--THE SUMMER SOLSTICE--
I had this strange dream last night that left me feeling weird when I woke up.
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Fidgety almost, restless.
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In the dream I was walking through the woods naked, and everything was on fire. I could hear screams, and wails that sounded familiar, almost likes theirs.
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The ashes and smoke lingered and darkened my surroundings but I was still able to see, and I was able to breathe just fine.
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The further I walked the more the fire intensified, the larger the flames became, and the louder the screams grew, but I was calm. I was fine, I didn't even feel the heat.
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I stopped infront of this huge dragon. The same golden scales, the same eyes and I knew it was Seraphim.
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He stood tall and mighty, his wings spread out.
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"You're ready Leodonis." Voice strong and deep, ringing through my head, his mouth not moving.
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As I tried to question what he meant. I was woken up by the bell ringing through the hostel.
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And it's been on my mind since I got up to shower this morning.
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"Leon, are you okay?" Lakota asks softly from beside me. We were sat at breakfast, my food untouched.
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I look up at him, realizing I was being spoken to.
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"Huh? Oh, yeah sorry. I'm just tired." I say, he didn't look to convinced but he nodded and let the topic die.
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"Leon, it's your first Summer Solstice celebration! Are you excited? I'm just excited thinking about how excited you must be." Saeg rushes out in her flurry of excitement.
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I give her a small smile. "I'm very excited."
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She falters a little, and everyone's eyes are on me.
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"What?"
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"Are you okay?" Erika asks first. Deimos was beside her, just eating his food with a small smile on his face. Turd.
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"I'm fine guys, I promise. I just didn't sleep too great. But enough about that, tell me about what's gonna happen today." I say, quickly trying to dodge the topic.
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Lakota smiles. "We start after lunch with like a...what do mortals call it? Ah! a barbecue! Then we have La'Torete, which is like ceremonial dancing. Then we end with a Summer prayer and invocation."
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"We have to invoke summer?" I ask.
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Raph hums. "It's to keep weather from other seasons away until we get to them." He explains, I nod in slight understanding.
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"So what other celebrations do you guys have this side?" I ask as I start to eat my cereal.
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Rebecca speaks up. "My favorite is Selan'thir, Day of Twin Moons." She says. "We have fireworks, the moons are full, we dance at night, a whole lot. And it's right after our trip." She says.
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"What trip?" I ask.
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Erika speaks. "Four Forces go on a trip after midterm and it's our turn."
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I nod. "Where to?"
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"We only get told the day before." Raph says and I nod.
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Topics float around as we eat. When Laeomon calls for a moment of silence, Deimos walks away while everyone is doing their prayers. And no one bats an eyelid, I mean I guess they can't because their eyes are closed but anyway, no one mentions it.
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On a some what related note, I find prayer such a strange and unique concept. You are basically openly admitting that you can't go on with your day without giving thanks or asking for guidance and wisdom. You're only being vulnerable to a force that is so much bigger than you, and that can't be guaranteed exists. You're putting your life in the hands of forces you can't control or even see.
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It blows my mind every time I think about it. But I guess in a way it's beautiful, just trusting something that to you is real and that may not be real to others.
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Sorry about that, but you're in my mind so get used to the random philosophical stuff my brain conjures up.
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"What do you guys wanna do until we the celebrations start?" Raphael asks as we get up to put our stuff away.
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"I need to do some homework, so I was thinking about heading to Cloudcraddle." Saeg says and I hum at that idea.
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"I like that idea." Lakota says for the both of us and I smile.
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"I was gonna go to the court with August, but I'll catch you guys at the fields after lunch." Raphael says, scarping his food and waving as he leaves.
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We wave back and I look to Erika. "Are you coming with us?" I ask her.
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She smiles at me before ruffling my hair, I don't know why she did that so much, but I'm not compl the gesture was sweet.
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"Can't. I have to go feed Nyla. I'll see you losers later." She says before walking off.
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Nyla was her familiar, this huge beautiful cat that resembled and arctic leopard. She showed me so many pictures from when she was a cub. She was cute, her relationship with Nyla reminded me of Seph and I.
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"Looks like it's just us." Saeg says and I smile.
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"Should we meet you guys there?" I ask them and they nod.
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"See you guys in a bit." Becs says as her and Saeg skip away, I turn to Kota.
