Lion's Saga
My robes were itchy, so I kept scratching. It was in the middle of class, Professor Falmea was trying to teach us noobs how to make a sunbird, I'm a level nine and I'm leanr sunbird whenever I feel like it, there's no rush. I kept fidgeting trying to reach this one itch just out of my reach located on my back, I tried with all different angles, bringing my arm down and around me, up and around but I could not reach. Then I realized I have the best itch-scratcher tool known to wizards of my kind, the wand. It was as if a heavenly light shone down upon it, sitting on my desk, hell I could practically hear the angels singing. I reached for it, it kind of looks like a yellow butterfly on a brown handle. Instead of having an oval butterfly body it has a red jewel known as a Ruby Flame. I closed my fingers around my awesome scratching tool and lifted it to reach around to my back. I put the head of my wand to my back and I screamed.
"MOTHER F—fudger," That last word was cut off by myself and replaced with something more appropriate, it sounded lame but okay, the teacher was right there and I can't handle four detentions in one week. Not like I actually go to detention but still, it's not my thing to have all my teachers wanting me with them all the time. I can understand as to why they would want me, I'm a pretty awesome person.
"Is there a problem Aleksandr Lion?" Professor Falmea gazed at me like she expected a civil answer to her stupid question.
"No ma'am it's just that today I found out why they are called Ruby Flames." She looked kind of amused at this and so this most of the class, except one girl who just rolled her eyes. That girl hates my guts anyways, I threw a party at her house and she came back, she was actually really pissed. Could you imagine somebody being mad at Aleksandr (call me Alex by the way) Lion for throwing a party at their house? That's the coolest thing that could ever happen to a person!
The professor dismissed us and I left as soon as possible. I was just walking, minding my own business, and my business only when some douche bag bumped into me, he was cold so he must have been from ice or death. Let me explain the temperature thing before you freak out and get your knickers in a giant twist. Death Students and Ice students body temperatures shift to fit their type of magic. Life students and Fire students tend to be warmer like life and fire (so death is cold, colder than ice even) actually are. Myth and balance keep their usual body temperature but Storm shifts and changes as storms do. So again, with the freak that ran into me, I stepped back a step and looked at him. I should have known, he was an ice student, death students have unusually pale skin, this guy had darker skin.
"Watch where you're going, dickweed," The kid was actually smiling and it was no joke, his eyes were smiling too, he had blue ones, like me but they were kind of covered by his hat. Under his witch-like hat he had short brown hair and dark-ish skin, a little lighter than his hair. He spoke with an accent, I'm guessing an earth one, probably a city accent and I guess he was an earth race too, italian I would guess. He looked to be a little bigger than me but about the same height which is very tall, especially for my age, I'd guess him to be about fifteen or sixteen, damn, I'm only fourteen. The guy held out his hand to shake.
"My name's Trevor, what's yours?" Was he acting like he didn't bump into me?
"You mean you've never heard of me? Or seen me for that matter?"
"No, sorry I haven't" he gave me a sheepish look and I groaned.
"My name's Alex, but I wouldn't expect a feeble-minded ice student to remember that." Oh man this was really getting good, I wonder when he'll figure out I'm kidding.
The kid looked kind of annoyed, "Look," he said, his pitch changed from bright and cheery to a little darker, maybe angry, "You don't have to be so rude," his smile disappeared and he had both of his hands by his sides, calmly, "I said I was sorry."
I laughed, "Oh man you should have seen the look on your face! You thought I was serious? Oh man that's good stuff you actually thought I'm that mean?"
He tried to laugh but apparently didn't find it as funny as I did.
"I was just messin' with you man, Alex Lion good to meet ya." I held out my hand to shake and he took it, seemingly over what had happened.
"Trevor Icecrafter, Alex is a cool name is it English?"
"Apparently it's Russian but it's spelled differently than you're thinking A-L-E-K-S-A-N-D-R pretty cool, I know, I seriously don't know how long ago it was when my family moved here though."
"Cool, oh hey," Trevor turned to see a girl come up behind him, she skipped over, dressed in a green dress, boots that go up to her knees and a nice green beret type hat with a feather rested on top of the mop of cute but shaggy light brown hair, she had a few freckle like Trevor but had green eyes and pale-ish skin. "This is my girlfriend, Natalie."
"Sup Natalie, I'm Alex," I tipped my hat, similar to hers but black and green and less girly, to her.
She smiled, "Hi, hey what school are you in? I can't really tell by your colors.
