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Part Nine

At the cabin, Darren opened the door while Nick was holding on to him. Roland was seated down cleaning his sniper rifle, but there was another person in the room. It was not Arthur, it was someone who was not there before.

She had long turquoise hair and green eyes. Her white floral dress made her charm skyrocket. She looked to be very cheerful as she bounced her way towards Darren.

“Darren!”

She shouted.

“What?”

Darren asked in an annoyed tone.

The young lady hugged him, not minding Nick at all. Her soft breast pushed up against Darren's side. He tried to pry her off of him, but she was like a leech.

“I missed you.”

“More like you missed me being your taxi!”

Roland coughed a little to hide his laughter.

“Shut up!”

Darren yelled when he heard Roland’s cough.

Roland was not married or engaged, but the moment he was he would understand what Darren was going through. At that time Darren would have his revenge.

“I didn’t even do anything.”

Roland responded.

Darren sighed as he struggled to move. When he finally reached the edge of the bed, he laid Nick on it.

“Emilia, heal him.”

“Darren, where is the, please? I traveled all this way just to see you and you didn’t even say hi. Mother raised you better than this!”

The young woman named Emilia puffed her cheeks and crossed her arms.

“Wait. How did you even get in here?”

Emilia rocked back and forth on her heels and tippy toes.

“S-E-C-R-E-T.”

“Whatever, just heal him.”

Emilia looked at Darren in his light purple eyes.

Her eyes said everything, she was telling him he knew what he had to say.

“Please…”

Darren said softly, almost embarrassed.

“Sure.”

Roland burst into laughter. Darren who was rude and seemed like a grumpy old man that liked to mess with others never bowed to anyone. However, in front of this girl, he was brought to his very knees.

Darren erupted with bloodlust, as he glared daggers at Roland.

Emilia leaned over on the bed and glanced at Nick’s face. The wounds all over his body pained her. Her cherry lips came closer to his face and she planted a kiss on his cheek.

From the spot she kissed him, a green aura enveloped his entire body. The bruises and cuts started to heal.

Emilia brushed her hair back behind her ear as she rose. She pounced on Darren and attached herself to his arm.

“Let’s go. I want to go shopping.”

“No.”

“Yes.”

“I am not taking you shopping. I am in the middle of something very important, you should leave.”

Darren felt pain coming from the arm she was attached to. However, Emilia looked like a perfect angel, seeming to not hurt him at all.

“The bad guy is gone, right? Then you have free time. So, take me shopping!”

She urged him as she put more strength into her grip. Darren felt that if she put in any more strength he might pop a blood vessel so he reluctantly agreed.

“Fine.”

When he agreed her grip loosened and the cabin door opened once more. Fred walked in by himself.

“Where’s the girl?”

Darren asked him.

Emilia had a murderous aura around her.

“What girl?”

She questioned Darren.

The last time Darren hung out with a female and Emilia found out, the girl mysteriously vanished. Since that day, his life has been filled with men.

Emilia was not going to let anyone take Darren away from her. They were the perfect couple in her eyes. She had her wedding dress picked out, she made it herself when she was twelve.

If you ask Darren who proposed or how this marriage came to be, he would look depressed. He always wanted to go back in time, but he could not. If he could, he would beat his younger self up.

Back when Darren was still a child, he played with Emilia a lot. It was on the spur of the moment, but he told her he would marry her when they grew up. Only later did he realize what he had done, but it was too late as both families had agreed.

“No one.”

Emilia glared into his eyes, but Darren did not dare to look into hers.

“She woke up and went back to the other first-year students.”

Fred sat down at the table.

“Once he wakes up, we’ll send him back to join the others. If he is gone for too long they may become suspicious. It would also seem that the threat has passed for now, but once we are back I want to look into this. I have a strange feeling about that man.”

It did not take long for Nick to wake up after Emilia healed him. The first thing he did besides check his surroundings was check his body.

“Glad you’re awake.”

Nick looked over at Fred.

“You don’t have to look like that, you did well.”

Nick let out a cold humph as he massaged his neck.

“Did you catch his name?”

“Geno, he is from Delirium.”

Fred raised his eyebrow.

Out of all the organizations, he pictured to show up, they were not on his list. The academy may be powerful, but they were not weak. He heard of Geno, but he has never seen his face.

