Shooting Star : Chapter Two

Sen was asleep, rolling around on his pillow, dreaming.

"Hey baby," he mumbled, kissing his pillow. "Come here... Uhn huh..." he rolled off the bed, hitting the floor.

"Oh f–!" he yelled, sitting up. He rubbed his head, wincing. "It was such a nice dream too," Sen added dreamily. He wondered why he felt so confused. There was something important...

Oh yeah, I'm a hermit now! thought Sen, getting up and posing in front of his mirror. He laughed, even though he knew no one could hear him.

As he changed into his clothes, Sen had the feeling that someone was watching him. He looked around cautiously, stuffing on his t-shirt.

Sen heard the curtains flutter even though the window wasn't open. That gave it away.

"Who's there? I know you're there," he said, loudly, not turning around the face the window. Sen felt some strange waves radiating from his closet. Sen kicked the closet door, ripping it, and a boy with short purple hair appeared. Sen aimed a punch at his face, but he disappeared instantly.

He suddenly felt something hit his neck. Everything went black.

When Sen woke up, everything was black. It was stuffy and hard to breath.

Maybe I'm dead, Sen thought drowsily. As Sen fumbled around, he realized he wasn't. Sen was tied up around the wrists and his feet, and was apparently in a bag of some sort. He arms were tied around his back. He could hear voices.

"– I mean, seriously, who would've thought?"

"I know! I can't believe he would go that far."

"What a loser!"
"Psh."

Sen heard three different voices, two females and one male. He was wondering why they had knocked him out and kidnapped him.
They can't kidnap a hermit! he thought angrily, kicking the bag furiously. I'm special! I can't die here!!!

"Huh? Did you just see the bag move?" a female voice said.

"No," said the male voice. "I didn't. The knockout powder should've knocked him out for a day."

Wait, I'm a thief, Sen thought. I can escape from these stupid ropes around my wrists.

Sen tried to release his wrists, but there was some sort of a force that kept them together.

Shit, he thought, frustrated. They have a mage with them. I can't undo a spell.

"Yo! Let me outta here, bitches!" screamed Sen, kicking wildly.

"Oh, teehee! He's awake!" giggled a girl.

Sen felt light shine on him, he could see the sky, and Sen breathed in a breath of fresh air. He felt the ropes around his wrists and feet undone, and Sen flexed them. He looked around and saw two girls and a boy.

The girls were about his age, both wearing high leveled mage armor. The boy seemed more serious and he was a bandit or a chief bandit. Sen didn't know.

"Hi, I'm Joyce," said the girl with light blue hair, giggling. "And this is Iris! My friend!" Joyce pointed to the mage girl standing next to her.

"Sup," said Iris. The boy coughed loudly.

"Oh, uh! Right. Uhm. This is Leo! He's a chief bandit. Oh, and by the way, I'm a priest and Iris is a mage! Ice Lightning! Third job already!" she laughed, lightly punching Iris in the arm.

"Uh, okay. Nice to meet you all," said Sen, getting up. "But first, why the hell did you kidnap me?!" Sen demanded.

"Woah, woah," chuckled Leo. "Let's not be hasty. Sorry, but we're on a mission."

Leo held up a card, which said, 'Leo Sui, Ellania, Leaf Clan, Age 17, Class: Chief Bandit.'

"Oh! I have one too!" said Joyce excitedly. She raised a bright blue card, shoving it in front of Sen's face. Sen backed away.

"Uh, ok. 'Joyce Chen, Ellania, Leaf Clan, Age, uh, 17. Class: Priest.'" he read.

"Tee hee!" Joyce giggled. Iris held up hers too, which said, 'Iris Shung, Ellania, Sky Clan, Age 16, Class: Mage Ice/Lightning.'

"Nice to meet you all, but, first off," Sen said, "Your mission is to kidnap me?"

"Uh, basically," said Joyce, giggling uncontrollably. Iris whacked Joyce in the head, and Joyce shut up.

"Well," said Leo, with the air of authority. "You know. We have a mission. It is to kidnap you, yes, and it's because of your safety. Reasons because we, people from the other side of the continent, were assigned to kidnap you because your town is corrupted."

"C – corrupted?" Sen sputtered. "How dare you –!?"

"Sorry," interuppted Leo. "But it's true. You see, a clan called the Snow Clan was destroyed years ago, by yours truly." what does yours truly mean??Joyce coughed loudly. "Okay, okay, fine. By my group of friends called the 'Dark Bandits'. But that's history. Anyways, we destroyed this clan because they were calling demons from the other side to take over Victoria Island. We weren't sure if we killed them off for good, but there was a slight chance that the leader is still alive." At this point, Leo was drawing on his fingers. He drew horns and a devil's tail on his index finger and the words 'Dark Bandits & Co.' on his thumb. Then he made them bump into each other, as if it were a battle, and in the end, Leo drew scribbles over the devil finger.

"But now, we have some very strong evidence that the leader of the Snow Clan has taken over Kerning City. We have no idea who's on their side and who's still normal. After inspecting the city throughly, we knew that everyone in Kerning City was brain washed, except you, because you were apparently fighting a clone somewhere out of Kerning City." said Leo. "And so, to prevent more harm, we errected a temporary barrier outside of Kerning City so no one can get in or out. It won't last for long, the Snow Clan is strong. Even thought they got a good beating from mua. We kidnapped you because you were the only one left."

Leo stopped speaking. Sen was still.

"Okay, so basically," said Sen slowly, "Theres a group of people called the Snow Clan, and you defeated them several years ago, but they somehow managed to revive. And now they're in my city, brain washing people to become their slaves, and the only reason I wasn't brainwashed was because I was outside of Kerning City. And now everyone is a mindless zombie like in the movies, and you have errected a temporary barrier so that people can't get in or out of Kerning. So more people won't become a zombie. Now you have kidnapped me because of my safety."

"Well, frankly, yes," said Iris. "But we have another part of our mission."

"You see, Ellania is a center for magic. But lately, we've been receiving very strong magic waves from Kerning. There is probably someone in Kerning that has extremely powerful magic. Or something," said Joyce, "But it's abnormal. These waves match the power of Grendel the Really Old. He's the best wizard in the world, by the way," Joyce added as Sen surpressed a laugh at 'Grendel the Really Old.'

"They sent us to observe what was happening, so we went. And what we found was the whole city brainwashed, people moving like zombies, except for you, because we found you running on top of buildings at top speed. We couldn't pinpoint the magic wave source, there probably is a barrier protecting it. Then this morning, we set up a temporary barrier and we knocked you out and took you with us."

Extremely powerful magic waves, thought Sen slowly. Hmm. I wonder if it's...?

"I get it," said Sen. "So you were told to investigate really strong magic waves coming from the city."

The three people nodded.
"And then, you found a city of zombies, and me, who wasn't harmed. Now you suspect it is the doing of the evil clan called the Snow Clan, whom you have defeated several years ago. Then you tried to find the magic waves source, but it kept moving, or something, but you couldn't find it."
The three people nodded again.

"Hmm. I get it now," said Sen. "Well then, what are we waiting for? Let's go to Ellania. You need help with this stuff right?"

Iris beamed at Sen. "Yeah!"
"By the way," said Sen. "How did you carry me if I was in a bag?"

"I dragged you," smirked Leo. "Now let's get going."

Man, that was sooo confusing. Hehehe.

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