["I'm sorry!"]
No. You're not! I entered the wide classroom with bookshelves in all walls except the one in the front. According to my iPad, his name's Atos Paolucci and he's a four-thousand-year-old wizard directly from Italy. To my relief, he's not a giant like everyone else in here, though he's definitely taller than me by half a head, so, he must be around 1.78m.
["Are you obsessed with people's height, Hel?"]
Yes. Then I sat in the second seat of the first roll of chairs, Felix on my left in the wall and… Oliver on my right. Plus all the Circle behind me, and my roommates, their friends and their boyfriends and girlfriends all here too. "What the hell is up with this class?" I complained to myself.
"Advanced classes," Felix shrugged. "We are all on them together unfortunately. All the top 30 students of Belladonna are. So, yeah, all heirs stuck together. You will get used to it."
"I doubt it," I glared behind me and all the eyes I felt on me instantly looked away. "Ugh, Mia fucked me up. Cinderella is a fucking lie!" I cursed and turned to my desk again. "Godmothers are bitches. What was my mom thinking?" I groaned, pressing my bared hands on my face. "Bonding me to that ancient sociopath."
"Headmaster Mia is your godmother?" Rio pretty much screamed for the entire class right behind my bloody ear.
And again, I made black water rain over him, "I'm doomed."
"Not again!" He cried. "This shit is a nightmare to clean."
"Black water?" The teacher gasped in awe, and turned to me with a wide smile. "I've only read about it in old books. I thought it was a myth. Seems like the headmaster wasn't joking when she told us to watch out for you because you would be making it all more interesting." His black eyes looking at me as if I was a fancy weapon, "It's an honor to meet you, Hel!"
Getting up, I bowed softly in respect, "The honor is mine, Professor Paolucci. I've heard about you, my master told me how great of a teacher you were to him. I look forward from learning from you."
"She can be civilized?" One of the bastards gasped behind me.
I swear he looked like he was about to cry, "Finally a student who knows how to be respectful with a teacher," then he bowed softly. "Who is your master, Hel?"
"Cosmos Duncan," and again, many of the idiots whispered behind me. "He taught me pretty much all I know about the new world. I'll do my best to behave like a top student should. And also to show you that many of the stuff you believe to be legends and myths, are actually true and very much alive, but hidden."
"I can't wait to learn from you too, then, child," he beamed, then turned all cold to glare at the others. "You should be like her."
That took a great laugh out of me, "They are too weak for that!"
My answer seemed to satisfy him, and piss most of the class, which is fine with me. "So, Hel, darling, what do you know about black water?"
I licked my lips, amused by how Oliver tensed up on my side when the teacher called me darling. Amazing. "What do you know?"
The Professor sat over his desk, "It's the water that lies near the magma of the planet, as well as in 8th circle of Hell where those whose crime was fraud are locked, and it's also toxic to humanity. Toxic overall, but not as much to us supernatural beings because of our healing abilities."
"True. Anything else?"
"That's all we know," really?
I looked at my hands, the summoned a ball of black water and made it float, "Black water is rich in all kinds of minerals. Minerals that are toxic and deadly, as well as those who do good for you and are harmless. It is also a natural antidote for the venom of most kinds of normal and supernatural serpents, with only one exception. Also acts as antidote to all poisons you can find in nature, including belladonna. It kills all the bacteria of your body in a second, as well as it sheds your dead skin."
"Dead skin?" Rio growled. "What am I? A serpent to be shedding?"
But she swallowed his words the second I glared at him, "Not all serpents shed, cotton candy baby blue hair!" I turned to the professors, "If you drank it for once per month during a year, you will generate immunity to venoms, nevertheless, your blood kind of changes. It's a double edged sword. Both good and bad minerals get absorbed in your blood system and it might be very harmful to vampires. Like a repellant for them."
Yumi chuckled behind us, "Now that's some common utility!"
She does has a point. "Nevertheless, as it's different from normal water, it's deadly for sea life, because it is toxic. Deadly to all humans too!"
"When you say there's only one exception for snakes, which the black water does not act as an antidote to, what kind are we talking about? I think that's an important detail to be left out, no?" The professor asked.
I flashed a grin with fangs, "The strongest of all serpentine kin, as well as the strongest supernatural reptile race," I waited for him to say it.
"The strongest reptile of the supernatural world are dragons!" He scoffed, as if proud to believe that he had caught a fake information on my words, but I only widened my grin.
"Is it now? I could tell everyone tensed up.
