26
Zachariah
I am sitting here, watching my third semester students attempt to meditate. Most of them just sit there with their eyes closed, thinking that will help them find their inner peace. A few of the others seem to have gotten it. They sit there, with their eyes open, but not seeing anything around them. My phone vibrates in my pocket and I pull it out. There’s one new message from Tony, good I’m finally getting an update on Farlen.
I open the message up and it takes me a few tries of reading it to comprehend it.
Tony: Probably going to need you guys to step in here soon. Some fucking girl took Farlens sunglasses while she was meditating. She was so deep in she didn’t even hear the twat when she ripped the glasses off her face. I’m not sure how bad her eyes are hurt, but we have her deep in the shadows in the trees and she met her third match, well at least I think it’s her third match. He is doing the same shit I did when I met Amy.
As soon as my brain catches onto the message, I look up at the clock eh, it’s only five minutes until the end of the lesson. “Class dismissed, keep practicing finding your inner peace. Everyone’s path to it differs from the rest, so this is your own journey to take. Now get the fuck out of my sight and I will see all of you next week.” I grab my stuff and my phone vibrates again. Another message from Tony.
Tony: Uh yeah, so this is more of a demand for you guys to get her. She’s found a fourth match, and there’s about to be a pissing match between a wolf and a dragon shifter.
Fuuuuuuuuuuck. I pull up Connor on my contact list. He answers on the first ring. “What’s up?”
“We need to get to the training yard fast. Bring Farlen some sunglasses. We have a pissed off wolf and dragon shifter to deal with. Tony thinks both are some of her other matches.”
“Fuck, alright I should be there in five minutes.”
“Alright, I will be there in two.”
I run out of the building and head towards the training yard. As soon as I get close enough to see everyone, I search for Farlen. Tony is suddenly in front of me.
“Where’s Connor at?”
“He’ll be here soon. He was at the house.”
“Okay man, I don’t know how to handle all this shit, the shifters I can deal with, but Farlen is pretty scared, they started yelling at each other and some punches got thrown and she curled up in a ball and is shaking pretty bad. I’ve tried to talk to her, but nothing seems to be working.”
“Where is she?” I need to make sure she is alright. Fucking dumbasses are going to get an ass chewing once I know she is alright. Fighting in front of her? Are they fucking insane? Even if she wasn’t as damaged as she was, most centers have a hard time handling fighting in front of them. It’s almost like they can feel every blow themselves.
Tony points me to the trees and I run over that way. Of course he beats me there, fucking shifter. Farlen is curled up as small as she can get and is shaking really badly. I don’t see any marks on her. When I touch her, she flinches away from me. That reaction pisses me off so fucking much.
“Don’t let her see this, Tony.”
I walk towards the two shifters that are being held apart by the rest of the class. I walk over to the smaller one and grab him by the back of the neck like a pup and drag him over to where Farlen is curled up on the ground.
“Do you see what you have done to your match? Look at her, look at what you have fucking done to her. You don’t deserve someone like her if this is how you are going to react around her.”
He drops to his knees in front of her and just stares at her, his face frozen in a mask of horror. Good, he fucking gets it. Now let’s deal with the big mother fucker. I’m guessing this one is the dragon.
“You know, I thought dragons protected what they treasured. They would never let any harm come to their prizes. Yet you get the greatest prize of all, and look at what you have done to her. You aren’t worthy of being a dragon for her.” His orange eyes flash a reptilian slit for a second. Good, I’ve gotten the dragons’ attention. The orange in his eyes shifts to blue, like a living flame. I focus my power on him. Why Gods, did she have to have this dragon? I’ve heard about him. The other dragons are, I mean, they are still fucking dragons, but this one was found wandering around alone, and he’s been a handful since he enrolled here last year. His orange flame of power morphs into blue rain that starts to smother it inside of him. Yeah, it’s this fucker.
I look over at the other piece of shit who hurt her. What the fuck is she if she can attract these types of men? I mean, I’m no fucking saint by any means, Connor is that’s for fucking sure, but these two? I had some consultations on Xander for a while, wolf shifter, with fear magic. Everyone thought at first that it was pain magic, because of the way people reacted to him when he’d use his powers, but it has a bit of a different color than pain magic.
I don’t know why I do it, but with my powers still activated, I look over at Farlen. There’s a tight ball of blackness surrounding her. It shimmers even though there is no light. She is still curled up in a ball, but her magical energy keeps pulsing from light to dark, to light to dark. I release my power and walk over to her. Right as I reach her, Connor gets there. He’s out of breath and drenched in sweat. He hands me a pair of sunglasses and puts his hands on his knees as he tries to catch his breath.
I lay down on the grass next to Farlen and pull her into me. Her body tries to resist at first, but she latches onto me and curls up on me. Her entire body is shaking, and she is freezing cold. I don’t know how to get through to her. She isn’t responding to her name. I look up at Connor and he shakes his head at me. He can’t hear her right now. There’s only one thing I can think of to do to reach her. It’s a pretty old song, so if she’s ever heard music before, a decent chance she wouldn’t have heard this one. So I hold her, and I begin to sing to her.