Her jade eyes opened too the overly annoying shrill of her phone's alarm set to wake her up. She reached over too her night stand reaching for her phone in a drowsy haze she knocked over a picture frame and a few other items including her phone. She grumbled and threw the covers off of her body causing the sharp cold air of the room to wash over her body like a tidal wave causing her to swear once more. She threw her legs over the side of her bed causing her to moan in shock as the marble floor shot cold chills up her legs. The young woman quickly shuffled over to her phone and turned off the alarm only to look at twelve text messages in her notifications. She sighed and saw a voicemail from her father, so she played it on speaker phone and turned on the light on her night stand to start getting dressed as his voice came through with an excited but worried tone, "Sienna, I am sorry I know I left on short notice but my trip too France just got far more complicated than I would ever dream of."
"Like always," Sienna mumbled as she walked over too her bathroom and turned on the light. She looked at her reflection in the mirror. Her green eyes looked at her face and she walked up too the mirror to inspect the fat lip she had and bruised cheek with a split in it. "Man could he punch."
"Sienna I must tell you this," His voice trembled for a second but the tone fell deaf on her ears. "Never mind. Don't get into any fights while we are gone, the Kaur name doesn't need any trouble in the next couple weeks. Don't give your older brothers any trouble, and please listen too your mother while I am gone."
"Yes daddy I will be a good girl," Sienna cracked her neck as she spoke sarcastically. "Keeping face is what us Kaurs do, gotta look good for the Mage's Association, like they fucking matter, OW!"
Sienna looked at her torn and bruised knuckles with a pained expression she inspected her injuries all over her body from the night before. The voice mail cut out as she looked at the bruised side and chest from the body blows she took then her purple knee from kneeing a guy in the jaw. She rolled her joints and started up the shower. Sienna walked over too her phone and unlocked it reading texts from her father apologizing for leaving in the night, and from her friends about the scuffle she had at the bar and checking if she was alright. Sienna texted them that she was fine and just a little sore from the night.
Sienna continued with everyone's daily ritual of showering, brushing her teeth, combing her hair, but skipping the makeup route, to her it's a pointless chore just to cover up yourself to be fake, and hated fakes. Sienna finished slipping on her uniform's pants when there was a knock on the door too her room, "Sienna it's Thomas, may I enter?"
"Just a few seconds for me to get my shirt on," Sienna chuckled as she finished buttoning up her shirt then tucked it in. "Alright Thomas, come in but I don't want a scolding."
The door opened too an elderly man walking in wearing a suit and an unbelievably large beard that has been delicately trimmed and maintained to keep it's fullness. He carried a tray with coffee ham and eggs, and some muffins. "Now why would I do that other than the fact that I let you in late last night with you covered in blood?"
"You are a cruel man Mister Neelam," Sienna chuckled as she watched the family Butler walk over too her desk in her room and put down the tray.
"Well I have to be cruel to you and your brother Lukas," Thomas chuckled as he turned too Sienna with a sigh. He walked over and touched her chin making a wince come from Sienna's face. "At least put on some foundation, don't worry your mother, you know her heart is weak."
"I was planning on sneaking out before she noticed," Sienna said as she looked away from the old man's brown eyes. "Plus you know me and make up."
"Yes and it confuses me if you are more man than woman," Thomas grabbed Sienna's knuckles and sighed as he traced his leathery fingers over her knuckles. "You have been making yourself more a person than your father let's on my dear, just like Lukas."
"And this is where you say," Sienna tried her hardest to drop her voice. "'Sienna my dear, you should learn to listen to your father.'"
"Actually this is where I stupefy you with my impromptu response of," Thomas smiled and chuckled as he put his right hand on Sienna's uninjured side of her face. "I am proud of you."
Sienna felt her heart sputter as the words warmed her heart. He smiled and patted her cheek, "Gotcha. Now eat your breakfast before it gets cold, don't stain your dress and I will inform master Lukas that you will be leaving the exact moment you two have to go too the academy. Don't worry about Reece, Malcom, your mother, or the maid staff, I will make sure they are other wise indisposed."
Sienna watched Thomas leave the room and she scoffed as the man caught her by complete surprise. She smiled as the feeling of the pain in her injuries seemed to wash away as she was in absolute bliss. Sienna sat down at her desk and quickly started to eat her breakfast while in the process of trying up her hair. She heard a tap on her window and when she looked outside she saw a man standing in a similar school uniform as her leaning on the side of his Rolls-Royce Phantom. Sienna smiled at her brother as he was looking at his watch then up too her at her window tapping his watch. She held up one finger to tell him to wait before she made her way towards her room.
