Landonne had arrived outside of the Dragonial Martial academy, well atlast outside of it’s gate, he was still wearing his training unform with the jacket undone, he walked alongside the black iron fence that stood way taller than him, the top of them ran up into long spikes, he had thought about climbing over but those deterred him, He finally made it to the front gate. It had looked like the fancy entrance of an old castle, the gates themselves stood taller than the fence and were split into two sections with a small building in the middle, on each side of the two sections stood a guard, Landonne looked at each of the guards and made his way to the one closest to him, as he got closer the look on the guards face changed from expressionless and stoic to one filled with disgust and annoyance,

“hey if you don’t mind I’m looking for”, Landonne began to speak, the guard scoffed causing landonne to stop speaking,

“oh great another gutter rat”, the guard said, across from him the other guard let out a small chuckle,

“look we don’t accept low ranking trash like you”, the guard said, Landonne’s face went from bored to lighting up with a smile on his face,

“I was in a shitty mood, but I guess punching our face in would make me feel better”, Landonne said,

“what did you say you, you sewer rat”, The guard said, walking towards landonne, producing flames in his palm,

“ohh, big man can use some fire”, Landonne taunted, cracking his knuckles,

“AT EASE SOLDIERS”. The loud stern voice filled the air,

“YES SIR”, both the guard and Landonne responded instinctively, Landonne looked around to see an older man, he was walking with a walking cane but still stood up right with a sharp gaze looking down as though he demanded respect from the both of us, his dark skin looked worn due to the folds and wrinkles on his face, his grey hair pulled back into a ponytail, and his eyes looked sharper than an eagle’s, with their icy blue hue, they felt eerily similar to Zora’s,

“How may I assist you son”, The old man said to Landonne, who looked even more annoyed than he did previously,

“Great now I have even more of a hassle to deal with”, Landoone said placing his arms behind his head,

“let me introduce myself, I am Captain Colonel Verross, I take it you are a private, and judging from your uniform and demenor, your from Zora’s base, that young lady never got rid of her nonchalant nature”, The old man said laughing to himself,

“My apologies sir, he was at the gate ready to cause trouble”, The guard said, but the old man raised his hand to silence him,

“it’s alright, why don’t you two go take a break inside while I have a talk with this young man”, Verross said, the two guards saluted and shuffled off inside,

“so why are you at the front gate of this school”, Verross asked,

“hell if I know, Zora told me to come here and tell the guards that I’m here for the prince’s class”, landonne said, the old man clasped his chin

“ohh I see, well then I guess we’ll be seeing a lot of each other then”, Verross said with a soft smile on his face,

“OPEN THE GATE, when you get inside, look to your left, there is going to be a pathway next to a tall rock with a blue sigil on it, follow that path all the way to the end and that will be your destination”, he said, the sounds of metal clanking together and being undone from each other filled the air, the large black gate creaked loudly before rolling back slightly to let landonne pass through,

“by the way old man, why is someone of your rank a guard at the school”, Landonne asked,

“well when you get to my age you tend to want to take things slow, but if you want the whole story ask zora, oh and landonne, let me give you a free piece of advice, beware of an old man in a young man’s profession”, Verross aid waving goodbye to Landonne,

Landonne made his way as Old man Verross directed, ‘he’s such a weird old man, wait how did he know my name’, Landonne thought to himself, he made his way down the path, soon the the large grey building of the main school building was no longer in sight, and all Landonne could see sround him were trees, the pathway made a small decline and then ran up into a longer incline, as landonne reached the top of the incline, a large building came into view, at the front of the building flew the balck and red flag of Draconia Empire, the building itself seemed to be made out of stone, that was a way darker grey than the school building but it wasn’t quite black, the face of the building had no windows, and it sat in the middle of a clearing, As landonne finished his approach he could now see another building off to the side, it was smaller and elongated, this one had windows on the front of it, the path ended at the front door of the larger building, and another smaller pathway branched off and curved and twisted towards the other building,

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Landonne looked at the large wooden double doors, and took a deep breath, he opened the door entering the building, through the first door stood two doors, the one to his left was closed, while the one to his right was open and he could here chatter coming from within, Landonne slowly stepped through the door, unprepared for anything he was about to see, inside the room was dimly lit, the brightest lights being to the front where he entered from, his eyes dated around taking in his surroundings, it seemed to be a lecture room similar to the ones zora had at the base, the seats started from the ground floor at the front and made their way back and upwards, leaving the back row high above the front row,

