Nine POV
When I arrive back at the Academy, it seems as if all hell broke loose. Half of the dormitory is obliterated and students are panicking. I need to find out what in the world happened.
I jog over to the dorms where the main mass of students are. I push my way through the crowd to get a better look. Eventually, I manage to worm my way through and see Alexis, Rachel, and Kyle standing around Luke who's sitting against the wall of the dorms.
"I can't explain it guys, I've told you," Luke sighs. "It's all really just a blur. The last thing I remember is seeing the Mog and it's like my body went into auto pilot and handled the situation for me."
At the mention of the word 'Mog' I head straight for Luke.
"What the hell is this all about?!" I snap probably a little too aggressive.
"Luke here developed a legacy," Rachel smiles.
"You left out the part where Luke destroyed the dormitory," Alexis shakes her head.
"Don't forget he also killed a Mog." Kyle turns towards Alexis
"Big deal, it was one Mog." Alexis narrows her eyes.
"Still more than you've managed to kill," Kyle smirks.
I jump in to break up the argument before Alexis can pummel Kyle's face in.
"Alright, alright! That's enough!" I calm myself down and turn back to face Luke. "Now what's all this fuss about you developing your first legacy?"
Luke forces a smile then looks down at the palms of his hands.
"To be completely honest Proffesor Nine, I'm not entirely sure myself. All throughout the morning I had felt like shit. I just figured I was nervous or something but then the veins in my hands glowed bright blue."
He goes on to tell me about his encounter with the Mog and how a blue energy shot from his hands killing the Mog and destroying the dorms in the process. I've never heard of Luke's legacy before however. None of the other Garde had this ability and Sandor, my cepan, didn't enlighten me on the subject either. Shooting blue energy from your hands is new to me just as much as it is to Luke.
From what I can tell from Luke's story, the Mog was just a scout and he definitely didn't just show up by coincidence. The bastard was looking for something, but whatever it is was either destroyed in Luke's energy blast or doesn't exist.
"You sure you didn't develop Lumen and shoot fire from your hands?" I ask just to make sure.
"This definitely wasn't fire," Luke shakes his head. "I'm not entirely sure what it was but it looked a lot like the stuff in your necklace there."
I glance down a realize I'm still wearing the damn pendant from visiting John. I take it off and toss it to Luke.
"Here, maybe you can recreate what happened with the help of the pendant." I say.
As soon as Luke catches the pendant, we're bathed in a bright blue glow. Whatever Luke did, the pendant reacted to it and is now shining brighter than the sun. The sudden light doesn't help to calm to crowd of students behind us and many start to shout and point.
"That's it!" Luke shouts. "This looks exactly like what I shot out of my hands!"
"It's like you shot out energy straight from Lorien or something," I say entranced by the warm glow.
I could stand here forever in the light of the pendant. It's like a whole other world. A more peaceful, quieter world where you feel as if nothing can harm you. Sadly, I'm interrupted by Lexa who burst out from the main doors of Lorien Hall.
"Nine," Lexa jogs over to me. "My office, now. You need to see this."
I nod and Lexa jogs back towards Lorien Hall. I turn to Luke, Alexis, Kyle and Rachel.
"You four are coming with me. I'm not risking another incident and having my whole campus turned to rubble."
Luke POV
I'm not sure whether I should be jumping for joy or terrified shitless at developing my first legacy. I want to be happy like Kyle is. This is a huge step towards becoming a member of the Garde and I shouldn't be scared. That being said, Alexis has a point. It was only one Mog and from the news coverage of the invasion, it looked like the Garde could slice through hundreds of Mogs without even batting an eye.
Either way I look at it, there's still the part where I blew a giant hole in the side of the dorms. Not even forty-eight hours into my stay at the Academy and I've already managed to majorly screwed up not just once, but twice. Way to impress the girl Luke.
All that can wait though. Right now Lexa has "urgent news" for Nine and apparently Nine deems us worthy enough to invite us along.
"What the hell is more urgent than a Mog infiltrating the campus and blasting a hole through the dorm?" Kyle whispers.
"Whatever it is," Rachel glances at Kyle. "I don't think we want to find out."
We enter Lexa's office and gather around her desk.
"Alright Lexa, what's so important that you had to drag us away from that?" Nine points out the window towards what's left of the dormitory.
"I'll let you see for yourself," Lexa says and turns on a television hanging from the wall.
Live news coverage from a helicopter is being streamed to the TV. The video feed shows a small village surrounded by heavily fortified walls in the middle of no where. A mass of people, who I can only assume are the inhabitants of the village, are gathered at the gates of the walls rioting.
"Heavy resistance from the Mogadorian prison in Alaska has continued on and off over the course of this past month, but this is as chaotic as we've ever seen," the news reporter says.
The camera switches to a women standing near the gates of the Mog prison and she looks absolutely terrified.
"Th-the guards are doing everything the can to subdue the Mogadorians inside," she stutters. "Nothing seems to be working and I'm afraid for my safety. The gates look as if they're about to give way to the riots of the Mogadorians."
Besides the noise from the TV, the room is silent. No one knows what to say.
"Wait, something is coming straight towards the Mogadorian Prison!" The news lady shouts.
The camera switches back to the helicopter and something flys across the screen. No. Someone.
"John," Nine whispers.
The John zips down inside of the prison and is instantly over run by the Mogs. He manages to keep the charging Mogs at bay, but fails to see the one sneaking up from behind.
"Oh no," Rachel covers her mouth.
We watch on helplessly as the Mog walks up behind John. The mog pulls out a blaster and takes aim. When he shoots, the projectile that comes from the gun isn't the bright energy like I expected it to be from seeing videos of the invasion, this projectile is dark black and seems unnatural. It hits John directly in the back of the head and his movements instantly stop.
He twitches and then flies straight towards the guards standing on the watch tower. He throws balls of lumen one after another until nothing remains of the top of the tower. He then uses his telekinesis to rip the front gate off like it was nothing and throws it at the news helicopter. The footage goes blank and Lexa turns off the TV.
"What the hell." is all I can manage to whisper.
"How do we stop that?" Alexis throws her hands up. "We can't just kill the leader of the Garde. And even if we wanted to it's not like any of us could stop him with all of his legacies."
"You don't do anything," Nine turns towards Alexis. "I'm going to gather up the other Garde and we'll take care of this. If we took down Setrakus Ra, I think we can handle this."
And with that, Nine storms out of the office.
"Nine, wait!" Lexa calls and runs after him.
I turn towards Alexis, Kyle, and Rachel.
"I don't know about you three, but I'm not just going to sit around here and do nothing. I wanna test this new legacy out."
"You already know I'm in dude," Kyle smiles.
"Count me in too," Rachel nods.
Alexis stays quiet in thought.
"What about you Alexis? You coming to save the world?" I ask.
"I guess I'll give it a shot. Try not to screw this one up too though Luke." She says and I swear the corners of her mouth twitched up in a smile.
I hope you guys liked this chapter of The Academy! I really like the direction this story is taking so far and I hope you do as well. If you don't however, please let me know in a review! I want to make sure I keep the story interesting and enjoyable. Thanks for reading!
