Ashwood University

Ashwood University Chapter Five - Aeon

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Chapter Four - Aeon

I took a shower and when I returned to our room to get ready to go out Syre was there waiting for me. "Hi." She said.

"Hi." Then I looked at her, "Would you mind helping me find what to wear?"

"I already told you." Alexander said.

"I prefer to listen to a woman..." I said, "...they usually have better taste."

"Ok, let me see your clothes." She sighed, so I opened the drawers where all my clothes were. Everything was organized by color, type and season "WOW! Not even I have drawers this organized!" She began to look for something for me to wear while I went to smoke by the window which when you touched it the glass disappeared.

I'd smoked half my cigarette when John came in wearing just a towel. He was still a little wet so all of his muscles glistened and his hair dripped. When he came in he saw Syre and stopped in his tracks. She looked at him and smirked.

"You are nothing like your brother." She said then she looked at the bulge in the towel. It looked big, maybe even bigger than mine. She sighed, "Nothing at all!" Strange he went as red a tomato with that last comment.

"What is wrong with you? You got embarrassed because a girl complimented you. That's weird bro!" Theo said as he sat in his favorite place...on the ceiling!

"Shut up, asshole!" said John.

"Found it!" Shouted Syre, taking out some things from my drawer. She pulled out a pair of black jeans, a white t-shirt and a black leather jacket. "Take all of these and put them on." She said handing me my things. "I'm going to get dressed. See you at the entrance in half an hour." She said and left. John put on a pair of boxers, as he did so I noticed his ass was just amazing.

As I put on the clothes that Syrena had chosen I suddenly realized that I had never worn this jacket before. It was a leaving present from Oscar that I had not had chance to wear yet. Next I fixed my hair and when I did I ... Well to be honest that I noticed that I looked kind of hot.

Forty-five minutes later John, Theo, MJ, Alex, Lance and I were waiting in the entrance for Syre. Typical woman, she was already fifteen minutes late. Then I heard a laugh, a beautiful and sonorous laugh that I knew was Syre. Her laugh I assumed was something she inherited from mermaids. It was hypnotic. Weirdly I saw Theo's eyes lighten and he smiled, seems he must like her.

Syrena came down the main stairs in her great reveal moment, just like all Hollywood Actresses in the best films. I could just imagine someone shouting "My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen please be upstanding for..." WOW! She was wearing a short emerald green drees, which was tight and accentuated the all of the curves in the right places. She was dressed to kill, little she know she already had an undead salivating after her.

"Hi Nick." She said the moment she saw me. "You look so hot." I swear she was eyeing me up.

"Ditto, you look hot as well." I complimented her.

"It's a shame you're gay." I almost jumped with surprise, desperately looking around at the others, but everyone was out of hearing range.

"What are you talking about?" I asked, nervously.

"Relax. I won't tell anyone." For some reason even though she said it, it failed to calm me in any way. If she had figured it out, who else would join the dots?

"Hey guys, let's go." Shouted Alexander. We were all well annoyed by his secrecy about where we were going.

"Wait for us." Shouted Sarah coming down in a black dress. Stella was by her side dressed in white. Suddenly I realized no one had a coat and it was really cold outside.

"Guys, is the party in the school?" I asked.

"No. What makes you think that?" Asked Theo.

"No-one has a coat and it's freezing outside." I pointed out, but everybody looked amused.

"Oh, Nick. It's obvious that you are new to all of this." Alexander said as he gave me a little bag made of red velvet. As he started walking he called out, "Follow me."

We went to what must have been some kind of basement and Alexander went straight to a room. He must have done this before as he knew where he was going. Once we were inside the room I noticed it was all in shadow and dark with just a dim light present. The light was coming from a pond in the middle of the room.

"Welcome to the portal." Announced Alexander. "I hope the door is still free." He said then he gave a bag like mine to everyone. "These are tokens. They are salt and moon powder. They will protect you if you are in need, just make a circle with the powder around you. Once the sun comes up again they will not work. Understood?" Everybody nodded. Then he took a gold coin, and said, "Here we go." He tossed the coin to the pond, we all held hands and jumped at the same time.

