Mass release: 4/25
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"I understand that you are angry,"
"With all due respect, headmaster, I don't think you do!"
She blinked, "How did you know I'm the Headmaster?"
"My mom talked about you, she told me how to recognize you. She didn't talk about many people, but she did told me how to recognize a handful," I licked my lips. "So, no, I don't think you are able to grasp an ounce of how angry I am."
She swallowed and took a step closer, hands still raised a bit, "I will not hurt you, you don't need to be guarded with me, Alyssa."
I couldn't help giggling, "Well, aren't you a funny one? I am a demon, the only existent in my order, headmaster. I grew up in the Imperial Capital of hell, I swam in the Styx for fun, I wandered where no other demon did, I killed monsters that only the strongest of your little dragon could possibly kill, for fun. I swam in the Tartarus Sea of Disgrace just because I was bored, and I went down to the core of the Underworld, where even the worse of the Tartarus monsters felt scared of going, because I inherited my mom's curiosity. I am more reckless than mom was, bolder, and stronger. You can't hurt me unless I want you to, darling."
"Not to be rude, but I am curious, how do you exist?"
"I've been asking myself the same thing," I rolled my shoulders. "It's a mystery I'm still trying get an answer for. Both my parents are lust demons, my siblings are lust demons, I am also a lust demon, but I'm more, I am... this," I pointed to my tails.
"How are you an eight-tailed fox? Were you born like this, or,"
"I was born a two-tailed, I don't know if it was supposed to be normal, but it's the case. To awaken a tail, I gotta be put through a heart-breaking situation, something that makes me despair, to make me want to die," I chuckled. "Well, you can take your own conclusions by the amount of tails I have. But I have a feeling that my ninth tail won't be awakened unless I meet some kind of requirement. I don't really know, though, all I know is what I learned through my own experiences, after all, I had nobody to teach me, as foxes were thought to be extinct... before me."
"Oh?" She chuckled. "I didn't think you would actually answer."
"You ain't being rude to me, I see no reason to be that to you."
Nodding, "Can you... go back to normal? It's overwhelming."
"Okay," I turned back to my normal self, my eyes, hair, and everything changing, and when I was back, she gasped.
"You... you look identical to your mom."
No shit? I'm my mom here. "I get that a lot, thanks."
She took a step closer, than another, "Identical to both."
"Grandma and mom, right? Yeah, our genes are strong. As you can see, my dad's genes lost the fight majestically," I pointed to my sisters, though my real parents look nothing like me, none of them, especially because they look alike, and just like Alec.
"Wait," she blinked, "did you say your mom was a lust demon?"
A nod, "Mom, grandma, dad, my sisters, the boys here," my brother is the only one of us who's solely a lust demon, an incubus, all my sisters are half lust and half the sin their houses represent. Iris is lust and wrath, Jade is lust and sloth, Kat is lust and pride, Lou is lust and greed, Maddie is lust and gluttony, and Naomi is lust and envy. "There are many kinds of demons, all representing the seven deadly sin, each kind represent only one."
"Well, expect foxes, foxes are demons of lust, pride, wrath and greed. The worse of the seven sins, one would say. Which doubles down my lust induction, since I'm also a lust demon."
"What is a lust demon exactly?" She frowned.
"Female succubus, male incubus."
"Sex demons?" She squeaked. "Alamea was a sex demon?"
"Is. My mom is alive," is scoffed, because Tartarus be damned I am, and I'm right here, why are they so hang up on me? They weren't like this when I was here as Alexandria. "And what exactly did you expect from a lust demon? What is sex if not an end to satisfy one's lust, induced, bottled-up, or not? You can't expect a lust demon to... what? Induce people to hug friendly and nuzzle noses and shit. It doesn't take much to get the meaning."
"Now, if you want to know more about our kind, I could give an idea to the Emperor, and tell him that maybe we should open the SIA for an exchange program with the fae rated 1000 years old and above, every millennial, maybe 10 of them, so they can open their little horizons and know how little they are compared to us. Ain't that what you did to us?" I tilted my head, mockingly.
"You know the Emperor?" She frowned.
"Who do you think picked us to come here, Headmaster?"
"But you know him for that?" What's the surprise?
"Just because he's a Demon Emperor, doesn't mean he neglects his kind and is a tyrant, like your kind like to input such label on us, Headmaster. Of course, we know him, he calls all of us in there, and tell us to prepare ourselves for a river of racism and stupid criticism and to be the objects of your kind hatred, when you know shit of nothing about us. So, yes, I do know him. He is smart enough to know how valuable a nine-tailed fox can be, how he shouldn't look down on me."
Clenching her jaw, she swallowed, "What's SIA?"
"Styx Imperial Academy," I crossed my arms over my chest.
Her eyes widened, "Demons gave an academy?"
Oh, she's gotta be fucking with me. "Tartarus fuck me upside down," I cursed. "You think we are uneducated fools or something? You do know we have Imperials, Royals, Nobles, and a whole complex social structure, right? Or did you expect us to have just an Emperor, his Empress, and to be mindless slaves to his ideals and decisions? Nobles, Royals, and Imperials have to have a special education, and it takes 15 years to complete, way more than the 5 years VHA takes. The minimal acceptance age is 500, and we even give scholarships for the prodigy peasant demons. You ain't that unique, and SIA is older than VHA."
"Are you of the demon high society?" She gasped.
"What? You really thought the Emperor would be sending out peasants out here? You've been taking Royals and Nobles in here, sweetheart, every millennial, no peasant ever came here. And you gotta be at least a noble to be able to have mistresses. Seriously, I'm getting offended in here, Headmaster."
"I am just curious."
"Is that why you are asking all that to me?" I groaned.
"You are the oldest of the group, and the strongest."
I mean, sure, I am. "Yes, and? Just because I'm in the apex, doesn't mean my siblings won't take away the spots of the top 10. I did help training them, but my mom did most of the work," I totally trained them, they needed me for that. "Now, can we stop talking about my race? You ain't worthy of learning more than this, fae. Not when you never gave a shit."
When my eyes wandered away from her, to where the students were, chills ran down my spine when I saw a person staring at me, his mismatched eyes burning my skin, making me instantly feel sick with myself.
Guilt poisoning my soul.