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Chapter 3: The Beginning of All Endings

Melody made the first move as she released a water spell. Liddell dodged it easily. "That's it?" Liddell mocked her.

Liddell thrust an explosion spell that caused Melody to fly and collapse to the ground. But she stood and growled at her, "Let's see if you can take this!" With a raised hand, two monsters appeared before Liddell.

She looked at the monsters, she has to admit, and they are quite strong. Melody's spell may be a kid's toy, but her summoning magic was the greatest. But that doesn't mean she can't beat her.

Liddell examined both creatures, ready to attack. The right one is a water element while the other one is ice. She's not surprised, Melody's element is water. But Melody seems to think about her strategy carefully. Ice is vulnerable to fire but fire is weak against water.

Liddell smiled. This will be a piece of cake. She thrust her strongest fire spell towards the monsters, in just a minute they were gone.

Melody's face paled, she thought her plan would work. It seems Liddell doesn't care about strategies; all she cared is to beat the enemies.

The crowd's cheers died, they all knew who's going to win. Liddell made a sound of relieved; she didn't have time for this ridiculous battle. She walked towards Melody sitting on the ground, her face looked down.

"The fight is over."

Then Melody's eyes met hers, victory twinkled in her eyes as she said "No, it isn't."

Suddenly, a gigantic monster appeared before Liddell. It has a lion's body, a goat's head, dragon's wings sticking at its sides, and a tail that looks like a sword.

Liddell took a step backwards as she stared at the mutant in disgust. "Where did you summon that ugly..." her words go unfinished as the chimera's tail swing towards her and hit her. Her body went flying and crashed on the school building's wall. She tried to stand despite the cuts and bruises she got. Luckily, the tip of the animal's tail doesn't slice her open.

Looking at the battle, the crowd cheered more at the unexpected twist. Liddell hissed at Melody who was grinning.

"Whatever…" Liddell snorted as she unleashed a strong explosion spell. No monster has ever escaped from her strongest spell, none. She just wants to end this tiring match and go rest at the dorm. Everybody waited for a scream, shriek, or something else. But what happened is the monster placing a barrier, reflected Liddell's spell back to her. Liddell's eyes widen as her own spell hit her. She cursed in her mind for more cuts, bruises, and oh, some broken bones. Great. Not only she lost to the biggest jerk in school, it was also her own spell that got her knocked out. Her knees fell to the ground as silence ensued. They knew then she can't fight back.

Melody walked towards her, smirking. Liddell's face shows no emotion although in reality she wanted to kick, shout, and scratch her face to wipe off that annoying smirk. She hates losing, especially to idiots like her.

The red head stopped in front of Liddell placing her sharp boots to her hand. Liddell growled as Melody leaned down and whispered in a sly voice "Now, my dear Liddell, this fight is over."

Liddell couldn't help but gritted her teeth as the girl turned to her friends. If there is anyone she wanted to kill, Melody is number one on the list.

Meanwhile, Melody was feeling better than ever. After all, she just beat the strongest student in school, the most annoying one too. With this, popularity is just one step from her. Then remembered about the chimera, she clicked her fingers to send it back on wherever it came from. But nothing happened; the chimera is still there staring at her with a look, a look she knew really well. It was the look she usually gave to the worthless students who feared her. She didn't like it.

She clicked her fingers again, this time commanding "Go back"

The chimera was now closer, preparing an attack. In panic, the girl chanted the word "go back" and repeatedly clicking the fingers. The other students not knowing what's going on just stared at the frightened girl, confused at what had made her face pale enough like she was going to die. Unknowingly, Liddell surveyed the scene in front of her, she knew something smells fishy is going on here and she wondered what was this weird feeling in her heart that tells her something bad would happen.

It was too late.

In a flash, Melody was sent to the ground, her legs turned to stone making her paralyzed that instant. The crowd gasped and started screaming.

"Sent it back!"

"Go away!"

The school grounds were filled with desperate cries as the monster attacked people.

"I can't!" Melody cried back, tears started to fall from her face. She used all her energy to summon a high-class monster, she had none left and she realized it was a mistake.

Looking at her, Liddell felt a bit of pity yet a part of her convinced herself that she deserved it. But, pity wins. Slowly she stood ignoring the pain in her body. With all her effort she released a spell praying it wouldn't miss. Thankfully, it didn't. The monster jerked in pain as it turned facing Liddell.

"Hey! Monster! Why don't you try someone on your size?" She shouted.

The creature growled at her, accepting her challenge. Fireballs came out from its mouth. Liddell stood and released a wind spell, sending the fireballs back to the monster. The chimera shrieked in pain as its skin burned.

"Ha, you fall into your own trick!"

Taking the situation's advantage, Liddell ran towards the injured chimera. A dagger was revealed in her hand, it was conjured with an explosion spell. She repeated a thank you note in her head for bringing the dagger. Seeing an opening, she stabbed the monster's chest; she could hear organs ripping and blood falling inside. The spell had worked.

The chimera stopped moving and dropped to the ground. Its body lay lifeless so does its blank eyes. Liddell's sighed as she knew the creature had died.

Remembering her own injury, she turned to head to infirmary. But before she could keep going, she heard someone screaming. Then she look down to her own body, her eyes widen as she saw the creature's sword-like tail has pierced her stomach leaving a large hole. She then realized she was the one who was screaming.

Everybody froze as Liddell took her very last breath before she collapsed to the ground.

Melody whimpered something over and over "It's all my fault…"

To Be Continued…..

How was it? I bet the cliffhanger did some real shock to all of you. Anyway, this strange event would be explained in the next chapters. No spoilers though.