Chapter 37
Persephone’s POV
“You saw something awful when you had that vision, didn’t you?” asked Nyra as I kept sucking on the straw on the soft drink that she had brought me. I had asked Marcellus to install one of those machines in my room as one of my negotiation tactics and he had muttered me to be a demoness under his breath and Mara had snarled at him.
“Let her be. She has been having a lot of visions lately,” said Alizeh as she kept unpacking her clothes and then said,” You must be thinking that you should have been her room mate right?”
“Sweetie I have been her roommate for her entire life, and it is not like I am going away from her and living in a different realm like I was previously but now I am just worried that what is going to happen to her if she is moving to hell and going there and coming back just like that. Under no circumstances that is normal. Worse her mother might be silent for now but she is not going to be silent for a longer time. Do you even realise that you have to talk to her and tell us what has been happening?” Nyra said and Mara who was sitting there silent until now said,” Actually she is right. If she doesn’t say anything then it might be very difficult for us to understand what you might be seeing.”
“I think that it is pointless discussing my visions when we need to go to class,” I quipped as I packed my bag. I didn’t know what was required but the stack of books that had been sent to my room from the library plus the curriculum showed that there was actually no time for lollywagging.
“True, let’s go to class. We can pick her head when we are going to be in combat class,” said Nyra as she jumped down from the bed and all of us quickly walked down the halls and then walked through the campus to the main building. It was a huge area covered with tan buildings made of stone. There was a strange power that was covering all the buildings almost like a haze. The buildings had a gothic look about them but under no circumstances did they look like Dracula’s castle. But talking about Dracula, I think that Wilhelm wasn’t as bad I was thinking, after all it wasn’t probably his choice that he had to become a vampire in the first place.
As we walked in I found that the classroom was huge and me, Alizeh and Nyra found seats together.
This was the History of Magic class and this one was what we all had together because this class was compulsory for every single person attending this Academy. From the first years to the last years. They said that we had a new teacher and I was hoping to see who it was.
No sooner than I had thought about him, he entered the classroom with a flourish and a presence that could only stun you into silence. The entire murmurs in the classroom fell in a hush.
It was the dragon.
“The lizard cleans up really well I have to say,” said Nyra and I could not help but giggle a bit.
“He is the Professor? I never thought that they would allow them to have their own clothes like this but robe makes him look so sexy…” Alizeh muttered and I knew that the bunny shifter was rambling again because of course…when you have the epitome of male arrogance standing before you personified what were you supposed to do.
He was wearing dark robes with no cut or make whatsoever but it almost looked like it was molded to his body with magic and his dark hair had now red and grey streaks running through them. It almost felt that he was fire personified. His hair was still long but now he had washed it and his eyes….those charcoal black eyes with a ring of red around them…dear heavens!
“Good morning everyone. I am Maesto Zmiyrenan of Heavenheld Mountains. And yes, what you are thinking is true. I am the dragon about whom you have read in your Academy books in a passing but I must mention that the information that had been put down there was awfully little.”
And he smiled.
Nyra moaned beside me and I shuddered. His voice, it was like molten chocolate coating my skin with warm wet and sticky sweet intensity and I would not mind if he licked me all over…how would it feel to have his tongue running allover my body…and as I thought about this his gaze fell on me.
“If that is your fantasy little one, then I am sure that I can make that come true,” his voice came in my mind as he pulled out his books from the satchel he carried.
I gasped out in shock. Both the girls beside me turned and so did all the others around me.
“What? What is it?” Nyra asked.
“No no..nothing nothing…something poked me all of a sudden,” I mumbled and I could see his smile.
“Alright class, then let’s begin with how magic came to existence. I am sure there are seniors here and they will wish to tell me what they know.”
One of the girls, probably in some other class with mousy brown hair and glasses on her face and cute freckles said,” Magic did not come into existence. We came into existence from magic when the first creatures decided that a differentiation was necessary because the coalescence of magic was causing a mayhem.”
“That was very well said, lass,” said Zmiyrenan and there were sniggers all around at lass. “Ah, yes…I am not all caught up with the language that you are using now, although I must admit I don’t understand most of it. But bear with me.”
“Or else what?” asked a male voice from one end with laughter around him as I could not help but scowl but Zmiyrenan kept smiling and said,” Oh or else I will flambe you and make sure that my dinner is good for atleast a week. It will depend on how you taste though.”
The shock that fell over the class was legitimately deafening. Zmiyrenan clapped his hands and said,” After the differentiation of magic was done in the beginning something else happened. The first creatures of magic were born and along with that there were a number of spirit animals who were born as well. Dragons, fish, wolves, lions, big cats, and bears and several others, oh before I forget, snakes…powerful shifters they are. Now amongst them since they were all spirits they did not realise how they were supposed to exist without a voice and without a body because that would cause another problem so in that chaos, several of those shifter animals attached themselves with the person they connected with the most. The souls of the animals and the souls of these human beings were in sync and thus we all shifters were born. Some big, some small but that doesn’t matter to me.”
“That is because you are a dragon and you just threatened to eat someone,” said the same voice again and Zmiyrenan said,” Ah…please stand up so that I can see who is speaking to me.”
The guy stood up and it was clear from his looks that he was a wolf. Thin and wiry but hard muscles and eyes like a dog. But no kindness.
“So you are the Alpha?” Zmiyrenan asked jovially.
“Not yet, but yes, Alpha heir.”
“Hmm..so you tell me Mr. Bryan Lo, why do you think that there is a hierarchy created in our society when it was actually not there in the beginning?”
“How do you know that?” he asked not answering the question asked to him. This boy was ridiculously impetuous.
“Because I was there when they formed the hierarchies and divided the packs. I was present in the first war when the stronger shifters massacred the weaker shifters causing them to go into hiding. And I can see the red that is tinging your soul, Bryan Lo. You are not an Alpha in reality. You are not powerful, you look like one but you aren’t because you consider that bullying and mistreating others gives you the power. You don’t have the power to protect your pack, or even yourself,” Zmiyrenan said and I was looking at him in shock. How the hell did he know his name? What kind of things could he do without even speaking of?
“Without hierarchy it is a dog it dog world. The strong protects the weak and that is why..”
“But still your father murdered his elder brother and father to be the Alpha of the pack that you have been born in, isn’t it? That is your definition of protection, is it?” the dragon countered coolly and now everyone was asking the same question. How the hell did he know these?
“How dare you…” seethed Bryan and Zmiyrenan just smiled and said,” Shut up and sit down. I won’t have these interruptions in my class because the next time I won’t be so kind.”
He is so fucking hotttt!
I could not help thinking again as my nipples hardened underneath my dress.
And he looked at me again and smiled.
Oh yes! He could hear what I was thinking.