The crowds who were marching bravely a minute ago, now coward in place as a wall of fire surrounded them all. People was screaming as they had never seen such powers before.
“Help!” A woman voice was heard, shrieking through the noises.
“Mommy!” A man cried out loud, dropping his spear down.
Sierra, the caster, didn’t seem disturbed at all as she glared at those rude townsfolks. Who told them to accuse her without any proof?!
However, she suddenly felt a strong grip on her wrist. “What?” She asked nonchalantly.
“Sierra, stop it,” Gray pleaded, “They’re afraid of it.”
The silver hair woman saw that the heat made the boys’ forehead dripped with sweats. She glanced at the crowd, people were kneeling and hugging each other for fear of dying. At that moment, she knew when to stop.
With a snap of her slender fingers, the fire was vanished - as if it never happened
“So, what’s our plan?” Asked the boy with hazel eyes.“Yeah, we need to act fast! We only have three days to investigate,” said the other boy with black hair.The centre of the attention only sat as she crossed her legs, ignoring the two eager persons. “Um, Sierra?” Gray waved his palm right in front of Sierra’s beautiful face. Inhaling a deep breath, she finally spoke, “I told you this is not a play thing.”“We know,” Leon stepped forward. “But we’re still going to help you no matter what.”Sierra stared at him fiercely, clearly, she was unhappy that Leon skipped his class today. Leon cleared his throat as he stammered, “G-Gray, say something!”However, just before Gray wanted to open his mouth, Sierra raised her hand. “Fine,”“Stop giving me more headache, will you? If you want to help, then prove it. I’ll give you
Now that it was his turn, Leon flawlessly reported his investigation. “I went around the market and overheard an interesting coincidence about those missing girls. All of them used to suffer from various illness when they were kids. D- does it count as information?” Sierra nodded her head. As expected, living in a small town had its own benefits. You didn’t need to exhaust too many energies to find something useful. “Great. Now you’ve done your parts, let’s talk about this again tomorrow.” “Eh?” Gray was surprised, “Sierra, you’ve told the townsfolks that you’re going to solve this in three days! We can’t just sit idle like this,” The silver hair woman snorted, obviously, she didn’t need to be reminded. She didn’t bother to answer and the boys stared at her dumbfoundedly. Then, she picked the hairpin and observed it closely. “The dark energy is so weak,” she glared at Gray, “If you’re affected by this then it means you need to train harder.”&n
“Huh? What does it mean?” Gray mumbled in confusion. Unlike his friend, Leon understood right away the meaning behind Sierra’s words. His respects for her increased until it reached the peak. Smiling widely, he followed that cold woman, like an excited puppy.“So, does it mean that you’re planning this with Uncle Ten?” He asked.“I only ask him to bring the foods at a certain time,” Sierra answered, “He’s a smart man, even without me explaining, he understood my intention directly.”“Uncle Ten?” Gray’s face looked like he was in disbelief, “How come you’re asking him for help and not us?”Ignoring the boy, she rolled her eyes and scanned through the night. “We can’t stay open like this,” she turned her back to Gray, “Show me the place where you found the hairpin.”Since the situation turned serious, the boys didn&rsquo
“What should we do?” Leon asked his friend. They were on alert, weapons in their hands, as they finally realized they had lost one of their companions.Gray didn’t answer Leon as he gripped his sword tighter, “Sierra? Come on. We’re sorry for forgetting to use our power. Now that we’re fine, you should come out and join us.”There was no reply from the darkness, only the sounds of their pounding hearts. After that, Leon exhaled his breath, “Should we go back? I’m worried about her,”However, the hazel eye boy calmly answered, “We should continue, Leon. I just remember Sierra’s words about testing us. Maybe this is it.”He didn’t wrong, Leon thought. Sierra did say she wanted to test them, it’s just that it was kind of cruel of her to leave them alone in the forest, without saying anything.“It’s Sierra, what can we say,” Gray laughed a little
He glared to the girl and spoke chilly, “Lily, you say? Which city do you live right now?”Gray was shocked as he heard the cold voice; Leon was not the type of person to speak like this, especially to ladies. However, he knew this action was needed. They couldn’t be too naïve in front of a stranger. It was a great thing that Leon knocked some senses for him.The pale girl’s eyes shot around nervously, but she managed to squeeze out an answer, “A- Alania,” she whispered pitifully, “I live there with my poor brother!”Gray actually didn’t have any worries about this girl. Wasn’t she only a poor, unlucky person that got kidnapped? Shouldn’t they help her out as quick as possible?On the other hand, Leon’s face went dark as he heard the answer. With a loud hiss, Leon unsheathed his own sword and aimed it to the girl boldly.“Leon! What are you doing?!”&ldq
Sierra ran with not much effort as she followed the creature who was kept falling down from the air. It was apparent that its power had gone low; almost none actually, only from protecting its body before. With a finger, Sierra sent a ball of fire that blew like a bomb.“Gah!”The creature who introduced itself as Lily, crashed to the dirt. Not even spending one second, Sierra summoned a tall wall of flame that encircled both of them. “Let’s see if you can still fly,” she sneered, “I always hate running, you know.”“It’s hot!!! It’s hot!!”Lily squirmed around, but looking at the raging fire, she crawled back to Sierra. “Please! I’ll return the power to them!! Get me out of here!! It’s hot!!”The silver hair woman snorted and answered, “You think you can fool me? What’s taken by the dead can’t be returned to the living!”Lily let
The three of them walked in the forest again. No, to be exact, it was Sierra who led them out. This time they headed to the south, but they didn’t talk too much because the woman was surprisingly fast with her steps.“Are we really leaving those women behind?” Gray protested as he matched the other’s pace.“Yes, there’s nothing we can do. The Mayor will take care of it early in the morning,”Still unsatisfied with it, he asked eagerly once again.“So, when will you tell us the story? How did you kill Lily?”In his side, Leon also stared at her with so much interest in his eyes. The woman slowed her pace and massaged her neck, “Aren’t you guys tired?”“Not at all!” They both answered quickly. Hearing the eager voices, Sierra smirked dangerously, “Ah… I see; it’s good to be young, huh?”Sensing that unusual response, the boys low
“How come she’s the reason?! Rather, she is our saviour!!”A man’s voice roared through the crowd mightily. Sierra swallowed down the rage that she had a second ago and massaged her temple. Because of the chaos, most of the people didn’t realize that the Mayor had come back to the town. Behind him, a line of soldiers followed along.“If she didn’t kill the ghost, then I bet your daughter will be next!” Mayor Charles pointed carelessly, yet the townsfolks did get his message. Then, he walked limply, with the help of his cane, to stand beside Sierra. Before he spoke, he gently tapped Sierra’s shoulder. The meaning was clear, he would take care of the rest.“I won’t take any slander toward Lady Sierra anymore,” he spoke; this time, his voice went back to the raspy old man’s. “With my own eyes, I saw the occurrence. The ghost appearance was a beautiful woman, claimed to have