"Welcome to Las Vegas baby." Said Alexander, as we found ourselves standing on some kind of boulevard. "Let's go eat something first and then we to go clubbing!" We ate in a Subway, and then we walked a short distance to a club called Marquee. The line was long, but we just walked straight past it. I looked at my watch, it was 10:30 pm as soon as we got in the music hit me.

Alexander took us to a table outside which cost a $1000 or something like that, but he gave a black card to the host. The host whose name was Lonny or Ronny... you know something catchy and stupid smiled. He smiled like the Cheshire cat.

"Always a pleasure." He said as his eyes went full black. He looked at us and said to a member of staff, "Open the bar for free. Just the best to these clients." He smiled and left.

"What was that all about?" Asked Stella.

"One of the perks of being my mother's son." He said and sat down.

"Who's your mother?" I asked.

"América Almanza Halazabarrieta." The name didn't mean anything to me, but to the rest it did as they just looked at him.

"América? The Grand Red Witch is your mother?" Said Syre amazed.

"Who?" I asked again.

"The greatest Red Witch alive. Her spells can simulate real love. You cannot create real love with magic, but hers are almost identical." Explained Sarah, being the nerd that she is.

"Oh, OK..." I said, "...that's strange magic." The thing about Red Magic is that it can't be defined in light or darkness, white or black, it's wild and unpredictable. I sat and asked the server to bring me vodka with sprite as it's a good and refreshing drink without all the girliness. Everybody ordered something and we started to chill.

We were having a good time and Lance was on the dance floor with Stella. John and Alexander were talking about soccer and Syre was talking with Sarah. Theo was by my side drinking some kind of drink.

When I asked him what it was he said, "A bloody Mary, the real version." He explained that they got the blood from a drunk person, so when the Vampire drank it was alcoholic. He told me to taste it, it tasted like normal blood for me. I asked him how it was possible that he walked in the daylight and how it was possible for him to grow and to age. "I am a Daywalker. We are the kind of vampire that's born being as a Vampire. As a result, we can go out into the sun. It's annoying, but bearable. We can't spend a whole day under the sun because we would turn into stone, but I don't complain."

"Are all Vampires the same?" I asked.

"No there are Night Crawlers, they're the pallid bloodsuckers that turn to ash when the sun touches them. Then there are Strigois, they are the beasts of the family. Those are the ones that bite you and turn you into one of them. Every vampire can turn into a Strigois. They are the ones talked about in stories. Dracula was one and could turn you into an Strigoi. Legend says they are the real vampires. Our true form." He took a gulp of his drink and lit a cigarette.

"The other day you told me that vampires could tell when someone is lying. Is that true?" I asked.

"No, actually everybody can. You just need to look for the giveaways; pupil's dilatation, breath rhythm, blood pressure, hearth beat. Things like that. The thing is that I knew you were lying, but didn't notice." He said.

"Then how did you know I was lying?"

"Because I know everything about my brother. He's the person I love the most in this world. I know about his sexcapades. All I had to do was join the dots and got 2 + 2, you know what they say..." He looked in his brother's direction. "Thank you by the way."

"Why?"

"Because you didn't know my brother, yet you helped him. You could have easily outted him to me, but you didn't. I know you are going to pull the Alexander being your friend excuse, but the thing is that you barely know any of us."

"Yes, but I want to be your friend. I don't know why, but everything seems more real now. More natural if you like, that's why everything is so easy to accept. Deep inside I always knew magic existed." Then Syrena laughed again and Theo's eyes lightened. "Ask her to dance."

"No, she'll say no." He argued, but I pushed him to Syrena. "Hi Syre, I... was... wondering if you... No problem if... I ..."

"Me, dance with you? I would love too." She said and they went to the dance floor. As they were walking he looked at me and mouthed `Thank-you!' Shortly after, a guy asked Sarah to dance and she said yes. Alexander and John were talking to a couple of girls by the bar and MJ was nowhere to be found.

