Author's Note: Head's up Sleepyheads this is the longest chapter so far. Please review and tell me what you think.
Chapter 8
POV: 3rd person
History Class
The bell rung as everyone in Abraham's class stopped talking. Just as Abraham was about to speak the PA system came on. The familiar voice of the school's nun was heard as she made the announcement.
" Attention everyone, today we welcome two new students from Atami, Japan. Please welcome Yuki Isha and Lily Nightshade. Also please welcome three new faculty members: Mr. Ichabod Crane will now be teaching English class for those students who were in Ms. Crow's English class. Also due to the town being a little..well crazy sometimes we have started a self-defense club which will be taught by Miss Jennifer Mills. Last but not least please welcome Miss Abigail Mills who will be helping Mr. Crane and her sister Ms. Mills that is all".
With that the PA system turned off. The room was dead silent.
" Dammit", Abraham swore, the whole classroom looked at him in surprise.
" Ichabod was my college friend and he stole my girlfriend so I don't like him", Abraham explained trying to sound modern.
" Now let us begin class", Abraham said clapping his hands.
Hallway of the First Floor
Henry marched towards Sister Martha's office as soon as the PA system turned off.
" I did not authorize you to hire these people as new faculty members", Henry said as he entered her office.
" As President of the school I do not need your approval also you should learn to knock before entering", Sister Martha answered turning her chair towards Henry Parish.
" You will be sorry for this", Henry said storming out of the room.
This shall only be a minor setback, Henry thought to himself.
Ichabod's Classroom
" Why is it that you must aid the both of us Leftenant", Ichabod asked Abbie.
" Because I need to make sure you don't go ranting about how history actually happened in your English class: and Jenny I'm basically just having fun with my sister teaching kids to fight", Abbie said with a smile.
" Very well then, when does this class begin", Ichabod asked raising an eyebrow.
Just as Abbie was about to answer the bell rang.
" Now", Abbie said as students started to walk into the classroom.
All of the students slowly sat down except for two girls.
" Ahh you must be the two new students", Ichabod said looking at Yuki and Lily.
" Yes we are um could we talk to you after class," Lily asked.
" I don't see why not; perhaps you girls want to introduce yourselves to the class", Ichabod suggested.
The whole class went silent at that and eagerly waited for Lily or Yuki to say something.
" Well hello my name is Yuki and I play baseball, I also enjoy playing video games," Yuki started to say before being interrupted.
" Do you do origami", a random boy asked.
Yuki glared at the boy before saying,
" Oh sure you think a girl from Japan would do Chinese paper folding just because Japan and China are both asian countries".
The boy who had asked quickly started shaking his head and said,
" No, I'm sorry I didn't mean to offend you".
Yuki looked at the boy and smiled before saying,
"Well you're in luck because I actually do, origami as a hobby".
With that Yuki walked over to the boy's desk, pulled out an origami pig and placed it on his desk before walking back to the front of the room. The room stood silent for a moment before Abbie cleared her throat.
"Well Lily how about you introduce yourself to the class", Abbie suggested while trying to hold back her laughter. Damn Yuki definitely knows how to deal with stereotypes, Abbie thought to herself.
"Hello my name is Lily and I spend my time by practicing fighting techniques as well as reading stories when I have the time. I also hate sushi but I do love pasta. My favorite subject is theology history. "
Lily concluded her introduction with a smile on her face. After that Ichabod began teaching about The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, with that Lily and Yuki sat down near Kyla, Luna, and Lucy. The class period seemed to fly by and, shortly before the bell rang students began to backup ready to go home.
Just as Luna, Lucy, and Kyla were about to walk out of the classroom, Lily cleared her throat,
" Hey can you guys stay here for a while".
The girls were startled by the question but agreed to stay. With that Lily closed the classroom door.
" What's going on", Kyla asked.
" Well I've gathered you all here today to tell you something", Lily began.
" Yuki and the three of you", Lily pointed at the girls, " are the Archers of Light". " You four are the exact opposite of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse. You three know Abbie and Ichabod are the two witnesses but, you only know that because of a tv show. To you they are just fictional characters as well as other characters from the show, but our worlds have merged so these worlds can be saved."