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"We go?" I ask and he smiles and nods, hooking my arm with his and we walk out of the cafeteria.
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Should I?
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Screw it Im doing it.
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"Lakota...I have something I need to tell someone." I say softly, looking around to see if anyone was nearby.
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He looks slightly alarmed but more intrigued. "Leon, spill."
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I huff. "I'm kind of...hooking up with someone." I say in embarrassment, Lakota lets out a huge gasp before smacking my shoulder.
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"WHO WITH? WITH WHOM? BITCH TELL ME!" He all but screeches.
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I put my hand over his mouth. "Shhhh, Kota keep it down before he hears this," I whispers yell.
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He takes a deep breath and nods, I pull my hand away from his mouth slowly.
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"Okay spill, I need to hear this." He demands.
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I grimace, looking around again. "So basically, this guy came up to me because the council put an Essence dampening spell on him, and he can't generate a lot of his own Essence so he...takes it from other people...in a sexual sense. Oh god I made him sound like a predator— in a consensual way, well technically not because he didn't really give me an option." I ramble out and Lakota's eyes were bulging out of his head.
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"Wait— IS IT DEIMOS?!"
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I put my hand over his mouth again, hushing him. "Kota keep it down." I scold.
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"Sowwy." He says, his words muffled by my hand. I pull my hand back and he lets out a whistle.
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"Wait, so you're hooking up with Deimos? Why?" He whispers.
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"He's helping me catch up with the advanced classes, and since demons are 'spirits of divine knowledge' I took him up on the offer, in exchange for him to basically suck the Essence out of me." I whisper to him, the lie coming out more naturally than I thought.
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"So...have you guys...done the boombayah?" He asks and I laugh at his wording.
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"No, but he did kiss me last night." I say and he gasps loudly.
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"I have been in this school for three years and I haven't even held hands with anyone but you and you salsa dance in here and bag the hottest boy in week two?! Respect." Lakota says and I laugh.
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"I didn't bag anyone, it's no strings attached type thing." I say and he giggled.
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"Oh god I'm gonna be living through you. So how was the kiss? Was it hot? Did he get all up on this?" He asks before grabbing onto my butt and I yelp loudly, causing the people in the hall to look at us funny.
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I laugh and bat his hand away. "It was...honestly I can't remember, I was half asleep and cranky and I just remember him being kinda rough." I told him with a slight cringe.
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"Wait- he was in our hostel?" He asks and I nod and his eyes bulge even more.
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"If Michael finds out he was in our hostel he's gonna flip the fuck out." He says.
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"Why?"
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"Michael and Deimos have this unspoken beef. They're always competing, over head prefect, over grades, over girls, over sports. Literally everything, they absolutely despise each other." He says, and I don't if it's all the enemies to lovers books I read when I was twelve but I kinda ship it.
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"They've never had an actual physical fight, but they've always been close to it." He explains further.
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God boys are so stupid, fighting over such trivial things. Turds. Also they deserve each other, they're both asshats.
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We make it back to our hostel, going through the common room where people were sat chilling. I locked eyes with that guy with hoaves I'm always seeing, I offer him a smile, he seemed surprised by it but smiles nonetheless and gives me a small wave before Lakota continued to drag me away.
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"You have way better fashion taste than me, can I borrow some clothes for the celebration?" Lakota asks and I laugh softly.
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"Sure."
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We get to our doors and we head into our separate rooms, and I immediately felt panic set in my stomach when Seph wasn't in my room.
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Oh no.
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Oh no no no no no.
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I'm safe Leon. We'll see each other very soon.
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I look around in confusion, first because that was super weird. It's not the first time I've heard that voice in my head, but I was more confused because that voice was deep as hell. I never imagined Seph having a deep voice, he always sounded more like Winnie freaking Pooh than that deep bass of a voice I just heard.
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So this whole time that voice has been Seph?
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My door opens and Lakota steps in.
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"You ready to go?" He asks and I nod my head, still looking around before grabbing my backpack and heading out with Lakota.
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We walk and I decide to ask my question from yesterday.
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"Wait Kota you said you're a skinwalker right?" I ask and he hums.
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"So that means you can turn into animals and mimic sounds?"
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He hums. "Exacamento. But not just animals, you wanna see something cool?" He asks and my interest was piqued.
