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Dante heard his alarms go off at midnight, but just rolled over and went back to sleep forgetting about it immediately. He woke up at 6:30 AM and made it down to breakfast at 7 AM noticing that he couldn't find any other first-form students. He approached a fourth-form human hoping they'd be friendly.
"Excuse me do you know why all of the first-form students are missing?" She looked him up and down,
"Yeah actually it's the start of school prank the upper classmen pull on the firsties. You must be the one who sealed their rooms so well even us fourth-form students couldn't get in. Good job." She was a redhead with blue eyes, and she certainly didn't look like a fighter, but Aether also trained the best healers in the realities, so what she was training for was anyone's guess.
"So should I ask or just-" She laughed.
"Anything goes for the first part and as soon as they step on their floor they'll be tied up and hanging upside down. I was almost late for class getting down that year. Nice to meetcha firstie, my name's Scarlet. What's yours?"
"My name's Dante. How high are the chances that they'll see this as a challenge to try and prank me later on in the year?"
"Zero. Your wards were insane, I actually know some of the students who were trying to break into your rooms. They're Ward experts, and they couldn't get into your rooms. They'll be after you to teach them a couple, but they'll respect you. Actually you've got the respect of most of the school, teachers included. I think someone woke the Warding professor to look at your wards. He said they were some of the best he'd seen, and that he wasn't going to break them for a prank, after that everyone just left. Want to come and eat lunch with me seeing as your class is all tied up?" Dante nodded and went to sit with her group.
"Hey guys here's the firstie whose room we couldn't break into." Her five friends stopped talking immediately, the female vampire sighed,
"Darn you're a human male. Who was the one recording what everyone bet?" She addressed this to the next table over. A gold skinned girl raised her hand and shouted back,
"Who is it?" Then a green haired guy at the table stopped the vampire,
"Wait Veronique, he doesn't look human to me. Humans don't have white hair or eyes that color of green." She shook her head,
"He's human I can smell it, his hair is probably his animagus mark. I don't know what the deal is with his eyes though. Why are your eyes that color?" She asked Dante.
"I have no idea what you're talking about, I've met other people with eyes as green as mine." She shook her head.
"You must be from Earth Reality. I've heard that some humans from Earth Reality's eyes change color when they cross over, but I've never seen any evidence of it before." The golden skinned girl had gotten up and walked over to the table,
"Alright, so you're the one with the wards huh?" Dante nodded, "Alright you're a human male which means that Ara won the bet. Here the pot was 1,150 galleons, a unicorn horn, and a phoenix feather." She passed a burlap sack to a dark haired elf. "Good job mortal. You must either have a real talent for wards or a real need for them." The djinn walked back to her table.
"I don't think I've ever seen physical objects used in a bet before." Dante commented as he sat down. The Elf explained the bets at Aether,
"That's only for the interracial bets. The vampires think its acceptable to use sex in a vampire betting pool. Humans generally bet hours of study help or enchantments. Fae bet animals and plants, goblins only bet money, Elves bet favors and sometimes true names if the stakes are very high, dwarves bet with gems, and I've never actually seen a gnome betting pool. My name's Ara, it's nice to meet you mortal," Dante nodded,
"My name's Dante. It's nice to meet you to." Ha was sitting between Scarlet and the vampire who'd spoken earlier, Veronique he thought her name was,
"You know Quicksilver brought up a good point. Why are you so good at warding? I'm in my last year and in these four years no one has ever warded their rooms tight enough to evade the first day of school prank. Where did you learn all those wards?" Dante smirked,
"My friends and guardians are all pranksters. We've had a silent prank war going on for years. I became good at warding and they progressed at pranking, until eventually they couldn't break any of my wards." The green haired boy nodded,
"That would make most people very good at warding. Watch out today, all the warding students will be after you to pick your brains. It's nice to meet you human, my name is Everett,beauty can call me Quicksilver, and the rude vampire who hasn't introduced herself is Veronique Chevalier." She snorted at him,
"You're lucky you're a fae. If you were a vampire I'd cut out your tongue for your remark Seelie." He just grinned at her,
"Moving on, the unusually quiet one over in the corner is Jared Hunter." A sandy haired boy with brown eyes smiled at Dante,
"Ignore him, he's just feeling playful because he's out of his house and away from his evil stepmother." Quicksilver's jaw dropped,
"You've met her Jared. You can't make fun of me for saying she's the worst creature in existence anymore. I can't wait until I graduate and can move out to become a Rune Master." Dante decided to ask against his better judgment,
"What's so bad about her?" Scarlet shook her head,
"Woman's a spiteful hag. Bitches at everybody all day long, moaning about how she should have been born higher up in the courts so she could've married someone respectable. As if anyone would've taken her. No offense to your dad Quicksilver, but her only redeeming quality is her cooking." Quicksilver grunted,
"It's okay. It's not like he wanted to marry her anyway. Let's talk about something more interesting. Ara who are you apprenticing under for your Mind Magics mastery?" They made small talk for the rest of the hour and then parted ways as the bell rang. He knew they had 30 minutes to get to class, but he rushed in hopes he'd avoid the warding students. As it turned out he was the first person to class.
