Heart Of Dragons

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This is it.

The first day of starting the legendary Academy.

My secret is my identity. I made it because I didn't want to gain popularity and unwanted fake friends from the students and teachers here (and of course because I wanted to see how people would react after treating me so badly as a nobody). That's why I'm already in the dorms with my fake name. Skur Knutdottin. Just a little fakeness since noone knows how I look anyways and they wouldn't even think of the Skur learning at this Academy.

I'm really impressed with the dorms here. Each student has a room for themselves. They don't have to share it. And I have to admit. These rooms are huge, there's so much free space you could fit a big Jacuzzi in the middle of the room. But these dorms are only for students living on other islands and aren't permitted to be used on school days. The rest of the time we will have to spend in a group dormitory since we will have to learn to get along with our group partners for the whole three years. Ugh... so not needed. And also I can't lurk them up because I don't know who I will be partnered with yet. Even bigger ugh... Why I just can't stay here alone in my own room?? In peace?

Today... Today I will know and I hope with all my heart that I won't suffer because of my roommate stupidity. Fingers crossed.

Since it is a huge day for the whole Academy I have to go at least a little bit formal than usual. So I took my black leather pants and white lace crop top with dragon embroidery out of my closet. I rarely wear something this light and girly since I love leather all the way, but oh well... let's make an exception. With that combination I also took my white ankle boots and let my hair down. That should do it.

Since I was ready to go I didn't waste any more time because I like to arrive early to everything. With that I feel safe knowing that I won't be late.

I walked out of my room, locked the door and went out of the building. While I was walking on a path thinking about what could happen today I didn't notice that someone was already in front of me walking slower than me. Of course that resulted in me bumping into them what caused me to drop out of my trance. 

"Oh! I'm sorry. I didn't notice you." I apologized to the person in front of me which was a girl shorter than me but very beautiful at that. Long pitch black hair with blue eyes. The girl had a long white dress with black shoes and accessories decorated with what looked like small diamonds mixed with sapphire.

"No, it's okay. Don't worry." She smiled and stretched out her hand "I'm Joreid."

"Skur."

"I haven't seen you around the island. Where are you from?"

"Uhmm... I'm from the far southern part of the islands - Gordun. There aren't many people living there since it's so small." I lied still holding a somewhat straight face.

"Ooh... that's why. Maybe we could be friends? I suppose you don't know anyone here so it would be nice to have one from the start." Joreid sweetly smiled.

"Yeah, that would be nice." I smiled a small smile back and we started to walk to the main building.

"By the way, I know it's random but I'm warning you beforehand so you don't get confused. Nobody here likes people whom nobody knows anything about so it will be hard to get into good groups."

"Groups?" I pretended to not know about the stupid dormitory thing.

"Yeah. You didn't know?" I shook my head "Well, I know this from my brother. He's having his last year here. The students are divided into many many groups and the groups will stay together like that the whole three years. The program was made to make students learn to think about others as well because if someone is lacking then the whole group is lacking to others as well. He also said that on the first day the heads of the Academy choose the strongest students and make them choose their group mates. If they know nothing about you, you could be the last one to get picked and with that - gotten into the weakest group. And it gives you an even lesser chance to get a good end here because the weakest groups don't have a lot of training available since the top takes almost all the free hours thanks to their good group leaders. But that also doesn't exactly mean that the top has the nicest people. Usually the strongest here are the meanest."

"Oh yea? Well I think that it is very unfair. Everybody should be able to train the same amount of time. The teachers shouldn't be biased in this situation." I exhaled almost angry at the school. How could I have not known this?

"Yeah. I think so, too.. Well, atleast I hope we can get picked together in one group because I don't want to be surrounded by mean people I don't know. You seem cool so I see you as a chance of surviving this hell." Joreid said to me hopefully.

"Thank you! You're really nice too. That would be amazing if I could be in a group with you. By the way, how many people a group can contain?"

"Six. Three girls and three boys."

"Wow, those are some big groups. I do hope we will survive this" I chuckled an uneasy laugh.

"Yeah. I hope so, too." She stretched out.

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I will probably make shorter chapters than usual because if I will try to make them again +1000 words long then it will be harder to update more frequently because I will be too lazy to update. But it doesn't mean that it won't happen because I might get a hold of myself ^^ (for example I'm rewriting now and this chapter went from ~600 to ~1000 words... hehe)

I hope you will still like this story.