SCHOOL OF MAGICAL ENLIGHTENMENT

HERE COMES THE CALVARY

LISA'S 0OINT OF VIEW

The entire room gasps, and everything goes quiet for a moment with everyone looking at Warren like he grew another head. Cecil comes to stand by his side, smiling, and all hell breaks loose.

I try to reach him. However, the dragons have formed a shield around him and Cecil, trying to get them out of the hall, but the sirens and witches surround them, refusing to let that happen.

I look around, shouting Nyssa's name, and find her sobbing with her head down in a corner with a shaking hand holding her phone to her ear. 'Nicarra' I hear her call, and I am saddened by the fact that l failed to protect my friend. As I crouch and try to get near her so I can lead her out of the room before things escalate further, I am grabbed and carried over a broad shoulder. I struggle to get down until I notice a familiar tattoo on the back of my abductor.

'LUCAS, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? PUT ME DOWN?'

He drops me outside one of the open doors, and I see many students scrambling to get out. He looks at me from head to toe and asks.

'Why are you dressed like this? WHY ARE YOU ALONE AND WHY THE HELL DO YOU SMELL LIKE MY MATE?'

'Please calm down, Lucas. First Warren, now you, you both are scaring me. And what do you mean by your mate?' I say surprised by his outburst.

He takes deep breaths as he pinches he nose bridge, trying to relax.

'Lisa, where is your roommate?' he asks as lycans begin to arrive surrounding us

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'Inside, I was about to reach her when you grabbed me.

'

He grabs his short, wavy hair with his hands cursing as he goes back inside. I try to follow him, but he turns around and tells me to stay where I am and orders two of the lycans to guard me.

'I need to get Nyssa out of there, Warren rejected her. I need to know she's okay.'

'That's not possible,' he whispers.

'I saw it, Lucas, we all saw it. That is what started the whole incident.' I tell him teary-eyed.

'Listen to me very carefully, I need you to stay out of this until I understand what is going on.'

'But Nyssa ...' I say worriedly

'will be kept safe, but you need to stay out here. If I find you, put yourself in any form of danger. I am sending you home. Am I clear?!' Lucas finishes in a tone that doesn't leave room for argument.

I nod, knowing better than to question him when he is in Alpha mode and do as I am told, while he enters the hall with several lycans behind him. We wait outside, listening to the ruckus going on inside for some time when one of my guards says to the other, 'Wow, check out that bomb shell.'

I look in the direction of his vision and see a very angry looking Nicarra dressed in a lacy female black singlet on jeans trousers running towards us. Her hair let loose comes down in dark waves that strangely shimmer beneath the night sky.

I call to her, and she looks at me, asking for Nyssa. I tell her Nyssa is inside and my brother is looking for her.

She runs up the stair case, but at that same moment, the dragons successfully get Warren out of the hall, which is still loud and chaotic inside with threatening growls and hisses being heard. Nicarra sees them and stops, slowly walking towards them with a look that could kill.

'What did you do to my sister?' she asks.

One of the dragons walks towards her to stop her from reaching Warren but suddenly disappears. Everyone shifts back, surprised, and Nicarra moves closer towards them.

'What did you do to her?!' Nicarra asks again, walking closer.

Warren sniffs the air and holds his hea, screaming. Cecil looks at him, panicking, and tells the dragons to stop Nicarra from coming close to Warren. She tries to hold Warren but he growls at her and pushes her roughly into the snow, scattering the contents of her bag, before kneeling down holding his head while each and every dragon that gets close to Nicarra disappears till there is none left but Cecil, who is trying to find her lost items in the snow.

Nicarra races towards Warren, and I jump down to save her from his wrath, instructing the lycans with me to inform Lucas of what is going on outside because his mind-link has been blocked. Nicarra reaches him before I do and smacks him really hard in the face, asking him why he hurt Nyssa and Warren falls to the ground without fighting back. Cecil's screams and lounges at Nicarra, landing on top of her and punching her in face. Nicarra disappears and lands on top of Cecil, throwing a series of punches.

I reach Warren, but he holds his head, saying, 'Must... help... mate, only...mate... can...save...us.'

'Warren,' I call to him, trying to help him stand.He looks at me and smiles, touching my face.

'Lisa?' he responds, but suddenly his demeanour changes to a cold one, and he pushes me away really hard. Slowly, he gets up, struggling to walk towards the two fighting girls, and pulls Nicarra off Cecil, holding her firmly by the waist as she struggles against him. Cecil, in blind fury, throws spikes towards Nicarra, but Warren turns around, spreading out his wings to shield both Nicarra and myself.

Nicarra and Warren fall as the spikes hit Warren from behind, some puncturing his wings. I scream as they both land, and Cecil scrambles from the ground, screaming as she crawls to reach Warren.

'What have you done?!' I scream as my Lycan tries to force herself out to attack Cecil for hurting Warren. I run towards Warren and lift his left wing, trying to check on him and find him unconscious but holding on tight to Nicarra, who is crying beneath him.

'Somebody, please help us,' I scream

'Warren, my love!' says Cecil as she stretches her hand to touch him but she is blocked by a very huge black coloured lycan, the size of an elephant,which growls at her with his back hairs standing up, huffing to appear bigger with its head low and its shoulders hunched back.

It is Lucas and many lycans follow behind, mirroring him as do a few dragons who have joined us outside, with some standing behind Cecil. Lucas growls, lowering his head further to the ground. With this stance, Cecil is given only two choices- Leave or Die.

Cecil stares at him with her cold eyes, and we have a stand-off until several high-ranking school authorities, school security, and ambulances arrive at our location. The school authority orders for both sides to stand down but neither side budges. Medical personnel come to me and carefully lift Warren off Nicarra, taking out the spikes in his back and transferring him to a waiting ambulance.

'I will go with Warren. Do not let her get through. Watch yoursel, Nyssa, and be strong.' Lucas tells me through the mind-link, moving back slowly to get near the ambulance and follows it with a few lycans and dragons behind him as it takes Warren away. Cecil sees the ambulance move, but before she can react, she is attacked again by Nicarra with greater viciousness. The school security consisting of bears and dragons try to pry Nicarra off Cecil but are flung away while Cecil screams.

.Vines grow from the ground holding Nicarra by her wrists, neck and legs, pulling her off Cecil who scrambles from beneath, and hides behind one of the elders who calls a medical team to tend to her wounds. Nicarra screams in fury, at the sight, and fire burns the vines around her, breaking them. She stands up, looking at Cecil, and rushes at her again but is again pulled back by thicker, stronger vines.

'Calm down, young miss, easy now,' says a young looking man as he walks slowly towards Nicarra, who is breathing heavily, her eyes focused on Cecil. She looks at the elder and begins to speak in a language I have never heard before.The man looks shocked, and several elders surround Nicarra. Nicarra closes her eyes and speaks again with a booming voice. The wind around us begins to blow as a vortex slowly opens above us. Lightening suddenly strikes Nicarra, and she falls. losing consciousness, and the vortex closes.

Everyone makes way for a beautiful petite woman with porcelain skin and deep green eyes, dressed in a beautiful free falling purple embellished kaftan with a matching turban. Despite her size, she exudes a high level of authority and power. The elders take turns talking to her in hushed tones, and she simply nods . She walks past the elders, giving instructions to the security and other school authorities. She looks at Cecil sternly and walks over to check on Nicarra. She instructs that Cecil and Nicarra be taken to the school infirmary.

She instructs the school security to direct students back to their dormitories and authorizes that dinner be served to the students in their rooms. I watch as Nicarra and Cecil are placed in separate ambulances and are driven away into the night.