Two weeks later, Hibiki stared at the computer, reading off names from the list, "It seems like we're the only non-humans who are teaching here..."

Kiko looked over his shoulder, "We have a lot of students though that are non-human.."

"We have to stay strong for them," Andy decided. "No matter what happens, we have to be there for them."

"Unless we get forced out of our jobs," Meiko spoke up from the doorway.

"There's laws against losing jobs due to race and orientation. Hopefully they'll include non-humans to that," Arie sighed.

"They consider us monsters. We aren't even human to them, even those of us witches who are most human-like.." Hiroki sighed.

The group soon headed to bed, struggling to sleep, knowing their lives were about to change.

Andy and Akasa headed to their office as they did every morning.

"Andy.. We have hundreds of emails," Akasa looked at the screen.

Andy, who was working on grading papers, looked up in confusion.

"They're all from parents or students who are complaining that we're not human.."

Andy rolled her eyes, "Let me type up a nice response and you can copy and paste it to all of them."

On the way home from work that day, Andy felt something hit her. She looked at her arm and noticed a dart sticking out from it. She soon felt dizzy before passing out.

She woke hearing her name. She blinked her eyes open and saw her roommates Hikaru, Hana, and Hibiki. The four of them seemed to be locked in a cell.

"What's going on?" Andy asked quietly.

"Not sure.." Hana gave her a worried look.

"Can you teleport us out?" Hibiki looked at the doctor.

"Give me a few more minutes for the dizziness to wear off.. I don't want to mess us up."

Hikaru was busy trying to search for a way out.

Soon, though, they heard footsteps coming closer.

A masked man stood in front of them, "You're just like animals locked in a cage.."

"What do you want?" Andy growled.

"We want all monsters like you dead. But especially the teachers like you, spreading your lies to our kids."

Andy rolled her eyes.

Hana tried shifting into a small mouse and running out of the cell. The man kicked at her, flinging her across the room with a loud thud.

"Leave her alone!" Andy screamed at him.

"You shut up."

Hibiki turned to smoke, floating out of the cell before punching the man. The man fell back but quickly got out a gun and shot at him. Hibiki fell backwards, his hand moving to his abdomen and finding it covered in blood.

"Who's next?" The man smirked.

Both Hikaru and Andy glared at him.

The man quickly shot at Hikaru before charging into the cell and grabbing onto Andy, "We're going to have some fun." She was pulled to a wall, her wrists chained up.

She kicked out at him before receiving a hard punch to the gut. She struggled to breathe, trying to think of any spells she knew to help. She vowed if she lived through this, she'd learn some spells to kill.

The next twenty minutes flew by and all Andy felt was pain. She wasn't sure if there was any part of her unbruised.

"Andy?"

Andy looked up in confusion, the world spinning. Her sister was standing in front of her.

"It's okay now," Arie said softly.

Andy tried to look around finding the masked man lying on the ground.

Arie used a teleportation spell to get the group back to the house.

Akasa and Hiroki helped get them onto the couches. Akasa grabbed the first aid kit and started working on Hikaru while Hiroki and Arie started using healing spells on Hibiki. After getting their bullet wounds closed and bandaged, Akasa checked Hana over. Arie began reciting spells over Andy, trying to heal some of the damage. Andy struggled to stay conscious, her breathing rapid and pain filled.

The next morning, Akasa knelt beside her, "I'll take care of your classes, don't worry."

"Don't get caught.." Andy kept replaying the scenes from the night before in her mind.

"Don't worry, I'll bite anyone who comes after me," Akasa smiled softly.

Hours later, Andy eventually pushed herself off the couch and headed into the bathroom. Her body was littered with sickening purple bruises and bandages. She was pretty sure she had a few broken ribs but she knew with Arie's help they were doing better than before.

A few days later, she finally went back to class. Students whispered about her now yellowing bruises, but she tried to act normal and teach as she normally would. She was glad the students in her classes didn't say anything about her being a witch, but she was still getting emails from a lot of parents.

She was wary of walking home, or anywhere, even when she was with her friends. Shadows haunted her and she grew very jumpy.

Looking through some spell books she had, she found a few spells for killing. She memorized them in case she was attacked again.

She had to stay late one night for meetings with students so it was dark when she was heading back home. She kept glancing behind her, walking quickly. She heard a noise and quickly looked toward it, mentally going over the spells she memorized in case she needed them.

A quickly moving shadow was coming straight toward her.

She backed up, starting to mutter a spell.

It didn't stop, slamming into her and knocking her flat as a bullet whizzed by where her head had been. The shadow felt substansial now, like muscular arms.

Andy stared up in confusion for a moment, her breathing rapid.

"Are you alright?" A soft voice asked worriedly.

"What..? Why did you save me? Who are you?" She asked quickly as her brain tried to make sense of everything.

"Why? Because I don't like seeing innocents hurt." The shadow coalesced into a tall man, dressed in dark jeans and t-shirt. "As for who I am, you can call me Tet." He held out a hand to her.

She took it slowly, "I'm Andy. Thanks I guess.." She looked around for the shooter as she tried to keep her hands from shaking.

"He's gone. Coward." Tet spit the word venomously.

She stared at him a moment, "Do you know who it was..? This is the second time I've been attacked since the bill was passed.."

