The next day, I woke up earlier to finish my daily quests. Jeez, yesterday was crazy and chaotic. Finishing my last quest, I took a shower and changed into my uniform.
Quietly, I left my room and made my way to Malia's, knocking before entering to see a sleeping girl in her bed. Her lips were slightly parted as she lightly snored and her hair was spread out onto her pillow. My heart beat in my throat and I found myself feeling very warm. Shrugging it off, I smiled down at her before falling on top of her.
"Your bed is so comfy…" I sighed in satisfaction.
"Z-Zeref get offffffff! You big baffoon!" she wheezed. Chuckling, I got off and gave her a smile before leaving.
"Wake up Malia." I said over my shoulder hearing her groan.
Satisfied, I closed the door and stood in front of Mike's door. I knew better than to enter so instead, I knocked. "Wake up Mike." I said. He was a light sleeper so he probably heard ; I ran down the stairs to prepare breakfast for Malia and I.
Finishing the scrambled eggs, I turned around to get a plate to see Malia in front of .
"Oh my God!" I gasped, clutching my heart. "I thought I saw a monster. My life just flashed before my eyes!"
She slapped my arm, offended. "Are you calling ugly?" she pouted. I walked around her to grab a plate.
"No, you're just moderately ugly." I smiled to myself, knowing she was pissed. A swing ca for my face but I dodged it in ti.
We lapsed into silence as she turned away in a sour mood and poured herself so tea and sat. I brought our plates and placed one in front of her before sitting on the opposite with my plate and kept one to the side for mum.
We had small talk and I obviously teased her about random things before Mike ca down.
"Stop the flirtatious chatter now. I am here and I am single." he walked in, killing the mood with his sad life. Pouring himself so tea and biting into his sandwich, he leaned on the counter and stared at us as if he was studying the scene before him.
"Tsk, we weren't flirting, idiot." Malia rolled her eyes and I chuckled.
Just in ti, Mum ca in, smiling. "Hurry up children. You'll be late if you keep dilly-dallying!" she rushed us out the kitchen and handed us our bags before pushing us out the door and slamming it in our faces.
"No lunch boxes?…" Mike's words ca out muffled as his mouth was full of sandwich.
I ignored him and walked down the steps, dragging Malia with .
**
"I could've easily won! You should've seen Malia! I beat up like 6 guys by myself and made the others run for their lives." Jace boasted, swinging both of his arms around Malia and I as we walked down the halls.
"Oh really?" Malia laughed, rolling his hand off her playfully.
"Are you sure you weren't the one running?" I chuckled, pulling his arm off as well as he continued his altered story of what really happened.
"Damn, I should have stayed and watched then." Malia pretended to believe him.
"Yeah, why did you leave? I wanted you to win." I asked, looking at her red face.
"I didn't want to compete. I was there for Sara." she said casually, "So who actually won the boys fight?"
"Zeref of course... but just know that I could have won if I wanted to but Zeref is my friend and I didn't want to cripple him for the rest of his life, you know? So I ALLOWED so random big guy that I could've easily beat, to throw out of the field." Jace answered, his eyes gleaming with excitent. For so odd reason Malia looked a bit shocked. Did she not expect to win or sothing?
"So thoughtful of you Jace," I smiled sarcastically at him and Malia giggled.
"Your welco Zeref," he patted my back.
"Anyhow, I'll catch up with you later, I need to attend so training sessions with Sara apparently. See ya!" I waved them goodbye.
"I'm regretting not winning now." Malia grumbled and Jace snickered next to her.
"You have ." Jace pointed at himself, making a cringe 'cute' face. Grimacing, Malia and I pald his face away from us at the sa ti. "Ow!" he whined, causing to chuckle.
"Good luck with him Malia." I winked at her and sprinted down the hallway towards the indoor battlegrounds.
**
"You're late, Zeref Amara." Sara stood with her arms folded. The eting was going to be held here on the battle grounds for so reason, I didn't know why. Probably another test.
"Sorry about that," I looked around but it looked like we were the only two in the whole area, "So, where's Mr Xanxus? Didn't he say he'd et us here?"
"Look behind you." she averted her gaze from in shock.
I turned my head around, but was t with a corkscrew punch directed at my face, I dodged it successfully but was t with a low kick to my shin. I flash stepped behind my opponent and got him in a full rear naked choke hold and wrapped my legs around him.
The man started to choke and tapped on my arms.
"Zeref let him go, that's your instructor." I heard Mr Xanxus speak from behind . I released my grip and jumped to where Sara was standing.
I studied the man in front of , he wore glasses and wore a grey robe which stretched from his neck to his legs. He was probably a caster type.
"You weren't kidding Xanxus, the kid is definitely a prodigy. He didn't even hesitate to fight back, it was almost like he was a master ranker. Kid, where did you learn that weird martial art and what noble household are you from?" the man queried.
"I'm sorry but I can't tell you that." I smiled back trying to shut down any more questions as politely as possible.
"Listen up you two, Mr Hale here will be preparing you two for the tournant to co, he will be instructing you starting from today so go change into so better clothing." Mr Xanxus declared, imdiately Sara nodded and walked towards the changing rooms.
"Zeref why aren't you going and getting changed?" Sara asked.
