Inside a classroom, among the students sitting on the chairs, Nicholas is scrolling on his phone while using his social media app.
The door opens, and Nicholas hides his phone in his pocket as the noise disappears, and students are now sitting properly on their chairs.
A tall man in her thirties is looking all over the students. "I almost shouted due to the noise you guys are making. At that moment, I wonder, are you all in a wet market? So noisy but thank you for being quiet."
He chuckles while flipping through the pages of the long blue notebook on his desk.
Nicholas looks down at his phone but his seatmate snatches it. He looks at his seatmate with narrowing eyes and a curved down lip.
"Geez, Nelly," Nicholas said.
"What? You need to listen as long as I am your partner." Nelly playfully waved the phone.
The professor clears his throat before speaking, "We are going to have a field trip, and this will be conducted in Baguio."
Nelly smiles, and she turns her eyes at Nicholas. "We're going together but we're riding my car."
Nicholas' eyes widen and he shakes his head. "Nuh-uh! Who said I'm going with you?"
Nelly chuckles. She rubs his jawline with her index finger, and Nicholas swats her hand away.
"Such a cutie, pretending not to enjoy my attention." Nelly chuckled
"Stop or I'll kiss you!" Nicholas shouted accidentally.
His eyes grow wide as the entire class looks at them.
"I didn't know that the press is into that kind of man!"
"Oh my gosh! They're so cute!"
"Damn!"
The professor clears his throat. "Well, since we need a muse and an escort which anyone doesn't want to take. Nicholas and Nelly will take that position."
Nicholas shakes his head quickly while standing up but Nelly holds his hand and chuckles.
Ella rolls her eyes while her forearms are wrapped around her chest.
"My boyfriend is so shy," Nelly looked around, "we will be happy to be the class' muse and escort."
Nicholas shakes his head and tries to say "no" but the entire class giggles, and some clap their hands.
He sits back in his seat and yanks his hand away from her hand.
Later on, at the back of a wall of the hallway, Ella is talking with her friends who are Tanya and Sonia.
"Those two piss me off."
"What do you want us to do?" Sonia smirked.
Tanya inflates her bubblegum and pops it before chewing it.
Ella blows wind on her bangs before looking at Sonia. "Here's our plan: Tanya goes to talk with Nelly while I and Sonia will drag Nicholas away."
Sonia smiles, and Tanya nods as she continues to chew on her gum.
"We'll give Nicholas the beating he deserves," Ella cracked her knuckles, "and I do want Nelly to lose something she values, and it's a win-win game for us."
Tanya cracks her neck. "I agree, she always puts us in detention."
Inside a tunnel, a tall entity stops walking. The entity resembles a man, his hair is green and long. His eyes are emerald, and he is wearing a shirt made of stones with holes, and pants made of wood.
"She's not here," he says, and he turns around to ask, "Coseria, where are you?"
"Wait." he crouched.
On the ground, his eyes find a small seed. He picks the seed and eats it. A smoke appears in front of his eyes; turning into the form of Coseria.
"At last," she smiled, "you've found my seed, Acacia."
Acacia groans and scratches his hair. "I always find your seed because you always left your seeds in your trail."
Nelly says, "Listen, I need you to find the last descendant before the crystal reaches him."
Acacia says, "Wait, how are you finding him without being aware of his appearance? You must be an idiot."
Coseria groans, and she narrows her yellow eyes. "That is why I got sealed by a guardian. I was finding him through the followers of his ancestor; I found one but that caused me to be stuck in here."
Acacia tilts his head and widens his eyes before smirking. "Seriously? With your arsenal? You still lost to that low creature?"
Coseria releases a cry of frustration, and she straightens her body. " Go to St. Gabriel Orphanage, and there you will find traces of him."
Acacia yawns before saying, "I know that information already, it came from a dead high-ranking seed. Don't worry, I'll find him."
He steps closer to Coseria and grins. "I will prove to everyone that you don't deserve your place in the ranking."
Coseria's eyes narrow as her brows furrow. Acacia crouches as he molds his wooden hand into a large stone blade with vines crawling on it.
"For now, enjoy your rest!" Acacia sliced Coseria's presence into pieces.
Her presence disappears. Acacia stands up and spits the seed he ate. He wipes his lips with the back of his other hand.
