It will be just like changing schools, he said.
We needed to go home, like our place of origin, he said. It would be good for me to know where I am from.
I just decided that my father is suffering from a lot of things but I should add one more to the list, Memory issues.
There is absolutely nothing alike between the human school I was attending before I was shipped to this glorified prison yard with a lot of criminals. Just that in here, that is the Faery, an alternate realm, no longer earth, it was deemed as a very good way to best your opponent. It makes children strong.
Welcome to Arcanes Training Institute, ATI for short. The best school that exists in Faery and does not discriminate among the top five species that live here. It did not matter that I am crossbred between two of them because a lot of halflings come here too. Oh sorry, Half and half. Halflings referred to children who kind of have one human parent, this happens when their fae parent go to the human world and somehow create an unintended baby, my dad explains although I wonder how someone could create a new life unintendedly.
I hated this and I have a very strong dislike for my father right now. I mean why, just why would he uproot the last fifteen years of our lives where he teaches fairytales and folklores in one of the universities in the city I grew up in just to come back to this realm and help a woman who abandoned us when I was two.
His explanation about me being the heir of her throne and I was not ready to rule came to mind but I brushed it off. I needed to be angry at him, it will take my mind off this clusterfuck situation which I find myself in.
Which happens to be, the new kid in the final year, with no idea of how their version of school is here. Don’t get me wrong, my father did his best to fill me in on this world of ours but high school regardless of the world it exists in always changes.
“Don’t worry Iristendale, you will fit in, in no time.” My father said beside me as we sat at the principal office, we had to come in through a back entrance because apparently, there was some test I needed to perform on the school stairs but no one would tell me what it was.
“You are not allowed to talk to me, I am still very pissed off at you.” I replied my dad, ignoring him as much as I could. This was looking something like how I imagined a fiction headmaster office was which was insane since this was my life and certainly not fiction.
When someone sucked in their breathe, I remembered that we were outside and I was supposed to be respectful to my father, not just because he gave birth to me but also because he happens to be one of the rulers to the prominent five species.
My mother was the leader to her own sector too and although the Dad and mom’s part of the family usually don’t relate in that way, I was a product of my father’s one night loneliness and my mother’s power hungry schemes. Something which I have always knew no matter how much my father tried to hide it from me but what does it say when your mother abandon you at the age two but before then, your father was the go to parent for any injury or issue.
“Ignore my daughter words, I have raised her to freely express herself, a quality which I believe the Folks need in their next leader.” My father answered smoothly, covering my faux pas.
“But Your Majesty, she was being downright disrespectful, Heir or not, she should be disciplined.” The man said.
I was supposed to be on my best behavior, I mean, I really was going to try but his words rubbed me the wrong way. I scoffed. “I would like to see you try.” And I meant it. All through my years in school, my father never once allowed someone else to me, every slight I did was taken care of by him and although sometimes I push the bag too much. I got to suffer heavily for it.
My father shot me a glare and I pinned my mouth, aware that I was heading towards dangerous territory, I did not want to offend this man more. “Speaking of disciplining, my daughter is not to be disciplined by anybody other than me, not even her mother.”
The man nodded. “Of course, as it is with the case of every high ranking heir that we have schooling here. All reports goes to you and you tell us the acceptable behavior that you are grooming in your heir so we do not cut short your efforts.” He stated and my father nodded.
“Good.” My father replied before turning to me. “Iris why don’t you get started on school.”
I opened my mouth to argue but his brows went down, the universal sign that I have pushed too much today and I should not even think of it again. I hugged him tightly, knowing this will be the longest time I will spend away from me.
“You will visit right?” I asked.
“Every chance that I get and when it is safe, we will see if you can continue attending from home.” He replied before he kissed my hair and let me up.
Tears gathered in my eyes but he shook his head at me. That would not be a good example, I was a future queen, I should not be going about crying at the separation from the only face that I knew after being spirited to another realm. I sucked the tears in and turned to the principal.
“Where should I take and what should I do?” I asked him.
“Take the tunnel back, you will come out before a huge building and you might not see a lot of people on the stairs but people milling around it or sitting on the lowest ones if they are brave, I want you to take the stairs… you will eventually get tired before you reach the top but when you do get tired, I want you to come down and someone will be waiting for you at the bottom.” He explained.
“If I am not going to finish climbing the stairs why do I need to try at all?” I asked, when no reply came, I sighed. “That is the test somehow isn’t it?” I asked, two nods came my way, I stood up and waved bye to my father, knowing that if this was some sort of test, he was right behind me to see how I would do even if I will not see him.
