Two days later
Nacht: "Hmm…"
Kisa: "Hahhh…"
Diego: "Uuughh…"
Mona: "That is not serious… right?"
Two Ages: "Oh yes. We are writing an exam."
Mona: "Huh?"
Kisa: "About what?"
Two Ages: "Language. German language, Restovich language, your language, and the language of Magiya."
Nacht: "This is great… Kisa and a language exam…"
Mona: "Oh… that one over there doesn't look smart either."
Diego: "Huh?"
Mona: "Oh dear…"
During the exam
Diego: "Oh no…"
Kisa: "(Oh no…)"
Diego: "(What is that weird symbol with a dot on top…)"
Nacht: "(Sweat… I don't even need to ask. Their faces say everything.)"
After the exam
Mona: "Ugh…"
Diego: "Naaah…"
Kisa: "Oh no…"
Nacht: "Hmph."
Two Ages: "Good. The exam is corrected."
Kisa: "Huh? So fast?"
Two Ages: "With magiya. So, Kisa… all of you… the grades work like this. One is the worst grade, three point five is average, and seven is the best grade. Kisa, you got a one. I am shocked. You only wrote your name. And also, 'Hello sorry I did not study.' Nothing else. Diego, you wrote your name and a few drawings, for some reason, but one drawing was actually part of task number five and seven, so you get a two."
Diego: "(Sweat.)"
Two Ages: "Mona."
Mona: "Ghhh…"
Two Ages: "Three."
Mona: "Damn. If I had just done a little more, I would have at least been average."
Two Ages: "Nacht. Six point eight."
Nacht: "Mhm."
Two Ages: "Charlotte. Seven."
Mona: "Ugh."
Kisa: "Ugh."
They turned around. Charlotte smiled at them. Nacht stuck out his tongue and winked one eye at her.
Nacht: "Hmm?"
Mona: "Looks like someone hates you."
Nacht: "Hmph…"
Two Ages: "Anyway, it is not finished. Now you must know this. Whoever fails this exam leaves the school."
Kisa: "What?"
Diego: "Huh?"
Mona: "No way."
Two Ages: "But there is something else. A duel. It is also part of the test. Alright. Kisa, you fight Mefina."
Kisa: "Oh…"
Two Ages: "Whoever loses is out and must try again in five years."
They came forward.
Kisa: "So, um…"
Mefina: "Tsk. What are you waiting for."
Mefina pulled out her Monaiore. Not everyone uses fairy tales. Monaiore are used too. You make a contract with a spirit. That is the difference.
Mefina: "Aaaaaaaaaaargh."
Kisa: "Oh oh."
Kisa pulled out her fairy tale, Hansel and Gretel. The gloves and shoes appeared.
Kisa: "Ghost quake."
Stones burst out of the ground and threw Mefina back.
Mefina: "Urk."
Mefina dodged away.
Mefina: "You think that stops me."
But then Kisa suddenly appeared right in front of her.
Mefina: "Huh."
A sickle came closer and closer.
Mefina: "Huh."
Mefina shut her eyes. The sickle stopped right in front of them. She dropped to her knees, terrified.
Mefina: "Hahhh… ugh…"
She peed herself.
Kisa: "Oh…"
Two Ages: "Kisa passes. Mefina is out."
Mefina: "But… hahhh…"
She stood up, still in shock, looked at Kisa one last time.
Mefina: "I hate you."
Kisa: "Ugh…"
Mefina ran away in tears.
Kisa: "Ugh…"
Mona: "Oh no…"
Charlotte: "Not good… poor little Kisa."
Two Ages: "By the way, as I said, five years is no reason to cry."
Two Ages: "Next round. Diego against Yande."
Yande: "Hehehe. I will show you."
He was also a Monaiore user.
Nacht: "Hmm."
Charlotte: "He will lose."
Nacht: "One thing I have to give that idiot Diego. He is strong. Believe me."
Charlotte: "Really? I know the wolf from Little Red Riding Hood is known as the Fairy Tale Eater, but that strong?"
Nacht: "He really is strong. The fight only gets difficult when Diego, does Diego things."
Charlotte: "Hmm?"
Diego transformed as he used his fairy tale, Little Red Riding Hood.
Diego: "Rooooaaaar."
