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Chapter 5 - 5. The test

"Come here and eat Vivian." Jennie called out from the kitchen. Vivian got up, placing the puppy gently on the couch before heading over to the dining table. They started eating their dinner quietly as always.

"I'm sorry for just bringing in a puppy without telling you..."

"It's okay, I know you have a soft spot for puppies and things like this~ Even if you didn't tell me, I wouldn't even know that there was a puppy in the dorm." Jennie chuckled, which was true...even if Vivian hadn't said anything about the puppy, she wouldn't have known anything about it.

She smiled at Jennie and continued eating her dinner. ๐‘บ๐’•๐’“๐’‚๐’๐’ˆ๐’† ๐’•๐’‰๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ๐’” ๐’‚๐’“๐’† ๐’‰๐’‚๐’‘๐’‘๐’†๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’•๐’ ๐’Ž๐’† ๐’Š๐’”๐’'๐’• ๐’Š๐’•...? ๐‘ญ๐’Š๐’“๐’”๐’• ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’”๐’‰๐’‚๐’…๐’๐’˜ ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’๐’๐’˜ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’‘๐’–๐’‘๐’‘๐’š ๐’•๐’‰๐’‚๐’• ๐‘ฐ ๐’„๐’‚๐’ ๐’”๐’†๐’† ๐’˜๐’‰๐’Š๐’๐’† ๐’๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’“๐’” ๐’„๐’‚๐’'๐’•?

"I'm done eating...I'll go have a early rest for today..."

"O-okay, remember theres the test tomorrow!"

"I will~ thankyou and goodnight to you Jen~" Vivianย said while entering her room, she laid down on her bed and sighed.

The puppy that followed her into her room, jumped onto the bed beside her. She turned over, petting it while it was happily wagging its tails don licker her face.

"I wonder who would leave you there like that..." She mumbled out, feeling bad for the poor puppy, abandoned there in the broad afternoon.

She was glad that she found the puppy and took him in otherwise, who knows what would happen to the puppy out there with no one to care for it...

๐‘ณ๐’†๐’•'๐’” ๐’‹๐’–๐’”๐’• ๐’ˆ๐’†๐’• ๐’”๐’๐’Ž๐’† ๐’“๐’†๐’”๐’•...๐’Š๐’• ๐’˜๐’‚๐’” ๐’Œ๐’Š๐’๐’… ๐’๐’‡ ๐’‚ ๐’๐’๐’๐’ˆ ๐’…๐’‚๐’š. She yawned tiredly, sitting up and went to do her night routine. Once she did, she layed back down on the bed and stared at the ceiling.

"Let's hope the test goes well...goodnight little pup~"

โ™ก The next morning โ™ก

Vivian woke up with the puppy, jumping on top of her bed, barking cutely at her. She adjusted her eyes to the surroundings and yawned sleepily still.

"Morning little one~" She ruffled the puppy on the head and got out of bed to do her things, getting ready for the day.

She wore a comfortable oversized hoodie with some jeans to go along with it, she took her glasses that she had with her, often wearing it but sometimes forgetting about it and got out of the room.

Jennie, who was in the living room, stared at Vivian with wide eyes as it followed her each and every move. Vivian gave the puppy some food and water as she got herself a toast of bread.

She noticed that Jennie has been staring at her for quite some while now and they stared at each other like it was a staring contest.

"What?"

"Since when do you ever wake up early?"

"What are you talking about? I'm always early."

"RIght...when you always wake up a few minutes few minutes before class starts?" Jennie remarked as she nodded her head innocently at her.

Vivian wasn't much of a morning person, she was more of a nightowl person instead, so waking up early in the morning is just not her thing.

"Come on, let's go...I don't want to be late for the testing." Vivian stood up with Jennie and she petted the puppy one more time.

"Don't worry, we will be home soon~"

"What do you mean be home soon...we still have lessons after that." Jennie crossed her arms and tapped her feet as she waited for Vivian by the door. ๐‘น๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’‰๐’•...๐’˜๐’† ๐’‰๐’‚๐’—๐’† ๐’๐’†๐’”๐’”๐’๐’๐’” ๐’‚๐’‡๐’•๐’†๐’“ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’•๐’†๐’”๐’•...

"Then you'll have to wait okay, don't make a mess of the dorm~" she told the puppy like as if it was a human, knowing and understanding what she was saying.

They took whatever they needed and left the dorm, heading over to the school hall to wait. The school hall was half packed with different classes, waiting for their turn to do the test.

Jennie looked around the hall and quickly pulled Vivian aside as she noticed the gang of bullies entering the hall. Silence fell upon the school hall as everyone moved out of the way and stayed silent in their corners.

"Woah..."

"What is it-?"

"Shhh!" Jennie covered Vivian's mouth, preventing her from speaking a word more, not wanting to attract the attention of the three.

"What are you covering-"

"Shhhh! Don't be so loud!"

"Okay okay, I get it." Jennie released her hands from Vivian's mouth as she took a glance over at the three boys, Vivian saw yesterday. Just thinking about yesterday, gives her the chills.

"Don't you know what they can do, if they saw you?!"

"I know...but don't worry, they won't ever lay a finger on me I hope." Vivian said, looking at the three who was caught staring at her, looked away immediately. ๐‘ฐ๐’” ๐’๐’๐’ˆ๐’‚๐’๐’” ๐’ƒ๐’‚๐’„๐’Œ ๐’‰๐’†๐’‚๐’๐’†๐’…? ๐‘ฏ๐’† ๐’”๐’†๐’†๐’Ž๐’” ๐’‡๐’Š๐’๐’†...

"How would you be so sure and I wonder how they got those ridiculous amount of bandages..."

"Well...you can say they got beaten up."

