Chapter 3: Sands of Time

The end of school bell rang, everyone gathering their things. Auron fell asleep during last period study hall and was trying to be awakened by her friends who wanted to get home.

"Auron!" Luminae mumbled irritated. She kicked Auron's desk sending it crashing over, the golden-brown sleeping beauty still attached.

"ACK!" Auron screeched, waking up to her desk crashing over her in a parade of papers and pens. "Huh?! What?!" Auron looked around the room and saw that people were leaving. "Schools already over?"

"Uh...YEAH!" Luminae continued, "You've been asleep the whole last period! And on the first day too! Not to mention you were snoring."

"I WHAT!?" Auron screeched loudly in Luminae's ear.

"You weren't snoring." Shed said, standing in the door way." But they did notice." Shed helped Auron pick up her things and shove them in her bag. "You wouldn't believe what interesting news I found out while sitting over with a bunch of girls." He continued, "It seems the guy you were semi-telling off is part of a popular pop group known as the 'Three Lights'."

"O.O Really?!" She asked looking up at him with widened eyes.

"Oh Yeah." He retorted. "It seems the guy you told off name is Seiya. He is also the one in our class you accidentally flicked an eraser bit at during art."

Auron shivered, making her famous creepy noise. Luminae just laughed. "This is classic Auron. First day at school and you have already ruined your social life!"

"And yet you happen to be apart of that social life Lulu." She smirked as they walked out the door.

"OHHHH! What have I told you about calling me that!" Luminae said through gritted teeth chasing after Auron who had already darted out the front gate of the school.

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As the days last bit of sun faded into the blue-black sky of night a young boy wondered the streets alone, a clock draped over his shoulders and around his front. The boy headed over into a near by park where the moon showed bright under the drifting clouds. The shadows were his friends and the Darkness his master.

The boy lingered in the shadows of the trees for mere moments when a husky voice loomed into the night air. "Why do you ask to meet me here? Your our enemy."

The boy looked around searching for the voices position and cried out. "I do this not for you but for Her."

"Really?" It asks, "Why? You a creature from beyond deaths ninth gate. And yet you come back to this earth as the greater dead, just to help some woman." The voice chuckled in a husky tone.

"Don't mimic my intentions!" He yelled. "You have no right!"

"We'll see about that,...Rhel." The voice said fading into the darkness.

"You won't see...cause next time I'll rip you to shreds for laughing at me." He murmured to himself.