Failure of ice
imperium academy
*thud* rains sturdy elbow that was supporting his head slipped out allowing his face to kiss the door of the carriage. He looked up at me teary-eyed, his lip slightly fattened. His black hair was all over the place. I looked at his teary eyes and fattened lip, flashbacks reminding me of my mother's beaten face attacked me. A shiver ran up my spine making my thin 5,6 stature appear to spasm. My long black her fell over the front of my face, covering the small trail of tears coming from my eyes. The cold from the tears made me shiver once more. I lifted my head and pushed my hair back over my shoulders. The tears that had come out of my eyes made my green eyes look like they had a shine to them. I snuck a quick look towards rain out of embarrassment. He was looking out the window of the carriage as if he had no idea that anything was wrong.
The rain had appeared to have fallen asleep in the same position as earlier, he stayed like this for around another hour. my eyes were exploring him when I caught his eyes open up slightly. Without looking at me he addressed me and said: “Akiri, we’re almost there”. I put a serious face on and looked out the window all I saw were an endless amount of trees. We were in the middle of imperium forest, imperium forest was owned by imperium academy and is used as a training ground for the students. The carriage slowly moved along as I stared out the window and caught glimpses of elusive streams of sunlight through the endless line of trees. After about 5 minutes of slowly moving along the carriage came to a stop. Rain sat up straight. The carriage driver walked down the side of the carriage and opened the carriage door, the driver proceeded to turn to the side and put one hand behind his back he then bowed, very similar to how a butler would, he was even wearing very formal clothing. Rain stepped outside the carriage and I followed closely behind him. I looked towards the driver “Thank you” he bowed further as if he was showing his appreciation. “the carriage is not allowed on school grounds we have to walk the last little bit” rain said as he walked away. I walked quickly to catch up to him then steadied out my pace so that my walking was in time with rains.
The endless trees around us made a perfectly symmetrical pathway. The pathway had narrowed down compared to earlier in order to stop carriages from getting through. The gravel road turned into a paved path. The pavement was wide enough to allow two people to walk side by side with a small space between them. The tree line and the pavement had a very small gap between them and it was symmetrical on both sides and didn’t widen or shorten the whole way. Small amounts of sunlight seeped through the trees, light rays ran across the pathway illuminating the way. The trees were around 10 meters tall and were covered in leaves which is why very little sunlight could pass through. Up ahead I could see the pathway starting to widen. It gradually started becoming wider as you walked further. The path had gone from roughly 3 meters wide to around 6 meters wide. No more then 10 meters ahead the tree line ended and the pavement turned into grass. Rain and I stepped onto the grass simultaneously creating this pretty cool looking scene. Suddenly I was blinded sunlight because the tree line was no longer their to shade me from the sun. I stopped moving and waited as my vision slowly faded back in. I looked around with my eyes open wide. It was incredible. What has revealed to me was a massive square plane covered in neatly cut grass roughly 1 mile long and 1 mile wide. Centred At the other end of the plane directly in front of us was an enormous three-story c shaped building, The Academy. On my left and right at either end of the plane were large two-story rectangular buildings. The dorms.
Rain looked over and saw me in shock “Welcome to imperium academy. Directly in front of you that c shaped building, that’s the academy there, you will train to become an invoker, as well as continue all of your general studies like maths, English and so on. On your left is the female dorm, that is where you will stay and make your best friends and biggest rivals as well as many other things you’ll learn as you become more comfortable here. On your right is the male dorms.... stay away from their please.”. As we continued walking towards the main c shaped academy building rain continued telling me all about the academy. “ in both dorms is something called a supply shop where you can find all sorts of everyday items like food, furniture, clothes as well as not so everyday items like weapons. all to assist you in your stay here. The supply shop requires a payment in the form of imperium, Imperium is the currency used within the academy it will determine how comfortable your stay here will be. Though it has no value outside of the academy. inside the academy, Imperium can be earned in Many ways including doing well in your studies, doing quests for the school or the students, having a part-time job around the school or working for a student And finally winning duels. the school also runs tournaments and battle royals if you place high in these you can win prize money. The school has multiple ranking systems in order to distinguish valuable students. These ranks include duelling rank, study rank, support rank, familiar rank, tournament rank, battle royal rank, money rank, quest rank and overall rank. Achieving a high rank in any of these categories rewards you with prize money as well as popularity and influence within the academy.
