By 5 am I was up and on my gym uniform all white and gold.
Felix was snorting like a bull, so I got ready in silence, and I ate my breakfast from his kitchen, not really into the idea of having breakfast with the other students after the rollercoaster that was yesterday. Then I gave the five carrots I found in his fridge and a bar of chocolate to Jack. While I used Cosmos' pancake recipe and made about twenty-four of them.
By the second I put a plate with half of them covered in syrup, with whipped cream and blueberries, added with a glass of passion juice I made, Felix was suddenly awake and sitting in the table, ready to eat. "What the?"
"Thank you for the food," he winked and began eating it all.
Giggling, I rolled my eyes and put the other half of the pancakes and of the juice for me, then I sat with him. "Did the scent wake you up?"
A nod, "Yeah. And where did you learn this? It's delicious!"
"I adjusted your uncle's recipe to make it perfect for my taste. So, yeah, with Cosmos," I ate a blueberry. "I took your carrots and chocolate for Jack, I hope you don't mind, he was hungry."
["I still am!"]
I'll get blood for you after I meet the old witch!
["Deal. I'll want three cups this time."]
How thirsty. I would give you my blood, but it'll kill you. "So, how does those classes work again? I mean, what do we study?"
"Ah, you know. History of the Ministry I, II, III. Physics of Flight I, II, III. Mathematics in Magical Application I, II, III. History of Witchcraft I, II, III, IV. The Biology of Shapeshifting I, II, III, IV. Myths and Truths of the Supernatural World I, II, III," he rolled his shoulders. "It's a total of 70 different classes, 10 per day. Plus some extra activities that also get you points. As we are in the last year, all the classes I just mentioned are the last ones. Like, Biology of Shapeshifting IV and Physics of Flight III. There's a professor for each one of them in here, and they are the best of the best."
"So I've heard. I've study pretty much all you just mentioned here with your uncle, but there must have some differences, since he graduated from here a long time ago. He was an amazing teacher regardless," I drank my juice, then filled my cup again.
"You eat a lot, Hel," he gasped. "12 pancakes on breakfast."
Shrug, "I have an appetite, and I got used to eating a lot and four times a day to recharge all my energy. I'm very proactive and energetic, so, I need the nutrition, you know." Getting up, I turned to him, "I cooked, you do the dishes. I'm amazing at it, but I hate doing it."
"Fine with me. I'm more into cleaning than cooking either way. Are you already going to the Headmaster?" He finished his juice. "Want me to wait for you? I'll get back to sleep since class will only start later, but I can wait if you want."
"I'll run around the Castle for an hour, then I'll go to her at 7, as we agreed. No need to wait for me, I have my change of clothes on my ring!"
"You mean a corset and high heeled boots?" Felix grinned.
I winked, "Isn't that what all girls need? If anyone importunate you, tell me and I'll beat them up, got it?" And I only left when he nodded, taking my three-liters water bottle with me, but full of Balkan 176 Vodka instead. Thank Abellona for that.
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"And if you ask me to, daddy's gonna buy you a mockingbird. I'ma give you the world. I'ma buy a diamond ring for you, I'ma sing for you. I'll do anything for you to see you smile. And if that mockingbird don't sing, and that ring don't shine. I'ma break that birdie's neck. I'll go back to the jeweler who sold it to ya. And make him eat every carat, don't fuck with dad." I sang to Mockingbird by Eminem, moving my hips around as if I wasn't in such a frustrating situation, ignoring all the stares directed to me as I passed straight over the main hall full of students.
But my vibe was cut out the second Rio, from Oliver's Circle come out of no-freaking-where and popped up right in front of me, flashing a grin that showed his fangs, "Look at that, she knows how to enjoy herself, and she even sings surprisingly well!"
I glared at him, "What do you want, cotton candy baby blue hair?"
"My name is Rio, by the way, sweetheart," he winked. Ew.
"And your hair is cotton candy baby blue. Besides, your name isn't Rio, vampire. Your name is Eleutherios Konstantopoulos," the second I said his name, he cringed disgusted.
"Tsk, don't call me that, it'll break my heart!"
It was my time to flash my fangs in a grin, "I would love to break your heart if that means tearing your chest apart and taking it from inside you, then watching the life leave your eyes," okay, I'm being dramatic.
["You are too menacing, Hel!"] Thank you, Jack.
"Crone be damned, why so aggressive, sweetheart?"
I glared at him, "What do you want?"
"A weapon," he grinned, bating his long eyelashes.
Of course. "What weapon do you use?"
My question shocked him, but he hid it right away, "Long dagger."
"It's seventeen thousand euros," I ain't giving him for free. Mom would never. I'll just ask for an amount that sounds like my age, it's what I can think off. Besides, the weapons are worthy.
