Element Academy: The Light of the Avatar

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Mahoney rubs the sides of his head. "Let me get this straight, we aren't fighting anymore and Mr. Fancy Business over here is going to help us get Crystal back?"

"Talula was taken too," Page reminds him.

"Right, her too." Mahoney adds without much worry in regards to Talula. He too has his reservations about Talula and how she treated Crystal over the summer. Not to mention, he just never really liked her.

"I was betrayed by the head of my security; his actions will not go unpunished." Mr. Nagoya declares.

When met with several curious stares, he explains that the man in the suit is a long time friend of the family. His name is Nathan Darkstorm. The Darkstorm family has been working along side his for generations. Nathan is like a son to him, when Nathan's parents died he took Nathan in and gave him a position in the security force that looks after his daughter. Never before has such a betrayal taken place between the two families.This betrayal, Mr. Kirito-Nagoya never saw it coming.

"I will deal with Nathan when he is caught," Mr. Kirito-Nagoya concludes.

"Do you know who this boss figure is that Nathan was talking about?" Stephan asks. The more answers they can get, the better.

"No, Nathan kept to himself. My technology team are going through all of Nathan's files to find any information." Mr. Nagoya-Kirito replies. "For now we wait."

"So we have nothing to go on right now. That creep is out working for some mystery boss with Talula and Crystal at his mercy and we have nothing to go on?" Page recaps in anger. All of this talking is getting them no where. So what if they now have a name for the guy that took their friends, to her that doesn't get them back any faster. "This talking is so pointless. We should be out there searching for them."

"That Darkstorm guy is threatening something big that could take down all of us," Jacob reminds Page. "The more we know the better off we'll be."

"They're right Page," Jake chimes in. "I want Crystal back more than anything, but if we try to go in blindly then we could lose Crystal and Talula for good."

Page crosses her arms. She doesn't like this. Another bad guy, some vague threat, and both Crystal and Talula taken. She gets why everyone is worried, exposure or making a mistake sounds like a bad thing but losing her friends sounds worse.

Page glances out the window when she notices a camp member in her line of sight talking quickly on a cellphone. She runs up to them and asks to use it. When they hand it over she quickly dials in a number, tapping her foot as it rings her ear.

"Hello? Who is this?"

"Dad! It's me Page!"

"Page?! Thank God you're alright. I've been looking for you all over DC. Where have you been? Why haven't you called? Are you alright?"

"I'm fine dad," she quickly reassures him. "But Crystal and Talula aren't. I need your help. How fast can you get to Sterling Tower?"

There's a rustling sound on the other end. "I'll be there in ten minutes."

The phone clicks off and Page lets out a sigh of relief. There has never been a problem Page gives her dad that he can't solve, and she's thrown quite a few problems his way. If anyone can help get Crystal and Talula back, he can.

Page hands the bender back their phone and makes her way back to where her friends are still talking to Talula's step-dad about what's going on.

A woman comes running up to him, clutching a tablet to her chest. "Sir! You need to see these files we found."

He steps away from the group without hesitation with Page and her friends all right behind him. He takes the tablet from the woman and scrolls through whatever is on the page.

His eyes widen and he gasps something in Chinese. Even without knowing what he said, judging from his tone Page can tell it's not good.

"What? What does it say?" Mahoney asks before the rest of them can.

The man looks up at them, suddenly looking much older than he did just moments ago. "This is worse than I feared."