I peel my eyes open and look through the shadow in front of me to see the sisters of the dark back again, flanking Sebastian and George holding their necks and glaring at me.
I still don't know who pushed me or called The Sisters of the Dark back.

What happened just now? I thought I saw something push me against the wall. Looking around, I see nothing but I'm on my kneels. George's voice pulls me out of my thought.

"You have the power, Camille and you've got some nerves using them against me. But just look at it this way, we are all playing poker and I'm the one with the wild card," he says in a raspy voice.

"Not if I have something to say about it," a familiar voice replies chirps from the opposite side of the room. My lips curl up in a smile as soon as I hear the voice.

George and Sebastian turn around to see my squad standing there very much alive, even Jessica is okay and she's out of the pod. I guess they were busy getting her out while I was unleashing ravens at them.

You are all screwed now! I think to myself.

George turns to me and glares. "Your friends are okay, nice but there is that," he smirks and nudges his chin forward. "Go."

I stand up and scan the room for anything, he obviously has something–

I feel it before seeing it. An invisible hand wrap around my neck, it's invisible because I'm looking at my front now and I can't see anything. I try to slap my hands around the one gripping me but it tighten the hold around my neck and aggressively slams my back against the wall. The familiar pain spreads through me and I whimper. This is one of the most painful and worst moment of my life. Fighting a battle I don't even know I can survive enough to win.

Moving my hands forward to scratch it's skin with my nails but I retract the moment I feel my nails scrap something that feels like burning soil. The invisible creature must have felt it because the next thing I know is me flying across the room as he tosses me away like I weight nothing. I use my side to hit the wall before dropping on the ground. I suck in air before exhaling into a cough fit. I think my left hand is broken and I definitely have a concussion.

My eyes scans the room for potential help but everyone else is busy, they've all paired themselves against someone. The headmaster and George are having a face off. Jessica is kneeling on the ground with her palm on the ground, doing her thing. Damian is standing with the sisters of the dark walking around him, I have no doubt that he can take care of himself. I see Nate still laying, he must have been really hurt from the fight to be sitting this one out. The point is I'm screwed.

Heavy footsteps approaches, I shift to a sitting position and press myself against the wall as the invisible creature start to become visible. My mouth drop open. It's like a shadow, but not the sisters of the dark shadow. A shadow surrounding a dark form in shape of a man but not quite human. Fuck he's tall, like three times my size with horns that rivals those of bull. It's wings are bone-like flames. It's body looks like it's made of stone with line of molten magma all over his body. It growls as it approaches, my eyes drops on its hand as it releases his fist. My eyes goes wide as they see the long claws.

My hand goes to my mouth. "This isn't real. This isn't real." I whisper before raising my voice. "This isn't real! Can you guys see this?!"

I don't let them answer as I make a run for it or at least try to. It grips my hair hard, hard enough to pull it out before flinging me up, my back hit the old ceiling, breaking the stuff they used to build it in the process. Not giving the time to react before dropping, I move my hands to my eyes because I can't watch. I expect to hit the ground but I don't as he catches my legs and toss me again, passing through the sisters of the dark and hitting Damian on the process. We both fall on ground with a thud but Damian takes most of the hit as his hands goes around my waist and shield me from hitting the ground and hurting myself.

What is that?

"Stay here." Damian orders and pushes me away gently from his body. He stands up and faces whatever monster George summoned.

Damian said I should stay here and I have no intention of getting up. He's more powerful. He should deal with it.

He takes his steps slowly and raises his hand to the monster. "Hear me creature of the shadow, leave this feeble lesser being alone." Even in front of that monstrosity he still manages to remain unbelievably calm, and who the fuck his he calling feeble lesser being.

His command works for a moment because the creature stands down, retracting it claws and stares at Damian. "That's right. Calm down," he keeps walking the creature with his hand still raised, almost like he's using the movement of his hand to control the creature.

"No, you don't. Scklah teh!" George choose the time to interrupt, slamming his cane on the ground, causing the creature to wake from whatever trance Damian put it in. It roars, breathing out fire.

Damian raises his hands up to shield himself but he's too late, the fire burn him turning him to ashes. My eyes goes wide as a painful cry tears from my throat. "Nooooo!"

This catches the attention of other, pulling their concentration from what they're doing. Jessica's zombies are the first to move, three of them jumping on the creature while she places her hands on the ground. Her mouth begins to move fast. Her eyes glows as darkish brown lines begins to appear from her neck to her face. I've never seen her like this but I remember those dark lines from my drawings of her. Roots burst out of the ground and goes around the creature while he tries to fight the zombies off him. I look at Jessica again and realize she's the one controlling the roots. I never knew this about her.

