GALAXIA"
The grandest event noted in the history of our timeline 'the appearance of the GALAXIA' it was theshock that marked the beginning of the world's greatest change the turning point in fate...
The galaxia or that so called 'land of trials',
A magical door that opens once every five years giving unlimited chances to advance magical powers and a rare chance to heal for those who have suffered from terminal illness or a disability but it reqires a special key to enter
Each key can provid entry for five people maximum and It's became a treasure for those who had it ,not many of their holders are wiling to share It's profit so it became more or less a rare treasure
And for the first time one of those keys provides a seat for the winner of this torment ,'cup of glory'
Back to the arena,
the fireworks that declared the end of the first selection, was also the mark for the barrier to switch off
the hostess landed on the ground and shouted,
"SILENCE"
She snapped her finger, and all sixteen people who were still standing were pulled wards the middle floating around her while those who failed got pushed rther away
From the ground underneath them a small arena formed going against the rules of gravity floating into the air.
The hostess waved her hand for 16 rings to appear out of nowhere,
"Let's move to the next topic, shall we?"
She handed everyone of them a ring, then she flew into the air again and started speaking,
"As you can see at this moment, only those sixteen people who are still standing in the middle of the arena have met the qualifications to advance to the next round. Congratulations to all of you; let's give them a round of applause, everyone."
-clap,ckap,clap,clap,clap-
All the audience started cheering and shouting in congratulations. The hostess calmed their excitement then started speaking again,
"Okay everyone, I know you are excited, but dear viewers , we need to calm down for a little bit longer."
After the commotion ended she continued her rule as a host,
"Let's go back to our participants. As you can see, everyone of them was handed a special space ring. Its use is simple..."
Lana started counting the uses of the ring on her fingers,
" it's a storage for only the bracelets; you need to collect the ones you got from the fight before and place them into the ring. It will automatically read them and give you a number. The number is used to determine who gets to draw the lottery first."
Lana continued ," The second function is simple: if you press its top, a digital screen will appear in front of you. Use it to enter the name you are participating with. It can also show the level of your magic and your blood affinity, and this function is very important since it records the special mark of your power and it prevents anyone from impersonating your identity, especially this year."
After counting everon her fingers she said," i think that makes them four or five uses ,iam not really good at math"
"As you all know, the Galaxia will open at the beginning of next year, and since it's approaching so fast it was decided to hand over a seat for the fitting, the prize of first place will be a seat among the five candidates."
The stadium exploded with small side talks at the mention of the "GALAXIA"; everyone was looking forward to seeing who was going to take the seat and claim the opportunity.
"As for second place, the rumor already spread about this matter. Let me confirm it for you: this year's second grand prize is indeed the chance to enter the 'Black Tower'. It's a very dangerous place but with many opportunities. It's the second one, not the third one, as rumors say. Be careful of what you hear," the hostess said playfully as she continued ,
"As for the last prize of the third place, it's a chance to enter REGIS's treasures vault with a chance to get one of the amazing relics in there."
Lana flew closer to the ground and placed a huge box with a hole in the middle; she sat on its corner and called the sixteen players closer and started explaining.
"You see this box under me? It contains 16 small balls. Every ball has a letter A or B written on it. All the players need to choose one ball to determine which category you're placed under "
Lana tapped on the box playfully saying,
" later we will get another two boxes. I'll hand each of you a paper; write your names on it and then place it into the box with the letter you pulled out to determine your opponent, but that's for tomorrow. For now, we will use the points you previously got from the bracelets to determine who goes first. Good luck, everyone."
The selection ended with group A: Eclipsa, Dem, Adam, Syrous, Manao, Bithon, Deric, and Phantom.
And group B : Ray, Jarvis, Titan, Venous, Shen, Snow, Mina, and Balarc.
With that, the first day of the 'Cup Of Glory' reached its end at 6:40, and everyone headed to their respectfull residences, and as such a peasfull night passed over the entire place.
Next Morning:
There were no classes, as it was the first day of Cup of Glory, and it's considered an educational course related to the school studies.
Along four years as a student, you attend at least one of these events, so attending is also a part of education.
But as it's already the second day, the students will take morning classes, as the games will start in the afternoon.
Serenity woke up, changed into her black dress, took a book in her hand, and headed to the classroom.
Along the way everyone was talking about yesterday's cup; it's becoming a trend now, but it's not because of the fights but because the number of points each player had was revealed earlier this very morning especially the top three,
Eclipsa,999
Jarvis,679
Dem,678
A huge diffrence between first and second place, yet a single point between secon and third places put advancing to fourth place and beyond maximum 300 points way so diffrent from the dominant three.
'What a waste of breath' she thought unlike the others she didn't give a fuck about the games
Once Serenity pushed the classroom's door open, everyone in the class gave her cold glances as she moved towards her seat.
She found a lot of mean words scratched on her desk but didn't care about it and rested on her seat anyway. She used a tissue to remove the words from her desk.
