Anna Marley sat in her class. She lied down in her desk. She wasn't particularly sad about anything but she didnt like being at school today. She was usually a great student. Top of her class...but for the last five months her grades have been declining and no one knew why.
As she sat alone in her desk, someone was looking at her. Her name was Mary Thorne. Mary and Anna were childhood friends. Sue and Anna were tight but ever since Anna's parents' death about six months ago, she has shut herself out from all her classmates. No one knew why. Of course, everyone assumed it was because of her parents' tragic death, but now it didnt seem that way. She was way too upbeat everyday and she seemed cheerful. Mary wanted to talk to her and she did try at the very beginning. But Anna seemed to ignore her. And after just a month, best friends don't even talk to each other.
Lucy, another one of Mary's friends sat beside her noticing tht she is looking at the saddened Anna.
"You know, if you are that worried about her, you can just talk to her na?" Lucy asked.
"It isn't as easy as it sounds" Mary assured. "She doesn't even face me nowadays. And I have no idea why"
Mary and Anna were the schools most famous girls. They both were the most beautiful women bere. Just at the age of seventeen they had won all the localised Beauty Pageants. Mary was always a close second but they seemed to agree they were equals. Thanks to both of them coming from rich families, this was expected. But things have drastically changed. Ever since her parents died six months ago, she was alone in her huge mansion. She never invited anyone else over. The one time Mary made an attempt to go in, she wasn't even let inside the gate by her butler. That was one of the reasons for the distance in between them currently. And there was another peculiar thing.
"Anna!" , some guy shouted. Everyone turned towards the door of the class. Snd everyone saw Chuck Albin.
Chuck Albin was a rather strange guy. He was fat, had a bowl cut, black hair. His eyes were plain black, nothing special. He always wore a huge bag and carried it around even between breaks in school. He was in his uniform right now, but everyone had seen him normally and they have laughed at his fashion sense. Unlike Anna, he was from a poor family that can't even make enough money to send him to the school. He was so unserious that everybody hated him. He was from a different section, but he was the same age. And there were pretty nasty rumours going around that he is always behind women. Many women in this school were disgusted to see him at all. And some even considered it unlucky to look at him in the face. That's how bad his reputation was. One girl did act as if she was barfing when she saw him. And Mary clearly remembered those days where she and Anna used to laugh at him and make fun of him. They had nothing against that guy, but they were also disgusted by just looking at him. But that was before these six months.
Anna immediately smiled and got out of her seat and ran towards Chuck. She was smiling and hugged him. And they started talking bout something and left. Mary was confused. None of it made sense. Why does she go with him nowadays. And she genuinely smiles with him. She didn't like this. But she had no say now. And she sat quietly in her class with Lucy.
....
Chuck and Anna walked in the corridor. They were laughing at the joke that Chuck made. She was genuinely happy being here with him. As they walked they passed a seniors class and out of it came Vivian Brushche. And that was a guy.
"Look, your man's here", Chuck teased her. Anna blushed and kicked his foot to make him shut up. It was obvious she had a crush on Vivian. But she didn't want anyone to know. Vivian was a huge guy. He was almost six feet, was handsome, was a martial artist, and the most important sportsperson in the entire school. He was eighteen, yet looked like a man. He had slight beard popping up at this early age, but he didn't seem to care to shave it. On the other hand, Anna was extremely beautiful. She was a ballet dancer, aced in acrobatics, was great at studies and even learnt karate at a very young age. She had long black ber, ber eyes were blackish brown. She had a way mature body for a seventeen year old girl, and naturally almost everyone had a huge crush on her. She was extremely fit, so was Vivian. And everyone knew they would be a power couple. But for some reason almost everyone could deduce that Anna has the hots for Vivian but he didn't suspect a thing. He was so dense, but this kinda worked in her favour.
Vivian greeted them with a hi, and said his friends that he will catch up later. And walked towards them. He was happy to be here.
"So, what you been upto?" Vivian asked.
"Dude, you literally were with us yesterday", replied Chuck absolutely plain faced.
"I mean I knew that", Vuvian said "but I wanted to ask her what she was doing the entire day"
Anna was blushing and Chuck felt out of place as he saw himself as the third wheel. But luckily for him, he wasn't gonna be alone anymore.
From the stairs they could see the silhouette of someone they knew very well. It was Shirley Brushche, Vivian's younger sister. She was a father of looking girl. She was sixteen and she was still extremely skinny. She wasn't gifted with genetics like her brother was. She was extremely lazy and barely ate. She had curly hair, which is also the opposite of her older brother. Some would even argue that they aren't actual siblings if they didn't know better. She greeted them with a very low pitched lazy hi. All three of them were instantly annoyed but they loved her nonetheless, so they immediately looked at each other and laughed.
"What is it? Why are you guys laughing?" , she asked, demanding an answer.
But none would reply. "Nothing" said Chuck as he kept laughing.
"You know I'm at the verge of being pissed off right?" Shirley said, pouting.
"Oh my god!",, Anna exclaimed, pulling out her phone " keep making that face Shirley. I want those adorable expressions you make in my phone"
Shirley immediately stopped pouting trying to snatch the camera. Anna adored Shirley for some reason. She found her extremely cute. Everyone walking by saw this group of four and were always surprised like it's the first time. These four odd people were never before seen together. These were people that no one ever thought would get along. But for the last five months, they hung out every day and rarely spoke with anyone else. But that wasn't all. There was another guy in this weird friend group.
