Magus Academy 3

Chapter 4

When I woke up, I found a note.

It was dripping in blood with strange black mist surrounding it with a strange cryptic message and-

Oh wait, it was just a normal handwritten note.

"Good morning, idiot." The note began and I immediately knew who it was from, "You were way too tired yesterday and you seemed to think your chair was a bed. I carried your heavy body up here whilst trying to wake you up _ you were still fast asleep. Please don't go overboard with the worrying thing. You're barely getting any sleep and this just shows that. So, don't just read this and throw it away! SLEEP! And if you don't, I'll shove sleeping pills down your throat!
-your Jammie Dodger"

I rolled my eyes before smiling widely. I couldn't help but feel a huge sense of overwhelming satisfaction when he called himself mine.

Bleep I sounded like a werewolf Alpha!

Bleep. Bleep. Bleep.

"This is not a werewolf book. This is not a werewolf book. It's fine. I'm fine. Deep breaths... deep breaths..." I thought, panicking.

Once I finally calmed down my erratically beating heart, I got up and walked to the en-suite toilet before coming out and heading to the kitchen for breakfast.

"Good morning, guys," I greeted as everyone in the room awkwardly mumbled a reply.

All except Jamie, "You better listen to my advice! I didn't waste precious time writing the damn thing for no reason," he said, referring back to the note.

"I might," I told him truthfully.

To be honest, I wasn't really sure whether I'd listen to Jamie's advice. I mean, I may unintentionally stay up all night.

I just didn't want Jamie to expect too much.

"Good enough," Jamie muttered, eating a spoonful of his food. That's when I came up with an idea to embarrass him.

I simply rolled my eyes before leaning down and kissing Jamie's cheek.

I felt him stiffen as his spoon dropped into his bowl, his mouth wide open and his face completely flushed.

"For calling me heavy," I whispered in his ear, causing his face to become bright red.

I couldn't help but blush slightly as a small smile graced my lips. 

Bleeping hell! Even when I was trying to embarrass him, I somehow felt embarrassed myself.

All the royals stared at me in shock as I casually took a seat and started eating my breakfast.

"Jamie looking flustered? Now that's a sight to see," Blaze said, smirking, causing Jamie to roll his eyes.

Everyone giggled for a few seconds before awkwardly stopping, probably remembering what happened yesterday.

"Lisa... are you still..." Rose trailed off awkwardly.

"Carrying on with my plan? Yes," I replied, not giving anyone a chance to start protesting, I then said, "And no, nothing you will say can change my mind."

"We'll go with you," Lizzie suggested, her eyes becoming slightly glossy.

"No. If you die, Celestiam wouldn't be able to function. As for me, well, you've lived for a century without me and you look to be just fine. I won't be missed," I replied, causing Lizzie to look down at her feet.

"Take some of us with you," Sophie then said, leaving no room for argument, "I nominate, myself (of course) Jamie, Ash and Max."

"Nope _ not happening!" I replied, causing Sophie to glare at me menacingly.

I didn't care what the other's would say, there was no way I was bringing any of my friends into this!

"But we can help!" Sophie protested.

"And you can die!" I suddenly snapped as my heart dropped at the thought of losing any of them.

"So can you!" Sophie then yelled with tears staining her cheeks _ bleeping hell, why did she have to bring tears into this discussion.

"Once again, if I die, you can move on, live your lives and whatnot but if any of you die, it will ruin everything _ including me!" I replied.

"Stop trying to protect us for goodness sake!" Jamie snapped harshly, glaring at me, "We're your friends and we'll stick with you no matter what. Also, if there are more of us, we're all more likely to live through it." 

I looked up at him for a few seconds. Although I really didn't want anyone to come with me (in case I lose them), I knew it was impossible for me to do it all alone.

I hated it when Jamie was right.

"Fine," I mumbled in defeat, "But Charles is coming too."

I braced myself for Sophie's explosion, however, when it didn't come, I looked at Sophie curiously _ what happened to hating him?

"Aren't you gonna complain or anything?" I asked Sophie curiously.

"He needs to go with us. He's the only one who actually knows where Arthur is. Like it or not, he needs to come," Sophie mumbled quietly, causing both me and Jamie to exchange glances.

"What about us?" Lizzie demanded, tears trailing down her face, "Are we just supposed to stay here while you risk your lives?"

"You're gonna come up with a reason as to why we aren't here," I said before walking over to Lizzie and hugging her, whispering comforting words.

I knew none of my friends liked my idea but it had to be done.

I was the most powerful being in Celestiam, especially with my power boost; we can't risk sending a few dozen soldiers and then having them all die.

It was less risky to send a stronger, more powerful Celestian to reduce the number of deaths on our end.

Sighing, Lizzie said, "I'm ok," and slowly backed up with her tear-stained face staring at me.

"We'll leave in three days. That should be enough time for you to come up with some sort of story and for us to... well... have time to say goodbye," I suggested, more like commanded, leaving no room for any more protests.

"We'll miss you lot," Blaze said before engulfing me, Jamie and Sophie in a large bear hug.

Suddenly, I felt person after person join in on the group hug, practically suffocating me!

"I'll miss you too, NOW GET OFF ME!" Jamie suddenly yelled, causing me to flinch slightly _ he yelled right in my ear, that little bleeper!

"CAN YOU YELL A LITTLE QUIETER?" I snapped, loudly, yelling right in his ear.

"OW! MY EAR!" Jamie yelled, causing me to wince at how loud he was.

"YOUR EAR? WHAT ABOUT MINE? PRETTY SURE IT'S BLEEDING RIGHT NOW!" I retorted as the two of us winced again.

"WILL YOU STOP THAT?" Jamie demanded.

"YOU STARTED IT!" I yelled back.

"WHY ARE WE YELLING?" He then paused and spoke once more in a quieter voice, "I mean, why were we yelling?"

"I HAVE... no idea," I paused for a few seconds, trying to remember why we suddenly started yelling at each other.

I then shrugged before saying, "I'm gonna tell Ash, Maxine and Charles about the news. Anyone wanna come?"

"I will," Sophie chirped, rushing over to me before grabbing my arm and pulling me out of the royal's wing.

"We need to talk," she then said, once we were far away from anyone else.