Chapter 23: Video

"I swear to god this could be our greatest success", a tall, young male with dark hair said to the woman with glasses, who sat behind a big desk made of dark wood. "It's a risk, Elias", the woman said in a calm voice. "Look at the footage again. This was real and not performed, arranged or prepared", Elias urged his Boss once more and gave the woman his phone to watch the video again he had filmed today in the early morning.

The woman took the phone and watched the video again, which showed a blue-haired male around twenty with glowing hands, who seemed to fix a sort of barrier. After fixing said barrier, which made itself invisible, the unknown male walked into it without a slightest bit of hesitation and just disappeared into thin air. You could clearly hear Elias gasp behind the camera. The woman paused the video, knowing that the next few minutes were unimportant because it only proved that there was no trace of the unknown male with the blue hair or the barrier he had fixed.

Elias looked at his boss with hope in his eyes, when she gave the phone back to him. "Did you check if something was there? Like a Splitter of this invisible barrier or something that even scientists would see as something supernatural", she asked the male. Elias looked down to his feet and shook his head. His hope faded like white smoke in the wind.

His boss exhaled loudly. "I know that you are fascinated by supernatural things and that you wouldn't dare fake this video but I can't let you write an article about this because it would make our newspaper look incredibly stupid. I mean I can't even fully believe this video is real. Do you understand that?", the woman explained. "I understand", Elias said and nodded in understanding, even though his face clearly showed his disappointment.

The woman with the glasses mustered him thoughtfully. She seemed to debate on something. "I trust you, Elias. You are a good kid and journalist", she said and paused for a short second. "You can release the video on our website. We can make it look like an accidental upload or some hacker's prank when it backfires", she continued. Elias' eyes immediately lit up at that. "Thank you so much, ma'am", he thanked the woman with a big smile.

"No problem", she answered with a light grin. "And now get to work", she added and shooed the male out of her office with a simple hand gesture. "Of course, ma'am", Elias said and walked out of the door with a happy skip in his steps, letting the blue crystal, which was his necklace's charm, bounce against his chest.

Now he was even more determined to get actual proof for the existence of a supernatural world. After all he had seen and filmed an actual warlock working with magic on some sort barrier humans couldn't see or feel. It didn't really exist to them you could say. Elias had been lucky enough to notice it and was convinced that this was the thing, which kept the supernatural beings hidden from the human eye.

"I will prove the existence of a supernatural world for sure", Elias thought to himself while walking down the corridors of the newspaper company he was working for, towards his own little office.

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"Felix. Tell me what you are hiding. Now", Jeongin demanded, when he managed to trap the ginger between his arms. Felix's back was pressed against the cold surface of the lockers and in all honesty he felt like he was in a damn drama but he also knew that he needed to get away from Jeongin before he told him a secret that wasn't his.

"I-I can't. It's not my secret to tell", the ginger slightly stuttered because of Jeongin's fierce stare. Felix internally cursed at himself for stutter but also at Minho and Jisung because they didn't tell the rest of the group that they were dating yet so he was the only one, who knew until now. They wanted to wait a little bit and Felix had to bite back a lot of comments he wanted to make when he saw Jisung spacing out a couple of times when they were watching a documentary about Goethe in Literature.

Jeongin somehow noticed this odd behavior of Felix, so the kitsune pulled the ginger to the side when they wanted to go to the gym for their next class without anyone noticing and that was how they ended up in their current position.

"Whose secret is it then?" the fox spirit questioned. "I don't know if I am allowed to say that either", the ginger answered honesty and gulped. Since when was Jeongin so scary? Where did the smiley Maknae go?

Jeongin didn't seem satisfied with Felix's answer but his aura and expression suddenly changed. He pouted cutely, took a step backwards, so Felix was free and crossed his arms in a cute manner.

"I want to know what hyung is hiding", the blond mumbled sounding like a small child. It took every bit of Felix's will to not give into this and just tell Jeongin that Minho and Jisung were dating. Instead he cooed, made a step forward and hugged the godly cute Maknae.

"Stop being so goddamn cute, will you?", the ginger cooed. Felix knew that the kitsune just wanted to switch tactic to get him to tell the blond what he was hiding but the ginger wasn't planning on falling for the fox spirit's tactics. At least not this time.