" Wait is this why Henry Parish is here along with Abraham", Abbie asked.
" Yes along with the Horsemen of Plague and Famine", Lily answered before continuing.
" Moloch is trying to cause the apocalypse again and its up to us to stop him".
" Where do you play into this Miss Nightshade", Ichabod asked.
" I am the Chosen One, his opposite, I am a mortal angel", Lily explained.
" Sadly in this reincarnation I am also part demon along with being part angel and dragon".
" Woah hold up, your part dragon", Abbie asked surprised.
Lily nodded before stepping back, she whispered quietly in latin,
"Let draconem mei partem revelabitur".
As Lily finished speaking, her violet eyes turned a dark gold color as her skin seemed to melt off to reveal scales. Lily's wings slowly came out from her back as two horns sprouted from her head. She looked at the group with a smile on her face, putting her hands on her hips. Lily smirked at all of their shock and bewildered expressions before she said to Abbie,
" You're damn right I'm part dragon".
With that Lily phased back into her human form. There was a loud thud on the floor behind Abbie, everyone turned to look and saw that Ichabod had fainted.
" Oops", Lily said changing back to her human form.
She looked worriedly at Ichabod, before going to get her purse. Lily stood for a few minutes digging through her purse, finally she pulled out a small vial. She walked over to Ichabod and carefully took the top off of the smelling salts before holding it under his nose.
Ichabod woke up slowly, slightly confused as to why he was on the floor.
" I'm so sorry, I didn't think anyone would faint", Lily apologized.
The room stood silent for a moment before Abbie asked Ichabod,
" You okay Crane"?
Ichabod nodded, slowly standing up. He looked around the room and decided to sit down. Now seated Ichabod looked at Lily and said,
" Well um Miss Nightshade it appears you have our attention, so tell us what we need to know."
Lily nodded and cleared her throat before saying,
" Well first things first is you three".
Lily pointed at Luna, Kyla, and Lucy.
" You all need to know what archer you are and who your opposite is, also you need weapons. Quick note to avoid confusion, um how do I explain this", Lily said trying to find the right words to say.
" With you and the horsemen there is another part aside from the obvious element, like for example Henry Parish is War but also fire that is why he seems to favor using fire spells. Kyla you are his opposite so you are Peace and water," Lily said looking at Kyla.
Lily then looked at Lucy before continuing,
" Lucy you are Life and light, Abraham Van Brunt is death and darkness. Luna you are Harvest and hope, Jedite is the Horseman of Famine and despair."
" Well that explains why I don't like him", Luna said.
" And finally Cobra Bubbles is Plague and sickness and Yuki is well um Healing and health", Lily said looking at Yuki.
" So according to the internet I'm the moon moon of the group", Yuki said sarcastically.
Ichabod looked beyond confused at this and cocked his head to side a little bit. Abbie giggled at him before saying,
" I'll explain that to you later".
Ichabod nodded and looked at Lily waiting for her to continue. Lily cleared her throat before continuing,
" Now you're probably wondering what the plan is to stop Moloch once and for all. Well I will tell you my plan but first I think I should give you guys your weapons."
Lily looked outside the door just to be sure no one else was watching.
" Um shouldn't we make sure Jenny knows about this", Ichabod said suddenly.
" I'm right here, I've been here this whole time", Jenny said looking up at him.
" So are these weapons are for all of us or just you archers", Abbie asked curiously.
" Archers", Lily replied before continuing. " Here are your weapons, Luna you have: a wrist blade, bow and arrows, and a Katana sword. Yuki you have your fan, Katana, and your two sais. Kyla you had a bo staff, a boomerang, and a magic staff. Lucy you have chakrams, a Katana, and nunchucks."
With that Lily gave each archers their weapons.
" Why are we called the archers of light if theres only one archer and one person with light powers", Kyla decided to ask.
" Its light magic or good magic powers Kyla", Luna said trying to explain.
