Elements Rising

Chapter Seven

Tuesday was just like Monday, the girls got up, ate breakfast, went to classes, turned in their History of Elements questionnaires that they managed to complete, went to lunch, and then came back to their dorm to do it all over again Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. However, this Tuesday was different. At the end of lunch, the girls all parted ways to go to their last classes and each made it to their class with time left to spare. When class was over, each of the girls made their way back to the dorm. Everyone, with the exception of Grey, had made it back to the dorm. Finn was a bit worried but thought that maybe she had stayed behind to ask her Gardening teacher, Ms. Rosalind "Rosa" Flor, a question or to do extra work or something. She didn't think too much more about it. Aurora suggested that they should go and see if she was still in the greenhouse, having remembered that that's where Grey had once told her that's where her gardening class was. Finn told her that Grey was probably just doing some extra work and she would be here in no time, but Aurora insisted. Emily thought Aurora had somewhat of a good idea, so she agreed with Aurora that they should go and see if she was still in the greenhouse. Finn eventually agreed with the other two and agreed to go check it out, but she also suggested that they stop by Reed's room and see if he wanted to come with them. Emily stiffened a bit, knowing that Jake was Reed's roommate and things could still be a little awkward between the two of them because of what happened in the gym, but she soon loosened up and was going to ask Jake if he wanted to come with them as well. Finn and Emily went to their rooms and changed out of their uniforms. Finn was wearing her white dress with white tights and white boots while Emily was wearing a black, long sleeved, wa-lolita dress with crimson lace trim near the collar and on the bottom of the skirt, which came to mid-thigh, black thigh-highs, and her Mary Janes. Aurora just wore her uniform and didn't bother changing out of it. Then, they set out for Reed and Jake's room.

The girls made it there in about ten minutes and Finn knocked on their door. Jake opened the door and Finn had half a mind to scream at him for what he did to Emily, but she didn't.

"What are you girls doing here?"

"Grey hasn't come back from her gardening class yet, we were just wondering if you and Reed wanted to come with us to go find her."

"Yeah, why not. I don't think we're doing anything. Let me go get him."

Jake disappeared into the room and they could hear him talking to Reed about the situation and asked if he wanted to come along with the group. Reed said he'd come along with them to look for Grey. The two boys came back to the door, came out into the hall, and closed their door.

"Her gardening class is in the greenhouse, so we should check there first," Aurora said.

"Maybe we should split up so we can cover more ground at the same time," Emily suggested.

"That does sound like a good idea, but where else are we going to search?" Finn asked.

"We should probably check the surrounding forest and also the dorm room, she may have gone back there since we left," Emily replied.

"Alright, what're our groups going to be?" Aurora asked.

"I'll go with Jake and we'll check out the forest," Emily said.

"I'll take Reed and check the dorm," Finn told her.

"Then, I'll check the greenhouse," Aurora told them.

They each went their separate ways and began to look for Grey. Meanwhile, in the forest, after having been knocked out by a mysterious force, Grey woke up. She looked around at her surroundings, but it was dark. She figured she must either be blindfolded, although she couldn't see anything like that around her eyes, it was just dark, or she was buried underground. She wasn't in a coffin, it was more like an underground tunnel or room that she was in. Whatever knocked her out must have kidnaped her as well. If she was kidnaped, then it had to have been a person that knocked her out. She hoped someone was coming for her soon, because she had a feeling her captor wasn't going to let her out so soon.