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“Isaac Gold, you will stand down immediately and cease this childish behavior. All you’re doing is bullying the younger students.”
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Luka noticed late but in a sudden panic he fell back, his heart battering his chest with two feelings. Shock and awe.
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“Ho-Holy crap that was so cool!! What’s your ark?!”
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Isaac and Karli looked at Luka before she looked at him, Isaac looked at Luka for a moment long before kicking her pushing her back barely before turning and walking away putting his hands in his sweatpants pockets and heading off.
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“Crap… did I do something wrong?”
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“On the contrary you’ve actually done the best things for and to him, Cassian Valk, take care of Luka. We’ll be back before dawn.”
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“Aye aye captain! Luka is in the absolute BEST hands!”
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“I’ll make sure they’re both in one piece when you come back, follow the markers.”
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Karli walked through the night with Isaac ahead of her, the silence between them only broken by the sounds of the night coming to life. Crickets chirping, birds chirping as they turned in for the night, and the sounds of the Hakalanth becoming more restless as the sun left the world to the guise of the night.
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“You know your mother taught you better than to leave a woman walking behind you in the dead of night.”
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“When the woman isn’t from a renowned family of fierce fighters who’ve been at the helm of this school for years.”
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“She didn’t discriminate a woman is a woman, regardless of her status, power, wealth and-”
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“Just shut up and come closer.”
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Karli stood beside Isaac walking and looking around, the silence between them staying as they walked. Karli looked at him and stopped him, pointing to a tree they saw three large claw marks in it. Isaac’s head rose as he looked towards the tree and began to hurry over Karli right beside him, arriving at the point they found a Hakalanth Screamer hive.
Screamers were ape-like creatures that had the heads of wolves and the body of primates, allowing for a swiffer movement than either of the beasts they seemed to spawn from. Isaac slid to a stop and tapped his foot on the floor, soon they saw it. Surrounding them from all ends were red eyes and sharp teeth cutting through the darkness, standing side by side Isaac and Karli waited.
The trees began to rise and shower them in darkness, almost aiding the screamers and hiding them. In the darkness one swung from a branch diving down at Karli only for its entire head to explode and its body to turn to black smoke. Following this attack one rushed Isaac only for Karli to stab it into the ground with her spear, another rushed in for a follow up and with a slight twist and tug she swiftly pulled her spear apart and launched it at the incoming attacker.
Kicking one down Isaac stomped its head in and kicked the armor plating at another one before it vanished and killed that one too. One after the other the horde was dispatched with precise strikes flowing one after the other killing them off until the entire pod was cleared out. Karli would wipe some blood off of her face and fix the bun keeping her hair up as she looked at Isaac who was stomping a plating to dust glaring angrily.
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“Ready to talk?”
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“About what?”
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“About your attitude towards Luka.”
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“I’m completely justified acting-”
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“Like a little bitch towards him?”
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“Language Ms. Steel, it’ll sully your great name.” Silence once more ensued and Isaac began to leave and Karli followed, Isaac found a spot at the edge of the island they resided on. Looking over the edge into what appeared to be an abyssal nothingness below. Karli walked over and sat beside him handing him an apple and a bottle of water.
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“Care package dropped?”
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“Mhm. One of the few times we get one so early.”
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Beside Karli sat a cooler, Isaac took a bite out of his apple and nearly drank his water in one go.
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“He’s going to be fine, you know.” Isaac spit a seed out and it tore through the soil directly into the dirt.
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“Mhm…”
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“Our days are done, it’s wild to think since it wasn’t that long ago but these new students are pretty well off ya know. They’re staring off as teams, we didn’t. They’re a lot more excited than we were and without a doubt their arks are better. I mean Magnetism pft, nothing compared to a literal firebird. Though my ark has always been a bit of a bottom feeder.”
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Isaac kept eating before tossing his apple core to the floor and finishing his water launching it off the edge.
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“Luka’s childish I’ll give you that but aren’t you happy for him?”
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“He needs a tougher hide.”
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“Are you saying that because you believe it or because it was told to you?” Isaac looked down and sighed.
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“They’re going to die.”
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“Course they will, we all will die someday. But they won’t die before us and definitely not so young. They’ll be the shining beacons of the academy, where we weren’t. Like John said, this year’s name is “Infinity”. Because of the potential these kids have.”
Isaac rolled his eyes, down to earth versus optimism with Karli leads nowhere. So the pair sat there, thinking about Luka, Tyron, Kimiko, all of the students younger than them and the duty they had to them. To build them up even if they fall in the process.
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