REVERIE OF THE AWAKEN MIND

Chapter 10

"Lady Penelope, we can declare defeat right now. I don't think we really need to exchange strength and power," I calmly said.

She looked at me, most likely glared at me. She seems to be not liking the words I chose to speak. She grimaced and stepped closer to me. We are her inside the bulletproof glass where it's also fully tinted.

"Give me your all, Gillian and Amara. I am asking you two to never hold back. Show me your strength and show me what you've guts. You were able to stepped over Camille and Hailey in the board, now I would know if you two were just playing with me. Treat this battle as a board recorded battle," she seriously said.

*We are going to lose, Gillian*

I saw my best friend looked at me after I spoke in her mind. I chose not to look at her back, Lady Penelope would notice that. I used my ability to know if we really are under the fully tinted glass and this fight is a secret. Luckily it is. Because I have no plan of fighting her with all the ability that I got.

Holy University only knew that I have water and the ability to see from a far. But they didn't know that I have much ability than that. Mom told me not to just to maintain the peaceful life that we have.

I saw Lady Penelope holding a whip in her left hand, not an ordinary whip because an electricity was lying in it. It could cut my body if it would have chance to get coiled all over me. In her right hand, she have the sword with an electricity all over it as well.

*She's really serious,* Gillian said in my mind.

*Dodge if you can,* I told her.

*I badly want to choke her with sand. She's too bossy,* she said hardly.

"Lady Penel----"

"Are you two ready?" she shouted, cutting me from speaking. What does she really want? To get even? I will give that to her, I will let her win and hopefully after this time, she would have the peace of mind she needs.

It was clearly her pride. It hurts her butt that a class 2 once brought her in the ground. What a loser!

I was almost caught by the whip when she swing it all over to my direction. Luckily I was halved focus and I was able to see it coming before it had a chance to even lay in my skin.

I saw Gillian dodging the sword. I made a water whip in my hand as well and coiled it in her hand just to make sure it won't touch the electricity her whip has. That would have an effect to me.

"Aaah!"

My eyes widened when I saw how she didn't hesitate to stab Gillian with her sword. I looked at her with disbelief. She was focused with Gillian that she didn't even mind me but when I was about to pull my water whip when in got to coiled in her hand, she stabbed her sword to Gillian.

"Gillian! Lady Penelope, why did you do that?!"

My lips tremble when she pulled out her sword and much amount of blood from Gillian's stomach came out and she slowly lay in the floor. Lady Penelope smiled as she looked at me.

*Gillian, can you hear me?*

I tried to enter into her mind to speak with her. I glanced to Lady Penelope who seems to be happy facing with me.

"I just had to notice that you don't seem so serious, Amara. You were holding back and I am just giving you a reason to fight with me," she seriously said while sending a death glare to me.

*Gillian! Can you hear me?! You have to talk to me, Gillian! Damn it!*

*Stop shouting, Ara. I am okay. Don't worry, I am not dead.*

As she said that, I looked at her body and my eyes narrowed with what I just saw. What the hell? Ops!

Lady Penelope doesn't really have patience. She throw the whip once again to my direction but I think I just got the luck today. When I throw my water whip back to Lady Penelope, she dodged in it and she did. Wow. I think, it really won't do good if we take here too long. She's so hot, she's so serious.

This fight is really not making any sense. I don't know what will happen next. I am certain that if I got to do wrong and wrongly hurt her, I know the head and the council will go run after me and Gillian and we have no right to defend ourselves. We are dealing with a royalty that happened to be our teacher.

I sighed and glanced Gillian laying on the floor. She was bathed with her own blood. She was looking lifeless — that would surely freak me out if only I didn't know her. But Gillian was smart enough that she came up into that idea. I don't know if Lady Penelope knew what she did or even notice her now.

She perfectly tricked her. I wanted to do the same, however, I don't have the ability like hers. And the only thing that I can do in order to stop this nonsense fight is to make her believe that I am fighting back and that I wasn't strong enough to bring her down, again.

She was prepping herself to attack, don't worry, Lady Penelope after this day, you can again gain your peace of mind back and I swear you can finally sleep at night, in peace for getting back your pride. She swung the whip she was holding and I did to my whip as well.

I counted the second that would take for both our whips to touch each other. I have my water whip locked into my hand and the electricity will flow in it until to my body. I'm sorry Lady Penelope but we are tired of this game.

"Aaaah!"

I screamed when the electricity that comes from her whips flows into the water whip I was holding and runs into my body.

"Sh*t!" I heard her cursed before everything went blank.

*Ara, wake up. You have to wake up now!*

I almost groaned when I heard Gillian's voice shouting in my head. I slowly opened my eyes and scanned the unfamiliar place. I looked at the bed I was laying. It didn't looked like a clinic room, it's something like a dorm.

"Goodness! We need to leave, now!"

I saw Gillian in a hurry and as I looked at her, she has bandage all over her stomach. I remembered what happened and without saying anything, I grabbed her arm and left the place. Thank God for the teleportation blessing.

"Who's room was that?" I asked her when we finally landed in front of our town's gate.

