Solving the Academy’s Secrets with the Cute Stranger

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Lumina Academy, school for the brightest and talented. Those who've not yet discovered their fullest potential. Acceptance only comes through invitation.

All of you students here today were chosen for a reason. You should cherish your time here, value your lessons, respect the way of the Lumineers. Can you believe this? I mean, they give the same spiel every year, every semester.

Heck, even every day. Oh, Lumina Academy, the greatest academy to ever exist. Lumina Academy this, Lumina Academy that.

Blah, blah, blah. I mean, how redundant can they be? Huh? Oh, right.

The name's Alicia. Enchanted to make your acquaintance. What's yours? Gotcha, gotcha.

So, what classification are you? You know, Sapphire, Emerald, I forget the rest. Oh, I see, I see, Emerald.

So you're pretty talented, right? Oh, me? I'm Amethyst.

What? What's with that face? Yeah, of course, Amethyst is a classification.

What? It's rare? I mean, sure, I guess.

I don't know, it's just what I was classified as. You don't know anybody who has Amethyst as a classification? That's weird.

That's weird. Well, yeah, neither do I. I don't know.

Are you like new or something? No, no, I mean, it's no problem. You probably just, I don't know.

But hey, do you know if? Well, that's our cue, I guess. I'll see you around then, Emerald.

Oh, hey, it's you. How have you been, I guess? How have your classes been? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, same for me.

What am I doing out here so late? Well, I could ask you the same. You're just clearing your head.

Me too. I've had a lot on my mind recently. You know, I've been thinking about what you said with the whole Amethyst thing.

Yeah, yeah, I know you said that you probably just forgot, but I did some digging, saluting, if you will. I couldn't find anything on the Amethyst class. Nothing in the library books, in the old scrolls, not even in the directory.

I mean, it's weird, right? It's almost like it doesn't exist at all. But it does.

I mean, I have the classification. It's literally on my ID card, but you don't know anyone who has Amethyst, neither do I. I don't know.

I just feel like there's so many mysteries about this academy that none of us ever considered before. Yeah, I mean, all of it's pretty weird, right? I mean, I don't know how long this academy has been here, but I know it's been a long time, and there's gotta be some dirt here, right?

Some mystery to uncover. I mean, it seems like something that would be in a book or something. I don't know.

Maybe I'm just thinking too much into it. You think people have questioned it? Yeah, me too.

I mean, to think that everyone's just so complacent with everything, I just don't see that. I mean, I don't know. I mean, to think that everyone's just so complacent with everything, I just don't see that.

I know a lot of people follow the norm, but there's gotta be more people, right? Like you and me. All right.

Whatever did happen to them, if they did? I don't know. Wait, what? You found out something about? Crap, I think I hear someone.

We gotta go. If we get caught here, we'll be in so much trouble. Just think about what I said, and yeah, yeah, yeah.

See you. Good night, Emerald. Hey.

Hey. Yeah. Yeah, it's me, Alyssia.

Wait, come here. Yeah, come here. Wait, is anyone around us? Do you think? Sorry, didn't mean to get so close to you.

Okay, okay, we're good. Sorry about that. I didn't mean to just like, I don't know, creep you out or anything.

I was just watching you and, oh God, that sounds bad. I was waiting for the opportunity to talk to you about this. We haven't had much time to talk lately since that night that we, yeah, yeah.

It seems like every time we're in class, someone just grabs our attention. Yeah, or I don't know, we have a bunch of work, or I don't know, something's weird. Yeah, you're right.

It's happening too often to be a mere coincidence. The question is why? But okay, here's what I need to tell you.

I found this book, right? Yeah, it's one of the older ones that's in the library. No one goes over to that section anymore, so I was able to scope it out, wait for the right opportunity, check it out.

Well, okay, I didn't actually check the book out. I stole it. Okay, don't look at me like that.

What do you expect me to do? Every time I've asked questions, no one answers them. I've been looking into things, and there's just a lot of discrepancies that don't make sense.

There's a lot of secrets. I mean, I would expect as much. Lumina Academy has existed for centuries, but I would have never, I don't know.

I mean, there has to be something here, right? Yeah, yeah, okay, I'm glad it's not just me. It's not just me.

I felt like I was going kind of crazy there. But see, here's the thing. So in this book, I can't read the title, honestly, it looks really old, but it talks about this place, this gathering place.

It's somewhere in the woods, and there's, wait, you've heard about this? Really? What do you know? Mm-hmm.

What, what? You're kidding. No, I thought that was a myth.

You're telling me it's real. That definitely changes things, right? I mean, if what you're saying is correct, if what I found in this book is real, then that would mean there's more to this place than we ever thought.

I'm gonna propose something that's really weird, or I don't know, crazy, strange, but it's not as strange as what's going on. It's something maybe we could do, or maybe me, I don't know, you tell me how crazy it is. Right, right, I'll get to the point.

I think we should check it out. I know, I know it's crazy, but what other choice do we have? Every time that I ask a question, there's this feeling that I get.

There's like this tense, it's like this, I don't know, it's like all-encompassing. It's just, it's overwhelming. It's like someone's saying, no, don't ask these questions, but I can't help but ask them.

Like you don't have to help me or anything, no hard feelings, I get it. I'm just a strange girl that you recently just met and I'm projecting all of this on you, or not projecting, I don't really know what the correct word for that is, but you don't have to help me. I just, I need to figure this out for myself.

I need to figure out what it means that I'm amethyst. Does it make sense? If neither of us know anybody who's amethyst, why am I the only one? And then, I don't know, I don't know.

I just need to figure it out. So if you wanna help me, are you sure? Okay, yeah.

So how about this? We'll head out. No, not tonight.

Tonight's too soon. Tomorrow night, that gives us time to plan it out. But we can't really be seen talking to each other too much because I think they'll get suspicious.

But tomorrow night we'll head out and we'll see what's going on. Okay. Be safe, Emerald, okay? Bye.

Where are they? It's getting late. Maybe I should just, maybe they just, I don't know.

I don't know, this is a crazy idea. They probably don't even wanna come. I should just go back or, you made it.

I didn't think you would come. No, it's not you, it's just, I was worried. Yeah, I know you're only a couple minutes late.

I just, I thought that you wouldn't. I thought that maybe you'd turned, turned back, changed your mind. You wouldn't do that? No, I appreciate it, a lot, actually.

But here, I, a flashlight for you. Yeah, it's gonna be dark. I don't think we need the flashlights on right now.

I don't want anyone to catch on to us, but we just stick to the path a little bit and then we'll turn the flashlights on as we veer off. Okay, come on then. So, I'm gonna go back to my room.

Taught me. Why'd you choose Lumina Academy? Oh, right, sorry, I forgot, that whole thing that they do on the letters.

You didn't choose us, we chose you. It's so silly. But what, why did you, like, what did they say? Do you have, like, a specialty or anything? Really? That's, that's cool as heck.

How come I didn't know about this? Fair, there's a lot that I don't know about you. It's not really my fault, okay? It's not my fault that we just met and suddenly we're on this big adventure, but I don't know.

Me? There was this incident and I discovered a lot about myself and they reached out to me, sent me the invitation letter, and I thought this was my chance to break away, to start anew, to begin a new path and delight Lumina. I didn't know that it would be like this, though.

I mean, no, it's not bad. I just, there's a strange person. I've never, you know, you're like a stranger to me.

There's not much we know about each other, like you said, and yet here we are in the woods in the middle of the night, going to discover whatever mysteries the academy has and it's supposedly normal. It's, it feels right for some reason. For you, too? Yeah, it's crazy.

It's like we're in that, it's like kind of funny, like, you know?