Chapter 3

Rules are there for a reason

"Finally! It's Monday! Today is the day that I'll be going to Black Circle collage!"

I said out of joy.

My mom was still asleep since it was 5 o'clock in the morning but I just couldn't sleep anymore.

I made sure that I had all my school stuff ready.

Pyro was already awake as well and ready to go.

I guess he must have felt that something exiting is going to happen.

I went downstairs and prepared some breakfast for me, my mom and of cause Pyro.

I sat down at the table and turned on the TV, there seemed to be something serious going on.

Since all the channels had their news on and it seemed very chaotic.

Apparently someone found a dead body.

There was almost nothing left of the poor guy, just his upper torso without his right arm.

Or so they said, of cause they weren't allowed to show it on television since it would be to graphic.

I heard some sounds coming from upstairs, finally my mom woke up.

She came downstairs and together we ate our breakfast.

In the blink of an eye it was 8 o'clock, time to go.

My mom had a special teleporting crystal ready and just like that we where standing in frond of a huge castle like mansion.

"Wauw, it's huuuuuge!" I said in amazement.

"Yes, welcome to Black Circle collage!" my mom said while we we staring at the magical mansion.

My mom walked with me to the frond door and there in the front garden where all kinds of wizard.

All the parents where there to say goodby to their children.

I was really nervous thanks to all the people there.

Then a female wizard came through the door, she was old but had a kind face.

"That's the head mistress of the school, if you run into any problems go to her." My mom said.

Then the head mistress spoke. "Good morning students, parents and friends."

People were immediately quiet and all eye's were on her.

I heard some people whisper.

"No way that is mistress Delenore! She is the most awesomeness mind witch!"

"Are you kidding me?! You mean the witch that can control items with her mind?"

"Yes! Not only that she can read minds I heard!"

It seemed kind of odd, a witch that can read minds? I doubt it.

The mistress then continued. "Welcome to all new students and also welcome back to the older students. Alright the students that had been here last year..."

"Go to the right side entrance, just like last year and the year before that." I heard an older student finish her sentence.

She continued. "And the new students say your last goodby's and follow me please"

She opened up the front door as wide as she could and walked inside towards a huge staircase.

The staircase split up in two on the first floor and went all the way around the next floors.

I think there are about 6 floors.

Mistress Delenore continued her story. "Alright listen closely. The male students sleep in the left wing and the female students in the right. You can find your room number on your acceptance letter. You will get you schedule tomorrow morning. Which leads me to the next subject, we expect all the students to be in the dining room tomorrow morning around 10 o'clock.

Then you will meet your teachers and will receive all the information you need regarding the up following school semester. For now you are free to explore the building except for the most upper floor and the area's with a forbidden sign. Have a lovely day!"

She then walked off back outside, probably to greet the older students.

I waited until the huge crowd had shrunken to just a couple of students.

You see I'm not a huge fan of crowds and most people.

Once it had quiet down I started to wonder around.

The building was old yet so amazing and magical, I gotta say I was very distracted by it all.

So distracted in fact that I didn't even notice that some idiot was walking straight towards me.

He was distracted as well by his pet squirrel.

Pyro flew off my shoulder and I followed his movement with my eyes but was as stupid as to still walk forward.

And just like that we walked straight into each other and fell to the floor.

"I'm so sorry! Are you okay?!" The guy said.

He looked like a nice guy, with black hair and was wearing headphones.

"Uhm…., yeah I'm fine. I'm sorry too. Are you okay?" I awkwardly answered.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I've had worse incidents." He said.

"You don't say? Well anyways I should get going so…bye!" I said while quickly gathering my stuff and continuing my path.

"…...Wait!" He called after me and almost just as quick he ran over to me.

I kept walking though, this felt really awkward so I wanted to get out of there.

"My name is Mark, what's yours?" He asked.

"Why do you want to know?" I returned a question.

"Well, we're gonna be classmates right? So it's only natural right?" He answered.

I sighed. "My name is Emily." And continued walking.

"So….."

Dammit he was still walking next to me, didn't he take the hint yet?

"O MY GOD! Is that a Thunix?!" he seemed a bit too exited.

"Glad you noticed" I sarcasticly said while not paying much attention to him.

"That is so cool! So….. what are your interests?"

"He really didn't get it, what an idiot!" I thought to myself.

I sighed again. "Games, I like gaming. Also I'm very interested in mythological creatures."

"That is sooooooo cool! Me too!"

He continued talking to me all the way of the magical building.

That is until I reached the girls wing.

"Well, I think we have to part ways now." I said blocking the way.

"O yeah, girls only. Sure, yeah. I'll be going then…. See you tomorrow..." He said.

I could see that he didn't want to leave but honestly didn't care much either.

He talks a bit too much if you ask me.

Anyways I was heading over to my room on the 5th floor.

I had number 20 all the way at the end of the hallway.

There was a name tag on the door, it read: "Emily White and Alma Brand."

I slowly opened the door. "Hello? My name is Emily and…." Just before I could finish a girl fell from the sealing. "You must be my roommate! Well met! I'm Alma the Air witch!" She said.

"O great another overly happy person" I thought.

She practically pulled me in and started talking about a lot of stuff.

At first she seemed very annoying and talkative.

But after a while she accurately seemed kind of nice, she was just as nervous as I was.

A little while later I felt safe enough to open up a little.

We talked about what we think we would learn here and what to expect.

"O by the way, what type of witch are you?" She asked.

It only seemed fair to tell her since she already told me hers.

"I'm a fire witch." I knew she would be shocked since there aren't many fire wizards and most of the are know to be very dangerous.

"That's so cool! No one would even dare to bully us! Hahahaha" She said.

"So you're not scared of me?" I honestly was quit shocked by her calm reaction.

"No way! You don't seem like a bad person at all. I don't believe you would harm anyone."

Her expression suddenly turned serious. "Will you….will you please be my friend?"

She asked nervously.

She seemed smart and really caring, she definitely didn't seem like a bad person either.

So I said: "Yeah, sure why not?"

She seemed really happy about that.

The rest of the day went pretty smoothly and we just kept on talking about all kinds of things.

The night slowly came in as the sky got darker.

Owls and other nightly creatures could be heard from the forest.

Reminding me that I still haven't seen it yet.

I couldn't sleep at all that night.

I was in a strange yet awesome mansion, sharing my room for the first time.

And I was nervous about the upcoming day.

I whispered at Alma to check if she was still awake, unfortunately for me she was sound asleep.

Pyro also didn't seem to have any problem sleeping.

I looked outside the window.

There was a sand path leading into the forest, with an old little shed beside the path.

For a split second I thought I saw a shadow move close to the shed.

But I also figured it must have been my mind playing tricks on me, since that I'm actually getting really tired.

I read an interesting book about elves and nimf's until I fell asleep with book an all.