Anna was laughing when she noticed something glowing in Chuck's bag. She instantly became serious and pointed it out to the other three. All three saw it, and only one word came out of their mouth.
"HELLGATE!", all four of them exclaimed.
They ran through the corridor, obvioulsy Vuvian bandanna were in the lead, being the most athletic of the group. Shirley barely kept up, but Chuck was so far back that no one would even think he was part of the group.
All four of them stopped by the football field. Because they had one more member to recruit, and he was their leader. His name was Krish Dharmann.
He was rather athletic guy, captain of the football team. He did look skinny, but he worked out every day, but didnt get q huge body like Vivian. He had long flowy hair parted in the middle. He had a goatee. And his eyes were black and blue. His inner cornea being black and the outer ring, blue in color.
He was in his black and blue Jersey with the number seven on it. And he was actually winning the game, doing an amazing goal with a back flip. He was so into the game that he didnt notice his friends standing there. But when he did notice his smile faded away. Anna was holding the glowing locator and showing it to Krish. And everyone were pointing to it. Krish knew what it meant.
"Hellgate..." , he muttered to himself and the next thing he knew he had quit the game, running with them through the corridors. This was much more important than the game.
While they were running, someone was standing in front of them with both arms open.
"I won't let you leave" he shouted. He had the same blue and black eye, so it was clear who that was. Krish's older brother, Karan Dharmann.
He was strange. When Krish was considered handsome by many , Karan wasn't. He had shorter hair, longer face and wore glasses. The only common thing between the brother were the weird eyes that were astounding. He was skinny too, but barely had any muscles. And he was the older brother, but never felt like one. He was geeky, a nerd, a comic book reader. And most of all, he was mentally ill. He was eighteen too, the same age as Vivian. They were in the same class, but he wasn't good at studies or sports. He wasn't good at anything. And due to an accident when he was a kid, he had an injured brain. He was always behaving like a kid. He was eighteen in body only. In mind he was a ten year old.
"Please take me with you!" Karan begged. "You guys always hang out without me". He was on the verge of tears.
Krish stepped in. "Brother, we have some important stuff to do, please move aside., he said. Krish loved his brother, and he was the older brother in this situation even though he was younger than him.
"No, I wont budge until you take me with you!" Karan shouted on top of his lungs. And everyone were watching him. Feeling the second hand embarrassment, Krish sighed.
"We will take you next time please. W3 can't take you where we are going" , he said. He loved his brother, so he always spoke kindly to him, like a man talking to a kid. It didn't look like he was convinced cause Karan was still teary eyed. But they all started walking past him and then started running again as they had no time left. Karan tried to hold them but failed. He was on the floor tugging to Chuck's pants, crying out loud.
"Nooooooo", Karan was bawling, " don't leave me pleaseeee".
Chuck tried running but Karan looked like he wasn't gonna let them go. Chuck had to get desperate. He kicked him lightly in the face which made him let go. "Sorry" , Chuck said and started running to catch up to the rest of the group. Karan got up wanting to go back but all he saw was the empty corridor. He was alone again.
The group reached Anna's huge mansion and they were greeted by the butler at the gate. Anna said to let them in, to which he gracefully bowed.
"I'm still not used to seeing a butler " , Shirley exclaimed.
They ran inside the mansion with the butler following. He helped get them their things in the library . He handed the double daggers to Vivian.
"Thanks George" , Vivian said.
"It is an honor to work with you sir", George said.
He then picked up the huge axe and gave it to Anna
"Here you go madame, I believ this is yours", he said as he gave her. Anna had changed her clothes, which is much suited for battle. She also gave her clothes to Shirley. She had also changed her clothes. But the guys were in the same clothes, but they didn't seem to care.
Shirley went towards the library and took the biggest book in there. It was called 'The Tome of Demons Volume 1". This was her weapon.
Chuck was already seated near the wall. He was all prepared. All he needed was the bag he had with him, which had changed its appearance a bit and was now smaller, easier to carry.
Krish stared at the gloves in front him. They were half an arm length. He wore it. It reached up to his elbow. They were gold in color and had weird ancient inscription all over them in black. These were needed to summon spirits. All five of them walked towards the wall.
"Took you guys long enough", Chuck stated.
"So everyone ready?" , Krish asked , as he was the leader. They placed the locator on the slot in the wall. And the wall started glowing. A huge crack opened up in the middle and they slowly made way, as if it were a door. All five of them got up ready for battle and stepped in".
"Best of luck, young masters", the butler said, as they walked in.
The five found themselves in a back alley. It was styled in medieval buildings. But thankfully there were no civilians.
"So...where are you?", Vivian muttered to himself.
And out of nowhere they heard a huge sound from above them.
"Look out!" Anna shouted and all of them dodged by a hair.
In front of them was a huge centipede-esque creature. It was very huge almost 15 feet in length. It was blue and silver in color, but didnt have any legs. It was basically a Caterpillar, but it didn't change the fact that it was terrifying.
"Alright guys,...", Krosy said. "It's time to finish this".