Mr. Dan, confused, greatly alarmed, and slightly terrified, quickly made his way out of the cafeteria, wondering what exactly was happening.

He knew all the students in the school and no student would dare lie about their identity when a teacher asks them or so he thought. Nothing made sense. Two strange boys dressed as school students pretending to be in his class were about to beat up Michel.

Mr. Dan turned to look at Michel, who was slowly making his way out of the cafeteria. The tension between Michel and the two boys only seemed to rise as Michel stared at them with his eyebrows furrowed and a vein slightly popping up near his perfect jaw did not do the situation any good.

Mr. Dan, frustrated about the whole ordeal, decided to lecture Michel once their situation diffused. Michel was always trouble, rumours of him being a gang member and having crime records did not seem farfetched.

Michel did act that part. He never spoke much and would either look at you like you are less than a bug or would give you a murderous stare.

There was always a problem when it came to him. There was also this one time when a girl tried to stab him after he supposedly seduced her. Back then, Mr.Dan could not help but feel pity for the girl as the whole situation was diffused by Michel's rich parents.

Mr. Dan, though scared of Michel, still decided that today he would most definitely give this troublemaker a lecture.

"Hold up teach"

Said one of the boys who had called himself Jhon.

Mr. Dan stopped in his trial and looked back at the boy, only to find him holding a knife.

"I know you know we ain't from here."

An ominous wind blew, carrying bits of sand and leaves, and silence fell.

Mr. Dan and Michel, both terrified of the situation, stood still. Michel's handsome face showed anger and annoyance, yet inside was a quivering and crying fool.

Why was all this happening? Why to him, of all people, wondered Michel, and a vein popped out as he clenched his fist out of fear.

"We are only here for Michel. We will beat him to a pulp and leave. You can pretend you never saw us and turn around and leave unless you want both of you getting murdered, ", said the self-proclaimed Marcus.

Jhon nodded in agreement.

Michel was gripped with fear as his eyebrows furrowed more, giving a murderous glare with his near-perfect face. He slowly glanced at Mr. Dan, hoping he wouldn't take the offer.

Mr. Dan felt conflicted, he was terrified and most of him wanted to take the opportunity and turn around and leave because it was obvious, Michel set foot into a very dangerous territory and it had come back to bite him.

But had he not witnessed the situation he wouldn't have felt so guilty, Michel after all was a student of his and Mr. Dan could not help but think of how he would feel if he lost his one and only daughter who was the same age as Michel.

Mr. Dan slowly moved forward, shielding Michel with his body.

He was scared, and yet he decided this was the right thing to do. "Why do you want to beat up Michel?"

He had to know the reason these strangers were after Michel, no he deserved to know who he was standing up for with his life on the line.

Jhon furrowed his eyebrows and gritted his teeth in anger as Marcus looked away with tears welling up in his eyes.

"That bastard..." said Jhon.

A long pause followed. Jhon couldn't help but grit his teeth. He seemed to be gripped with anger, resentment, and sorrow.

"He raped our sister, ", continued Marcus, baffling both Mr. Dan and Michel.

Mr. Dan could not believe how nasty Michel could get and felt ashamed that he tried to protect a rapist. Michel, on the other hand, was confused as he was still a virgin, and had not even held the hand of a girl because of how shy he was.

"When was this?", asked Mr. Dan as he glared at Michel,

"During the field trip, ", added Jhon, giving Michel Death glares.

This surprised Mr. Dan, as Michel had not participated in the trip.

Mr. Dan was confused, as was Michel, but the two boys were stuck to what they believed to be the truth.

"Wait up. Michel did not participate in the trip." Said, Mr. Dan.

Marcus scoffed and Jhon seemed disappointed, "You are also in on it?"

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Jhon's words confused Mr. Dan and Michel, "In on what? " asked Michel having finally mustered up the courage to talk.

His deep voice, spoken through his cherry lips as he furrowed his eyebrows, would have made any female melt. Unfortunately, the ones present were straight males.

Marcus once again scoffed, "Having rich parents does not mean you can get away with anything you (censored)"

The morning bell rang, signaling that the school was about to start in 30 minutes.

All four simultaneously looked in the direction of the bell due to its sudden ringing, failing to notice the cafeteria staff that had just entered the area.

"Hello Mr. Dan, ", greeted the cafeteria staff cheerfully as she slowly walked closer to the four.

The middle-aged woman dressed in slightly worn-out clothes carrying a clear plastic bag filled with water and a goldfish waved her hand to Mr. Dan while curiously looking at the three students who were present.

Jhon quickly hid his knife with the sudden appearance of another stranger. Marcus and Jhon now tensed, slowly inched closer together.

"What are you young fellas doing here? Shouldn't you be at class by now?" asked the woman, as she inched closer with her goldfish.

"Mr. Dan, did the teacher's lounge run out of coffee? You only ever come here to get your coffee, don't you?"

Asked the woman, trying to make small talk, but soon stopped and came to a halt.

