The floating train slows down at Hades Gate screeching into the arrival bay of Saint Lucifer's Academy, overheard was a looming menacing sky between light and shadow.
The two angels; James and Zack stand silently across each other after being badly bruised and battered from their divine melee. Neither of them speak, not because they don't want to, but because they refuse too.
Alouette, on the other hand, hangs on to her ID Card which pulsed with red and gold light, her hoodie still up and also she still shy.
The rest of the students get off the train; some talking about the skirmish of Zack and James, others still afraid and not letting their guard down, and also other students are bravely talking about the fight.
The gates ascend like obsidian bartizan and carved into the stone were demonic sigils and celestial runes that were glowing faintly.
The students pass as the gates groan open with a low screech that sounded like wailing metals.
"Welcome!...to Hell's Prime School" Valarie said to Lara who was standing next to her. "Finally.. I'm home...sweet...home" Lara responded inhaling the fresh welcoming scent of the school, absorbing every bit of its oxygen while closing her eyes. "I hope nothin' changed, but if it did, I'm ready, by the way, where's Alouette?" Lara asked Valarie.
Valarie looked around a while, "Yah, I don't even know where that vixen is, well let's hope she does not..." Valarie responded but meanwhile...
Alouette unto the ground of the Academy, but she didn't enter Hades Gate...yet. She held onto her card, it flared and revealed a masked faculty member, THE VIELER then scans it and then cringe but say nothing.
Auditorium Of Thorn's Day
Immediately, they hear a voice: "New Students, gather under 7 banners, namely:
1.) Angel Faction
2.) Demon Core
3.) Bloodbound
4.) Luna Wolves
5.) Fae Court
6.) Witches' Caste
7.) Unmarked (empty, distant corner)"
Alouette is gesticulated to the Unmarked
Then a lady enters, particularly the headmistress, she went by the name Lilith Cross, a majestic, deadly, seraph-demon hybrid with eyes flamed-colored a voice like velvet poison.
"Welcome!!!, to Saint Lucifer's Academy... some of you are chosen, some were punished. But, there is one thing in common among all of you" Lilith says then pauses and turns to the students.
The students look at each other curiously wanting to know their synonymous nature.
Lilith continues...
"All of you are....unstable" she ended and circled them while saying it.
There is a moment of silence in the students, seeing this, she maes this the right opportunity to say more...
"Here are the rules:
Rule number one: No Killing before the firstbell...."
Immediately this rule is announced the students are shocked and even the brave ones gasp.
Lilith continues..
"Rulenumber two: Do not open the mirror doors
Rule number three: Never trust a Seer on Wednesdays
Rule number four: Don't fall in love with faculty—again.
Rule number five: Do not step into the Forbidden Wing.
Rule number six: Power flares equal detention... with the Reaper Librarian."
After Lilith explained the rules, they were still trying to absorb the whole weight of the rules they were just told. Lilith paused..like she wanted the rules to sink into their very soul itself.
Then she continued...
"And remember the prophecy; One will enter lurking.....One will rewrite the scroll.....One will be the portal..... and One will be shadowed" Lilith waited again like she wanted something to happen.
Immediately, Alouette's ID card hitched but no one else noticed it.
UNMARKED DORMITORY - EVENING
The dorm is tenebrous and pulsate with tottering magic. Aloutte is then showed her room, room 404.....literally, but the room already has a dweller who she needs to stay with as her roommate named Vex, her roommate is a Banshee who had glowing eyes and soul-caffeine drinks, greets her from a ceiling couchette.
"Roomie....Cool, just...don't touch my grave dust" Vex told Alouette in a cold firm manner like she was overyjoyed mixed with disgust at the sight of her, she felt this kind of repelling energy that didn't let her go close to Alouette.
Vex was wearing a kindda Black lipstick, torn fishnets, violet eyes that glow when she blinks wrong and she was actually literally sipping slowly from a mug that labelled Soul Juice and she was reading Grimoire Gossip Monthly.
"Well, shit, they gave me the stray" Vex said with a lazy drawl after observing Alouette a while.
"...Um, hi" Alouette responded calm, confused and soflty.
"Great...Like I said... Don't touch my gravedust my soul capsules, or my underwear, they...are all cursed...on purpose I'm warning you, seriously, don't" Vex said somewhat harsh.
Alouette said nothing and did nothing like she was confused.
Vex sniffed the air like a predator, she was acting like she was goin' to get nosy.
"Ugh.. you whiff of prophecy. That stuff gives me dyspepsia. You look like some kindda holy anomaly?" Vex continued after her sniffing job.
"I don't know what i am persay" Alouette replied still at the door like she was waiting for Vex's approval to enter into the room.
"Classic you" Vex says as she flips upright in middair then lands onto the floor with no grace but a bag of attitude and sass, then sizes Alouette up, then continued...
"You've got rescinded energy transpiring out your spirit like bad cologne and its brass-necked....like standing next to the ecstasy" Vex said like she didn't want Alouette to be her roommate...for some reason.
"I didn't ask for this" Alouette responded like she was pissed off as a result of what Vex was saying.
"...Well boohoo, neither did I. I died while wailing and I was brought back to life in the middle of a lunar tantrum and now they're gonna make she share a closet with a girl whose file is no doubt locked behind thirthy blood-seals and a dragon-shaped password" Vex replied as she flopped onto her coffin-shaped beanbag while her mug glowed soflty.
Alouette said nothing, then this gave Vex the avenue to continue what she had to say to Aloutte like she was bound on driving Alouette away.
"....If anything of mine floats to you...on its own....? That does not mean its friendship, it simply means possession. Send it back" Vex ended, as Alouette finally decided to step in, placing her bag on the bed.
"Ok...Got it, Grave dust. Underwear drawer, cursed. Floating stuff noted and copied" Alouette replied using her hands to count what she said.
Vex paused and then squinted "Wait."
Alouette in curiosity asked back "What?"
"Aren't you gonna cry, run or ask for your dorm to be changed?" Vex replied looking like she was shocked but regained herself, because of the gravity and length of her ego.
"Not unless you puke ectoplasm on my pillow" Alouette replied, giggling in her voice, quietly but steady.
"Huh...you might be the bitch i thought you'd be" Vex replied smirking a smile
"Huh?" Alouette asked confused, she was not use to people calling her vulgar slangs and she was not too farmiliar with the....system.
"I mean, you might not actually suck" Vex realized herself and paraphrased.
Then there was a long beat, the cursed mirror immediately giggled
Vex continued...
"But seriously, if your aura makes my malignance rupture, I will excorcise you in your sleep. Unprejudiced Warning" Vex finished.
Alouette was speechless, and emotionless for a minute. She didn't know what to say or do even.
She just laid on the bed and folded herself tightly in her blanket and just thought of what the next day brought.