*knock knock*

"Yes?" I groaned from my oh so irritable bed, it was rare that I found a way to sleep comfortable in my bed but when I do it's taken about two hours to get to and its often at midnight. "Get up Lilly you have a new student to tour." Max yawned from the outside of the door. "Get onyx to do it he can still be interesting after dark, im just sleepy and boring…" I negotiated, I'm not spoilt but the things I do value I don't give up, such as sleep…ok Just sleep.

"One: your always boring, two: Onyx is already showing someone around." She yawned. I squinted at my wristband, 12:15, if im quick I could do a quick tour, through in some small talk, show him to his room then fail to get comfortable and still have enough time to watch butler fight Juliet for the championship.

I hopped out of my bed, tied my hair back and threw open the door brushing past max. "Hi, as my annoying boss repeatedly said my name is Lilly or Miss Daedron if you're in my class." I beamed with my best teacher smile I'd picked up over the years. "Hi, I'm Kyle." I unconsciously examined the little boy he was short, almost as tall as me, had spiky brown hair and crystal blue eyes with a green zip up hoodie and beige cargo shorts.

"Come on Kyle, we've got 45 minutes to show you 20 miles of campus grounds." I speed up towards the large oak stairway. "Don't want to miss the match?" Kyle grinned. "Im sure you don't either." His pale cheeks that encompassed his grin were something impossible to direct any form of negativity towards. "Please stop focusing on my cheeks in your head, it makes you seem weirder." Kyle smirked.

We left the dorm building and entered the over compensating courtyard complete with large chiselled marbled pillars decorating encompassing a large garden with an assortment of rare species, it was a beautiful sight to accompany the lovely evenings breeze, which sort of gave a calming atmosphere for showing Kyle around the campus as he stood looking around, taking it all in… until I realized that he's not taking in the scenery, he was waiting for me to show him around.

"It's ok so long as we make it in time for the match." Kyle sighed playing with his purple collar that was constantly protruding from his hoodie. "Ah, shite… can you fly?" I glanced back at him; unleashing my chestnut wings and flapping them about slightly, he just answered with a giant swoosh, revealing a large set of crystal white wings, though resembled more like a bats than a birds.

"Ok, see that bell tower over there, that's where we're flying." I pointed at the large weathered red brick bell tower, stretching my wings briefly, promptly rocketing towards it, tilting my wings slightly with each flap to boost my speed, remembering to wait up for Kyle, that was until he propelled past me whipping my hair into my face, corkscrewing towards the tower, hooking the antenna, stopping on the roof with a I'm-attempting-to-be-casual-but-you-know-it-was-cool pose.

I landed next to him with a light thud as my wings aligned with my back, disappearing with a light pop; I attempted to get my bearings via the moon, which was unprofessional considering how many times I fly up here on a daily basis. Meanwhile, Kyle took a seat on the ledge and starting to trap a firefly in a sphere of rushing air.

"Kyle, do you know what this tower is?" I blurted out, not really having a place to start off plus the effects of a 48 hour sleepless day were starting to final reach my head. "Aren't you supposed to be showing me around? You know, telling me what this." Kyle muttered, focused on making the sphere smaller without killing the fly. I swore in gibberish under my breath. "This is the ignis in tecta, the -" "the home ward beacon." Kyle finished involuntarily as all of us did when something was said in the demonic dialect, well at least for a reaper. "Yeah, this tower can be seen throughout the campus, which is sort of why we're here." I pointed into the murky black night towards where I hoped was the north side of the campus. "The north sector is where all the administrative buildings are kept; you'll only need to go there to sort out identification, your room key, visiting the council, being called to the council… standard stuff." "How often do you need to get in so much trouble that you need to visit a council?" Kyle frowned. "Before I became a teacher…more than anyone should." I laughed. "The east sector houses the training buildings, such as our state of the arch gymnasium, software designed and tested by our head coders, Zeo and Onyx, kept underground for…safety purposes, all other sports equipment is housed in the building above it."

