Elemental Eclipse

🌻Chapter Seven; Part Three: Office Hours🌻

As night hit, Rachael arrived at the library finding her friends already crowed around one of the tables.

"After all the time Beckett and I spent in here shelving books, finding what we need should be a breeze." Rachael smiles, walking over to them.

"Don't underestimate the library, Rachael. It has all sorts of secrets." Beckett says, almost like a warning.

"Right, sorry to insult your boyfriend." Rachael jokes, making him roll his eyes. "So, where should we start?"

"The most effective method would be divide and conquer. We should each gather a stack of books that look relevant and skim through them. Griffin and I will handle investigating this rock the monster left behind. I know a few geology texts that might have the answer." Beckett explains.

"Then Zeph And I will look into the reflection you keep seeing." Shreya adds.

"And I'll try to find information on the monsters." Rachael nods.

Everyone split up throughout the library and returned to the table with stacks and stack of relevant books. After an hour or two Zeph was the first person the break their intense silence.

"Hey Shreya, look at what I drew next to this unicorn." Zeph laughs, tapping her to get her attention.

"Pffft. Is the horn stabbing someone in the ass?" Shreya laughs at him, looking at his book.

"Will you two actually focus and quit drawing in library books? We have work to do." Griffin grumbles at them.

"What do you mean drawing in library books? You can't be serious... you wouldn't actually..." Beckett gasps, looking sick to his stomach at the thought.

Griffin took the book from Zeph and started to erase his immature drawing. Rachael sighed picking up an Encyclopedia of magickal creatures. She flipped through the pages, stopping on one filled with pictures.

"What do you think about this one?" Rachael asks, holding the book up to show them the pictures. "It looks like it's made out of the same substance as the monsters I've fought."

"Possibly...Let me see that." Beckett says quirking an eyebrow at the page and taking the book from her. "It says here that this monster appears sporadically, and has only ever been seen on the West Coast."

"Well then, guess we'd better keep looking..." Rachael sighs, as he hands the book back to her. She glanced over at Zeph's book, the bright colors drawing her eyes to it and feeding her soul. "Zeph, That doesn't look like research."

"Oh! Sorry, I got distracted..." Zeph says quickly, setting the book aside closing it on the page of a rainbow he had open.

Rachael grabbed another book, when Shreya called her into one of the aisles. "Hey, Rachael! Come take a look at this."

"Did you find something on the creature?" Rachael asks, as she approaches her.

"Even better! I thought I'd see if the spellwork section had anything in it and I found this Moon Spell! It could help our investigation!" Shreya smiles.

"A moon spell? But Shreya that's pretty high level magick I don't think I could do that." Rachael says, rubbing her arm awkwardly.

"Nonsense! Aren't you a Sun-Att? You should have more than enough potential to pull it off! Besides, it's way too useful to pass up!" Shreya huffs.

"I think we should stay on topic. Learning this spell might not even help, but discovering the type of creature it is will." Rachael sighs, as they start to hear a loud argument break out back at their table. They headed back over to it, to find Beckett and Griffin bickering angrily.