Blue Thunder: The Rise of the Legend - book 1의 모든 챕터: 챕터 41 - 챕터 50

December 26, 2001“…and it is another victory from our beloved Northerners!! Are they going to win the Silver Cup this season…”The flyball game against Argentina had just ended, and Coralis headed back to the locker room with her teammates. Their coach met with them there for a little briefing. As Coralis and Sebastian were about to leave to meet with Frank and Stephanie for drinks, their coach intercepted them.“I know neither of you ever addressed rumours, but so that I know how to answer journalists… is there anything between the two of you?”Coralis and Sebastian looked at each other and started laughing.“Why would they think that he and I are together?” said Coralis a minute later. “Last time I paid attention to rumours, people still thought that Princess Veronica and I had the hots for each other.”“People see you two talking often to each other and leaving the field together, so people are wondering.”Their coach Mylo knew that she was seeing a human. She trusted him not to sp

February 9, 2002Coralis sat at the back of a taxi, on her way to Frank’s dorm. Mark, his roommate, wasn’t going to be home all night, so they agreed to meet at his place where they would just be the two of them. She thought about the vase’s replica she created the previous week for the Chicago royal vampire family and hoped it would work as intended.She hadn’t seen Frank the entire week. When she left Chicago after finishing the vase’s replica the previous week, she had to fly to Winnipeg with Eva for a meeting, and she then spent the week between South America, for flyball games, and London, for EBEE affairs.The entire week, she debated with herself whether she should break up with Frank, or go through revealing herself to him. She knew he wanted her to let him in, but she never could. She hated how she had to keep everything at surface level, and she never knew how to talk about feelings.She missed him and was looking forward to escaping her world with him. She knew that if she w

February 15, 2002Frank couldn’t focus on his school project. He didn’t like that she didn’t call him back when he said she went to his sister. He grabbed his phone and called his sister. Stephanie was busy preparing a pitcher of sangria, so she put him on speakerphone.“Is Coralis with you?”“No, she left a few minutes ago for Chicago. You do know that you are an idiot, right?”“I know that… that’s why I wanted to talk to her. I paged her, but she didn’t call me back.”“Bro, I’m serious. Do you have any idea how dangerous her work is? She didn’t talk much about your fight, but with everything happening at her work, she now thinks it’d be better to break up with you, and that is if she makes it back alive.”“Wait, what do you mean by making it back alive? What did she say?”“Sebastian made her spill her instructions. They work together, remember?”“Coralis is one of the best agents in our field, but her superiors keep sending her to more dangerous crap with barely any backup. Honestly,

February 16, 2002 – 22:45As soon as she was up in the sky, she called Sebastian’s hologram.“I was literally about to call you, assuming you also had to take off to Chicago. Want me to drop Stephanie off at Frank’s with a mute-ball? How did it go?”“Pager went off right after I ripped the bandage off by telling him that my work relates to the supernatural and that I belong to that world. I couldn't even elaborate beyond the revelation that I'm a mage. Holy gods from above, I forgot to mute his room, so please, yes, send him Stephanie with a mute-ball. I honestly don’t know what he’s thinking right now, he looked like he was in disbelief, but I think he was about to freak out.”“All right, I’ll drop Stephanie off at his place and will not repeat to anyone that you didn’t mute his paper-thin walls before getting started, and I will thank the gods that I never had to be in your shoes.”“Don’t worry about my brother freaking out, he’ll get around, I’m sure. If not, I’ll make sure to remin

February 17, 2002 – 2:45Sebastian turned around and looked at the commotion. Two trolls were charging Prince Charlie, a machete in their right hands, and Coralis restrained them just before one swung it at Prince Charlie’s neck while the other one tried to prevent him from moving. She stood a few metres away in the middle of the field, both hands stretched out toward the trolls, and a crowd was forming behind her.“What’s happening?” said Stephanie.“I gotta go. Prince Charlie is getting attacked and Blue is interfering. I’ll call you back later.”Sebastian hung up and ran to where people gathered to watch the scene. Stephanie called her brother.Coralis stood still and focused on the trolls, and her hands still stretched toward them. Prince Charlie had his back against a tree and cautiously stepped away. The trolls looked at her, broke through the restraining spell and charged her.“Sebastian just called me,” said Stephanie when Frank picked up the phone. “It was over, and he was tel