"So the whole area is for training, even the parks and forests surrounding it?" Kyle marvelled at the landscape. "Yeah, it's one of the only places built from scratch…" I yawned abruptly. "Sorry about that, to the south is the dorms where we came from, and to the west is the coliseum V2-"

A shrill scream came from the nearby clearing between the gyms and the centre square, as a teen boy lay out the grass unconscious as a large troll lumbered a large oak as a club as he waddled towards the girl, her weapons drawn but unwilling to fight, the fear setting in.

"Monsters appear during my tour, of course they did." I finished summoning my weapons from the seal, two long thin sheets of metal, curved into a slight arc, one stained black with a white hilt and a white stained blade and black hilt with two pistols; one red and black, one white and blue. I was already in the sky, diving towards the girl, getting her out of the way was the priority.

I grabbed the girl and rolled out of the way just as he combed his free hand through the air where she stood moments ago, we stood up realizing why she had frozen with fear in the first place, the troll was deadly, monstrously tall with bulky arms, every limb being large and sinuous, his eyes deep and abyssal purple, large blood stained tusks, he was what a nightmare feared.

He lifted his club for a final strike as I too was paralyzed by his height alone, for the first time, my arms dropping from fear alone. I closed my eyes in submission. A large gust of wind slapped across my face, shocking me back into reality as new hope blossomed in front of me, Kyle was wielding a baby blue long sword with an orange hilt, stabbing into the muscle of the troll clipping a nerve, rendering the arm paralyzed, turning from beast of nightmares to a joke, resembling an anxious school child with a correct answer. I almost laughed as his face strained to comprehend why his arm failed to move. "Don't just stand there." Kyle muttered emotionlessly at us, bringing us back into reality, as I moved her out of danger as well as the unconscious teenage boy, just as he swung his other arm towards Kyle who simply flicked his wrist severing the nerve connection in his arm causing him to go limp on his left side, allowing him to side step easily plunging his sword in the beasts navel, gutting him through to his neck, using a burst of energy to make him fall backwards, disappearing in a flash leaving only a large mound of dust in the grass to blow away in the air.

He sighed in relief and as his weapon shimmered away and started to yawn, checked his watch, spread his wings. "We have five minutes until the match, want to race?"

At this point from the perspective of a teacher, I should of said no, dealt with the students, reported the incident and then worried about the match later, but at 12:55 in the night after almost dying I said " you're on" soaring into the night sky taking on my long forgotten perspective… of being me.

Surprisingly, I won speeding ahead of him at the last minute with a mischievous grin on my face; he landed with a thud as I came to a halt flapping my wings victoriously. "Oh yeah, I won, you lost, uh huh..." he stared at me as if he only just realized he had a teacher with the brain of a child.

"Lilly, where do the dead monsters go when they…?" Kyle queried as he fumbled with the trapped firefly that he managed to keep in a constant swirling ball of air. "Currently, we don't know… the ash disappears after a while but it eventually reforms the monster." I fixed up my purple hair that was whipped into my face during the race, noticing that he was troubled with my answer. "Don't worry, not much happens around here that's too dangerous or surprising-"

To go on a tangent, the exact moment after this is why I hate karma, karma for some reason detests me for some strange reason, leaves NO opportunity to screw me over. Why I'm saying this, the very second I finished my reassuring sentence saying not much happens here…

Boom, a torrent of lighting tore across the sky, swiping a hooded figure out of the sky, causing him to crash into concrete in front of us, littering the area with his belongings.

The teen leant up slightly. "Don't shout so loudly, I've got a splitting headache." He croaked, grinning meekly, and then falling unconscious with a thump.

"Great a stray, go get max, I'll escort him off the premises." I began to pick up his belongings.

"Well, I wouldn't do that if I was you." A small black dragon landed on his chest. "My name is Cid. And this idiot has travelled a long way to get here." He stood proudly. "Besides it wouldn't look good if you kick out the god of all beasts." He circled his stomach then vanished.

I sighed. "Looks like where going to miss that match…"