This time I smiled, "I'm a pyromancer."
"Cool! That's my secondary school!"
"Mine's death," I replied and speaking of death, I excused myself and was asked to hang out a little bit later, it sounds silly because I just met these people but hey, they were pretty cool. We were in front of the life school so I turned around and walked past it and past the myth school, stopping at the edge of this huge hole in the middle of Ravenwood. The death school and tower were ripped out of the ground a couple of years ago, when I was twelve. Anyways, sitting on the edge with their feet dangling over the side was someone I knew well. She wasn't facing me but I knew what I would see when she turned. I'd see brown eyes and blonde bangs hanging down in front of them. Her pale skin also paled the few freckles on her cheeks, making them unnoticeable. Sitting atop her blonde head was a black and white hat, it was roundish and came up to kind of a cylinder that was cut so if you looked down at the top it looked like a crescent moon. It had a fierce looking eagle sticking out of the front. It was rthe cryptkeepers helm. Her robes had the same design as her hat, because she was wearing the Cryptkeeper's cloak. The only thing missing was the bird. On her feet were a storm student's footwraps, just in the same colors for her school, Death.
If she were standing she'd be a head and half shorter than I am, I'm about six feet tall. Before she knew she was going to study Death, her skin was a bit darker, the same shade as mine. Her eyes were a brighter brown and never got a far-away look like they do now. Her long blonde hair was always kept in a thick ponytail and her bangs never hung in her eyes for too long. She was warmer but now she's icy to the touch. She had changed so much. I strode over to her and carefully dropped myself down on the sidewalk, right next to her.
"Hey Sabrina."
"Hey Alex," Her voice was soft but she wasn't sad, this was her happy mood. All we did for the next few minutes was sit in silence with eachother, she never talked much.
Someone approached us and greeted Sabrina with an extra friendly tone, it was as If he loved her, "Hey guys, hey, Sabrina."
"Hi Hunter," she replied, still staring over the edge as if longing for the endless fall to reach out and take her. Hunter Firehaven, that's who he was, her boyfriend too, and a pyromancer like me, put his arm around her. For some reason I didn't really like Hunter, not because he was stronger than me or a little taller, I think all it is about him that I don't like is the fact that he's dating my Sister. Sabrina and I have different Last names because we are so different. You see, when I was seven and Sabrina was six we appeared lying down on the grass in unicorn way, having no clue how we got there. We don't know our parents, we have no idea what our real last names are, all we knew was our first names, how old we were and each other. Freaky, but it's the truth.
I watched them as they began to get all mushy and repulsively disgusting. Sabrina Brushed back Hunter's orangey-red hair that was under a red and black cap with horns. He wore a lot of Grizzleheim armor even though he was a level twenty or thirty- something. He gazed at her with eyes a similar color to hers. She was smiling, at least she was happy.
"I'm leaving!" I hopped to my feet and did a swift turn as I sprinted towards the exit, holding my hat on top of my head as the wind tried to push it off. I ran through the exit, I did this all the time, I loved to move fast. My speed picked up as I went downhill. I found myself in the commons, pretty close to the edge of the bank to the small pond. I ran across it, not paying much attention to what was in front of me, that's when I knocked some skinny and short girl with purple pigtails into the water. She screamed as we fell into the icy water. Ugh, I hate water it always douses the flame of fun (ha ha I made a joke, get it, I'm a pyromancer, and yeah water and fire ha ha). I stood up, completely soaked through with the freezing liquid; I bent to grab her arm, pulling her up with me, I apologized.
She did not respond, she only wrung her violet hair and her ruby and gold clothes to dry a little bit. She stared at me with an annoyed expression in her Emerald eyes when I couldn't help but notice a silvery crescent moon shape in the middle of her forehead.
"What's that thing on her forehead for?" I asked, trying to be as polite as I could.
"Oh," she stopped getting water out of her clothes and she looked down, kind of embarrassed and I realized I might not have said that as politely as I thought, "It's a birthmark," she mumbled and continued to squeeze the water out of her hat.
"That I one cool looking birthmark," I tried to cheer her up but she stayed looking like a mope. My face turned bright red, I could feel it, I was ashamed of my epic fail of trying to cheer her up. "Sorry, I probably should have said that differently."
"It's okay," her voice was still low, "I get that all the time," she lifted her head and tried to smile but as she did we both heard a voice, beneath the sound of the crashing waterfall, it was nearly silent but it was there. I couldn't make out the words it was saying. I got an idea just then. Maybe I could make it up to this girl for being so rude by taking her to check that thing out.
