Fictional Fantasy Volume One (Completed)

Chapter Seven - Yuki Rey

I woke up, and checked my phone. I was late. Very late. Well, I was missing first period. I stood up, made sure everything was in my bag, and ran down the path. With a little magical boost, I quickly made my way straight to a nearby subway station that I knew ran a train that stopped by the school.

When I finally arrived, I realized that I'd left my card at home. I looked around. I didn't want to walk to school, but I didn't want to get in trouble. There wasn't a lot of people nearby, but there was a security camera. Taking my chances, I jumped over the turnstile, and headed down to the platform.

I waited a few anxious minutes for the train, and once I was onboard, I was fairly confident that I wasn't going to be followed. I checked my phone again. I was probably going to end up showing up to school around second period.

John was going to be upset with me. I'd been missing a lot of school lately. Not that it really mattered at this point anyways. The school year was almost over. What did it matter if I didn't show up every day? Half of the day was study halls anyways.

Just as I was contemplating not even showing up today, I noticed two large individuals bothering someone sitting a bit further down the train car. I wasn't sure what was going on, but the woman sitting looked a bit upset.

What really drew my attention was the woman's appearance. She had smooth red skin, and wore a strange dress. She was from the amphibian class! I couldn't think of the last time I'd seen someone like her. They rarely showed up in Denner as it was way too dry. I mean, I didn't consider it dry, but it was pretty far from any coastlines. The city's population was almost entirely made up of the lizard and mammal classes.

The two people who were standing above her were obviously of mammal decent, like myself. I watched them a bit longer, and it was pretty clear that they were harassing her. I moved my bag to my lap, and slowed down time.

I stood up so that I didn't move my bag, and walked over to grab the hoods of both the guys, and pulled them hard. I quickly returned back to my seat, using the location of my bag as a guide to make sure it didn't look like I'd moved much. Once I was sitting and time resumed normally, the two people fell over.

I was a bit worried that they would suspect me or even that woman of doing something. Luckily, they just got off at the next stop and there was no more trouble. I looked down at my bag, and waited for my stop to come.

"Thank you." The words appeared in my mind in a neat, curly script. I froze, then glanced around at everyone who was sitting on this train car. My gaze landed on that foreigner in the purple dress. She was staring right at me.

"Hello?" I tentatively sent her the thought.

She smiled. "Hello. I'm glad to see you again. I'm so glad that you're making good use of the Grimoire." She moved her gaze to the map on the wall.

"You're the one who hid the copy?" I asked. I was excited, but I had to pretend like nothing was happening. It'd be a bit strange if I started reacting to a conversation that was happening in my my mind. Not that there were many people around to observe.

"Yes. I put it on the shelf, and waited for someone worthy to find it. I believe that you and your friend were a good choice. You must be more careful when practicing in public though." She replied. As I read the words, I recognized the writing to be the same as that note that was in that Grimoire she'd hidden. I guess it made sense that she wrote it. She didn't look like and Ed though.

"I didn't see you." I said, thinking about that day at the bookstore.

"Of course you didn't." She didn't explain further. The words in my mind didn't change in style, but somehow they still appeared to be condescending.