"Mr. Black, take a seat as we wait for your other classmates." Her classroom was rather informal. Instead of desks, students sat in armchairs. Ara had told him the Headmistress required that students used a DictaQuill during her lectures.
"Yes Headmistress."
"Call me Professor, you are after all one of my students. Tell me will you need Parseltongue magic tutoring?"
"How-"
"Do I know you can speak Parseltongue Mr. Black? You have your mother's eyes Mr. Black." Dante nodded,
"I'd like tutoring, but who would tutor me? I thought that Riddle was the only other Parseltongue, and he isn't exactly someone I'd want from tutoring from." She shook her head,
"I'll ask Alexei if he can find the time to tutor you. Parseltongue used to be a common magical gift, but most of the lines ended with the witch burnings. There's probably still 10 or so in Infinitium Reality and a couple more in earth Reality. Your talent will probably score you some points with the vampires once it comes out. Which you're going to need. Welcome to class Mr. Lebeau, and Lila! You're early!" Dante tensed hoping they hadn't overheard the conversation. Lila whispered in his ear,
"Willow and I are the only ones who know. Willow because you told her back then, and I know because I know who you are. Raven's suspicious though. He'll probably confront you today or tomorrow." Dante nodded he'd already figured that she knew his old name. Remy plunked down on his other side.
"How'd you get down so fast Dante? Even Raven didn't get disentangled until breakfast was over." Dante smirked,
"You haven't heard yet? I'm the freaky firstie whose wards were impossible to break. I spent breakfast learning about the betting pools here." Remy stared at him,
"I can't believe it. No actually I can believe it, I've already noticed strange stuff happens to and around you." Dante shrugged and pointed at Headmistress who was starting the lecture.
"In order to learn Void Magic, you must first understand the Void. Can anyone tell me what the Void is? Yes Mr. Kilo."
"The Void is the space between the 12 Realities." She nodded,
"That's true, but what is it? What's it made of? What happens when you touch it? Is there anything living in it? Can sound travel through it? Why does it exist? Can anyone answer these questions?" The students shook their heads and looked around, "Well it goes back to the creation of the 12 Realities. They used to be part of one giant ever-expanding Reality, but there was a war between the angels and the fallen. After being locked in a war with the fallen for six centuries the angels came up with a weapon to obliterate the fallen, but it came at a price. The Reality would be split into several pieces and some pieces would fall into the Void. The angels cracked open the Reality, the fallen fell into the void, turning into demons and over time every reality except for Earth Reality and Infinitium Reality has crumbled into the Void. The Void isn't nothing as you've been told, it's what the humans call Hell. As you progress in Void Magic you'll be testing what you can do with the magic you harvest from the Void. In four years, if you're still here you should be able to use many forms of Void magic. Now we're going out of Aether's courtyard for this lesson, stand in the circle." Dante watched as a white circle appeared, and he stepped into it. Mer poked her head out,
We're doing this again? Fun! Dante shook his head at her, his familiar was so strange. He watched as Professor Le Fay waved her wand and felt as the ground started shaking. He saw a flash of white and when he opened his eyes he saw they were on the edges of Aether. In the distance he could see the borders of other Realities. In between the Realities was all black, the Realities looked as if they'd been ripped up from the ground with some of the earth still attached. According to Professor Le Fay these smaller Realities were remnants of the original 12 Realities. He wondered if every Reality would eventually fall into the Void, but brushed it off as impossible.
