Toriel knocked on Falmercia's door. She could hear a loud sigh from the other side.
"Come in, Tor." It hadn't taken long for Falmercia to get tired of calling Toriel by her titles and even her name, and had settled for the shortest nickname the demon could think of.
Toriel didn't mind, although the tales that she had heard from the others didn't paint Falmercia in a good light, the demon reminded her of a typical tired college student; only doing the absolute minimum effort to survive because they had burned out after the first semester.
Not exactly the most sinister image. Besides, monster kind did owe the demon a lot all things considered. Even if the demon only did what she did for self-betterment.
Toriel entered the room and immediately squinted in an attempt to see through the darkness. Falmercia's room didn't have much in it; no desks, chairs, dressers and no lights, only a single queen-sized bed.
The bed itself was a mess of blankets and pillows, and Toriel had no doubt that it had never been made. When Toriel approached the bed, Falmercia drowsily popped her head out from one of the blankets.
"What?" She asked, obviously annoyed that Toriel had disturbed her.
Toriel braced herself, "I would appreciate if you reconsider my request that you-"
"I'm not going to teach soul magic for you. A job is too much work." Falmercia cut her off. This wasn't anywhere near the first time that Toriel had made this request, and this time she was ready and had a plan. This time, she was not going to take 'no' for an answer.
"I have spoken with the school, you would only have to teach a class for one hour at a time, three times a week." Toriel said calmly. Falmercia groaned. "and as I have told you before, you would get paid rather well."
Falmercia rolled her eyes, "And as I have told you before, demons don't value money. I'd have no use for it, even with this 'online shopping', spending it is too much effort."
Toriel felt a smirk creeping on her face, time to use her trump card, "I heard from Papyrus that you get bored on occasion." Falmercia froze, and her eyes widened. Toriel paused to see if Falmercia would try to deny it, but she only lowered her head.
"Stupid broken chain." She muttered. Toriel raised an eyebrow, what was she talking about? Oh well.
She continued, "If you take the job, I will install a new television in your room for you," That got Falmercia's attention, "And I'll pay for MTTflix for you as long as you keep the job."
"Hey mortals, I'm here because I'm contractually obliged to teach this class Soul magic as part of this school's new magic curriculum." Falmercia said walking into her classroom. 'Damn Toriel' she thought, before scanning the classroom.
As she expected, Gaster had taken a seat closer to the front, Sans sitting next to him. She figured the third monster scientist mustn't be here because the humans had insisted that at least one person was manning the CORE at a time, under the false belief that it was unstable like their own nuclear power-plants. She figured that Sans and Gaster would attempt to teach Alphys what they had learnt themselves as time goes on and she inwardly groaned.
'That's going to be a nightmare of a mess that I will have to clean up.'
Falmercia was slightly surprized to see a few other monsters scattered amongst the crowd, the only one she recognised being Madjick. The rest of her students were humans of varying ages from some being very young to others being older – for humans, that was.
"Let me introduce myself. I'm Falmercia, I'm a demon; more specifically, a sloth demon. I am the embodiment of the sin of false mercy; which is a fancy way of saying 'cheating'. So, if any of you in the future want to try and cheat in my class; go ahead, knock yourselves out, I won't penalize you for it, you're the ones that supposedly want to learn here." Falmercia felt a small amount of achievement when she saw the shocked looks on faces of the students that hadn't met her before.
"But miss! That's against the school's policy!" One of the younger students cried.
Falmercia smirked, "You'll find that my class doesn't follow a lot of the school's policies. There has never been an accurate Soul magic class in the history of mortals before, and I'm the only one qualified that's willing to teach it, which basically means one thing; my class, my rules."
Students started exchanging glances and Falmercia continued, "Unlike the rest of your classes, there will be no essays used in examination, tests will only ever be in the form of questions and practical examinations, both of which will go to separate marks in your final results.
"I'm not going to lie to you, Soul magic is the most advanced kind of magic that mortals have ever come in contact with, and not everyone here is going to be capable of using it, in fact, I predict that only 20% of you will, and NO, a mortal's ability to use soul magic is not effected by whether they are a monster or a human, can anyone guess why?" Falmercia scanned and saw a single hand raised, and nodded in their direction.
It was an old lady with glasses that answered, "Would that be because soul magic is the natural magic of demons, similar to how DETERMINATION is the natural 'magic' of humans, and as a consequence both humans and monsters are equally disadvantaged?"
Falmercia nodded, glad that she didn't have to teach everyone in this room from complete scratch, "That's correct, soul magic is the natural magic of demons. You mortals will never be as skilled at soul magic as a demon will be, because we are all created with a complete understanding of the art. Although, there is a rare case where you might be able to overpower a demon with soul magic, however, I will get back to that later on."
Falmercia caught Sans raising a non-existent eyebrow at her, but she chose to ignore it. "One last thing before I move on to regular content; they call me a sloth demon for a reason, it's already too much effort for me to tell you once, so listen carefully, because I'm not going to repeat myself. And make friends with your fellow students, because they're the only ones that will save you if you miss a lesson."
