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Chapter 9

Jakia, Emma, and Olivia walked into Pet's Café, each carrying a gerbil they had borrowed from Gabriel.

"Hey, guys. Do you know where Lysander is?" Tancred asked, "I remember seeing him in the hall, but I don't remember seeing him when we got outside".

"Actually, he had detention," said Jakia remembering the events of the night before.

"What!" everyone exclaimed.

"Did you just say he has detention? Lysander Dekane Sage has detention?" Tancred questioned.

"That can't be right, Lysander has never had detention," said Gabriel firmly.

"Well there's a first time for everything, Lysander Sage has detention," said Jakia. She was surprised he had gotten detention to stop Manfred and that girl, Lea, from seeing her. Why?

"Wow, I can't wait till he gets here, I'm gonna have to talk to him about this," Tancred said with a grin.

"Me too," agreed Charlie, "he's always telling me about how I get detention to much".

"Well, that's because you get detention every week Charlie," said Emma with a playful smile.

Jakia and Olivia smiled as they watched Emma playfully push Charlie. They told her that she needed to loosen up a little around Charlie, and they were glad to see that she was taking their advice.

Jakia nudged Olivia gently in the side; she looked pointedly at Fidelio and then at Olivia. She locked eyes with her friend and her eyes turned a deep blue. "Come on Livvy, sit by him," she telegraphed with her eyes.

Olivia glared at her, but she moved closer to Fidelio on the other side of the table. Jakia grinned wickedly at her friend.

Jakia, laughed along with her, as they waited for Lysander. She tried to keep her mind on the conversation but she found it hard, she hoped that Lysander would get her soon.

Back at Bloors Lysander sat quietly in the Red Kings room, drawing the sketches for a sculpture he hoped to make. Her was so engulfed in his sketch that it took him a while to notice, a quiet rumbling in the room. At first Lysander thought that it was thunder but as he listened he noticed that it wasn't thunder at all, but rather a deep voice.

"You must protect the girl, my son. You must protect her," the voice called faintly.

"What the-," Lysander said straining to understand the voice, his eyes searched the room looking for the source of the voice. His eyes stopped when he reached the picture of the Red King. "They said you were powerful, are you powerful enough to talk to me through a painting centuries after your supposed death?" Lysander asked the painting.

"If she turns against you all is lost," said the painting the voice slightly louder than before.

"Girl? What girl, do you mean Jakia?" Lysander said walking towards the painting slowly. "You must mean Jakia I don't know anyone else it could be,"

"Yes, that is she. You must protect her my son. I promised my wife that I would protect our children. I let her down once, I won't do it again. Protect her, my son, you have the power," said the King.

"I-I don't understand. Why me? Why not Charlie of Tancred?" Lysander questioned uncertainly.

"They will have their own battles to fight, but this one is yours. Do not worry you have powers beyond your belief, there is no need to worry." said the King reassuringly.

Lysander sighed slightly, "I'll try,"

"Simply protect the girl, and all will be as it should. Keep her on your side, or all will go amiss. Believe in your self and all will be o.k. I must leave you now my son, protect the girl," said the King his voice fading.

Lysander stood staring at the painting as the voice faded away. It was up to him, this was all up to him now. He felt his knees beginning to weaken and her grabbed a chair so that he wouldn't fall.

"Time to go Sage, I have somewhere to be in an hour," Lysander heard Matron's harsh voice call.

"He collected himself and walked out of the room slowly. He ran up to the dorm and got his things, he needed to get to the Pet's Café, he needed to talk to Jakia.

His mom arrived to pick him up shortly. She drove him to the Pet's Café and he grabbed his cat and rushed to the door.

He found his friends sitting at a table to the far left of the door. He smiled as he rushed towards them.

"I can't believe it for the first time in history, Lysander Dekane Sage, has gotten detention!" Tancred yelled across the room.

"Oh, shut up. I've been spending to much time, with you and Charlie," he called back to him.

Jakia smiled up at him, he could tell, even with out her using her endowment that she was glad to see him.

"So Lysander, how was it?" asked Emma happily.

"It's not so bad, I can handle it," said Lysander sitting down by Jakia with a huge smile.

Jakia looked up at Lysander's smiling face, and she sensed that something wasn't right. Something had happened while he was at detention, and she was going to find out what, just like she was going to find out who Lea was.

(O.k so what do you think of that one. It's one of my favorites so far I think. As always read & review. Please and thank you. Oh yea, and I'll tell about Lea in the next chapter.)