Chapter 3: A familiar face

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Author's Note: Qwerty

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Her P.O.V

I walk away as I escape from those two I tighten my fist hard to the point of drawing blood, I severely underestimated those two damn it all! It's clear that I just need more time. I walk into a small cave which I call home for now as I just relax for a bit. The flat stone slab with a thin as hell blanket of what I call a bed along with a Giant crystal that acts as a mirror, the cave honestly has as much of the basic needs as I can get but it's barely keeping me going, the only real thing that's kept me alive for so long is just my willpower and hatred. I walk up to the giant crystal and I inspect myself in the reflection, "I look repulsive" I say out loud as my appearance is just overall pitiful to look at; My hair is dishevelled and fading away, my skin is cracked and looking ready to peel itself off of my flesh while I look aged and unwell I hate it, I hate everything about it, I'll make sure that they pay for doing this to me, I will! The cave around shakes and cracks as I calm down and just sigh in annoyance, this process will be long but it'll be worth it in the end it has to...It will.
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Eldowin's P.O.V

06:45 AM 

I wake up to the sound of my alarm ringing as I open my eyes and rolling over I open my phone and check to see what day it is: Monday so that means that I have to go back to school so crying internally I will myself out of bed and I do my regular routine: shower, dress-up, brush my teeth and then go down to eat breakfast. Mom and Rem were already eating breakfast as I come down stairs and they all greet me, returning it I make small talk with mom, "So Eldo, excited to be back in school?" now even though I by any means wasn't excited I couldn't help but smile to her and say, "Yea actually, get to see the rest of my friends there it'd be a great time"

she gives a smile and says, "Ok well I've got to prepare for work, a lot of investigations to work on today so I may be back late" I nod to her and my smile faltered a bit, my mom is an investigator for Paranormal activities that threaten the good of the city and Aeus, her magic may not be top tier but her tech is amazing but this job isn't just a quick trip she goes through multiples hours and even days on certain activity within a reported area and most of the time her and her team get jumped by whatever was haunting that place (Note: when I mean paranormal activity I don't mean just ghosts and stuff things like crimes, cults etc etc) and she'll be back home with a cut or two but she gets paid enough to provide for her two kids so it's worth it in the end. I get up after eating breakfast and I start exiting the house I say bye to my family but before exiting my mom says, "Oh yea, A special man will be coming to visit us" I smile at the thought that he'd be here as I respond with, "Ok I'll tell him you greeted him" as I walk into Solace and get on my way to Aesteria.

The boy walks towards his high school as we look on to see the high school is a large building that on the outside looks like any private high school building would look like and on the inside it's a lot more impressive, in the hallway there a pedestals of previous students that went to the school that are projected on these podiums, the floor has a beautiful white marble that it covered by a red carpet and there are transcripts that describe different courses in the school and assistances helping new students find their way to class or assisting other students with homework or other activities Eldowin walks through the hall as he sees a group of people within the cafeteria talking to each other and he starts walking towards them waving his hand and going to them.

I walk to my friends smiling at them as I shout out to them, "Hey Guys!" They all respond one way or another either by a casual wave or a small wave, "Hey Eldo how's life treating you?" I look over and see Zero greet me with a smile, Zero is a boy who is around taller than me by a few inches, he has short Platinum blonde hair and he is wearing a black Shirt along with black pants an overall look that I'm used to seeing as Zero always liked the simplicity, "Life's been a roller coaster but I think it's tame for now" I give him a tame smile as I look to my next friend who goes by the name of Xay, he's on the more serious side and he is oldest out of all of us reaching the end of his time here at Aesteria as he says, "Glad you're doing well Eldowin" I smile and return the greeting with a, "Yea glad to see you're still alive too" we both have a small chuckle as I look to my last friend Andromeda, she's the tallest out of the four of us being around the same height as my mom with her icy blue eyes and split hair colour having one side white and one black. She smiles and says, "Heard you two got into a fight with some woman at Aurora's lake, mind spilling what happened?" oh yea the lake, I figured they'd hear that from Ryo or me sooner or later but I just tell them everything that happened and the responses that came from them either ranged from 'That woman must have been insane' to 'She was probably just insanely high and just managed to get his hands on some weapons' but overall I undermined the situation and just decided that the authorities will handle it. We hear a chime as it indicates that we must be heading to our classes now, Ryo and I head to one of our first classes "Racial Studies".

"Infernosapiens, beings who have originated from the underworld but have made it to the surface and have become a part of society, Infernosapiens have a special connection to fire and thus most of the time they'll have fire energy, and due to their infernal background hybrids will usually have most of the Infernals genes" The Lecturer informs the class about Infernosapiens or more commonly known as Infernals, Eldowin, and Ryo chart this down as one of them writes stuff down while the other has things on his mind, Eldo can't shake of that woman's gaze even after tomorrow those eyes just wanted nothing more than to break him apart it's chilling but he decides that he'll think about it when he isn't in class with a strict teacher.

Charting down information on the infernal race we move onto the hybrids, "Listen up because this'll be in your exams for the next time I see everyone" The Instructor said as she then says, "Now hybrids are simple enough to understand, two different races coming together and making an child who has inherited both traits from the parents" Eldo gives Ryo a small smirk as he returns it with a middle finger "Now when it comes to the race combinations and what your life energy could be it depends on the Ratio of what race you have inherited more of, our mother could be human while the father is an archangel to make an example you would inherit more of your father's traits than your mother's due to how powerful angels really are" The lecture goes on as Eldowin completely zoned out the conversation he has a hybrid as a friend so why bother with the lecture when he practically has a whole living encyclopaedia right next to him on the topic so this whole lecture doesn't matter. The rest of the class goes by without any problems as the two get out of that class and exhale in celebratio.

"That class was so boring" One of them said while the other agreed the two would walk over to their group as Zero asks, "How was the class?" "Well learning about Races is fun and all but she just makes it hard for me to enjoy it" Eldo said as Zero says, "Well you could always drop it for a different class" "Why would I do that now, I'd be wasting my time and I'd have to catch up on the work that they did in the previous cycles as well as study the present work it wouldn't work out" "Fair point" "I agree with El on this one, why stop if you're already in too deep?" Ryo adds as he gets up and stretches "So what do ya'll have now?" "Magic" Xay said, "Alchemy" Andromeda and Zero say "We got Realm studies next" Ryo informs the group, "Alright well we'll meet you guys at lunch time ya?" "You will" With that the group dispersed to their respective classes agreeing to meet at their usual spot when they finish with their classes. 

The chime of a bell ends as everyone starts to exit and walk home or chill with their friends, The group that we have familiarised ourselves with all walk and talk with each other and discuss plans for today, "I'm gonna hang out with my father" Zero says, "I'll come with you" Xay said, "It's been a while since I've seen him" Andromeda looks on and says in a sing-song tone, "Well I'm going to head into the capital to get me some new spell scripts (books) and learn some magic~!"  Ryo decides to join Andromeda on this adventure of hers as He asks, "Wanna join us or Head over to Zero's place?" Eldowin says sheepishly, "Aw don't make me choose, besides I had other plans" He says while waving them off. He starts to walk into the streets of solstice and go into the apartment area where he goes to his apartment but when he opens the door he sees a Young adult man who has long red hair covering one of his eyes, his stature being upright and professional as well as him carrying a gentle smile on his face his height stands at an all time high of  6'5ft as he says in a calm, collected voice, "Hey Eldowin how's it going?" 

Meet Leywin 
Grander, Magic Specialist.

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"Take care of them for me will you?"

Auhtor's note: Ty to @Pieneeda for the name of the school


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