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Chapter Five:

}{Travis}{

Travis set next to his roommates, Tiger and Imagine, as he silently ate his both of cereal. He was fine just sitting there when a girl, who looked pretty beat up, almost as though she had just come out from the hospital, stepped onto the table Travis was sitting at. He looked up, slightly surprised to see her clapping loudly once or twice to get people's attention. What does she think she's doing?

“Can I have your attention please?” she asked, looking a little nervous. Most people had quieted down, but a couple were still talking quietly. The girl cleared her throat before continuing.

“I have something important to say. I...don't think any of us are actually cursed. I think that our curses aren't real.”

Travis's eyes widened with shock, and people started to protest. One such person, a boy with a name tag that read Ishmael, stood up, exclaiming, “What are you talking about?! No matter how many times you try saying your name, even my own, it doesn't work! How could I not be cursed?”

“Well, yes, but if you let me finish--”

“And I can't help it when metallic objects appear in my pockets,” another boy with a crisp English accent and half his head shaved observed. “Actually, it's quite useful.”

“I know, bu--”

“Stop filling us with false hope!” Vamporizer yelled. “We'll always just be the disgrace of society! Will always be hated!”

“What!? No! Just listen!”

“Rune, just stop!” Julius told her, a confused and mildly concerned look on his face. “What happened to you?”

“Nothing! I'm fine!” she answered, her voice sounding exasperated.

“No. No, if you were fine, you would be trying to prank me back after I got someone to put worms in your bed! It's been a week since you were out of the hospital, and you have been acting everything but normal!” A few people agreed, either nodding their heads or muttering something to their neighbors. Soon there were many people talking, and the voices begin to overlap.

Rune looked completely embarrassed and ready to scream, but she hopped off the table, about to storm away when Travis suddenly reached out and grabbed her arm. “Do you really think we might not be cursed? That we just might be normal?”

She froze as she looked back at Travis, realizing who he was. She's heard the rumors, Travis thought to himself. Finally, she nodded. “Meet me in the library after school.”

Travis nodded, letting go of her arm and feeling happier than he had been in a long time.

}{•}{

The school day felt incredibly long, but fortunately, Travis had enough patience to wait it out. When the bell rang to end the day, he headed over to the library, pulling his hood over his head.

As soon as he had reached the library, Travis spotted Rune sitting at one of the long tables, reading. He walked over to the table and set his backpack down on the floor as he sat down, causing for her to look up at him.

“You actually came?”

“Let's just say don't want to deal with my curse anymore,” Travis replied, trying his best not to let any of the memories surface. His hand instinctively reached up to his neck, where a locket was hanging.

“I, uh, already know what your curse is, so let's skip to the point. Try to form some ice in your hand, and tell yourself that they only one giving your curse a downside is you.”

Travis noticed the unsure and nervous look on her face and frowned. “Are you sure?”

She bit her lip. “I think you're the only one who listened to me, so I need you to try. I just need to know if I'm even a little bit right.”

This had better work. Opening his palm, he pictured of ball of ice. the two of them sat there staring intently at his hand. Finally, Travis felt his hand grow cold. “Something's happening! My hand it feels co--”

The next thing Travis could remember was him holding his hands around a terrified Rune's neck while the rest of the room was well below freezing and covered with fresh ice and snow.

}{Faith}{

“Have either of you heard the Legend of Indigo?” Shadowed asked, sitting up on her bed.

Faith gasped, trying to keep in squeal as she sat on the floor next to Ocean. A battery powered lantern was on the floor in front of them. They've been using it to tell ghost stories, and after Shadowed had offered to tell one, the excitement heightened.

“No! Tell us, tell us! Pleeeaaassse?” Faith begged.

Shadowed smirked and used a dial on the lantern to dim the light before she began.

“Indigo was just like you and I semicolon another student here, and cursed. But she kept hearing things, like footsteps behind her when she was alone or the squeaking of a door opening. once you tried to tell people, they just told her it was nothing, but she refused to believe that. after three years here with the sounds, she came up, and assumed it was just part of her imagination. But she was wrong.

“Late one night, she heard the footsteps again. She was studying late so she decided to look out in the hall in case it was one of her roommate sleepwalking again.

“Indigo stepped out into the Hall, a candle in hand. But she didn't find a roommate in the hall, oh no. It was The Beast. The Beast opened its mouth wide and eat her hole. She was never heard from again.

“Indigo was just the beginning of The Beast's meal and he's still hungry today. if you ever hear footsteps behind you, don't turn around. Just run, and maybe I'll make it out alive.”

Ocean and Faith clapped, grins on their faces.

“That was great, Shadowed! Tell us another!” Faith said.

Shadowed didn't reply. She was pale, staring at someone behind Ocean and Faith. Ocean, thinking it was The Beast, screamed, and covered her head with a blanket. Faith, however, turned around.

There was a cloaked figure behind them, wearing all black. Faith paled, about to run away when the figured put a gloved hand out. In their hand was a letter.

“Faith, I need you to give this to Time Conquest. He'll know what to do,” they told her as she took the letter with a frightened nod.

“Um, ok,” she whispered. In that instant, the figure was gone. 