Chapter 13

"Be careful"

"A distraction."

"What sort of distraction?"

"If they had to use conjuration, probably a dark creature of some kind." He proposed. Flora grabbed his hand and started running.

"We have to go tell the others!" but right before opening the flat's door. He stopped her.

"Go warn them. I'll go see who took the liberty of paying us a visit."

"But…"

"If I'm right we have on our hands two enemies. And to stop the two of them I need to find the one that controls the other."

"Professor…"

"Flora I need you to go tell your friends and prepare yourself if the distraction comes to crash your party." she hesitated a few seconds before turning around and running in the flat but just before disappearing behind the door she said:

"Be careful."

Like if he was ever going to risk his life for a bunch of fairies.

He chose to teleport, his blood red runes surrounding him and only disappearing when he arrived in the headmistress's office. He immediately went to stand in front of her desk turning on her hologram sender. Faragonda appeared instantly.

"Professor Darkell, is there a problem?" She asked with curiosity and concern in her voice.

"You will never believe what I'm about to tell you Mam."

After telling her everything he knew, he waited for her orders.

"I want you to go and see who is behind all this but don't do anything before I come back. Your priority is to keep the students safe."

He nodded and ran out of the office.

While that was happening, Flora had explained to her friends the situation. Some of them had had a hard time believing her but the crashing window and the loud roar sealed the deal. The boys had left to search the east wing of the school. Leaving the girls running for their lives from the beast in the west wing. Couldn't he just go and chase someone who could fight back? Of course not that wouldn't follow the Dark Creature Code. And with his four arms, two enormous deadly looking horns, he certainly looked like a Dark Creature Code follower.

Tecna with an impressive backflip, kicked his head in the wall. His horns stayed stuck in it. Leaving us a few minutes to catch our breath. But the enormous dark monster a few meters away didn't seem to bother Flora's gossip seeking blond friend, she was having a great time spraying their furry friend with some girly perfume while she looked at Flora with a curious and teasing sparkle in her eyes.

"So Flora you didn't tell us why you and Professor Darkell were meeting up in secret while we were partying…" but unfortunately she didn't get an answer back because the Minotaur's horns finally escaped their bricked prison.

"Stella, you made him angrier!" they all cried before running away like their lives depended on it. And in this case they did.

The monster was starting to gain on Flora, the last of the group. When they finished climbing up some stairs she felt a hand grabbing her wrist and pulling her on the side in a small corridor hidden by a marble statue.

Her back was pressed against someone's front. That someone's hands were lying on each side of her hips. She blushed at the feel of a warm breath on her cheek and neck. Her concentration was mostly on that and the weird stirring in her belly, she barely noticed the monster passing without seeing her. A few minutes passed, she felt on her neck the person sigh in relief, and his body seemed to lose some of his tension.

She risked a look at his face and all of her relaxed at the sight of her messy haired history teacher.

"Is snatching your students and dragging them in a dark small space, a pass time of yours?" he raised his eyebrow in surprise at her out of character sarcastic question.

He answered with a devilish smirk and replied in the same sarcastic tone.

"Of course not Sweetheart, that treatment is only reserved for you." They stared at each other in silence until they finally noticed their position. And hastily jumped apart.

"How are we going to stop that beast?"

"Faragonda took away all my powers except teleportation. You'll have to do it without me. But I can go get your specialist friends to help."

Why would Miss Faragonda confiscate his powers? But right now that wasn't important. She would ask him when there wasn't a mad half bull half gorilla running around her school.

"I'm coming with you." He nodded and pulled her to him. They melted into the mass of red writings. The first time she hadn't noticed the weird chill passing through her.

When they reappeared from the surface they were greeted by the boys' very shocked expressions. They looked at Flora recognizing her quickly but they turned confused at the young man holding her.

"Who…?" But Sky didn't have time to finish his sentence because he was cut off by the man.

"We don't have time to explain, your girlfriends are in danger, they need your help. Now hop in the circle."

Of course Riven had to argue when it came to being ordered around.

"You can't tell us what to do…" but suddenly the atmosphere in the room darkened and a dangerous aura surrounded the man.

"Get in now." He repeated in a cold voice. And they did.

They appeared just in time to save an unconscious Musa from flying into a wall. The boys jumped in to fight off the beast and distract him from the girls. While that was happening Darkell whispered into Flora's ear before teleporting himself away.

"When you're finished with that one, tell your friends to go to Faragonda's office. There is a magic monitor that you can call the headmistress with. I'll try to join you there. Good luck." He chose to appear in the school's center and that was the main courtyard. Locating the dark magic users will be easier here.

He sensed their aura instantly after closing his eyes in concentration. They were moving through the south wing's hallways. He took off in a run following his inner dark magic radar. He chose not to teleport because he didn't want to appear just in front of them. Man what would he give to be able to fly again. He easily recognized the three witches who had bullied Bloom and overpowered the girls during their first night out. It seems that they hadn't taken their last meeting with him seriously and they were going to regret it. He would make sure of it.

They seemed to follow something, a source of power of some kind. They were heading in the girls and the boys' location. Strange. But suddenly their glowing guide turned brutally in the other direction. Darkell made sure to follow them silently in the shadows. After 5 minutes of following the witches he suddenly realized something quite interesting.
It was leading them to the headmistress's office. Was Faragonda hiding a powerful artefact that he didn't know about? And these three reckless witches somehow knew of its existence. This was turning out to be quite Interesting for the history teacher.

In one of the many corridors they passed he noticed some movement. As discreetly as possible he stopped trailing the three girls and went to identify the movement's origin.
And he was quite startled to discover girls and the specialists hiding behind some doors and behind curtains.

He was surprised that they had yet to be seen by the enemy.
It's official witches were dumber than fairies and until now he had always seen fairies as the lowest creatures out there.

They looked as surprised as he when he walked out of his hiding spot. A rune circle appeared around him and he motioned to them to come and enter it.
Flora was the first to come and join him. And the others followed suit.