" Actually it's sunlight magic for Lucy guys", Lily interrupted.
" Maybe we should change our group name then", Lucy suggested.
" Yeah it is a bit outdated", Yuki agreed.
" Okay what should we call ourselves then", Lily asked.
" How about team Ichabbie", Kyla suggested with a smirk on her face.
" Why don't we think of something else", Ichabod said looking embarrassed.
" Well someone wants you guys to be together", Jenny said with a laugh.
Luna elbowed Kyla,
" way to be subtle Kyla", she said sarcastically.
" How about the Elements of Harmony", Yuki suggested.
" I like that", Lucy said.
" All in favor of us being called the Elements of Harmony raise your hand", Lily said raising her own hand.
Slowly each girl raised her hand.
" Okay so now were the Elements of Harmony", Lily said.
"May I interrupt", Ichabod said looking at the newly renamed archers.
" Yeah…", Lily said slowly.
" You said you have a plan on stopping Moloch", Ichabod said.
" Oh yeah, I was about to get to that", Lily said walking to her bag.
She carefully took out a old piece of parchment paper. On it were drawings of fifteen jewels with words underneath them written in latin.
" These are the fifteen jewels of harmony and destruction", Lily began to explain.
" They are very powerful and for that reason they are hidden around the world. As well as guarded by various things. All of them together can destroy Moloch but if they fall into the hands of the Horsemen they can bring him out of Purgatory at his strongest", Lily finished.
" So it's a race to find them first", Abbie said.
" Yes and no, because I'm not sure if Moloch has told his horsemen about these yet. So we have an advantage also I have the map. As well as one of the jewels already," Lily said holding up a ruby which had a nine-tail fox engraved on it.
" And let me tell you it was not easy fighting those werefoxes before I could convince them that I was on their side", Lily said scratching her head.
" So we get these jewels before the horsemen do and they will destroy Moloch", Ichabod asked trying to make sure he understood.
" Yes of course we do have to wait for the planets to align for me to perform the spell to destroy Moloch though," Lily answered.
" When is it", Jenny asked.
' I don't know", Lily said.
"I do", Luna said.
Everyone turned to look at Luna. Luna help up her phone before saying,
"It's May sixth just Google it".
" Any questions", Lily asked.
" Yeah does performing the spell exactly when the planets are aligned apply to the Horsemen to ,cause what if they steal the jewels from us", Lucy asked.
" Yes both us and the horsemen must have all the jewels on that day to use them", Lily answered.
" What about school', Luna asked concerned.
" I think saving the world is a bit more important than school Luna," Kyla said looking at her.
" But we do need to make it look like were normal students though", Lily began.
" We could use the Peridot's super speed to get to other locations quicker once we have it possibly, or use the Ruby to turn into any animal that can fly. But we do need to do this stuff after school and have a seemingly normal life otherwise that will give us away. I do have a private jet so we can fly to some of the spots on the weekends," Lily said looking at her newfound friends.
" Okay, I guess", Lucy agreed.
" Oh I still need to train you guys to fight and teach you how to transform. Oh and there are fours gems that each of you must get on your own because of your element, Lily said starting to get flustered.
"Okay we can help with teaching them how to fight", Abbie said trying to calm Lily.
Lily nodded in reply with a nervous smile.
" You okay", Yuki asked.
" Yeah it's just that its been awhile since I've had everyone together", Lily said starting to relax.
" Is that it", Ichabod asked.
" Yes for now, we should all get home and meet after school tomorrow", Lily suggested.
The rest of the group nodded and gathered their stuff. Lucy, Kyla, and Luna went to their lockers and then finally went home.
"Hey Abbie can I ask a favor", Lily called to Abbie suddenly.
" Sure", Abbie said, Ichabod and Jenny standing behind her.
" Um well the thing is Yuki and I, we don't have a house or a driver's license so….", Lily began.
" Of course you can stay with us", Abbie said quickly.
Lily and Yuki smiled and thanked Abbie for her offer, quietly following behind them.
" Our adventure has truly begun", Lily thought to herself as she closed the classroom door.