The white butterfly tango

Сhapter XXIV

"Esma, you can barely walk. Don't be stupid." The boy stood still, trying to calm the excited girl down. She started crawling away and then pulled herself up, in a desperate try to stand up.

"Are they all on the academy grounds? Then why are you here?" Esma didn't listen to him. Luckily, it was the ability she learned pretty quickly.

"Ruth headed to help the people, other returned to the academy. I stayed with you because I was the only one, who wouldn't get killed by butterflies, healing your body." The boy explained to her and sighed in disbelief, seeing her pitiful try to stand up. She looked like Ruth after spending too much time in the animal form. It took time for muscles to work properly again.

"They attacked someone?" Esma leaned onto a tree and stood up, trying her best, not to fall down.

"Everyone who stood closer than a few feet away from you." Mike nodded and then noticed how the girl caught the branch and starting pulling herself up.

"I guess, it's because I trust you, Mike... but I need you to trust me too." The girl chuckled at that explanation and got above the ground, climbing up.

"No way, I'm trusting you. What the hell, do you think you are doing, anyway?" He got a bit embarrassed but only then realized that she already got quite high above the ground.

"We have to get to the academy," Esma explained it quickly and jumped onto another, bigger branch. She almost fell down but caught the wood at the last seconds with both hands and got onto it, trying to stand up again.

"That's why you are climbing the tree? That hit must have been really bad." Mike really thought she had gone mad completely. The girl was talking about trust and was much more confident than ever before.

"I will get us to the academy in no time." Esma smiled and then took a scared glance down.

"What are you doing?!" The boy realized quickly what she wanted to do and headed to catch her from her own death.

"Here we go!" The girl shouted and ran till the end of the branch. She then jumped and started falling to the ground at a great speed.

"Esma, you dumbass!" He screamed in disbelief, thinking how stupid that move was, and tried to catch her into his hands. The second she was about to land there, her body turned into a cloud of white butterflies that circled around the terrified boy and then caught him in a hug and lifted his body from the ground. Now it looked like a flying carpet and Mike sat on it during the fly, scared for his life. "Whaaaaaa-" He tried to say something but butterflies fastened their moves and flew up, getting above the trees and heading directly to the stone fortress on the hill not far away.

The boy was looking around, unable to understand anything. It was like a dream and he wasn't sure if he'd survive that, especially considering that terrific butterfly attacks Esma used before. He was even able to take down Mister Hubert by catching him off guard.

The white cloud closed into the academy in about a few minutes and started getting down. They noticed students standing there in quite a shock but it was too late to change anything. Mike jumped off it and realized that people were completely fine, standing there among the students. Could it be they found the common ground with the teachers? Esma however, didn't turn into herself immediately. Instead, the cloud flew in the direction of completely blown away Dan. As they were closing to the boy Esma appeared from it and fell to the ground, making few turns through the fall and landing on her butt, all dirty from the dust that was in there.