He shook his head. "No. I just saw the gun aimed at you."

"Well.. Thank you again. I should probably get home."

He gave her a salute, then disappeared in a flash of flame.

Andy looked around for a moment before quickly rushing home.

She headed to her room and curled up in her bed, trying to stay calm. This was the second time someone tried to kill her.. What if they went after her friends next? What if they died and she couldn't help them? Tears dripped down her face as she thought of the possibilities.

"Daka? What's wrong?"

"I don't want to talk about it," Andy answered her twin.

Arie let out a small sigh, "Well, dinner is ready if you want any."

Andy nodded slowly, deciding to stay in bed.

The next morning she headed to campus with Akasa, looking around constantly.

"You're even jumpier than you have been the last week.." Akasa noticed.

"It's nothing.. Just worried.."

"You need some anti anxiety medicine or something."

"I need people to quit trying to kill me."

Akasa sighed and headed into their office. When it was lunch time, Andy went down to the English department to go to Arie's office. She was surprised when she saw the man from the night before.

"Hey," she gave him a small smile.

"Hello again." He juggled a notebook to his other side and extended a hand. "I'm just waiting on a friend."

Andy nodded slowly, "Are you a student here?"

He blushed slightly and nodded. "Guilty. I take Professor Masato's engineering courses. I'm Tetsuya Kanamoto."

"Ah, one of Hiroki's students. I'm Doctor Andaka Takimoto."

He chuckled. "I've seen you on campus with the Professor." He looked over as Arie's door opened and a lithe young man exited. "Everything okay Ryu?"

Arie left her office and locked the door behind her. Andy gave her a small smile.

The one Tet called Ryu nodded quietly before giving a quiet "Thanks Professor". He nodded to Andy, then began heading down the hall as Tet smiled apologetically. Tet ran after him, swinging an arm around the other's shoulders as they disappeared.

Arie raised an eyebrow at her sister.

Andy chuckled, "Let's go to lunch."

They sat in the dining hall at a long table with their friends.

Hibiki sat in front of his laptop, typing rapidly, "There's been a rise in deaths since the bill was signed, yet politicians still don't want to reverse it."

"It's too late anyway, the list is out already," Hiroki sighed.

"They don't have to sign up until they're eighteen... It could help the future kids," Kiko answered.

"True," Hiroki nodded quietly.

"There's been protests happening too, but there was a shooting at one of them." Hibiki read another news article.

"It's not safe for any of us, is it?" Meiko looked depressed.

"We need to set good examples for the students though," Andy reminded.

"How can you say that when we got attacked?" Hikaru growled, "It might be safer for us to just quit."

"And pay bills how?" Arie rolled her eyes.

"Right.." Hikaru frowned.

"So it's either be homeless and possibly die, or keep our jobs and possibly die?" Hana asked quietly. "Doesn't sound like good options either way."

Andy finished her lunch quietly, trying to stay positive even though she was terrified. She kept glancing around expecting another near death incident.

After putting their trays up, Andy asked Hiroki, "I met a student of yours. Tetsuya Kanamoto? What do you know about him?"

Hiroki shrugged, "He normally keeps to himself."

"What about that Ryu kid?" Andy looked at Arie.

"Ryusei? He's super smart but really quiet. He has some struggles, but he always gets good grades."

Andy nodded slowly.

"Why do you want to know about them anyway?" Hiroki raised an eyebrow.

"They just seem interesting, especially Tet."

"Tet? You know him by a nickname already?" Arie smirked.

"It's not like that, it's complicated.." She didn't want to tell them about getting shot at because she didn't want to worry them.

Arie chuckled softly, "I'll see you guys later."

Andy nodded and headed off her own direction, back to the medical building.

The next few days went by with nothing major happening, but Andy still kept constant watch out. She was walking out by the fountain when she heard shouting. She rushed over toward it, seeing students attacking others. The ones attacking had signs about getting rid of non-humans from campus.

Andy growled and was about to yell when she noticed a small group standing in front of Ryusei.

Tet was in front, a darker youth beside him with wild hair matching his eyes. Another was baring fangs at the attackers as three more protectively shielded Ryusei from harm.

"If you guys don't get out of here I'm making sure you're all expelled!" Andy yelled at the attackers.

Most of them turned and noticed her, starting to leave. A few more argued, "We're allowed to protest!"

"Peaceful protesting, not shouting and fighting," Andy said sternly.

"You're just upset because you're one of them," One glared at her.

"Doesn't matter what I am. I'm a professor, which means I can get you expelled. Now go."

Finally they left, a couple still yelling slurs at them as they walked away.

Andy took a deep breath and shook her head. She then glanced at the small group, "You guys okay?"

Tet looked over at the others, then back at Andy with a nod. "Nothing serious. Sorry about this."

"It's not your fault. They technically are allowed to protest but peacefully. I just wish they didn't have such stupid ideas."

Tet shrugged. "Stupid people are all over. Just takes control not to beat them so their bodies match."

Andy chuckled softly before glancing at her watch, "I have to get to class. See you."

He gave a wave before turning to the others and speaking quietly.

"Could you tell Professor Rain that Ryusei went home?" A tall redhead asked quietly.

"Yeah, I'll tell her," Andy nodded before heading off to class.