By the time Benimaru pulls up to the entrance gates to Charterton Valley High School on someone else’s “borrowed” motorbike, he sees the little imp creature with a vendetta hopping the eight foot tall fence that surrounds the schoolgrounds. He only catches a glimpse of the creature’s extra-long and skinny calves and its clawed feet scratching up the fence, but there is no mistaking it.
Parking the motorbike on the sidewalk, Benimaru quickly jumps off of it and pursues to chase after the creature by hopping the fence himself. With a running headstart about ten paces away from the fence, he leaps high enough that his feet reach about three quarters of the way up the fence, which he uses as leverage to push himself upward and grabs onto the top of the fence. Pulling himself up with both arms, he swings his legs up and over the fence and immediately plops down onto the ground on the other side, landing firmly on his feet in a steep crouch. He has no time to recover from the sharp vibrations that are sent up his whole body, and so he stands back up and starts dashing across the front schoolyard towards the west wing of the building.
Meanwhile, inside the school, Felicia, Reynardo, and Daisy has just heard another few screams coming from a classroom down the hall. Acting on instincts, Felicia immediately stuffs Reynardo back into her schoolbag, much to the complaints of the little foxlike familiar. She then exits the sanctuary of the janitor’s closet, violently swinging the door wide open. As the screams continue, she begins heading in that direction, much to the concern of Daisy who in turn follows her, and both girls rush down the hallway to their right.
As they get closer to the source, both Felicia and Reynardo begin to sense a slight magical energy coming from one of the classrooms up ahead. Trying to stop herself at full speed, Felicia’s feet slide across the floor a little bit in front of the classroom door with the label B-105 stickered on the window. But she catches herself and then grabs the doorknob, twists it, and pushes. Daisy is right behind her, and what they see sends a chill running down their spines and their eyes grow wide.
Everyone inside this classroom—students, teacher, and all—are in a total panic. Notebook papers are flying all over the place as though a tornado is blowing them all around. Most of the students are shrieking like crazy as though the end of the world has come, with their hands over their ears and their mouths wide open. The other students are either running around the classroom or holding onto desks and countertops that have been bolted to the floor to avoid getting swept up with the flying papers. Some of them start hurting themselves intentionally by bashing their heads against the walls or using stray pencils to slash their own arms. One kid has pencils sticking out of his ears to block out the ear-piercing sound of fingernails being scratched along the chalkboard at the front of the room.
Yes, that noise is coming from here, but no one in the room knows how it is happening because nobody was even up at the board. That is, until Felicia looks over to see a little imp-like creature dragging its claws along said chalkboard to emit the sound that makes ears bleed. And surprisingly, none of the neighboring classrooms seem to notice the commotion.
Both Felicia and Daisy cover their ears with their hands upon hearing the noise, but at the same time, Felicia cannot take her eyes off of the imp creature.
So you’re the one causing all this chaos, huh? Felicia thinks inside her mind while using her magic to send her thoughts over to the imp’s mind so that it knows exactly what it needs to hear from her. You better knock it off, right now!
Felicia glares intently at the imp with a furious look in her eyes while gritting her teeth. The imp eventually looks over at her once her message has been received, but it doesn’t show any sign of surrendering any time soon. In fact, it grins rather nervously at her while tilting its head to one side before dashing its way toward the doorway where Felicia and Daisy are still standing. It bolts right passed them in between their legs, while also getting a good glimpse up their skirts and flipping them a little as he darts off down the hall. Humiliated and burning with rage, Felicia shouts, “Oh, that tears it!” and she chases after the imp, with Daisy following her again.
Other than the imp, Felicia and Daisy, the hallways are completely empty and quiet as if no one inside the other classrooms are aware of the chaos going on in Room B-105. Felicia even pulls out her magical staff again from her schoolbag, despite Reynardo’s efforts to pull it in his mouth away from her grip. Without needing to recite an incantation, she shoots a magic spell of a blue fireball straight out of the falcon’s mouth that is carved onto the tip of her staff. It’s a simple spell for her, but it misses the imp completely and instead dispels as soon as it impacts with the lockers against the wall.
Felicia repeats the same spell several more times, but the imp dodges each one. Sometimes it climbs up on the lockers along the walls, zigzagging on all fours and leaving behind on the metal scratch marks from its sharp claws.
Once it turns the corner while still scurrying along the lockers, Felicia hears a finger tapping on the glass on a window to her right as she is about to pass it. When she looks, it is Benimaru on the outside of the window, trying to get her attention and gesturing for her to unlock the window, to which she obliges.
Then Daisy catches up to them and is shocked to see a strange young man crawling in through the window and Felicia letting him in. “Whoa, whoa, Felicia, what are you doing? Why are you-?” she tries to ask but is cut off by Felicia.
“Not now, Daisy! There’s an imp on the loose and it’s trying to ruin my school day,” she says, “But I’m not going to let it! But more than that,” she then turns to Benimaru, looking even more furious, “What makes you think you can just break into my school? What, you don’t trust I can take care of myself?” she repeatedly pokes at his chest with her finger as she says this to him.
“Well, you are the one who just let me in, so you’ll probably be seen as an accomplice,” Benimaru points out bluntly yet vacantly, “Besides, I’m after that imp, too, though I’m surprised it hasn’t actually hurt you yet cuz it told me something about you specifically. However, it called you ‘the flux mage’. What’s that?”
Upon hearing that name, Felicia’s face goes pale as a ghost. She looks back in the direction of where the imp has gone to, ignores Benimaru’s question, and resumes the chase without saying another word. After a few seconds, Benimaru follows her, with Daisy tailing behind him.
By this point, the imp has reached the main office of the school, slipping through a crack under the door by using magic to make its own body super slippery and squeezable to fit through half an inch of space. Beyond this door is the main lobby where the school’s receptionist and a few secretaries are working at their desktops, computers, and telephones. The imp then snickers, with none of these women noticing even his existence, and it jogs over to one of the desks and jumps up on top of it to kick over a stack of important papers. It does the same thing to some other stacks and even computer screens by jumping from desk to desk. The women become confused and terrified, unable to see the perpetrator, until Felicia kicks open the door to the main office and points her falcon-tipped magic staff straight at the women. Through the flying papers and pens, Felicia keeps firing spells of small blue lightning trying to hit the imp to no avail. But the kicker is when she accidentally shoots a spell at an electrical outlet by one of the desks, starting a small fire. The imp then begins laughing and dancing amidst this fire since it is impervious to the blaze.
A secretary grabs a fire extinguisher and puts out this fire just as the flames have scorched the receptionist’s whole desk. The white foam also knocks the imp off its feet and covers it like a bump in the snow. Once this happens, the school’s principal exits his office and enters the lobby to this sight but what makes him and the women angriest is that they believe Felicia, Benimaru, and Daisy are the culprits behind all this.
The adults stare at the two girl students and the stranger in black, their faces full of fury. That’s when the imp snickers again beneath all that white foam making it jiggle up and down without showing its head, and only Felicia notices this, making her grind her teeth and her eye twitches out of anger.
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