A right choice

The team stayed closed, together. They all kept their senses sharp as they watched out for any attacks from Nex and his team. No one had their minds focused on the mission of the test anymore, but they all looked out for anyone who going to try to maim them or try to injure them as no one of them wished to loose.

"Sshh stop. I hear something" Edith, the girl from before announced, getting everyone on high alert. "Hahaha" she laughed loudly, with her hand on her stomach. "You all should have seen your faces, you looked hilarious. Hahaha" she kept laughing at her own joke. It took the rest of the team a while to realize that it was a trick and nothing more. She only pulled a trick on them all to laugh herself out.

"That was not funny Edith" Linthorn frowned at her. "Do not do that again, else l will be the one to harm you myself " Lyra threatened.

"No need to be rude Lyra" Edith frowned at her, "lt was just a joke, you don't have to threaten me because of it".

"You think so Edith? you almost gave us all a heart attack" she added with more anger in her voice than before.

"Speak for yourself missy! I believe you almost had a heart attack because you are too scared to face Nex's team" she retorted.

"That's a total lie!"

"Enough! Both of you" Linthorn called them to order. "Forget this and let's continue".

"Hmm someone is coming" Florate announced abruptly.

"That better not be another joke, else l will cut your..." Lyra was not able to finish her statement before she saw Edith drop on the floor, knocked out after a girl from Nex's team hit her. "Wtf!"

"They are here!" Linthorn said aloud, for those who didn't see Edith get knocked out. "I trust that everyone here can defend himself" he said finally before hitting first a death blow to the girl who hit Edith earlier and the fight began between the two groups.

"Aaaah!" Rain breathed as she hit a boy's joints hard with blows in such a way that she was sure won't be able to to rise for the next two months. "The aim is to maim them Lilith not fight with them. We don't have much time".

"I know Rain but l do enjoy playing with my opponents first before finishing them off" she replied her with a smirk. She was beating a girl into a pulp and she seemed to wasting time on one her, instead of maiming her and taking on another opponent.

Their team seemed to be winning, as they succeeded in bringing down at least thirteen of their opponents down and just ten of them were struck down. The remaining twenty six of them split into two teams, as instructed by Linthorn. He asked that the strongest ones stay back and fight, while the weaker ones leave to keep searching for the bridge, because it was obvious that not all teams were down. Some were still on the search for the bridge and if they were lucky enough, they would get there before them and then return to lead the others to it.

Lyra led the team that went in search of the bridge, while Florate, Rain, Lilith and of course Linthorn stayed back to fight with the rest.

"Rain watch out!" Florate called before pushing her down to avoid the hard kick a boy was going to send her way. He seemed very skillful with kicks because he barely used his hands.

"Thanks Florate" Rain said plainly, "but l got this. You don't have to watch out for me. Just keep fighting and don't..." the words died in her throat when she felt something hard hit her head. She tried to turn back immediately to see what it was or maybe fight who it was, but her head could not take the hit as she just fell to the floor, unconscious. Florate did not let her hit the floor, he caught in his arms and saw she was no longer conscious. He was about to place her in the floor and deal with the boy who kicked her on the head, but Lilith stopped him.

"Take Rain out of here, join the search. I will take care of him" she said to him with full assurance.

Without words, Florate nodded to her and carried Rain out of the fight scene as they went on their way to join the search for the bridge.

Lilith looked at the boy before her, he was quite tall and his white hair reminded him of someone he hated so much, Nex. " You... kicked the wrong girl" she clenched her fist and landed him a hard punch on his chin. She did not wait for him to recover, but followed the punch with brutal kick on his jaw that got him whining in pain. Still not satisfied, she bent his head low and gave him a hard knee on the face, before finally hitting him on the right spot that left him fainted on the floor.

She breathed hard after she was done with the boy, then looked around for the one person she had always wanted to beat, Nex. Her eyes searched everywhere for him, then him she finally found him. He had just beaten one of her teammates down and someone whispered into his ears and then he was just walking away. What did that girl tell him, and where was he heading to, that was something Lilith planned on finding out herself, as she followed him to where ever it was that he was going.

"Lilith the fight is not over yet" Linthorn who caught her leaving said to her. "We seem to be losing, so many members of our team are down already, where are you going?"

Lilith gave it a quick thought, she could follow could Nex, find out what he was up to and stop him which was also part of helping her team. Or she could just stay here and save as many as she could." I will certainly do what is right" she said to her self. "You can go for now Nex, you got lucky". She rejoined the fight, to strengthen Linthorn and the others before Nex's team could finish them off...