Dark Familiars

Chapter 8

I now was surrounded by 8 masters. "Alright, Ms.Taylor we are going to go to the cell were the student is. There aren't many inmates in the cells but ignore them. We couldn't move the body... It's kind of scattered everywhere. If you need to leave let us know." One of the masters says. The mans voice deep. I nod. "Ok." I whisper. My voice sounding so tiny. We begin to move. We go through many iron doors and I could already hear the inmates yelling. We walk down the hallway with prisoners cursing, yelling, and spitting. I just focused on the sound of the masters boots. We get all the way to the end of the hall. "We are here." One of the masters whispers. I move through them getting to the mouth of the cell. Gray comes behind me and puts his hoodie around my shoulders. I slip it on swiftly. There was a twin bed, a sink, and a toilet. The bed was covered in blood. No body on that. I walk up to the sink which had two hands in it. I hold my breathe and close my eyes. I turn around and walk to the toilet. Then I see the floating head of the victim. His eyes were open. I see the shot wound on the top of his head. I also see blood smeared on the wall and figured out of the body was under the bed. In the corner of the room was the familiars body which was tortured. By the looks out it there were marks on the familiars wrist indicating ropes or chains holding them down. I turn to the masters. "All done." I whisper. I just wanted to get out of here. "Make sure to clean everything. Body under the bed. Hands in sink. Head in toilet. Familiar in corner of the room." I whisper to the police men. They nod. I get in the square of masters surrounding me and we walk back to the front of the prison. Why would the killer want to murder a student in the jail? How did a student get into the jail? "Taylor...how did you survive all this stuff?" One of the masters ask. "I come from experience. Gore doesn't bother me. Not when I slept in between my two rotting and already dead parents for a day." I whisper. I get in the car with the officers and drive back to the school in silence.

I and Gray get back to school. It was now after classes. Tomorrow was the weekend and was open for anything. We go straight to Mr.Jackels office telling him everything. "So the hands were in the sink. That's odd. This time the killer got creative." He murmurs. "It was Pret." I say. Keeping my voice down. "I know." He says. "You didn't bother telling me?" I ask folding my arms over my chest. "Didn't need too. You would have found out anyways." He mutters. "Thank you for going. In one week you will be going on another mission with a upperclass men. His name his George Hellbeck. There is a familiar that has a broken soul and needs to be terminated. When a familiar is terminated it is sent to the heavens and could be reborn into another familiar at anytime." He explains. I nod understanding. "Ok." I yawn. "You are dismissed. Get some sleep and enjoy your weekend." He calls out to me. I get up and walk out of his office and towards my dorm room. Once I get there I see a long box on my bed. I look at gray and he shrugs. I walk up to the box and see a note. I open it. "Hope you like it. My father is a special ironwork and you needed a sword for the mission. See you around. -George. I smile to myself and open the box. I pull the sheathed blade. I unsheathe it and see the blueish black metal shining and reflecting my face. It was beautiful. "Magic infused metal. Very strong." Gray says. I put it back in its sheath. I also found a weapons belt. Cool. I need for thank George for this. Gray decided that he was going to sleep in my room because he is worried that I'll have nightmares. I change into my sleeping clothes while Gray was outside my door. I let him back in and he transforms into a black wolf. I get into bed and he snuggles up against me. I turn off my light and fall asleep to the sound of Grays even breathes.

I wake up at 6:00am in the morning. I whisper for Gray. His head pokes up. Then he changes to a man. He was shirtless. "Why are you awake so early?" He asks. "I'm now used to waking up this early." I yawn. I get up. "Put on a shirt. Let's go get some breakfast." I whisper. He nods. He grabs his shirt from the floor and puts it on. Then he goes outside to wait. I put on jeans and a red flannel. I walk out of my room with my shoes in my hand. We walk to the cafe which was empty besides Fred in the corner of the room reading and two other people. I get my food and hear people call out for me. "Taylor! Come sit with us!" I look over and see the two upperclass men one being George and the other being him friend I guess. I walk over and sit at there table. "What are you doing up so early?" George says. "I'm now used to waking up at this time." I say. Then I start eating. Gray was somewhere else. Probably eating. "Where's your familiars?" I ask. "Eating." His friend says. "Oh this is Henry." George said. "So your a upperclass men too?" I ask. "Yep!" Henry answers. "Hmm how old are you Taylor?" Henry asks. "17. You?" I ask. "19. George is 20." He says patting George's back. "What a old man." Henry mutters. George rolls his eyes. "so do you want to go out with us?" He asks. My face turns red. "Um..uhhh.." I froze. "You scaring her man?!" Henry yells. "I meant like go out into town. I know your new here." He asks his green eyes sparkling. "Umm sure. Do you mind if my familiar tags along? He kind of needs to stay near me and I cant absorb him yet." I ask. "Uh sure. Why not!" George says. I smile. "What does your familiar look like anyways?" He asks. "Remember in my fighting class. The guy I was sparring with. That's him." I say. I see him gulp. Then I see Gray come back in new clothes. "Oh hey." He says. He sits down next to me. "This is Gray." I say. "Gray meet George and....Henry." I say struggling with the other guys name. "Hello." He says. The two boys wave. "They invited me to go out. Want to come?" I ask. "Sure. Where are we going?" He asks. I realized I was now surrounded by three British men. "Just around. I haven't been able to walk around Liverpool in a while since being on missions." He explains. Gray shrugs. "It's kind of chilly outside. I would bring a jacket." He warns. "Ok. I'll run to my room and go get my jacket. I'll be right back." I say getting up. He smiles. I then leave to my rooms.

