Ashwood University Chapter Seven - The Challenge
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Chapter Seven - The Challenge
"Ok...so tell me who this fella is then? Correct that! Who the hell they are?" Demanded Syrena. We were sitting on a park bench in one of the interior gardens. It was dark outside and it was still raining. For some reason it didn't rain on the inside gardens as spell of some kind protected them.
"I don't know. I only like one...that I know of." She just looked at me.
"Who?"
"John..." I whispered.
"I knew it! You are so fucked up."
"What do you mean?"
She smiled, "When I realized you were gay I noticed you stared at him. At first I thought it was because he was sexy as fuck, but the other day when he was almost naked you were staring at his eyes. If you are staring at the eyes of a semi-naked hot guy in front of you, you are fucked up. You really like him."
"I am not that fucked up. His eyes are amazing!"
"What color are they? Blue?" She asked.
"At first you may think that, but they are a little greenish. Definitely a greenish blue with some golden dots."
"Aha..." She said, "...and his voice is strong."
I nodded, "Yes strong, but kind and low at the same time." I said and noticed she was smirking at me.
"You are so fucked up my friend."
I jumped up, "NO I'M NOT!" Then I sank back down into my seat again dejectedly, "Yes I am. He is so fucking sexy and so cute it's not even possible. He's so masculine and strong, but kind and funny and dorky. I...I love his smile."
"Oh, the one that makes me all moist..." She said.
"What? It does what does that?" Then I realized, "Oh..." she laughed.
"Hey Nickelodeon." Said Amelie sitting beside me and kissing my cheek.
"I am trying to have a private conversation here."
"Oh, I don't care." She said and then looked at Syrena. "Hi, I am Amelie Andrei, Nicky's sister." She said raising her hand for Syrena to shake.
"Hello. I am Syrena Zieba." She answered, "Nick talks a lot about you." She added.
"No I don't." I insisted.
"Yes you do." Insisted Ame, "So what are we talking about?"
"Nothing that you need to know about." I said.
"You are my little brother. I care..." She said.
I smiled and then told her, "I found my Grandmother. You know my other Grandmother? She kind of works here. She was with Maman the other day." I said.
"So you found your Grandmother and Maman came to visit you and you didn't tell us?" Ame stated, "That feels like a stab in the heart." She said feinting being stabbed... At that moment my phone rang. It was a message from Lance...*** Hi buddy, it's Lance... Are you free tonight? I owe you something...HEHE. I'll treat that nine inches of yours really well. ***
My face went scorching red...Ame laughed, "Syrena I think our little Nicky has a date.
"Oh it's not a date." I insisted.
"Ummhmm...Nick! You're having a sex date then. I didn't know you were so naughty." Gushed Syre. I blushed even more. I was going to protest, but my throat was dry. I stood up and left the girls as they started laughing.
On my way to our room I answered the text. *** Yeah I am free tonight. Looking forward to it.***
I arrived at the room, got my things and went to take a shower. When I came back Alex and Lance were there.
"Hi buddy. Ready for tonight?" Asked Alex.
"I think so." I answered.
"Good." Lance said as he walked in my direction. He stood so close to me that I could smell him. "Oh you smell so good." He said licking my neck then my jawline, then my cheek, and then my mouth, which he kissed.
"OH Fuck, that was hot!" Said Alexander. Lance backed off and the door opened. MJ came in with another guy. Another Salamander like him. I was starting to notice the difference between the races, the other guy looked kind of an asshole too.
"Alex, my man! How are you?" Said the guy.
"Chris, what's up?" Asked Alex bro-hugging the guy.
"What you doing with these losers?" This Chris guy asked.
"Chris?!" Warned Alexander looking real angry.
"Oh let him Chris. We are the losers. An heir of the Daywalkers and Nick." Stated Lancelot.
"I am not afraid of you fag. Who the shit is that other fag by your side?" Asked Chris?
"CHRIS!!" Warned MJ. He was actually defending us.
"Let him MJ. Let him." Stated Lance.
"I challenge you to a combat. The loser has to leave the school." Challenged Chris.
"I accept!" Said Lance.
"I'm not talking to you." He said looking at me and, MJ tried to stop him, but he refused.
"OK. I accept." I said and the words of MJ were a boost to my ego
"You are a dead fairy." Was all MJ said before Chris started walking away.