"As I said before your ability to do Void Magic depends on how much you harness from the Void. Be careful, there is a limit on how much your body can handle. If you take so much as a speck more the magic will overwhelm your body and kill you." The students looked uneasy at her words, "You'll know how much to take, otherwise no one would ever survive this class and I'd be long since dead. Watch as I harness the magic, and try to copy me." Dante saw as she reached out into the Void and grabbed at the darkness. It divided into strands and she pulled them away from the Void and fed them into her hands.
After watching her do this for a few minutes the class moved to emulate her. Dante put his hand out into the Void and felt the strands sliding past it; he grabbed a few and fed a strand into his other hand. The veins in that hand glowed purple as the magic settled in his body. He knew he'd be able to feed four more strands of 6 feet each into his magic and he grasped at them. The tricky part of the harvesting was grabbing the strands. In the void they were sliding past and when he grabbed at them some slipped out, but as soon as he pulled them across they fell limp.
He finished and faced the front to see the Headmistress was still feeding magic into herself. "As you become more accustomed to Void Magic you'll be able to put more in your magic channels. I started out with two strands, but now I could feed thousands into my magic." She waited a couple minutes for the class to finish up. "We're heading back to the school for now. It will take a day for your body to break the magic down so you can use it." Another circle appeared and the class stepped in. He saw the flash of light and felt as they entered into their classroom. "Class dismissed, I expect you all here awake and ready to learn tomorrow morning, and don't use the Void Magic until tomorrow. If you do I'll tear you up and feed you to my familiar, understood?" Dante nodded and nearly ran out the door. He had Cruor Sorcery next and it was straight across the school. On the way there he ran into Manny and Remy who were also running to Cruor Sorcery. They got just there with a few minutes to spare and collapsed into chairs next to a smirking Raven.
"What class did you have before this?"
"Potions" Manny got out between pants,
"Dark Arts" Remy answered,
"Void Magic, what'd you have?" Dante answered.
"Hand to Hand Combat, it's in the next spire over." The other three boys glared at him. "What can I say? The Headmistress must like me." Dante motioned at him to shut up and pointed. In the door came one Theodore Lebeau, Remy groaned.
"I'm going to kill him this year, I can feel it." Theodore was talking and laughing with a female vampire who was hanging off his arm. Dante wondered why she seemed so infatuated with him. "And Amelia's with him, this isn't going to go well." Contrary to Remy's expectations Theo ignored their group and sat at the front of the class talking to Amelia. He and everyone else shut up when Professor Alexei came in.
"Welcome to Cruor Sorcery class! At the request of the headmistress I've taken on a first-form class this year. Take advantage of this because unless she asks or I take a special interest in one of you I won't be repeating this." His glanced at Dante as he said this. "Now to begin with half of the deaths at Aether occur in a Cruor magic classroom who can tell me why? Mr. Lebeau!" Remy answered
"They bleed to death Sir." The professor nodded.
"Correct! If you make a mistake and end up bleeding to death in my classroom I will let you. In order to prevent this the first week we'll spend going over a set of blood runes that will prevent you from bleeding out on my floor. It is what we call a limiter, and it will send a signal to your brain when you don't have enough blood to use Cruor magic. Leave yourself a 5% margin for error. Blood runes are guided by instinct so you will know what to draw and how much power to channel into the runes. If your instinct is telling you something is wrong with your ritual, listen to it. If you don't your runes may end up faulty or impotent. Both are equally dangerous." He spent the rest of the period drawing out runes and telling them what each rune meant. Dante kept a record of which runes he had a strong connection with. He had a particularly strong connection with Sowilo. He supposed this was to be expected, as it was a rune in the shape of a lightning bolt and his old scar. By the end of the class Dante knew his ritual would be a one-piece ritual and now he had to choose a blade. "Class dismissed. Mr. Black I need to speak with you now." Dante walked over to the professor waving off his friend's worried looks.
"What do you need to speak with me about?" Dante asked.
"The Headmistress sent me a message before class started. I'm sure you know about the contents." Dante nodded, "We'll do tutoring on Saturdays after lunch if that's convenient." Dante nodded again. "Excellent! I'll see you tomorrow I'm looking forward to seeing what your ritual will look like. I believe you have Weaponry next? It's in the next tower over so you won't be late. Goodbye Mr. Black." Dante ran off to the silver tower catching up with Raven.
"What'd he want?"
"Nothing important." Raven looked at him,
"Alexei is the Head Cruor Sorcerer here and one of the oldest vampires in existence. He doesn't ask to see a student after class for 'nothing important' Dante." He shrugged.
