A Z R I E L (A Freenbecky Fanfiction)

CHAPTER 10

It was a quiet day at Ravenwood academy, Normally, Fridays and Saturdays were reserved for duels, but a sudden assembly had been called, requiring all academy staff to attend.

Since it'll be three days of no class, students were allowed to go visit home or just go outside campus so long as they'll be back by Monday.

Isabella decided to stay, She misses her mom but still unsure whether going back home is a good idea as of the moment, It's only been a few weeks so she thinks her mom is still furious about her attending the academy.

Blair had gone home, and Kali was probably still asleep in their room—it was still early, after all. Her parents were in Switzerland, so she had decided to stay too. That, and she wasn't completely comfortable leaving Aelia alone for three days, not after the attack the day before.

Now, Isabella sat in the middle of the school field. The campus was peaceful, unusually so, with most students off-site. She laid a mat on the grass and strummed a few soft chords on Blair's guitar, basking in the stillness.

But she had no idea she was being watched.

A few meters away, hidden in the shadow of an old tree, a woman stood—bow drawn, arrow notched, her sharp gaze fixed on the girl across the field. She waited patiently, almost reverently, for the perfect moment.

It was an opportunity.

Just as she released her grip from the arrow, a strong energy materializes infront of the woman shattering the arrow into thin air.

The woman stepped back, furious. She didn't need to look to know who was behind her. 

"What the fuck! Celestine?" she hissed, spinning around.

"When will you stop, Izel?" Celestine replied calmly, approaching her with quiet authority.

"Why'd you do that? That should've been a bullseye." Izel replied with a question, refusing to answer Celestine.

"Stop picking on the newbie, Izel." Celestine stated.

"I'm not picking on her." She denied. 

Izel skeptically looked at her before asking, "Why are you here?" 

The other just shrugged her shoulders and sat down on the grass.
"Did Eirene sent you to watch me?"

Again not hearing a response from the other woman, she continued to speak.

"Why do you all always stop me? Eirene has been up my neck for days now then Azriel interfered the other day, now you? "

"You're being irrational, Izel, that's why." Celestine answered, annoyed by her friends attitude. "Stop trying to attack her. She didn't even do anything."

"Funny, I never heard you stopping Eirene when she would play with the newbies."

"Eirene doesn't hurt them," Celestine shot back. "She gets them to fetch food or play dumb games for her entertainment. She doesn't physically attack them. What you're doing is different."

"She's just a newbie Shin, Why do you care so much about her?"

"Because Kalliste is my friend and clearly, she cares about her."

That made Izel's eye twitch. Her grip tightened on the bow again.

"And that's the reason I want her gone." she said flatly, drawing another arrow and aiming it again at the girl in the field, who was still blissfully unaware of the danger.

"Stupid." Celestine whispered. 

"You think if you eliminate her, Kali will come running back to you?" She questioned trying to knock some sense into her friend.

Izel didn't answer. 

"You'll just give her much more reason to be mad at you. Seriously, can't you use your brain and think Izel?"

"Stop insulting me Celestine, I might change my mind and shoot you instead." She threatens.

"You can try, but you'll clearly fail." Cel snickers. Izel's temper is just something else.

"You know you're such a coward, Izel."

"Shut up."

"No, listen. First, You fuck up your two-years relationship with Kali for a werewolf you just met, You let the woman you claim to love leave without trying to fight for her, cause instead of chasing after her, you choose to pick the safest option by staying with the boy you cheated on her with."

Izel tensed.

"Second, you thought sending her gifts months later would magically fix things. You didn't even talk to her."

"Celestine—" Celestine held up her hand to stop Izel from interrupting her.

"Third, you deliberately scared off her past roommates so they'd request transfers. You left her alone in that room for a year, Izel."

"Just shut up, Shin!" Izel exclaimed, her voice cracking from the weight of the truth.

"Lastly, you're here now, hiding behind this tree aiming an arrow at the woman Kali clearly likes." Celestine paused.

Izel's jaw clenched, she hates how Celestine puts so much emphasis on Kali liking another, she just can't accept the fact that the love of her life is indeed falling for someone that's not her.

"You're trying to attack an innocent girl, unguarded. That's such a coward move Valentin." Celestine watched as Izel gripped the bow tighter.

Izel needed to hear those facts.

"If you really want Kali back, this isn't the right thing to do."

Celestine stood up shaking off the dried grass that stick into her pants.

"And if you're actually really annoyed by the newbie, ask her for a duel and play fair."

Without another word, she turned and walked away, leaving Izel alone beneath the tree.

The silence returned.

Izel slowly lowered her bow, letting it dissolve into the air. Her chest ached—not from anger, but something far more bitter.

She looked back at the field... just in time to see Kali.

She was now sitting beside Aelia, laughing at something the girl said.

Izel stared at the scene. And her heart broke all over again.

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Just a short update.