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He stops walking so do I, he stands infront of me before looking at me very closely, like he was analyzing my features.
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He steps back and takes a deep breath and then I was freaking floored when his body started to twist and morph.
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After moment of that, right in front of me was me.
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"Hey I'm Leodonis, and I'm the most sweet, most genuine, most perfect person you will ever meet!" He says, the voice was dead on and he fluttered his lashes innocently.
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"Wow." I say in pure disbelief.
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God.
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I'm really...
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Really...
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And I mean really...
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Hot.
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He laughs before quickly morphing back into himself. "Impressed?"
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"More than impressed, that was freaking insane!" I let out and he laughs.
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"So you do that and your affinity Strain is Umbrus?" I ask and he hums, fixing his hair to which I could say some blonde highlight remnants.
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"What's your Affinity Strain?" He asks.
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"Umm...all of them?" I offer and he looks at me in confusion.
To be honest I almost wanted him to find out, like this secret was so hard to keep from people I've become so happy to be around.
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Lakota, god bless his heart, didn't figure it out.
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Instead he said: "Oh! Well that's so cool!" He says and I smile.
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We make it to Cloudcraddle and it was quiet as most libraries are. We saw Saeg and Rebecca sat on a table close to a huge window, we make our way there and smile as we sit down.
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"Glad you guys made it." Becs whispers with a small smile and I smile back.
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"What are you guys working on?" Kota asks them.
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"Becs is doing ancient history and I'm doing alchemy." Saeg says and I nod, starting to take out my books and so does Kota.
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I had to write an essay on the significance of the Essence collapse, and since I only recently found out what that was, I'm still far behind in terms of looking at its significance and effects.
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I sigh and get out my textbook, as well as my earphones and plug them in. I looked through the textbook looking for the answers that I needed I saw things that kind of was similar to the effects of the wall street cash or the great depression. Essence was out of whack so systems were in chaos and power dynamics had shifted.
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People over thrown, money no longer being used which through trade off, realms became unstable. A whole lot was going on.
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I read the effects for about thirty minutes, but I still didn't have enough points to write a thousand word essay.
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I sigh and get up. Saeg looks up at me in question.
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"Going to look for a textbook." I say and she nods, looking back to her work.
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I get up and even though I didn't really know where I was going, the signs made things a lot easier. I walked into the history section and there were all manner of books. Ancient civilizations, wars and other stuff.
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As I walked through scanning the books, one book flew close and stopped next to me.
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I looked at it in confusion. A sideways glance.
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"Anything you're looking for?" The freaking BOOK, asks me.
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"I uh...need to look on the history of Essence." I say slowly.
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"Two shelves down, second highest shelf." It informs.
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"Thanks..."
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"No problem." It says before fluttering away.
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Huh?
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Anyway, I walk two shelves down then I sigh because the book I need is too high for me to reach. I'm sorry that I sound like every twink in literally every bad wattpad book I've read but that's just my reality right now.
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I just stand there and look up at the book as if staring at it will magically make it come down to me.
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"Need help?" I hear a voice say from behind me and I almost yelp.
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I let out a breath before turning to face Michael. He looked good, he was wearing a simple white tee with light loose fit jeans.
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He also smelt heavenly.
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I realize that I'm just ogling the poor lad before smiling sheepishly.
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"Yes please."
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He walks to the shelf, reaches up and gets down the book I need before handing it to me.
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"Jee, I wasn't sure you were capable of kindness for a second there." I say and I immediately wanna slap myself over my head.
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Surprisingly, he chuckles softly, putting his hands in his pockets as he shoves his tongue to his cheek to keep him from smiling too much.
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He shrugs. "I can be spontaneous, on a rare occasion." He says and I catch myself smiling a little.
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"Thanks for the book." I say and he hums, still kind of eyeing me.
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"Hey Leon, wait." He says as I was about to turn to walk back to my table.
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"What's up?"
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He huffs. "I'm sorry for being a dick the other day, that was my fault, I shouldn't have just came for your throat like that."
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I smile. "No worries. But I do need to head back. I'll catch you later." I say almost dismissively which I kinda feel bad about.
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He gives me a nod and I walk off. I could still feel his eyes on me as I walked away.
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I made it to the table and everyone seemed super focused so I just sat down and did my stuff.
