The three girls sat down and sank into their chairs.

"Phew!" Fine said. "I'm glad we're done for today."

Lione giggled. "It wasn't that bad Fine."

"Still, right now I just want to just sink into this chair and not do anything for the rest of the day."

"Well then I guess you're going to be disappointed, Fine." Sun said, laughing as she entered the room.

Fine immediately sat up, "What are we going to do, Sun?"

"Nothing, I was joking." Sun said, smiling. "Besides, it's already too late to be going outside."

Fine sank back into her chair, Rein giggled at Fine's posture.

"You three can just rest for now. I'm going to discuss something with the others." Sun said. The three girls nodded. With that, Sun left the room.

"What do you think they are going to discuss?" Fine asked.

"I'm not sure..." Lione trailed off.

"Do you think we should go and eavesdrop on them?" Fine asked, already making a move towards the door. Rein pulled her back. "Don't. even. try. Fine."

"Okay." Fine said quietly as she shrunk back. Rein kind of scared her when she got serious. She could hear Lione giggle as she slowly backed away from Rein. Rein crossed her arms and kept a pokerface for a solid minute before bursting into laughter, and the other two joined in.

"Right I'm here. What's up?"

Gale glanced up briefly at Sun before turning her attention back to the papers in front of her. "The ceiling, if you didn't realise already."

Sun rolled her eyes. "Please you did not just-"

"I did."

Sun fell back into her seat. "Alright alright... wonder what got her so snappy." She whispered to herself.

"Sun I can hear you."

She put her hands up. "Okay okay, sorry."

Snow laughed as Star burst into laughter banging her fist on the table. Light glanced at Star, unimpressed. "No need to act so dramatic, Star."

Flora giggled as she put down her pen on the table. "Alright girls, we're having a meeting for a reason, so let's just get straight to it."

"Alright," Sun said as she sat up straight. "What did you guys find?"

Light flipped open her notebook as she turned it around to Sun to see. On the page was some names and their element next to it. Some names were circled in red, specifically, Light Elementors.

"Akiro? Isn't that the family of Light Elementors?" Star asked. Light nodded as she turned the pages, revealing more circled names. All circled names have one thing in common, they were all Light Elementors.

"Is the corruption out and about again?" Snow asked.

"I'm afraid so." Light replied. "But this time is not like the last time. Last time it was just something the world decided to do to make the power structure more balanced, but this time, I think there is someone behind this."

"You think there's someone planning this?" Gale read through the list of names again. "I wouldn't rule out the possibility but- who do you think it might even be?"

Light shooke her head. "I'm not sure. Snow, Sun, do you guys have an idea? I feel like you two know something the rest of us don't."

The two of them avoided Light's gaze, Snow looking down at the table and Sun looking away. Light sighed, turning back to her notebook before flipping the page to what seemed like a map. Several areas were marked, but one place was circled with a question mark.

Star tilted her head to the side. "What is that place? And here I was thinking I had set foot on every part of this land."

"I don't know. I haven't got the time to go there recently."

"Well it would be a good idea to scout the place." Flora stood up. "Got time to accompany me tomorrow Star?"

"Hell yeah!" Star exclaimed as she shot up from her chair.

"It would be a good idea to be careful though." Gale spoke. "I have a feeling there's someone in that place."

Star gave her a thumbs up before leaving the room. Gale and Light sighed. Flora smiled as she turned her attention back to the map. "Mind if I borrow this Light?"

"Not at all." Light said, smiling.

"Thanks." Flora smiled as she closed the notebook and put it in her storage ring.

"What are you two going to do?" Sun asked.

Flora shrugged. "Just explore for a bit. We'll notify you if there's something report-worthy."

Sun nodded. "Well, is there anything else you guys want to talk about? If not I'll head out now."

"Oh there's something else alright. You'll be staying here for... perhaps the next few hours." Gale said as she scribbled some things in her notebook.

Sun groaned as she laid her head on the table.

Bright stared at his hands in disbelief. He aimed at the training dummy once again before attempting to create another light orb, only to have it emit black particles before shrinking back into nothingness. He tried again and again, switching the shape of his attack everytime, but no avail. No matter what object he made, it always emitted the same black spark before disappearing. He punched his fist, hard onto the dummy. What was happening to him? Why can't he use the Light Element anymore?

Suddenly he remembered the "gift" the cloaked figure from before had mentioned. Was this what the cloaked figure was talking about? What did they want from him? More importantly, what can he even do about this "gift"? He can't even comfront the figure about this. Feeling frustrated, he went up to his room, closing and locking the door. He doesn't want to risk snapping at the first person who enters his room. He sighed as he sat down at his desk, lost in his thoughts. Suddenly he heard someone knocking on the glass on his window. He whipped his head around.

"...Shade?"

Wow I really got caught up with school and didn't update for a looong while. Oh well time to work on the next chapter. XD

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