"What is such handsome specimen doing sitting all alone?" Asked a woman I didn't recognized, but she was beautiful. She had a kind of tanned skin and long, black silky hair. She was wearing a red dress that allowed you to see her voluptuous body and long legs. Her eyes were pitch black with one or another white dot into them. Something deep inside told me not to trust this woman.

"I am not alone. My friends are all dancing." I answered quickly.

"All friends. No girlfriend or boyfriend? Anything?" She asked.

"No." I was getting angry for no reason. It was something in this woman made me hate her.

"Someone as handsome as you could conquer the world." She raised her hand to touch my face and it hurt. It was like all the pain you could imagine and I felt it all at once. "It is such a pity you will die." She said. "Not that I will kill you. No, I do not get my hands dirty."

"Who are you?" I asked.

"What do they teach you in school these days? My name is Aeon. Look for me in one of your books little one!" She said as she disappeared. I was faint, I could feel it. Seconds before everything went dark I saw MJ grabbing me.

I felt his hotness, he was like and oven and he said "Nicky...BREATHE!" It was no good everything went dark.

I was standing on a building. It was San Francisco, my city. I could see that it was destroyed, fires and smoke coming from every building. Many had seen such destruction that all that was left was rubble at ground level. There was a tsunami hitting the coast and the ground was shaking. I could see tornados, but that was not the worst. People were killing each other. Just when you thought things couldn't get worse, it did! An atomic bomb exploded in the distance.

"Don't let them win!" A voice that sounded like mine spoke and as I looked by my side there was standing Eremir. He pushed me of the roof and as I crashed to the ground I woke up. I was in a hotel room, my friends were sitting by my side. The moment I woke up everyone came to talk to me.

"What happened?" Asked John.

"A woman. She did this." I said.

"You know the woman?" Sarah asked.

"No, but she told me her name is Aeon." The moment I said the name everybody backed away from me. "Who is she?" I asked looking around at them all.

"She is the mother of the gods. The goddess of time and chaos." Sarah said.

"Yeah, really the mother of the Gods was speaking to me!" I for some reason, don't ask me why, did not believe it.

"Yes, the fathers of the Gods were sentenced to spend eternity in the infinite cages. Only Aeon can come out. She can only act as a minor god outside the cage, because her body and life force remains inside. Thus most of her energy is held at bay, but she is still deadly. If she took the time to visit you, theSarah said and at that moment the memory of the vision came back to me.

It must have reflected on my face because Alexander lifted my head, "What did you see?" He asked. "I recognize that look."

"San Francisco...it was... it was destroyed." I said as tears rolled down my cheeks.

"Anything else?" I said no with my head, but he looked at me. "We need to find out. Let start with the tree at the school."

"He won't help us." Everyone looked at me confused. "I already spoke to him. He said I need to look for a rogue celestial or for an old enough black being. He told me to look for Baba Yaga. She is a witch from Russian folklore. I thought it was a legend, but now I question every legend." I said.

"Rogue celestial is bad. Baba Yaga is the worst." Syre shuddered.

"We could talk with your grandmother." Suggested Stella, but if looks could kill she would been dead by the way Syre looked at her "Or we couldn't." She rectified he comments.

"My grandmother is a backstabbing bitch." stated Syre.

"I see, that must cause a very loving family." Mused Theo.

"She killed my mother and kidnapped my sister." Protested Syre.

"Well my father ate my mother and made me go with him." Everyone looked at Lance terrified. "Oh and it was worse for Theo he..."

He couldn't finish as Theo interrupted, "None of that matters right now."

"Why don't we get back to the school and figure all this out?" I suggested.

"Someone stole our coin." I just stared at Alexander because I didn't understand. "When you take the coin of the pond back to the door, you get your card back.

"So someone didn't want us to go back to school..." I said. "...but who?"

"It may just be some asshole pissing around..." Suggested John. "...or it could have been someone who wanted us out of there. The thing is how the hell will we get back?"

