PDK Fantasia

Chapter 4

"Hello?! Anyone inside?!"

The door was knocked violently now and the voice increased in irritation as the girls were taken aback, stunned for a while before Persperphone huffed out,"Coming, coming!" and stalked to the door, about to turn the doorknob when...

BOOM!

The door flung open as though it was avoiding something fast, making Persperphone fall right on her butt.

"Ow~" Persperphone cried out.

Seclinette immediately came to the rescue and helped Persperphone up. "Persperphone, are you alright-"

"I think she IS alright, girl," the voice became clearer and filled with more sarcasm. The girls looked up, only to see a girl crossing her arms and her angry expression.

"I can't believe you newcomers have to keep staring at me like that. Do I have something on my face?"

The student, who had a crescent moon clipped to her fringe which was combed neatly to her right eye, was glaring at Seclinette and Persperphone with her intriguing brown and cyan eyes ( brown eye blocked by the fringe ). With a purple short cloak that has a hood, she looked somewhat charming with a dress with long sleeves and baggy long pants that has a green line around the knee.

"I seriously have no time to argue with you anymore, so I'm going to introduce myself. The name's Mirage," The strict-like student, now known as Mirage, introduced in an annoyed tone.

Seclinette, however, remained calm and after she slowly let Persperphone sit on a chair beside a desk, she slightly waved her hand and with a cheerful tone, she answered,"Hi Mirage! I'm Seclinette and this is my best friend Persperphone!"

"Nice to meet you, old hag," Persperphone muttered under her breath, pouting.

"Excuse me, I heard that, blue hair," Mirage stopped crossing her hands and clenched both fists as she tensed her shoulders, ready to get offensive.

"What Persperphone said was 'Alright!', eh heh heh," Seclinette showed a cheesy smile, trying to please Mirage a little.

"Hmph! Since you are just newcomers, I won't care about useless insults. Now come on out with your weapons, there isn't any time!" Mirage turned her back towards Seclinette and Persperphone, then kept her nose high as she walked away from the room.

"Hey wait up!" Seclinette plucked out a square letter and wrote her room number before running to Mirage."I need to pass this letter for my pet turtle. Who should I pass it to?"

"Give me that," Mirage took the letter,"I will inform the animal caretakers. Now hurry up!"

Seclinette ran back to the room to get her sword and dashed out, with Persperphone clutching her scythe and said to Seclinette,"I didn't know there was the opposite of the headmaster!"

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"This is the main hall, where the students gather in the early morning for assembly," Mirage explained, her back still facing Seclinette and Persperphone as they walked into a large room the size of two football fields.

"Whoa, the stage is even larger than our school's Persperphone!" Seclinette pointed out, looking at the auburn brown stage in awe.

"At the left side of the stage itself," Mirage finally faced the girls and looked in the direction opposite the stage,"is the corridor leading to all the students' classes. There are mainly two types of classes: Close Combat Class and Range Combat Class."

"Well, me and Persperphone should be in the Close Combat Class," Seclinette said, looking at her sword.

"None of my business to know that," Mirage rudely implied, before beckoning the girls to follow her to the right side of the stage.

As they walked through corridors, Seclinette saw many doors alongside walls.

"What are those doors?" Seclinette asked.

"These are some of the teachers' rooms. That door at the furthest left is the staff room." Mirage replied, pointing to the door that was larger than the rest.

Mirage continued showing the girls around the school and its places: The canteen, which was as large as two-third of a football field; the gym, where school tournaments and recreational activities took place in; and also the school garden, which was filled with vibrant colours of flowers and sap-green leaf trees and bushes.

The duo were still amazed by the mystical garden when the bell suddenly chimed.

"Hm... I guess it's time for our classes to begin," Mirage said, looking at the school's clock tower, it's hands showing the time of 9 a.m.. "Come on now, teachers aren't going to wait."

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Climbing up the stairs to the second level, the three girls went straight to their classes.

"I'm sorry to leave you girls alone now, but I'm not in the Close Combat Class," Mirage stopped in front of the Close Combat Class door. "The teacher in this class will assist you however. Good luck!" Leaving Seclinette and Persperphone to themselves, she waved before entering the other class.

Persperphone snorted right after Mirage got into her class. "How funny! Miracle-"

"It's Mirage, Persperphone," Seclinette corrected.

"-I mean Mirage. She doesn't even smile one bit when you smiled at her!"

"It's okay, I think it's just her own personality."

"But her face is so dark with hatred!" Persperphone argued.

That made Seclinette pause for a while awkwardly before she finally saw a group of students entering the Close Combat Class, chatting loudly.

"Well, what are you waiting for Persperphone, we're going to be late if we just stand there like scarecrows!" Seclinette nudged Persperphone and opened the door, suddenly stopping in the middle of the classroom.

"Un-un-unbelievable..." Persperphone gaped upon closing the door behind, standing on the floors of the classroom.

Seclinette, on the other hand, freaked out when she saw the size and enviroment of the classroom. Unlike typical classes which only consists of tables, chairs, whiteboards and concrete surfaces and walls, this classroom was not even considered a 'classroom', but more of a 'jungle-ocean-desert-sky gym' that was almost eight times as big as an indoor sports hall!

"Of all schools I've went, this has the most epic classroom!" Seclinette exclaimed in shock.

"It is epic, isn't it?" a male baritone voice answered.

Seclinette and Persperphone looked to their right to look at a man half a head taller than the girls, wearing mainly navy blue shirt and long pants with a belt strapped around his waist.

"I'm Bruce Strongwill, the coach in charge of this class," the muscular-looking man introduced himself,"but you may address me as Mr. Strongwill. Are you the new students?"

"Yea, we just transferred here, Mr. Strongwill," Persperphone retorted.

"We're still quite a little oblivious here though. Why is the 'classroom'..." Seclinette trailed off as she took a short glance,"... outdoor-like?"

"Haha, looks like you haven't seen such a large 'classroom' before, have you? This special classroom was built specially so that students can still be 'outside' when they're inside, and learn the different types of outdoor surroundings while fighting." Mr. Strongwill explained, "Furthermore, the next time when the students happened to stumble upon enemies in forests they can find ways to escape."

"Wow! I didn't know teachers hadit all planned!" Seclinette jumped in delight as she observed more of the classroom's surroundings.

"Now if you excuse me, I have to call all the students to gather at the forest grounds over there." Mr. Strongwill beckoned. "Come on!"