Yande: "Tsk. I will show you. Come on, my ice, show him."
He threw ice cubes at him. They crashed down but
Diego: "That itches."
Yande: "Huh?"
Charlotte: "Ugh, but that ice can freeze a bear."
Nacht: "Not the Big Bad Wolf."
Diego: "Now it is my turn."
He launched Yande away with one punch.
Yande: "Aaaaaaaaaaargh."
Up into the clouds.
Charlotte: "Um…"
Nacht: "Let's hope he does not die."
Crash
Yande: "Ow."
Nacht: "Oh, he survived. Good."
Charlotte: "Wait. What do you mean?"
Nacht: "Diego still can't control it. I was afraid he would tear him apart."
Two Ages: "Good. Everyone has passed the duels. The ones who did not manage it, well there is a solution. A third thing to improve the grades, a small test. Do not worry, it is the easiest one. We do not want too much from our students in one day. But now we get to the point. Nacht and Charlotte, you have not fought yet. Do not worry, you both passed the first exam. If one of you loses, you will also have to take the small test, but you do not need a top grade. Three point five is enough."
Nacht: "Hmm."
Charlotte: "And you want to duel me, Nacht von Zephyr?"
Nacht: "If you want, fine. Just because you are a woman does not mean I will hold back."
Charlotte: "Hehehe. I like you… hehe. I hope so."
They went into the duel hall. Both pulled out their fairy tales. Charlotte had Alice in Wonderland, and Nacht had Sleepy Hollow.
Nacht: "I will show you the magiya of Zephyr."
Charlotte: "Hehehe."
Two puppets appeared.
Charlotte: "Finni and Minni, go, attack."
They fired at Nacht. He dodged.
Nacht: "You do not fight yourself. Is that not cowardly?"
Charlotte: "Hehe. That is my magiya."
Nacht: "I understand."
Nacht pulled out his sword. The sword flew toward her.
Charlotte: "Oh. A sword that can grow bigger. Interesting."
She dodged, opened her hands, and eyes appeared.
Charlotte: "Eye of the Damned."
When she blinked, a powerful explosion burst out.
Charlotte: "These eyes belonged to people who dared to kill innocent fairy tale beings. Look at their tears."
Splat
Blood poured out.
Charlotte: "This is the punishment for naughty humans. Alice, the witch of the fairy tale world, does not allow anyone to hurt her people."
More huge eyes appeared on Charlotte's arms. Mouths appeared in her hands. The mouths screamed.
Charlotte: "Screams of the Damned."
Aaaaaaaaaaargh
Nacht: "Ugh…"
The screaming volume entered through the ears and confused the organs.
Nacht: "(Splat.)"
Charlotte: "Hehehe. I am the guardian of the fairy tale world. Charlotte Eichenwald."
Charlotte laughed, but Nacht suddenly smiled.
Charlotte: "Huh?"
Nacht: "Alright…"
He touched the floor with his staff. Suddenly, hands appeared.
Charlotte: "Huh?"
They were dark hands. They grabbed Charlotte.
Nacht: "Hands of darkness. If they catch someone, that person is stuck like a nail."
Charlotte: "Ah, I see… hehe… freodero, le nos, deleferer."
Suddenly the hands attacked Nacht instead.
Nacht: "What?"
Charlotte: "My dear, you should not trust your power too much. Hehe."
Nacht: "(What kind of magiya is this. Wait. Reflection magiya. Damn. They do the opposite of what I want. That is it. This magiya forces the opposite of the user's command. Fine. Then I want you to attack me.)"
The hands attacked Charlotte.
Charlotte: "Huh?"
Charlotte tried to dodge.
But then Nacht rushed at her.
Charlotte: "Huh."
He struck her throat with his hand.
Charlotte: "Urk."
Then he kicked her in the stomach.
Charlotte: "Bleargh."
Nacht: "Good, now."
He hit her forehead with the staff.
Charlotte: "Ugh…"
Splat
Blood poured from her eyes.
Charlotte: "Urgh…"
Blood came from her mouth too, then insects and eyes crawled out of her mouth.
Charlotte: "Urk…"
Nacht: "…"
Charlotte: "Ghhh…"
She closed her mouth and swallowed the insects.
Gulp
Nacht: "Ugh."
