After a short drive, Jon, Akari and Akemi arrived at the mansion. They were greeted by Thomas, their Butler. As usual, Jon went straight to his room while the girls stayed to chat with the butler.
"Thomas where's mum?" Akari asked.
The elderly man turned to the girl. Having known her sine she was young, she was like a daughter to him. Naturally, he was very kind to the girls.
"She's not home at the moment but she will be back before dinner" Thomas replied.
Akari sighed, not surprised that her mum wasn't home. Akemi patted her on the shoulder with a similar expression on her face. They both went to their room. At dinner time, Thomas walked to the girls room to inform them that it was time for dinner.
They went down to the dining room and sat at the table. Jocelyn walked in a few minutes after and also sat on the table. The maids brought in the food and served Jocelyn and her daughters.
"How was your first day at the academy?" she asked
Akemi and Akari looked at each other, recalling the event that had occured at the end of the school day. Not sure whether it was a good idea to tell their mother this, the choose to ignore it.
"It was great" they replied simultaneously.
Jocelyn nods "I'm glad you like the place"
Akari sat up as if to ask a daring question
Akari however still had a troubled look on her face and her small fist clinched under the table. When she finally couldn't stay quite, she sat up with a firm expresion and asked
"Mum...why does big brother stay in his room always?"
Jocelyn was about to take another spoon of her food and stopped mid way when she heard the question. She slowly returned her spoon to the plate and linked her fingers together before placing the on the table.
"He's...not exactly...an open person. Jon likes being alone...that's how he's always been." Jocelyn replied.
The dining room went silent with only the sounds of cutlery and plates. Jocelyn broke the silence; asking a maid if Jon's food had been sent to his room.
"Linda has has been sent to take the food to his room, Ma." Replied the maid.
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Linda knocked the dark wooden door to Jon's room. she waited a few seconds but got no reply.
"Master Jon, are you there?" she called out after waiting for a while.
When there was still no reply, she proceeded into the room. She was surprised by how clean it was as to the fact that the maids rarely enter his room. His room was basic, just a bed, air conditioner, a chair and table and a book shelf.
As Linda was admiring the room, she suddenly felt a dark aura in the room. She looked in the direction of the door and saw Jon standing there and staring at her. The more she looked at him the more frightened she felt. She quickly excused her self and rushed out of the room.
Weeks past and it became a routine.
Jon, Akari and Akemi head to school in the morning and they would they would head to their various classes. At midday, Akari and Akemi would drag Jon to the dining hall. Then they head back to their various classes and finally head back home.
During dinner, the girls and their mother eat and chat as usual while Linda gets the difficult task of taking the food to Jon's room with her heart intact. She has learnt to leave immediately after dropping the food without eye contact.
At the dinner table, Jocelyn asked the girls about their upcoming Practical tests.
"I am ready for it" Akemi and Akari answered simultaneously.
Akemi played with the spaghetti on her fork and said with a doubtful voice.
"I hope Big brother Jon is ready for his test"
Akari nods and turned to their mom "I have never seen him use any form of magic. What type of magic does he use?"
Jocelyn shrugged and replied
"His magic is too complicated to explain. I myself have never seen him use magic, but I know he'll do fine."
She stood up after she finished her food "It was time for them to got to bed." she said
The girls stood up after her without their usual disagreement. Their test was to be held the following day and they needed as much rest as they could get.
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The following day at the academy, an assembly was called and all students were expected to be there. At the assembly, The Vice principal Mr Kota Toriyama stated that the tests will begin Shortly starting with the First years.
"There are only two stages, The magic test and the combat test. The magic test as most of the upperclassmen should know, is use to test you magic type, capacity and capability. The combat test is to see how well you can handle beasts at your level. Not to worry the beasts are not real so they cannot do physical damage to you.
The only rule is no use of magic enhancement device of any type unless it is part of your actual magic. Your test will be graded according to the Magi Scale from E their to A tier. You should all head to your various centers which is posted on the notice board and Good luck. " Mr Kota said.
After Mr Kota's somewhat speech, everyone orderly went to the notice board to check their centers.
Akari, Akemi and Jon were posted to the same center. The boys where angry that Jon was in the same center as the two most famous female first year students mostly because they can't accept that they are related.
The test started smoothly and most students were showing amazing potentials. There were cases of unique magic types like that of Leah Robinson's gravity magic, Cole Reiz's Spirit summoning magic, Yuri Yagami's Shadow manipulation magic and some others.
Akari showed her Red flame magic and Akemi showed her version of transformation magic. Others after her showed their magic some being more powerful or flashy than others.
"Now it is time for the combat test" Mr Dauntless said.
"What about Jon Hoshikage" Asked Yuri Akatsuki the class representative of class 2C.
Mr Dauntless looked at Jon who wore an unconcerned expression. He turned back to Yuri "He's a special case." he replied
What he said angered most of the students in the test center. Some were complaining about him not taking the test while others where mocking him saying he was not even strong enough to be measured on the scale. Akemi held Akari back knowing she was getting pissed.
"The school management is in charge of Jon. If you have any problem you can kindly go and address it to Miss Scarlet" Mr Dauntless addressed the matter.
Everyone went silent after that.
"Now we can move on to the next stage; the combat test. You will be graded on damage and if you defeat the beast or not. If you defeat the beast, you pass, if you don't but deal a high amount of damage you still pass but low damage equals failure. With that said let's begin."
The battles started and most instructors were impressed especially with how well most first years handled themselves.
Akemi faught against a cockatrice which could paralyze their prey. She transformed her hands into weapons and made quick work of the cockatrice by decapitating it in an instance. The students cheered for her.
"Next Akari Hoshikage" said Mr Dauntless.
Everyone cheered and were eager to see how she would fair against the beast she is to fight. She headed to the testing ground ready for the beast. The beast that appeared before her had never been seen before, it had a humanoid head and a giant Scorpion body with flexible vine-like spikes all around his armored body.
Akari moved backwards knowing it was a close ranged monster and hit it with a barrage of fire ball. the Beast growled and it's face looked as if it was smiling.
"You think that is enough to stop me, lovely lady? I wish you had been stronger it would have made devouring you a lot more fulfilling." The beast said.
I leaped forwards faster than she could react and hit their with one of his legs, she was knocked backwards, hit a wall and immediately now unconscious. Everyone scrambled out of were frozen with terror including some of the instructors.
"Is that all you've got. Aaaww... You're making this boring. Why not let us play some more." The beast said as he lunged towards her again.
Suddenly there was an explosion where the beast was. When the dust cleared they saw Jon and the beast with most of its body destroyed.
"Ho..how can anyone do this to the spirit of everything poisonous" the beast voice trembled as it spoke.
When it looked up he seemed to know who Jon was. He looked at him in horror
"Impossible why would you be...." The spirit said before his head was smashed in by Jon's fist.
After that he picked up Akari and headed out of the test center with Akemi following closely leaving everyone in their shocked state.