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Miriam huffed when she saw another gout of fire come from the girl's nose. Good thing she was low to the ground. She's been burnt enough today. "No, I'm not dead. I'm an alraune. Demon-plant. Plant-person. Whatever the hell you want to call me. As long as I'm connected to the ground, I won't die. Now get the hell out of my class with all that fire before you burn something else down!"

Ever had been laughing softly at what her friend said. The sensei had said basically what Ever just had? Huh. First time that had ever happened with an authority figure. Ah well.

But when her best friend mentioned Ever's class, Ever gasped is shock and started treading water quickly towards the shore. Or at least, she tried.

She had only gotten a few inches when she felt something like a vine or a twig brush against her leg. That was really really weird because the bottom of the lake was thousands of feet down. There was nothing for a twig or vine to grab onto, nothing for it to grow from.

Ever didn't have long to be puzzled by the sudden sensation, though. Almost immediately after the vine had brushed against her leg, it wrapped around her leg and pulled her down, below the surface of the lake. Ever only had a moment to gasp in shock and fear before her head disappeared into the water.

All was silent for a few moments. There were no bubbles of air coming from the water, no thrashing. Just silence, as if Ever had never even been there...

Then, there was a crashing sound, water was flying everywhere, and Ever's head had just broken through the surface once again, gasping for air. Ever was thrashing around frantically before she gained enough awareness to start swimming like hell toward land, making sure that this time as she swam, her head always stayed above water. On the way there, she reached out and grabbed Akira's arm and started pulling her to shore along with her (*). She was yelling as she was swimming and dragging her friend back to shore.

"Get out of the water! Get out, Akira!"

Once they had finally reached the shore and Ever had leaped up onto the ground and pulled Akira with her, Ever rolled over onto her back and just focused on breathing. Her breaths were still coming out hard and fast.

{{* Lisa, I'm sorry this is a little like Godmodding, but I knew that there was no way Ever would just swim past her best friend and not try to bring Akira along with her. If you want me to change it, though, I sure can! Just PM me, or IM me whenever I come back on MSN, and let me know!}}

((nah, it's okay lol))

Akira was still in shock, her heart pounding, as she laid down next to her best friend and mumbled, "s**t...What the heck happened to the lake!? Gave me a bloody heart attack..."

Ever had practically drowned!!! Those moments of deadly silence, where there had been no bubbles of air, nothing, had honestly terrified the half demon, and she had been about to dive down seconds later to rescue Evermore, when her best friend had resurfaced, well at least her head anyways, and had dragged her back to land.

The girl sat up and looked at Ever, smiling sadly.

"You alright...? I'm sorry, i didn't react fast enough...That it, just keep breathing...Deep breath now" god, she left like such a horrible friend right now!

Ever was still gasping when she responded to her friend. "No, no, it's ok. There's nothing you did wrong... What happened... It happened so fast... I wouldn't have been able to respond quickly, either.... I would have been too shocked to at first."

And then, almost right after she had finished speaking, Ever heard the Headmistress next to them. She must have sensed what happened and had come to them. Ever quickly turned over onto her hands and knees and then stood up. She was embarrassingly aware of the fact that she was still just in her underwear, but she was sure that the Headmistress would understand. Heck, water was still dripping off of her from the recent attack. Not like she had had time to get back into her uniform yet.

Ever managed to remember to still bow her head respectively to the Headmistress and then spoke, "Headmistress... I don't... I'm not sure what happened! I was simply in the lake with Akira, we were talking, she mentioned that I was going to be lake for my class, and then as I was swimming toward the bank of the lake..."

Ever shivered as she remember what happened next. "Something... something like a vine wrapped around my leg and pulled me down! It had brushed against my leg at first, which made me realize what it felt like at first before the thing wrapped around my leg and pulled me down. I knew there was no ground anywhere near us, so I knew it couldn't be a vine or twig that my leg had caught in. But I still tried to break free. I looked down to untangle my leg and I saw..."

Ever gasped as she remembered and ran over to her Headmistress. She hugged her tightly in fear. This did not happen very often, but the students knew that the Headmistress was like their mom away from home and provided them comfort. They all tried to behave like proper young ladies, but they were still just children.

"Headmistress, I saw bright white lights below me that looked like eyes! They were so bright and moving as they looked up at me! I don't know what they were! But I was released and I quickly swam back to the surface!"

Ever sniffled slightly as her Headmistress comforted her. She hated seeming so weak, especially in front of her Headmistress, but hell! She had almost died!

Ever nodded to what her Headmistress said about going to get her leg check out. While she waited for Akira to join them, she spoke softly, "I... I just want to forget what happened. I don't ever want to think of it again!"

Ever simply sighed and rested her head on her headmistress's shoulder. Stupid lake...