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3 Months Earlier
The evening was cold with harsh winds. The floating mountains hung in the sky as Stella stood aboard the Saehl airship deck looking frantically for any sign of life. These floating mountains were green and luscious with trees and grass among the mountainsides. Such a place was beautiful and a sure thing to behold. The small airship piloted by the owner Stella had borrowed it from sailed to the left.
Cid, a small and stocky man who had agreed to work with Eureka Academy handle it’s flying transportations had agreed to let Stella use his smaller airship for the time being. “I think I see something up ahead!” Stella called back to Cid who grunted in reply.
A small hut on a hillside of a mountain could be seen nested amongst thick green trees. This had to be the place the late headmaster Krell had spoke of in his letters. The Saehl pulled off to the side of the mountain and Stella swung her legs off the airships small deck and jumped onto the land in front of this house. A gust of cold wind swept about as the airship had taken off to go back to Eureka Academy until further notice. The sun had begun to set into the skies in the distance and Stella knew that she would probably have to spend the night if this man couldn’t cooperate.
She walked up to the short first story cottage. It was made of wood and a small garden patch full of flowers resided under the houses front window which for now had drawn curtains. Stella knocked a few times and waited. A rustling could be heard from the inside. The door had swung open revealing a boy who looked as if he were about twelve. “Yes?” he spoke.
“I’m looking for Akabea Green?” Stella spoke. “I was wondering if he was here?”
“Who sent you?” The boy replied in a serious tone. “Come on in. I’ll put some tea on.”
Stella obeyed, for she was relieved to have found the home of Akabea. She didn’t know the man had a child and for one second thought if Krell had any children she didn’t know much about. The inside of the cottage was very tidy and quaint. Four cozy armchairs in front of a fireplace could be seen in the first room. The boy had gone of to a room to the right to make tea. Stella sat in one of the chairs. The fireplace wasn’t on, but it could have helped contrast the bitter cold wind outside. “So what brings a young girl like you all the way out here?” the boy asked.
“This letter.” Stella said placing an orange envelope onto one of the chair arms. “Thank you.”
Stella took the cup of tea offered to her and took a sip. It was green and it was less bitter than Stella remembered. The boy, after smiling in welcome took the envelope. Stella thought of the boy as being a bit adorable for a kid. He had a striking blue eye and black hair. He even wore an eye patch which she could only assume was the cost of training from his father Akabea. He was a bit handsome, and Stella for an instant thought that he would be perfect for her sister. The by ripped open the envelope at the very second Stella had become lost in her own thoughts.
She regained her senses just as the rip of the envelope and crinkle of the letter addressed to Akabea was opened. “W-wha?”
The boy slumped into an armchair and had begun to read, ignoring the girl’s surprised look. After what seemed like three minutes the boy looked up from reading. “So big bro went and got himself killed. My this is quite a problem.” He muttered.
At the moment it had only taken her a few minutes to realize that the boy was referring to Krell as a sibling. “Wait, are you Akabea?” She asked as politely as she could.
In her mind any sibling of the old professor Krell was much older, wiser, and stronger looking. Not what appeared to be a 13-15 year old boy. The boy glancing at her expression had caught on immediately to Stella’s thoughts. "Oh? I’m sorry, my appearance puts people off. You see I, like my brother, has had a run in with a cursed artifact myself. As for my age I am old enough to be your father, but appearance wise I’m bound to the body of a child. Amusing don’t you think?”
Stella smiled. Now things were explained properly, for this boy was the true Akabea Green. His looks were completely different from Stella’s own personal image. “As for the matter of this letter it seems as if I am now the new headmaster of Eureka Academy.” Akabea spoke in a more serious tone.
“Great! Now lets g-“
“But before I get started it looks as if we’ll have to clean up the mess my brother has put the world into.” He said continuing his thoughts.
“But sir, you can’t mean the portals?” Stella spoke in confusion. “There are so many of them. They won’t all disappear in a pinch.”
“Exactly what you kids are here for right?” the boy said.
Akabea smiled at the small hint of irony within his phrase. Stella knew more about the portals scattering the world since the clash with Diaga Academy, but she had never dealt with one herself. “Krell said he was attached to an item, bound by magic.” Stella recalled. “He hinted that these portals were something to do with the situation.”
“Yes girl. Both he and I, only his death has released the items hold over time, whatever it was.”
“So you have no idea what or where this item may be?”
“No…” Akabea spoke resting his chin on his palm. “But I have studied up on the recent portal activity.”
