Chapter 3: Tasha and Asha

Before I could think of anything, I felt something strong restricting my movement from behind. It was Layla. She was holding my waist too tight as if telling the police men to let me go but that would be one of her impossible wishes. I was just lucky I was a student or else my punishment would be 10 years. I was satisfied with 5.

I was taken away by the police men from Layla's hold. If only Layla was able not to wear that magic suppressor, then she would have already flooded the whole room.

As I was being taken away, we met several journalists and they wanted to know what happened. But looking at me handcuffed and having the magic suppressing collar I my neck, they knew what happened but still asked questions. The police continued taking me away until we entered the flash-car. It uses electricity and a speed of 1 km per 10 minutes. It is very fast and good looking. If I take this car at school, I would be the most popular and coolest kid there.

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"I don't know any mother who would comfortably send their daughter in jail for 5 years." Layla dissed Vivie and then left. Everybody left and after all that, the guards helped them remove their bracelets.

The bracelets were specifically made as a suppressor to one's magic and also as a pass to a place. If you didn't wear the bracelet, you could not enter some places as there was an invisible electric wall about 50 feet high and the bracelet was the key to pass through it but if you wear the bracelet, you can't remove it unless you're outside the electric wall.

Layla opened her social media accounts and the trending news was Luna's murder case. She wondered why they even still had a court and imprisoned stars yet they had to train and prepare as they expected and attack from the aliens in the future. She just sighed, put her phone down and made herself coffee to relax from the tough stressful day.

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"Hi, who are you?" a young girl who looked to be older than me asked and I got confused

"I'm Luna Mondragõn." I replied thinking she wanted to know my name.

"I'm not interested in your name. Which kind of star are you?" She asked and I thought she was arrogant like how could you ask someone such questions the first time you've met them? If she wanted to know which kind of star Iam, she could have asked it straight away. All in all I replied.

"A fire star"

"I'm a water star... Call me Tasha. Nice to meet you.... So what did you do?" She asked. Wow.. She's a water star just like Layla but she is irritating.

"I killed my sister and boyfriend." I replied feeling a bit more embarrassed and ashamed at the same time.

"Wow... You seem interesting though for me I killed 40 people.... so tell me your story"

After a 30 minutes talk, we eventually became friends. We started doing everything together as she helped me adjust to this new place. Her sister Asha was not as close to me as Tasha but she was one of a kind.

Days went by as Tasha really made me feel like I shouldn't feel guilty about a thing I did 3 months ago. She has funny jokes albeit dirty ones.

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Layla had refused to go to school for the past 3 months. It felt like a year without her best friend yet it was just three months. Today, she decided to go back. She had to continue mastering water control and be able to split it into small particles. It was one thing that disturbed her in class.

When she reached at school, everyone looked at her. Some came to her and greeted her. Some just wanted to get close to her as they couldn't imagine her pain the last 3 months and others didn't care.

She could have visited her but that wasn't allowed and she could only keep the last memory of her when she was being taken away from her hold.

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"What's still together after all the shit they've been through?" Tasha said and we didn't figure it out

"Your butt cheeks" she told us the answer. It was after 3 seconds we figured it out and burst into laughter and suddenly a ringing bell interrupted our laughter.

"What's the bell for?" I asked

"For training" Asha replied

"Training? There hasn't been any sort of training ever since I came here 3 months ago and why is it now?" I complained and no one answered

"Even though we're prisoners, our training shouldn't be stopped since our enemies are powerful. So they created a fiction world with the world data. We first fight each other then fight the aliens in that world. You kill or be killed and you feel the pain." Asha said

"Oh-okay" I nervously said