144 Sneaky (1/2)

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”Tagged!”

Raven's voice echoed inside the training field. His firm hands grasped the shoulder of one of his classmate named Philip Newman.

He left a very clear mark that has his energy signals on his shoulder when he released him. Philip smiled wryly as he realized that he was the first to be tagged.

He didn't even notice Raven coming. He didn't hear any footsteps nor breathing, he just suddenly felt a firm hand grasping his shoulder, which made him freeze on spot. For some reason, he felt like he was stabbed when Raven's hands landed on his shoulders, he was pretty sure that he looked somewhat pale right now.

'Don't say anything. No one's within our vicinity so no one saw you get tagged. No one knows and I wan't to use that to our advantage.'

Raven immediately said before Philip could say a thing. It was sent via voice transmission so aside from Philip, no one heard anything. He didn't even wait for him to utter any protest and he went the opposite way from him.

Philip could already tell what he wants to happen, in his heart he couldn't help but to re-evaluate his opinion about these new students, this one in particular is scary, such a cunning mind. He took a careful glance around him, making sure that no one was around before carefully sneaking by in hopes of finding out other classmates. As for Raven, he walked around still wearing that mischievous smile in his face. He faintly heard some movements near him which means that someone was nearby. He smiled widely, suddenly his eyes seemed to flare with a blue light. His vision transformed, he could now see the flow of energy around him. He looked around and saw some faint energy auras behind pillars, normally this wouldn't be visible to the naked eye, but with Energy Vision, they became like torches in the dark.

”Let's see… four people? A girl and three guys. Two of the guys are hiding behind a slanted pillar in front of me, the other guy is hiding in the pillar behind me and the girl is… moving from one pillar after another.”

Raven was speaking out loud again, the people he was referring to shuddered fiercely in horror. How in the world did he know!? They were hiding and suppressing their presence, they weren't even making too much of a noise! Raven didn't do his thing where he stomped while lacing it with energy to locate them, so how could he have possibly found them? And so precisely on point too!

”You might not be making too much noise and suppressing your presence, but your using energy to do those things. In front of Energy Vision, you're like lit up torches in a dark cave.” Raven said, answering their mental inquiry on how he found them.

The faces of the students paled when he heard them. Of course! Energy Vision! How could they possibly forgot such a nifty technique? All one has to do is to reinforce their eyesight with energy and it will allow them to see more things that are hidden in plain sight! Before these people could even react any further, Raven's silhouette immediately blurred into action. Because of their shock earlier, their defences are down and he took that to his advantage to catch them off guard. Like a ghost, he appeared behind the girl and placed his hand on her shoulder. Feeling this grip, shivers run down on the girl's spine as she let out a piercing shriek.

”Kya~!”

Her scream was heard all over the training field.

”Shit! He got Sasha!” Someone said out loud.

”Watch out everyone! Sasha is quick! Don't get caught!”

Meanwhile, Raven was still holding Sasha's shoulder but her shriek was too loud that it hurt his ears causing him to grimace

.”That's mean!” Sasha said while pouting, ”That scared the crap out of me!”

Raven smiled wryly and replied, ”Well, you dropped your guard. Anyways, welcome to the team! Just try your best to catch them, it'll be fine.”

Their conversation was heard by Veronica, who happened to be watching from a distance. An idea suddenly clicked onto her head as she suddenly yelled.

”Guys! It's not just Sasha! He tagged someone earlier as well right!? Do any of you saw who was the other one?”The students ears perked up when they heard her question, but as expected no one said a thing. Veronica pursed her lips and said: ”Damn! He planted a mole just like that! What a guy!”

The situation of the game suddenly changed when this happened. The atmosphere became more tense. Because he made Philip's alignment a secret, he sowed a discord in his classmates' head. Now they will have to be on guard with anyone because they never know who the third 'it' is. Along with his pocket full of tricks, he just made them incredibly wary of him. There was no doubt in his mind that his classmates would now take him seriously and this where the fun truly begins.