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We were productive for about two hours, just small talk as we busied ourselves.
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"I think I'm done for today." Kota says from beside me and I nod, closing my books as well.
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"It is almost lunch anyway." Saeg says as she also gathers her stuff and so does Rebecca.
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Next stop, lunch and then this summer thingy.
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I wore a flowy orange satin button up shirt with white pants with the same material and it was also pretty flowy, it looked like a long skirt almost, and that's the vibe I wanted. I wore Caleb's pearl necklace with a gold bracelet and two gold rings on my right and one on my left hand. I felt good.
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Lakota walked into my room and did a little twirl, obviously happy about the outfit he got from me.
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He was wearing a white tee and over that was a sweater vest that had flowers embroidered in different colors over the blue of the vest and baggy beige cargos.
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"You look good." I smile and he smiles brighter.
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"You're one to talk." He smiles and wave him off.
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Raphael from his position on his bed made a gagging sound. "You're both so affectionate it's suffocating."
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We roll our eyes and I get up, Kota links our arms and we head to leave, Raphael following behind us.
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We moved through the school to the cafeteria and to the door heading to the soccer field where people were congregating. Just by the way that 'oohs' and 'aahs' you could tell everyone was excited. And I couldn't blame them.
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All around the field were orange pulled banners with sun symbols on them, in between them were drummers all playing harmoniously as we made it onto the field.
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It almost looked like we were at a food market, food stalls and booths with people selling food that looked...unique! Aha, yes, definitely unique. Tables, benches and chairs were also set up.
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The center of the field was empty with a huge fire sight, rocks lined in a spiral around it, and that's where Saeg said the dancing would be happening.
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We walk through the crowd, finding a table and we all sit down.
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"What do we do now?" I ask.
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Erika shrugs. "Anything you want, we can eat, we can relax, we can play smash or pass." She says with a smirk and Saeg giggles.
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"I love that idea!" She says.
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I laugh and shake my head. "I'm gonna look at the stalls, Kota come with." I say getting up and Kota smiles and follows.
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We start to walk and I feel the strong sense that someone was looking at me, as I looked around I couldn't pin down on anyone looking at me so I just shrugged and continued.
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"You wanna get bracelets?" Lakota asks as we a stall with different cute bracelets and bangles were being sold.
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"They're enchanted," He says softly with a smile on his face.
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"Let's check them out." I smile and he grabs my hand takes me to the stall.
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The person running it was a lady, bangles and bracelets dancing up her wrists, a head wrap on her head, bralette and a long almost mesh skirt.
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"What are you guys interested in?" She asks with a smile.
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"Do you guys have the message bracelets?" Lakota asks and she nods, leaning over to her collection and pulling two bracelets, one silver, one gold and hands them to Lakota.
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Lakota beams and takes his wallet out before paying for them. "Thank you." He says cheerfully, the lady returns the smile and Lakota pulls me away.
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"So what's so special about these?" I ask.
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"They're linked, so all you have to do is put it on, think of what you want the other person to see, then it appears on their bracelet." He says and I smile.
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"Show me." I say and he giggles. He passes me the gold bracelet and I slides onto my wrist, Lakota puts his on.
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He keeps quiet for a few moments then, I see a message from a long the bracelet.
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Hi :)
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"Holy cow." I say in disbelief.
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He nods his head and laughs. "Now we have our own walkie talkies." He says and I smile.
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"You wanna try the food now?" He asks and I nod.
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"Let's go for it." I say and he smiles, linking our arms again and whisking us off.
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We tried a load of stuff. We tried these fried dough balls that cheese in the middle, that was my favorite. Then we had these things that tasted like jalloff rice, but it was rolled and cut into squares. Then we had corn dogs but the meat tasted...odd, then Lakota told me it was reindeer meat and I almost spat it out. We then tried this thing made of pounded yam with beef stew, all of it was all really nice. EXCEPT the reindeer meat.
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We made it back to the others, Erika wasn't there but Rebecca, Saeg, and even August were there, they all had what looked like boba tea, they were all talking and laughing.
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Kota and I sat down they all smiled at us. "Where did you guys go off to?" Saeg asks.
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"I took Leon around to try everything." Kota says, Rebecca was beside me, looking at the bracelet.
