ACE

Chapter 3

Layla tapped her finger behind her left ear and a deck of cards appeared in a pouch attached to her left upper thigh. She then quickly pulled out three cards, she aimed one towards Nikki and Shitto. Chanting something quick she threw the card at them, when the card reached them, the two vanished from the room. Using the other two cards in her hand, Layla chanted "card trick: bind." The card then flew straight towards Eric and vanished before him leaving he tied, blindfolded and gagged. With the final card she chanted, "card trick: BR." Eric was then gone from the room. Seeing him gone, Layla pulled out a card that was nearly blank with only a start in the middle. Tapping the star the card became a phone, and she quickly dialed a number.

"Hello," the other end answered in a carefree tone.

"Donyoku, keep watch for me at the party, something just came up. Also tell Chiffer to make a memory remover. Got it?" Layla commanded pulling another card from her pouch.

"Ah yes Mistress. But may I ask what happened?" Donyoku asked concerned.

"I'll tell you tomorrow. Got to go," she then hung up and chanted the same thing as her last. Layla was then gone in a flash.

She reappeared in what seemed like a bedroom. The walls were painted in teal, with random red hearts scattered on them. There was no door nor windows or any type of lighting, but the room was still brightly lite. Under Layla's feet was a card pasted to the ground. To the left of it was a white dresser and a white desk to the left of it. Across from it was a purple colored bed, with small teal hearts on the pillows. In front of the bed was a small sea blue couch that could fit three people. On the couch was Eric Vince, trying to wiggle his way out of his binding while yelling out muffled words.

Layla walked over to Eric and sat down right next to him. He then shifted in his spot. She removing his blindfold and gag, saw Eric look around the room in panic. After looking around, his gaze fell on Layla.

"Wh..what..a..are you? Where am I?" He said in full panic, moving away from Layla.

"Calm down, you're in my room. Now hold still, I need to removing the binding." Layla then took out a card and folded one of the corners to reveal a blade. "I advise that you do as I say for now." She then in a swift movement cut the binding off into pieces.

"Your room," Eric whispered. Layla then looked up at him causing him to say, "ugh.. what are you?" as he kept his distance.

"Eric please don't be scared. I'm not going to hurt you, I'm just going to wipe your memory from when you got here to now. That's it," Layla said unbending the corner of the card and placing it back in her pouch.

"Just tell me what you are!" Eric yelled.

"I'm a card user, otherwise known as Ace. Does that answer your question?" Layla replied with uneasiness.

"Your Ace? How? Wait what? Why? I.. I mean you're you," Eric questioned with disbelief.

"You're overreacting. Now I have a question for you, why would you walk up to a very damaged place? And how did you know I lived here?" Layla asked as if he was crazy.

"Wait, what do you mean by damaged? Your place seems to be in perfect condition. I also found out where you lived from Ms. Vanagloria when she told me to bring it to you," Eric replied looking at Layla with confusion.

"Are you delusional or something? It's obviously... Wait Ms. Vanagloria told you to... Ugh! I should have let Nikki shoot the life out of her," Layla said with frustration. "Whatever your memory is going to be wiped anyways."

"What?! You're going to wipe my memory?!" Eric yelled putting his hands to his head.

"Don't worry you will be fine, it won't hurt one bit. All that would happen is that you might lose your entire memory." Eric's face then shone a fearful expression and he started to pace the room. Upon seeing it, Layla walked to her desk and pulled out her unwanted assignment. As she was about to sit at her desk, the star card rang. Looking at the card she saw Donyoku's name appear, Layla then answered.