Nacht was shocked. Charlotte had turned her own Screams of the Damned on herself. The screams forced the insects out, but it hurt Charlotte too.
Nacht: "Are you insane. That could have killed you."
Charlotte: "I would rather die than be killed by a Zephyr."
Nacht: "What is wrong. Where does that hate for my family come from."
Charlotte attacked. Nacht dodged. He struck her stomach with the staff.
Charlotte: "Urk."
Suddenly Ichabod appeared.
Ichabod: "Oh dear. That is exactly why the Eichenwald are dead. Oh, I mean, killed."
Nacht: "Huh?"
Charlotte: "Ugh."
Ichabod: "By Zephyr. He hunted your family, killed them, slaughtered them all, even the children."
Charlotte stared.
Ichabod: "Young lady…"
Charlotte: "Huh?"
Nacht: "What are you talking about, Ichabod."
Ichabod smiled.
Charlotte: "Ugh…"
Ichabod: "Your parents did not abandon you. They tried to flee with you, but the right hand, Thomas, came and murdered your mother and father."
Charlotte: "Ugh…"
Ichabod: "All of you Eichenwald were weak and deserved death. You only survived because the wagon fell near the Fairy Tale Forest. Your family is a disgrace."
Charlotte stared at him.
Charlotte: "What do you mean by that. Are you mocking my family?"
Nacht: "Wait. I did not know any of this."
Charlotte: "Shut up. You will regret this. All of you. Ghhh…"
She suddenly grabbed her head.
Nacht: "Hey, what."
Charlotte: "Ghhhh… aaaaaaaaaaargh."
She screamed loudly as she began transforming into a Vinka. Her eyes turned black, her horns looked like a moth, and her wings like a butterfly.
Charlotte: "Urk… ugh… aaaaaaaaaaargh."
Tentacles burst from the ground.
Two Ages: "Ugh…"
The barrier protected the students, but for how long.
Two Ages: "That is a Vinka. The tentacles."
Charlotte: "De… pli… so… astral… le frokan."
Suddenly many moths appeared.
Charlotte: "Ghhh…"
Nacht: "Damn it… Ichabod."
Ichabod: "Oops."
Crane: "Typical of you, whenever it is about the Eichenwald family."
Nacht: "Why does she have the power of a Vinka."
Ichabod: "Maybe because Vinka lived near the border of the fairy tale world too. That means she was raised by a Vinka as well. Madness. Nacht, use dark fire quickly before the moths eat us alive."
Nacht: "Fine."
He drew his sword. Dark fire came out and burned the moths.
Charlotte: "Huh."
The moths died. Nacht vanished. When Charlotte turned around, he was behind her. He struck her with the sword.
Slash
Charlotte: "Urk."
She fell from the air. Nacht fell onto her and stabbed her shoulder.
Charlotte: "Aaaaaaaaaaargh."
She slowly transformed back into a human.
Charlotte: "Ghhh… cursed… cursed be you."
Nacht: "Tsk. Have you not had enough."
He stomped on her eye.
Crash
Charlotte: "Aaaaaaaaaaargh."
Kisa: "Huh."
Mona: "What is he doing."
Diego: "Idiot. She has had enough."
Two Ages: "That is enough, now. Stop."
Two Ages ended the fight. Charlotte lay on the floor, crying in pain. Mona and Kisa ran to her.
Mona: "Hey…"
Kisa: "Hey… are you okay."
Nacht: "Tsk…"
He walked away, but Diego stopped him.
Diego: "Hey."
Nacht: "What."
Diego: "Ghhh."
Diego punched him in the face.
Punch
Nacht: "Argh. What was that for."
Diego: "Why did you do that."
Two Ages: "Nacht. That was a foul. You are suspended for one day."
Nacht: "Huh?"
Two Ages: "No huh. No hey. No what. No huh."
Diego: "(That last part was not necessary, she already said it.)"
Charlotte was quickly taken to the infirmary.
Nacht was suspended. Charlotte was in the infirmary with terrible wounds.
Mona: "Is he out of his mind."
Kisa: "Hmm."
Diego: "He is not normally like this."
Kisa: "I do not know what happened."
Charlotte lay unconscious on the bed. A bandage was placed over her eye. When she groaned in pain, she called out, "Mama."