I come back. "We decided we are going to Cathedral of Liverpool and also the Walker Art Museum." He says. His hands were in his pockets. He was wearing black baggy pants and a white t-shirt. I notice a chain hanging from his pocket. "What that?" I ask curious. He pulls it out. "Pocket watch for masters. It's when your at a level when you can be drafted into war at anytime." He explains. I nod. There was a person with magic in there hands. There was also anything person next to them. I'm guessing a familiar. He puts it back in his pocket. Henry was now at his side. "Let's go." He whispers. Then we leave the academy.

We were now standing in front of the Art Museum. It was beautiful. Since loving art it was amazing. The boys stared at me like I was crazy when I was naming all the art and prancing around like a deer in a forest. "Look at these sculptures!" I say fascinated. George walks up behind me and puts his arm around my shoulder. "Have you ever been to a art museum?" He asks. "Once... But in Washington. The museum was small." I say. I turn around. "Have you been out of the U.K.?" I ask. He nods. "For missions. When you get to Kinderetie ranking you go on missions all over the world." He explains. "That's cool." I say. I hear my stomach growl. "Shall we eat somewhere?" Gray asks. "Yes! I'm starving." Henry yells. "Alright let's go." George says. He interlocks his arm in mine and we walk out of the museum.

We get to a restaurant and get a table. I had Gray on one side and George on my other. Henry was sitting next to Gray. I look down. Italian restaurant. I order some pasta and garlic bread. Gray just sat there looking around bored. "Ready to order?" George asks. "Sure." I say. The waitress comes and we tell her our order. Gray orders some wine. I stick with water and the two guys got beers. "I thought..." I begin to say. "When your a high ranking master you can get some beers sometimes. Don't worry I'm not going to get drunk. We still have day light." He says smiling. We finish dinner. I and Gray shared a slice of cake. We were not walking down the street towards the school."So did you go to college before this or are you really smart?" Henry asks. "I was in all advance classes. By the end of my senior year I was almost done with college. Why are you wondering?" I ask. "Usual kids have to take regular classes but you aren't." Henry says. "How do you know?" I ask. "I have access to students files." He says. I turn around fast and get really close to his face. "You what?" I ask. "You went through my files?!" I ask. "Yeah..." He says backing away. "What did you see?" I hiss. "No one is suppose to read those. Even the principle." I hiss. I realized I took the most important paper out the file. He won't know about it. "Don't ever do that again. Did George see them too?!" I ask. My voice rising. He nods looking ashamed. I turn around. I walk quickly to George who was talking to Gray. I slam him against the wall. My winds whispering in my ears. "Why would you look though my files!" I yell. "Do you understand that a violation!? That is messed up!" I yell. My voice getting louder. My wind getting stronger. I feel something wet on my lip. I wipe it seeing blood. I now had a bloody nose. Gray pulls me off. I feel myself stumble back. I was now very light headed. "Don't ever! Ever talk to me again! Unless you want me to suffocate you!" I yell. I realized everyone was staring at me. Gray takes me by the arm and drags me away. I hear George call after me. I ignore him and run.

I and Gray get back to school. I run the principle office and slam the door behind me. "You seem angry?" Mr. Jackel says. I walk towards him dropping my bag. "How dare you?!" I hiss. "What?" He asks. "How dare you show George and Henry my file. You let them see it. Do you understand how messed up that is?" I ask. My fists were so clenched I thought I would brake through my skin. "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have done that. They just wanted to know about you." He explains. "You know what!? I took a a paper from the file. A police report about something I even kept from my adopted parents. I suffocated a girl once. With now I know my winds. I got so angry because she was making fun of me. I killed her. Choking her from a few feet away. They never knew that and thought she died from something else. When I knew that I killed her with something I didn't realize I have until now." I yell. I was so angry I didn't care who heard it. "So there! Go ahead and kick me out of your school! It wouldn't be the first time!" I yell. Then I hear his chair move and he moved so fast I couldn't push him away. Gray stared at me shocked as what was happening. I was now being hugged by Mr.Jackel.