We were sitting in the cafeteria to eat our dinner because according to the rules we couldn't eat in our rooms or the house due to a previously experienced disaster. An Animal disaster to be specific about which timarthus was happy about spurring shit that animals also deserve to eat good quality food only to get side eyes from the other students. Apparently Topeza was far from how small I expected it to be. It was huge to be honest as if they could fill a whole city in here. There was a huge field that went all over towards the obstacles which were supposed to be for us. Outside the wards there were only forests covering the entire college and like how Orion warned us, the forest outside consisted of wild and dangerous magic animals, another trick to scare the first years from sneaking outside. If not caught and punished by the professors, the seniors will get them and will give worser punishment than professors. Thankfully only the fourth years were allowed with privilege so jason wasn't on the patrolling list as he was a third year.
I take my tray of food filled with proteins and carbs, heading over to one of the empty seats with Selene where youna was sitting with a few first years. I quickly sit besides her and focus on the food in my plate. Today's events made me too exhausted and hungry so I didn't cared about who was watching and who wasn't and dived for the food. "Slow it down will you?", Selene says worrying if I'll choke on my food. "Oh let her eat selene. Even I am hungry from all that standing at the assembly.", youna says and dives into her food. Suddenly there was a movement infront of me and there was dragging of chair and someone put their plate infront of me. "Hungry aren't we?", I look above to see timarthus looking at me hogging over my food with a huge grin. "What's up with you timmy? I am seeing your pestering my friend since the assembly.", youna narrows her glare on him. "Oh my dear cousin, I also want to be friends with her. She saved my life today you know?", timarthus says winking at me.
"How?", selene asked looking at me. "He bumped into me this morning-" "Accidently...", he cuts me earning a glare from youna. "So he was about to turn me into a toad but Lucien stopped him from doing and turned him into a toad instead.", I explained and youna laughed out with a gasp. "Hey don't laugh at me.", he said. "Well you did deserved it.", selene scolds at him. "So before lucien could actually kill me, she stopped him from doing it.", he said. "He wasn't actually going to do it.", youna says and I nod agreeing with her. "Can we be friends please!!!", he begs and then suddenly comes so close making my eyes wide. "Or who else will tell you that silas is glaring daggers at us?", he says and I actually choke over my food. Selene quickly comes at my side rubbing my back and hands me a glass of water. After making sure my breathing was back to normal and that I wasn't dying from a chunk of meat, I look behind to search for the person because of whom I was about to die and find him glaring precisely at timarthus. He had a metal spoon in his tight grip which he released from his grip as soon as he found I was looking at him. The metal hits the tray catching everyone's attention on him. Abex widens his eyes as he picks up the spoon which silas had dropped and it was broken in half. "Please??", tim's voice called out and I divert my attention to him. "Okay fine as long as you stop pestering after me.", I say grabbing my head as I can't even have one meal in peace. Even my hair were coming infront of my face to refrain me from eating.
"Anybody has a hairtie?", I ask and youna quickly hands me one. "I am prepared all the time.", she grins at me. I grab my hair into my fists and clear through the lumps and tie them into a ponytail. She could feel silas gaze on her so she just ignored him and continued eating. But suddenly the lights of the hall went out making everyone confused and the very next second there was a siren ringing in the whole place. And there were screams from the students on the other tables.
"Are we under attack!?", I heard youna saying from besides me and I freeze. What if it was? "Attack and on our first day? It seems like a coincidence to me.", timarthus says and like he said the sirens stopped and lights came back on but there wasn't anyone on my table. "Um guys?", I ask and 6 hands raise from beneath my table. I try not to laugh as they slowly raise their heads from beneath and look at me with sheepish grins. "Why did they do that?", youna asks and then selene looks around. "Guys our seniors are not here anymore...", she says and we turn around to find the first years only sitting there.