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"Message bracelet?" She asks and I nod.
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"You've been really quiet today, not your usual cheery self." She says softly.
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I give her a smile. "I just didn't get enough sleep, but I'm okay." I say and she nods, her hand rubbing my knee reassuringly, I smile at the gesture and lean my head on her shoulder.
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"You know we were saying who we would ship you with and Tommy became a top pick." She says to me with a smile.
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"Who's Tommy?" I ask.
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"The guy always smiling at you in our hostel." Raph comments.
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I think then remember, it was the guy with the hoaves and the small horns. He seems nice.
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I smile at that. "He is cute." I say.
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"You think everyone is cute." Kota says and I laugh.
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"I find beauty in every one."
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Raph snorts. "Even Deimos?"
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I roll my eyes. "He's cute too, just an ass."
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They all chuckle softly and so do I, Rebecca turns to me and offers her a drink.
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"Have you tried this? I'm sure you'd like it." She offers and I smile, I take the cup and take a tiny sip. And as soon as it touched my tongue it felt like my taste buds had an orgasm.
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"Holy cow!" I take another sip, bigger this time before groaning in delight. "This ish is really good."
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"Cuss like an adult Leon." Raph toots. I smile though, that was literally what Ethan always reprimands me for.
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"With the way you curse I'm not sure how the big man upstairs hasn't obliterated you yet." I shoot back and he rolls his eyes, taking another sip from his drink.
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The drums begin to drum again, a bit louder and everyone, with large smiles on their faces begin to get up.
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I look to Becs in confusion. "Summer dance and invocation time." She explains and I nod, getting up.
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Everyone throws away their finished stuff and start to head towards the center of the field.
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Chants begun to ring through the air, melodic and rhythmic in song. As we get to the center of the field everyone begins to link hands as we surrounded the fire sight and the spiral stones.
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The song became louder and everyone started to sway with the music, hands linked and and everyone moving in the same direction, pulling and pushing sideways.
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I was next Lakota to my right and someone else to my left I haven't met but I recognized him as the guy who Saeg pointed out in Botany class on my first day.
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We continued swaying until everyone raised their hands in the air, I had no idea what was happening but I just followed everyone's lead a bit slower.
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Everyone then turned to face a person, I was facing the stranger, and he smiled at me. He was cute, tall, lightskin, dreads, the works. He is a very beautiful man.
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He put his hand out for me to take and I did. He put both his hands in mine before pulling me then pushing me slightly, it was kinda like a salsa dance, so I tried to follow along with his steps.
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"This is your first time at the Summer Solstice Festival huh?" He asks with a smile on his face.
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"Wow, what gave it away?" I say, with a laugh.
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He chuckles. "You seem stiff." He says before spinning me around.
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I spin and face him, I was about to topple over but he caught me and put his hands on my waist as we continued dancing. The moves didn't change much so I was able to get a little hang of it.
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"I'm Claud by the way, I've been seeing you around but I was a little shy to approach you." He says as we continue.
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"How come?"
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He gives me a sheepish smile. "You're kind of intimidating."
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"Me?!" I laugh. That's got to be the funniest joke i've ever heard.
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"Yeah you, you have this confidence about you that's kind of unnerving. In a good way." He says.
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"How can I be unnerving in a good way?" I laugh.
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He shrugs. "You just make it work."
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Everyone stops dancing then and raises their hands in the air and start chanting rhythmically.
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"Erlon Rasha! Erlon Rasha! Erlon Rasha!" Everyone chants and for some reason, it kinda makes me feel fidgety.
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The chanting stops and a professor, Caeline, draped in this white robe with red embroidered patterns walks to the fire sight with a lit torch in his hand.
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"We call upon the forces of Summer. The unending stream of light and life! Growth and birth!" He calls loudly, his voice firm.
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"But above all else, we call upon the greatest sun of all and the child of sun! La'Tio, Jïlar Grufaas, we call upon you, may your spirits be with us to bless us abundant and everlasting peace and light!"
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Uh oh.
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Come to me Leodonis.
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I hear Seph's voice in my head. I look around and feel an almost pull towards the woods.
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Come to me.
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"O golden one, embodiment of the Sun we call upon you!"
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Claud whispers to me. "You know, there's this play that we throw every year, do you think you might wanna be ap—"
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"Sorry, could you give me a moment." I say, my words coming out against my own will.