She could feel her gut telling her something was wrong, but she couldn't quite put her finger on it.

Her eyes searched and soon landed on Michel's face. His busted lip confirmed that something was going on and that it was no good.

The bustling of students entering the premises echoed from the distance as everyone stood still, tensed and confused.

"Did you kids fight?", asked the woman, "We are family here. It is no good to fight boys."

"Look at your teacher, poor him. He is working day and night. You fighting would only cause him more work and struggle. He has got a daughter your age, he needs time for his family too."

Continued the woman, causing Jhon and Marcus to give Mr. Dan a death stare. He had a daughter and yet here she was trying to help a criminal who had raped their sister.

Anger filled Marcus, Jhon noticing Marcus's emotions quickly held his hand to calm him down a little.

"You kids need to behave better."

As the woman finished her sentence, a beaming light sphere emerged in front of the school building, prompting all five of them to look at it. From the sphere emerged two long and gigantic white wings and shimmering gold threads that cascaded in the air. Soon the being revealed itself as the light disappeared. It was a woman with golden hair.

All five were enamored by the otherworldly beauty that emerged from thin air.

"She was beautiful, my heart thumps even thinking about her, even her voice was nothing but heavenly "

"Wait, wait, so hold on, you raped a girl?", Asked Luna, bewildered, cutting Michel off.

"What? no!"

"You just said they were here to kill you because of it," said Luna explanatorily,

Luna couldn't help but feel disgusted. She turned to look at Ryan sitting beside her, his face too was contorted in disgust.

"I would never! " Cried Michel with his cheeks flushed in anger and he seemed to be disgusted at the thought.

"So what happened next?", Asked Luna as she let out a sigh.

" Well I was terrified of the situation, but then that angel appeared" "Not an angel," said Luna cutting off Micheal. Leaving Michel a little pissed.

"Do you want me to continue or not?", Asked Michel his tone delivered his rage prompting Ryan to glare at Michel.

The Tension between Ryan and Michel was still fresh. "You do realize you would be dead had it she not saved you?" questioned Ryan, making Michel turn away guilt-ridden and ashamed.

All three sat in the club room quietly as the awkwardness continued.

Lune looked at the floating blue window, only to discover that they had but half an hour left.

"You can continue the story later. We need to go into the school building." Said Luna hurriedly as she got up. Ryan nodded in agreement.

But Michel, on the other hand, showed reluctance.

"I'm not coming with you. I would rather stay here." Said Michel as he got up slowly and held the wound in his torso.

Luna could not help but wince as she was reminded of the scalpel that pierced her abdomen as she looked at Michel's wound.

"It is but a skin wound. It won't be a hindrance," said Ryan, pointing at the wound.

"Being together is better than alone," Luna added.

Michel couldn't help but raise an eyebrow at Luna's statement.

"You think being with two murders is better than being alone?"

Luna and Ryan, both taken aback, shot each other a glance.

"Well, I didn't intend to kill him. I didn't shoot the arrow aiming for his life and Ryan didn't kill anyone," said Luna explanatorily.

"Excuse me? I was not talking about your second murder, and *he* didn't kill anyone? Are you for real? He just tried to stab the daylights out of me!", Screamed Micheal.

"Second murder?" questioned Ryan. Looking at Luna for an explanation, only to find her as puzzled by Michel's statement.

"No, that was my first murder..."

"Then how did the both of you pass the first trial, huh?"

The brightly lit room suddenly started to grow dim, grabbing everyone's attention to the window which kept the room alight.

Outside the window were a few dozen short green creatures looking into the room through the bared window terrifying the three inside.

"What the heck are those?", shouted Luna right as one of the goblins threw a dagger at her which ever so slightly missed her and hit the door she and Ryan were leaning on.

The next thing they knew, many small openings were being created at the door by the numerous short green creatures.

"Goblins!", shouted Ryan, as he shot an arrow at them. Michel quickly got to his feet and grabbed the knife that once Jhon held and stood in a defensive stance.

"Goblins?" Luna questioned, as Ryan shot another arrow at the horde outside the window. "No time to explain, I have a dagger in my right pocket, we have to kill them before they kill us", urged Ryan.

Luna quickly ran her hand through his pants and found the dagger (No, she did not find any other dagger). Ryan had taken out 5 of the goblins by himself by the time Luna armed herself.

"We have to leave," said Luna in an alarmed tone. "And then what die? Do you not see the murderous creatures outside?" asked Michel.

"But, we can't fight in here, if that door breaks we will be stranded and die here."

"Well we have your boy toy shooting arrows, I ain't your slave to go with every one of your whims."

Luna could not help but glare at Michel.

Michel though felt a little bit guilty about what he just said stood by his words only to get an arrow fly by his face.

"Disrespect us one more time and you will get an arrow to your head."

Though alarmed Luna didn't say anything, Ryan continued shooting arrows at the goblins outside as Luna stabbed a few from a safe distance.

Michel stood frozen, The door now had many fist-size holes and in the verge of collapse.

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