Witchling Academy Semester Eight - Avery Song Page 0,166

other arm along his shoulders.

"That's what I was wondering," Jaxsin muttered and looked at Elijah. "You're the one in a coma."

"Not anymore," Elijah huffed but gave Marianna a look. "I know Brianne's asleep, but thanks for taking care of me."

Marianna didn't say anything while Eliyahu grumbled. "So when my ass took care of you for two damn years while doing my job, it meant nothing to you."

"Can we argue about that after we save shit?" Elijah questioned. "We're already running out of time to begin with."

"We ain't running to save anyone if we don't know what's going on," I prompted. The two of them rolled their eyes and got to the point.

"The Shadow Kingdom set today up. This isn't the day of the event."

"What do you mean?" I questioned. "It was announced weeks ago."

"It was falsely implied," Elijah corrected as his eyes darkened. "Anyone on the official attendance list of the games thought today was the event. Anyone who wasn't invited or had a correlation to the events knows that today is a testing day."

"That makes no sense," Jaxsin acknowledged. "The kendo tournament was moved to today to accommodate everyone, and what testing?"

"The tournament was moved to the day the universal portal was the thinnest. The Shadow Kingdom hired a bunch of succubi and a dark mage to manipulate the administration into squishing all the remaining competitions into one day," Eliyahu revealed. "Nothing is going to make sense right now."

"Suc-what?" I questioned what he'd said the Shadow Kingdom hired.

"Later," they said in unison before Elijah added, "The blast was set out to either take control of Brianne's dark side or kill her, which is what we prevented."

"Well, killing failed," Marianna pointed out.

"But you guys said she'd self-destruct," Jaxsin reminded.

"The side effect of the blast," Eliyahu announced. "That's why we need to get out to the stadium before we're blamed for the deaths of thousands."

Jaxsin swiftly lifted Marianna into his arms and I prepared to move, but his statement clicked in.

"Wait! Blame you? You're one of the enemies," I pointed out. "Well, both of you are."

They exchanged looks before Eliyahu pulled something out of his pocket and presented a badge.

"Eliyahu Hamilton. Official double agent under the sworn law of Witchling Elite Forces. I'm this douche's real twin brother, but I've been living in a different universe up until recently."

"Wait, what?!" we all gasped, and Elijah rolled his eyes.

"Ya. Apparently, the shit of a twin threatened me my entire life, forced me to screw up my friendship with Brianne, faked being me on multiple occasions, got me fucking paralyzed, and then induced the nurses to put me in a coma so I'd rot and die. And now he wants to put the ultimate blame of killing thousands of people on my name, while he’s a fake-ass shapeshifter imposter whose ultimate duty is to kill Brianne and Jax before graduation."

We were gawking before Jax shook his head and blinked a few times. I noticed his eyes were back to normal as he looked at the twins and immediately frowned. "There's two of you?"

"Ugh," they both groaned in irritation before the ground shook.

"Fuck," Eliyahu cursed. "Earthquake!"

We were running seconds later and soon enough we managed to get through the narrow path that led right into the open stadium.

We skidded to a stop as the ground shook tremendously, but it was nothing like the crazy mayhem happening all around us. Students were screaming, people young and old were running on the field, and a sole source of energy was hovering in the center of the chaos.

A blonde girl with short hair hovered in the air, her arms out as waves of dark magic rushed in all directions while slithering cobras attacked people who were attempting to flee the stadium. That seemed to be an impossible goal; people banged on the unopened doors for dear life.

The ground beneath us suddenly cracked, leaving me no choice but to jump back as the others attempted to get out of the way.

"Time to say bye-bye!" the woman screamed as her body shifted before our eyes - until an Elijah lookalike with black spots all over his flesh clapped his hands.

"Bri!" Elijah called out, and I looked to see her and Jax as the ground beneath their feet suddenly shattered into mini rocks. Suddenly, a large mouth came up from the ground.

"NO!" I screamed and tried to even take a step, but their bodies were swallowed as the gigantic purple cobra shot further up into the air before it hissed