Talented Arts High School

Demons from the Past

After class, we all decided to head out for a wander. As we headed to the village, we noticed that there was an area of the village none of us had noticed before. So, us being adventurous as always, we decided to go explore this new area. And we were shocked at what we discovered. There was a waterfall and a hidden spring within it that looked as if nobody had ever been in before.

All of us stood in awe, and felt a little down that we didn't have any swim wear with us. Luckily though, we had two people with the abilities to go get some swim wear for all of us. Chinatsu had her teleportation ability which she rarely used, and Cain had speed, so he could pretty much run anywhere quicker than any of us. However, because Chinatsu was very competitive, she came up with a fun idea.
"So, I challenge you to a race Cain. I'll use my teleportation, and you use your speed and we race to see who can get swim wear for the others. You get swim wear for all the guys, and I'll get swim wear for the girls." She challenged, grinning with cockiness and confidence.
"Heh, you're on. I will beat you there and back." Cain shook her hand, and accepted the challenge.
"Oh boy, but it does sound rather interesting." I chuckled, knowing how much my sister hated to lose. "What happens to the loser?"
"Hm," Chinatsu thought, before an evil smirk appeared, "the loser has to jump in the spring with their clothes still on!"
"Haha, that sounds like a plan." Cain seemed too willing to go along with this, but maybe that was because he knew he had a better chance of winning than Chinatsu. Or so he thought.

After nearly twenty minutes, the challenge had been completed and a victor had been decided. As Cain thought, he had beaten Chinatsu easily, and she was not pleased. She severely thought that she would have won that challenge, and now she had to jump in the spring with all her clothes on. However, jumping into a spring was not one thing she would hesitate at. She would just see the fun side in it, and she totally did. After all of us had gotten into our swim wear - obviously except Chinatsu - we stood at the side and watched her go up to the top of the waterfall. Without any hesitation - like I knew - she just jumped in fully clothed.

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I hated that I lost the challenge and had to jump in the spring fully clothed, but at the same time I was rather glad I lost, as ever since I seen that waterfall the one thing I wanted to do was jump off from it. As soon as the others were ready to get into the spring, I climbed my way up to the top and highest point of the waterfall, and I didn't even hesitate. I just jumped right into the spring, but as I jumped in, I noticed darkness starting to cover where we had recently come from, and piercing red eyes coming our way. This was not good, and I had to let them all know as soon as I come up for air.

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"Guys!" Chinatsu shouted, as soon as she came up from air, after she had jumped into the spring. "Something's coming this way, and it doesn't look friendly!" She seemed rather scared, and if she was scared, then it wasn't good.
"What!" I looked in the direction she pointed and I could sense what she was talking about. This was not good, as like with Zakura, whoever was coming towards us had a similar presence and it wasn't friendly.
"This isn't good!" Jason exclaimed, as he immediately summoned some of the dead people out to protect us all. I had noticed as well, he had gotten in front of me in a protective stance. I decided to have a quick read of his mind and was shocked. He liked me like I did him. I had to tell him after this was all done.
"Let's just get ready to fight if we need too." Shane sighed, as he got in front of everyone. Something was bothering him, and I couldn't find out why.

We were ready to fight, when three other people walked in. This was not good. We may have had the numbers, but we weren't going to be able to take all three of them on, as there was a couple of us who could sense them and well, they were very strong. One of them was a male with long black hair and piercing red eyes, another was an average heighted male with long blonde hair and black ends and bright green eyes. Finally, they also had a female member, who seemed the most terrifying of them all, with her long messy white hair with orange highlights and shining violet eyes. Her eyes seemed rather mysterious and would enchant you if you looked too closely too her.

I looked and seen that Shane was holding his head in pain. I tried to read his mind to find out what was wrong and immediately found out what was wrong. His memory was coming back too him, and it was clear, that the people who were in front of us now all had connections to Zakura and were partly the reason for what happened to Shane and his memory. This really wasn't good. My main concern now was to get Shane out of there before any more pain came to him, and we didn't want any of this happening to any of us as well.
"Get out of here now!" Jason shouted, as he used almost all of his powers to summon an army of undead to start attacking. He was willing to sacrifice himself to protect the rest of us. "Shane needs to get out of here before they do anything else to him. I will be right behind you all just go!" He looked back, and the look in his face showed me that he cared, but he didn't want the rest of us suffering.
"You better!" I shouted back, as I ran out and back to the school with the rest of them. I knew in my heart that I didn't want to leave him, but I also felt that if I loved him like I thought I did, I would have to trust him and go. But unknown to me, leaving was the worst thing that I could've done.

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Once everyone else had gone, I felt as if everything I had done was achieved. Now, I just had to get myself out of there and get back to my friends, especially the one I loved. However, just as I thought I had gotten away, someone grabbed me from behind and everything went black.

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