"I'll pass. I don't need training from soone weaker than , thanks for the offer but I'll have to humbly decline. I have other important lessons to attend to." I replied to Mr Xanxus, on his left the instructor, I could see the instructor's face turn red in anger.
"A Bit cocky, don't you think?" Sara tilted her head to the side, studying .
"Who the hell do you think you are?!" he advanced forward and grabbed my collar, "I don't care what noble family you're from but a little pest like you shouldn't be talking so big against a seasoned veteran like !"
"I suggest you let go of my collar, otherwise you'll be going ho with one less arm. Plus, why act so high when I had you in a chokehold just a second ago? It's embarrassing." I glared at the man with an expressionless face.
"Is that a threat?"
"Personally, Mr instructor, I wouldn't have that..." Sara now stood next to Mr Xanxus, amused. She really wanted to see another fight.
"Hale! Let him go, otherwise even I won't be able to stop him if he gets angry." Mr Xanxus warned, but the instructor showed no signs of backing down.
"I don't care who he is! No one walks away after disrespecting like that!" The fool boasted, gripping my collar tighter.
"Your breath stinks!" I fanned my nose in disgust and flicked his arm off my collar..
"Now kneel!" My gravity magic made him fall down to his knees and he struggled to even look up.
I looked at Mr Xanxus, he looked unphased but in real terms he was covering his and Sara's whole body with Ice mana to oppose the gravity. Sara on the other hand, looked terrified, as if she had just witnessed a murder.
"I will never for- forgive you for this!" his voice ca out broken. I released the pressure and casually walked away. So much for rehearsals. I'll crush the kids there anyways.
**
I swung the doors wide open and took long strides out into the hallway.
In the halls, many students whispered.
"That wolf girl won, when actually her friend fought for her and then forfeited and the guy cheated." a girl behind snickered.
The hallway was packed with students yet, all eyes were subtly on .
"This year's tournants will suck."
"Our school will co last instead of 5th this year."
"The two representers aren't even that strong."
"It was all luck," a guy sneered and at that, I snapped.
My calm, unbothered mask slipped as my anger started to shake the whole building. All the students scread and I quickly gathered myself back into control, leaving the students shaken out of their pants.
To my surprise, a group of boys stood in front of , blocking my path. Normally I never got that much attention except for the fact that I looked older than I really was. That was what I was known for, but now, kids think of now as the cheater who will attend the tournants. Sara was a princess so understandably, no one could say anything to her but I wasn't a royal, making an easy target. Even in this world, there was discrimination in the class system. How pitiful!
"Yo Zeref, teach us the trick you used to cheat." the blonde boy standing in the middle smirked at .
"I didn't cheat." I grumbled, trying to get past but one of his friends blocked , making sigh.
"Oh I've never heard of a power like that. What's it called?" his voice dripped in sarcasm as he mocked , thinking he was so cool.
"Godspeed." I said, lifting my head to et his beady eyes.
"What elent is it related to then?" he furrowed his eyebrows, intrigued.
"Lightning."
The whole hall fell into a dead silence. Having a branched lightning elent was rare in their eyes. How would they react if I said I had the pure lightning elent? I smirked at the thought. Having a pure elent was super rare and only royals had them and so special noble families. Having a branched power from the lightning elent was extrely rare to co by.
"I an it makes sense." one of his friends whispered.
"Shut up. He's lying." the blonde boy shoved but I didn't budge.
"Believe what you want. I don't care as long as you leave my friends and I alone." I walked around the blonde and his friends timidly moved out of my way.
The students behind busted into a loud wave of chatter and people started moving to their locations again. Sara walked behind embarrassed, I could hear her rapid heart's beating, since my senses were heightened.
"Don't listen to what they said, just train and get strong enough for the tournant." she rubbed my back but I dodged it off.
"Whatever," I grumbled.
**
"How was rehearsal?" Naz asked, sitting down next to Malia.
"Horrible." Sara said, on the other side of Malia. "Zeref decided to beat up our coach". She tried to glare at but it ended up looking like a hungry kitten.
"What? For real? And you didn't tell ?" Jace whacked my arm, playfully.
"He was weak." rolling my eyes, I took another bite of my sandwich.
Malia picked up her fork and pointed it at , "You're too cocky". She shook her head in disapproval before stabbing into her pasta.
"Na, I think he's cool!" Naz winked at causing to smirk at her.
"Nice to know soone agrees with ." I had another bite.
The conversation moved forwards but my mind zoned out, blurring out the chatter around . My eyes wondered until it found Malia's hand. It was covered with silver rings on her right hand. Two thin ones on her index finger, a chunky one in the middle, and 2 thin lines with a chunk of bold silver on the ring finger. Her pinkie had a snake wrapping around it. Wow, a lot of rings.
"Hey Mali, when did you get those silver rings?" I pointed towards her hand and everyone's eyes shifted to Malia's rings.
"Oh, Jace and I skipped class and there was a sale at the market." she smiled, twisting the thick ring with a skull pattern on it. "Cool, right?" she smirked at Jace.
Jace chuckled in return, "She was feeling off so I agreed to pay."
"They're so hot!" Naz touched Malia's hand and so did Sara.
Malia took two of her rings off and gave it to Sara and Naz causing them to gasp.
"Omg I literally LOVE you!" Naz admired the silver snake wrapping around her ring finger.
"Okay. I regret asking." I spat, annoyed.
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