Mass release: 1/9
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Mahnoor Lorelei Bianchini's pov
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"Here we are," Leclercq chanted as we got to the arena that we have always been prohibited to even get close to, and to my utter dismay, it was five times huger than the frighteningly huge arena of my family, where I trained flying with them. "Cerberus Arena, where the fun begins."
Hades' hellhound based, how joyful, for a psycho. Mr. Leclercq definitely fits in it, a sadistic psycho I would say by first impression. And as my eyes scanned the little crowd with... 22 people, I realized it was just year 14-A here, our class, plus two strangers I've never seen before but look weirdly familiar to me.
"Just our class," Nikko stated.
"No shit, Mr. Obvious," I scowled. "Those two aren't of our class though," I made a mention to the couple who are definitely twins, as if having the Hetherington, the Villalobos, and the Primavera twins in our class wasn't fucking enough.
"Visitors maybe," Nikko scoffed.
"Nope, part of your class," Leclercq stated.
"What?" Not just us, but all the others dumbasses frowned, staring at the twins.
"You all must have heard of the two babies that headmaster Marie-Léontine Lemoine had, that vanished without a trace with their father little after they were born, 97 years ago," he tilted his head. "That she's been after ever since, yeah? Well, she found them this summer, in the natural realm, in a small island in the Caribbean, thinking they were just normal humans," he scowled in disgust. "Poor kids. They had been kidnapped with their father then, we looked into their memories, the culprit was the 5th Demon Lord of Gluttony, imprisoned on the depths of the Tartarus, and their father died to save them, and throw them out of the underworld."
To my dismay, when I side-eyed Nikko, he side-eyed me in a what-in-the-bloody-fuck look that lasted two seconds, then glared at each other and back at Leclercq.
He wasn't done, "That was half a year ago, they have been with the naturals since then, until Lemoine found them. She found them on July 6th, and from that until a week ago, we've been trying to recover their memories, which we did, 6 days ago, which is how we know exactly what happened to Lemoine's mate and the twins. They need training and they need lessons, urgently, they are part of your lil groups of hybrids, half phoenixes and half elves, and what better class to put them at if not the class with our strongest kids?" Then he slapped Nikko's and my backs. "They knowledge goes only as far as year 14, thanks to their father. I present you Sophia Ember and Seth Thomas Bouchard-Lemoine."
"How did he die if he's mated to a phoenix?" I snapped pushing his arm away from me. "Mates share a heart, those mated to phoenixes cannot die!"
"They can, but they spawn back," Nikko corrected.
"Same shit, they stay alive, can't die!" I hissed.
"He died at the moment, but is still at the mercy of the 5th Demon Lord," Leclercq rolled his shoulders. "Again, war will come to us, you two liking it or not. And this class only has five dragons, you two, bat's twin, Hashimoto and Angelini," Nero Tristan Hashimoto and Esmeray Constance Angelini. "It has two phoenixes, one hawk, two seraphins, three fairies, two people with telekinesis, and four wind elementalists. That's 19, you're now 24, 5 of you cannot fly: Nicoletti, Montpelier, Di Giovanni, Konstantinov, and Gillingwater," the bastard turned to us. "Each dragon will be responsible for one of the kids who can't fly, I heard you are both picky, so, pick, or I'll pick, and if I do, I'll make sure to pick the one I know you won't like."
Between Odessa Winona Nicoletti, Miles Edmund Konstantinov, Arkin Raven Gillingwater, Calista Abigail Di Giovanni, and Sienna Rowena Montpelier? Is he kidding me? Odessa and Miles are a fucking no for obvious reasons, Calista is a big no because she's one of Soleil's best friends, leaving Arkin and Sienna who are in the neutral group of the class, not on my side, not on Nikko's, and not on the two cheating pieces of shit's, but I ain't going to carry that idiotic girl or I might-
"Gillingwater!" Nikko claimed him before I could.
I clenched my jaw, side-glaring him for a second and then back to the professor, "Montpelier," I hissed under my breath, not happy at all.
"Cali," Soleil, his sister, exclaimed right after me. "Calista," she made it even clear, a satisfied smile on her lips, and her friend smiled at her, just as happy, well, at least of us is.
"Konstantinov," Nero scowled, annoyed, he's one of Nikko's three best friends, Nero Tristan Hashimoto, firstborn son of Duke Kento Hashimoto and Duchess Thalia Smith-Hashimoto of Japan, her padre being a poison-earth dragon and his madre a witch. Probably because as one of Nikko's best friends he despise Orpheus and Odessa's group, and he was not about to pick her, because he has love for her life, as he's mated to Vesperine Lucille Zarvattari, aka Lucy, the third girl in Soleil's little trio, and the girl is a territorial winter wolf shifter with telekinesis.
"Ugh," Esmeray Constance Angelini groaned, definitely annoyed with me since I picked one of her three best friends, and with how only Odessa was left for her, "Nicoletti," she said with a distraught pout, and the bitch in question scowled annoyed. Angelini is the 2nd born daughter of Duchess Phoebe Angelini and Duke Kaleb Bertrand-Angelini of New Zealand, all ice dragons, thus she's one herself.
"Now, now, kids, for the dragons only, out of the other fourteen, four of you pick 3 and one of you pick 2, let's divide your groups for training, yeah?" He chanted.
"The two phoenixes," I said quickly, before any of them could, refusing to pick any of the others I already know and don't like.
"That's the spirit. Next?" He asked.
Nikko went next, "The Primavera twins," his other two best friends aside from Nero, both vampires and wind elementalists, so an obvious choice, "and Barbarossa," Azrael Hyde Barbarossa, from the neutral boys group, same group as Arkin, his first pick, and one of the seraphins of class, smart pick, especially because it'll mean Arkin won't be that much of a pain for him, if his friend is with them.
Nero was smart to go next, "Terwilliger, Villalobos," Conrad Poe Terwilliger and Cyrus Duke Villalobos the other two boys that make up the neutral boys group with Arkin and Azrael, also smart, Conrad being a wolf shifter and Azrael a fairy, "and my Angel," he smiled like and idiot, "Esmeray Constance Angelini," of course he would pick his girlfriend.
"Oh, come on," Soleil cried, "don't do me like that," passing a hand over her raven black hair, she sighed annoyed. "The Villalobos girl," Valencia Beatrix Villalobos, Cyrus's twin, a fairy like him, and another girl from the neutral girls' group. Sigh, "Castellano," Mekyla Serena Castellano the 4th and last girl in the neutral girls group, as well as the 3rd fairy. Then she looked at the forsaken remaining ones from the motherfuckers' groups, and I could tell Esmeray wanted to cry knowing whoever Soleil didn't pick, would be left for her. She clicked her tongue in distaste, "Ay, alright, I'll go with Palladino," Avaluna Vivienne Palladino, once one of my disloyal friends, a siren and the second one with telekinesis in our class.
"Zeus be damned," Esmeray cried, "ugh, I'll go with the leftovers," I choked on a laughter, and when they all stared at me, I looked away, soundlessly laughing, my shoulders shaking.