"Where is he going?" I asked.
"To the arena. The combat has to be now." Alexander told me. I protested, but ended up getting dressed in my training uniform. I put on my athletic leg and started down to the arena. On my way there, bells rang on the campus that I had never heard before.
"The fighting march." Said Lance. "Everyone will be there."
I was in the arena It was a circular amphitheater. The bleachers were crowded, with me were all my friends and my sisters.
"What the fuck were you thinking?" Asked Amelie.
"I didn't do anything." I protested.
"You don't know any fighting spells." Added Marguerite.
"I know!"
"Look at MJ. He's with the other band!" Seethed Syre, if looks could only kill he would be dead.
"They're his race." I defended him.
"You're defending that idiot." Said John, "We can still resolve this. You can't fight." He stated.
"Thanks for the vote of confidence!" Then the bell rang again and Maman walked to the bleachers followed by my other granny aided by some server. Everybody stood up and showed their respect for the queen. Then the oddest thing, a little jingle bell announced the arrival of Asleena the fairy queen. Why was she here? Grandmother was near, but the fairy castle was in England. So she must have been here already.
The Dean came to the arena and everybody went quiet. You could hear a pin drop. My friends went to their seats.
"On one side we have Chrisson Tefeel, Salamander, and on the other we have..." Started the Dean and as he looked at me as if he were asking `How I introduce you?' Maman solved the problem by calling for his attention and nodding, shit this was suddenly getting royal never mind real. The Dean continued, "Prince Nikolas Nikolayevich Afanasiev, Prince of the Ferim's court, heir of the De Lumiere bloodline, bearer of the angel's light, Lord of the infinite islands and ambassador of the great Alliance, Wizard." He said.
Everybody looked at me and all I could think at that exact moment was "SHIT" ... "Let the combat... BEGIN." The Dean shouted and Chris launched in my direction. He turned into his Fairy form midway. I ran in his direction also. He lit his arms with his fire. I didn't know any spell and I didn't know how to use any abilities. I used telekinesis to make him fall, but he saw it coming. I was lost. He was just meters away from me so there was no alternative than the aether wave but I didn't know how to use it. So I went invisible.
"SO THIS IS THE WIZARD'S HEIR!" He shouted. "A SCAREDDY LITTLE..." He couldn't finish because I threw a hook to his jaw and then I turned visible again. My hands went directly to his neck.
I looked into his eyes and he smiled "I GIVE UP!" He shouted. What the fuck? All of this for nothing. I let him go. He went to his side of the arena. The fairy queen went to him and they started talking. Everybody booed and began to leave. I went to my friends and family.
"What was that?" I asked.
"I don't know. That was really odd. Fairies don't give up a fight unless they were planning something else." Said granny Aleksandra.
"AND the queen here so far from home. All of this was planned." Said Maman.
I felt a presence by my side. "You are stupid! You fell for their trick!" Said the presence, it was MJ.
"Thanks for your support." Said Syrena. Everybody was aware of the invisible form beside me.
"I can't be seen to be here you idiots, Asleena is a crazy bitch. If she sees me helping you, it will be bad news for me." He said.
"You wanted to help?" Asked Lance surprised.
"Oh fuck you. Nick my advice...stay away all you can from Asleena. She will stay here for a few days."
"Very well so I am staying as well." Said Maman.
"Good, now I have to go." Said MJ.
Minutes later Asleena came to us "Nice to meet you Prince Nikolas." She said in a very lovely voice "Queen Adeline, Teller Aleksandra." She added.
"Queen Asleena." Said my Grandmother.
"Oh please Adeline, we are cousin." Said Asleena... We're cousins??
"As you wish Asleena." Then Chris came to us and knelt before his queen.
"Sorry my queen, I have failed you. I will accept my loss and carry the consequences." He said.
"No you won't." I said and everybody looked at me. "I mean that Queen Asleena can, and will punish you for your failure as she wishes but as far as I am concerned you will not have to leave the school." I said.
"Well, my punishment for him is that I am dropping him off his scholarship. So he will leave the school." Asleena said glaring at me.
"Then I will pay for his tuition." Everybody gasped and Asleena smirked.
