"What are you doing here?" upon opening the door a first aid kit box was placed in front of her."Help you with your wounds," Karen grins.
"Thanks but no thanks," she said as she closed the door behind her.
"The headmaster was right in one thing, you won"t let us in," Feena said as she entered the room.
"Wh How did you come in?"
"You locked the door we have the key so simple," Karen welcomed herself and sat down on Eureka"s bed.
"That Kaoru I would really kill him."
"Kaoru?"
"The headmaster, you don"t know his name?"
"Oh yeah, that"s right. Anyway, take off your clothes," Feena placed the first aid on the bedside table.
"No, I won"t. Look it"s fine, I"m fine. I"ll just rest and I"m good to go," opening the door implying for them to leave.
"No, you sit down. And oh there it is your gym shorts. Now get change and let"s get it over shall we." Karen pulled her towards the bathroom and threw her the shorts she took from her drawer.
Defeated Eureka changed and came out. Feena motioned her to take a seat.
"Remove your s.h.i.+rt will you."
"You guys really…"
Karen and Feena were stunned at the sight of her back. Burn marks, wounds, and scars.
"*clears throat* I will be applying the medicine now."
They quietly treated her.
"The fireb.a.l.l.s," Karen started breaking the ice.
"It did hit you after all."
"Yeah, I have no ability after all creating that tornado barrier wouldn"t allow me to move the way I could without creating one. Two of them hit me."
"But still you really are amazing coming up with that move while Raven"s chanting the spell for inferno," Feena commented finis.h.i.+ng up the treatment.
Before she could wear her s.h.i.+rt. Karen touched a scar on the back of her left shoulder. "This scar? How long was it already?"
"Almost 3 years," she answered just as she wore her s.h.i.+rt.
"How did you get it?"
"Do you want coffee or tea?" asked as she boils water.
"Coffee is fine."
"Coffee."
"Coffee it is then." Preparing the drinks to give her guests she answered the question. "I can"t enter the academy being a zero so I should have done something else to enter right?"
She served their drinks and walked towards the window.
"Fighting against the headmaster is really very very difficult never try it," leaning against the window sill, she faced and warned them as if it ever crossed their mind to even try fighting against the headmaster.
"You fought against the headmaster?" they could only ask in shock.
"I did and the other instructors in order to get in. That"s how my exams went as well. I have to fight against an instructor while he or she is using a new level of spell. If I can"t then I"d fail, if I was able to block their attacks and counter then I"d pa.s.s."
Feena and Karen could only stare and drink upon hearing her explanation, there"s nothing they could say about it. Amazing? Of course, that"s totally obvious. She didn"t receive any special treatment just as the rumors said. She practiced and persevered in order to survive in the school where only a few could stay.
"Anyway, that"s that. So tomorrow at 5 by the lake behind the school,"
Feena finished her drink and stood up, Karen followed after.
"We shall take our leave now, thank you for the coffee," as they leave.
"Uhmm," they looked at her, "ThThank you for treating my wounds."
"No problem we are a group now anyway," they waved their hands and left closing the door behind them.
Eureka thought as she prepares to sleep.*****
(Why do you always end up having so many wounds when you"re training on your own)
(Shut up, Zu)
(*smacks her head* yeah yeah.)
*****
(Do your best in there you understand?)
(No wait you"re staying behind?)
(We have no time, I"m sending you there now)
(NO ZU!! WAIT!! DON"T!! ZUUU!!)
"ZU!!" Sweat dripping down her forehead as she sat there wide awake from a nightmare.
To think that I"d have a dream on you after so long. 4 years kah, it"s been 4 years Zu, it"s been 4 years. You really are the most stupid person I"ve ever met.
She stood up knowing she won"t be able to return to sleep, prepared to leave and went straight to where their practice would be held. She lied down beside the lake and stared up in the sky. All kinds of memory flas.h.i.+ng through her mind.
I took another step Zu, the second step after entering the academy. And I will never forget my promise. We"ll meet again, I know we will.
"Aren"t you early?" she abruptly sat up and drew her sword.
"Woah chill, it"s us," Hideyos.h.i.+ raised his hands.
"Sorry," was I too deep in thought that I didn"t notice them arriving? That would be very bad, isn"t it?
"Anyway you really are early, it"s 4:30," still asking as the three of them approached her.
"I woke up early and could no longer return to sleep. So I thought I"d just come here instead"
"AH!! Eureka you"re here," just then they heard a shout from behind. "We went to your room planning to wake you up but then no one"s there. We thought you runaway or something," Karen continued, beside her was Feena who was obviously pretty irritated.
"You opened my room on your own again?" Eureka said as she reached out her hand. Karen took and shake it.
"What are you doing?"
"I thought you want a handshake?"
"I"m asking for my key. Give it back now"
"Why?" Karen pouted but still returned the key seeing her serious face.
"So what happened to your face Feena? Woke up on the wrong side of the bed?" Hideyos.h.i.+ spoke up.
"No, this stupid girl banged at my door at 3 in the morning for me to join her in waking up Eureka."
"Hey," Karen retorted, "I"m not stupid."
"Stop pouting cause I"m getting more and more irritated right now."
"But it was so long since we had another girl in our group, I was so excited to chat with her I couldn"t sleep at all."
"Stop this nonsense now. Since we are all complete anyway we should just begin practicing our synchronization with Eureka," Mamoru stepped in before Feena could answer back. Knowing that once this two started bickering they won"t stop.
"Oh," Eureka faced them all, "Once again I am Eureka and I really am grateful that you allowed me to join your group for the graduation compet.i.tion, I"d do my best in order not to be a hindrance," she bowed deeply.
"Welcome to our group Eureka," Karen smiled happily at her. And as she raised her head Mamoru, Feena and Raven nodded their heads while Hideyos.h.i.+ had his thumbs up.
"Shall we begin then."