O.o I never thought anyone would read this! This story might take a little bit for updates, because I am playing the game and writing the story at the same time so I don't mess up the story line.

Chapter 2

The training took about two hours of the afternoon, learning new magic and how to gain temporary power from the planets. They walked back to their dorm rooms, which were across the hall from one another. The boys and girls entered their separate rooms, except for Sorbet, who had stayed to sit in the hall. Pico had noticed that she was upset, and decided that it would be better for the both of them if he went to comfort her.

"Hey, what's wrong?" Pico asked with a gentle tone, sitting down next to Sorbet. He didn't notice it before, but she was sobbing. Sorbet brought her knees up to her face so Pico wouldn't witness her crying. He pulled her into a hug, Sorbet's head against his chest.

Pico stroked her hair until she choked out, "I don't want Miss Madeline to leave us tomorrow." She clung onto his left arm in fear that he might leave too.

Pico felt a wave of guilt crash over him. What could he say to make her feel better? He couldn't say their teacher would be safe, especially after Miss Madeline said she had a gut feeling something bad might happen. Sorbet stared into his eyes, hoping that the boy next to her would have some sort of answer.

"I don't know if we'll ever see her again. But no matter what, I will always be here for you." Even though Pico had been dating Sorbet for a few weeks, it was always how he felt about her ever since they met. After Sorbet had calmed down, Pico kissed her on the forehead and helped her return to her room.

"Good night." He said, feeling a pang in his heart as he watched Sorbet leave him.

/

"What took you so long?" asked Aarbie, sitting on top of the maple bookshelf. Pico was speechless for the longest of times, looking depressed. "I hope Sorbet is more cheerful by tomorrow…Seeing her so upset, what else am I supposed to do?" The three other boys in the room gazed at him. Pico was the strongest of the gang, and seeing him in such a state made them wonder what had happened outside of the room.

"Dude, is everything ok between you and Sorbet?" piped up Chai.

"Yeah, it's just that…She's terrified that this might be the last time she'll ever see Miss Madeline." sighed Pico, the haunting image of her crying again and again flashed in his mind.

"Well that would be understandable. Miss Madeline is a close friend of Sorbet's parents, and also helped pay for this year's intuition. The two of them have known each other for quite a while, it seems." Mokka informed.

Pico sweat dropped, "Do you always know everything about everyone here?"

"Well, of course. I truly do not understand what it is with humans and the idea of secrecy." Mokka replied, shaking his metal head disapprovingly. Pico sighed; remembering that is was no use getting into an argument with Mokka, he deciding that sleep was the best option.

"Just because you don't have any emotions doesn't mean others don't too." shot Aarbie in good humor, trying his best to lighten up everyone's spirit. Mokka didn't have a response, although Chai laughed, "Someone sounds like their sister a little bit!" Aarbie smiled, noticing something out of the corner of his eye as he did so. He rushed to the window to view the midnight sky, covered with stars.

"Oh look! Shooting stars!" he cried out to Chai and Mokka. Indeed, it was as though light was moving throughout the sky, so vivid were the stars that night.

/

The next morning, Miss Madeline had departed for Puffoon. Will-O-Wisp Academy seemed emptier without the bright and happy teacher to greet them every day. On occasion, the students could see Principal Biscotti hanging his head saying, "It should have been me."

/

Three months had passed, and there was still no sign of Miss Madeline. Sorbet, Pico, Chai, Lassi, Mokka, Aarbie, and Ichigo would go practice in the meditation room for hours, although they never got very far. Ichigo was the worst with using magic. At some points, she would give up, going for a physical attack instead, whereas her twin brother excelled greatly in spell casting.

It was the end of the school day, and Ichigo, Pico, Mokka, and Chai strutted down the hallway to the detention hall.

"How is it I received a detention? I got into that fight because of you, Ichigo. I hope you know that." Mokka complained with a tone of anger. She gave an evil smile as the thought of her and her friends beating up Aarbie's bullies came into her mind again.

"I know it was wrong, but seeing Ichigo winning against two boys twice her size was hilarious." Yawned Chai and stretched his arms as the four crashed into Sorbet and Aarbie.