"Childish"
A girl with long pink hair like candy, soft facial features with full cheeks, wearing the university's uniform black blazer along with a black skirt and a white shirt with a red tie,
She moved closer from serenity asking about her wellbeing,
"Are you okay?"
Serenity's didn't look at her but her voice seemed genuinely worried so she reluctantly replied,
"It's okay; a parking dog can do nothing at all"
The girl was stunned upon hearing her discrebtion of the situation,
"D..dogs?!!"
Unlike the others, whose hatred clearly showed on their faces, the girl seemed genuinely worried about serenity, but even thought she didn't even spare her the glance.
Another girl with golden ponytail hair with a fierce look came pulling the other one in her arms, saying with a hostle tongue,
"Mariana, stay away from such people in the future; don't catch their bad luck."
Marians tapped on her arms and softly replied,
"Sylvia, I just came to take last week's assignment. The teacher asked me to collect them, but hers is the last one."
Serenity took a file from her disk and handed it over to Marian without any sound and got back to her seat.
"What's wrong with her?" Sylvia asked in disgust, then turned at Mariana, saying, "Hey...since you got the assignment, then let's go back to our seats…"
"Um…"
Right when they reached their seats the teacher happend to walk in, starting the class.
"Good morning everyone, hope you enjoyed yourselves yesterday "
"It was a fine game teacher "
"A shame it all ended so fast"
The teacher shoke her head in defeat hearing her students complaining like little kids,
"That was only the first round we still got a long way to go "
Teacher Vanessa is a seventh-circle magician, specialized in healing magic. She has a fragile personality; she is a kindhearted person who cries a lot, but she is the vice principal's granddaughter.
she was supposed to be a natural red flag for everyone, but that was never a problem; she is a popular teacher with both looks and personality top-notch.
She always helps students in need and helped Serenity a lot when she was bullied; not to mention, she was the one in charge of treating her wounds over and over again. In short, she is a good person.
Serenity kept staring at her while she was speaking and finally had a mocking smile drawn on her lips,
"What a good teacher she is."
Teacher Vanessa called the class president over.
"Baial, come help me distribute these papers among you."
"Yes, teacher." Baial is the short, brown-haired girl with golden eyes who is the class president and one of the people who hate Serenity to the core because of a man.
She distributed the papers but on serenity's turn she dropped the paper on the ground, stomped on it then walked away with a smug face.
Serenity xtared at the ground in disgust ,
'I swear she has to have a few screws loose somewhere in her brain. That idiot didn't even know the man she was fighting me over was actually my fiancee, he was just using her to keep others in check. She will explode from anger once she knows the truth, but who cares? The engagement is over anyway.'
Serenity used her leg to move the paper closer but didn't touch or move it from the floor and sighed heavily,
" Let the dogs fight over the trash all they want .people's true nature is an endless pite of greed for all i care"
After Baial finished distributing the papers, she gave the teacher an ok.,
"Teacher, already done."
Teacher Vanessa started explaining what was on the papers,
"Since this is the last semester and the agreement reached its end, a special assignment was placed on your entire grade."
She raised her copy from the document baial just distributed among them and started explaining It's purpos,
" The paper holds a total of eight assignments at the eight royal kingdoms. You'll be assigned work once you reach there; it could be anything—office work, fighting at the first lines, or maybe just simple chores. "
She put the paper down on the disk explaining a little about the process,
"To go with this assignment, we reached an agreement with the royaltyosf the nine worlds to carry on with this training program as a form of compensation to the students for the lost three and a half years because of the agreement."
"Hand over your wishes to the class president, and she will hand them over to me. The order of the classes we will be going according to will be placed for everyone next week. That's it for today. See you at the Cup of Glory this afternoon."she said
"See you teacher"
"Goodbye Teacher vanessa "
Before she walked out she seemed to have remembered something and quickly called upon Serenity,
"Oh...right,serenity....meet me after class, there is something important we need to discuss."
Serenity's face kept looking the other way not even the teacher got face in front of her
"What is wrong with that kid?!" The teacher asked in confusion but due to her schedule she had to urgently head out
After all the cources for the day ended and all the students left, Serenity went to the teacher's room to see what she needed from her.
-Knock...knock.-
"Come on in,"
It was one of the teachers inside who said that.
'What a hassle..' serenity thought
-open-
Serenity entered the teacher's room, and saw vanessa browsing through a fairy tale book, she stared hard at the book for a while before she finally opened her mouth,
"Teacher, you looking for me for something?"
"Oh!" Teacher Vanessa finally noticed serenity was staring but to ease up the awkwardness of the situation she opened up any subject ,
"Cough.....Let me ask you first: are you okay? It's been two days since I last saw you."
Serenity said with a sarcastic smile on her face,
"What's wrong ? Is the teacher disappointed i wasn't hurt ?.....You seem to really want to see me injured, don't you?"
"It's not like that ! " The teacher got flustered and scared at the same time that she frantically started explaining herself, "It's just that yesterday a transferring school application came yesterday, and the name on it was yours."
