Flashes and Flowers

Mella Fujisaki's father had one goal when he built Valkyrie Academy: to train her and seven other children to fight supernatural forces of evil. But attacks from a mysterious man with dark abilities leaves one member powerless, Mella's father and sister dead, and the academy a pile of ash. The event forces the surviving members to go their separate ways.

Ten years later, Mella has finished rebuilding the academy. When she receives news that the enemy will return, she gathers her former classmates to stop him. The problem? Their powers don't work the way they used to, if at all. The solution? Teach eight new teenagers, dismissed as failures or rejects, to control their powers and become the heroes they were meant to be. As she reconnects with her ex girlfriend Natalie and helps positively impact their students, Mella finally feels as if she can move forward. But a secret of one of the students might just rip everything good away from her once again.

CWs will be updated, as of Part 1: violence, child/sibling death (flashbacks), implied parental abuse, alcohol, mentions of characters having faced bullying in the past