Finding II: White Dove Academy

Reese POV

I can feel myself and my body waking up. Fuck..my head hurts, and I feel weird. I try to move and realize my body is covered with something! I can't move! Oh wait, yes I can... It was just sand. "HENRYYY!! HENRYYY!!" I looked over to see Ryder yelling out Henry's name. Now I remember what happened!! Where is Henry?! I looked around, and there is still someone buried. Oh no, it's Zero! I go over to him and shake him awake. He gets startled but wakes up. "Henry's gone," I tell him. He gets up quickly and looks around. "Henry!? Henry!!" He yells out. "HENRYY HEN-ryy" Ryder says softly as he collapses to the floor. He starts sobbing, and Zero goes over to check on him.

I looked around and saw Momo still in her transformation. She seems to be digging in the sand, my guess is to find Henry. She looks like she's been crying too. "Leave me alone!!" Ryder yells throwing sand at Zero. "No! Henry told me...he told me...to take care of you.." Zero says collapsing as well and he started crying too. I go over there to comfort them both, when in reality, I wanted to ball my eyes out too. How the hell did it come to this?! "HENRYYYY!!" I heard Momo yell out as she falls to her knees and starts beating the ground. "Fuuuuckkkk!! Fuuuuck!!!" She curses aloud at herself. This isn't her fault, this isn't anyone's fault..

I looked around one more time, and I see another mound buried. It had a flower on top of it. I smiled and realized that it must be Marc. I think it's only right to leave him buried... I rubbed Zero's back and told him, "I'll be right back". I go over to Momo, and I try and lift her off the ground. She pushes me away, telling me to leave her alone. "Stop!" I yelled out back to her. I can feel the tears coming, but I try and suppress it. "Henry told me to take care of you guys, and that's exactly what I'm gonna do dammit!!!!" I yell out loudly. "Reese..." Zero says softly. He comes over to me and gives me a hug and I hugged him back. Then I just started sobbing. I think everything finally hit me.

"Why like this?! Why did he have to make us leave like that?! I wanted to help...I wanted to-" "Shhhh, I know, I feel the same way." Zero says comforting me. He looks at me and then wipes my tears away. I looked over at Ryder who looks absolutely broken. He was laying down in a fetal position. I walked over to him and said, "I-I'm sure Henry's okay... I'm sure he just-" Ryder looks up at me, as if he's been abandoned. It hurts me to see him like this. I sat down next to him and hugged him. "It's okay, I know Henry's alive. He has to be, he wouldn't have died so easily." I said trying to reassure him. He doesn't say anything, and just looks off into the distance, with an absolutely heartbreaking expression on his face.

Zero comes over and sits next to me. Then Momo sits next to him; she cries and says, "And then there were four.." No one could says a thing. We all just sat there in silence trying to comprehend all the events that happened today. We all looked at the ocean, because it was a nice...distraction. A distraction from the reality we must face when going back to the Academy. "What do we do?" Zero asks staring at the water. "Marc is dead, Henry is missing, and we fought demons, not Moonbeam members. I think Moonbeam works for the demons. Which means the dean is a fucking liar. Who knows what else that son of a bitch lied about." Zero says rubbing his head in frustration. All of a sudden Ryder gets up and walks towards the ocean. He makes his way inside the water, and we all just sit here wondering what he's trying to do. As he gets further in...we start getting the gist of what he's trying to do. "RYDER! STOP!!" Zero says yelling out with all the strength he has. We all run after him, but he can't be seen anymore. "Fuck! FUCK!!" I yelled out in fear. We all go into the ocean to look for him.

We start splashing around, and I started to cry and so did Momo. Zero keeps yelling out his name, but I can hear his voice croaking up as well before he dives into the water. After about 30 seconds he comes up with Ryder in his hands and says, "I found him!!" He lifts him up and carries him with both arms. It looks like he's unconscious. Zero runs back to shore immediately and sets him down. "I know cpr!!" Momo yells out. She runs to Ryder and begins pressing her hands down on his chest repeatedly.

Me and Zero sit there both panting and crying. We can't lose someone else! Momo places her lips on Ryder's and breathes air into his lungs. She goes back and forth with that and the compressing. "COME OON!!" She yells while freaking out. She starts to break down but she keeps going. Ryder coughs up some water and we all make a sigh of relief. "Thank God," Zero says putting both his hands over his face. Momo lifts Ryder's head up, and asks "Are you okay Ry?", Before wiping her tears away. Ryder starts to cry, and say, "You should've just let me die!!" "I would never! None of us would!!" "But...but Henry!-" "Is alive!! I know he is!!" Zero yells back at him. At this point everyone is crying.

The hell are we gonna do?! Why did this have to happen to our group?! Wait...what if all groups were sent out to fight demons?! "Guys, this may be worse than I thought," I told them. They all looked at me in confusion and worry. "We might not be the only group that was sent out to fight demons." I said, in a worried tone. "No fucking way.." Momo says, unbelieving what I just said. "You think...the dean sent all the groups to fight specific demons?" Zero asks me with a surprised expression. "It's possible," "Wait, where even are we?" Momo asks looking around. We all started looking around, trying to find where we were. There are some buildings behind us but they look fairly old.

"I don't even know," I say to them while scratching my head. "All I know is, we can't go back there, not after what we just found out." I said, with a serious face. "He's right, if anything, we should focus on finding Henry. I know he's alive, I can feel it." Zero says confidently. "Thing is, how do we find him? I mean we're only four people, we can't do this by ourselves." Momo says anxiously. "I may know some people that can help." Ryder says trying to stand up. Zero and Momo help him stand up and I ask, "Really who?!" "My family," he responds. "I thought you said they hated you, do you really think they'd help?" Zero asks with a confused expression. "Nooo...my other family," he says with a faint smile.