"The good teacher seems to have a guilty conscious"
serenity's cold tone sent chills down her spine making her feel fear twards a student for the first time
Serenity smiled a sly smile then wnt back to her normal expression and changed the topic ,
"But an application form ...hmm....that was way too fast"
'What was that ?!' The teacher got confused, but still needed to finish her job but deep down she urgently needed to change the subject,
"Why are you transferring now? It's not even a full semester that is left."
Serenity didn't think twice before shutting vanessa using her words alone,
"My personal information isn't any of your concern; you are just a teacher, nothing more. Just make sure my application is finished."
Teacher Vanessa was stunned beyond belife for a moment; that was the first time she saw her talking back,'who the hell is that?...there is no way in hell that woman is the same injured serenity i know'
She was so confused and instantly she got the application and started going through it.
"There are a few mistakes in your application that need to change. For example, your family name is written wrong. Maybe the application got mixed with some other documents ,so you are here just to confirm things that is all."
"It's not wrong," she suddenly said.
The teacher turned at her stunned ,
"Pardon! Let me clarify this first: are you saying you are an Alkana?"
"True"
Not only vanessa but almost every teacher in the room froze upon hearing her response, some even dared not look her in the eyes, but some couldn't help but ask.
"From what I know there is no Alkana in this year's students, and even if there is someone, it will only be Alkana's heir, and he is currently in Avalor already a graduate" one of the teachers in the room asked
The teacher thought, 'the family second to only the royal family actually have a daughter? Call me crazy but i don't belive...'
Serenity rubbed her eyes feeling stressed or ratjer annoyed,
"I hate troublesome stuff the most...What you said is also true since I wasn't using that name before."
Vanessa suddenly thought of her file so she asked,
"Can you explain what you said? I don't really understand, or rather tell me what your family name was before so I can get your file first"
"Oh, okay... search the file for a Voldemort if that's the case," Serenity's simple reply dropped a bomb even heavier than the one before.
"WHAT!!"
All the teachers in the room screamed in one voice, making serenity even more annoyed, she covered her ears frowning as she scolded them,
"Shut up your voices are so loud It's annoying"
"S...Sorry....." vanessa glanced her way then asked,"Serenity...oh...no, Princess Serenity, if I am allowed to say, but do you really not realize what you just said? You just said you're an Alkan; the next second you said again you're a Voldemort,"
Vanessa drowned in her tears as she heard the shocking answer.
"My mother is Luna Voldemort, and my father is Jevon Alkana, so yes, I am both a Voldemort and an Alkana, you satisfied with that answer?"
Serenity dropped those words, and the teachers in the room dropped their jaws from fear, but one of the teachers suddenly commented,
"There is no way you are an Alkana. Back when Jevon Alkana married Luna Voldemort, she gave birth only once, and her son is the current heir to the Alkana, so either you are lying or i have finally lost it."
"You mean Aries; he is my brother from the same parents ,anyway don't mind the royal drama"
she said it so casually as if it meant nothing, but the souls of the people around her already ran away from their bodies.
Teacher Vanessa asked her the question they all wanted to hear: "Why hide your powers when you are a pure royal? why did you allow them to bully you ?"
'from what i know whether It's Alkana's bloodline or the Voldemort bloodline the end is definitely a banger', vanessa thought .
Serenity crossed arms ,with half her face covered with her hair you couldn't read it but while speaking her tone of voice was clearly pissed,
"Because of the agreement you made me sign, if I am not the princess, there is no point in showing you my magic; my origin will be exposed right away. So, in order not to break the agreement, I tolerated this miss till now; that's all"
Teacher Vanessa seemed to have finally gotten on track with her story,
"Ah, now I get it ... but your application will take a while to be approved, so you may have to stay in here till the end of the training program..."
"Okay, got it… anything else?" Serenity asked.
"Nothing much, but just wondering where do you want to spend your program training?" Vanessa asked,
Serenity said, "If I had to choose, I would choose a foreign destination if you get what i mean"
Vanessa started for a seconds before she finally said,
"Okay, I will consider your wish when preparing; you can take your leave."
Only after the door closed behind Serenity did the staff in the room finally take their breath; those five minutes were hell itself. They didn't wait a few seconds before a discussing broke among them,
"That was a fucking huge bomb. Did any of you know about this?"
"Stop nagging. You think if anybody knew, they would let her suffer like that?"
"You've got a point."
"But she said all the bullying was because of the agreement—you heard it too, right!"
"We all heard it; just hope she is not the kind to hold a grudge."
"Like hell she would ....didn't you realize it from her speech just now, she's got the brains so definitely gonna use them"
"Shut your fucking crow mouth, it is bad as it is"
"We are playing the victim rule in the royal mess."
Among them, Vanessa was still staring blankly at the door deep in toughts,
'She choose neither Avalor nor Gladia...smart move'
She just realized that the moment that agreement ended, they might have opened the doors for even a greater monster to enter one they have never seen before.
Vanessa stared at the clouds outside with mixed emotions ,
"The days ahead might not be this peaceful anymore."