He narrows his eyes, and steps on the seed, breaking it into pieces.
He says, "Disgusting."
He morphs his other wooden hand back to normal. He looks down and sees the rotting body of a young woman.
"She must've absorbed this human's nutrients," he crouched, "I need a camouflage to blend with humans."
His cheeks tear apart, revealing his sharp teeth. He lifts the rotting body, and all flies fly away from it. He puts the whole body in his mouth and swallows it.
Steam emerges from his wooden body. Veins and muscles come out, wrapping around his whole body. His entire appearance turns into the appearance of the woman he consumes.
His green hair turns brown along with his emerald-colored eyes. He looks down at the white blouse and her blue skirt.
"This feeling," he smiled, "is a feeling of a human? Wonderful but I feel disgusted wearing such skin of a low creature."
His foot turns into wood and stone, and he jumps out of the tunnel with a strong pressure wrecking the ground beneath him.
"I'm going to find you!" he shouted.
Wood sprouts from his back, forming into large wings; leaves serve as its feathers.
After hours of flying in the sky, Acacia lands right in front of a large house as his wooden wings become small, and hides in his back.
He looks around him. "Thanks to our hive connection, I was able to find this orphanage. Kudos to the deceased seed's memory."
The gate opens, and a woman steps out of it. She's wearing a robe like a nun. She lifts her eyes and smiles.
"Good day, to what may I be of service?"
Acacia speaks in his mind. "I'm too lazy to use my powers to kill. I feel that she will not reject me for what I want."
He speaks in her feminine voice. "Hello, I am just looking for a film about a young boy who was abandoned here in 2006 June?"
The woman's eyes widen as her lip forms a round shape, and she forms her lips into a thin line.
"Pardon my reaction. I was just shocked that there will be anyone interested in that boy," the woman wipes the tears from her eyes, "Follow me. Are you a relative, or how did you know about the boy?"
They begin to walk inside the gate, and Acacia answers, "The truth is I am his sister in the blood. I've come to find him, and I heard that he was raised here."
She fakes her tears as they keep on walking.
"I felt like a terrible sister," she said.
"That's okay. As humans, we make mistakes but it's up to us if we will change or just be the same." the woman said.
"Hey, I haven't asked your name." Acacia glanced at her, only seeing her backside.
The woman says, "I am Sheila, the head sister here in this orphanage."
The voices of kids running around welcome them. Acacia glances at them while they're inside a massive room on their left side.
Sheila stops walking and turns around. Acacia is standing while gazing at the kids, and Sheila walks toward Acacia's right side.
"Remembering something?"
"No. It's just, like a young plant alone in the meadows, they are abandoned; alone to grow up on their own feet."
Sheila smiles. "You must love plants. That brother of yours, he always loves planting seeds."
"He plants?" Acacia turned his head towards her.
"Yes, he did during his times of growing up in here," Sheila chuckled, "the mango tree beside this house, he planted it."
Acacia sniffs. "Wow. I've never known that people do value plants."
Sheila turns her eyes toward his eyes, seeing the tears building up. "It seems that you are adoring plants so much."
"Sorry," Acacia wipes his tears, "I thought all people don't cherish the existence of trees."
Sheila says, "The film about him, we can continue finding it."
Acacia smiles. "That boy, I mean my brother. Where does he go?"
Sheila smiles. "I should've asked about your ID but from your tears, I can say that you care for him."
She turns around. "Follow me."
They continue to wander around the hallway of the orphanage, and they enter a large room.
Acacia looks around, seeing the shelves full of folders. He turns his eyes to Sheila and sees her sitting behind a desk.
She puts a folder on the desk, and Acacia picks it up. "Nicholas."
"What a beautiful name." Acacia flipped the folder.
"I see," he continues to read the document inside the folder, "this is all I want to know."
At the entrance of the orphanage, Acacia turns around. He puts his hand inside his pocket and brings out two seeds.
"Here, sister. These seeds will bring good fortune to this orphanage." Acacia lends the seed to Sheila.
Sheila steps closer and opens her hand. Acacia gently drops the seed on her palm, and Sheila smiles widely.
"Good luck on finding your dearest brother."
Acacia looks straight into her eyes. "Thank you for making me see something good in people. I wish you the best."
