บททั้งหมดของ Blue Thunder: The Rise of the Legend - book 1: บทที่ 41 - บทที่ 50

December 28, 2001“…and it is another victory from our beloved Northerners!! Are they going to win the Silver Cup this season…”The flyball game against Argentina just ended, and Coralis headed back to the locker room with her teammates. Their coach met with them there for a little briefing. As Coralis and Sebastian were about to leave to meet with Frank and Stephanie for drinks, their coach intercepted them.“I know neither of you ever addressed rumours, but just so I know how to answer journalists… is there anything between the two of you?”Coralis and Sebastian looked at each other and started laughing.“And why would they think that he and I are together?” said Coralis, after a minute. “Last time I paid attention to rumours, people still thought that Princess Veronica and I had the hots for each other.”“Uh, well people see you two talking often to each other on the side and leaving the field together, so people are wondering.”Their coach Mylo knew that she was seeing a human. Sh

February 9, 2002Coralis sat at the back of a taxi, on her way to Frank’s dorm. Mark, his roommate, wasn’t going to be home all night, so they agreed to meet at his place, where they would just be the two of them. She thought about the vase’s replica she created the previous week for the Chicago royal vampire family and hoped it would work as intended. She was confident that it would kill its user instead of granting powers but wanted its curse to extend to wherever the user’s essence could be found, with a different effect.She hadn’t seen Frank the entire week. When she was finally able to leave Chicago, after finishing the vase’s replica in the morning, she had to fly to Winnipeg with Eva for a meeting. After that, she spent the week between South America, for flyball games, and London, for EBEE affairs.The entire week, she’d been debating within herself if she should break up with Frank, or go through revealing herself to him. She knew he wanted her to let him in, but she never c

February 15, 2002Frank couldn’t focus on his school project. He didn’t like that she didn’t call him back when he knew she was supposed to be with his sister. He pulled his phone out of his pocket and called his sister. Stephanie was busy preparing a pitcher of sangria, so she put him on speakerphone.“Is Coralis with you?”“No, she left a few minutes ago for Chicago. You do know that you are an idiot, right?”“I know that… that’s also why I wanted to talk to her. I paged her, but she didn’t call me back.”“Bro, I’m serious. Do you have any idea how dangerous her work is? She didn’t talk much about your fight, but with everything going on at her work, she now thinks it’d be better to break up with you, and that is if she makes it back alive.”“Wait, what do you mean by making it back alive? What did she say?”“Sebastian made her spill her instructions. They work in the same field, remember?”“Coralis is one of the best agents in our field. Technically, she’s only an intern, but her b

February 16, 2002 – 22:45As soon as she was back up in the sky, she called on Sebastian’s hologram.“I was literally about to call yours, assuming you also had to take off to Chicago. Want me to drop Stephanie off at Frank’s with a mute-ball? How did it go?”“Pager went off right after I got to the point of telling him that I was a mage and so was Vic, but couldn’t elaborate on the non-human aspect of myself. Hell, I totally forgot to mute his room. I honestly don’t know what he’s thinking right now, he looked like he was in disbelief, but I think he was about to freak out.”“All right, I’ll take Stephanie to his place. I will not repeat to anyone that you didn’t mute his paper-thin walls before getting started and will thank the gods that I never had to be in your shoes.”“Don’t worry about my brother freaking out, he’ll get around, I’m sure. If not, I’ll make sure to remind him for the rest of his life what he’s missing out on.”“Please don’t. I mean, thanks for talking to him, but

February 17, 2002 – 2:45Sebastian turned around and looked at the commotion. A troll was charging Prince Charlie, a machete in his right hand, and Coralis restrained him just before he swung it at Prince Charlie’s neck. She stood a few meters away, her left hand stretched out toward the troll. She was in the middle of the field, a crowd forming behind her.“What’s going on?” said Stephanie.“I gotta go. Prince Charlie is getting attacked and Blue is interfering. I’ll call you back later.”Sebastian hung up and ran to where people gathered to watch the scene. Stephanie called her brother. Coralis stood still, focused on the troll, her hand still stretched toward him. Prince Charlie had his back against a tree and cautiously stepped away. The troll looked at her, broke through the restraining spell and charged her.“Sebastian just called me,” said Stephanie when Frank picked up the phone. She was so anxious that she sounded as if she was panting. “It was over, and he was telling me tha