I did follow the instruction carefully and I found myself at the place where the headmaster said, before the stairs, they were labelled, the highest was thirty five which was strange because with the way he was going on about me not being able to finish climbing was strange, like they were in hundreds or something but it was just thirty five and like he also said, there were people milling about, some were sitting on the stairs and laughing while others stared at them with envy. I drew my conclusion that those sitting on the stairs were regarded as the cool kids.I was tempted, seriously tempted to ask one of the others milling about what the stairs were for but something told me that I would incur the wrath of my dad who was watching.With a sigh, I started the journey, with my first step on the stairs, I understood why the principal did what he did. This was indeed a test. A test to see if I would survive
I watched as he swallowed, looking at me. No that was not right, he has not be able to tear his gaze off mine since he turned around.“Is everything alright?” The girl asked and I watched as he seem to snap into the present. He still stared at me but with a frown now, like he was awaiting that I acknowledge something and I was ignoring it on purpose.Something charged was in the air, I felt it since I came here but I was not well versed enough in this world to understand anything.“Yeah, everything is fine.” He replied as he tore his gaze away from mine. “How can I help you Trixie?” He asked.Trixie, my guide jaw dropped at him. “Cirdan, is this some kind of new torture technique. You don’t need to. Me being in her presence and watching her take the test was enough torture.”“You are assig
Today was the most eventful one in the history of eventful. At least in my history. I got to meet a staircase whose main purpose was to rate people power level, something which I still don’t completely understand and then I flirted with a guy and asked for his number first, to be fair it was not my fault. My attraction to him was not just strong but still real because I just need to think about him and I am blushing like crazy, met with my guide who seems like a decent guy that was on his way to be my best friend. Apparently, I am clicking well with every member of the tour Team at ATI. And before I forget, I was dumped by my father at a new school for magical brats, in a whole new world which I had only heard about in stories and because my father is king and I might have people who will be after me by default, I have to tell the Principal to keep my identity secret, something which I had forgotten to double check because of the whole excitement for today.
The new girl rumors, there are always rumors about the new girl, this I know because in my time, I had spread some of them but this was on another whole new scale. ATI way of doing things were more extreme, way more extreme and sadly just the kind of extreme that would make me get hurt.The new rumors were fueled by the teachers refusal to give out my name and instead of the students thinking that I am some one important, they starting thinking that I was maybe a disgrace to the realm. Disgraces were halflings or changlings or those whose parents literally shamed their race and were unable to get away with it. When you manage to get away with it, you are regarded by another name, praises are sung about you and everybody forgets the wrong deed that you did. As in the case of my mother.“So I am laying my bets on the fact that your parents, both of them are powerful. That will explain the reason wh
I knew when I was in danger. That is an ability most species in Faery had and my stay on earth did not affect that ability and currently, that ability was ringing alarm bells so hard in my head.“Hello, how can I help you?” I asked.“You have a lot of nerve.” The one in center gritted out. Another cliché earth characteristic which Faery teenagers also had. The queen bees of the school, moved in a pack and if they were three, the overall leader was always in center. I have watched the one that spoke throw herself at Cirdan over and over again and although something in me bristled at it, I ignored the feeling most of the time.Until they decided to get into my face.“Yeah I do. But with what?” I asked, shrugging a shoulder delicately, my fingers already itching to slam her head into the wall beside me for talking to Cirdan
CirdanMy mate is sure a funny one, or so I thought until it was clear that she does not understand what was happening to us.And I am the one who has to bear it because I could not find myself being closer to her without being with her. And then she just had to go and gotten lost and I snapped at her.I couldn’t tell her that I was worried about her and I had a legitimate reason to be worried.Not like ‘hey, you are my mate and I don’t want anybody other than me to ravish your body and you came close to that today’ could be considered as a legitimate reason.She was also the reason why I was taking my dinner with the rest students even though I have to endure their fawns and fake friendships.The highest time I was willing to give her for her to catch up and enjoy her last days of singlehood was a month.
IRISI understood what it meant to be under Cirdan protection. People apologized and wanted to be certain that there were no hard feelings between me and them, people I was not even aware of. And then the room switch in which I was taken to an exclusive dormitory which a lot of people did not have access to, by Cirdan commanded. It was enough to make me wonder about him, what was special about this guy, it was clearly more than just his looks and the Principal was willing to eat out of his palms if Cirdan wanted that. He was acting the same way he acted towards me.“Finn,” I called during lunch one day, I was watching Cirdan as he ate and sketched something, he was an artistic Folk, one of the few which could bring their drawings to life, I had learned of that little nugget about him when he gifted me with a page out of his sketch book in public. I had wondered what he was doing at that time but he was really just showing p
CirdanI watched Iris and the lower classmate whom the soul sisters sent to intercept Iris, I really needed to do something about those three brats, it was no longer amusing watching their efforts in the way they were trying undermine my orders and protection right in my presence, they were trying my boundaries. I knew that was why they sent the girl after Iris while she was within my full view. They wanted to see if I will be quiet about it all and I was not.I slammed my hand on the table as I glared at the girl while my mind came up with different ways to kill the soul sisters.Iris smiled at me before going back to her table, I was totally eavesdropping on her conversation with Finn, I needed to issue a warning especially for Finn. He should not put ideas in her head. She was still fighting the attraction and I could sense her growing discomfort, we would have to end this no touching rule sooner rather th