Author's Note: Hi everyone, here is chapter 3! Thanks to I'm Number Eleven, DarkAnubis27 and The Book Queen for reviewing! Also a big thanks to Marina3Eight and DarkAnubis27 for following and favouriting! (And anyone else I missed!)

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John/Four POV

"The Lecture Hall? What kind of name is that?" Joe blurts out, Maren elbows him and Marina giggles,

"Anyway..." Sandor says glaring at Joe,

"This training facility is especially designed for you; it will help you hone you Legacies to perfection and help your fitness and fighting skills to the best of your ability" Sandor says, Stan whoops and bolts in, Sandor rolls his eyes and ushers for the rest of us to go. We do.

As soon as I step in, my breath is taken away. It's huge, white walls and floors towering high and easily reaching 20 feet. On one side an armoury door stands, inside are weapons of all sorts; some I don't even recognise. Gym equipment of every type stands in a separate room from the main hall and a Lectern looking thing stands at the opposite end of the hall suspended about 10 feet off the ground.

"Holy moly" Joe whispers loudly, all of us stare in awe at the Lecture Hall we stand in.

"So" Brandon says, clapping his hands,

"Now that you guys have been shown the Lecture Hall, it will be accessible whenever you want, but to use the main features you will require a Legacy, which none of you-"

"Actually, someone does" Marina's voice interrupts Brandon; everyone turns their heads to her; there's a long awkward pause. Adel, her Cepan, steps towards her,

"Seven do you have a Legacy?" she asks looking curiously at her Garde, Marina nods, getting quite uncomfortable with everyone staring at her, Joe looks at her and smiles,

"What is it?" he asks, Marina shifts a bit,

"Um, it's not a cool one, like flying or invisibility, but it's useful I guess..."

"Come on, what is it?" Stan perks up, earning a death glare from Maren and an elbow from Joe,

"You can tell us Marina" Brandon says,

"Um, I think it's called Night Vision; I can see in the dark pretty well..." she says,

"That's awesome!" Joe exclaims, everyone smiles, Marina giggles a bit from Joe's sudden hug, but is soon broken apart and both their cheeks are bright red. Maren walks over to Marina and hugs her, some of the Cepans crowd around her and start asking more questions, I turn to Joe and Stan,

"That is a pretty cool Legacy" I say, Joe nods, but I don't think he's nodding at my statement; he's probably just staring at Marina who is glancing every 10 seconds at him. Stan looks satisfied,

"Yeah, but when I get my first Legacy, it's gonna be frickin' awesome! I'm gonna blow sh*t up!" he says, pumping his fist into the air. I roll my eyes and Joe snaps out of his Marina trance. Slowly the Cepans leave to return to their homes, and all who are left are me and Maren.

"So, you excited" she asks, turning to me, I suddenly feel a bit self conscience and awkward, and worst of all – I'm starting to sweat.

"Um, yeah, yeah, I guess" I say, walking with her towards the exit. Her raven hair is pulled back into a pony-tail and blows gently in the wind once we reach the outside; she's so beautiful, I can't take my eyes off her.

"So your Six?" I ask, trying to start conversation so I don't make this anymore awkward than it already is. She nods,

"Yeah, just plain Six. You?"

"Four" I say,

"Are going back to school now?" I ask, she shakes her head and we reach the front gates,

"Na, Katarina said I can skip the rest of the day; besides, I would have to go to Astronomy next, and you know I hate that" she says, I laugh,

"Well Brandon said I have to go for the rest of the day, and he managed to convince Reynolds to make Joe go, so I guess..."

"I'll see ya tomorrow" she finishes, giggling a bit. I nod awkwardly, as I'm about to leave, the most amazing thing happens to me. Maren turns to me and gives me a hug, and she plants a soft kiss on my cheek. I immediately go tomato red,

"See ya John" she says, walking away from the school, I could've stood there for the rest of the day, staring at the pavement trying to remember where I am.

I think I'm in love.

