Snow Stained with Blood (Mephisto Pheles fanfiction)

Chapter 3

Hi everyone. Here is this months chapter! I hope you enjoy it.

I walked into the cram school and took in my surroundings. There were several doors leading down a long corridor, unsure of what classroom I was supposed to got to I looked at Mephisto to get some sort of direction "the first-year class is in room 1106. If you would so kindly follow me" he said as he began to walk to the corridor, myself quickly walking behind him. We stood in front of the seemingly large and colourful door of 1106 and I felt the butterflies within my stomach as to who would be in my class "I could come in with you if you like?" Mephisto broke the silence, making me relax a little. "No, I'd rather go in by myself" I said, knowing it would be better this way.

I took a deep breath and opened the door with a shaky hand.

As I stepped inside all I could here was silence; the students currently in there all turned their attention towards me. I was shocked to only count seven students in the small classroom. The room itself had green walls and old wooden desks in a bench like style, the whole place smelling of damp and rotting wood. "I'm Violet Apocrypha, nice to meet you" I said with a slight nervous tone as I zoned in on the empty seating just behind the front set of desks and chairs, right in the centre of the room.

I sat down and released a breath I had been holding in, attempting to ignore the looks of surprise on my fellow classmates faces at the mention of my surname. "Apocrypha?!" someone yelled. Startled I turned towards the voice and saw a pink haired guy looking directly at me, with a slightly scared look on his face. "As in Cecilia Apocrypha?! The Arc Knight?! One of the most powerful knights and tamers to ever live?!" he continued yelling. I nodded in response, I was unsure of what to say, though I didn't realise my mum was that powerful. I picked up the courage to give a verbal response to his question "Cecilia Apocrypha is my mother" I said casually. The group of three guys to my left all looked like they had seen a ghost and I just continued to stare at them as though I was going to say something. The awkward silence was broken by the classroom door opening and I turned around to see Rin entering the classroom and stating his name, along with Mephisto in his dog form. 'why was Rin here?! I thought he was a demon, so why would he want to become an exorcist?' I thought as I watched Rin take his seat on the row in front of me. "Rin?" I asked, trying to get his attention, in response he turned around a almost jumped a little when he saw me "Violet?! What are you doing here?!" I laughed a little "Well obviously the same reason as you, to become an exorcist".

I turned my attention to Mephisto and glared at him, remembering our encounter earlier in the day. I then listened to him explain 'Temptaints' to Rin and the upcoming temptaint ritual that the class would probably be doing today, which I thought would be terribly boring as I had already received my temptaint when I was younger.

I was snapped out of my thought by the sound of the door opening and saw Yukio wearing an exorcist's uniform enter the classroom, stating that he would be our teacher. Naturally Rin was surprised and decided to lash out at his younger brother, demanding an explanation; myself on the other hand already had a suspicion that Yukio was an exorcist and being a teacher at the cram school was the perfect way for him to keep an eye on Rin. Ever since I saw Yukio in Mephisto's limousine, the thought of if he was an exorcist had been on my mind as I was unsure if Father Fujimoto would reveal he was an exorcist.

Rin continued to shout at his brother, earning some surprised looks from the rest of our classmates. Yukio told the class to leave so he could have a word with 'Okumura', I myself got up to leave but was told by Yukio I could stay, probably because I already knew about Rin possessing Satan's powers. I sat and watched as their conversation continued and hidden feelings were uncovered "and why the hell is Violet allowed to hear all this?!" Rin questioned, pointing a finger in my direction. Yukio responded with a sigh "Violet has known about your powers since we were young kids but her mother told her not to tell us anything about our true father" Yukio explained all this and I could feel the heat from Rin's blue flames becoming fainter as he calmed down, which I admit surprised me a little, he did just kill a very large goblin using that sword of his after-all.

After Rin's flames had completely disappeared from his body, Yukio asked the other students to come back into the classroom to continue with their lesson, but first we all had to clean up the mess that the twins had made during their short fight and rearrange the desks so they were in the original position.

The class itself was on demon pharmaceutics, one of Yukio's specialties. However, some aspects of it were incredibly boring but I took notes anyway as I knew there would be some sort of test in the future. Rin on the other hand decided to catch up on sleep, which didn't really surprise me at all.

After the class finished, we were all told there would be no more classes for today as it was only the first day of cram school and they wanted us to get settled in during the remainder of the day. I guessed this meant there would be more classes tomorrow, hopefully ones that I would be more interested in. I began walking down the cram school corridor and found a door where I could use my key to get to my dorm room, only for my name to be called by some of my fellow classmates. I looked up to see it was the three guys who were sat together in class "Do you mind keeping the door open for us Apocrypha?!" yelled the guy with 'rooster-ish hair. "Oh sure" I replied standing by it, letting go as soon as they were near enough to keep it open themselves. I quickly hurried back to my dorm room, wanting to avoid any further conversation for the time being; I would see them in class tomorrow so we could talk then if they wanted to.

I had received a key at the beginning of the day by the director aka Sir Pheles and saw it had the number 152 written on it, indicating my room number in the girl's dormitory. I decided to take the elevator up to the correct floor as there were just too many stairs to even think about. I walked down the corridor and saw other students busy deciding which bed they would be sleeping in and how they should arrange things and it reminded me that I may have to also share my room with others. I saw the number 152 next to the door and stood in front of it "guess this is me" I said. I placed the key in the door and turned it, hearing a clicking sound, indicating the door was locked "I guess I'm the first one here?" I assumed opening the door to find my luggage in the centre of the room. The room itself was quite simple, with a symmetrical design and therefore the room was meant for two people. Before I started unpacking, I saw a note on my desk, picking it up I noticed it was decorated with stickers and I instantly knew it was from Mephisto himself, it read:

To Miss Apocrypha

Welcome to True Cross Academy! If you are reading this, I assume you have finished your first cram school class and I would like to inform you that, unlike your fellow students, you have this dorm room all to yourself so you may use it how you like.

Yours sincerely

Mephisto <3

"ah that's I relief" I stated, placing the note back on my desk. I was happy that my dorm room would be peaceful and I could avoid any awkward interaction "I guess I should start unpacking then" I said as I started to open my luggage and empty the contents, organising everything exactly where I wanted it to be placed. I then realised how little stuff I had really brought from home but I remembered that I would be able to buy anything I needed in the surrounding town, there were enough places to visit during my time here.

I soon found myself settling in for the evening, deciding it was best to go to sleep early for the day of normal cram school classes tomorrow. I smiled at my coal tar plushie before turning off the light and getting cosy under the sheets, excited for what the next day had in store.