I couldn't sleep last night, and I most likely gave Cerberus a headache by how stressed I was. Can dogs have headaches? I assume so. I drag myself out of bed and wobble to my bathroom, Cerberus finally falls asleep and snores, loudly.
My bathroom is huge, my sink is confusing and modern looking, my shower lights up, my bathtub auto cleans and can make a relaxing bubble bath just by pressing a button and my toilet has about fifty different choices on top of it. I wouldn't be surprised if one of these buttons made me breakfast. I finish my morning routine and Cerberus meets me outside of the bathroom, I pick him up and bring him to the kitchen. I was given a cool looking dog food bag from one of the gifts. Apparently, it helps boost magic power and energy, like steroids but more normalized and safer. I pour the food into the bowl and place it on an elevated food bowl holder. Everything here is so fancy and expensive; I would hate to be someone that has to pay for one of these rooms.
Cerberus briskly eats but I still don't have an appetite, especially since it was just yesterday that my parents died. I never did have a good birthday but come on, my parents dying and my house getting blown up? Nothing can possibly top this year's birthday. The only thing I have left of them is the video, and Cerberus, I don't even have a family picture. I should stop thinking this way, my parents wouldn't want me to feel this way, they would want me to get off my ass and go kick Anthony's ass.
Fyre appears, 'Hell yeah, let's go kick some ass!'
'You're finally awake,' I place some of my flames on the counter. 'We're going to school soon, so eat quickly.'
'How do you think Cerberus will react to all of the other animals?' Fyre jumps off my shoulder and starts eating the fire. 'It's so hot, you're getting stronger so quickly.'
'I don't think he'll even notice anyone else,' I look down at my hand. 'I didn't even notice that my ring was taken off.'
'Someone probably did it while you were asleep,' Fyre suggests and blows on the fire to try to cool it down. 'I'm seriously concerned by how quickly your power is increasing, we wouldn't want the same thing that happened at the team battle to happen again. I don't think my body will be able to handle it.'
'I'll be sure to get our bodies stronger three times faster than my powers,' I think confidently.
'That sounds impossible,' Fyre finally takes his first bite of the fire. 'Although you already have done the impossible several times before. Like, getting sick, getting so strong so quickly, brought an entire species back to life.'
'Have you ever found out the whereabouts of the Flowkine?' I start packing my backpack, making sure to put my new textbook inside of it. I wonder what my new schedule will look like.
'I think Anthony attempted to clone it,' Fyre contemplates. 'I believe it ended up dying because it wasn't given enough sunlight.'
'Well at least I know how to create it,' I attach a leash to Cerberus's collar. 'Although I don't know if it will work again, I haven't even talked to Hunter in months I think.'
'Apparently him and his mother moved closer to the non-magic land,' Fyre finishes his breakfast. 'Although I don't know if that's true or not.'
'We'll just have to assume so for now,' I throw my bag over my shoulder, grab Cerberus's leash, Fyre jumps on my shoulder and we leave.
I don't see Troy or Des anywhere, they never came over, and I never even heard from them. I hope Troy is finally talking, and Des has finally calmed down, maybe that's why I never heard from them, they're still upset. In fact, I should be the same way, so why am I already calmed down about losing my parents? Is it because I have Cerberus? Wait, is Cerberus trained for emotional support? I guess that would make sense, after all mom did know that I have depression. I guess it will take a little longer for them to calm down a bit compared to me, and it's not like I can have Cerberus spend some time with them because he only pays attention to me.
The walk to school is quite funny, Cerberus tries to chase a butterfly and trips over his tail. A little girl wants to pet him but Cerberus won't stop looking at me and smiling, the little girl gets really upset and tries to pick up Cerberus but he wiggles out of her arms and starts barking at her, she got scared and ran behind her parents, they lecture her on how bad it was of her to treat a puppy like that. A shopkeeper saw Cerberus and gave me some complimentary dog treats, I left a tip that pays off the treats and a little extra. Cerberus gets a little cold, so Fyre warms him up, they become best friends. Cerberus got tired so had to carry him the rest of the way, with Fyre cuddling up to him.
I get to the outside of school and see my friends when a few more questions come flooding into my mind, like what about when we go to the non-magic school what will my friends have to do with their pets? Since Cerberus only has one head he still looks like a normal dog, meanwhile Shi has a fucking dragon, so what are we supposed to do with our pets?
Anne walks over and gives me a hug, "I think there's a little pet hotel that the animals are put into while we're at non-magic school."