This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report.
once we reached the front door of the academy rain turned to me “ once we go inside I will lead you to a room, inside that room waiting for you will be the academy’s guidance spirit, the guiding spirit is a special existence not known to anyone except students and teachers at imperium academy believe. The guidance spirit will give you tips on what you should improve your existence within the academy, but he also can control his own thoughts so don’t take everything he says as a fact instead use it as something to work off of and make your own way”. Rain opened the large door and walked inside, I followed close behind him familiarising myself with the large room I was in. There was a single desk with a large chair behind it. Further behind the desk there was a door, I assume it leads to behind the academy.” that’s the principal's desk, the principal is an interesting character. But he is reliable. He isn't here at the moment but he will be here for tomorrows morning assembly”. We turned to the right and walked down a small hallway until we saw a single blue door. Rain looked at me and nodded, and so I walked inside. Inside the room were nothing but black walls a black roof and a black floor and a centrally placed pure white chair. I walked over and sat down.
”hmmmmm, Akira I presume”. I looked around shocked at the sudden voice but quickly regained my composure. “ How do you know my name. Are you the guidance spirit” a few moments later the voice sounded again “ oh you know about me. I suppose rain told you about me. Oh well it doesn’t really matter whether you know what I am or not.” I looked around trying to see a physical form but I couldn’t see one. Exactly as the name suggests, a spirit. “I was told that you would give me tips to improve my life within the academy” I wasn’t really sure about how I was supposed to talk to him so used formal-ish tone. “I suppose that is what I do. akira you have a relatively frightening past, Their a very few students here who share a similar background to you most of them are of royalty. Fitting in here by socialising may be hard for you. I recommend you try and avoid offending anyone until you Aquire a standing within the academy. Popularity within the academy is mostly determined by how valuable the individual is to the academy and how promising they are as an invoker. Try and climb your way through the ranks while avoiding offending any big name family that may crush you. This is how you should go about your schooling here. Gain strength and climb through the ranks. This is all I have to say you may leave”. This seemed pretty rude and rushed but I didn’t question him, after all, he gave me pretty good advice but nothing rain hadn't already told me about, so I got up and left. “ hmmm she will be a very interesting person to watch”.
I walked through the corridor rain led me through earlier and when I got to the large room where the principal desk was, a girl with long flowing blond hair walked passed me. She didn’t say anything but snuck a look at me when she walked passed, I wasn’t exactly sure if that look meant something or if it was just because she was curious either way, we would probably see each other again. I walked outside and saw rain sitting cross-legged outside looking up into the deep blue sky. I walked in front of him and looked down at him “I’m finished” he looked at me “good, whatever he said to you treat it confidentially. Now, let's go to the dorm and you can get settled in for the night. tomorrow all new students will attend the morning assembly so make sure you are dressed in uniform and outside on the grass by 5 am tomorrow” ... “did you just say 5 am”.
rain lead me towards the female dorms, once we got them he pulled out a key. “This is just to let you in for tonight tomorrow your fingerprints will be magically imprinted on the handle but for tonight this will have to do. There may be other girls sleeping at the moment so please be courteous. Your room will have your name above it. have a look around until you find it then settle in. Your room will have a small amount of furniture already inside and in your room, multiple pairs of uniform will be folded and ready for use.” Rain turned around and started walking away. I went inside and found my room positioned on the first floor the last room to the right. I opened the door to my room and stepped inside and looked around. There was a nice little bed central in the room with a small bench and chair on the right, on the left Was a cupboard and just as rain said the were multiple pairs of uniform. The uniform was a white skirt and a blue and white t-shirt...” 5 am huh” I jumped in bed *sigh*. And fell asleep.