Luckily, for this first lesson he wasn't teaching anything particularly complicated. God vampire history could get so boring especially when it came to learning about one of the previous Queens: Tatiana Ivashkov. As far as I knew, she wasn't one of my close relatives. Although her nephew Adrian Ivashkov was. If I remembered correctly, he was my great great great great great grandfather. Or maybe he was more ancient than that…"Valentine, a word if you please?" Guardian Brooks commanded as I walked past him at the end of class. Els gave me a look saying she'd meet me outside and I nodded in acknowledgement. "Here are some books and I want you to look over chapter one and two in preparation for tomorrow's extra session."I stared at him and accepted the books numbly. "Please tell me you're joking." I nearly choked. I cannot believe that I was getting work on the first day! That was so uncalled for. No one else did."If you want to graduate with dignity, I would read through chapter one

From behind the door the three girls walked out with guilty smiles. I'd noticed them around fifteen minutes ago in the middle of my spar against Joe."How did you know we were there even though you were fighting Guardian Maxwell?" The way they were peering so intently through the small windows in the door made it hard for me not to have noticed it. They were certainly not as discreet as they had perhaps hoped but I refrained from telling them that."You beat him without breaking a sweat…""Are those the things that increased your strength and speed?""No wonder you beat Drew Ozera.""And I'm hungry so let's go." I urged as I towed them out of the training room. From the number of questions they seemed to have, we could be in the training room for forever! "See you later Guardian Maxwell.""I'll see you in class tomorrow Valentine." Joe nodded with a professional glance to which I returned with an easy going grin."You guys are a bit early." I commented casually."We thought you might

I knocked on his office door politely three times before waiting patiently."Come in," he called and I walked in casually. I noticed that he was preoccupied with a phone call so I simply sat on one of the chairs to wait. After around five minutes he finally hung up looking a little tired."Difficult caller?" I asked with concern."Yeah, far too many complaints," he sighed as he pinched the bridge of his nose. "So how are you settling in so far Kai? I didn't expect to see you so soon.""Don't worry Martin, I'm not here to complain." I laughed. "As for the settling in, well I'm doing a lot better than I thought I would. Some of the people here are really nice.""I've heard from Joe that you seem to have gotten along with McCarthy, O'Reilly and French.""They are really kind and accepting. They don't push for answers when I'm reluctant in answering and I really appreciate that." I smiled softly."You also seem to be more skilled than I could've possibly expected. Beating the four royal b

It seemed that I wasn't totally unlucky today because I managed to avoid anyone in my year and found a patrolling Guardian to ask for help. I took a cautious survey around me before leaving the shadows and running up to the Guardian."Um… hi, I'm doing this wacky exercise as part of training and I was wondering whether you could tell me where I might find the people on this list." I ask him and handed him the aforementioned list."Ah, you must be one of the ones being chased. Guardian Maxwell did mention something about an entire year group having a chase," he chuckled."Yes, he decided to drop the bombshell five minutes before the chase." I grumbled. "When I headed to practice today, I definitely was not anticipating to be chased by the majority of my year.""He left it until the last second? Wow that's unfortunate. What's the prize?""Skipping out on the assault course on Saturday and laps." I sighed."No wonder they're going all out, most people don't like the course.""It can't be

One way or another I managed to find my way back and for some reason I felt lighter. I felt as though a weight had been lifted from my chest. I suspected that it had something to do with the fact that I was reconnected with Ali. When I first left the school and made life for myself out there, Ali was one of the people that I had missed the most, because he was always there for me. It was easiest for him to be there for me a lot of the time because he wasn't weighed down by other duties unlike everyone else who had a job to do. And there had been times when it was easier for me to talk to Ali because he wasn't an adult yet. In my eyes, he was still a fellow kid of some sort. Now that I thought about it, it had been completely ridiculous that I thought that, but it made me open up to him so much. Losing such a person after I left the academy broke my heart and it took me so long to adjust without all those people around me anymore.I remembered that each time I needed a dose of confiden