"I guess that would make sense," I agree, and everyone runs over to see me.
They all tackle me to the ground, hugging me in a big, tight bear hug.
"What do you think our new classmates will be like?" I ask everyone once the hug breaks.
"Stuck up assholes," Shi answers. "They'll all think that they're better than us since they've been doing this for years."
"I think that they'll all be really kind and supportive," Samuel responds. "They'll understand that we're new to this and try to help us catch up as much as possible."
"Have you heard from Jowangsin yet?" Hakai asks me.
I shake a head, "No not yet, I'm kind of upset that she hasn't even bothered to send one of the angels to come and see me."
"I'm sure that she has a valid reason for it," Lukas attempts to motivate me. "She might be really busy; she is a goddess after all."
"Is that the pathetic Lexus Deathchill I see?" Rebexca Diamondship appears behind me, wearing a crop top in the middle of winter. "The poor little girl who can't even control her own powers."
"Leave us alone, Rebexca," Shadow demands. "Now isn't a good time, in fact. It never was."
"Aw, poor little Alec is upset, why don't you just go cry to one of your little angels," Rebexca chuckles like the bitch she is. "Or maybe go cry to your boyfriend."
We all go silent, Samuel turns to Shadow, "You have a boyfriend?"
Rebexca guffaws loudly, "You haven't even told him yet? You're so sad."
Shadow switches to his leader character and smirks, "You shouldn't speak to people in such a manner Rebexca, you'll never know how much stronger, the people you dog, are compared to you."
"Excuse me?" Twitches Rebexca. "How dare you act like you're better than me! I will tell my father!"
Shadow snickers, "Little miss spoiled, you can't handle people speaking down to you and you just go crying to your father whenever something doesn't go the way you want it to."
Rebexca stomps her feet, let's out a prissy grunt and storms off.
"I miss seeing this side of you," I chuckle. Watching everyone stare at her cry while running to her father. "If only you were around since I first met her."
"I'm surprised that she never mentioned all of our pets," Anne raises Orthrus into the air.
"I bet she actually just wanted to pet them," Hakai snorts.
"Did you all get a textbook?" I survey them, pulling my textbook out of the bag.
"Yours was delivered to you since it was your birthday," Bryan explains. "Everyone else will be receiving theirs in class."
My head snaps to him, "I just realized that you and Anne won't be in the same class anymore."
He waves his hand in the air to dismiss it, "I'll survive."
The bells rings and we all take out our schedules to find our new classroom, luckily, we've all gotten into the same class. Shi's schedule was already ripped in several different parts and had miniature scorch marks on the edges of the sad, destroyed sheet.
"Fire breathing dragon?" I ask him, pointing to the several different marks on his schedule.
He nods, "So far, though I'm pretty sure that the more heads, the more elements it can use."
"What's it like caring for a baby dragon?" Anne chimes in. We get to the outside of our classroom.
"Painful," Shi exclaims, opening the door.
We all walk into the classroom and are frozen at the front door. There are at least three dragons in here. There are around two juoipis for the nature breed and the metallic breed. Nearly seven winkaps, one atkinji, five zingopes, one wasop, two moykys, and I think I see a gigantus in the corner. Half of the classroom is in total chaos and the other half is sitting down quietly watching us. There are black scorch marks in every corner of the room with ice frozen on top of it. There is a door on the other side of the room that leads straight to a training field and there's a huge glass door on the wall not too far from the door, presumably for the dragons.
Mr. Stern is shuffling through papers on a huge fireproof desk in the front of the classroom. He looks up and notices us, he signals us to come over and he has something to tell us.
"You're our teacher, Mr. Stern?" Samuel asks him, his bright golden lion leaps out of his backpack and starts playing with Lukas's Mishipeshu. "I thought you were only a gym teacher."
"For the active portion I'm your teacher," Mr. Stern explains. "For the education portion a teacher named Sophocles Damaso or Mr. Damaso will be teaching all you guys."
"Quick question," Samuel raises his hand. "Where do we put our pets when we go to non-magic school?"
"They will be put in a pet hotel and if they're hurt or sore in any way then they will be cared for while you're gone," a teacher appears behind us, he's speaking in a creepy deathly quiet tone. "Good morning, I'm Mr. Damaso." He's dressed kind of gothic; he's wearing a long black robe and has black eyeliner on him that makes him look like a punk rock star. Samuel is definitely struggling to not step in and fix his look, his fist is clenched, and his smile couldn't be more forced.
