[After a while in room B-12]
While everyone is lost in their thoughts, waiting for the person who got them here together, they hear a knock on the door.
*Knock**Knock*
Lona: come in, it's open.
John enters the room, casually greeting everyone which makes Lania angry.
John: Hey guys, sorry for keeping you Waiting.
Lania: ("sorry for keeping you" ? Is that really all you have to say after making the high ranking students wait for your butt? Heh, I'm sure they won't let it slide that easy).
To her Surprise, They didn't seem bothered at all, in fact, they seems happy to see him.
Lona: ah, John, I was starting to get worried.
Aldric: if you're in some trouble you can tell us.
Arnold: yeah, we're your friends.
Cohly: yeah, we'll do anything to help you.
If any normal person saw them acting like this, they will assume that John is a good friend of the high ranking students, but, since she's a huge fan of dark romance fantasy, her mind automatically seen it as John being a lunatic who brainwashed the high ranking students and made them puppets in his hand.
Lania: (OH NO! It's already too late, he brainwashed every single one of them, they're now like pets who will never bite the hand that feeds them, it's just like that light novel where the villain uses a perfume that makes everyone loves him, including the Female main character, wait, am I the next target?!).
While the high ranking students are surrounding him, John looks at the corner of the room and see Lania, standing there with a mix of worry and shocked expression on her face.
John: oh I see that Ms. Lania had introduced herself to you guys, well, that saves us some time to explain the rest of the situation, now everyone sit down, I'll explain why I gathered all of you.
As everyone sits down, John starts explaining the Academy's current situation with the snow Elves.
After he finishes, Lania's eyes are looking down at the ground from the shame of the things she did.
Lania: I'm really sorry for all the trouble I caused to you.
Cohly and Aldric felt sorry for Lania after hearing her story, while Lona followed the protocol for these kind of things.
Cohly: poor girl.
Aldric: you must be missing your family.
Lona: sorry to hear about your family and your tribe, but Conspiring against the academy is against the law, I can't just let her go like this.
Lania: I completely understand that.
Out of the sudden, John steps in to defense Lania.
John: sorry Lona, but she's under my protection.
Arnold: John, what's the meaning of this?
John: that means that I, personally, will be the one to hold her accountable, I'll talk it through with principal Thorn.
Arnold: well, principal Thorn isn't the kind of person who will let something like this end that Easliy.
John: don't worry about that, I have my ways with principal Thorn (and by that, I mean I'll force him to do it wether he likes it or not, kekekeke).
Arnold: Lona what is your take on that?
Lona: hmmm, if the principal doesn't have any issues with her, then neither do I, I'll leave it in your hands John.
John: don't worry, it'll be a piece of cake.
Just now, hearing John defending her had made her feel something in her chest, something she thought she'll never feel again.
Lania: (just now, he stepped in for me, just when was the last time anyone did the same thing, it's. . . Been. . . So long).
John: well, what do you guys think about the situation?
All of them looked down at the table, after hearing that crazy thing; snow Elves are about to conquer the Academy, if anyone hears that, they will absolutely freak out, but unexpectedly, Lona is showing a confident expression while talking to John.
Lona: so, John, what's the plan this time?
John: oh? And what makes you think that I have a plan already?
Lona: you've sent a message for us to meet you here, and knowing it's you, there are only two options for that, first one is that you already have a plan, or the second one which is that you want us to help you make a plan; by now it's obvious that you have a plan and need our help with it.
John: ohohoho, you saw right through me, but to be honest, the reason why I need your help so badly is because your help is a key element of my plan.
Aldric: huh? What do you mean?
John takes a deep breath and starts
explaining his plan.
Not short after, the atmosphere in the room changes as they hear John's plan, Lona's voice is becoming Enraged as John finish explaining the plan.
Lona: Absolutely Not!!!
John: I had a feeling you might say that.
Cohly: I know you want to protect the Academy, but John, this is way too much to ask.
Aldric: I don't think our rules will allow us to do something like that.
Arnold: you know that we're still the high ranking students right?
Lona: John Shon, are you aware of what you're asking us to do?
Even with the massive change of the atmosphere around him, he manages to maintain a poker face.
John: do you want me to repeat it?
Lona: you're asking us to make the students of Victoria Academy fight to protect the Academy itself, that's against all the principles we stands for.
Cohly: there must be another way.
Arnold: why don't we send a message to Fortis Vanguard Academy like the last time?
John: a Storm is coming towards the Academy's direction, All messaging lines in the Kingdom have been shut down due to the storm, and even if we manage to send a message, it will take a long time for help to arrive, and by then it will already be too late.
Aldric: what about. . .
John: that won't work.
Aldric: I didn't even finish.
John: you were about to ask about cargo village's safety department, but let me ask you this, do you think cargo village has enough manpower to deal with an entire army?
Aldric: I. . . I didn't think about that.
Lona: even though, there must be another way.
John: I already calculated All the possibilities for the other plans, and the plan I told you about is the safest.
Lona: is putting the students in the Frontline considered the safest to you?
John: either this, or waiting for the snow Elves to kill us all.
Lona pauses for a second and start thinking about all the possibilities, trying to find a way that keeps the students out off the battlefield.
Suddenly Cohly interrupt her.
Cohly: Lona, I don't think you'll agree on what I'm about to say but I think John is right.
Aldric and Arnold agree, even though it's going against their duty as high ranking students.
Aldric: I think the same way as senior Cohly.
Arnold: yeah, same here as well.
Lona closes her eyes for a moment, processing everything one last time.
Lona: *sigh* alright, I'm with you, but you still have to tell principal Thorn about it.
John: heh, don't worry, I think he'll be happy to help.
John stands from his seat and walks to the door and calls for Lania to go with him.
John: Lania, let's go to the principal's office.
Before they leave the room, Lona has one last question.
Lona: John wait, I believe you already have a plan to convince all the students to fight for us, right?
John: heh, if there's one thing all of you need to know about me, it is that I always have a plan.
To Be Continued. . . . .