His blue eye glinted as he stared in all seriousness. Stella could feel through the boys stare that he was in fact a superior. “Yes but back to what you were saying. How are students getting rid of the portals?” Stella asked out of curiosity.
“I’ve been studying the nature of these portals and their activities/natures/locations.” Said Akabea sipping his tea.
“Yes. I heard they lead to different places in the world, even different dimensions…at least those are the rumors.” Stella said nervously as a howl of wind could be heard outside of the cottage.
“Yes many of those rumors are correct. But what I find strange about most of these portals is while most of them just transport the user to a different place, nearly 80% of them are opened by some dangerous creature that has either emerged from the portal into the other side or is being held open by some object of some kind.”
“Ah I see so you want us students of Eureka to close the portals by getting rid of the beasts or object keeping them open.”
“Exactly!” The boy spoke with a grin. “Now that I know that this responsibility rests upon my family it shall be me who has to search for and destroy this accursed item plaguing our world and many others.”
“This sounds like a great training system but the danger would have to amp up the protection, meaning teachers should accompany the students on missions.”
“Yes dear, what was your name again?”
“Oh it’s Stella, Phelda Stella Marx of the Marx family.” She said proudly to the boy in the armchair.
“Ah you’re Phelda from the well known Marx family.”Spoke Akabea. “It’s nice to meet you Stella. You may call me Headmaster Akabea.”
The Present
<Scene music>6:00pm
Stella ran throughout her room. “Where the hell is the mission list?!” She yelled to herself while frantically searching under her bed.
For the past 3 days she had been helping the new headmaster plan the school activities. Here it was almost evening time and she couldn’t find the missions for the next day! Stella was sure this new headmaster would be furious if she had lost it. He had already proven to me much stricter than Krell on many occasions. Stella stood up thinking. “AHA! The Courtyard!” She said thinking of the possible place of which she could have placed the sheet after reviewing it.
She ran to her closet and jumped into the blue oval portal which resided in her closet space. In a flash she was in the empty cafeteria. “Oh goodness!” She said as she held her head.
The spin of the portal travel was something Stella would have to get used to in the days to come. Stella ran towards an Cafeteria exit onto the gardens of Eureka Academy’s courtyard and found the list of missions sitting just where she had pictured.
Right on a bench beside the fountain of water anchored by books. A slight breeze swept by as Stella went to go retrieve her list of missions for the week and the papers flew from the bench out around the side of the school. Stella ran for them as fast as she could through the courtyard. Her five pages of papers were tumbling along the ground as if they were running from her. She stretched her arms out to catch the pages one by one. She was not in front of the schools entrance but a good distance away to where the beach in front of Eureka Island used to be. She stopped once the fifth page blew off the edge of Eureka Island and out into the clouds below.
“AGH!” Stella grunted in frustration before pausing a moment on the edge of the island to a sound in the clouds off in the distance.
She perked her ears out at the sky and looked intently through the graying clouds in front of her. From them a giant ship hovering in the sky came, bursting into the spotlight for its entrance. “Ah! The ship’s here already! And it’s almost dinner time.” Stella said waving to the students standing on the deck of the airship waiting to board the island.
Once Stella had seen the smiling returning faces and some new faces she smiled knowing that this would be one exciting semester. “Hiya!” She said waving as the ship came flying towards the island.
Many students could be seen standing, all of them with luggage. Stella focused the rock within the ground. The students would need a platform to exit the ship safely and the new flying island had no docks yet. Stretching her left arm Stella pushed the rock from the island itself into a staircase platform stretching outwards toward the side of the docking ship. The students could step on this and walk their luggage out onto the island. She hardened the soft rock and earth which she had formed with a clench of her fist controlling the energy. It was amazing what she could do with her powers now compared to her past at Eureka Academy, for the school really does build strong warriors.
The clouds in the distance were parting as the sun had set to reveal a giant rainbow. Stella's eyes were greeted with an array of colors shining behind the ship full of new students. She could already see that they were having good luck. Stella clutched the papers in her right hand and happily watching the students arrive to Eureka island, their home for the next few months.
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ATTENTION ALL STUDENTS: WELCOME TO ANOTHER SEMESTER AT EUREKA ACADEMY. YOU ALL HAVE TIME TO PACK. DINNER BEGINS AT 8:00pm SHARP AND WILL END AT 10:00. PLEASE GET SETTLED INTO YOUR DORMS. THIS IS BY ORDER OF YOUR NEW HEADMASTER. PLEASE ENJOY THE REST OF YOUR DAY.
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