Honey : The Empire's Treasure 317 Taking Precaution...

As she headed towards the shuttle her mother gifted to her before leaving the Amara clan for the imperial academy, Mika was surprised to see five people standing at its doors.

"Nope not taking everyone..." Mika said once she reached the group, "...my shuttle can only seat four."

Mika opened up the cargo doors and loaded her things inside.

"I'm going and that's final…" Celaena immediately jumped onto the shuttle as soon as Mika opened up its doors. Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

Everyone watched as Celaena buckled herself into a seat.

"That leaves two seats left…" Turning to her right, Mika looked up and down at a person she least expected to see here, "...is there a reason why you are here, Nylian?"

"Prince Ailwin had told me before he left that if you should think about leaving the academy that I am to follow you. So, here I am…" Nylian jumped into the shuttle and buckled himself into a seat.

"How did you know I was leaving?"

"Please don't underestimate my talents with stupid questions."

Mika wanted to kick him out, but his was Ailwin's guy and he was strong.

Looking at her three other friends, she shrugged her shoulders, "You guys decided amongst yourselves who should have the last seat. I'm leaving in five minutes with or without the last person." With that Mika joined Celaena and Nylian aboard the shuttle.

Saavi, Jonas and Hycis looked at each other, there was one seat left and the three of them wanted it.

"Sigh...look I need to be on that shuttle, more than you guys do." Saavi turned to look at Hycis and Jonas with her hand on her waist.

"No, you don't." Jonas completely disagreed.

"Mika is my best friend, so I should be the one to go." Saavi turned to walk into the shuttle, but Jonas pulled her back.

"If that is your reason then I should go. I'm contractually obligated to help Mikaela..." Jonas pointed at himself, for once happy with being Mika's b**ch.

"Oh please!… You just want to go to see Kaze." Saavi brushed off Jonas' hand from her arm.

"That's not entirely true…"

"...but it's partly true." Jonas couldn't say much else.

Saavi turned to look at Hycis, "Why do you want to go?"

"Yeah, why are you here?" 

*Cough* "... I think it's obvious, I want to help my two friends in their time of need." Hycis avoided Jonas' and Saavi's doubtful eyes.

"Two minutes!" Mika shouted out from inside the shuttle.

*Sigh* "Rock, paper, scissors?" Saavi suggested.

"Okay…" Jonas and Hycis both responded.

Standing in a circle, the three eyed each other.

"1….2…..3…..shoot!" All three called out.

Jonas held out paper while Saavi had rock, looking to where Hycis' hand was supposed to be was an empty space.

"Where?" 

Further ahead they could see Hycis racing towards the shuttle.

"Bastard!" Saavi yelled out at Hycis' back. They wanted to follow, but Hycis had froze their feet to the ground.

By the time they could break the layer of ice and reached the shuttle, Mika had closed the doors and took off with Hycis nicely buckled in to the last seat.

"Why are all our friends such shameless brats?" Jonas asked Saavi.

"The real question is why we hang out with such shameless brats… *Sigh* Let's head back inside and hope they all make it back safely." Saavi chided herself for not being more like Hycis.

Once in the air, Mika looked back at Hycis and nodded, "Grasshopper, you have learnt well." 

Hycis was shame to admit that he was thinking what Mikaela would do to get on this shuttle when he was facing off against Saavi and Jonas.

Three hours into their flight, Mika put the navigation on autopilot before standing up to face her companions.

"Okay, before we reach Rowood City there are a few things I want to make clear. One, everyone will be wearing these…" Mika pulled out masks that she got from Lord Tasar's shop. They were plainer than what she wore previously for her face, but they don' needed for healing, only for secrecy.

"It's best that we keep our identities hidden and with that being said, we will each decide on pseudo name. We will only call each other by this name and nothing else...is that clear?" Mika explained while passing out the masks.

"Yes." Everyone agreed, especially Nylian who needed to stay Prince Ailwin's hidden card.

"Good. Second, no using your gifts unless absolutely necessary."

"Why?" Hycis didn't want to be in a dangerous situation powerless.

*Sigh* "Because....how many people do you know have our gifts? We could be easily tracked down even with the masks on our faces." Nylian shook his head, silently criticizing Hycis' stupid question.

"Oh…" Hycis realized he didn't think about that.

"Yes, that is the exact reason. This goes especially for Celaena and Nylian... Oh, and here," Mika threw a hair charm Celaena's way. 

"En." Celaena knew her white hair would most definitely give her away.

Chapter end