Guess what! Landon's ability will be revealed soon... so start guessing, people! Haha. If anyone is smart enough to guess it, I'll dedicate something of their choice to them. Maybe their favourite pairing in a oneshot?

"Okay, get this," whispered Derrick, sometime later that afternoon, when Massie had emerged from her room, still bleary-eyed and confused, "they drugged the apple pie! And you should have seen Burns' face! She was all scared of Landon and "he's immune to drugs!" Like, major freakout, I'm telling you."

Massie wanted to glare at Landon, her desire warring with her momentary anger.

Landon smiled ruefully and gave a curt apology. Massie accepted it happily, throwing Claire a triumphant smirk while patting Landon on the shoulder.

"So, who is this Anala person?" Claire asked, returning Massie's smirk.

Her eyes widened, then narrowed, as she turned the possibility over in her mind. Landon couldn't have found another girl so soon, could he? What if he had, and all of the arguments between Claire and herself had been pointless, useless, and completely stupid, when instead, they should have been fighting this unknown threat…

"…my sister." Finished Landon.

Massie shook her head.

"What? Sorry. I wasn't listening."

Landon looked vaguely annoyed, but repeated his explanation.

"We met her in the forest last night, when we were escaping from Burns and the rest of the staff. She kept a look out and let us rest for the most of the night, after explaining that she's somehow related to my mother, who was also a descendant of Artemis. Come to think of it, they had similar abilities. I believed her because she showed me my mark. We're meeting up with her again tonight."

"Hey, Mass, Derrick. Wassup?"

Dylan bounced into the circle, her red hair flying.

Landon's expression turned cold abruptly.

"How much of that did you hear?" asked Claire cautiously.

Dylan grinned.

"Quite a bit. So, Landon, can I come and visit your sister tonight as well?"

Massie saw the hardness in Landon's eyes, then quickly grabbed Dylan and took a few hesitant steps back.

"Please, Landon? If she promises not to tell? You know, she could be a great help."

He considered this, keeping his icy stare on Dylan, who blinked uncertainly under his scrutiny.

"If you tell…" his voice was low and threatening, his eyes narrowed.

"I won't." promised Dylan quickly.

Landon didn't say anything else, but the callousness in his eyes insinuated the consequences.

The clock struck ten, and the bell chimed twice, signaling the curfew for the students of the Academy. Massie took a hurried glance out of the window. The shadowy landscape remained completely inscrutable, and she grabbed Dylan's hand and beckoned for her to follow. Dylan smiled, reaching her hand out of the window.

A tree's thick branch hovered just outside the window, quivering slightly. Dylan jumped out, climbing agilely towards the trunk, then wrapped her arms around the bark. She flashed Massie a look, gesturing for her to climb on as well.

Massie's eyes were wide as she stared at the long distance she'd have to fall to hit the ground if she missed the tree. Dylan sighed and rolled her eyes. The wood began to shift as she ran her hand along the thick branch, sending new sections forking out. A long, flat branch poked in through the window and Massie stepped hesitantly onto it, focusing her eyes straight ahead.

By a miracle, she made it to the trunk, where Dylan sat, cross-legged. A cracking noise came from the tree directly next to theirs, and a shower of small icicles rained onto the ground.

"Claire?"

Claire poked her head out from behind a mass of leaves.

"How are you planning to get into the forest. Dyl's ability?"

Dylan's curls cascaded over one shoulder as she nodded.

"I'll get us through. Stop using your ability, Claire. These aren't evergreens, and they don't respond well to the cold.

Her red hair was clearly visible in the night, as she walked barefoot on the branches, hopping easily from tree to tree. Where Dylan passed, the wood seemed to fuse and weave themselves together to form a sturdy, living passage through the trees.

Claire and Massie followed warily, holding onto nearby branches to stop themselves from falling. The canopy walk continued past the school buildings, gym, and facilities, past the offices and other dorms, finally ending in a jagged trunk, where Dylan was using the nooks and crannies as handholds.

There was a soft rustle of leaves as three figures made their way into the clearing. The two taller ones were easily recognizable as Landon and Derrick, but the third one was a girl with pale skin and silvery hair and eyes who Massie assumed was Anala.

"My friends."

Landon gestured at the three girls, his eyes flickering over briefly to check Anala's reaction to the newcomers.

Anala paused.

"This girl knows the forest too."

She took a step forward to face Dylan, her lips lifting in a brief grin. Dylan smiled back. She could already tell that the two of them would hit it off quite well.

"I'm Claire." Offered Claire, extending her hand.

"Anala." She replied, turning to Massie, "and you are?"

"I'm Massie."

Anala ignored her, choosing to talk to Dylan.

"I assume Landon's told you everything? Artemis is the goddess of the hunt, and most of the forests are sacred to her. I take it you're not a descendant, rather, an elemental?"

"I'm a plant elemental. And you're not quite an elemental, but something close to it, right?"

Derrick cut in abruptly.

"Aren't the descendants elementals? It all depends, doesn't it? If you wanted to classify abilities according to Greek mythology, Claire would be a descendant of Poseidon, Cam a descendant of Hephaestus, and so on."

"That's true. If you use the Olympian system, you can have a much better understanding of the endoweds' abilities."

Landon looked bored and impatient.

"Anala, can we discuss things elsewhere?"

She nodded, holding out both her hands. A ball of silvery light appeared, growing rapidly in size, until it engulfed them all. In a flash of silver moonlight, they vanished.

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