"Please take your seats, we'll catch up on everything afterwards."
We all take the seats that are remaining, the rowdy bunch of hooligans have taken their seats and start to pay attention to him attentively. All of the other pets are behaved, quiet and calm, meanwhile our pets are playing and wobbling all over the place, aside from Cerberus, he's sitting calmly in my lap.
"Good morning, class," Mr. Damaso speaks in his creepily calm tone. Orthrus and Nemean are chasing each other around our seats. "As you all can see, we have six new classmates." Nemean catches Orthrus's tail and they trip over each other, Lernaean flaps over to them and nibbles on one of Nemeans ears.
"Garathar, deal with those weaklings," I girl in the back of the says uncaringly. A giant silver dragon rises to his feet, spreads his wings out and dives towards the cubs and baby dragon.
"Risen, defend the babies!" Another girl stands up and orders. She's wearing a brown belt with treats all around it, and what looks like extendable vines that are normally used to swing from tree to tree or building to building wrapped around her back. A second later, a giant moyky stands up and tackles the dragon to the ground. Nemean, Orthrus and Lernaean all run back to us and hide in their owner's laps. Cerberus jumps off of mine and runs straight towards the dragon, barking and growling at it. The moyky picks Cerberus up and carries him back to me, placing him on my desk and going back to join its owner.
"You shouldn't be in this class, you noobs!" One of the kids in the back yells and throws a paper cup at us, Cerberus jumps up, catches it and tears it to pieces. "You belong in the baby class!"
Just then, a giant hawk flies into the room and lands on the desk, "Silence!" Mr. Damaso finally raises his voice but goes back to the creepy whisper, "Since these students have been known to progress quickly, they've been sent straight to the experienced class." The class goes quiet and Mr. Damaso continues to speak, I think everyone is always quiet when he speaks because of how quiet he talks. "As you can see, there's already quite a bit of progress among the group. New students please come up and introduce yourselves."
We all look at each other for a second and one by one we all stand up and make our way to the front of the class.
"Greetings, my name is Anne Aubrey," Anne starts. "My pet is Orthrus, I got him yesterday, when." She stops herself from continuing. She probably didn't want to mention the fact that my parents were killed yesterday, in front of the whole class.
Hakai steps up before anyone asks her to continue, "Aye, my name is Hakai Shinit and my pet is." Hakai stops herself, she clenches something in her pocket. "I'm here because my powers and my friend's powers work best together."
Shi whispers something in her ear and introduces himself, "Yo, I'm Shi Hakaitit and my pet is the Lernaean Hydra, named Lernaean."
Samuel skips up in front of everybody and presents himself, "Hi! My name is Samuel Starsprinkle and my pet is Nemean!"
Lukas gets a little motivated from Samuels introduction and goes next, "Hey, I'm Lukas Blue and my pet is Mishipeshu, it works well with my powers since one of them is water."
Finally, it's my turn, Cerberus licks my face uncontrollably and I turn him to face the classroom, "I'm Lexus Deathchill and this is Cerberus."
"You're all stupid!" A voice calls out. Cerberus growls at whoever said it. "You'll never be like us, you wannabes!"
Fyre appears on my shoulder, "Shut up you assholes! Just wait and see what Lexus, Cerberus and I can do! We'll kick your asses!"
A boy sitting in a corner stands up, his wasop stands perched on his shoulder, "You have two pets?" He looks at me questioningly. "Wait, no, it doesn't share the same energy as a living wasop." The boy's wasop jumps off his shoulder and runs over to mine. "You're both connected spiritually."
"You couldn't handle your pet dying so you attached it to your soul!" A shriek of laughter erupts from the back of the class. "You are such a weakling!"
"What? No, I was never her pet, we're working together to avenge our families!" Fyre yells. I then notice that everyone in this room is wearing a ruktuk, so they too can understand Fyre.
The boy continues to walk closer, "Mine is named Flip, what's yours?"
"Fyre," Fyre responds. "Now, get your weak little girl away from me."
"That's enough," Mr. Damaso interrupts. His voice is still quiet and creepy, it makes me uncomfortable. "Everyone please go take your seats."
Everyone goes to sit down, I notice that all of my friends are now wearing ruktuk necklaces now and they're holding the textbooks, he must've handed them out while I was introducing myself. Anne hands me one of the necklaces and I put them on, the animals are even quiet when we can understand them, our pets won't shut up though, I could never get used to this.