Fred looked Nick over and wondered why he was not dead. For Nick to survive a fight against Geno, he had to admit Nick had some skills.

“Not bad, he is one of their rankers. Did not imagine they would send him over, know what he was after?”

Fred questioned Nick.

He saw Katherine, she must have had something to do with whatever was going on. Fred did not know if Nick had some idea about what was happening, but it never hurt to ask.

“No. Me and Katherine were trying to find the source of all the chaos that was going on and we happened to run into that guy.”

Nick didn’t hesitate to lie. He did not know Fred all that well and he was not planning on letting people know about Katherine. He still had to question her about what Geno said to him.

What exactly did he mean when he said she was subject number five?

“Ah, I see. You should have contacted us as soon as you found him.”

“He did not exactly give me time to put up a signal, or make contact. His first reaction was to see us dead.”

“Nick, you’ve shown great promise. I’ve already talked to Katherine she does not plan to tell anyone about what happened here. I expect you to do the same. Go back to your friends and enjoy the rest of your time here. When you go back to the academy come see me. You’re dismissed.”

Nick nodded his head and left the cabin. There was no need for him to stick around anymore. The threat left, he doubted that Geno would be back.

As soon as Nick left, Fred pressed his finger against his temple and started rubbing it.

He had a feeling that Nick was lying to him, but he could not really go against him. He was not at the scene when it happened so he can’t say exactly how things went down, the only one who knew was him and Katherine. Both of them kept their mouths sealed, only revealing limited information.

Katherine’s response was to ask Nick, and Fred did not know if he could believe him.

However, Fred felt it from afar. There was an overpowering surge of essence that extended out. Fred only felt essence like that a few times, he wondered where it came from.

Geno was not emitting it when he arrived, and Nick was not either.

If that was all he would not be so agitated. From the cuts on Nick’s body and the fact that Geno was using a sword, he could not have the power to corrupt those beast. There was another person working with him, if not more.

What really bothered him was that he had to report all of this. That was a lot of paperwork which he did not want to do.

When Nick returned, the sun could be seen rising off in the distance.

“What happened to him?”

Students who were up early started whispering and asking questions. The saw Nick come into the camp with his clothes in tatters.

Their faces were darkened, and fear could be seen in some of their eyes. A few of the students that died were now covered up. The piles of beast corpses were being buried.

Nick ignored the whispers of the students and walked into his cabin.

He brought extra clothes, so it was not a problem for him to switch out of the ones he was currently wearing.

Matthew saw Nick come in as he was talking to a few of the other male students in the cabin. He stopped his conversation with them and strolled over to Nick.

“What happened to you?”

“Nothing, I'll tell you later. For now, I need to wash myself off.”

Nick told him as he grabbed a new set of clothes and left the cabin.

Matthew was about to chase after him, but he decided against it. It was a good idea to let Nick face some hardship once in a while.

Matthew was not sure if Nick knew it or not, but now was the time the females were allowed to bathe. Tempting as it was to go spy on them, the males did have their own morals. That and the females had guards posted to stop any male from going to spy on them.

Matthew figured Nick would realize it when he stumbled upon one of the female guards.

Nick knew the times that they agreed upon for bathing, however, his sense of time was a little off. Not to mention there were females already at the base hanging around, Nick thought that their time was over.

If Nick knew what the exact time was, he would have waited. He did not know because his phone was dead and he did not wear a watch.

Nick approached the river, where the students did their bathing. There were no guards around, he figured it was safe to enter. When male students washed no guards would be placed because no female student would want to check out males.

The few that did want to check out the ‘goods’ of the ones they had a crush on were disappointed. Unlike females who took their time bathing, males washed fast. Around the time that the female would peek and look for their crush they would already be gone, and all that would be left were the male students they did not want to see. Thus they would hurry up and run away.

Nick stopped in his tracks, his ears twitched a little. He heard laughter and it was not males laughing. His brain processed what was happening and multiple scenarios popped up in his mind.

He was a male, and there were no guards. If he was quiet, no one would notice him.

While he thought it over, he felt an ominous presence.

He turned his head and saw Freya cracking her knuckles. Her hair was wet and her skin seemed to shine. Nick could tell she just got done with her bathing.

Next to Freya was Alyson who had a towel wrapped around her neck. She appeared to be calm compared to Freya.

“Nick, mind explaining what you are doing here?”