"I like this boy Adeline. He is tenacious, a little reckless but fierce. I will give you that." Said Asleena. "I will take your word on it kid."
"Prince Nikolas." She looked at me and left, followed by her cortege including Chris.
When they were far away Syrena exclaimed. "FUCK!"
"Miss Zieba, language please!" Said my Grandmother Aleksandra.
"Do you have a death wish?" Asked Alexander.
"Why is everybody so scared of her?" I asked.
"Hey...I am not scared." Protested Maman.
"I am!" Said Grandmother Aleksandra. "Not of her, but of what she could do. All she is, is a spoilt bitch!"
"Aleksandra language!" Said Maman laughing. Soon after this they left. I was with my sisters and friends when Stella and MJ arrived, Stella hugged me.
"I heard what you did to berei." She said.
"One moment, berei is that not mother in Elfic?" Asked Sarah.
"Oh...GODS, sorry Stella!" I said.
"Oh don't be. She's a fucking bitch." Added Stella. I laughed, after all if your own child called you a bitch you must be doing something wrong.
"I thought that fairies couldn't procreate." I said.
"Oh, I am one of the Eleven." Stella explained, "She raised us as her children, but it left a lot to be wished for.
"Nick, may I speak to you in private?" Asked MJ. Everyone looked shocked, but they left. I could see them waiting in the distance. MJ raised an aether wall. "They can't hear us now. I don't trust your Dog. What the fuck were you thinking?"
"What do mean?"
"First accepting Chris's challenge and second messing with Asleena. I thought you were more intelligent than that."
"MJ, are you worried about me?" I asked amused.
"No, I'm not." He protested.
I smiled, "I think you are!" Why the fuck was I smiling? I stopped myself, he still was an asshole.
"You know what. You can go fuck yourself!" He said.
"Oh Fuck! Either you let me alone or we start working things out, but this game you're playing of cat and mouse can't keep going." I said and started walking. When I reached the barrier I just walked past, shattering it into a million pieces like it was glass.
I arrived to where my friends were and then we went to eat. MJ was nowhere to be found.
"MJ is the other guy? Isn't he?" Asked Syre when we were far from the rest of the group.
"No! Eeww...It's not MJ for Gods sake." I protested she looked at me and I knew she wasn't buying it, but fuck her. I didn't like MJ, or did I? That was when I saw it. I saw Asleena in the distance talking to Chris. I saw them as if I was standing right next to them. He gave her a ring, a ring he was wearing in the battle. I know because he scratched my hand with it. Suddenly it all felt wrong.
"Nick, what's wrong?" Asked John who was now standing beside me.
"Stella? That ring that Chris had. Did it belong to Asleena?" I asked.
"What ring?" Asked Stella, worried.
"It's a silver band with a little ruby in it." I said.
"Oh shit! Did he touch you with the ring?" She asked more worried now.
"Yes just a little scratch on the hand." I said showing them the scratch.
"Malevula alianza aetherea." She said. "That ring is an aether collector. It takes aether from the one it touches."
"Why would Asleena want aether from me? I'm not a Fae."
"To test it. She wants to know what you are. If you really have the Quintessence in you, she will be the first to know." Quintessence is another name for aether.
"Oh and remember knowledge is power and now we are powerless." Said Sarah.
"Fuck it! We are going to look for a rogue celestial or if not, for Baba Yaga." I said and everybody agreed.
FIVE DAYS LATER
"Great, I thought I was going to flunk. Thanks Nick." Said Alex when we saw the grades of the test we had to take to go to the dance. He wasn't too prepared for it and I had helped him. I was very good teaching. I always thought when I went to college I was going to choose as my major teaching degree, psychology or medicine. Now I wasn't so sure. I still loved them, but things are a lot different now.
"You're welcome. If you want, we can study together from now on." I said
He whispered in my ear "When we finally do what we have been planning, I will show you how grateful I am." He said in a sexy voice as his breath tickled my ear. The thing is that the other day, the fight kind of ruined the humor so we didn't do anything. These days we were studying or complicated with school.
I know people say in college you will have a lot of sex, but the thing is that two closet gays and a bisexual in such small school well things have to be planned well. I was wondering what if I came out of the closet? Just wondering; maybe my family would hate me, my friends abandon me, my school mates bully me or maybe everybody that I care about would accept me.