"Mom, mom, hey mom," Orthrus repeats constantly.
Cerberus snaps at him, "Please shut up, you're all being annoying, and I don't want Lexus to get a headache." That proves it, this puppy is trained for emotional support, which is very helpful for me, I'm very grateful.
I pet Cerberus, "Good boy, but try not to make everyone hate you."
He licks my palm, "Okay, mommy." I understand that he's a puppy, but I was not ready to be called 'mommy.'
Mr. Damaso starts the lecture and Fyre starts to get really uncomfortable because of the other kid's wasop, it keeps staring at him.
'That girl is being creepy,' Fyre points to the female wasop. 'I'm going to go train, see ya.'
'Goodluck,' I respond and continue to listen to the lesson.
"So before lunch you will all be brought into the training field and trained with people with a similar pet to yours," Mr. Damaso creepily explains. "Shi and Hakai, you will be with the dragons, Samuel since you can transform into almost any animal here, you pick your group, Lexus, Anne and Lukas you will all be together."
A ghastly murmur floods the room, "I know Lukas's pet isn't a dog, but we don't have anyone else in this class with a panther or anything cat related, so it's the closest to it."
"Everyone get into your groups," Mr. Damaso finishes, and a chatter erupts throughout the classroom, with almost all of it being about us.
"Samuel, join us!" Anne joyfully pops up beside him.
"Actually, I'm going to check out the moykys," Samuels denies her. "I especially want to thank whoever that girl was for defending our pets."
"Okay," Anne pouts, then hops back up full of joy again, "Be sure to thank her for me, okay?"
We all go into our own corners of the room, talking as we await the teacher's instructions.
"How many times do you think Samuel styled Nemeans mane so far?" I ask her, watching Samuel disappear into the crowd of pets.
"Oh, I asked him," Anne laughs. "Around fifty, he wanted to make sure that both him and Nemean looked their best today."
I howl, "The line Samuel walks between a caring owner and obsessive is a fine one indeed."
"Well at least Nemean doesn't have to worry about a bad hair day," Anne points out and brushes clumps of dirt off of Orthrus's fur.
"I believe that Mishipeshu and I are the strongest pair in here," Lukas stands proudly, his hands on his hips and staring up towards the ceiling, Mishipeshu is looking around trying to find what he's looking at.
"After all, with my powers, him and I can pretty much fly," Lukas gloats and holds up Mishipeshu. "Since I can just make a hovering orb of water and we can swim around inside of it."
"Well, you haven't seen Orthrus and Cerberus at their full power yet, they're all still young after all," Anne competes with him. "If anything, Cerberus and Lexus are the strongest pair in here."
"He'll just become a giant three headed dog," Lukas shrugs. "Meanwhile, my Mishipeshu can breathe on both water and land."
"Shut up!" Cerberus growls. "Never underestimate my mother and I, just you wait, we will be the strongest in the universe."
"Damn did you have a study session with Cerberus last night or something?" Lukas laughs for a second but then a flood of fear flows over his face. "I forgot about the exams!"
The eyes of several people around us go wide, they too start to freak out and panic as well.
Anne giggles, "Looks like you're not the only one."
Lukas grabs onto me, "Lexus, please help me!"
Cerberus growls and barks at him, "Let go of her you buffoon!"
"Alright, class, head to the field," Mr. Stern marches into the room. The giant glass door starts ringing and then opens up, the dragons and other large animals fly and climb through it while the rest of us walk through the other door.
"Your teams have been assigned, correct?" Mr. Stern asks me. He's wearing a military uniform, it fits his personality quite well.
"Correct," I nod and run to catch up with Anne and Lukas. Anne is playing with Orthrus's tail and Lukas is swimming around with Mishipeshu in a floating orb of water that he flew out with. Cerberus is running around my legs, like it's some sort of circus act.
The class spreads out in their groups and listens for Mr. Sterns orders, I notice Mr. Damaso in the corner of my eye, he's watching us through one of the windows. I don't know if he's aware of the way he makes people feel but he should probably pay more attention to his actions.
"Alright class," Mr. Stern starts. "Today you will all be fighting among each other to test your strength, not just within yourself but the strength of the bond between you and your companion as well."
"Who do you think is in the most danger out of all of us?" Lukas asks, looking around at all of our friends in the other groups. I catch the dragon group eyeing down Shi and Lernaean, Hakai looks pissed off, what's going on over there? I look around for Samuel, he and Nemean are being cradled like babies in the arms of one of the moykys while the two owners and the other moyky laugh jubilantly.