"Have you seen Lassi anywhere?" Sorbet asked in desperation.

"Why? What happened to her?" Pico stated what was on everyone's mind.

Aarbie spoke up, "Me, Sorbet, and Lassi were in the meditation room, practicing our magic, when Lassi dashed out of the room yelling 'I'm going into space to save Miss Madeline!' We thought she would come right back into the room, but I think Lassi's actually trying to go to space!"

"We are all worried about Miss Madeline, but how is Lassi even going to enter into space? …No way! You all know about the pranks seniors play on the freshmen about the hidden rocket ships hidden in the school?" Sorbet glared as Pico, Ichigo, and Chai fell to the ground laughing and saying how funny it was every time, pointing at Mokka as they did so.

"Yeah, yeah. Really funny." Mokka sighed, trying to brush it off best he could.

"And we all hid in the necromancy lab, and scared you SOOO bad! HAHA!" blurted out Pico, as Ichigo hooted, "Man, that was hilarious.."

After their laughter died down, Chai asked, still trying to catch his breath, "Wait, so are you thinking that Lassi's trying to FIND the rocket? We have to find her before she finds the rockets!"

They agreed to search around the school for Lassi, causing a ruckus and even given detention by the evil Professor Pistachio for the next day. No one cared about this though, continuing to search every nook and cranny of the area. After overhearing that strange noises were coming from the upstairs storage room, they ran to find the storage room door was unlocked.

"Lassi had to have come this way." Aarbie said to himself, noticing that one part of the wall was climbable.

"The track marks on the wall are fresh. Someone was here before us." Mokka said confidently. One by one, the group climbed up the wall, reaching a secret landing. Strange machines littered the floor, showing signs that people had known of this section of the building a long time ago. They tried to make their way across the dark room, tripping on various objects. Aarbie fell onto the closed door that led to the next room, realizing something about it was odd.

"The door has a face!" gasped Chai. Indeed, carved into the gray door was a face, and as Aarbie fell onto it, the closed eyes opened.

"Accessing…accessing…how odd." The doors eyes fell upon Mokka as he said this.

"What is it?" asked Ichigo, helping her brother up.

"The school's blueprints show no record of this door, or even this room." Everyone gaped at this. Were the rocket ship rumors true all along? The face gazed at Aarbie and Ichigo, not blinking once. The room became quiet as it started to say something.

"What is the meaning of this? You seek to open to door to the heavens?" it stopped, waiting for a reply.

"Uh, yes?" Ichigo hoped it was the right answer, as the deep voice started to talk again.

"I can grant entrance only to those who wield great power. If you seek to pass, show me your power. Touch the symbol of darkness and light." Its mouth closed, but its eyes were fixated on the twins. The two nodded to one another, performing a simple field magic incantation. Suddenly, the doors opened to revile a staircase to another landing. They ran fast, hearing the sound of an engine starting.

They had come to a large, humid room that was on the very top of the school. In it was a launching platform, with six tall blue rockets standing upon it. One, however, was already occupied.

"Lassi! Mokka, can you check if these are spaceworthy?" ordered Aarbie, although from the sounds of Lassi's rocket, he already dreaded the answer.

"The rockets seem to be in perfect condition. It is defiantly spaceworthy." reported Mokka. Aarbie started to head towards the rocket, hoping that Lassi might see him and stop the ship from being launched into space.

She was much too distracted with the lights inside the ship, and after pressing a blinking red button, a computer like voice spoke out.

"Launch preparation sequence complete. Now opening launch bay doors…" The roof above them started to open, and the sun's light came pouring in, "Liftoff in T-minus 70 seconds." The entire school started to shake uncontrollably, and Ichigo had to pull her brother off the launch pad.

"Pretty lights! Oohhh, I wonder what this does when I pull it!" Lassi was oblivious to what was happening outside of her ship, pulling on a lever that appeared. The space ship started to vibrate, lifting off from the schools. The school was quickly becoming smaller and smaller, as the stars grew larger.

"AHHHH!"

Nice job Lassi. Well, please Read n' Rate, I'll try to type more as soon as I can!