"Stella, honey, get ready for school, you don't wanna be late for your first day."In a green-tiled covered wall a short dark-skinned chubby girl watched the mirror, straight faced and panting mildly, shoulders raised in rhythm. From her frozen eyes, you could tell something didn't seem alright with the girl as her mouth was dormant. Did she make the right choice? Farouk isn't that bad of a guy, right?She then later shook her head. Something didn't seem right. Stella just walked out the small room from the white sink, shutting the door.***Later on, at an open grassy field in the late afternoon sun and breezy area, almost looking damp, Farouk in his red jersey and loose black shorts with matching lines just stood still, swinging his arms slowly as the same girl from the previous scene met him. She just walked swiftly past him, in her yellow clothes like Farouk's, avoiding eye contact.Farouk then turned back, following her. "You, what the heck was that?"Silence.He then rushed to

A scene composed with an outdoor dark-green and caged basketball court as the afternoon sunshine was about leaving the cool and breezy surrounding grassy area. Within it, Stella and Farouk, both wearing 2 polos with chinos and jeans respectively, stood backing each other with sunken faces and rigid frames. The strong tones they spoke in. "You are just sooo messed up." Stella raised hands, shaking her head. "You expect me to be dealing with how inactive you've been for the past few months. Your business with friends who are cult members. How could you?" "I was not friends with a cult member." Farouk harked, waving as he stepped forth. "I just thought he was because I heard rumours… and that was years ago… like, that's even the reason I left them, but they seem to be coming after me." He then raised his brow and hand. "What did I do wrong, now?"Stella's folded arms with wide eyes. "You were friends with them, because of 'peer pressure'." She breathed as she air quoted. "Please, I'm

Meanwhile elsewhere at the time, Gloria and Colonel Edeagwu, in their clothes from earlier at the bus stop, were striding sharply down a narrow but tall black walled corridor with fluorescent bulbs snow white in a pattern, illuminating them. Their voices were calm as they talked."Yes, so apparently," Colonel looked at Gloria "your boyfriend exposed Segun and now, you are thankfully free from anything that can destroy or ruin your image and courage preventing you from suicidal thoughts.""Thank you sir." She smiled, watching him. "Also, he's not my boyfriend." She chucked. "Just a friend and my crush who's meant the world to me lately.""Well, technically, that's great." Colonel's straight face avoided Gloria's as he mildly frowned. Something off, you could say.On opening an iron door sharply ahead of them, Farouk was revealed standing in a corner, gazing at a poster on a wall of the concrete walled cubicle, with A.C. Gloria's eye brightened, eying the love of her life.She squealed,

STAKED:At a well brightened and brown-walled huge basket ball court, with orange colored flooring and sunlight cutting through large windows in sport wears, Gloria and a few other girls with random body features chatted at one of the seats as Watcher and other males wearing red sat on the opposite end of the huge room, as their voices fleeted."So I heard Gloria may or may not be into Farouk much… I've had a few hopes for him, but still, he's such a nerd."A fair-skinned guy chuckled with closed eyes. "This looks like a time to 'take your shot, my guy.'" He nudged. "Dude, I don't really care about this player stuff cuz we are looking at it, that girl is loaded."Watcher laughed a bit, then smiled smoothly. "Why not...? She doesn't need some 'vigilante' risking it all for some 'rival gang' or taskforce, right?"From then, they maintained stares at Gloria's end as they talked."Oh my gosh, Watcher's here, what do you think!" She blushed with her hand on her mouth. "I think he's checkin

"BOOM!"A big metal door blew up, into a small and rectangular iron walled room dimly lit by a lamp above. At a far end of it was propped a chest plate on the flat surface of a grey platform, red and gold with layered sections. It had glowing linings to match.Cindy, Farouk and Hammer approached the piece from the 10 feet long cold room, gazing with cautious poses, before relaxing them."Yes." Cindy squinted. "One of the relics we'll need to approach our first Elemental Masters to defeat Colonel at World 6, and-.""KRA-BOOM!"The trio turned back sharply, finding a tall and blue-eyed man slowly walking into view from their left. Segun!He coldly revealed teeth with his chin up. Farouk scowled his face at this, as his eyes brightened, moving hands as blobs of water rose around him. Hammer waved her fingers, breaking out floating iron bars.At that moment, Segun swung his arm, as a lightning bolt shot through them, before Hammer bent the rod to look like a katana, deflecting the conjure