Someone clears his throat from the entrance and we see silas standing wearing his tunic and pants as he glares at all of us. "This was done to remind you all that starting from now the curfew has already started. So you should be back in your rooms by now at the very. Next. Second.", he grits his teeth at the last part looking at us and the first years quickly took the indication to get out of the cafeteria to their assigned quarters before they face the wrath of the senior infront of them. Silas didn't stopped or looked at me when I passed by him with others making me glad from inside. As I returned back to my room, I changed into the casual clothing and went to bed taking my family frame in my hand. I lie down on the comfy mattress and look at the smiling face of my parents as I yawn. Today was a really hectic day, I can't even think about managing if all the other days are going to be busy like that. Several thoughts roam over my mind and finally sleep takes in place.
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The following morning came by but I was already awake before everyone else. I should have slept longer with the amount of tiredness I had but somehow it went away in this magical realm or maybe it was because I was too nervous and anxious about how the classes would be over here. We would have to compete with each other, thats no doubt but I am really curious to see what type of competitions will we have....? Will there be those normal subjects like on earth or will they be different? The professors who were on the podium looked too old and too experienced. I get up from the bed and something came in between my sheets which I remembered was the picture frame I brought in with me last night. Giving it a through I wipe away the invisible dust on the picture before putting it back on the desk.
I look at the books and find different subject names which I am sure I haven't studied or even heard about before but there was some like history and language which I think are also different as compared to earth. Looking at the schedule of the day which out of nowhere appeared on the desk like the books and rest of the material I study it down and looks like we will go through all the classes today as to get familiar with the subjects and the professors.
The dressing code was to wear tunics and pants with our red cloaks on the top and the hair should be tied from letting it disturb through the classes as we will also be studying alchemy. I quickly take a shower and change into my new cloths and apparently I have noticed that if we put our dirty cloths in that normal looking closet in the bathroom, they will clean our clothes for us. At least I will no longer have to worry about washing my clothes. I go towards the vanity and decide to tie my black hair into a French braid which I had learned to make when I wanted to try a new hairstyle for college. I stare at my hair for a long time to see if there were actually some red in between which I guess I never cared enough to notice. But nope..... A girl with rounded features, big grey eyes with freckles over her cheeks and nose and full lips, eyebrows accurately arched looked back at me from the mirror. Completely normal girl. The braid rests against my back and I look over my outfit again to see if there was some sort of crumpling which needed to be fixed but I was done.
There was a knock on the door and I opened my windows letting the morning light in before checking who it was. I open the door and meet youna's full of sleep, eyes blinking at me as if she was thinking why she was here in the first place. "Oh your ready... I was here to wake you up but oh well! You can give me company while I get ready!", she says and grabs my hand taking me to her room at the end of the hall. Being a princess, youna was beautiful, her mother was also pretty but she had a bold and mature look on her face, can't say that she didnt looked pretty when she was youna's age. But youna looked like as if the goddess of beauty had took form in a young girl. Her pale and smooth skin, her soft and delicate features with the pink lush lips and color visible on her cheeks, anyone would fall in love with her.
I entered her room for the first time and found the furniture same as mine except hers were full of her stuff. The room reflected her personality and hobbies. I sit on her bed gawking at the long leaf vines with roses all spread along the four sides of her poster bed while she went through her closet to choose her tunics and pants as if looking to see which one is the best out of them all even if they were the same. She vanishes inside her bathroom and told me to look around as if may take a while. I scan through her vanity and find all sorts of skin care products and makeup products which were Organic something, the people on earth would die for. I looked through her other door of the armoire and find dresses in all sorts of green colors. These were handstitched royal dresses. I wonder if she had kept them incase of emergency to go back to her kingdom or something. She also had loads of jewelry and hair accessories. She was a fashion diva. My eyes pause when I see glittery and full jeweled tiaras standing in line side by side displayed at the top shelf.
I close the armoire and look around at her picture frames of her with her family when the bathroom door opened with youna dressed and she grins at me before going to the vanity where she flicked her hand around her hair and I was shook to see her powers making her own baby pink hair by pushing them backwards and she holds them together with a mint green clip-on bow. Then she goes for her makeup and I am curious to see which she catches me staring but then stops moving the brush as she looks at me with a confusion. "Why haven't you put makeup on?", she asks and I give her a shrug. "Well you do need one kaya. Wait let me help.", she says and brings over a small blush pallet and lip gloss in her hands applying them on my cheeks and lips. I look at the mirror and the color was visible but exactly how I would like.