Emily/Five POV

I reach home just short of 1:00, Kate went out to the LDA, Lorien Defence Academy, for some reason and now I'm stuck at home alone. I don't mind being alone, but I get enough of it at school, due to my late enrolment and lack of friends. I go upstairs to my room; I dump my backpack on my shaggy mat, sit on my chair and look out the window while eating my lunch Kate packed for me. I'm really looking forward to my Legacies, mostly Telekinesis – it would make turning off the lights from my bed so much easier.

I sit up to the window to get a good view of the LDA. It's big, very big, skyscrapers around it gleam in the sunlight. Lorien is perfect. I look around the front of the house, it's quite isolated at this time of day, everyone is either at work or school, but the occasional old man walks past with his Chimæra. I look around some more and my stomach drops as soon as I see it.

A dark figure is standing outside my house. I can't see his face but I know it's the same guy from outside the school. Chills are sent up and down my spine, I quickly duck behind the wall next to the window; my heart is racing, I'm sweating and for once I feel terrified. I quickly crawl to my door and shut it, locking it and barricading it with a chair and my bookshelf. I grab a small portable mirror from my dresser and go back to the window. I sit below the glass pane against the wall and position the mirror so I can see if the figure is still outside my house.

What do ya know? He's still there. I've never been in this situation before; where someone is following me. I desperately grab my phone from my backpack and call Kate. The call goes to voice mail and my stomach sinks even lower.

I'm freaking out. Now I know how Maggie feels 80% of the time.

I check the rest of my contacts, most of them from my old school on the other side of the country, mom and dad won't be any help, grandpa and grandma probably don't have reception where they are. I keep scrolling down until I see one contact I haven't seen before...

Stanley Worthington.

Joe POV

Right now I'm in Earth history class. It's not the best, John loves it for some reason, but it's not as bad as Astronomy. Miss Daniels our Spanish teacher also teaches Earth History; right now we're learning about something called Ancient Greece. We're doing presentations on parts of Greece, I'm paired with John; we got the mythology part of Greece. All their gods and goddesses were actually Lorics in disguise, and their monsters could've been really angry Chimæra.

"Ok who is Athena?" John asks from beside me; we're quizzing each other. I think back to Brandon's pep talk at the front of the gym. Someone in the school is potentially hostile to us? Even repeating the statement sends chills down my back.

"Dude!" John's voice breaks my uneven train of thought. I look up,

"Um, uh, hey, what's up?" I say casually, John shakes his head but I see him grinning from the corners of his lips. John continues trying to quiz me, but I just daydream. The rest of the class goes quite quickly just with some dude named Hannu talking about the Greek Olympics or something.

After the bell rings I head to my locker, John next to me.

"So, how things?" I ask, he looks at me confused, then he shrugs,

"Ah you know, the usual." He responds,

"How are things with Maren" I ask, smirking and wiggling my eyebrows, John turns to me, his cheeks turn red and he has a look of surprise on his face. I laugh,

"Shut up Joe. The better question is, 'why haven't you asked Marina out yet?'" he counters, crap.

"Uh, I'm getting to it, I just don't know if she... ya know, likes me-"

"Dude. Just. Ask. Her. Out. Maren was so right when she said your naivety would get the better of you" he says, cracking into small laughs,

"I am not naive! I'm just..." I stop trying to protest. Maybe I should just ask her out; but what if she says no? Man, I can't believe I'm even considering this, but I might need to ask Stan for help. Speaking of Stan, where the heck is he?

"Hey where's Stan?" I ask John, as we reach our lockers, its lunch now, my favourite part of the day.

"I dunno, he probably went home; that guy would do anything to get out of school" John says, grabbing a sandwich from his locker,

"You know that Emily girl?" I ask,

"Blonde hair, brown eyes, ivory skin tone?"

"Yeah, Stan has a major crush on her" I say, grinning at the end. John laughs,

"Man I'm gonna tease him so much about this!" John says, laughing uncontrollably. He sobers up and says,

"No but seriously dude, ask Marina out"

"Shut up"

Author's Note: There it is everyone! Sorry this one was short; I just wanted to bring you guys up to speed at where everyone is at. Please tell me if there is anything you guys want in the story. Please review! As for my other Fanfiction, I'll be updating this one more frequently than The Stand of Eight (sorry).

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Until next time,

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