The students had been standing outside of the school for about 15 minutes now, and worried murmurs were passing through the crowd.
"Do you suppose something happened?" Ran asked Sonoko, who shrugged.
"Could be. It's times like these I wish for that crystal ball Taiitsukun gave us!"
Suddenly, the blonde's cell phone went off. Sonoko answered it quickly, hoping no one else had heard it ring.
One text message, the inbox read. Curiously, she opened it.
"What's wrong?" Ran asked as she saw her frown. She leaned over so she could read the message as well.
To stop a serpent, one must cut off the head, the message read.
"That's weird," Sonoko muttered. "Who could…?" Her eyes widened suddenly, a look of panic overtaking her. "Ran, move!" she cried, pushing the other girl out of the way just as a bullet hit the ground where Ran had just been standing. Chips of cement flew from the ground, propelled loose by the force of the bullet hitting.
Students and teachers alike panicked. Though there had been no sound of a gunshot, people near Ran and Sonoko had witnessed the attack, and word spread quickly. The girls looked around quickly, trying to locate the source of the sniper. Ran jerked Sonoko back just in time, causing the other girl to only be grazed along her arm.
"We have to get out of here!" Ran cried, dragging Sonoko along as she looked around, trying to find a place that would provide them with cover away from the student body. "Are you hurt badly?"
"No, it's just a graze," Sonoko replied.
"Girls!" The two whirled around to see their English teacher approaching them. "This way!" The American guided them out of sight around the corner of a nearby building quickly.
"Jodie-sensei!" Sonoko exclaimed.
The older woman motioned for her to be quiet. "Damn, there's more than one," the spectacled teacher muttered.
"More than- how do you know?" Ran questioned. She suddenly found herself holding an armful of children's clothing. "W-what are you doing?"
"Come with me," Jodie told Ran and Sonoko, who followed her hesitantly.
As they reached the end of the alley, Jodie said," I'll have to do something in order to disguise you, otherwise there's no way you're getting out of here alive looking as you do now."
"Subaru!" Ran gasped in sudden recognition.
"Subaru?" Sonoko questioned.
"How did you know me?" the FBI agent asked, looking quite surprised.
"You wouldn't know her Nuriko, we met her after you died, but she's a Byakku shichiseishi!" Ran explained.
"Oh my goodness, Miaka?" Jodie gasped. She hugged the dark-haired teen tightly. S
"What's her celestial power?" Sonoko asked.
"I can change the age of a person's body," the older woman explained.
"Ohh, that would explain the children's clothes," Sonoko nodded.
"There's no way the students will be going to class after this, which is actually lucky for us, since I won't have to explain why you two didn't show up," Jodie mused as she changed Ran behind the cover of a Dumpster.
Just as she'd finished with Sonoko, and the blonde girl was switching clothes, a sudden roar shook the air.
"Oh, Byakku," Jodie whispered, her eyes wide in horror.
Peering around the Dumpster, the two teens turned children gaped at the school, which was now in flames.
"Do you have a safe place in mind?" Ran asked, her childish voice hushed. "Because if not, it would probably best if we went to the Kudo house?"
"That's where our Base of Ops, as Tasuki calls it, is," Sonoko explained as she drew her and Ran's clothing into a bundle. Wordlessly nodding, Jodie led the two out of the alley, and then, the crowd distracted by the flames and trying to reach safety, led them to her car.
Hello, SG-chan here again! Hope y'all enjoyed the last chappie! I'm really glad that I found my notebook again; lemme tell ya, it was quite a relief, cause SG-chan had some other stories in the same notebook as this one that she'd thought she lost but in reality actually hadn't! ^-^ And no, I'm not quite sure if that makes sense -_-;
All right, be honest now; how many people saw that coming? SG-chan thinks that UoFT, while one of her babies, isn't quite as up to par as her more recent stories are; it's been about a year since this was written, so my writing style's changed, and I thought this chapter was pretty cliched and not so epically foreshadowed ^^; Maybe that's just me though...
Anywho, review review review! Even if it 's only to say, "Ur writing sux! xP Jk" Okay, I'm kidding; don't write that, or else SG-chan may not be able to restrain Bess...
Bess: Wow, I'm the first of us you bring into the ANs of this story... I'm actually quite surprised, human.
Well, you are the most vicious of the people in my head... ^^; Make sure to review! =^_^=
Preview: The reincarnated horn seishi quickly reached a conclusion. It wasn't good.
