The sun was setting when classes ended. Jack slung his backpack over his shoulder and left the room, with teacher Violet saying goodbye to her students.
"Who knew, I kind of miss our old, simple life" Fenrir said "our biggest adventures were in video games and roleplaying games."
"It's a little more tiring than our old life, it's true" Jack said, "but there's something in this world, I don't know... it used to be cool but today is good too and I hope tomorrow is even better ."
"You are very hopeful, things always tend to get worse, I think" Fenrir shrugged.
"You are too pessimistic."
As they left the main castle, Jack felt a great euphoria. Several students were huddled together, as if they were curious to see something surprising. A loud buzz filled the place.
"What do you think happened?" Jack asked Fenrir.
"Maybe Monique took off her b*a for all to see."
"It would be interesting."
Moving closer, Jack could see that Ethan was in the crowd. He turned and saw the two boys, with an anguished look in their eyes.
"Ah, Fenrir," he said, "it would be good if you didn't see this."
"That just makes me even more curious" Fenrir smiled "let's take a look at this."
Passing through the students, the boys then faced the scene. Three iron pillars had been raised, and there was a boy tied to each one. One of the boys was Odaiv and he wore nothing but his underpants and a Phantom Lord ID, a kind of band placed between his legs. The other two were unknown to Jack, but wore the Boarders symbol, and they were all badly hurt and unconscious. On each pillar there was a word. Putting the three together could read “don't mess with us”. The floor reads in red ink "Lord Ghost and Boarders will be destroyed."
"Get out of the way, out of the way!" Shouted a desperate girl. She cried and ran towards one of the boys. Jack recognized her. It was that Emma, the extreme sports fan girl Sam liked. Sam showed up just then.
"It's her brother there" he said "that James guy."
"What the hell is going on?" Fenrir wondered.
"I know what's going on" Jack replied "what's going on is that you thought the guy forgot everything, but you got ripped off! It looks like he was going to fail to clear his club's name because of some small talk ."
"Get out of the way, let us through," a female voice called out. Monique. Next to her were two men, Professor Ichiro and Dominick, the prince who was also part of the student council "Now, now, what have we here. Professor Ichiro, Dominick, take care of this, please." The two touched the pillars and performed a kind of magic, undoing the iron buildings.
"A typical g**g fight" Ichiro said.
"This is a stain on our academy" Monique sternly cried out, "these gangs must be fought at all costs. Are we an old entity, years of glory, to be stained by lowly hooligans? We cannot accept this. We have to unite, to put an end to this plague that plagues those responsible for this school. This place is for educating, and it's not meant to be the stage for these atrocities done by these student delinquents!"
A few students applauded Monique's little speech, she gave a confident smile, and looked at the boys, especially Fenrir, as if to say "you are no match for my power." The teachers were preparing to take the students to the infirmary when Odaiv's friends arrived. The one with the dark glasses was named Paul, and the bald one Pablo.
"Let's get out of here" Fenrir said, but then the boys called to him.
"We've parted ways with our boss" lamented Pablo "and it happens. This damn club must pay, we must END the Iron Fist!"
"That's it!" agreed Paul "our boss was following YOU now, he was in YOUR club, and this is all YOUR responsibility now. You have to do something!" Paul said pointing to Fenrir.
"Look, we don't know if it was them," Ethan tried to argue.
"Ethan, we know who it was," Fenrir said solemnly, "the iron pillars, the message. It's too obvious. I wonder what went wrong." The boy sighed. "Okay, let's make a plan."