-Chapter 5-

Alice stormed down the hallway. She was peeved. The nerve of that Lauren, she thought, she thinks she can humiliate me twice in the same day! I'll show her!

Tia hurried as fast as she could, but catching up with Alice was quite a task. She finally accomplished it, though. "Alice!" she gasped.

"What?" Alice asked.

"I heard what was going on!" Tia said. "I think you're making a big fuss over nothing."

"What makes you say that?" Alice asked.

"I can sense that Lauren wasn't aiming at you," Tia replied.

"Tia, you're new at this psychic-stuff," said Alice, "how should I trust the sensing of an amateur?"

"I can sense that Lauren was aiming at the same girl both times." Tia said. "I can't make out who she is, but I can tell that it's not you."

"See, you don't even have a clear vision!" said Alice. "I'm doing the fight." She started to walk off, but then stopped and turned back toward Tia. "Tia, I know that it's your job to report things like this to Ms. Bloom, but do you think you could keep this one quiet? Just this one? Please?"

After pondering it, Tia agreed, although it made her feel very uncomfortable and guilty not to do as she was supposed to.

…...

Lauren walked down a different hallway. She was very upset and angry. Tia hurried to catch up, yet again. "Lauren!" Tia said, exasperated.

"Yeah?" Lauren asked.

"Why don't you tell Alice that you weren't aiming for her?" Tia asked.

"None of your business," Lauren replied coldly.

"But, I can sense that hitting her was an accident, and that you weren't even aiming her either time," Tia explained.

"I said that this is none of your business!" Lauren replied more sternly this time.

"Who is it that you were aiming at?" Tia inquired.

"What part of 'none of you business' do you not get?" Lauren stormed off.

…...

"I can't believe that they're going through with this fight!" Nythersa said.

"Do you think we should do something?" Laikia asked.

"I think we should let them settle this themselves," said Sophie. "Don't you agree, Mida?"

Mida's opinion was quite contrary. She wanted to talk some sense into Alice and Lauren, even though word had spread that Tia had already tried that and failed. But, Mida knew that Sophie would not like her to speak her own opinion. Earlier, when Mida spoke of not cleaning the entire school, Sophie had glared at her. Even though it was a short little sentence, Sophie still glared, though the others didn't notice.

Mida simply nodded to Sophie's statement.

"Maybe that's the best thing to do," suggested Spirit.

…...

The classes were over for the day. Alice and Lauren were in the courtyard, along with Spirit, Mida, Laikia, Nythersa, Sophie, Tia, and many other spectators. Sophie hung back behind the other spectators, because she really didn't care. Tia was also more to the back, because she still felt really guilty about not telling Bloom.

Alice and Lauren were about to start, when Tia sensed something bad was about to happen. "Sophie!" she warned, but it was too late.

A huge, pitch-black, monstrous, demon-like thing appeared behind Sophie. It was tall, more on the skinny side yet still buff, and had sharp razor-like pincers for hands. It also had large, black wings and two, wide, glowing red eyes.

It placed it's left "hand" in front of Sophie, pressing her to the monster's chest. It placed it's right hand around Sophie's neck. One wrong move, and Sophie would headless.

-End Chapter 5-

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