A knock on the door made everyone in the room stopped talking. A familiar face peered from behind the door and scanned the person who was inside the the room.

Farra sat behind the mahogany desk in which was covered by piles of open books, Aieyn was standing beside her, crossing her arms as she was reading the book infront of Farra before they were interrupted. Izz was bent over the table on Farra's other side and he seemed to be pointing at a certain passage in the book. However their eyes were now fixed on the girl who smiled awkwardly by the door.

"Ah, Lissa. Do come in. Sorry about this... messiness." Izzudin greeted, motioning her to come in. She walked inside the room and closed the door.

"Make yourself comfortable." He said flashing her a smile to ease her nervousness.

She returned his smile and trotted to the couch, avoiding the scattering books on the floor.

"Is there any problem, Lissa? Where are your friends?" Farra asked once Lissa has made herself comfortable.

"They're training with the others." Lissa rubbed her neck awkwardly. "I um, have something to tell you."

Aieyn and Izzudin shared looks while Farra trained her gaze to Lissa.

"Farra, do you remember what I said about my gift?" Farra nodded. Lissa took a deep breath before continuing. "I think it's happening again."

Izzudin raised a brow. "What do you mean?"

"Well..." Lissa trailed off, fingers pulling on the piece of thread that stuck out of her sleeves. "I've been having the same kind of dreams, yet it was different everytime."

"Since when?" Aieyn asked and Lissa shifted her gaze to the leader to read her expression but her face was void of any.

Lissa cleared her throat. "Um, three days ago? I had the first one three days ago, and last night I dreamt of another one."

Things were quiet for awhile as the leaders shared looks. It was like they were having a silent conversation between them. It made Lissa more anxious. What if they, especially Farra was mad at her because she didn't tell them earlier like she was supposed to? Will they cast her out of the fort? She didn't want to come back to her old Clan, there wasn't anything for her there anyway. But what if that was the case?

Her nervousness didn't go unnoticed by the leaders. Anyone would think that way too, since Lissa started to move her legs up and down.

Farra rose from her seat and walked to the couch where Lissa was sitting on. She took a place next to the girl who finally stopped fidgeting.

"Can I know what kind of dream you've been having?"

Lissa nodded. "It's all the same."

"The first dream was of the witch plant. Someone attacked from behind, like we did when we first came." She looked to Farra and her friends. "It wasn't going to stop the attack, it'll only slow them. Anyways, I got hit by the explosion and I fainted. When I woke up it there was already a huge hole on it and I heard screams from the fort. People died." Lissa shuddered.

"A-and the second one... I stood farther away from the wall this time because I know if I stand so close I would get hit again. I watched as the wall broke and things came inside." She shook her head. "Rusdi and an older woman came in too."

Aieyn tensed as Izzudin trailed his eyes to her. They knew for sure who that was.

"That's all?" Farra asked and Lissa nodded. "What kind of creatures they brought in?"

"They were wearing cape and... I'm not sure... what I know is they weren't human."

Farra nodded as she stood up. She walked back to the table and sat back on the leather chair.

"Very well. Thank you for telling us Lissa."

"Um-" Lissa clasped her hands together to stop it from shaking. "Are... am I going to be banished for not telling you this earlier?"

The leaders looked at each others before Aieyn replied. "Now why would we do that?"

Izzudin watched the girl with amusement. "You're not the enemy Lissa. In fact we're grateful that you're not hiding anything." He said.

Lissa should be feeling glad hearing those words coming out from Izzudin's mouth, but she couldn't help the deep and heavy feeling that was forming in the pit of her stomach.

***

"Beat 'em asses Hisham!" Lily yelled from the side of the practise field, eyes trained on the running figures at the centre.

Noorizan was in on it with his massive tree again thinking he would grab his win with it. But now he was having problem on raising the tree. It needed time for tree as big as that to sprout from the ground and apparently the others figured it out. So they stirred him from being too far from the fighting zone and stayed in the centre so that he wouldn't have time to raise his tree. So in the end he, he just decided on a half sized tree as the other day to be his pawn, and it wasn't giving him near the result as the last time.

Hisham released another wave of lightning arrows and everyone ran out of the way except of Zulfikar who instinctively build ice shelter above him. The people who witnessed the act was surprised, and he seemed so too.

"Nice one Zul!" Jyra shouted and it snapped him from his stance, just enough time to ducked Danish's attack.

"Oh em gee, I'm so impressed by their improvements!" Jyra gushed and Lily snorted.

"Are you sure you don't mean Danish?" She said and laughed when the girl turned beet red. Since the little scene involving both of the new members, the others has been teasing both of them all the way.

Her smile faded when she noticed a guy who she came to dislike ran and shoot bullets to the Alphabet members with his translucent gun. He made sure his bullets only hit places where it won't bring fatality.

Lily grunted slowly when Dylan dodged Zul and Danish's attack. He was creeping to Hisham's back, but his intentions were cut short when Noorizan's roots hit him and sent him flying across the field.

"Dylan, out!" Sheronica yelled. Alex laughed when Dylan's face turned into somewhat annoyed. He was the first one to be ousted in that game.

Lily smiled smugly as Dylan jogged to the side of the field, joining the girls who was watching the entire thing.

"I'm fine." He said gruffly when Sheronica shot him a look. She nodded solemnly and trailed her gaze back to the fight. She didn't want to miss anything.

Lily on the other hand, rolled her eyes when Dylan plopped on the ground next to her.

'Whyyyy must he sit next to me.' She thought. She scooted away abit and acted like she didn't care.

"Cool job, Dylan." Miezza said and Jyra gave him two thumbs up. He nodded to them, as an acknowledgement and they darted their eyes back o the game. Lily, however acted like he didn't exist.

"Are you gonna act like I don't exist forever?" He asked and Lily flinched to the cold in his tone.

"Look who's talking." She murmured.

"I don't hate you."

Her ears perked up but she didn't turn her head to see him. She could feel his eyes burning to her side so she tilted her head a bit so that her hair will cover her face from his heated gaze.

"I can't hate someone who looked like my sister."

His words stunned her. She blinked, letting it downed upon her. She tried to think about their hateful relationship; how he glared at her since he first came to the fort. How he avoided her, and how she thought he didn't like her or even despised her. She didn't understand why he was acting that way, and before she knew it, she grew a strong distasteful feeling toward that guy.

She then remembered their conversation on the second day of the Numbers arrival. What Lissa had told them.

"How about Number Nine?"

"The last Number Nine was Dylan's sister."