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Chapter One
A young woman sits at a desk, conjures up paper, ink, and a quill, and begins to write. There is a school that has existed for hundreds of years. It is known as Grim Academy. Its purpose is simple. Mankind needs its stories, its legends, but inspiration must come from somewhere. Grim Academy provides that inspiration. The students there choose the archetype they wish to fill, and they train in hopes of becoming the role for that generation's legend. Not long ago, Grim Academy entered its 1000th year of operating. And as anybody can tell you, numbers like 1000 have power, power that causes consequences. This is the story of that year.
Grim Academy-One month into the school year
"So, what do you want to be?" Tori asked Andre. She was sitting in one of the classrooms that got set aside for small groups to have lunch in with her friends: Andre, Beck, Cat, Robbie, and Jade.
"I'm going to be the dwarf." Andre said with a smile. Jade snorted, but Tori ignored her, though she was confused.
"Why the dwarf?"
"Because, after the first adventure, the Prince becomes the King and has to rule a whole country. The dwarf gets to go home and relax and chill out except for emergencies, content in the fact that he helped his friends when they needed him."
"Yeah, but the Prince is the one that gets to kick ass." Jade argued. "When it comes down to it, it's the Prince that kills the Dragon or the Wicked Witch, then get the Princess, and then go on to have more kick ass adventures, all the while swimming in more money than Scrooge McDuck."
"I don't think a girl can be the Prince." Robbie said slowly. Jade slowly turned and gave him her Death Glare. "I mean a girl can totally be the Prince." He said quickly, sounding terrified. Jade smirked.
"Jade, be nice!" Tori scolded. "What do you want to be Robbie?"
"I want to be the Woodsman." He admitted. "I'll have a small but important role in the story, and then I'll get to live out the rest of my days in relative peace and comfort. I'm not brave enough to want to be the Prince."
"I want to be the Princess!" Cat said excitedly. "Because then I get to wear pretty dresses and have lots of shiny things, but I don't have to do any fighting, because fighting's not good." She nodded solemnly, and the others stared at her in silence for a second.
"So, Beck, what do you want to be?" Tori said quickly, filling the silence as best as she could.
"I want to be The Wizard." Beck said with a shrug. "I'll study magic for years, then train the Prince and serve as a teacher and wise friend, and then retire in contentment, maybe taking up the position as chief advisor."
"Nice." Andre said, fist bumping Beck. "What do you want Tori?" Jade laughed.
"Why are you bothering to ask that? We all know that she wants to be the Princess. It's Vega for crying out loud!"
"Wrong." Tori said with a smile. "I want to be the Fairy Godmother. I'll have lots of power, but I'll only use it to help people, and everybody whose life I touch will be better off for it, never worse."
"Gag me." Jade said, rolling her eyes.
"What are you talking about? The Prince is just as kind and altruistic as the Fairy Godmother." Tori protested.
"Wrong. The Prince is a selfish jerk who only cares about getting ahead in life. Everything is done in the name of getting money, fame, and a hot chick. The only difference between the Prince and the Evil Stepmother or the Wicked Witch is that the Prince is helping the Princess, so the Prince is considered on the side of good." Jade said with a smirk.
"So you want to be a bad guy, without having to deal with any of the consequences." Beck said dryly.
"Basically." Jade admitted, smirking.
"I don't think it works like that." Tori said slowly.
"Says who?" Jade demanded. Tori opened her mouth, only for the bell to ring, cutting her off. "You're not off the hook yet Vega; I want an explanation of why the Prince isn't a jerkass tonight." Jade told Tori, getting up and walking out. Tori gulped. She still wasn't sure how she felt about being Jade's roommate. On the one hand, the girl wasn't very violent, but that didn't mean she couldn't hurt Tori. She'd seriously considered trying to trade rooms, but Cat's roommate was Trina, and she didn't know any of the other girl's well enough to feel comfortable asking for a switch.
Two hours later
Tori slid into a desk in the back of the room, glanced to the side, and blinked. "Jade? What are you doing in Magical Theory? The Prince doesn't use magic." Jade shrugged.
"No, but they fight against it a lot, so I figured it couldn't hurt to learn the basics. Know your enemy and all that chiz." Tori nodded. That made sense. Five minutes later, she glanced at Jade, who was starting to look annoyed. Ten minutes later, and she was starting to look seriously angry. Thirty minutes later, she was asleep. Tori looked at her and sighed, shaking her head.
One hour later
"Jade." Tori said softly, shaking Jade by the shoulder. "Jade, class is over." Jade sat up, blinking sleepily, and Tori bit her lip. 'She looks so adorable…where did that come from?' Jade straightened up and looked around, then growled and began putting her things away.
"Well, that was a complete and utter waste of time." She growled, standing up. "I thought this Basic Magical Theory." Tori blinked.
"It was basic." She told Jade, who glared at her.
"Then why was it all so useless?" She demanded. "I took this class so I would know what magic could and couldn't do. I didn't come here so I could listen to some old dude drone on about conservation of mass and Merlin's 7 Laws."
"Well, that's kind of why it's recommended for people that want to be Fairy Godmothers, Witches, and Wizards." Tori said with a smile. "And the class does teach all the stuff you want it to, just in a…roundabout way." Jade gave her a skeptical look. "I'm serious! Look, it's like science. The laws of magic work like the laws of physics. If you know what they are, then you know what you can and can't do. The class just wasn't made with non-magic users in mind, so yeah, it's a little boring." Jade looked at her incredulously.
"A little boring? I fell asleep! I have never fallen asleep in a class before!"
"Alright, it's very boring." Tori admitted.
"You've got that right." Jade muttered, heading off to her swordsmanship class while Tori headed for the logical wishes class.
Five hours later
"Well Vega?" Jade asked. Tori very carefully didn't look up from her book, as Jade was changing into her pajamas.
"Well what?" She asked curiously.
"I told you, you're supposed to explain to me why the Prince isn't a selfish jerkass." Jade said with a sigh, pulling on a shirt and sliding into her own bed.
"Oh, right." Tori said, taking her glasses off and setting them on the bedside table. "Well, there's a very simple reason for why I think that. Technically, the Prince doesn't have to do anything. As the Prince, they're automatically next in line for the throne, so they have a kingdom and riches lined up. And there's bound to be more than one country nearby, so there's no logical reason for why they have to save the Princess if they want to expand and get married at the same time, they could just as easily marry a different Princess and avoid the Dragon, or the Wicked Witch, or whatever the bad guy is." Jade stared thoughtfully into space, and then glared at Tori.
"Well thanks Vega, that's actually logical. It makes sense." She said sarcastically.
"…I'm sorry?" Tori said uncertainly.
"You should be. Now I actually have to be a nice person if I want to be the Prince." Jade growled, pulling the covers over herself and closing her eyes. Tori rolled her eyes and did the same.
"Good night Jade." She said quietly. There was a moment of silence, then...
"Night Vega." Jade replied, for once not sounding sarcastic or rude.
Author's Notes
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