"Let me rephrase that then. Nothing pertaining to you." Dante said with a raised eyebrow. Raven getting the message shut up and they faced the Weaponry teacher.
"Welcome to Weaponry class! I am Professor Vilkas. I will be your Weaponry teacher for the next year or until you die or until you drop the class, it's your choice." He shrugged as if to say he didn't particularly care either way, "We'll start with blades the first three months, staffs the month after that, whips are after that, then bows, then fist weapons, and blunt weapons to wrap up the year. The three years after that you'll spend with a teacher specializing in a certain kind of weapon. For example, those of you who choose fist weapons will stay with me. Today we're heading over to the weapons locker to learn how to properly take care of a blade, and so that you can choose which weapon you'll be using for the next three months. Follow me." Professor Vilkas, Dante decided, must be a werewolf. First there was the shade of amber his eyes had turned during class, and his name itself. Vilkas meant wolf, but he wasn't sure what language it meant wolf in.
The class followed the professor to a small closet. When the professor opened the doors it became obvious the closet was magically expanded. Dante ran into Aurora and Leon.
"You're in this class too? That's great I had wandless first period and I didn't recognize anybody, after that I had Experimental Potions and only Lila was there." Dante stiffened in alarm,
"You took wandless magic?" Leon shrugged,
"Yeah, I'm not really all that good at it, but the class is ridiculously easy." Raven shook his head,
"You don't understand Leon. Taking wandless at Aether sends up a red signal to every other student that you're weak. You're expected to know wandless magic before you enroll here. I'd recommend dropping that class and asking one of us to tutor you. Otherwise the other students will see you as easy prey." Leon's eyes widened in fear,
"Tell me you're just messing with me. Please tell me you're just messing with me." Dante shook his head,
"Originally I wanted to take wandless to see how much better I could get at it, but my godfather stopped me and explained what wandless at Aether meant." Leon nodded,
"Alright then, I'll go by Professor Alexei's office later today and ask if I can drop it." Dante nodded,
"I'm pretty good at it, I can help you with the basics. I don't know how good of a teacher I'd be, but I'll try." Leon nodded,
"Cho and the others said you were the best defense teacher since Lupin. Actually they said you were better than him." Dante shook his head,
"I'm not. He had some heavy restrictions for that class, but in reality he's a pretty awesome teacher." Leon shook his head,
"It still stands that they said you're a good teacher. I don't know why you're so self-depreciating, but you have lots of talents." Dante nodded,
"Thanks Leon! Now let's choose our blades." Dante ended up choosing a Flamberge sword. Professor Vilkas on seeing the sword he'd chosen said,
"That one's a specially made sword. It was designed for a lightning elemental, and once you light it up, it'll stay electric as long as you're holding it. Very nice, but it requires a bit of magic." Dante nodded and sparked the sword, "That's it, that used to be Cyrus' favorite weapon. He donated it around 20 years ago and it's rejected every lightning elemental since. Don't bother returning it, it chose you. Also I'm sure if you asked him Cyrus will give you some tips on how to handle it." Dante stared at the sword in his hand, it felt right in his hands.
"Thank you Professor!" He concentrated on turning off the electric currents, but it struggled against him trying to burst out. He made a note to ask Professor Cyrus about that later.
After lunch the next class was divination. Their teacher was a Dryad named Lilian. She had the class file in and she told them whether or not they had the gift of sight. When she got to Dante she paused,
"You have a gift, but it's blocked. As I can't remove the block I would suggest dropping the class, but you could also go see the Mind Magics professor and ask him what happened to your sight. Even if you recover your sight there's a good chance it's been seriously damaged." Dante nodded and went back to his suite to relax for the next hour. He hadn't wanted to take Divination and this was a perfect excuse to get out of that class. He looked at his schedule, after this he had Transmutation, Runes, Necromancy, Elemental, Animus Sorcery, and then Healing.
Transmutation had gone well, they were studying the rules of transmutation before actually starting on anything. Runes class was actually harder than writing blood runes. He figured this was because runes relied on logic instead of instinct. He had good instincts, but logic was a whole other ballgame. Necromancy class went over safety regulations and their professor told them to be prepared for a raising tomorrow. Elemental had been similar to Divination, he tested all of them for their ability and then assigned them to new teachers depending on which elements they were attuned to. Dante was surprisingly the only lightning elemental in the class. Cyrus on the other hand had expected this,
"It isn't a common gift mortal. Most magicals are attuned to one of the main four elements, which means I only get a few students. I'll see you tomorrow, and bring that sword with you; we'll go over some basic control exercises. Lightning elementals tend to lose control of their element easily, but to make up for it we're also the most powerful. Not that you should tell the others about that tibit." Dante nodded and ran off to animus sorcery meeting Raven and Dmitri on the way.