"That was our dorm. Lady Penelope summoned the doctor to come over there for she don't want anyone to know what happened to the both of us. She didn't know I was faking everything. I thought, she was great and focus for someone from the Holy Kingdom of Soldiers," she said shaking her head while removing the bandages.

She wasn't wounded. One of her special ability is that she can copy herself and can make another one like her. She did that earlier and that's the reason why we saw blood coming out but that wasn't a real Holiesters that was just something like a hologram. Gillian just made herself invisible.

"She will surely get surprised when she learned that we're gone," I said imagining Lady Penelope's possible reaction.

But in the side, she would also be thankful that we already left the place so that no one would be able to see us and no one would know that she was the reason and was the one who did everything to us. I wasn't wrong after all, it was all about her pride.

"Where did you two go?"

Gillian and I almost jump in startle when mom just showed up in front of us. She was looking at me very serious like she was trying to read me. I'm sorry mom, but I had to close my mind so that no one would be able to invade my privacy.

"Why are you so early? Did you even had a good sleep?"

I stopped when I was about to open the door of our house when I heard mom's voice. I turned around to see here and she is looking at me with narrowed eyes. She asking question despite of her mentioned quesion.

"Mom, good morning," I greeted her.

I almost laugh when she raised her brows at me. I noticed that she is wearing apron, she is probably going to make foods for the other town this early. My mom never gets tired.

"I am asking you a question, Amara. Why are you leaving so early? Did you even sleep? Have you eaten breakfast?" she asks a lot.

I sighed and let of of the door knob and held my bag remembering what happened last night uphill with Gillian.

"Last night, when Gillian and I went into the mountain we saw this thing seems fired fall down, mom," I seriously said and her eyes went serious that seems like she wanted to hear more.

"Fired thing? What was that?"

True enough to my expectation. I shoke my head as an answer.

"We do not know, mom. But it seems like a ball on fire that fell from above. It was so beautiful and we want to see that now," I honestly said.

Her eyes widened in disbelief and she immediately turned into something that is worried. She looked at me with fear.

"Isn't that going to be dangerous?" she asked in so much worried tone.

"Mom, that was really beautiful to be dangerous. I tried to find that with my sight but I can't. That thing seems to be protected. I want to know what was that," I told her.

I don't know what was that fired ball all I know is that that wasn't made by someone who can make a fire ball in Holy Kingdom. That fired ball came from above. And that was the first time that ever happens. They have never seen such thing before, not even in the book.

"Amara, why can't you just tell that to the council of the Holy university and they will just let those who are in the mission," mom said.

I know why she said that, she was worried about me. But I want to see that myself. I want to know what is that and I have no plan of telling that to the council or any of the royals. There's a huge possibility that they had also seen that in different direction.

There are many royalties in the mission and the night was still young when that fired ball fall and so I am certain that they got a chance to see that falling into the ground. I hope I could see that first before them.

"Mom, I am not going to see that for the Holy University or even the palace. I want to see that because I want to see that and Gillian is coming with me. I'm going mom, thank you."

I kissed her cheek and immediately came out from our house door. Without wasting a second, I landed in front of Gillian house's door. I was about to knock when it opened wide and my best friend came to see me. She's ready and I smiled when I see her wearing her back pack.

"Let's go," she said and I nodded.

She held my arm and we both teleported into the mountain where we came from last night. That was the exact place where we spotted the fired ball from tthe sky that fell into the Holy Land. I am not seeing any wildfire, that means that — that fired ball didn't cause any fire in the woodland? It landed in the woodland, I am sure of that.

"So where are we going to go now?" Gillian asked while roaming her eyes around.

I was looking at her as she stepped forward. I opened my eyes to see what are the possible things I could see that my ability can reach. I turned 360° but I'm seeing the normal. The trees, animals and all. I am still not seeing that fired ball. Either, by this moment the fire of that has been already gone or something.

When thay fired ball fell, I knew that wasn't that much far from here. I should've seen that with my eyes right now but it's nothing.

"We have to go right there. It landed there, right?"

I pointed the area where that fired ball landed last night. Gillian nodded and stepped his foot. I followed her. It would be so much better if we're just going to walk all the way there so that we can still take a look jn everywhere we're going to pass by.

"Lady Penelope will surely look for us," Gillian mumbled with a little laugh. She seems like making Lady Penelope a joke. Well, she is definitely a joke. Why would she came up into the idea of having a battle with her students without a proper consent?

She was so ready to end up her students despite with the fact that she is a royalty and she holds a name that shouldn't get tainted.

"I am certain with that as well. On the other hand, us, being absent in the class will make sense to her. She had gone enough to us to absent in a class in the day after we both got beaten," I honestly said.

I wad stating the fact. We got reasons why we are absent and I don't think she'll contest that. She still have the guts of doing it?

"Ara, are we even in the right place?"

I stopped when Gillian stopped and asked the question.

"Amara, why can't you just tell that to the council of the Holy university and they will just let those who are in the mission," mom said.

I know why she said that, she was worried about me. But I want to see that myself. I want to know what is that and I have no plan of telling that to the council or any of the royals. There's a huge possibility that they had also seen that in different direction.