Snapping out of it. I stand up from the ground and clap my hands before facing my palms to the direction of the creature. I close my eyes and reach in. Ravens comes flying in, I open my eyes and push my hands forward, making the ravens flying around the creature. It moves it hands around, trying to get the ravens and root off but no luck. Jessica and I are so focus on destroying the creature, we forgot about George and Sebastian.

I see Sebastian behind Jessica, produces a dagger. "Jessica, watch out!" I scream and direct my hand to their direction. Some of the ravens leaves the creature and goes circling around Sebastian. Jessica looks behind her briefly and when she sees I have it under control, she goes back to burying the creature.

With both my hands directed at two different things, I need to focus on one thing and I know Jessica have the creature, so I give Sebastian my undivided attention but still have the raven around the creature.

The game at West High, the first time I conjured the ravens, I didn't know how to control them, I still don't but they are working in my favor now. That day I tapped into something dark and I loved how it felt. I'm having the same feeling now but this time I'm conscious of it.

I wave the hand up, making Sebastian fly in the air with my telekinesis power. The ravens begins to go fast around him until I spread my fingers out, making them leave some distance between them and him. I look at Sebastian and I see him for who he truly is, a weak, pathetic, miserable boy willing to do anything to be worthy of daddy's love. It's just sad that he went through all those length to be acceptable. I curl my fingers in a tight fist, the ravens goes around him, this time doing some damages because all I hear his is scream, that and the Headmaster voice.

"Camille, stop!"

I turn my head to side to see him standing over George, holding his cane above him. "What?"

"You'll kill him."

I cock my eyebrows. "So? Don't tell me he doesn't deserve to die after everything he did!" I make the point clear in case he forgot.

"Killing him will damage your soul."

"I'll take my chances." I tell him and return my gaze on Sebastian.

"Camille, you are not thinking straight, you need to–" the familiar roar of the creature interrupts what he's going to say.

I look at it and see he has broke out of the roots. I move my hand from Sebastian and turn it to him, curling both fingers in a tight fist around the creature, causing Sebastian to fall down. He's still alive but his body is pale. The creature moves his hands around before breathing out fire. I scream as a familiar burning pain fill my body. I didn't get burned, the ravens did and it affected me. It moves forward, swinging it's hand towards Jessica, who is still kneeling. It hits her, the force makes her fly around. Her body hits the wall and she goes down unconscious.

Still trying to recover from the burn pain, it doesn't give me any time to pull myself together as it kicks, sending me flying across the room, my back hitting the wall. "Oh..." I groan and open my eyes, I notice the markings is still on my body even though I'm not using my powers at the moment. I press my hands on the wall and close my eyes, whispering the three words, hopefully she hears me and sends the Elsword. "Lurytendra Azar Bycom."

A smile plays on my lips and I get up. The creature moves to punch me by I hold the sword up, connecting with his stony hand. The force blows my hair out of my face. I remove the Elsword and swing it, cutting a claw off. It brings it hand up and sees the missing claw. Taking a step back, it roars and the next I know is the punch the comes my way, hitting my stomach. The force of the blow takes me off, my body knocking down the wall in the process. My back hit the ground.

I cough and groan. "Something is definitely broken," I manage to say before it comes and pulls me up in the air, throwing me away, sending me flying through the air.

I wince as my back connects with a tree and I fall flat on my face, this is giving me a deja vu of when Lady Treta caught me off guard and attacked me.

I'm not caught off guard now.

I raise my head to see the creature come to me. I'm going to die. Today is the day I die. I–

"You can do this, Camille, stand up and fight," I hear Damian's voice inside my head.

"Damian? Damian! You're alive. Can you hear me?" It's his voice, I know it is.

"Get up and fight!"

Fight. Fight. Okay, I'll try not to die. I just need the–

I look forward to see the Elsword on the ground several feet away from me.

Fuck no!

My eyes moves between where the Elsword is and the creature fast approaching. I should be able to make. I pull my hand out and move the Elsword with my mind. Seeing the Elsword moves and comes to me gives me hope at least I can control my powers all right.

I stand on my feet and grab the Elsword when it reaches me. The creature charges at me, I raise the Elsword to block him but when it gets to me something slam against the sword, sending heavy power surge, destroying everything within the radius but somehow the creature and I are still standing.

What did it hit me with?

I glance at the weapon it's holding and  notice the something. It's a sword, not the Elsword but a replica. I know it's a replica because the markings on the Elsword are missing from the one it's holding but from the sword's ricasso down to the handle is the Dihipians Royal crest. Di Hipsodat is not a known realm in fact the people that are aware of the realm existence aren't even up to ten. Now George might be knowledge but everything he knows about the realm is from Eric and this is his monster. There is no way he'd create a replica of the Elsword for his monster except the monster isn't his but it's under his control.

This can only mean one thing. The monster is in fact a Dihipian. A royal one. One that George himself admitted isn't dead but not quite alive.

It's him.

"Eric..." I breathe out.