‘fifteen, sixteen’, Landonne counted to himself, he was the seventeenth person to enter the room, ‘eleven sitting down within the first three rows, and five more sitting closer to the back, it doesn’t seem like they are interacting with each other, so we’re all strangers for the most part, though Zora told me that Dante was suppose to be here, hmm, going off of that information, what do me and dante have in common, besides the fact that we hang out together and get in trouble, Dante isn’t even a recruit yet, so why would he be here, I mean he does live at an orphanage, but this is his last year there, could it be that the prince is doing some charity work, giving poor kids a chance at an education”, Landonne thought to himself as he made his way to the back of the lecture hall,

‘nah knowing that shady ass prince this has some ulterior motive behind it’, Landonne continued, he took his seat at the very back, when not even a couple seconds later, Dante walked in,

He scanned the room his hands in his jacket pocket as usual, he stood there at the entrance and kept looking around, when his eyes met up on Landonne, he jogged up the stairs coming to a halt at the back where Landonne sat,

“hey scoot over”, he said, nudging landonne’s knee with his, landonne sighed and slid across on the bench, Dante sat down placing his feet up on the desk,

“so what’s this all about” Dante asked, Landonne looked over at him annoyed,

“where the hell have you been, you haven’t snuck onto the base in like two weeks, I thought that all that meddling you’ve been doing got you killed”, Landonne said, leaning forward and placing his hands on the desk,

“Jud approached me when I was on my way to the base the other day and told me not to come to the base until today, then he told me when I got there to come here”, Dante explained,

“I have no idea what those two are planning, they sprung it on me today too, telling me that I have to attend this stuck up academy”, Lnadonne said,

“have you taken a good look at the room, I wouldn’t call us the cream of the crop” Dante said,

“what do you mean”, Landonne asked,

“you see the guy sitting in the middle row just below us, He’s the leader of a gang of the outer city orphanage kids, he’s the same age as us, and has a nasty use of telekinesis, he and his group have been I a territorial fight with the short stack girl with the pink hair, that’s mina, she’s the leader of the kids at the orphanage I stay at”, Dante explained,

“ohh, they’re kids though, what the hell are they even fighting over”, Landonne asked,

“hmm, lets see, what stores they can steal from, hang out spots, spots to do petty crime, and just over all bragging rights”, Dante explained,

“and where do you come in, in all of this”, Landonne said,

“I was trying to get them to come to peaceful terms, but mina, and the other guy daimon, lets just say they have a romantic history, plus Daimon can be vindictive asshole, so that’s how the past couple of weeks have gone for me”, Dante finished up,

“what the hell man, you could’ve come get me, we could’ve knocked some heads together”, Landonne said, sitting back into the bench and looking up at the ceiling,

“so anyone else you that caught you’re eye when you came in”, Dante asked landonne,

“yup, third row from the front, the bald guy, he has some serious scars on his head, and the look in his eyes, he’s been in a serious fight or two”, Landonne said,

“what about you Tay”, landonne asked,

“she just walked in”, Dante said, causing Landonne to sit up in his seat, by the entrance was a slender pale skinned girl, who wore a white dress in the style of the eastern nations of the Draconia empire, her hair was jet black and long, and her eyes just as dark, they felt as though they were filled with the abyss, nothing but darkness exuded from them,

“this just made things interesting, here I though we were all orphans or poor”, Landonne said, examining the new girl further,

“I know, she gives off the vibe that she is a princess”, Dante said, taking down his feet, he sat upright, tracing her every move, he became even more intrigued, when she backed them to sit down, her back was covered with a tattoo, I the dim lighting it was hard for dante to make out but he knew that he saw the face of a dragon it,

“dude, is that a dragon tattoo she has”, Dante asked, but Landonne’s focus was pulled entirely away from him, through the door walked, Zora, Jud, and her personal squadron, and in behind them walked Prince Nidavid and two of his retainers who had their faces covered with a black cloth with the symbol for the Royal house of Draconia on it,

Their presence alone silenced the classroom, everyone’s attention was drawn to them, Zora stepped to the front, she placed her hands behind her back, she was wearing her combat uniform, with her sword at her side,

“This is not going to end well for us”, landonne said, a cold sweat running down his face,

“Now that we have everyone’s Attention shall we get straight to business”, Zora said, a crude smile coming across her face