"Thanks, I look pretty now.", I say with a soft smile. I did try to do makeup when I was with Ethan as I would see other girls doing it in the class for their boyfriends or crushes. But the motivation in me shattered when Ethan told me I looked better without it and asked me if I had a secret boyfriend which I hadn't told him about. Suddenly the door of youna's bedroom opens and selene bursts in with heavy breathing as if she has been running. "Youna have you seen-", she looks up and stops as her eyes land on me. She curses with a sight of relief and braces herself against the door with youna chuckling at her state.
"Why didn't I thought that she would have brought you here to become her experiment?", selene grins and earns a scowl from youna. "Hey! She is not a experiment. Look how pretty kaya looks!", she says and selene nods. I now notice she was also ready in her clothes and cloak, her brown hair tied into a bun. "Can we go now or else we will be late for our first day!", selene says and I chuckle as she drags youna outside with her.
We entered in the class where our first class will take place and it was huge. It was history first. The lecture hall had maps of all around the universe and the Aradox's map excites me the most and I look at all the cities and kingdoms this realm has. We take our seats on somewhere middle as the entire hall started filling up with all of the students from first year. I was thankful that the seniors had different classes and we were only to be combined during the combat classes which was supposed to be teach by Silas, whom I caught walking around in the corridors with lucien before we entered.
The class which was full with noises and talks of students became silent at once as soon as the professor came into the class looking at all of us with smile on his face like he was excited to see new faces in his class and to teach them everything. "Good Morning everyone, I am Professor Iviz who will teach you history. This semester we will learn about all the wars and the beginning of the magical realm and we will learn about our basics. As you go into the senior years, the levels will be advanced as we will learn about alliance making and warfares. And in the fourth year we will talk about our very own defense lines and targeting positions and it is the most crucial part of our realm.", he explains.
"First we will start by the attendance which I have right here to make sure if everyone is present today.", he says and out of nowhere a scribe appears in his hands and he wears his small glasses staring at the names before calling out one by one. It seemed like everyone was present except for 1-2 students whom he mentioned were on a extension leave and will join us a bit late. "Okay so today we will talk about the very first battle of our times, the First battle of Illusa.", he explains and then flicks something and the lights in the lecture hall closes.
"This is so cool!", youna whispers and suddenly the empty space behind the professor fills up with a projection like screen and a documentary is played on the screen and I am surprised to see how people were fighting in the war and it was no ordinary war, they were using magic on the dark creatures which one can only think of. The whole documentary explained the clauses and conditions on which the war took place at the first time. It was the war of light and dark, good and evil. And the professor was showing the projection through his eyes which I wasn't surprised about as the documentary grew my curiosity. This was the reality of how everything was. After the documentary ended, lights came back on making me go blind for a bit and the professor turned towards us. "Now that you all have seen the very first battle of the history, let's talk about it for a bit. But we are going to start with the basics first and gradually we will come over the topic and discussions.", he said.
The professor pulled down a map of the entire magical universe under which I could see aradox as if it was a country. There were other realms as well but it was the map which was marked with the troops and places which were used and occupied in the war. As the professor was explaining someone dragged their chair besides me disturbing a few students and I look at the side to see timarthus grinning at me. "Oh it looks like we will be bench mates this whole year.", he says but then the professor clears his throat, his eyes narrowing at timarthus. "Mr. Wang, will you tell the whole class about how the four ancestorial elements came into being?", he asks and everyone looks at him who was roaming his eyes crazily on the map as if the answer was somewhere on the map. "Uh...its...um...", he started blabbering but the professor shakes his head in disappointment at the boy as he rolls down another sheet infront of the map where all the elements were linked.
Above the fourth ancestorial elements, two main elements came and I wide my eyes as I see what they were, the elements of life and destruction.