Later on, while soaring in the sky, Acacia speaks in his mind. "I spare people who are kind in my eyes. Those kids, I can't kill them because, like a seed that becomes a plant, they are all innocent."
Meanwhile, in the university's canteen, Nelly is looking at her compact mirror while applying powder to her cheeks.
"Oh my! You look so stunning, class press!"
Nelly looks up, and her eyes turn dull after recognizing the person beside her. "Sonia? What are you up to?"
"So bitter! Anyways, can I sit here?" Sonia pointed at the empty chair beside Nelly.
Meanwhile, Nicholas is groaning as his lip is covered in duct tape, and his hands are tied by a rope.
"Shut up," Ella warned him while looking around.
Ella is carrying his body over her shoulder while walking in the hallway of the university.
"This hallway-C is abandoned. No one will hear you here." Tanya is lifting his bound legs.
Entering a warehouse, Nicholas continues to groan while Tanya is tying him to a chair.
Ella is tapping her shoe on the floor while looking down at him with raised eyebrows.
She goes closer to him and yanks his hair backward. "No one, not even Nelly, can save you. In other words, you owe me your life so start begging for me to spare it."
She kicks his shoulder, and his body falls backward but Tanya kicks the chair forward; pushing him along with the chair back to its place.
Ella pinches the duct tape on his mouth and pulls it away.
"OUCH!" Nicholas glares at her, "What do you want from me?!"
Tanya slaps him. "Do not speak like that to my bestie!"
Ella chuckles and pinches his ear, pulling his face upwards to meet hers.
"I want her to suffer, to feel the feeling of losing something that she is valuing."
Nicholas clenches his teeth. "Hey! We're nothing but partners formed by Prof Gerald!"
Tanya yells, "My gosh! You're so naive!"
Ella looks at Tanya as Nicholas tries to move his head around.
"Wait! What do you mean?!" he yelled.
Ella groans and releases his earlobe. She sighs and takes us to the wooden chair in front of Nicholas.
"You don't know it yet? Man, I'm not satisfied anymore," Ella rested her forearms behind her head, "I thought you knew about it."
The students all over the canteen cry as Sonia hits dozens of tables. She stands up and raises her hands as a sign of giving up.
"I-I'm sorry!" Sonia fell to her knees.
A pair of hands grip around her collar and raise her from the ground. The one who abbed her was Nelly.
Her eyes are narrowing, and veins are appearing around her eyes.
"Where is Nicholas?!" Nelly shakes Sonia's collar, "If there's one scratch on him! I will make sure that all of you will rot in detention!"
The other witness is shaking while standing in the corner.
"O-Okay!" Sonia gulped.
Nelly swings her fist, striking Sonia's face. Nelly yanks her back to her and shouts at her. "SPEAK FASTER!"
Sonia coughs and spits her blood on the ground. She stares at Nelly before letting out a guttural laugh.
Nelly holds her face and smashes her on the floor, and yells, "WHERE IS NICHOLAS, BITCH!"
Sonia coughs and opens her eyes. She looks around her and sees the eyes of the students watching them. Sonia smirks before frowning, and trembling.
"F-Fine! He's being held in the warehouse by Ella and Tanya! Please, let me go. You're suffocating me!"
Nelly looks at the students, her eyes are narrowing while her brows are curved downwards.
"Make one lie about what happened today, side with this bitch! I'll be your enemy until one of you dies!"
The students nod, and they scramble away from the scene as Nelly yanks Sonia's blonde hair.
Nelly stands up and walks faster while dragging Sonia with her who's patting her hands.
"Ouch!"
Nelly remains quiet while dragging her. Sonia reaches for her shoulder bag. Sonia screams, and Nelly tosses her on the row of lockers in the hallway.
She yanks Sonia's shoulder bag and ties it around her neck causing Sonia's eyes to widen and cough repeatedly while patting Nelly's hands.
"People like you who bully those weak students deserve to perish!" Nelly grabs her hair and continues to walk faster while dragging Sonia away.
In the guidance office, a man sitting behind the desk turns his eyes to the door. The door falls, and a student crashes against his desk.
"What is this?!" he shouted while standing up.
Sonia is lying down on the floor with her eyes still open, and her body trembling.
Meanwhile, Nelly is walking in a certain direction. Her eyes are narrowing while her fists are clenching.