Chapter 1 – Reunion
Micah watched as the sole figure continued up the beach, but he didn't say anything. He and the two others had been planning this for a long time, and now, the day had finally arrived.
His teacher stiffened; for a moment he thought for sure that she had heard the two others and had figured out the plot. If she did know, however, she made no move, but continued to look over the water.
The figure coming along the beach was in plain view now. He was in his middle twenties, with long blonde hair pulled back into a low ponytail. He wore a long red coat, and had a determined look on his face. He looked at Micah and winked, then returned hi gaze to his intended target – Micah's unsuspecting teacher.
Suddenly, he stopped, and signaled to his partner in the dunes. The second man came bounding out, and ran for the teacher. "Ellya," he thought, "this time, you're going down!" He drew a small dagger, and prepared to strike.
With the dagger just inches from her throat, Ellya spun around, and flipped the man over her shoulder, and onto a transmutation circle she had drawn in the sand.
"Hello Edward," she said calmly, before send Ed up on a pillar of sand, and flying into the water. When he came up, sputtering, he was neck deep in salty, ocean water. He looked to the beach to see Ellya grinning at him.
Micah and the other man began to slowly back away from the edge of the water.
"Where do you think you are going?"
Ed quickly swam out of the way, as his two accomplices fell into the water right beside him. When they came up, Ed said simply, "Al, you walk to loud."
"Brother," Al replied calmly, "you were the one that went running at her like a herd of elephants!"
Micah looked at the brothers, and then began to laugh. Ed and Al stared at the boy for a moment, and then they started to laugh as well.
Ellya stood calm and motionless on the beach until the three came in. "I told you, you would never succeed, but to drag my apprentice into this mess…you all have some explaining to do," she said, removing her sunglasses to reveal two milky, sightless eyes, that stared passed the three of them, and into the distance.