Lyan
I was walking to our common room, already dreading having to go to class when I heard Jack's voice from his room. Normally I would've ignored it but he had a tone I had never heard him use before and he seemed pissed as fuck.
I pressed my ear to his door and listened in. I could only hear pieces of his conversation, but it was clear he was on the phone and not too happy about something.
" Useless... That happen??...Next time....No!!!!!!!.....Find.....Yes, that's...Okay...All"
The conversation ended after a while and I ran away from his room, not having understood what I'd just heard.
" Next time you want to evasdrop just tell me. I'll let you listen in" Jack smirked from his doorframe, where he was leaning.
" Who was it?"
" Just a friend. Now, will you do me the honor of going with me to class?" He extended his hand like a gentleman and I thought about taking it, but for a second there was a gleam in his eyes I couldn't quite put my finger on, but it disappeared as quickly as it had appeared, so I dismissed it and walked away.
" At least let me walk with you" He increased his pace and once he reached my side he began walking besides me.
First period was boring, but at least they gave us our project marks back.
" We got an 8" I smiled. Our hard work had payed off.
"Yeah" Mark smiled back at me and my world lit up a little until I remembered I was still mad at the guys.
The next hour was PE and the teacher told us that we would be sparring with random partners and started taking names written on paper and thrown into a hat out at random one by one.
" Rosamie with.....Eren.
" Jack with...Orus"
" Mark with ... Thein"
All my guys were already matched and I still didn't know who my partner would be, but I was sure it couldn't be one of them. I started to get nervous. They guys would never hurt me, but the others wouldn't have so many qualms about hurting me.
" Arun with.... Stephen "
I didn't know any Stephen, not that I knew the names of my classmates, so I looked around, searching for the guy.
Turns out Stephen was a scrawny guy with beautiful turquoise eyes and red hair and skin. His skin and hair color were so similar that it was difficult to tell when one ended and the other began.
We placed ourselves into a fighting position, just as the teacher had instructed, and we waited for all the other partners to find a spot so that the exercise could begin.
" Start in three, two, one, now" The teacher blew his whistle to indicate the combat had begun.
As soon as the teacher said that Stephen lounged at me. I managed to move to my right before he could tackle me down, but he skillfully turned on his heels and charged at me again. This time I held my stance and waited for him to come at me. He crashed into me at full speed and I almost lost my footing, but I managed to maintain it and remembering what Oscar had done yesterday I crouched and flipped him over my shoulder, using his momentum against him.
Unlike Oscar, I wasn't strong, so Stephen wasn't launched far way. He just ended up a few feet away and immediately got back up and charged at me.
Once we were up close he threw a punch at my face, which I deflect by placing my forearm in front of my face. Pain reverberated all over my arm, but I ignored it as I used my other hand to grab his hair and pull him down. He went down for a few seconds but didn't stay there. He grabbed my hand with his own and twisted and twisted until pain erupted in my wrist and I was forced to let go.
While still crouching Stephen grabbed my leg and pulled, making me fall to the ground. He began dragging me through the ground and I felt my shadows try to raise to protect me, but I pushed them down, as I've been doing the whole training, and clawed at the floor, trying to find something to stop him from dragging me even more.
When he finally stopped dragging me I wished he hadn't stopped. He straddled me and raised his fist to hit me in the face as I resisted, thrashing. I managed to throw him off of me, but he immediately got back up and put pressure on my legs with his own. Unlike what it seemed like he was pretty strong. I couldn't move my legs and with one of his big hands he pinned mine above my head. I couldn't resist. My heart began thumping in my chest. I was very scared. My panic just increased as he raised his fist and punched my in the face.
I was bracing for the pain of having my nose brake, but the pain never came, and even better, there was no longer any pressure on my legs.
I got up and saw Mark grabbing Stephen from the collar, clearly threatening him. The teacher was all over them in a second, screaming at Mark to go back to his fight and writing him up for disobedience.
Stephen walked to where I was now standing, already preparing myself to defend from his attack, when the teacher blew his whistle and the class was over. I breathed a sigh of relief. I wouldn't have to fight more for today.
Stephen passed near me and hit me in the shoulder with his own.
" Jack's mine" He said while looking at me with a murderous gaze.
He was... jealous. But Jack wasn't his, he was mine. Something started moving in my chest and fury raised from within me. I had to work real hard to stop my shadows from raising and destroying him. I may had had some qualms about killing, but my shadows sure as hell didn't. I grabbed him by the hair and pulled him back.
" They are mine. Don't even think about touching them."
I pulled him away from me and he threw me one last murderous gaze before he disappeared into the old castle.
" That's right, we're yours" Jack threw his arm over my shoulder, but I pushed him off.