"Who do we have for Animus Sorcery?" Dmitri grinned,
"Professor Stella-Maris, she's a dark elf and just below Professor Cyrus on the Animus Sorcerer rankings. She only teaches first-form students, and she'll choose an apprentice based on how much raw potential they showed in first year. I'm hoping to do an Animus apprenticeship, and I've heard she's one of the best teachers to do an apprenticeship under." They fell quiet as they stepped into the classroom. Professor Stella-Maris introduced the class.
"Welcome to Animus Sorcery class! I'm Professor Stella-Maris. We'll start out with a basic Animus spell you already know. Can you guess which spell I'm speaking of?" She looked around the room, "No? It is a requirement to enter the school that you have an animagus form. The animagus form is basically a reflection of your soul. Some people can have several animagus forms, this means your soul is unusually complex. For those of you who have a second or third animagus form you haven't been able to use yet, I will offer tutoring on Sundays after breakfast. Be there or find someone else to help you. I will not allow anyone to graduate from Aether without full control of all their Animagi." She glanced at Dante as she said this. She spent the rest of the period explaining what the magicals had learnt about the soul. "Class dismissed! I'll see you all here tomorrow." Dante headed off to Healing, the last period of the day. Everyone was already there facing the school's healer. Most looked terrified of the rumored-to-be-insane djinn, she on the other hand was smiling brightly at them.
"I'm flattered that so many of you have decided to take my class. Welcome to Healing, I am Professor Danvers! I'm going to give you a questionnaire to see how far along you are in healing. Some of you may be ahead in Healing, if that is the case then I suggest you join a higher level class, or you can just drop the class." She waved a hand and a questionnaire popped in front of the students. After they finished the paper graded itself. Dante didn't miss a single question. "Anyone who got a hundred on the test may leave now. A few students including Dante got up and walked away. He decided to head back to his rooms, but to inform Professor Alexei about which classes he was dropping first.
Knock knock. Alexei wondered why a student would be knocking on his office doors now. He opened the doors,
"Dante! What brings you to my classroom now? I'm fairly sure you have a class right now."
"Healer Danvers excused everyone who got a perfect score on their test from the class. I'm here to tell you I'm dropping Divination and Healing." Alexei cocked his head to the side like a cat,
"Why are you dropping Divination? I can sense you have the sight." Dante nodded,
"I do, but according to Professor Lilian said my gift has been blocked. She said I could ask the Mind Magics professor to remove the block, but that it would probably be damaged." Professor Alexei looked troubled,
"It's nearly impossible to break or block a magical gift. I would know, I've met the few who've managed it, and generally speaking the result isn't pretty." Dante shrugged,
"My relatives tried to beat the magic out of me. How hard would they have had to try to actually break that?" Alexei shook his head,
"A magical gift is different from having magic. You can't beat the magic out of someone, they'd die. There's a ritual to drain the magic out of someone, but it kills the person and your relatives wouldn't have been able to do it anyway. They'd need to have magic to actually perform the ritual." Dante asked,
"You know who I am?"
"I taught most of the Marauders with the exception of Peter. I'd say I could recognize the child of a Marauder even if his kitsune form decided it wanted him to have white hair."
"How do you know about my animagus form?"
"A kitsune soulled human is peculiar in two main ways. One it's the only animagus mark which changes hair color, and two your magic curls around you like fox tails. I'd recommend trying to suppress your magic, but you're also a Parseltongue. Speaking of parseltongue, since you have this period free how about I tutor you this period instead?" Dante shrugged,
"Why not?" Alexei grinned,
"You should probably get your familiar for the first part. She'll be of great help." Dante uncoiled her from his torso.
Wakey wakey Mer.
What trouble can you possibly have gotten into while at school hatchling?
I'm not in trouble this time I promise.
That's what they all say. She turned to face the amused teacher. Who's he?
My name is Alexei. It's nice to meet you Mer. Mer hissed in agreement.
Another speaker? I haven't met any other speakers before and I'm fairly old.
