Shadowheart

Chapter 9

Dahlia waited for everyone to leave the bus so she'd be last to leave. As she got off, she walks towards her school, but Alex jumps behind her by surprise.

-"Morning, bitch!"

-"GAH!" She quickly shoves Alex off.

-"Dahlia, relax! It's me!"

-"Oh... Hi... Sorry..."

-"You ok, Dahlia? You seem kinda..."

-"I'm fine. Just... Had a nightmare last night."

-"Nightmare? Dahlia... Your eyes." Alex moves closer to have a better view of Dahlias eyes.

-"They're fine." She moves her face away from her. "It's just... Shit happened after I left your house."

-"What happened Dahli?"

-"Let's just head inside please, I don't wanna be late for class again."

-"But we got like 20 minutes or so. What happened last-"

-"Just leave me alone, ok!?" She moves away from Alex. -"I just... Bathroom, I need to go to the bathroom."

She runs off to the school and quickly heads straight into the bathroom and locks herself inside. She looks at her eyes in the mirror. Scared that people might notice, she splashed water in them, hoping they turn back to her natural dark brown color. To no avail, Dahlia quickly forces her palms onto the edges of the sink... But the sink gets knocked down, splashing water at her face. She falls back to scrub her eyes; she looks up to the sink... Shocked that she herself knocked that down, despite having hardly any muscle mass in her arms. Was she really that strong? Dahlia, nervously, closed her left fist slowly, each finger orderly from the pinky to the index touching her palm. Next thing she knows, the dark aura returns to her left arm, and a black/orange tentacle sprouted out of it. Dahlia screams, falling back into a stall, and then into a toilet.

Outside, two girls, try to push the door, but they hear knocking, spraying and screaming.

-"Umm... The hell is going on there?"

-"I don't know..."

The two confused girls lean their ears to the door. Dahlia, still freaking out, tries to control the tentacle she summoned from the aura. The tentacle hits the glass mirror, breaking it. Dahlia slips from the sprayed water and falls back; clenching her right hand into a fist quickly, thus summoning a blade from her right arms aura. Dahlia looks at each hand, confused. One arm a tentacle, the other a blade. But... This morning her left arm summoned a blade. She clenches both of her hands, sheathing away the tentacle and blade. She decides to try something out... Closing her right hand with her fingers, one by one, closing into a fist. Once she does it, she summons a tentacle in her right arm. And she quickly clenches her left hand into a fist with her fingers closing all at once, resulting in summoming a blade.

That's it... She has two ways of summoning such things. Dahlia was no longer scared, but rather... Excited. That is, until one of the girls knocks on the door.

-"Hello!? Excuse me, is everything ok in-"

She gets interrupted by Dahlia quickly opening the door and shutting it behind her, not letting the other girls see what happened.

-"Umm, is everything ok the-"

-"Yes! I mean, no! God, I.... Just, use the upstairs bathroom, it's tidy up there!"

All three girls feel the water coming out of the bathroom door. The two girls look at Dahlia, and she nervously smiles.

-"Ummm... I... Gotta go to class! I'm running late, bye!"

She swings her bookbag over her shoulder and quickly walks away, not looking back at the two confused girls. Two ways to use her dark aura... Blades and tentacles in each arm... Her eyes gone red... Interesting... Dahlia looks at her arms and quickly goes off into class.