I ran to the changing room and after picking up my clothes I changed on the bathroom. I held my head between my hands as I thought.' I really think I've fallen in love'
The next class was history and the guys, who had now made it an habit to seat near me, kept teasing me time and time again, though to tell the truth it was mostly Jack teasing and Mark blushing while Orus asked unrelated questions.
" You do love us sooooo much" Jack said, hugging himself and making kissing motions.
" Did you fight him just for us?" Orus looked at me with love in his eyes. It was easy to see how much I meant to him. He always had his emotions written all over his face.
" No, I fought him because I had to"
" Sure, you did" Jack winked at me. They were all idiots.
" Let her be" Well, maybe Mark wasn't as much as an idiot as the rest.
I smiled at him, appreciating his support, but the jokes didn't stop.
"Don't you know we're yours and you're ours?" Jack asked." Unless.... you're into watching other people have sex" I turned red and the guys seating in front of us turned to look at us.
How he could say that having this much people around us was beyond my comprehension.
" Even if you are, we're still not going to do it. I'm only having sex with you" Orus said, nudging me.
The guy to our left spat the water he was drinking all over his desk and turned to look at us weird.
" Please. Stop" I was now as red as a tomato and was hiding my head between my hands.
" Why? We're just talking about how you like to watch other people go at it as they moan, like Oh, baby, you're sooooo good..Ahhh.Ahh" Now everyone in the class was officially looking at us.
" Mister Langosst, I know your sex life is bound to be very interesting, but could you please pay attention?" Great, now even the teacher knew what we'd been talking about.
" As you said my sex life is very interesting and I think it's more important than some history class. Don't ya think?"
" How so?" The teacher crossed his arms, clearly annoyed.
" Well, when I rule the world after I bring back my parents knowing about my sex life will be a required subject, so why not start now?"
The teacher rubbed his temples, exhausted just by talking to Jack for this little while.' Imagine what I'm suffering' I thought, feeling kind of bad for the teacher.
" Just pay attention" He sighed.
" And what if I don't?"
" Then you'll clean the toilets for a week"
Jack shut up real fast. Who knew all that was needed was a threat to clean the toilets?
" I don't wanna do it with this idiot" Jack muttered, pointing to Mark.
I raised an eyebrow and Mark answered my unasked question.
" The PE teacher punished me to clean the toilets this afternoon"
" For me?" I felt touched.
" I'd do anything for you" Mark flushed red and left the class, which the teacher didn't even notice, but he did notice we had been talking.
" You too, pay attention or you'll also clean the toilets"
I focused back in the class and so did Orus and Jack. I had to use the bathroom in PE and Combat class or when I was on my period and I could tell I didn't want to go anywhere near them, much less clean them. Most of the toilets had pee all over them and smelled like hell, so cleaning them was a hard pass.
" Today we'll be talking about the ancient people who populated the continent. Before mages were acknowledged as helpful to humans we were hunted down like demons. This is now ancient history from over three thousand years ago, but you need to understand that we were once compared to demons until humans discovered we could help them fight against them and those dark times could come back any time." The teacher made a pause for dramatic effect.
" When did mages and demons first appear?" A guy from the first row asked.
" Excellent question Mister Rackson. Demons appeared over a milenia ago when a rift opened between their world, Jinasia, and ours. They began attacking humans and plundering everything. It is believed that mages appeared as a mutation of humans as a defense mechanism against the demons, but it hasn't been proved yet. Mages were attacked as well as the demons by the humans, who believed they were evil. It took hundreds of years before the mages and humans joined hands and managed to push back the demons into their world, but every now and then demons launch invasions, trying to conquer us, and some lesser demons always manage to slip in from the breach. That is why it's so important to be alert."
"Any other questions?" He looked at the class, but no one answered, so he continued, walking to the board and writting a name in cursive.
" Today we'll learn about the mages that stopped the first great invasion. Does anyone know who this is?" He said, pointing to the board, where the name Ailen was clearly written in neat cursive.
" She was the mage that singlehandedly destroyed a whole battalion of demons when they tried to invade us" The same guy that had asked the question before said.
" That's right. She is considered one of the greatest archmages of all times. With only twenty years she managed to....."
I tunned the teacher out and started thinking about what he'd said. I hadn't known demons had been here long before mages. Curiosity took the better of me and I raised my hand.
" Yes, Mister Kumar?"
" Are hybrids between demons and humans possible?"
" That's a great question. They are not, as a matter of fact, possible, but between a demon and a mage it is a possibility, thought it would be considered treason and both the parents and the children would be executed. Have I answered your question?"
I nodded.
" I appreciate your questions, but please next time wait until the end of the class or until I ask for questions"
" Sure"
He nooded and continued talking about the great mages of old.
As I went to sleep I kept thinking about what the teacher had said, and I turned and turned until dawn came, unable to fall asleep.