Yes, you are rather old. As a matter of fact your kind is thought extinct.
You know what I am? Can you tell me?
I cannot tell you, but I can tell your bonded that he should look through the books of extinct dragons. He should find your particular breed there. Mer looked at Dante expectantly,
Yes I know. I'll get right on it.
It's nice to know you're good for something hatchling.
You know it wouldn't kill you to say 'thank you' right?
I am a snake.
Right, and 'Snake's do not say 'please, thank you, or sorry''.
Good you're learning. Dante had been too distracted with his familiar to notice the Professor retreat into his rooms and return with his familiar.
Dante, Mer, this is my familiar Ventus. Ventus was obviously an occamy. Although he was a little larger than most and he seemed to be a cross between phoenix and a basilisk, which Dante figured must be impossible.
Greetings Dante and Mer. It is a pleasure to meet you. Mer nodded.
Greetings Ventus. It is a pleasure to meet you as well. Dante smiled and waved,
Hi Ventus. It's nice to meet you too. Mer hissed at Dante.
Oh why do I have to do everything? Hatchling when greeted with a formal greeting, respond in kind. Dante blushed and shrugged,
It is of no importance to me youngling, but it would be wise to listen to your familiar. Ventus replied, then Alexei cut in,
Now that greetings have been exchanged let's get to the reason I brought Ventus out. Parseltongues are able to call on the power of a snake familiar in a practice called channeling. To channel Mer's power first you need to trust her implicitly. Do you? Dante thought about it and looked over at Mer. She looked over at him as if to say 'well get on with it.' He almost laughed. It had only been a few weeks, but he certainly trusted her. She had never lied to him, and her actions tended to be in her best interests or his.
With my life,
Good. Now first she needs to inject a small amount of venom to establish a connection. Mer slithered over and he allowed her to bite him with her 'mild paralytic venom'. The venom had no effect on him. You have mage sight yes? That makes this next part easier. Reach out to her and pull at her magical core. Now attach it to your own and cast a levitating spell. Dante followed the instructions and felt as the magic didn't deplete his own magical core. There now that the connection is fully established you'll be able to draw magic from her whenever both of you consent.
Awesome! But how come she can't cast magic if she has such a large magical core?
What do you mean she can't cast magic? Mer shook her head,
I can cast magic. I'm just healing from my previous injuries. Dante stared at her in shock.
I thought you were already healed.
I sleep more than 15 hours a day. How did that not ring any warning bells?
I thought all snakes slept most of the day. Professor Alexei looked at his clock.
You two should get down to your rooms. Your friends should be there soon. I'll see you in class tomorrow. Dante realizing the time said a rushed goodbye and ran to his rooms. Just as he reached the doors he heard Raven behind him.
"You're a strange human you know? Your animagus mark is white hair, your eyes are an inhuman shade of green, you have an excess of magical power, you're a double legacy, the Headmistress seems particularly interested in you, Professor Alexei is also particularly interested in you, Professor Cyrus doesn't hate you for being human, your familiar is a species of snake that as far as I know doesn't exist, and your wards are impossible for the wards apprentices to break." Dante turned around,
"What are you implying?" Raven smirked,
"You are a mystery I can't solve yet Dante Black. But I'll figure it out eventually." Dante shook his head,
"I don't know the reason for half of the things you said, so I don't know how you think you're going to figure it out."
"Simple by observation and research. The wards I already know the answer to, you're paranoid. And going by the way stuff tends to happen around you there's a good reason for it. I'll figure out the rest in time. Worry not, I have no other deeper intentions besides solving a mystery." Dante snorted,
"You're a regular Sherlock Holmes Raven. I don't know why you didn't decide to change your name to that actually. Speaking of names I think I met your sister at breakfast this morning." Raven nodded,
"She mentioned you briefly when I went to sit with her at lunch."
"So that's where you went. Remy said you were tied up, so we figured you'd fallen victim to another prank." Raven glowered at him.
"Real funny mortal. I'm dying of laughter on the inside. Now let's head inside, I'm tired of standing out here," Dante opened the door and they walked inside. Dante was glad Raven hadn't figured out who he was yet. He didn't want to be Harry Potter, the boy-who-lived, any more. He wanted to be Dante Black, the Aether student.
Raven's going to be the first one to figure out who Dante was, but I'm serious when I say that Harry Potter and Dante Black are different people. I'll be away for a couple days so my next update should be on Sunday or Monday.