Lucio Illio was the son of one of the cities most powerful Lords and was born with a higher fire affinity. He had never suffered any hardships and was raised to lead. As such he could not imagine a person who could possibly disrespect him, until he met his roommate that is.

As he walked into his new room, he could feel an overwhelming sense of tension and looking at the other boys expression, he very much felt like an animal being stalked for prey. But he was an Illio and he wasn't about to let a commoner be disrespectful. 

Walking towards the commoner, Lucio opened his mouth to speak, but before he could do that, the trash barged past him, purposefully knocking into his shoulder, while grinning and walked out the room. As the other boy walked out the room, Lucio struggled with what had happened, how dare that trash barge into him!

Turning to walk towards the door intent with teaching the trash a lesson, Lucio grabbed the door knob and pulled angrily, only for the door knob to break. Lucio pulled again and realised the door was locked and for some reason he couldn't find his key. 

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As Lucio struggled with the door, Lupos walked cheerfully, whistling, as he took the second key from his pocket grinning evilly. That would teach that arrogant Lordling to annoy him, but that wasn't the best part. Of course, Lupos had left several traps in place, hoping to rid himself of his roommate. Not only were all the doors and windows locked with no way out, Lupos had taken the initiative to break almost every escape route out of the room beyond repair.

Growing up in a forest of magical beasts gave Lupos the smell of a beast himself and allowed him to tame any normal animal quite quickly, which is why it had been almost too easy to charm several snakes into his room and leave them there to cause trouble. Of course, that wasn't the worst of it, the snakes were all highly venomous and could cause a natural sickness that came with a nasty case of diarrhoea. Laughing evilly, Lupos walked off ignoring the sudden scream of his roommate.

One hour later after hunting for dinner in a nearby forest (he wasn't going to go soft just because he was living with humans) Lupos returned to his room. As he neared the door, he heard sobs coming from inside "help me, please help me." Lupos grinned and slowly yet dramatically opened the door "hello dear roommate." Lucio looked up.

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"You're back," he said forgetting all his previous annoyance "thank god you're back." 

"Oh dear," said Lupos with innocent eyes "what happened here?" 

"Someone broke down the rooms defences. Quickly we must escape, there are two snakes in the bathroom. I think one of them bit me, what if I die from this!?!" Hiding his grin, Lupos put on a serious face, "let me see the bite quickly - I come from a healers family, so I can probably help." Lucio smiled in relief and lifted up his trouser leg so Lupos could see the bite.

"Oh dear," said Lupos trying to sound sympathetic "you're quite lucky I was here, luckily, I have the cure for such a bite. Usually it's very expensive." Taking out a small powder, Lupos handed it to the boy "here put this powder on the bite once a day and you'll feel better." Lucio nodded gratefully "thank you, I will be sure to pay you back for your kindness today."

Lupos looked over at Lucio feigning worry "you should change to a private room where you'd be safer." Lucio looked at him in shock "Would you be ok in a room on your own? This sort of thing may happen again." 

"It's fine," said Lupos trying not to laugh "my social status was too far below yours anyway how could I allow the son of an influential Lord to share a room with lowly me." With this Lupos bowed, Lucio took this as a sign of respect and realised maybe he'd misjudged the other boy. Meanwhile, Lupos bowed to hide his face, which was slowly being broken with laughter. 

"I will ask for a room change, I wish you luck." With this Lucio hurried out the room as Lupos collapsed on the floor crying with laughter. The idiot had actually just volunteered to pay for an "antidote" that would make his leg look better but not actually have any affect and plague him with itchiness for months to come.

After he had laughed himself to tears, Lupos sat and contemplated, tomorrow was the first day of lessons and the start of his revenge as well as his summoning ceremony for an elemental spirit. He let out a sigh realising worrying wasn't going to help and with this thought he collapsed on the floor and slept.