze, you all have to get through it, you will be in teams of three, or almost three, and there will be eight groups," Wizgiz said, passing out papers to each of the students. "These papers will tell you who are on what team, the team names are named after colors, if we have to split up during the battle with Chronos, these are the people you will be splitting up with."

The papers read:

Team Pink

Katalynna

Conner

Kristina

Team Yellow

Paz

Sera

Jasson

Team Ivory

Tara

Sienna

Jeanette

Rose

Team Purple

Christine

Jake

Mike

Team Gold

Leon

Willow

Rosliananna

Team Red

Jade

Jasmine

Kish

Team Blue

Lance

Carmen

Kyle

Team Green

Tanya

Sabrina

Chale

"Use your magic, and your weapons ladies and gentlemen, this obstacle maze is not going to be as easy as it sounds," Mallory said. "Don't get afraid and don't give up. We will see you all in ten minutes by the fountain, please match your clothes with your color team, it will be much easier for us teachers to know what team you are on."

Okay so I said I'd update towards the weekend, and there is just a few hours left until Monday where I live so it's still the weekend! I hate Sundays, I have school tomorrow :( The end is almost here! We are just chapters away until it finally ends! The Peace Makers are trying to make up a game plan of how to destroy Chronos, multiple game plans so that's sort of why there are multiple training stations.

Angel is starred to not confuse her with Angel Starling, the girl from the future, who will be making another appearance soon, along with Brooklynne Meadows.

SPOILER ALERT!

Just for those who love their spoilers, I'll give you a few things that will be happening from now til the end. First, I'm going to warn you to expect the unexpected, I love just making things happen when you least expect it. People who you least expect to die, well, you might want double check on that, you never know. Lastly, don't turn our back when you think it's the end! Chronos never gives up!

Now thank you to those of you who have reviewed, Webmonster, StarsMagic, and Princess of Flames! You three are amazing! I couldn't have kept writing this if I never received those reviews! Reviews always encourage me so keep it up!

Question: What do you think will happen at the end?