After classes, they all returned to their dorms to rest for the day. Before sleeping though, the occupants of room 116 were agreeing to not oversleep to prevent what happened that morning to repeat itself.
"I don't want to believe all six of us are deep sleepers and would just take it to be the stress of yesterday," Lecter said.
"Yeah, we all agree to be up early tomorrow," said Wallace.
"As long as we don't miss the alarm again," Rodney said and lay on his bed.
"There was an alarm?!" Wallace and Damien asked in unison.
"Oh? You didn't know?"
"It doesn't matter, we won't miss it tomorrow." Damien said and covered himself up with his sheets. The others also lay to rest.
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Opening his eyes slowly to the new day, Rodney rubbed his eyes with the back of his hands and yawned. Getting out of bed slowly, "Oh no," he said as he looked out at the bright morning sky. "We're late again!" He shouted causing some of them to jolt awake.
Moving his hands and checking his pocket watch, Raten's eyes widened in shock. "9.15?!" He got up and kicked his brother awake. "Get up you, sloth!" He said. Kiyan fell off the bed and rubbed on his head. It took a while for him to decipher what was going on, as he watched his roommates hurriedly exit the room.
"We're late?!" He shouted as the realization dawned on him. He immediately joined his roommates out of their dorm.
"How did we oversleep again?!" Damien shouted as he left the door. The familiar occurence of them running along the path trying to put on their cloak designed uniform was seen as they ran to class with their books inside the small bags they were given.
They repeated their act of sneaking in only to have their bodies suddenly teleported to the front of the class right next to Sir Chadwick.They were stunned by the sudden number of eyes staring down at them.
"Uhm, we got lost again?" Damien said with a nervous smile and a little hope that Chadwick would buy the lie this time. Instead, all six of them simultaneously received hard slaps from no visible hand on their left cheek causing them to turn to the right at the same time. Just like the day before, they were flung to the back of the class and hit the wall, it was harder this time as their bodies dented the wall a bit.
"I think I might have broken a few ribs upon impact," Wallace said holding onto his ribs while crawling to his seat. The others groaned in pain while crawling to their seats as well
The day went on normally with them ending the class having lunch and heading to the next class which was the last for the day. Thankfully, yet worriedly, the twins didn't see Torrance throughout the day.
Back in their dorm about to go to sleep, they were more determined to wake up early. Lecter even moved his bed to the door so he would have more chances of hearing the alarm.
"That's such a great plan!" Damien said.
"We are counting on you to hear it. We won't be late tomorrow, for sure," Wallace said and they went to sleep.
The next day came soon enough. Wallace woke up to a room full of snoring lads. "Oh, come on!" He shouted in frustration.
Lecter who was supposed to be the one who would hear the alarm was snoring the loudest. Rodney had his arm falling out of the bed with his messy hair covering half of his face. Half of Kiyan's body was out of the bed, the other half was still covered with his sheets. Raten slept on his back with his hair over his face. Damien oddly had his sheets over his torso up to his face while the remaining part of his body was uncovered.
"Wake up!" He shouted hitting every one of them on the head. They got up with bumps and began running out of the room again.
Making it to the class, they planned a more subtle way to surreptitiously get into class. They were caught still and brought to the front of the class. Their hands then made fists and punched their faces repeatedly before flying off to the wall again.
"Yep, I am certain my ribs are broken this time," Wallace said.
"I never knew I could punch that hard," Lecter held onto the part of his face which was hurting from his own hits and a bit swollen.
"Tomorrow will be definitely be different," Damien said through his swollen lip.
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"Not again!" Kiyan said being the first one up this time. A similar fate of being hit in front of the class by themselves and then thrown to the wall was met.
"If this keeps up, we will certainly leave our marks on this wall," Rodney said crawling to his seat.
"It won't, I'm sure of it." Damien said but it kept happening anyway.
Everyday for the rest of the week they would wake up late and were met with the clashing of their bodies against the wall which always followed with some sort of punishment. Each time they collided with the wall, the force was greater than the last, till they finally had their marks on the wall. Their bodies left a dent with a shape of their silhouette on the wall.
"Yep, this is where we begin to leave our mark on the world," Raten said and fell to the floor.
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Around a table in the lunchroom, the six of them, Jarett and Cross were seated. Their bodies ached from the earlier punishment of feeling a burning sensation of the hands while they hit themselves hard and also the crashing on the wall. Jarett and Cross were laughing at the annoyed six.
"What is seriously wrong with you lot?" Jarett said in-between chuckles.
"You stay in the room just beside ours, you really could wake us up, you know." Lecter said putting his food in his mouth.
"I could, but who would be the legendary tardy ones after that?" Jarett asked with a wide grin.
"The legendary what now?" Wallace asked.
"I wonder how all six roommates can be the same when it comes to sleep," Cross said ignoring Wallace.
"Lecter, the week is over now and the school gave only one week for every person who hasn't picked a major yet the grace of a week. So, which one did you go with?" Raten asked changing the topic of discussion.
"It was hard to choose, but I went with multiplicity," he answered. "I always had issues with my arrows running out and remembering the question your uncle asked me, I knew that I would never have enough arrows. Multiplicity felt like the right choice. I can use as much arrows as I need. I can even multiply my self and other reasons of course makes it my choice."
To everyome there, it didn't really sound like much, but if well utilized, it can be very useful. Imagine going against a number of Lecter's all with unlimited arrows, it would be tough to defeat. His reasoning did seat well with them. He went with something that would suit him.
"What about you, Cross?" Jarett asked.
"Control." He answered and kept eating.
"What's control?" Wallace asked.
"Mind control, body manipulation, those sort of things." He replied. "I have always wanted to get people to do my bidding at their will or not, so this is just perfect," He replied with a creepy smile which made Wallace who sat next to him shift uncomfortably.
"You Damien?" Kiyan asked.
"Earth." He answered.
"Rodney?" Raten called out. Rodney paused with his food about to be put into his mouth and looked for a while before answering.
" Wind," he answered and put the food in his mouth.
"Alright, we have two more going with us to that elemental class," Kiyan said with a smile.
"More importantly, we don't have to attend classes for the next two days." Damien said with a smile. Five days they went to class, then two days considered the weekends, would be learning free day for the students and they were allowed beyond the gates of the academy but not too far into the city.
"We can sleep in peacefully." Wallace said with a satisfactory smile on his face.