The groups were woken up by a ringing in the wall once everyone got up. Every one of the first years in the school grumbled not knowing what the ringing was. There was excitement in the air as well as nervousness. Eram got up with bags under his eyes having nothing but nightmares of Almost getting killed by Shiela. Michael Woke up looking even worse still scared by the whole experience but was still ready for the day.
Alexander got up last looking more refreshed than ever he ran to the walk-in closet that was in the room and got changed in there. After he got out he said his goodbyes and left the room to get to see and take Lila to class. Michael was next to go get changed but he wanted to leave with Eram on the walk to class. Eram got dressed and then was surprised by Michael waiting for him there.
"Sorry don't feel safe walking alone, all last night I couldn't stop feeling something that happened at the fight yesterday. I didn't want to talk about it earlier but when I accidentally hit you I could feel a pain throughout my whole body that I can't even describe to you. I'm fairly certain you damaged my soul even though it was temporary." Michael said looking at Eram as seriously as he could.
Eram looked back and understood. "I barely remember what happened at the end it was like I took a backseat in my own body. I do remember that part though, it was like I understood how your abilities worked and I could use them as I had them all my life. One difference to note and one more thing to add is I don't think I was the one in control and I don't remember at all how to use your ability either nor how I used it."
Michael looked at him glad to have gotten that out of him and opened the door and they walked to class. On the way there though one of the other students awkwardly hit on Michael. " Hey you look cool do you have time to go on a date with me tonight?" a girl asked with a big smile on her face and blushing a little.
Michael felt guilty for his answer but couldn't entertain the thought. " Sorry, first I don't know you and I only date people I've known for a while, and second I'm already married. After he said that the girl looked sad and mumbled a response and left leaving Michael bewildered at the question in the first place.
'He looked so handsome and I didn't want to miss my chance what was I thinking why did I do that!' the girl thought as she teared up as she walked off.
The most shocked person was Eram "You're married? Your 14! How are you married?" He looked at Michael with newfound respect and curiosity.
"Yeah I'm married, I didn't plan on telling anyone. Also, I'm not 14 I'm 15" He looked at Eram with Mach indignance " I wonder why she asked me out."
"I refuse to believe you don't know. "Eram said while looking at this dumb creature. They got to the classroom and entered it. Sitting down at the second row as the first row had already been taken. There was hardly anyone else in the classroom.
After a couple of minutes of waiting Alexander and the girls showed up. Alexander was deep in conversation with Lila and didn't notice or didn't want to notice Eram and Michael sitting on the second row and went straight to the top. As he passed by Eram he received a kick to the gonads from Lila, he immediately turned around and crawled like a roach to the seat next to Michael and Lila sitting on the outside and Yuki said next to Eram on the inside.
When Alexander got kicked all of the boys in the class winced in pain and crossed their legs, All the girls however giggled terrifying all of the boys. After 5 minutes had passed a female teacher with Purple hair walked into the class and started to say " My name is Professor Peygot." she shut the door behind her and locked it looked at the students running towards the class and continued " Tardiness will not be tolerated I will not let anyone into class after today and after three tardies I will fail you without a second of hesitation."
She unlocked the door and let the few tardy students in and briefly went over what she just said. She then directed towards the lack of empty seats. "All of you students in the back row you don't look cool you look stupid. Those seats aren't meant for you moron those seats are meant for administrators, move now." Every word stung at Alexander and made Lila even more mad.
Lila whispered to Alex that she was going to kill him on the way to the next class. Some students spoke out in outrage but were quickly shut down by the threats of expulsion she hurled back at them. She looked around the class openly judging every student there calling some kids names.
After she got done making every student there but a few feel worthless she kept going. " this class is called Pho theory and that's exactly what it is, we will open with a simple question. What is pho? Before any of you try to come up with anything to refute it I will tell you. Pho is fuel. To show you what I mean I'm going to use my core ability." She stopped and showed them her ability.
A Purple whirlwind appeared in her palm and she asked another question. " where is pho, well it's all around us. The air, water, and any other material you can think of, pho is there. You naturally absorb it like a sponge but everyone varies differently. The reason we start teaching you how to use your abilities in 9th grade is because that's when your body naturally stops growing, of course, I'm not talking about your physical body, but your soul." she looked around getting angry very few students where taking note but if they where going to fail anyways it wasn't her fault.
"Another interesting note is that this world is split into rings, pho gets denser the deeper you go towards the other side of the planet. The pho rings go from zero to twelve. At ring zero there is no pho, and twelve is theorized to be so dense that normal physical life can't exist. You might be wondering why I'm telling you this, It's simple really because there are beings that evolve from physical life to to that of what we call soul-beings."
She pulled out a small Cage about the size of a basketball and inside it was a little critter about the size of a tennis ball. The creature looked like a deformed mouse with one giant eye in the middle of its face and was drooling out of its grotesque mouth that was full of sharp jagged teeth. Eram looked at it and felt something off by its eye and looked away after feeling something weird.
One kid stared into its eye a little too long by accident and started violently throwing up. " This critter is called a Jitter Bouth. It has the unique ability to cause anything that looks into its eye to get sick enough. Once you are incapacitated it will eat you." She waved her hand through the air and then a wave of purple energy flowed from her hand to the kid healing him. The kid that was just healed was about to thank the teacher in tears when she glared at him calling him all sorts of names.
She continued " All soul-beings will have their unique abilities, Of course, species will have similar Core Abilities such as every Jitter Bouth making you sick when you look into their eyes. But that's not just why I'm telling you this. The denser pho you find yourself the harder it is to use your senses, and if you are in denser Pho for a long enough time you will evolve as well. Evolving as a human is different than animals because we are all so unique compared to a simple mouse. All humans have to have a soul core to evolve but that will be covered in the core-related classes.
For the rest of class, we will meditate until we can sense the pho around us and slightly manipulate it. It shouldn't take you more than a week to accomplish this. This will also be your homework for my class." As soon as she said that everyone started to meditate.
After about an hour of meditating the bell rang and the students got up to head to their next class. Eram talked to his friends about how the teacher was a little terrifying but at least she thought well.
Yuki spoke up as they opened the door "Well it's time to learn what spell casting is."