He blinked, "I'm fine with paying, but isn't that too cheap?"
Is that cheap? Sounded like a good deal for me. But alright, if cotton candy baby blue hair wants to throw his money at me, I won't refuse. I may not live for riches like mom and the dragons, but I do like the idea of getting richer than I am, "Is seven hundred thousand euros a better price then?"
"And I thought you would go for the throat!"
Arching my eyebrows, I grinned, "Will you accept that, or shall I raised for 7 million euros, cotton candy baby blue hair?"
"I'll take the seven hundred thousand, thanks," he scoffed and took his phone that seems like a blue model of mine, from the pocket of his pants. "Can we seat down?" Fine with me.
Using my telekinesis, I sat in thin air, and with a move of my hands I made him sit down too. "Do you have a preference for gems or shall I give you a suggestion, Rio?" Personal issues are personal issues. Business is business. "I have many daggers, as it's also the one I use the most."
He gasped, looking down at how I had made us sit four meters up in the air, "Shit, this is awesome. And did you just call me by my name?"
"Isn't that the purpose of having one?" I countered. "We don't like each other, that's clear, but I take business seriously. And as you are paying for the weapon, I'll treat you like a costumer. So, any preference or will you go for my suggestion of a gem?"
"Do you consider your weaponry judgement good?"
"I do, indeed," I'm my mom's daughter after all.
"Then I'll go with your judgement!" Oh?
"Great choice, so, tell me, what's your strongest element?"
"Out of the main four elements of the deviant elements?" So he knows how to make good questions.
"Both, tell me which ones you use the most," I closed my eyes, then I felt all the long daggers in my body.
"Thunder," as I thought.
Nodding, I summoned seven different long daggers, all with a wave like blade, "Despite what many people believe, the best precious gems and crystals that best conduct electricity are diamond, bismuth, amethyst, blue opal, citrine, sunstone, selenite, and bloodstone. For thunder deviant users, the best type of blade are the ones which the blade mimic a wave, it allows the magic in question to travel through it in a better flow."
I summoned a long dagger with a straight lean blade made of ruby and selenite in my left hand, and with my right one I picked up the long dagger of blue opal and diamond, and embed both with my thunder magic to show it to him. As expected, the one with the wave-ish blade channeled the magic better and faster.
When I saw awe in his eyes, I grinned amused, "See?" I made the ruby dagger disappear and put the blue opal one back with the other six. "Now, raise your hand and feel the daggers, the one that answers to your magic call is your weapon."
"I never thought choosing a weapon would be this cool," Rio gasps but did as I told him, and after a second the dagger made of bismuth and diamond moved to his hand on the instant he passed over it. "Crone's above this is cool. Shall I name it?" As he held the chosen one, I send the others back into my tattoos.
"Without a doubt. Now," I called off my telekinesis, and he was quick on the reflexes as he stood up on his feet. "The payment."
He licked his lips, still in awe with the dagger. "Give me your phone number and I'll send it to you. You have a digital bank account, right?"
How modern. Nodding, I took my phone from my pocket and gave him my number, as well as the number of my account, which I made when I stopped in Austria. Thank Crone for that. In a minute the money was all transferred, just like that. "Good to make business with you, cotton candy baby blue hair," I put it back on my pocket.
Rio gasped, "Will you keep calling me that?"
"I sure will. You shouldn't feel bad, you have a gorgeous hair!"
He blinked in shock, "Did you just compliment me, new girl?"
"Not you. Your hair," I said matter-of-factly.
"Are you saying I'm not gorgeous?" He frowned dramatically with his big hand on his chest. Well, the kid is big and tall, I'll give him that.
"I didn't say you aren't," I crossed my arms over my chest.
"So, you think I'm gorgeous?" He grinned.
"You already know you are, cotton candy baby blue hair, there's no need for me to reassure you of something you, very clearly, knows. You just want a compliment to inflate ever further that ego of yours. That ain't going to come from me, though. But yeah, your hair is cool," I don't see a reason to lie.
He narrowed his eyes as if he only now had noticed that something is different, "Wait, you weren't this short yesterday. What happened? You were over my shoulder, now you don't even reach my neck."
["Oh, this kid has balls! Wash him away, Hel!"]
You don't even have to say it twice. Glaring at him, I moved my left hand, conjuring my black water magic and threw a strong wave at him, that sent him flying more than thirty meters away from me. "If you call me short one more time, cotton candy baby blue hair, I will mutilate your legs until you are my height, so you will know how it feels," and I said it all with a big grin on my lips, flashing my fangs.
Turning on my heels, I put the speed up version of Gyal You a Party Animal by Charly Black to play on my ear buds, and danced my way to the Headmaster's offices as if I hadn't encountered the vampire at all.