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"Uh, sure, yeah." Claud said, but I was already mindlessly making my way to the forest.
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And that's as far as I can remember.
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Lakota's Pov.
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I love love loveee, the Summer Solstice Festival, it's literally my favorite Festival out the dozens we have here.
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Leon would really enjoy Mirali'norath, Night of Bound Stars. We dance at night, and sing and light candles, it's so much fun. Well the fasting for the whole day is not fun but everything else is a big hoot!
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Speaking of which, where is Leon?
I look around, scanning the crowds and my eyebrows furrow when I don't see him. Last I saw him, he was dancing and doing that smiley face he does when he's flirting and doesn't even know it. God, I'd kill for his confidence.
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Focus Lakota.
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The chanting stops and everyone breaks from the dancing, going back to whatever they were doing as the pyre burns in ginormous flames. I look to Claud who was just dancing with Leon.
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I walk up to him. "Hey Claud." I greet, he looks up to me and I was literally dazzled by how hot this guy is, sheesh.
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"Hey, Lakota right?" He asks and I smile and nod.
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"Do you know where Leon is?" I ask him.
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"Uh he was with me a little minute ago but he told me to give him a moment, then he went in the direction of the woods, he seemed a bit out of it." He says and I feel a little anxious.
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That's strange, even by my freaky standards.
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"Thanks." I say, he waves and I head back to look for the others.
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I scan the crowd a little frantically because I couldn't see any of these people.
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I sigh then I think back to my wrist.
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I think of the message.
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Where are you?
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I stare at the bracelet for a few moments and right when I was about to give up. I felt the bracelet become really warm, it didn't burn it just got abnormally warm.
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Woods. Come quick.
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I sigh in relief when I see that, but it didn't explain what he was doing in the woods.
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I run to the table where the others were previously sitting and no one was there. I looked around again and I couldn't spot anyone except Michael.
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Should I?
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He's really scary.
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Your best friend needs you Lakota. Oh lord, he's my best friend but I'm probably not his, anyway back to my mission.
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Michael was stood by a food stall with some of his friends, who were all tall and hunky as fuck. I walk to him and his eyes meet mine as I approach him.
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"Lakota." He says in greeting, with one curt head nod.
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"Hey Michael, weird request but I need help finding Leon." I say his face doesn't change but he steps away from his friends.
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"Why do you need help looking for him?" He asks.
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"Apparently he was acting weird then took off to the woods, I can tell something's wrong and I can't find any of my friends so I just came to ask you." I say slightly frazzled.
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He nods before walking towards the woods wordlessly.
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I catch up with him and he starts doing a light jog, I do the same.
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We run to the mouth of the woods, and I spotted Leon's clothes on the floor. I run to them and pick them up and Michael follows me.
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He walks a bit further then stops.
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"The hell?" He mutters to himself, looking down.
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When I followed his eyes, there were foot prints, but the grass of the prints were charred and burnt.
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I look up to Michael who was still staring at the foot prints. He gets down and touches the grass, the black blades crumbling in his fingers.
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I hear a sound, Michael and I both look up and I feel my heart begin to jump.
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"Stay behind me." Michael orders, and that was completely fine with me.
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We pursue further into the woods cautiously, Michael leading the way.
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I looked around trying to see if I could spot Leon. But then the smell of smoke started becoming painfully apparent, fogging my vision and weighing my chest down.
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The air above us was darkened and smoke hung over us. Michael puts his shirt over his mouth and nose and I do the same.
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Michael stops walking and holds his hand out to stop me from walking on, I was gonna question him then but my eyes were caught off guard by this really bright light.
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I shielded my eyes but I still looked. I saw Leon standing in-front of this huge dragon with no clothes on, his back facing us, and around him was a spiral of flames. But it wasn't spreading, he was standing right in it. The dragon was bigger than anything I've ever seen, it was this bright gold color and it was looking down at Leon, it's eyes glowing this yellow light, its nose close to Leon's head. Leon's hand was on the dragon looking up at it.
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What the hell?
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"Leon!" I call and Michael immediately grabs my hand hides behind a tree.
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"What are you doing?!" He whisper shouts. "Are you trying to get us killed?"
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"He's in trouble." I justify.
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Michael shakes his head. "He's not."