"The Faes can't help." MJ said. "We're in the middle of a fucking dessert."

"Any of us that know how to transport can't do it."

I looked at her. "Why not?"

"To transport this many people on the first travel would be too dangerous, possibly deadly." Sarah added.

"I have an idea." I said taking out my cellphone and dialing a number. My Maman's, she was Queen so I supposed she had ways to help me.

MAMAN: "Why in the holy god's name are you calling me at this hour child?"

ME: "Hey maman, I love you too. Is there is any chance that you could send someone to pick me and my friends from Las Vegas?"

MAMAN: "What in the gods name are you doing in Las Vegas? You know what, don't answer that. I'll text you an address. Wait for me, I will personally come to pick you up."

"Who were you calling?" Syre asked.

"My grandmother." I said. The only person here who knew who she was, was Syrena as I had told her. Alexander and Sarah knew I was royal, but didn't know I was a prince.

"Holy shit! That's your idea of help?" Cried Syre.

"Why is Nick's grandma so bad?" Asked Lance. I suddenly realized that I would have to tell them who I was.

"Queen Adeline De Lumiere." I quietly said. It was funny everyone went as white as a sheet.

"We jumped from the frying pan into the fucking fire!" Said Sarah.

"My granny is not that bad." I insisted.

"You do remember that we're minors right?" MJ stated. Then I realized my big mistake. "We run away from school. We went into a club and consumed alcoholic drinks."

Then my phone rang and there was a text, with and address, stating "30 MINUTES, SHARP!"

We were soon at the address, luckily it wasn't too far from the hotel. Exactly 30 minutes after the text a silver carriage appeared from thin air. It was being pulled by five horses and I recognized the driver. It was grandma's driver from when I thought she had a normal car. He looked at me and said "Good luck boy. You are surely going to need it!" The carriage door opened and my grandma was there looking very upset. She was dressed in her pajamas and her hair was in a braid.

"Get in, NOW!" Was all she said. Everybody got in. The carriage was bigger on the inside than it looked on the outside so everybody was able to get in comfortably.

"Maman, I was..." She raised her hand that meant. `Do not talk now or you are going to regret it!' So I shut up.

We arrived at the school within the hour. I don't know how this carriage moved so fast, but now wasn't the time to ask. Maman opened the door and everybody got out and then she closed it again.

"I thought you would be more responsible than your sisters. I do not know what teenagers these days have got on their minds. If I ever again find out that you escaped to party, you will see a very different grandmother."

"Sorry Maman...but I was..."

"Being a teenager I know. Now please...promise me that you will not do that again."

"Sorry Maman but I can't promise you that." She glared at me. "You always asked us to be honest with you. So, now I am being honest. This is not even my first time, but I will promise you that I will be more responsible from now on."

She looked at me, "OK, I'll accept that. Remember, now you are a prince. Please, no scandals. People are trying to take the throne away from us anyway." I was going to get out, but she stopped me and put her face for me to kiss. I did and she smiled. I got down and everybody was standing there. The carriage started moving and disappeared shortly after.

When we approached the building there was the Dean standing at the door. He looked amused, "I just love it when students misbehave. Tomorrow you are going to pay." He laughed and signaled to us to go up to bed. I arrived at my bedroom five minutes later and the moment that my head hit the bed I fell asleep.

The good thing about when I have visions is that those nights I don't dream. The morning after I was woken up by Amelie's soft touch. As soon I opened my eyes I was attacked by my three sisters

"How was your first reprimand?" Asked Claire.

"Are you stupid or do you just have bad luck?" Asked Marguerite.

"Oh and you have to go to do chores." Said Amelie. I looked at my clock it was eight o'clock in the morning. Everybody in the room was already dressed,

"Why do I feel like I slept so little?" I protested

"Me too!" Added Theo.

"Why do we have to wake up this early?" I asked.

"Because you have chores to do." Answered Claire.