"So far it looks like Shi and Hakai," Anne responds, looking anxiously towards their group. "It may be best for us to keep a close eye on them."
"Oh really," Lukas asks her suspiciously. "I thought it was you! Mishipeshu attack!" Lukas demands and points to Anne, Mishipeshu runs up and starts licking Anne's ankle.
Anne looks up at him with an unentertained look on her face, and sarcastically says, "Ow, I'm in so much pain."
Anne intimidatingly raises her hand towards Lukas pointing at him, she orders, "Orthrus, use tail whip!"
Orthrus runs up to Lukas and starts spinning around uncontrollably, whipping and slashing at Lukas's ankles.
I roll my eyes, "You know they're not Pokémon, right?"
They both turn to me and look at each other mischievously, they then both raise their hands and point towards me, simultaneously they order, "Attack!"
Both Orthrus and Mishipeshu come stumbling over to me, by how much they're running into each other they might as well be fighting each other. Cerberus bolts right in front of me and starts growling. Orthrus stops and scurries back to Anne but Mishipeshu continues to stumble towards me. Cerberus then charges straight toward Mishipeshu and tackles him to the ground. A few people around us are in awe and start to clap for Cerberus.
"See," I chuckle, Lukas surrounds Mishipeshu in an orb of water and floats Mishipeshu back to him. "I didn't even have to order him what to do, good boy, Cerberus."
"Thank you, mommy!" Cerberus barks as I pet him.
"I am not used to hearing animals talk," Lukas panics. "Wearing ruktuks is really not in my style, plus how are all of the other animals so quiet?"
"They are older and much more trained," Anne examples. "Let's go all out in a fight."
"Make sure that Orthrus doesn't run away again," Lukas looks at her with a sly smirk. "I'll make sure that Mishipeshu doesn't get defeated ever again, we will reign victorious!"
I snicker, "Good luck with that. Are you ready, Cerberus?"
Cerberus barks, "We will prevail triumphant and vanquish all opposing forces!"
"Seriously is your puppy smarter than me?" Lukas looks questioningly towards himself.
We all form around each other in a medium sized circle, our companions standing battle ready in front of us. Orthrus's tail is pointed straight to the sky and both of his heads are staring at both Cerberus and Mishipeshu. Mishipeshu is whipping his tail around in the air and baring his fangs towards Cerberus, his claws appear as sharp as knives and his fur is standing up as straight as a nail. Cerberus looks unbothered, he's sitting and smiling at me, not even paying a second glance towards his opponents.
We all look at each other, nod and the fight starts. Orthrus runs straight in between Mishipeshu and Cerberus and ends up tackling Mishipeshu with both his heads, Cerberus doesn't even look over to them. Mishipeshu bites one of Orthrus's necks and scratches the fur near his tail. One of the heads starts licking the bite mark and the other licks the scratch. Mishipeshu starts clawing towards Cerberus, the sound of the panthers growling causes Cerberus to become alarmed and be on guard. Cerberus spins around and catches Mishipeshu before he can attack, they both rise to their feet and nip at each other's nostrils, snorting and growling. Orthrus scurries up to them, bites both of them and starts spinning around, whipping and lashing them with his tail. Cerberus whimpers for a second but then catches Orthrus's tail, Mishipeshu tackles Orthrus to the ground before he can counter. Orthrus manages to break free and runs straight to Anne, Orthrus and Anne are out. Now it's only Cerberus and I versus Lukas and Mishipeshu. They both start walking around in a circle, much like sumo wrestlers. They stop for a second then Mishipeshu launches towards Cerberus, once again Cerberus catches him and they rise to their back paws, nipping at each other's noses. Cerberus then falls to his feet and headbutt's Mishipeshu in the chest, Mishipeshu loses his balance and falls over, Cerberus stands above him with one paw on his throat. Cerberus growls and snorts his right over his arm, Cerberus goes to bite but Mishipeshu wiggles free and limps towards Lukas. I reign supreme.
"That probably felt really badass and scary for them," Anne starts, petting and comforting Orthrus. "But they're so small, it's just adorable!"
"Seriously, you had Cerberus for one day and he's already so badass," Lukas checks out Mishipeshu's paws. "What have you been giving him?"
"Just some treats and dog food that was in a few gifts in my hotel room," I shrug and pet Cerberus frantically. "Who's a good boy? Who's a good alpha pup?"
"Me, me!" Cerberus barks.