On the next day 10:20

Between the class.

Jody was acting like her concentration was on the teacher in front of the class.

But in her head, She focuses on waiting.

For something.

And here it comes.

" Mister, May I go to the toilet, please?"

Syd Barrett rises from his seat next to Jody.

( So...this is the time? ...)

" Yeah sure."

The boy walked out of the class. Leaving Jody behind.

The door shut.

2 minutes later...

" Mister."

The teacher turns back.

" Yes?"

" May I go to the toilet?"

This time was Jody, rising up from her seat.

" Alright." He replied.

No suspect in the top student.

Heading out of the class, Jody walks down the hallway until she found

Syd Barrett and Seraphina Gilmour were waiting for her in front of the bathroom.

" Tell the teacher I will go to the bathroom, huh? That's a bit tricky."

Said Jody.

"I was telling the truth."

Syd grins,

" I asked him May I go to the toilet. I just didn't tell him what I would do here."

" Evil bastard."

" Thanks for the compliment, Sera."

" Let's not waste our time here."

Jody pulled everyone back.

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Right now, Syd Barrett was standing in front of the Principal's office, Mr.Collin.

He turned back and pointed his thumbs at the room, Jody and Sera nods.

This sure is the Principal's office.

Knock knock!

"....."

Silence.

Knock knock!

"..."

"..."

Still Silence.

" He isn't here? Jody, you hear anything?"

Jody put her ear against the wall, listening.

"... No... I don't hear anything. Sound travels the best at a rigid body such as this wall. But I really don't hear anything. Not even a footsteps."

" Strange... He should be at his office by now. Usually, he's always in his office from 8-12 a.m. before go out having lunch..."

Sera put her finger up her chin.

Without Jody&Sera expected, Syd grabs the doorknob and pull it off.

( Door open sound. )

" What the- Hey! Syd! What are you doing! "

Sera said to him.

" Jody was right... No one here."

Syd stepped in first. Followed by Sera and then Jody.

Those three made their ways in the office.

"Not even a single light was turned on."

Jody said.

" It's darker than my future. Shit, look for some goddamn switch."

Syd orders Jody and Sera,

" It's right next to the door."

Click ( switch on )

Inside the room was pretty wide. Of course, it's the principal's office after all. The computer desk in the middle of the room.

The bookshelf on the left and behind the desk.

The right was a window.

"The desk was a bit messy... The principal must go out while he's working...or is it? I can't tell."

Sera analyzed.

" Jody, get your American ass over there... right next to the door. You have a hearing ability. If you hear some motherfuckers heading over here, you know what to do. Sera, you come with me."

He beckoned his hand.

Sera walks to his position, The principal desk.

"Look through all these documents. find if there's something related to Mr.Lake or the disc. If you think you found it. Use your ability. Duplicate them. Always remember where things were placed, you gotta keep everything the same or else he'll notice when he returns."

" Understood."

Syd turns to the computer, he opens it up and logs in to the Principal's Gmail account.

He keeps searching and searching for every communication history in every platform he could find.

Finally, he found it.

(... This must be what Roxxy told me... )

A secret email.

" Bloody, Bloody, motherfucker,

Lovely -arse. Tea-bag.Queen Elizabeth.Walkers. I'm chuffed to bits."

Syd swears words made Sera turned her face to him as if she got a nerve touched.

" Isn't that how you guys said it? "

He asked.

" No."

A big NO from the British Seraphina.

Sera looks to Jody,

" Why is he like this? "

" Just as I said, you'll get used to it."

Jody replied.

" Just kidding, ladies.I've found the secret email."

" !? "

" And it was as the HQ said. Principal Collins really did contract with Mr.Lake.

We must hurry before someone finds out. I'm going to steal this."

Syd brings up another of his Hitech-USB and plugs it in the computer.

The screen showing that The communication history was being copied and saved into the USB.

" Shit... All these on his computer... They are all evidence of his corruption!"

"What is it about?"

" The financial corruption! ... He kept half of the school's budget to his account! He even receives money from rich people to put their kids in school... Jesus Christ, There're so many of his shits. He opens so many bank accounts just to keep that money without being suspect."

" What a bloody scum," Sera says while searching through the documents.

" Syd, I don't find anything suspicious here. Looks like Mr.Collin put all his secret on the computer you're looking at."

"Wait...."

" What?" He asked.

" This is ... A picture of the United Kingdom. No... It's a map!?"

Sera showed it to Syd and Jody.

It's a picture of the 3 countries, England, Scotland, Ireland. And a little bit of France at the corner.

" and? "

" There's some kind of strange symbols behind."

" What the hell you mean? It could be that Mr.Collin was planing on his vacation."

" I don't think he would... However, it may be as you said Jody....well, I gonna make a copy of it. "

Sera said.

She turns to Syd Barrett.

" Syd, this is all I found. Are you done with a co-----"

! ! ! ! !

Both Sera and Jody's eyes wide open.

Because as they looked at Syd Barrett,

He disappears.

He's gone.

But where? Without any sound??

