Little Moonlark

Chapter 14

One Day Later...

Sophie was gonna steal it. She was gonna steal the Keefe-tracker.

She had already made a phony replacement, we'd just add theft to her criminal record, or something.

Well, that's a problem for future her, not current her.

Sophie walked down the halls of Foxfire, stopping before her locker, which as always, was right next to Dex's.

Last chance to turn back. Not that she'd take it, this is the only way she could find the most annoying creature in existence (*cough* Keefe *cough*), without potentially putting her friends in danger.

As Dex opened his locker next to her, she gathered her stuff, and glanced inside his locker to check if he had the Keefe-tracker.

Dex apparently noticed this, and raised an eyebrow in suspicion at her. She just averted her gaze, and pretended to be interested in something inside her locker.

Besides, she knew what she needed to. She waited a little till the bell rang, and subtly used her foot to just barely keep Dex's locker open, just enough to open, but not enough to be noticeable unless you were looking.

~~~~Time skip cuz we need ✨to move on✨~~~~~~~

During her class on the elements, she 'accidentally' fell over and onto her bottled blizzard, and excused herself from the class room under the ideation that she was going to Elwin's office.

In reality, however, she went to the lockers while everyone was away, to open Dex's locker, and grab the Keefe-tracker (they seriously needed a better name for it).

After stuffing the Keefe-tracker in her bag, she quickly put the replacement roughly where the KT (a nickname for convince's sake) was, and tried to close the locker door as quietly as possible, before hurrying to Elwin's to treat her glass cuts, from the bottle of her bottled blizzard.

Suffice to say when she did get to Elwin's office, he wasn't very happy she got hurt, again.

Sophie almost feels bad for everything she's put poor Elwin through...

"Ah, you need to be more careful Sophie! At least this time you didn't come back with a third degree burn." Elwin fretted.

"Sorry..." Sophie at least had the decency to look ashamed.

"Well... again, be more careful next time. Please." Elwin sighed. Sophie nodded, and winced when he put bandages over her arm where the cuts were.

"Now shoo! Off to class now!" Elwin shooed her out.

She went back to her elemental class, only for the bell to ring right as she was about to sit down. Great.

She dragged herself to her next class, and the class after that, and the class after that. Wow, school was exhausting! More so than before! Wonder what's different about today...

Anyway it didn't matter, she had the KT, and now she could find Keefe!

~~~~~~~~~~After classes~~~~~~~~~~

"Sophie!!!" A familiar voice called, sounding frustrated? Angry? She couldn't tell.

She turned around to come face to face with a panting Dex. "Yes, Dex?" She asked, sweating slightly at the thought that he knew. "Did you take the Keefe-Tracker?" He asked angrily. 

She shook her head rapidly. "No, no, why? Did someone take it?" She lied, hoping with all her being that she could sell the lie with how bad she was at it.

By some miracle, he did.

"They did! And even had the nerve to put a fake one made of foam in its place! Foam! Human FOAM! Do they even know how bad a crime it is to sneak into the forbidden cities! Or wait! What if it was he Neverseen who did it! Oh, no! If they find Keefe-" Dex ranted before Sophie cut him off, "I'm sure it wasn't the Neverseen, how would they know about it anyways?"

"Well they probably knew we'd search for Keefe, and so they had a spy watching us until I finished it, and then they stole it! Or something like that..." Dex explained.

"Calm down, I'm sure that's not the case..." Sophie assured.

"Well, who else could have done it?! I already questioned Wonder Boy, so it isn't him!" Dex yelled. "Keep your voice down Dex, we're in a public area. Maybe we should discuss this later. Like at Havenfield, tomorrow afternoon?" Sophie asked- she was gonna be gone by then, anyways...

(A/N)

Hello, humans, I'm not dead. Sorry for the long delay, my fixation has long sense moved on, but I'll still try to finish this fic! 

This chapter was more of a filler to push the story forward, because I'm hoping to end it soon! 

Thanks for reading, and I'd like to say, constructive criticism is appreciated! See ya! ❤️