Elemental Eclipse

🌻Chapter Eleven: Part Three; Double Double🌻

They both sprinted for the doors out of the main hall as soon as two upperclassmen walk in. Rachael shoves Atlas begins a statue quickly, the stairs head turning to look at her.

"I'm sorry, please, just shhhh!" Rachael whisper yells. The students passed by them without a second glance. "Well that worked better than expected."

They exited the building, relived to see that the campus was nearly empty this late at night.

"Alright well, the freshman dorms are that building over there." Rachael says pointing at it.

"So what, we just make a run for it?" Atlas asks.

Rachael opens her mouth to respond before noticing the statue in the middle of campus with eyes that shined like the beam of a lighthouse, scoping out for intruders. "Only if you want to get vaporized... Maybe there's some way to distract it?"

"Got it. When I say run. You run." Atlas says eyeing the statue before making a weird gesture over her body, before taking a step back to reveal a duplicate of herself. She pushed it towards the opposite direction of the dorms and started sprinting towards them.

"Hey! You didn't say run." Rachael grumbles, chasing after her.

"I thought it was implied. Keep up!" Atlas says rolling her eyes.

The statue kept its gaze on the duplicate, not even seeming to notice the twins.

Atlas jumped over a small bed of flowers glancing back to yell back at Rachael. "Tinkling Tinnies! Careful of those, their flower buds are actual bells!"

Rachael gracefully leaped over the flowers landing in a perfect plié, before continuing to run. They continued across the yard and threw themselves into the doors of the Freshman dorm building. The RA was sitting behind her desk in the main lobby scribbling in a piece of paper.

"Alright, we just need to get past her, and then it's a straight shot to my room." Rachael whispers to Atlas.

"Got it, say no more." Atlas nods, starting to make a complicated gesture in the air, a crackling noise filling the air.

"Atlas! What are you doing?" Rachael whisper yells.

"Knocking her out." Atlas shrugs casually.

"What!? Stop it!" Rachael says urgently grabbing her arm to stop her. "Cool it, Kora. I'll distract her. You just need to slip by quietly and get to that first hallway there. Got it?"

Atlas shrugged in return, before Rachael walked up to the RA's desk to distract her. "Hi, Rachael. What can I do for you?"

She glanced back to see Atlas carefully sneak behind a potted plant almost knocking it over. "I-I just wanted to ask you if you've seen that!" Rachael asks pointing at a painting behind her desk allowing Atlas to sprint into the hallway successfully.

"You mean... the portrait of Celestina Qu'itvitsits that's been hanging here all semester?" The RA asks contorting her face in confusion.

"Right! That's her name! And you've definitely seen it so... Thanks!" Rachael says, before speed walking off towards Atlas. They sprinted down the hallways and rushed inside her dorm. Almost immediately Rachael dramatically collapsed on the couch in their living area. "Shit, that was close... We should have come straight back, like Swan told us to."

"You actually handled yourself very well back there. Maybe I didn't need to be as worried about you as I thought." Atlas says, leaning against the back of the couch, looking down at her sister still face down on the cushions. "Now that we're alone, we have to-"