A/N: Yup.. another fic. Please put your shotguns away.. I'm sorry D; BBTT's updates are gonna be EVEN SLOWER. *Runs away before you guys start shooting me*
WARNING: This fic isn't going to have much comedy. SOME. But not a lot. And there's a chance that one of your favorite KHR character would die. *Takes out giant shield to protect me from bullets*. But it's kinda necessary.. because *Points at title* Survival. People's gotta die. BUT YOUR REVIEWS CAN SAVE THEM. If a character gets enough votes, that person WILL LIVE. :D
Prologue You may skip this if you want. The important details will be mentioned again in Chapter 1. So it doesn't matter much if you decide to read this or not :D
There are two different human races, Mortals and Castenoirs. Mortals are pretty self-explanatory. They're simply humans, nothing out of the ordinary.
As for Castenoirs, their abilities to preform a wide range of spells are given to them since birth. It's not genetic and that ability can not be gained if you weren't born with it. The rates of one being a Castenoir is less than 5% in each country. Their intelligence level is beyond normal humans.
An elite school, designed only for Castenoirs was created after the race's discovery. The academy is called "Trinsette". Nobody knew who the founder is, and nobody ever saw the man face-to-face. To this day, the man has always been running the school with the power of his voice.
The system of this school is absolutely cruel. The moment a Castenoir is born, they would be taken away from their mother by the Vindince. The Vindince is a group formed by Castenoirs who passed away. A Castenoir's life-span is different of a human. It's shorter. Many aren't expected to live past the age of 30. The chances of a Castenoir being able to become a Vindince is even lower than half a percentage. Everything is determined by luck. Once a Castenoir becomes a Vindince, they've received immortality. However, they must exchange that with freedom, watching over the school for eternity.
Castenoirs doesn't know who their parents are, and doesn't know their names as well. The naming system contained thousands of card, each containing a different name. A card would be randomly chosen and given to the Castenoir. If a boy received a girl's name, or vice versa, that Castenoir probably just had a bad day that time.
The whole objective of the school is to reward strong Castenoirs. Even with all the abilities of a Castenoir, some would say that it's better being a Mortal. A game would take place every year. Those who decides to drop their life as a Castenoir are allowed to sign up for the challenge. It's highly recommended for the Castenoir to be extremely talented to give the game an attempt.
Those Castenoirs would be teleported to another dimension. Bad luck would be placed on them the moment they enter the area. Each would be given a watch that states the amount of survivors left. The game would last for a total of a year. Once the game ends, the next one begins.
The rules of the game is simple: survive. They were told that they have an option of quitting. Castenoirs may quit the challenge by using a spell to disactivate, or just break, their watch. Castenoirs that survived the challenge would be announced and their abilities would be taken away from them. Their life-span would be as of a Mortal and their intelligence stays with them. They would be immediately released from the academy.
For the past decades, nobody was able to complete the challenge. As years goes by, less amount of Castenoirs decided to take on the challenge. Up until now, it seemed like no Castenoirs decided to quit the challenge if entered. People would often criticize those challengers of overestimating themselves.
The game aside, Castenoirs who decided to remain as Castenoirs, just spends time in the academy everyday. The academy shouldn't be exactly called a "school". Castenoirs are able to gain knowledge automatically just by getting older. The school trained the Castenoirs into learning different spells. Spells aren't automatically transmitted into their brains. When a spell is learned, the Castenoir would have to learn how to preform it with perfection.
There are no teachers, the skilled Castenoirs would assist the other Castenoirs. Their life would be in a repeated cycle of learning and preforming spells, up until they day they die.
Love isn't exactly forbidden. However, once Castenoirs are caught mating, they would be killed right at the spot. It's all due to the reason that the child has a low chance of also being a Castenoir like his or her parents. Dating is allowed, just that self-control would be necessary if two are in a relationship... Unless the two are the same gender then that would be an exception of course...
A/N: ON TO CHAPTER 1 WE GO! :D And.. this is another fic what goes like: Fluffs. Yes - Pairings. No .. did that demotivated you? .. o_o I hope not.. but it probably did..
