A Fire Burns

Claira sat in the headmistress' office, she had let Darci off too easy, she was being torn in pieces from staying at Starlight and acting as though everything was fine. She thought of the students that died at DCA and the wickedness of Darci. "THAT'S IT!!!! I'm heading out." She got up hitting the desk hard with her hands, she made her resolve. No longer would she let someone take away from her students. She left the office heading down the hall. "Um... Headmistress Claira how long will you be gone?" A receiptionist yelled to her as she walked away. Claira ignored her and left the building, she headed to the woods.

She walked thru the woods moving quickly towards a place she knew well. Poison Valley, she wasn't going to sit on her backside anymore and think. She needed to act, she wondered if any of the students could be trapped in DCA or worse captured. On her face was determination. She had to go, she and Maria hadn't talked about this, but Claira figured her presence would neither be missed or cared for much.

She looked at the swaying fields as she walked on soon seeing the edge of the place called Poison Valley. She covered her mouth and nose with a bandana and headed thru the Valley. The flowers' pollen floating up into the air as she moved. She wondered how many people had died in this field unaware of it's deathly aroma.

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She noticed the boy and her eyes widened. She walked up to him from behind slowly covering the boy's mouth. "Are you dumb?! Don't you know this pollen is poisonous?" She said anger in her eyes, she remembered herself being in the position as the boy many years ago. She wasn't sentamental, but a part of herself was always hidden from people.

She made a movement to pick him up, but stopped herself seeing something move in the valley. She searched the grass with her eyes looking for the cause of the moving grass. She wanted to go alone in order to stop Darci and now she had to protect another student. She felt discouraged at the fact people always got in her way, true she would've died if a student hadn't saved her once. But now she felt angry that a student had to die for her sake.

She suddenly spotted a pile that looked a lot like rubber tubes from a distance. Her eyes widened, snakes a pile of venomous snakes. She knew poison valley had them though she never saw this many at once. She searched over the field and noticed some unnoticed snake holes, most likely a chain of holes triggered to go off when stepped on. She searched for solid ground admisted the holes and found some safe spots.

She needed to go forward yet the boy seemed to be stupid and probably wouldn't make it back to the academy alone. He didn't understand the pollen was deadly and could easily kill anyone that inhaled too much. She looked at him, "You do realize if you had any brains you would've left. Now here's your choice if you don't want to end up dead either leave to your home or academy, or if you wish to die come with me and try the impossible." She said this in a toneless voice. She waited for his answer.

The snakes hissed slowly coming. She muttered something under her breath and slipped a arm around him. "If your going to go nowhere and do nothing but die, I may as well bring you along." She made a swift move to lift him off the ground and carry him. She was chosing her path for continuing, she'd have to be more careful with a kid around. She was a master in her art so she had no issues in fighting. She just didn't want to burn the whole field.