"Earth to Nick!" Said Syre waving her hand on my face. "You blackout again. You should see a doctor."
"I was just thinking."
"Then you have a lot on your mind because you have been like that a lot lately." Added Sarah.
"Well it doesn't matter, we all are going to the ball." Said Theo.
"I'm not going."
Everyone looked at me. "WHAT?" They all shouted.
"I don't have a suit." I explained.
"Oh, that's not a problem. Let's go shopping." Said Syre.
"Oh, no. No friend of mine will attend his first ball with an ugly of the peg suit." Stated John. "You my friend, will have a tailored suit." He added looking at me, "We will go to see my tailor."
"Thanks." I said. I couldn't say another word because I was in awe. He looked extra beautiful today. I felt a hand in my shoulder.
"Nick! You were going to black out again." Said Theo and everybody laughed.
"Sorry." I said. We started talking and I bumped into a woman. As I looked at her it was Aeon. I blinked and there was one of the maids a petite black woman.
"Sorry, it was my fault." I said and continued walking and I saw Aeon again this time where I knew one of the Professor's was standing. She was there for a second only and a later she was nowhere to be found. She was trying to tell me something, I could feel it.
I excused myself and went to one of the gardens. It was garden in honor of Aeon. She was a bitch, but she was the Goddess of time also, so... she deserved a garden. She was there, looking at a clock. The garden was full of them, all kinds and sizes. I stood beside her and looked at the clock.
"One of my most beautiful creations." She said. "Time."
"How does it feel, to be alone in the universe? To be one of the first? I asked.
"I do not have feelings." She said and then looked at me, "It was horrible. That is why I created to be less lonely, but my children imprisoned me. Now I'm very lonely. Except when I come out. Right now I am drinking a coffee in Venice, standing at the top of the Eiffel Tower and being fucked by three guys in Ibiza. Oh and they are all super-hot by the way!" She said smirking and laughed.
"Why do I look just like him?" I asked referring to Eremir after all we were exactly alike.
"I don't know. It's very strange to look at you. I lost my favorite child a long time ago...In the Blood Wars." She said.
"The Blood wars?"
"That's what Eternals and Immortals call the great war. Because in every battle our blood rained over the human world. Nicky, the other day we started on the wrong footing and I am sorry. I am not your enemy Nikolas." She said.
"Why should I believe you?"
"Because If I wanted you dead, you would have been dead for a long time." She said and of course she was right. "That doesn't mean that I am your ally either. I am on my side. I do what is best for me."
She paused... "Now I have to warn you. Someone wants you dead. I can't tell you who or why, but there is something that is sure. It killed your parents so be very careful! Be careful who you let beside you and who you trust. I work for my personal interests, but now keeping you alive is something I need to do. Now go. Your friends are waiting." She disappeared and I went to where my friends still were. I decided not to tell them that I saw Aeon.
"Where were you?" Asked Theo. He was always too curious.
"Nowhere." I said bluntly.
"OK...Well let's go shopping!" He said. I felt bad for him because he just cared about his friends.
"Ok." I said putting my arm around his shoulder and resting my head on it. He smelled nice. He smelled like marshmallows. He was soft to touch and at the same time strong. He was cold, but not freezing cold just refreshing. In the past few days I have been gaining confidence with him. He is so dorky and funny, kind, and intelligent. Syrena is lucky to have him crushed out on her, but for some reason they weren't dating which I didn't understand as Syrena liked him. So... I seriously don't understand women.
"Well my tailor is in Savile Row..." Said Johnathan "...Savile Row London." I smiled, so I was going home. "We're free this afternoon and tomorrow. It's six in the afternoon over there so we could go now and stay the night. Tomorrow we'll go the tailor and come back for the ball. What do you say? He asked me.
"I decide where we stay the night." I said. "I know someone over there."
"We'll go too." Said Syre. "London is one of the biggest fashion cities in the world. We can't miss this." She explained.
Soon everyone was showered and dressed. I invited my sisters and they said yes, but they'll arrive later. I told them where to meet us. I sent a text to Maman telling her where I was going and she send me one back saying *** Have fun, take care...See you tomorrow sweetheart. ***
All my friends, including MJ were waiting for me to toss the coin, I did. Here I come London. I'm coming home!
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