What Would You Do For Revenge?
Chapter 6-Nothing's Fair In Love And War
It only took me a few minutes to reach the forest with my speed and 'Augmentation'. The forest was really creepy, you couldn't see 5 feet in front of you, there was sometimes screeching in the darkness, and I kept running into trees. I was thinking about his to solve this problem, when I used my fire to create light around me and it worked, now I can see 20 feet around me. Neat.
I was walking around the forest, when I 'felt' somebody near me, smiling, I walk in the direction of it. I reached the presence and found a black skinned demon, with black hair, red eyes, black horns that protrude out of his head vertically, black tail like a lizard, and a giant sword next to him, sitting on a tree branch.
"Well, what do we have here, a Human, how nice." He said in a raspy voice, eyeing me from head to toe.
"Are you Magaki Hoshino?" I said. He smiled at me and got off his branch, landing on the ground with a thud.
"The one and only, but I am quite curious as to why a Human sought me out, very curious indeed." He said, walking around me, looking at me from l sides.
"I sought you because I want revenge against the Sryinx empire for murdering my wife and child." I said and Magaki looked at me with absolute seriousness.
"You sought me out so I could help you with revenge? Petty, you came to me thinking I would have a grudge against Sryinx no doubt. Let me tell you my friend, revenge is pointless, it only will give birth to more revenge. If you kill the king, people will come after you and if you have family left, they will find them too. " Said Magaki.
"I should know, I killed the king of Sryinx because he persecuted my own people for his petty revenge. Afterwards, I traveled back to what remained of my homeland, only to be seen as an object of scorn by my own people. Soon, some people who loved the king, found my clan and started killing everyone." He said, turning around.
"We repelled them, but we couldn't save everyone, I knew our clan was going to become extinct soon, if they found us, more will, so I stole my clan's secret immortality technique and made myself immortal, forced to be an outcast from my own tribe, so I could continue our clan. Do you know how I felt, when my own family threw me out of my own clan, because they didn't understand my intentions? I was destroyed, forced to live an eternity in self pity and regret, thinking I could have done something different. But I found something to live for and you need to too. For your own sake or you will be destroyed, what lies after you finished your revenge is not salvation, only damnation." He said and got back on his branch.
"What did you find to live for, your entire clan is dead." I said. He looked at me again.
"Love." Was all he said and disappeared. I stared where he was sitting, a storm came and it started raining. I sat there, looking at the sky, tears welling up in my eyes.
'He's right, how could I have been so blind. I need to live for Cristina, Cynthia never wanted me to get revenge for her, but, but, I don't know what to do. I want to be there for Cristina but I want revenge for Cynthia and Jay. If I kill the king, I will become a fugitive, never able to live safely again, always looking over my shoulder, I can't have Cristina live like that.' I thought and made my choice. I will be the best father I can for Cristina. As I was thinking this, my shoulders felt lighter, weird.
I started walking back to the academy, a new goal in my mind, and my fire in hand. I arrived back at the academy and it was dawn, Cristina should be waking up soon. I snuck back into the dorm and back into my room, sliding under the cover and practiced magic until I fell asleep, lately it's been taking longer than the first time I did this, I must be increasing my mana pool.
It was a blissful morning when I awoke, Cristina and Veronica were both jumping on me, yelling at me to get up. I got up and chased Cristina and Veronica around the dorm, catching them and taking them to the bath to wash them, Veronica didn't mind and I let it be. The women around the dorm were wearing nightgowns and when they saw me, got more embarrassed than Cynthia would get sometimes, desperately covering themselves and running back to their rooms to change.
I was in the bath with Cristina and Veronica, washing them and when the women saw me, they looked at my crotch and fainted, oh no, I can't let these young maidens see me, and I covered myself with a towel. I kept tickling the two and we finally got cleaned. We went up to our room and I helped them get dressed. They both had the black and white school uniforms, a badge on their left arm and a blue and black suns on their respective arms. They looked really pretty and Veronica blushed and Cristina giggled when I said they looked beautiful.
I put on my white suit with black trimmings and a black tie, white shoes, and started fidgeting like a schoolgirl when the two said I looked so handsome, aww shucks. We got ready and exited the dorm, getting stares from everyone. I walked Cristina to the entrance ceremony with Veronica. There were at least a hundred first-year students here. Cristina and Veronica sat in the crowd, getting stares from men and I sat on stage, getting stares from women.