By 8:30 all of us were on the housekeeper's office. She was an old middle age woman who looked hard and severe. She was dressed in black and her hair was in a tight chignon. "From this moment you are going to work as part of my team of housemaids, waitress, waiter, chambermaid, server, whatever I find necessary. You are going to work with me until the sun goes down. That is a lot of time working to regret your bad decisions and to work off your hangovers. Now you will have breakfast quickly, I do not want any of you fainting later, OK?" She shouted and everybody groaned.

We quickly had our breakfast and were divided into our work team; the girls got to be servers, John got to work in the stables, MJ was working on the boilers, Alex was with the gardeners and Theo got to work with the cleaners. Lance and I got to polish the silverware, cutlery, glassware, porcelain and anything else they could find for us to polish.

We were polishing all day long, only stopping to eat and for bathroom breaks. Oh and to smoke a few times. When the sun went down the housekeeper came to us and released us from our duties. On our way to the dorms I asked Lance something "So are you and

Alexander a couple or something?"

"No, we're only friends."

"Who have sex." I added and he nodded. "Are you exclusive or something like that?" I asked.

"No, why do you ask? Do you want to join us?" He asked with a grin on his face.

"No! I don't. I was just asking." Truth to be told I do want to join. I've not had sex in ages and Alexander and Lance are both quite sexy guys. While Alexander's strong and masculine, Lance was cute and lean. "Let's say hypothetically of course, that I would say yes. Would you be willing to let me join you?"

"Well, hypothetically of course we would let you join." He smiled.

"Really, why?" I asked.

"I don't know. Maybe because you are hot as fuck and from what Alexander had told me you have a good nine-inches." Said Lance, bold as brass. "Let's cut all this crap. Do you want to or not?" He asked pushing me against the wall. He was lean, but tall. He was like 6 foot tall and I was 5'10".

My throat was dry. I looked in all directions, but we were in an empty hall. He looked directly into my eyes. I gulped, "I don't know."

"I will put it simple, just one word. Yes, or No?" He said licking his lips.

"I...I..." I started, but he interrupted.

"Yes or no?" He demanded.

"YES FOR GODS SAKE!" I shouted and he kissed me. It wasn't a romantic kiss or anything like that. It was just a lustful kiss. The last time someone kissed me was two years ago. so I so needed that.

"Good, see you later." He said groping my dick.

After that he started walking and then just like he always did MJ appeared and said "So you're going to lose your virginity?"

"I'm not a virgin. Are you following me or something?"

He laughed, "You're not that important! I come up from the boilers." He said and I could see he was soaked in sweat.

"Good, go fuck yourself."

He glared at me, "I would not give you the pleasure!" He said and I started walking. He walked behind me, slowly.

"Stop following me!" I was getting upset.

"I'm not. You do remember that we sleep in the same room? There is only one way there you idiot!" He said, I was so upset I took a turn into a hall I had never been in. "You know where that corridor takes you?" He asked.

"Yes, far away from you and that's the best thing right now." I started walking and I felt him walk away. I walked for like ten more minutes to give him the time to disappear, but I reached the end of the corridor. There was a door. An iron door. Now if I remember right, iron is a metal that can't be modified by magic. Magic is useless in iron and fairies can't touch it or it burns them. Curiosity gained the best of me and I pushed the door. It was closed. I rested my hand on the door and the door unlocked. So this is Freeway? Cool.

I walked inside the room. It was lit by crystal balls with flames inside. The ceiling was decorated as the night sky, and so was the floor. My steps didn't produce any echo. Some of the lights floated in the air. The walls had writings all over them. Most of them in languages that I didn't recognize. Some of them in English and human languages. There were phrases in Russian or French, and then rare languages I didn't recognize, but somehow I understood them all. The words spoke about war and peace, life and death, love and betrayal.

"Who are you?" Asked an old lady sitting in a rocking chair smoking from a shisha, what Americans call hookah.

"My name is Nikolas, what is this place?"

"This is the room of the lost steps. Inside these walls is told the story of the world." She said pointing to the walls.

"So this room has to be..." I started.

"Infinite. Yes." Finished the old lady.

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