"Let's go check out this noise I heard over here," I grabbed her skinny arm (She was shorter than my sister and very skinny too) and nearly dragged her towards the waterfall. "Do you hear someone's voice?" We were silent as she turned her head so she could hear.
"It's faint," her embarrassed tone was gone, "But I can actually."
"Cool," I jumped down into the shallow river and stuck my head through the waterfall where it came out on the other side in a cave, I climbed in and stuck out my hands for her to grab them, she did and I pulled her in. "Sweet," I said, I was about to say something else but I was interrupted by someone else, I kid about my age, maybe older.
"Aperto!" he repeated the word over and over again, it was a basic spell, one all wizards are taught before anything else, just in case their dorm is locked and they can't get in, but it also opens other doors too, such as maybe the one he was trying to open. He had placed both of his hand on the door and had his head down, concentrating.
The kid was tall, from what I could see he was, The back of his head showed so I caught a glimpse of purple hair (jeez I've met two purple haired people today). His clothes were black and had skulls all over them and some (hopefully not real) small skulls hanging from his belt. He had long thin pants but they were tucked in his boots (imagine Han Solo or Luke Skywalker's pants) His shirt was white but he had over it a black jacket with buttons and buckles with skulls. He turned toward us and stared straight into my eyes, oh my goblin; his eyes were redder than the Ruby flame on my wand. Other than that I noticed his tie was loose, and it too had skulls, he tore it off and threw it to the ground, his hands went to his head and he gripped his hair in frustration but he tried to calm himself. He took deep breaths and laid his hands on the door again, "Please," his voice was soft, "Help me open this door, and then you can leave."
The girl and I did as we were asked. It took maybe five times, around the fifth time is when I started to get frustrated, "Fuoco gatto!" I summoned the firecat, "Make a campfire out of this firewood," I meant the door, and he got my meaning, each spell to summon a creature is connected to the wizard that summons it mentally. It seeped through the lock, burning the ancient insides and the door burst open.
"Thanks," the kid said and stepped through.
I turned my head towards the girl, "Come on, let's check it out." I grabbed her hand and pulled her through with me.
"What are you doing?" The kid sounded a bit angry but he looked quite calm to me.
"Checking it out, you got a problem with it?" It looked like he did and he was about to protest but I shoved past him and traveled through the musty tunnel. The air became cold and an ill wind was about to take the hat off of my head. "Freaky," I said aloud.
"Please," man, he sounded desperate, "You and Jasmine need to leave at once, you don't know what could happen here, and this is a terrible place."
"Who's Jasmine?" I ignored everything else he said because I could really care less about what he had to say about this freak show place.
"I am," she spoke up and I realized it was the violet haired girl, "Jasmine Soulblood."
"Well, I accidentally knocked Miss Soulblood over and pushed her into some water now I want to make it up to her because I am such a nice person; she needs to see something cool doesn't she?" I paused then I added, "Who exactly do you think you are to tell I, Aleksandr Lion the great and awesomely cool guy, what to do?"
"You don't want to know."
"Actually, a name would be kind of useful right about now, man I meet a lot of people in one day, almost every day actually, and I meet all kinds, trust me you aren't going to freak me out."
He sighed and mumbled something.
"I'm sorry I couldn't hear you, princess!"
"Quinn Darkblood."
Was he serious? "Quinn?" I asked.
"Yeah, why?"
I started to laugh hysterically. "Quinn!" I fell on my ass and rolled onto my back, clutching my stomach, "Quinn is a girl's name!" I rolled over and pounded a fist on the cold earth. Something was strange and my laughter was cut off by my realization of this fact. "Dude," I said, getting up and brushing black dirt off on my clothes, it was black like ashes.
"What?" Quinn was annoyed; I could hear it in his voice even though I wasn't facing him. I took in the whole scene. A black tree with graves located behind it stood, I recognized this tree, and Mortis was its name. It bore no leaves because it was dead but it had a face, it could speak of course too. My eyes followed a familiar sidewalk to the front door of my sister's own school; it had been carelessly plopped down in the middle of this place. Across the street from it was the tower, Professor Drake's office. I noticed that everything here was dead, except for the three of us.
"Wasn't it like, noon time when we came in?" Nobody bothered to answer my question.
"You have to leave," Quinn calmed himself down and was speed walking toward the entrance of the school.