Bob got on stage and made a speech which I fell asleep through, figuratively, I just wasn't paying attention, and then he finished and everyone clapped, then went to their classes. I got up and went to my classroom. I teach a fire magic class, which Cristina and Veronica are in. They have every class together which is neat, but the Intro to Wind Magic, Veronica has a math class then.
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I walk in the class with Cristina and Veronica and all the students shut up. Cristina and Veronica take a seat and I introduce myself.
"Alright, listen up you poop nobblers, I don't want no screwing around, from you batch of meat tossers. If you all think you can take it easy in my class well, this is a wake up call, I will push you all until you're spitting blood you hear me? This next year will be hell." I said the students started whispering and shivering.
"Why did we get a crazy teacher? I mean he's hot but crazy." Someone said and Cristina pouted.
"Daddy, stop putting up a tough front and teach already, you always embarrass me like this." And everyone looked shocked. They were looking at me then at her, seeing the resemblance.
"I'm sorry sweetie, alright let's start with introductions, my name is Xearos Aveeno, call me what you want. Now you first, tell us your name and one thing you like." I said and pointed to a female in the front row. The seats were in five columns and three rows. She got up and started fidgeting, a shy girl eh?
"My name Is Mary Tinder and I like sweets." She said quietly and sat back down, fidgeting. Then we went through the entire class. When it was Cristina and Veronica's turn, everyone fell silent.
"My name Is Cristina Aveeno and I like daddy the most in the entire world." She said and I almost cried from happiness. Everyone was trying to remember her name and then it was Veronica's turn.
"My name Is Veronica Drac, a vampire and my favorite thing is blood." She said, looking at everyone and licking her lips, we practiced this all night, and everyone started shivering, and I laughed hard. After introductions were done, I had them show me what they could already do. Most could only hold a simple fireball spell for a minute or two and said an incredibly long chant, it was sad and some only used a shortened chant. This is to be expected from 7 year olds I guess.
"First order of business, increasing your mana pool. I will be giving you homework everyday, you must exhaust your mana completely everyday, no exceptions and by the end of graduation, you all will have monster mana pools. Is this understood?" I said and everyone nodded.
"Next order of business, voiceless chants." I said and everyone had a depressed face. Then I created a blue fireball from thin air without chanting and threw it out the window, creating a huge explosion. Everyone saw me do that and looked excited.
"To voiceless chant, the books are all wrong, you don't have to memorize and chant in your head. All you have to do, is will the magic into existence. It's simple, you just have to want to create something. Okay, everybody try it, will the magic to create a fireball above your hands." I said and everyone tried and two thirds of the class got it on their first try, and in a few minutes, everyone did it. I then had them practice until it was as easy as breathing. Some kids ran out of mana, so I gave them some of mine. Class ended and everyone went to their next classes, excited. I might be pretty good at this teaching thing.
I had a break so I walked around the school and got asked out by a lot of the female teachers and students. I declined all of them and continued my journey. Along the way, I 'felt' someone throw a water ball at my back, so slammed my hands on the ground, and created and earth wall. I looked around and found the culprit. It was a boy, probably in his 6th year here, quite the pretty boy if I say so myself and he had a white star on his right arm. I walked over to him and he smiled, he had two kids behind him too, probably his lackeys.
"Oh, look, it's Braddock, the best student at this school." Someone said.
"Kyaaaa, he's so handsome." A female said. So he is the topmost student here hmmm? How exciting.
"So you're the new teacher huh? You're pretty good, but let's see how good you really are." He said and stuck my feet to the ground using earth magic and shot an earth spike at my stomach. I used my blood magic and made a shield around where it struck. I pretended to get stabbed and slumped my shoulders and everyone gasped, thinking he killed me. He retracted the spells and was about to walk away, when I used plant magic on his feet and walked to him. He looked dumbfounded and I took off my shirt, revealing no injury.
"So my lovely little boy, what did you want to accomplish by doing this hmm?" I said and he shivered and started talking.
"I wanted to know who stole Cristina's heart and embarrass him so she would fall for me eventually." He said and I grabbed him by the neck, lifting him off his feet.
"Let me tell you something, she is my daughter and you can never have her, scum like you don't deserve happiness or my daughter. Don't ever come near my daughter again, or so help me god, I will kill you." I said and I dropped him, releasing my magic and he stood up.
"You think you can talk to the Prince of this country like that? I will have your daughter and I will kill you for this, don't forget." He said and I used wind magic to throw him against a wall.
"You can try, but not you, or anyone else, can touch me. To you, I am a God, remember that." I whispered in his ear and walked away, leaving him cowering along with his possy.