Chapter 1
The bus is filled with a sickening silence. I look around to see the other students, it's like staring onto the void. They say if you look into the darkness the darkness looks back at you and the only thing I could see were darkened faces of people who attend the same school as me. My social life was about to be completely destroyed and there was nothing I could do but look.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Everyone in the bus burst into laughter, my life is over.
"I didn't know the transfer student had such a sense of humor."
Are they laughing at me or what I did.
"Yeah, he totally is going to get that part in the play. Transfer student what's your name?"
The person who asks me this question is a red headed male (probably a hybrid), he is surrounded by other hybrids. I guess he is popular, which gives me more of an excuse to avoid him. This guy though might be my way out of here.
"My name is Ualb Cet Airtsudin."
Damn, I said my names backwards.
"U... Ualb, nice to meet you. I'm Rowan, Rowan El Kairos. "
"Um, sorry my name is Ualb. My name is actually Blau Tec Industria"
"Blau Tec Industria. I know you we are in the same Organic Chemistry class."
This guy actually remembers the people in his class. He seems to be a people magnet it is best to avoid him, that is really going to be difficult because he is small.
*he is 152cm tall (barely off of 5ft) , compared to Blau who is 173 cm(5 feet 8 inches).
"So, Blau the guys and I are heading out for archery practice wanna join us. "
"N-Yes!"
What a time for a tongue slip.
"Okay, then let us go."
I know what I'll do the bus is expected to stop in the next 3 minutes there are are about 50 students in this bus excluding little red (Rowan) and his gang so my best plan of escape is to mix in with the students. Lumine has stealth features in her so I'll use her to escape. I'm so glad that I chose for her main system to be implanted in my head.
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"What are you talking about? We're already there"
"Sh-"
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Ostwood academy, less popularly known as Ostwood Academy for Magic and Technology, also known as Ostwood Academy for Magic, Technology, Sports, Performance Arts, Literary Arts and Sciences among Bookworms, Academics, Scientists, Technologists, Analysts, Researchers, Developers, and Scholars also known as BASTARDS. This institute was founded about three hundred years ago by His Majesty Edward Fredrick Caelum the second prince of Caelum back in the year 616 of the Fauxion calendar. The school offers various courses in basically everything, it is also popular due to the high accessibility and the fact it allow students from various races and backgrounds even though it was formed under a monarchy.
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But now I have encountered a big problem, I am on my way to the archery club's range field, which by the way I don't want to be anywhere around. The archery club has been popular ever since they won gold at the inter-academy sports invitational and now every single person in school has been struck straight in the heart by archery fever. Little Red that is leading me to the archery club just so happens to be in my class and did I forget to mention the very person who won gold at the invitational, his name was all over the school but I didn't think that I would be unfortunate enough to meet him, I also didn't think that he would show any interest in me.
We finally get to the archery range. The field is filled with a bunch of students who were cheering,very loudly at that, and their energy only increases as Rowan gets to the field. The first thing you would expect to hear would be "woo, woo, woo. Rowan we love you. Pierce my heart or something" but something felt off, the energy had increased but not every was giving the same cheers as before, no this was different and then nothing but silence.
"Hey, Blau you made it."
My name was called by none other than Liber Caelum. You read my right Caelum as in the royal family, Caelum as in the same family,Caelum as in the guy who founded the academy. Liberimente August Caelum, the great great grandson of Edward Fredrick Caelum, my classmate and the one who invited my to see the archery club practice.
"Hey Liberimente, how do you do?."
Even though he is a member of the royal family, Liber just so happens to fit in with the crowd, several members of staff don't even know who he actually is, maybe it is due to the fact that his great great grandpa was the second prince or maybe it's the fact that he is the less exceptional member of the royal family.
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Liberimente Caelum, the great great grandson of the academy's founder, an exceptional student ranked third in his class, a genius whose magical aptitude is nothing to be scoffed at, a student who nobody really gives any attention in school. Why? He is heavily outclassed by two other bearers of the name Caelum in the same class, whose names are....
"Sidra Caelum just beat Rowan El Kairos' archery record of 1194 with a score of 1209! "
Someone shouted in the audience, the entire field was quiet someone was trying to focus. The official archery competitions are held in target archery style but in this case every target is fortified with a bit of magic, archers are given a number of arrows to fire at the targets with; the school give them 150 . The arrows are made with magic crystal tips, while the bodies are metallic. The archers fill the arrows with their magic and then shoot the arrows toward the targets. If one's magic is strong enough the barrier will break if not the barrier will not, each barriers is made with a different magical pulse and the archers are only told the strength of each pulse before they are about to shoot. If the arrow's pulse is too strong and destroys the target points are taken .Rowan was seen as a prodigy so for someone to take that record from him it is really going to hurt, right ?
"Blau, Blau, Blau! "
"What?"
"I actually didn't think that you would come here."
"I didn't either."
"I'm just gonna ignore that. I invited you here because you seem to be the only one in the our class to not have an after school club or sport or friends and it is my duty as your class representative to ensure that you are living your best life as a student of this academy. I also don't have any friends and was looking for some."
He said that last part incredibly quickly. I quickly lose interest in the boy and look at Rowan who was still standing beside me; Rowan was smiling. The normal person would frown when hearing that their record was taking from them but Little Red was smiling.
"Why are you happy? "
The question came from one of the people who would walk with Rowan.
"Why won't I smile. Someone finally defeated that record, I've finally met someone who face me in archery. "
"You've found someone who beat your record to be precise."
"Po-tay-toe, Po-taa-toe"
I've finally been able to retract myself from the group so now I'll leave the range and never engage myself with these people again.
"Sidra Caelum, I challenge you to a team archery duet. The loser has to do what ever the winners say."
Cheeky move from Little Red very un-chivalrous to challenge a someone like that, even though the Caelum shows promise as an archer the only other people in the school who are capable of archery are the archery club members.
"Lumine book bus ticket back to the apartment building."
"Yes sir."
As I leave I hear a shout from behind me.
"She accepted the challenge but who is she going to have as a partner. "
I leave before I hear anything else. I get to the bus stop and the tram was already there, i get onto the bus and sneeze.
"Bless you"
"Thank you."
I’ve got a bad feeling about that sneeze.