Sienna slipped out of her room and threw the single strap too her backpack over her shoulder as she crept down the hall. She looked down the grand staircase too the wooden doors at the foot left ajar. Sienna waited a few seconds and finally she saw her eldest brother walking towards the dining hall. His cold green eyes thankfully didn't catch Sienna as he walked by the staircase. Behind her eldest brother followed one of the maids as she carried his coat and Emerald capped cane. Sienna waited a few more seconds as the two entered the room leaving Sienna alone on the staircase.
Sienna sighed and made her way too the center of the staircase looking down at the first floor's marble floor's and extravagant furnishings that are far older than her father is. She thought for a few seconds on how to get outside without anyone noticing her due too her injuries and it came easily too mind, she will break some more house rules about using magic in the house. Sienna took a deep inhale and focused on her body and making it a light as a feather. Sienna opened her eyes and took off running. When she jumped off of the marble steps her body went floating through the air with the same haste she jumped off the staircase with. She smiled as she had full control of the air around her making it seem like she was a feather falling in the wind. She landed by the open door and quickly slipped outside to the warm spring air.
The Rolls-Royce roared too life as Sienna came running over too the black and white trimmed coupe. She threw her bag into the back and jumped over the door into the passenger seat before looking over too her brother Lukas in the driver seat, "Hey."
"You are late," Lukas flipped the car into drive then took off making the wind blast back his black hair. "You look great considering you got bruises all across your face, no doubt you won the fight last night?"
"Yep," Sienna grabbed her black hair as it went wild with the wind, blowing out of the pony tail she had tied up earlier.
"Good," Lukas chuckled as he took a turn pretty hard causing the vehicle to squeal in protest. "Any plans tonight my dear little sister?"
Sienna looked over too her brother with a brimming smile as she knew what he was asking, if she was planning on getting into trouble. She shook her head and let her hair flow behind her as the road stretched on in front of them, "Sorry Lukas, I was actually thinking on taking it easy tonight. Why do you ask?"
"No reason," Lukas spoke over the pounding wind as he passed a semi on the side of the road. "I just found a new spot, and I was wondering if you wanted to watch me get the crap kicked out of me in the ring."
"As much as I love violence like the next gal," Sienna looked back at her brother's large frame, or specifically his bruised and perminantly darkened patches of skin on his knuckles representing his love for bare knuckle boxing. "I don't like seeing my best brother and best friend a heaping pile of blood and broken bones."
"Ok I am not going to take that as offense too my combat skills," Lukas chuckled as he sped up the car making the other vehicles pass by them like a blur. "Nor will I take the irony etched into your face right now, I was just asking if you wanted to potentially make some poor sob that might be down on his luck bet on the opponent of a guy that has won many matches in our lovely London underground fighting rings, maybe get him out of his slump."
Sienna looked at her brother's smile and caught wind of what he was saying. Lukas wasn't a prideful man so he is notorious for doing something shady in order to help other people. Sienna chuckled and leaned back in the seat looking at her brother, "And you know this specific story how?"
"Well I have been watching the fights every Tuesday night and there is one particular gentleman that stands out every time I see him," Lukas smiled and held up one finger as he started to explain himself. "I quickly found out his name is Gorman, a father of six who is also a widower as his wife passed away to cancer. Well turns out he comes too these betting rings in hopes of winning a decent chunk of change to help pay the bills and debts accumulated. Now I am not saying that it's right blowing a hundred pounds on gambling, but I am purposing you work your magic and reverse pickpocket a gambling ticket into his pocket and I take a dive on a ten too one bet."
"You realize that could backfire with the local gangs around town," Sienna loved the idea of helping out someone in need but if their plan goes down well this man will need to be protected from would be robbers, debt collectors, and enraged betters. "What is your plan for the after effects?"
"Well we have need for another landscaper," Lukas said as he zipped past a semi. Sienna smiled from ear to ear as she saw the look nearly beaming from his eyes. "So we double down on his good fortune, I come too him with a Geas scroll disguised as a contract making it so I have to protect him from any harm, then we move his family into the guest house and BOOM, the life and lively hood of seven people is protected!"
Sienna sat there for a few seconds dumbfounded by the idea of forcing a Geas contract on himself to protect someone, but then again Lukas isn't thinking about his well being, he is thinking about the well being of six kids and a father. Sienna started to laugh loudly and she covered her eyes as this crazy idea will work, and Lukas might pull it off, "Goodness I am just outwardly surprised, I am in Lukas, all my chips are down on this hair brained scheme."
"Its not really hair brained," Lukas scratched the side of his cheek with a playful bashfulness. "Its all for the children."
"You know if you had less of a Chad look I would believe you," Sienna chuckled looking out too the school coming up before them. "But you look more like Joesph Joestar everyday, so now I can't believe you."
