Chapter 1: Beginning of the End
November 2, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Purple Hyacinth
Mission: Investigate Dawn. I never thought that it would lead me to having to attend school... I sigh as I walk into the empty classroom, sighing once more as eyes land on me. I glance up to the board at the front of the class, praying for some kind of miracle that there can be assigned seating on the board. Of course, it's not. Front... or back...? If front, there is an advantage of people just judging you as a nerdy kid who doesn't want anyone talking a single word to her. However, if at the back, I'll be able to observe the entire class and watch out for potential suspects and finish my work early... But it will be louder and more chaotic... Oh well... I head to the furthest seat from the whiteboard in the corner of the room where loud conversations are already initiating. I try to ignore their weird stares at me as I put my bag down. I don't even want to be here... There is a hush for the next 3 seconds but the chatter continues. I take a random book I had grabbed from my shelf in the morning out from my bag. "Hey, do you know whose seat you are in?" a bossy voice says in an annoying high pitched tone. "I think you're at the wrong side of the room, new kid." Leave me alone... "Hey you hear me? Or are you deaf?" she raises her voice. Shut up... "No offense, but I think she can hear pretty well, but she doesn't want to talk to a mosquito nagging beside her ears like that when she's reading, Analise," another voice pipes in. "Besides, she was here to chose her seat first. So leave her alone." I look up from the book I had been pretending to be reading. The Analise girl makes an unimpressed noise in her nose as she twitches the corner of her mouth at me and walks to the group of girls, pointing towards my direction. "Ignore them," the boy next to me says as he smiles at me. "Ash Allitt." "Narima," I say and look down to my book again to mark the end of our conversation. I am not interested in anyone or their business unless they are really worth my time or are my target. "You're new here?" he asks, not taking the hint. I just ignore him. I can see him shrugging at the corner of my eyes and takes the seat next to mine. Why...? I internally groan. I just want to quietly observe the class, not socialize... "Good morning everyone, new and old faces," the professor walks in and I put my book away. "Take your seat, everyone, and we'll begin with our first pre-class activity." This is off to a great start...***
I don't know why I am even in school right now. Sure, Andrew had told me that going near the target itself will help with my investigation on the identity of the Dawn new strategist that we barely know anything about. Right now, all we know about this guy---yes, he's a guy, it is confirmed from Andrew's source of information---is that he is, or was, in the school that I am attending. At least, I might still be able to ask about him even if he had left. "Well, Julia, how was it?" Andrew turns is head towards me when I open the door to the shared room between the 4 of us. His face is full of amusement as he sees me half dead in my school uniform. Yes, I might not have gone to school ever since 10 years ago, but I am not entirely stupid. I know how to live and I am still alive even without the 'proper education'. So tell me, why do I need to learn these things to 'function well in life'? "Horrible. Get me out," I reply as I make my way to my own room. My finger runs over the power button of my computer set up. As the monitors light up, I navigate to the recent tabs to read over the list of students, former and current, in the school, picking the first name that appeared and looked into their personal information. I have been living like this for some five years now, but I don't think much about it. I don't care that my job is mainly about killing people and destroying their future. Twilight is who I work for. It is an organization that helped me that day. And so I will do everything I am told to do without any questions. I will gladly kill myself if I am told to do. And I will kill anyone, even my former family if needed. They have told me that I have lost all of my humanity in my blood, and I can't disagree. Even if I might not remember how I used to be before, I still can tell that there was a change. This is who I am now, killing people and ruining lives. I might not be proud of it, but I'm not about to change. "Hey girl," Kristy knocks my door as she pushes it in further. "Meeting at 10?" I nod. "New field mission?" "A big one," she shrugs. "Involves some of the Lunar as well." I frown, "Why? Does Solis think we can't take a mission ourselves?" "Oh, no, no," Kristy smiles, letting out a chuckle. "No, it's actually their mission and we are judging them." Right... we have been trying to get someone to fill in the empty spot in our Star unit for some time now, but we couldn't find anyone fitting for the position so far. Everyone else is just so weak... "Alright," I say as I glance at the corner of my monitor to look at the time. Still 3 hours. "Can you call for me when you guys are having a meeting?" Kristy nods and skips out of the room, closing the door halfway as she does. I continue to look through the personal information of the students, not seeing any type of sign that says that one person might be who I am looking for, but I'm not disappointed. I expected it. It doesn't require much to side with Dawn, and not many more to be their strategist anyway. After all, their newest plan still had so many flaws in it. Dawn is a 'justice' organization, or at least, they claim to be. They have been trying to bring Twilight down for some time now, but each time failing and having their own people killed. Even with the new 'brain' of theirs, their plan still failed miserably last time. And that is because Twilight is higher. Higher in both strength and intelligence. Higher in goals.
