Crystalline Cavern: The Brigaders

Chapter 18

Tyler

       I'm in my dorm room processing that note that was left by someone called NWE, who is this guy? I decided that I had no choice to bring it up with Forest and Dark for help on this, so I waited for Forest to get back so we could go see Dark afterwards. It wasn't until a few minutes later until he came through the door...with Dark. How convenient. Strangely, Kai came bursting in yelling at Andy. "I'm telling you! This isn't just some game anymore! The meeting needs to happen sooner so we can discuss this!"

      "Kai, relax. Even if you asked for the meeting to happen sooner, Eliza and the others are still in other classes right now. So, can you please stop yelling? You're honestly starting to give me a headache. And then some." Kai just rolled his eyes and shut the door behind him. It wasn't until then that he and Andy noticed me sitting on my bed holding the letter in my hand. "Whatever. Oh, hey Ocean."

      "Sorry for bursting in like this but Kai just wouldn't shut up."

      "Hey guys, and it's fine. It's not the first time this has happened." Andy's eyes trailed to the letter in my hands. "What's that you're reading?"

      "That's what I wanted to talk to you guys about." Kai cut me off before I could explain. "Wait, before anything, have you heard what happened with TNT?"

      "You mean how it got postponed? I looked into it after Vi called a team meeting for later today. Why?" He looked at me dead in the eye. "What do you think about all this? Considering the fact that you've been working non-stop to get to level 7."

      "To be honest, I'm a bit relieved, but I'm still kind of surprised that the date changed so drastically. I was planning on discussing it at the team meeting." Dark nodded in agreement. "I agree. We should save our thoughts on the matter for later. For now, I wanna know what that piece of paper is all about. You seem distressed."

       I took a deep breathe and handed it to Andy while Kai looked over his shoulder. Both of them began reading it. Andy had a dark look in his eyes. "When did you get this letter?"
"As far as I know, today. I mean, it wasn't here until after I got back from my shower." Forest's eyes were fiercely illuminated. "What do you think their intentions were in sending this kind of letter?" Andy looked at me. "I think you should bring this up at the meeting later, ok?"

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       A couple of hours past and the meeting was supposed to start in about fifteen minutes. Andy stood up and stretched before motioning towards the door. "I think we should start making our way to HQ."

      "Will the girls even be there by the time we get there?"

      "They should be considering the situation. Knowing Nicole, she's probably already there with Eliza."

      "Kay then, let's go!" I looked at Forest and noticed he hesitated in standing up. "Hey Kai? Are you ok?"

      "I'm fine. Just tired that's all." By the looks of it, he looked like he suddenly didn't wanna go at all. We walk out of the dorm and made our way towards HQ. We see TNT as something to look forward to every year, but now that things have changed, it's like as if our purpose for what we do around here has changed so much that we have nothing else to do besides get angry. Maybe we could use that energy to train harder for our last TNT, seeing as how it'll be a couple of months before our graduation from NWA. I think it's because it's our last TNT that we're so mad. We wished that we had more time to prepare for something so big in our lives, like graduation.

       We walk into HQ and everyone else was already there, and some weren't too happy, and by some, I mean mostly Rose. She had just shot a fire arrow towards a small target we had in here and engulfed it into flames. "Ugh! Unbelievable!"