" SYD?! "

" W-W-Where is he?!?! "

" THAT'S SUPPOSE TO BE MY QUESTION! I was looking at the map! Where is he, JODY?! "

Sera shouted.

" I don't know!!! I was listening to the outside!! So I didn't look at him! "

" Bloody hell...Syd!! This isn't funny! I know you love teasing but this is going too far!!!…"

Sera shouted out.

" No... Sera, wait."

Jody touched Sera's shoulder from behind.

" Syd isn't that kind of person. Sure, he's an asshole, but he will never be fooling around during a mission. He's a person who knows time&place."

Jody continues,

" This is strange... Something's wrong, I can feel it. Be careful..."

They slowly approach the desk.

Glaring down, It was an empty seat. There are no traces of where Syd has gone.

No need for speaking, Both Jody and Sera radiate their threatening energy.

Showing their alertness.

They're ready for anything that will be coming up.

" .... "

Trembling...

Trembling...

S c r a c h!

Suddenly, Jody's ears heard something crawling back behind her.

She suddenly turns her face (and also her fingers) back.

And she found that...

Seraphina disappears.

! !! !

" Sera?!... W-where is she?! "

Glaring her eyes around the circumstances... Jody doesn't see anything suspicious.

But because it is too normal, that's what makes it scarier.

Suddenly, She heard someone was walking behind her.

As soon as Jody turns her face back, she found that there's an 'Arm' was touching the switch.

Click!

The light goes off.

If she memorized correctly...It was a big brown arm of something... Like a big shadow in the shape of a man.

Except that the arm does not have any fingers... No... It couldn't be called a

Human arm.

" That thing isn't human! "

Jody thought.

'That thing' quickly dashes down the desk as Jody spots it.

" !!?? "

She became insecure.

However, Jody noticed something in the corner of her eyes.

On the computer desk. A desk which Syd disappears, Jody saw a drop of blood on the mouse pad.

" B..Blood? "

(.... Shit! Are they still alive???? )

But on top of that, which makes Jody suspect the most, was that She saw a Black-Red Aura coming out of the mouse pad.

Jody remembers this Aura.

It was Syd's.

This is an Aura of his swapping technique.

She then tried to move the mouse pad, but as soon as her fingers touched it...

" !!!!!! Huh?!?! "

The Black-Red Aura rushed into Jody's body as soon as her finger touched the mouse.

That makes Jody instantly know...

" T...This mouse pad!!! It wasn't at its normal state!! Syd used his power on this mouse pad?!"

And she can feel it...

" My legs!! That Aura... !!! I can feel that my inner-body has been replaced by something stronger...Don't tell me that..."

T o u c h...

As Jody touched the mouse pad again... She finally realized...

" The mouse pad gains the property of my bones?!"

"...T..T. This was no coincidence... While Sera was speaking... Syd had been attacked by something... But he managed to left the property of steel on this mouse pad before he got taken away?? ... For me??? "

( I see... Then it must be me who needs to take down that creepy thing!...)

" But first... It must go for light... I really can't see anything...plus... I need to look for that thing--- "

c r I c k.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Jody quickly turns back and shoots at something coming from behind her as she throws her body back. She then managed to get herself next to the switch, she then turns on the lights.

Click ( switch on. )

(.. I don't know what that was...but I should deal with it before the swapping time runs out...)

When the light turns on, Jody saw something on the ground. The same spot that she shot 3 air bullets at.

When carefully going closer,...

" !!? Sliver?! "

She found the small scattered pieces of wood.

" W...What on earth is this? "

( (C r i c k) )

!

Jody turns back as she heard another mysterious sound from behind.

But this time, she saw a wooden puppet.

A brown wooden puppet in the size of a man.

Standing in the middle of the room.

" ?!?! "

She trembles, what the fuck is that?

By observing this creepy puppet, Jody noticed that there're holes in its body that makes it looks injured.

(... So... That's where the air bullets went...and the reason of these slivers on the ground...)

Jody connects the dots. At least she feels relieved that the air bullets hit it.

However, things got creepier as the puppet starts to talk to her.

In the shattered voice.

" You... I have tried so many times... To get closer... But you always know..."

The puppet touched its wounds before continues,

" At first I wonder if I made a mistake... But now I know I didn't... But it was you... It was you who have something that could detect my movements, wasn't it? "

*pant* *pant* *pant*

A drop of sweat flows down from Jody's forehead.

" I thought you have very sharp eyes. So I went turning off the lights... But even in the dark, you still know where I was. So it wasn't the eyes. I wonder what is it. Your nose? Your ears? or other special senses? "

The puppet starts moving.

" It doesn't matter. You'll be following your friends in no time."

As the puppet finished its sentence, the lights went off again but this time...

C r a s h!

... Forever.

The puppet destroys the switch.

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

Jody shot the bullet at the spot where this creepy puppet was standing.

But she didn't hear anything. So Jody assumes she missed.

C R A S H !!!!

" Auugggg!!!! "

Suddenly, out of nowhere, Jody was hit by something from the side.

That makes her body flew and hit against the books shelf and makes all the books fell down.

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