Legends of Mirandis Academy

Chapter 51: Stand Your Ground

"Jesus, Luna," Brielle whispered. Luna laughed to herself, bearing her weight on the wall.

"You know..." Luna took in a sharp breath. "If I was Jesus, that wouldn't have hurt so much."

"He shoved you really rough, I saw." Luna refused to look down. Brielle was right, it was a rough shove, and she probably had at least one bruised rib from the continuous pressure. "Are you gonna—"

"I'm fine." Luna kept her arm pinned to her stomach, clutching the sore muscles. "He's gone for now, probably running off to snatch up Backup Food before we can. His evidence is ruined. Let's get the others and leave."

Brielle nodded and began walking back towards Dante's room. "Hey, he's gone," she announced to the group, "coast is—"

Brielle paused as she stood in the doorway to Dante's room, her jaw dropped. Luna hurried the best she could to see what had her reacting that way.

"No fucking way," she heard Iridia say.

The girl's face was turning red from restrained laughter, Kelam's mouth was open in a disbelieving smile, and even Duran couldn't help but giggle at the image on screen.

"Learning Josiah Clef is a brony was not on my bingo sheet for this trip," Iridia snorted. "Okay, okay, no one else. I'm erasing it."

And with not a second of hesitation, Luna watched Iridia wipe the whole drive clean, then swiftly remove it.

"Cloud's empty too, now it's time to wipe this thing." She cruised through the settings, and with a smile, clicked the full factory reset. "Goodnight, Dante."

The room went dark as the computer shut off, and light slowly returned as they all watched the welcome screen appear as if it was a brand new machine.

"Awesome. All right, mission accomplished." Luna tried to mask her heavy breathing as she spoke. "Let's get out of here."

They didn't try to fix his bedroom at all; Luna insisted they just needed to leave. Despite that, Iridia still rearmed the front door and locked the handle before they all left, leaving it outwardly unaffected.

"Okay, come on, everyone in the car." Iridia ushered. "Luna, come on. Why are you going so slow?"

"N-no reason, don't worry. I'm fine."

"Come on, let's not linger, yeah?" Luna tried to speed up, but it evidently wasn't enough. It just made her more tired. Iridia's voice grew sharper. "Jesus, Luna, I'll fucking carry you, come here."

Luna stumbled forward, and Iridia was quick to catch her. Luna held on tight to her arms as she was settled upright again, but Iridia immediately noticed the new color on Luna's shirt sleeves.

"Luna...?" Iridia whispered, eyes wide.

Luna looked down at her own hands. Her vision blurred.

"Shit! What happened—?"

Luna stumbled again. She was never able to stomach the sight of it.

"What's going on?" Brielle swiftly returned to Iridia and the little girl in her arms.

"She's bleeding! What the hell happened?"

"Dante..." Luna whispered. "He always has a switchblade on him. He wasn't happy to find me."

"He fucking stabbed you?" Iridia whipped her head to Brielle. "And you didn't say anything?"

"I didn't see anything!"

"I don't like blood," Luna whimpered, but it wasn't all that audible. "This isn't fun."

"Call an ambulance, one of you!" Luna only looked at her forearms, dark from holding her stomach tight. Her vision started to blur again.