"We'll look who is Sherlock Holmes reincarnated," Lukas said as he took the turn off too the Mage Association school. "Well riddle me this misses Holmes, what has two legs, an amazing brother, and is early for class?"
"Haha your funny Watson," Sienna chuckled as she unbuckled her seat belt and waited for the car to come too a stop before opening the passenger door. She stepped out onto the concrete and instantly her smile disappeared when she heard the laughter of some of the most fake people in the world around her. She turned to see her brother buttoning up his jacket then adjust his tie. "Cant we just play hookie?"
"Should have asked that while we were on the road," Lukas asked as he grabbed his backpack then came too her side. The earlier statement of him looking like the JoJo's character wasn't an exaggeration as he stood a solid six feet and eight inches tall and built sturdier than a brick shithouse, Lukas was definitely a monster of physical prowess. "Because I would have spent a day with you, but the gargoyles saw us and knowing your classmates and how most of them are bitches, they would rat you out in a heartbeat. Plus it's men's physical exam day so I would have come anyways."
"Meathead," Sienna smirked as she grabbed her bag and threw it over her shoulder. "So, see yah during lunch or- why are you spacing off, it's not like you?"
Sienna frowned and looked to where his eyes were glaring at. It was one of the many sources of hate that she has for the school. Violet Torrens and her entourage of eight fake waste of air we're surrounding a set of cherry blonde twin girls. Sienna glared at Violet Torrens with the utmost distaste as the definition of corrupt lineage of mages. Sienna recognized the twins as Samantha and Emily Kay, two second generation mages and instantly Sienna knew what the gaggle of retards we're going to do. Sienna threw her bag into the back of the Rolls-Royce and started for the pack, and too her surprise her brother kept pace.
As Sienna approached her eyes drifted too a fellow class member stuffing his helmet into a leather pouch of his motorcycle. She ignored much of him other than knowing that he looked familiar. As she got at the halfway mark there was a grunt of pain and Emily cried out for her sister. Sienna saw the defiant sister had bee beaten and her head was being pushed down with Violet's shoe while the young woman was on a monologue of some sorts, "-ith you licking superior families boots! Your name means nothing, so you are nothing!"
"Violet," a lackey said in the group distracting Violet from her monologue and Sienna watched as the woman looked over too Sienna and Lukas approaching them. "Its Lukas and Sienna…"
"More worthless ruffians," Violet took her foot off of Samantha's head and turned too Sienna.
"By your logic," a voice came behind Sienna that made her head look over her shoulder too a man of the same build as her brother but shorter by three or four inches stood behind her and the atmosphere changed from that of Sienna going to kick some ass, too everyone taking a step away from the man with feeling of dread surrounding them. The man's eyes glared at Violet with something more terrorizing than anger, a glare that made the woman take a step back and swallow her fear as if it was a liquid. "Either you are blind deaf and a moron, or your logic is flawed and you are using that as a reason to pick on others while being a coward and hiding behind your pathetic goons. Either way, I recommend you get going to class before your precious glass house becomes ground into sand."
Sienna stared right at the man with her jaw slightly open as the man's motorcycle jacket came off and he tossed it into his bike. His almost black eyes never left Violet's and the name finally came too Sienna, Magnus Habiger, one of the strongest students in the academy and one person no one messes with. Most of the party took some steps back and parted the sea of bodies leaving Violet in Magnus' path with her eyes wide. Sienna didn't have a chance to see the whole strike happen but she caught Magnus punching Violet in her diaphragm causing her to fall over on her stomach and began to vomit on the concrete. Lukas clenched his fists with a smile on his face growing, "That speed, I barely caught it but he activated a speed spell and an enhancement spell nearly simultaneously."
"So long as we get to watch that display I don't care that he activated two spells at once," Sienna sneered and watched Violet flail on the ground and her eyes caught something her brother missed, Magnus' fist had a flash of electricity on it. She was distracted enough as she missed Magnus crouch down and start talking too the Kay sisters. "Three."
"What," Lukas asked as Magnus helped the twins up and turned too the rest of the group as one man was collecting Violet.
"His fist," Sienna looked closely at his meaty bear like paws for hands then at his frame. "His fist was like a tazer, I saw what looked to be electricity flaring off of him, he dropped her in one punch, you said speed and enhancement, well now we can add electricity too his weaponry. Sounds too me our mid terms might be decided for your class."
"I can take him," Lukas grinned from ear to ear looking at Magnus. "Just you watch, today's men's senior fights will have me standing on top."
"Famous last words," Sienna smirked and watched as the Kay twins scurry off and Magnus stare down Violet and her entourage as they went inside leaving Sienna and Lukas alone with Magnus. The young man glanced over too them with a scowl on his face before walking back for his things on his motorcycle.