Except Felix, who giggled, but stopped when the professor glared at him, then he softened and turned to me, "What is it then, Hel?"
"How disappointing that none of you know," I said dramatically. "Seems like you failed some classes of the past history," sighing loudly, I made the ball of black water twirl above my finger and grown at the size of a basketball.
"Will you say it or not?" River growled behind his brother.
When I turned my eyes to Oliver, his were on me. Laughing, I did a turn to the professor who was also staring at me. "Winged serpents!"
"That's a myth, child!" He quickly countered.
"So I've heard," I licked my fangs. "Are you going to tell that all gargoyles are a myth too, professor?"
He frowned, "But they are!"
"Interesting," I looked at the black water in my hand. "Didn't you say black water was said to me a legendary myth?" The at him, "What is a myth if not a story told by those who forgot of the actual truth in it?"
"What is a winged serpent?" River asked his brother.
"A legend of a being with God-like powers supposedly made by all the three Goddesses together, after the creation of vampires, dragons, and seraphim. Also called the bringers of death, wielders of destruction. Their poison so lethal that could even harm a God. Beings with too much power, of a treacherous and dangerous nature, who were believed to be a thousand meters tall and able to swallow a city in one go," what?
I couldn't help it, I burst out laughing out loud, "Oh, my. That is very creative. I don't know who made that shite up, but it's creative indeed. In fact," I made all laughed vanish from my face, "they must have been high as bloody hell. I've never heard so much bullshite in one go."
Felix gasped at my said, but kept his hand clapped on his mouth.
And everyone, every-freaking-one, stared at me in shock with my Joker-ish outburst, even Oliver. Then I turned to the professor, "The reason why black water doesn't nullify the poison of a winged serpent, is because black water is an inherent power of their kind. Like shapeshifting for shifter races, fading for vampires, wings for seraphim and fairy, and being a money digger for dragons." Then threw the ball of black water on Rio, who cried desperately.
"How do you even know that?" The professor gasped.
I tilted my head, "I know a lot, about a lot of things."
"It's a myth," he insisted. "And Strauss-Khan's words are correct. That's precisely how the legend goes. As well as the fact that, according to the legends, the Goddesses made all of them vanish after they tried to destroy the world. But again, it's a myth, Hel."
"To think she believed in such a horror tale," Dimitry mumbled.
"Just because you say it's a myth, doesn't make it less true!"
"Where did you heard about that?" Oliver turned to me.
"You wouldn't believe me even if I told you," I mumbled.
"Hel," Felix tried and I turned to him.
"It's just a conflict in opinions, Lix," I shrugged. "I'm still right!"
"You are very stubborn," the professor mumble.
I winked, "If you knew what I know, you would be too, dear. In the near future, you all should better prepare your little closed minds if you want to survive, because when all hell breaks lose, it's those legends and myths that will bring you salvation. In fact," I played with my ring, "they are the only ones that will be able to help you fight what has to be defeated!"
Scoffing, he walked around his desk, "You are talking like a cult leader, Hel. That's not very healthy."
"Neither is your resistance to see what's right in front of you!" I hissed, and Felix held my hand. Taking a deep breath, I gulped, clenched my jaw, "Gargoyles are also real. All the gargoyles you see, aren't statues, they are all frozen in time, waiting for the day the wielder of the Crown will comeback to lead them to the war, that is coming sooner than you think."
"What crown?" Felix mumbled.
Opening my eye, I stared up at Jack who was glaring at me from above, ["What?"]
"I told you it's not them," sigh. "They refuse to listen to reason. We are doomed. Think we can do it on our own?"
["Definitely not!"]
"I mean, us and the A user," I rolled my eyes.
["Not happening!"]
"Maybe I got her words wrong, Jack. Maybe it's not 26 but just 2 against 6," after I said that, I burst out laughing. "Dead Crone, we are all so bloody doomed." When I looked down again everyone was staring at me. "What? You can go on. Call me insane if you want, I'm having a talk here. After all, it seems that if I don't save your arses, no one will, give your high level of stupidity!"
"That's it. You're out of my class!" He busted.
Sigh, "Finally, more time for me to read the ancient texts and figure it out how to get that damn shite," so, I stood up on my seat, spread out my wings and flew to where the door was. "You are full of shite, professor. Nevertheless, when you feel like opening your eyes to the real world and getting your handsome head out of your arse, you can come to me. I don't mind teaching you the real history instead of calling what's real a myth and being blind. That might potentially get you killed. Just don't say I didn't try to warn you or gave you any tips," then, I opened the door and flew away.