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"He's literally standing in fire Michael!" I whisper yell.
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He shakes his head. "Stay here," He says before taking off but I grab his wrist.
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"So you can be the big hero and save my best friend? I don't think so," I say before putting Leon's clothes down and walking towards him.
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"Leon!" I call.
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I walk closer but the fire was still making a barrier around him. He didn't move a muscle, him or the dragon.
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"Leon!" I call again more desperately.
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Michael comes back to my side and he just fucking runs into the fire causing my stomach to drop to the depths of my stomach.
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Psycho.
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He gets to Leon and tries to hold Leon's shoulder but he pulls his hand back really fast with a wince. Did Leon burn him?
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Then the fire intensified. The flames growing stronger then Leon began to fucking float into mid air.
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I look at him in shock and slight horror.
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What...is he?
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The flames grew even bigger and I jumped away, Michael ran back, his clothes having small burns.
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"We need to snap him out of it. The dragon is trying to break the seal." Michael shouts and I look up at him.
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"What seal?"
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"The Ordeiga Seal." He says and I feel shock run through my veins.
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"So that means...Leon is Jïlar Grufaas?" I ask him shock and Michael nods.
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"But no time to be surprised, let's get him down before that seal breaks and all hell breaks loose." He says and I nod.
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"You use Umbrus right? Leon is light, so darken the place." He orders and I nod. "I'll try doing a sealing for the dragon." He says before he raises his hand and in flash of light and a loud clap of thunder a flaming sword comes in his hand.
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I shake my head to get myself ready.
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I take a deep breath.
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I close my eyes and imagine darkness clouding over Leon. It grows and grows until it fully envelops him.
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I open my eyes and project that. It manifests as a bubble around him. But as I do that, and as Michael is drawing a seal around the dragon, it starts to flap its wings. Causing bursts of wind to hurl at us.
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I stumble back violently and grab onto a tree, Michael stabs his sword into the ground to stop him from moving. I look to Leon, his head turns to me slowly and his eyes are enveloped by the same bright yellow glow.
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The bubble continues to engulf him until it fully covers his being. The dragon stops its winged assault as Leon was covered.
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We let out a breath of relief as everything seems to stop, but as we were about to get Leon out of it, the bubble bursts, light rays pouring in every direction.
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Michael finishes the seal with one final strike of his sword. Then Leon comes falling down.
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My heart was pounding a thousand miles a minute but Michael acted in my panic and immediately caught him.
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I sigh in relief. The dragon looks to us, then in a spiral of fire it disappears and nothing was left but a puff of smoke.
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Wait— nope, it's just small now.
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I walk up to the dragon that was now so tiny that it actually looked really cute.
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Is he Leon's?
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Michael was holding Leon bridal style and Leon was unconscious, his face having small marks of ash on it but other wise he was unburnt.
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Okay Khaleesiiiii.
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"Thats his familiar." Michael says. "Grab him and bring him with us."
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"Really but I thought dragons were..." I start as I gently grab the little dragon that nuzzled his head into my neck. Wow, so sweet compared to that beast that almost blew me away.
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He nods. "Me too. Let's get him back to the hostel."
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I nod, we walk. I put the dragon on my shoulder before I grab his clothes from the floor and we walk.
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"Let's take the back, people can't see him like this." he says and I nod , following him. I take Leon's shirt and cover him up in Michaels arms.
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We walk back out of the woods and make sure to take the long route through Gossamer Gardens until we reach the back door of our hostel.
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I peek my head into the door to check the coast before gesturing for Michael to bring Leon inside.
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He gets in and Michael starts to make his way up the stairs.
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"Woah woah woah. Where do you think you're taking him?" I ask him in a hushed voice.
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"What do you propose we do? Put Leon in his bed then wait for Raphael to try and wake him up, then he calls the school witch doctor then everyone finds out he's Jïlar?" He asks in a bored tone.
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I huff. "Fine. Stay with him. But keep your hands to yourself mister." I scold. He nods almost with boredom and continues his way up the stairs.
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He stops. "Don't tell anyone about this." He says and I nod, and he continues walking with Leon in his arms.
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So Leon is Jïlar huh?
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I guess that makes things a lot more complicated, since I am the one he has to sacrifice.
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Fan-fucking-tastic.
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