"How would you know if that happened...no one has ever tried picking a fight with them before." Jennie crossed her arms, looking at Vivian in disbelief. No one would want to pick a fight with those three guys...even if they did, they would not be spared.

"Well, I just happened to be the one giving them the bandages..." Jennie's eyes widened, seconds later after hearing what Vivian said. She could tell that jennie didn't believe her and was trying to process what she just said.

It definitely is a shock to hear that a mere low ranked bunny, giving the schools top bullies, injuries and bandages especially when Vivian is their bully target...so of course it wouldn't be much believable to anyone.

"This is not funny Vivian..."

"Well I can go beat them again if you want-"

"Woah woah, Vivi are you nuts?!" Jennie grabbed hold of Vivian, not letting her anywhere near those three. She held her tightly when a sudden announcement was made.

"Attention everyone from class 3! Please proceed to the testing lab for the test in 2 minutes time, thank you!" Jennie heaved a sigh of relieve as the bell helped her out. The people from class 3 started going to the testing lab.

"Let's go~!" Jennie pushed Vivian along, happy that nothing bad happened. When they got to the testing, people were all lined up and ready to start their tests.

There was a small black ball in the middle of the room, floating. The ball helps with testing of powers, students are to make the ball grow bigger with their powers. The bigger the ball is, the powerful they are...

Vivian got herself ready and noticed that Gavin was present as well with the greatest mage of all time and in the school, Mr Will. ๐‘ถ๐’‰ ๐‘ฎ๐’‚๐’—๐’Š๐’'๐’” ๐’‰๐’†๐’“๐’† ๐’•๐’๐’? Vivian happily waved at Gavin and smiled.

"Hey Gavin~!" She uttered out loudly, making everyone look at her in shock as she daringly called out the second young master by his name.

No one dared calls him by his name unless they are someone who is close with him or allowed to by him, himself...

"Ahem..." Mr Will looked at Vivian as she covered her mouth, knowing what she just did. ๐‘ฏ๐’‚๐’‰๐’‚๐’‰...

๐’๐’๐’‘๐’”.

"Okay everyone, you all will be coming out one by one to test your power strengths so we'll start-"

"May I go first?"

"As you wish, second young master." Gavin started off first, though the test was normal that happens every once a year. The students are to train their powers within the time before the test.

If there are improvements shown, they would either remain in the same rank or up a rank depending on what number they are having now.

So if they have a number of 9 and they show massive improvement, they would up a rank and have a 10 which is the golden rank. If they don't then they'll remain a 9.

If anyone doesn't practise well enough or doesn't improve, they could get downgraded which was most likely not going to happen since everyone didn't want to be of a Low ranked bronze.

Gavin stood in front of the black ball and started concentrating on his powers. His eyes glowed a light shade of yellow, extending his hands out as everyone stepped back and watched as the ball grew bit by bit...

The ball grew big until Gavin reached his limit and it was a good number for someone like him to have, a 10.

He stopped and stepped back as Mr Will nodded his head smiling while everyone applauded for him. ๐‘ซ๐’‚๐’๐’ˆ, ๐’‰๐’Š๐’” ๐’”๐’•๐’“๐’๐’๐’ˆ...๐’‚ ๐’ˆ๐’๐’๐’…๐’†๐’ ๐’“๐’‚๐’๐’Œ ๐’˜๐’†๐’“๐’†๐’˜๐’๐’๐’‡ ๐’Š ๐’”๐’†๐’†.

"Okay next!"

"Wait! Can I go next?" Vivian raised up her hand, asking. Everyone stared at her as she seriously stared at Gavin and Mr Will.

"Okay...Vivian Flores, your next." Vivian stepped to the front, exhaling out a deep breath of air. ๐‘ฏ๐’†๐’“๐’† ๐’ˆ๐’๐’†๐’” ๐’๐’๐’•๐’‰๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ...

She focused her magic on the black ball, her eyes glowed aย  bright shade of purple, making everyone widen their eyes except for the three, who saw it before...

1...

2...

3...

4...

5...

Everyone gasped seeing Vivians number rose up one by one but it only stopped at 5...and she didn't stop. Her powers were somehow overflowing but it wasn't enlarging the ball any further.

Instead, her powers flowed into the surrounding, making everything around stop in time. The students at the scene froze and the whole lab turned dark. Only Gavin was still able to move and it was just him and Vivian in the dark space.

Everything was black as if they were in a dark pit hole and the air...a strong windy breeze blew, her feet weren't touching the floor anymore, she was...floating...

Gavin stared at the unconscious looking Vivian as she let her hand go from the ball and floated towards him. She stared at him with her glowing purple eyes, her hands reached for his face and caressed him.

"W-where are we...?" She didn't reply, she just gave a warm smile before giving a warm hug to him. Gavin stood rooted to the ground, not knowing what to do until he felt something sharp piercing into his neck.

"Ackk...stop it!" Vivian moved back as she tilted her head. He held his neck in pain as he noticed that she had blood dripping down from her mouth and...he widened his eyes took seeing that his hands had blood on them...

"Fangs...? What are you?!" He exclaimed, hands trembling in fear but she smiled, going a step closer to him and licking away the blood from her mouth and his fingers, making the icy cold second young master blush.

"Y-you..."

After a while, the wind stopped, everything went back to normal, the colours of the testing lab was back to the original. Vivian was at her original spot and didn't move.

Her feet touched the ground and she returned back to her normal state...and so did everyone.

Once everything was back to normal, Gavin quickly walked out of the testing lab with his head hung low. ๐‘ฏ๐’–๐’‰, ๐’˜๐’‰๐’†๐’“๐’† ๐’Š๐’” ๐’‰๐’† ๐’ˆ๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ?

"Gavin!"