Jeongin giggled cutely and wrapped his arms around the older, which made the cat hybrid's heart do a little jump.

"There you are", the two heard Hyunjin say. They looked towards the siren, who was jogging towards them with Jisung and Seungmin behind him. Felix and Jeongin let go of one another, which neither of them really wanted but it was a kind of reflex. There was still one question. What was up with Hyunjin and always interrupting their little moments?

"We were searching for you. We need to hurry if we want to get to our gym class on time", Jisung chimed in. "Sport equals death. Why don't we skip it?", Seungmin mumbled more to himself than to the others but Jisung heard it and lightly hit the redhead on the shoulder for that statement.

"Don't worry. I can teleport us", Jeongin said and casually took Felix's hand while stretching his other out for Hyunjin to grab. The siren took his cousin's hand and also grabbed Seungmin's, like it was nothing.

"Don't forget me like last time", Jisung said and clung onto Seungmin's arm while giving the rest an accusative look. "You weren't fast enough last time", Jeongin stated and already teleported them to the gym.

"I wasn't. You just didn't warn me", the warlock shot back and let go of Seungmin's arm after noticing there were at the gym. "You have to admit that it was somehow funny", Felix chimed in with and amused smile on his lips from thinking back to the memory.

What was also quite funny, was their current situation. Jeongin teleported the five of them in front of the door which lead to the boys locker room for creatures without the ability to transform. They startled some of the other students with their sudden appearance but none of the five friends really noticed. They just talked casually like nothing happened, when they entered the locker room.

They got changed and went into the gigantic gym of their school. It was designed to fit every creatures' need in terms of space, meaning the creatures with wings had enough room to fly and creatures, who could transform into something larger like werewolves and liked to run had also enough space to do that.

"I love our gym hall", Felix sighed. The ginger was utterly in love with the amount of space in the hall because here he could run and jump without having to fear, that he would hit his head or run into a wall. His friends rolled their eyes and said "We know, Felix" in union since the cat hybrid gushed over the amount of space here nearly every time he entered the gigantic hall.

"Hey, Felix", someone called the cat hybrid. The called ginger as well as his friends turned their head towards the voice. A giant black wolf made its way towards the group. Felix knew it was the one and only Lee Jeno. He had Transformation with the werewolf, even though Felix was unable to transform himself into a cat. Only hybrids without visible animal traits like Chan could fully transform themselves into an animal. But all hybrids had to go Transformation because they also learned there how to use their additional strength, speed and senses properly and efficiently.

"Want to race like in our last Transformation lesson? Junyoung would join us", Jeno asked while wagging his tail. He would look like a cute puppy, if he wasn't so freaking tall as a wolf.

"Sure", Felix agreed with a smile. "Watch me win", he said to his friends. "You wish", Jeno, who had heard the cat hybrid, huffed. This caused some laughter, not only among Felix's group of friends but also some other students in the hall.

Felix jogged besides Jeno to another werewolf, who was waiting for them at what Felix assumed was the start line. This werewolf was Junyoung, who as a wolf had beautiful reddish brown fur and a pair of big dark eyes. He was a bit smaller than Jeno and had a less broad frame but when Felix stood next to him, the cat hybrid was the one, who looked tiny.

Felix send Junyoung a smile before looking back to Jeno. "The one round through the whole hall like always?", the ginger asked the big black wolf. "I'm giving the signal", a voice beside Jeno said. Felix looked past Jeno to see Jaemin, who had a big smile on his face.

"If you want, Nana", Jeno chuckled before readying himself by lowering his upper body a little bit. Felix focused on the way ahead of him, sending a bright smile to his friends when he saw them.

"Three, two, one. Go!", Jaemin gave the signal. Felix, Jeno and Junyoung sprinted forward while their classmates began cheering them on. Jeno took the lead fairly quickly while Felix and Junyoung were racing head on head with a minimal distance to the big black wolf.

Felix took the lead in the curves but quickly lost it again to Jeno. In the end Jeno won but it was a very close call with Felix. The ginger couldn't help but jump a little bit, feeling warmed up now.

"Want to go again?", Felix challenged Jeno and Junyoung. Before the werewolves could answer the cat hybrid their gym teacher Wonho entered the hall, which meant the actual lesson was starting.

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