"Not quite, I'm not done here, what about you Jasmine?" she shook her head and came toward the entrance with us. We heard a crash from inside and I pushed Jasmine aside, "Get down and hide," I told her. She obeyed and looked kind of hurt; I didn't mean to hurt her feelings.
Quinn had sped up and had his hands on the handle to the door. "No, you're just an initiate let me go in alone you don't know how to deal with what's in there."
"I'm not a pussy I can handle myself, I'm helping you because one head plus genius me equals a better you!" I entered first, Quinn following me, just to let you know, I was not expecting the tall pale and sinister Professor Malistaire Drake to be there, looming over Dworgyn like he was going to eat the poor… whatever Dworgyn was if he didn't do as he was told.
Malistaire's head snapped up and his snarl changed into a sneer, "Quinn my boy how lovely to see you again."
"Stop it with the exchanging of pleasantries and let's get this over with." Quinn got into a fighting stance and he summoned a spell, it was a wraith.
Malistaire laughed, took the damage but it didn't do much good to him. I summoned my strongest spell, a wimpy firebird. It came up, looked awesome and only took about three hundred of his health. Quinn put a death blade and a death trap at both his and Malistaire's feet. I summoned my fire blade.
"You both are weak; I can destroy you with just this." Malistaire summoned a death fairy which came after me.
"Hello," it said in its small voice, she sounded hungry, like a vampire. She circled me, teasing me and taunting me, "Make a move, Flameboy, come on." She drained about eighty drops of my health.
"Maybe you are stronger than I thought you were, but you still are a helpless little fool. You have no strength and show no promise." The professor's voice was full of mockery.
"Don't call me weak!" I growled.
"Calm down!" Quinn ordered and I tried to stay calm.
"Quinn my son, won't you join me? You wouldn't be subjected to working with such decrepit accomplices. You could have anything you ever needed without having to work for it, strength, knowledge even", and he paused dramatically, "That girl you're so fond of that's in your class." Quinn gritted his teeth.
"Shut up, old man," he said, Quinn summoned a vampire to come and take some of Malistaire's health away, it didn't do him much good but it was still useful.
A sadistic grin grew on the Professors face, "Ah yes, I remember her, what was her name? Something was started with an S. An adorable dirty blond, brown eyes, her last name was Legendbreaker was it not?"
"What?" Why the hell was he talking about my sister?
"So you know her too?" He scoffed at me.
"You stay the HELL away from my baby sister you BASTARD!" I took power from deep down inside me and power from pips that I didn't have. It took away all but two drops on my mana because I was only an initiate. The helephant burned the professor's clothes and ruined the interior. Once it was gone he screamed in rage, holding a spot where his fragile death-like skin had been badly wounded by the flames licking at it.
"THIS ISN'T THE LAST TIME YOU'LL SEE ME!" He fled in a plume of skulls and dust. It was silent in the classroom until Quinn spoke.
"How in the hell did you do that?"
Unfortunately his voice was too quiet for me to hear and I was having trouble balancing myself, I guess my spell took more than my mana.
"You're extremely low on health!" Quinn spoke louder and he pulled my arm over his shoulder so he could help me out. We exited the school and found Jasmine running towards us.
"Is he okay?" She sounded worried about me even though we'd only just met.
"Relax sugar puff," I managed to say, "Alex is just fine I'm only gonna puke in about five seconds." I paused, "And possibly die." The next few steps we took were lost in my memory as was all the steps we took to the life school. I heard my sister's voice in my head.
"What happened to my brother, Quinn?" it was distant and all voices became even more distant until I totally lost consciousness.
:O a cliffhanger, no way! Am I just the coolest person ever? Unless you didn't like my story but you know, I love comments, or reviews, just be nice and tell me if I should change anything AND thanks to my Buddies on wizard101 that's where I got Hunter Firehaven from. Thanks to IrkenLily and Shadowy7 for Jasmine and then Quinn. Thanks to PJATOSROCKS09 for Trevor and his girlfriend, you guys all have great characters, even ones that aren't in the first chapter (remember I might find time to fit them in somewhere in my story ^.^) Also, I am still accepting new characters too for side characters or maybe to put into another story of mine :D okay I hope all of you who submitted characters and have them in the first chapter like how they act so far, if I need to change anything let me know I'll take note of it and I'll put it to the best of my abilities. I know it took me forever to write but I promise, I was trying my best to use MY AWESOME SKILLS OF WRITING POWER (dun dun dun!) to write it. I really couldn't have written this without your characters and your awesome ideas :D