Make Quiet Things Heard

Chapter 26 : Blaze Of Glory, Right? (Ep. 16|Part 1)

Hope's POV

When I finish packing me and Raf make our way to the common. When we walk there I hear low growling beside me.
"Hey, you okay?" I ask Rafael.
"Um... my mind still won't settle down. Look, I'm sorry, but I can't join the fight." .
"Don't worry, I'm not going alone. My squad answered the Bat-Signal." I reply just when Kaleb, Jed and Josie walk in. Lizzie coming up frim behind me. When Josie spots Lizzie her mood instantly shifts. "She's coming?" the twins ask in unison clearly not happy.

"I need all the help I can get, so please put your twin war on pause." I explain.
"Why is he going? He hates Landon." Rafael asks gesturing to Jed.
"Look, you're the Alpha. If Landon's your pack, that makes him ours." Jed explains. "Where's MG at?" Kaleb asks.
"He's on his way. Let's load up while we wait for him. Come on." I state and we walk out the door leaving Rafael inside. When we get outside we are greeted by the sight of men with weapons.
"Oh, sorry. We were about to knock." a man says. "Who the hell are you?" Lizzie asks. "Name's Burr. Triad Industries."

The moment I hear the word Triad I instantly react by using magic. "Propellere." I chant, but my magic doesn't work for some reason.
"I got this." Kaleb states, and he rushes to them with his vampire speed but the moment he gets hit by sunlight he gets burned and he immediately backs away. What the hell is going on?!
"What you don't got is magic." Burr states. "Which is why your daylight ring won't work." Burr explains.
"And what we have are stakes, wolfsbane... and other things. So I think you should invite us inside." he threatens. What is going on. Why are they here? Why the hell don't we have magic?

We all hesitantly make our way back inside. A man from Triad goes to Josie and grabs her arm and pushes her to walk faster. I instantly react by pulling the man's arm to release his grip from Josie and squeeze tightly, just enough for it to hurt, a lot, but not breaking his arm. "Don't you dare touch her!" I growl at him. Josie places her hand on my back and I immediately calm down and I release his arm from my grip. I intertwine Josie's hand with mine and we walk inside. "You okay? "I ask. Josie give me a tight lipped smile and nods her head. "I'm fine." she replies and she kisses me in the cheek.

We all walk to the Grand Hall and gather the other students just like what Triad ordered. When everyone arrives Burr goes up a few steps of stairs to make an announcement. We all listen closely.
"We're looking for an artifact known as the Chalice of Arimathea." he says as some Triad men hand out pictures of what the chalice looks like. "We have reason to believe it's part of your school's collection. Now, you know this place a lot better than we do, so the sooner you help us find it, the sooner we'll be gone. Triad thanks you for your time. " he states. Everyone then gets to work on finding that stupid artifact.

Josie's POV

Me, Hope and Lizzie secretly walk to dad's office to try and contact him. Hope tries the landline but it doesn't work.
"It's dead. We have to find the school cell." Hope states. And we try to look around for the school phone.
"Check MG's tighty-whities." Lizzie jokes.
"Really? This is serious." I can't believe she has time for jokes right now.
"Oh, I'm sorry. We can't all be born with resting concerned pouty face." I gasp at what she said, offended. I open my mouth to respond but Hope speaks up.
"Didn't this shelf used to have books on it?" Hope asks, in front of the book shelf on the side. "Yeah. That's weird." I say.

Hope grabs the red box from the shelf and places it on the desk.
"Whatever they're doing to block out our magic must have knocked out a cloaking spell your dad had." she states.
"Big shocker. Dad's hiding something from us." Lizzie grabs and shakes it to guess what's inside.
"Unless it has the school phone in it, it doesn't matter." Hope dismisses and Lizzie places the box back down.
"Sorry I don't feel like laughing while my world's falling apart." I say once Hope looks for the school phone again.
"Your world? What about my world? I'm the one who's eventually going to be absorbed by my own twin."