After a grueling day of classes, Sehki's arms were about done.
"Come on, we still got the rest of the tour to go through. There's still a lot for you to learn."
She took him to the locales near the other fraternity houses. First up was the Swampflare Garden next to their current frat, thankfully, much farther away than the House of Erebus, that Ainsley used as a drawing, and the siblings used for construction shape transformation using the solar powered fire pillars.
Next was heading towards the Shadowscalded Woods, the ones that he used to travel to House Erebus. The air altered between warm-fuzzy and cold-moderate with no continues until he arrived, spotting only one worker.
"Wait, the school only hired one person? Aren't I like a big deal?"
"Probably if you had more visitors. House Erebus started as a frat for Fae who couldn't quite reach the power for Zodiac magic or had a StellArts that didn't quite fit within either of the main four elements."
"Wow, my ancestors seem awesome. Wait, was Celestial originally a military school?"
"Technically all of the schools are but Celestial has the most open curriculum. The schools at Tellus, Coastrosity, Sugoda, and Fenghuang mostly cater towards their nation's speciality: healing and fertility, trading and transport, technology and entertainment, warfare and industry.
"So anyone can seek any major if they want. Good, they don't have to be stuck in one place hoping for a chance to escape somewhere else."
Her smile dropped as she decided to fly up to the worker. "Hey, Prince Sehki's been gone for a while. How about you just work a little harder," slightly sliding a part of her outfit off, "just to show him some more gratitude," slipping a hefty amount of coins in his pocket. "Please," pecking his cheek.
"Um, yes ma'am. Apologizes Prince Sehki."
As he got to work faster, Sheki had to ask if women had to do that often.
"Nah, but people act on three things the most: money, fear, and influence. Your reputation is still a bit mixed," showing him several articles and news reporters. Some had questions about how long he's been gone, Terra Safety apparently had to drive off newshounds from campus, speculations about his disappearance and confirming conspiracy theories.
"Geez, well it's nice to know some of the populace doesn't hate my guts," wondering if he can improve it within the next nine months.
Afterwards, she showed her the Rivershade Hotsprings in between Erebus and Poseidon, a set of chutes and ladders housing outdoor hot springs. Finally, they reached over to the Whirlpool Cavern, where she took him with her to jump in, riding from the top as it slowly sank back down into the ground.
"Ha, ha, that was scary."
"You're adorable when you're scared. By the way, have you tried weaving the other elements?"
"I don't feel like I can. Professor Lyncis said to take water classes just in case, so I think I should find my limit for fire, next water, after earth, then air. My brother's probably not the only person out there rooting for me," as the whirlpool emerged.
He tried weaving a small portion of it over to him, barely able to summon a bubble in his hand. "Even if I have to work every minute, I want to bring out any potential I have to get back home," trying to shape it into a miniature two-dimensional figure of his brother. "I want to get my brother back."
Calypsa nodded. "Take it easy tonight, this weekend, we'll work on your Cardinal Arts. For now, we'll do fire and water." She had them ride on her staff to Erebus to drop him off. "Just don't forget to eat breakfast and lunch, kay?"
"Thanks Cal."
As she flew off, he imagined she was Val and shook the thought off. Dimensional counterparts are sci-fi.
Then again, he was the prince of a kingdom. Anything could happen.
After falling asleep trying to catch up with the material she gave him to study, the sound of fierce knocking on the glass struck him awake in time to see a large human shaped beast smash through it.
"What the?" He rolled out of the couch, picking up his bag heading to the kitchen immediately to turn on the kettle water and grab a rusty knife. "Get the hell out of here now," turning on the light.
In his presence was an anthropomorphic fly with big eyes and two arm stingers shaped as knives with a holster.
Nuts, has to be Musca, the fly constellation. Animal StellArts can change their form too," unzipping his bag and throwing the knife.
The fly caught it, only for Sehki to find the canister and spray the intruder down with bug spray. The culprit of the break up screeched in pain from the fluid continuously being fired at his eyes, torso, and arm as the younger heir kept kicking and spraying them all the way to where they entered.
The masculine buzzing voice screeched, fleeing outside to use the dirt to clear up their face reverting back to a human's while retaining their powers, running away. Sehki gave chase while seeing camera flashes, forcing him to cover his eyes as a swarm of flies targeted and slashed at his cheeks. His spray helped fight them off, but small earth shaped caltrops flew and sliced off parts of his clothes.
"Argh," falling to his knees while hearing their laughter. His rage built up from this familiar feeling he fought hard for Flint to never go through, recalling the day he came back from school in scars.
"Leave us," releasing a Cosmic Burst that initially blasted a sphere around him, only to try and weave it and throw his fire, only for it to scatter around as a whip with flames, "alone!"
The group and fly man panicked and fled from the trees about to fall on them while he tried to drag himself to House Erebus. He crawled as he raised his hand, imagining replacing the broken window with a solid amount of earth from the ground before his head stopped moving in front of the dorm.
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Celestial University: A Bully Romance
Romance"A bully romantasy about finding your greatest strength in the darkest of times." Trying to save his younger brother from his abusive father, a deadly fire leads Shemar Thomas separated from him and teleported to another world. Finding out he's the...
