I might not get the chance to explain this unless I rewrite some things, but sprites and spirits are different. Spirits are immortal and powerful that can be seen by mortals. Sprites can die after a a century or two and can grow small, also has less power then their ruling spirit, and can't be seen by mortals. There's your explanation, on to the story!


The trapped student hangs over the group of students about 20 feet high, and all eyes are on the foolish one to come in late. The student tries to hold her skirt up and hiding her embarrassment from her face. However, her highlights turned a light green to show that she's definitely feeling embarrassed from the unwanted attention. "Kai! What's your excuse for being late for my class?!" Coach Cernunnos tells from across the arena and stares down the student hanging upside down by her ankles. "You know it's always set up."

"Ms. King forgot about the time and Mr. Drago needed help with his lizards." Kai tries her best to talk, but the blood flowing to her brain is now starting to have an effect. "Now that I've given a legitimate excuse, may I come down?" Coach Cernunnos sighs while pointing at Eros to go help her. Eros grabs a bow and arrow, and gets closer to the hung form of Kai. He takes aim at the hair thin line around her ankles and lets the arrow fly without even taking a second to think about it. The arrow gives a clean cut through the rope and Kai starts her fast descend to the ground. Eros sticks out his arms and easily catches her before she crashes to the floor. "Thanks Eros." She smiles softly and he helps her stand as the blood returns to her feet.

Everyone turns their attention back to the coach and now can start their lessons. Cernunnos goes back to the advanced students and Kai gets suit up in the training armour like everyone else. Kai stands with the beginners and starts to practice he stance when she drops the heavy sword. Some of the students laughed, but she paid them no mind and picked it up to resume her practice.

Jack, Flora and Veles stood separate of the two groups as Eros instructed and waited for Cernunnos to finish with the lesson and assign them to groups. Cernunnos finished without problems and went to the three new comers, "You must be the new kids. I'll give you the introduction I gave your classmates. This class is not like any class you'll ever be in, there are students who have died because of this class and that's because they didn't follow the strict rules." He points at the armour they're wearing, "This armour is yet to be activated since it is only practice and there's no fighting; however when in a match or a spar it will and the armour is even stronger then diamond if you put enough energy into it. Right now it's not taking any energy so it's just regular armour, but the more powerful you are and a high ability to concentrate, this armour will become yours and grow stronger as you advanced." Cernunnos takes out his swords and points at the three of them, "Now, who wants to be the first to verse me." The three of them all mirrored each others expression of disbelief. Cernunnos smirks at their reaction, "Well, who's first? How am I suppose to know your raw skill without even experiencing it for myself? Come on, draw your sword and face me."

Veles takes a step forward and unsheathes his sword. The sword fits perfectly in his hand and he feels like it's an old friend that has been long forgotten. Cernunnos eyes the fall spirit carefully and makes mental notes of every step Veles takes with the sword in his hand. Cernunnos leads Veles to the sparring area, and they both take a stance to start.

All the students in the arena stops to watch the spar between the two as a bell rings and both charge with swords pointed to the heart. Cernunnos starts with an attack quickly, aiming for the opening in Veles' chest plate, but Veles blocks at equal speed and makes it so that Cernunnos loses his grip a bit and Veles sees the chance of winning by getting Cernunnos to be unarmed. In that moment Cernunnos lost his grip does Veles acts and moves his sword in a way that it has Cernunnos to lose more grip and have the sword fly from his hands and land perfectly on the dirt.

All of the old students have shock written all over. For Cernunnos to have his sword taking from him takes great skill when he's not 100% in it, even Cernunnos was surprised. "You have some skill. Looks like I have to get a bit more serious." Cernunnos picks up his sword and turns back to Veles with a proud smile. "So what's your name, boy?" He charges again and Veles meets his blade to have metal sparking one another. Cernunnos pushes Veles back, and he slides to a stop while blocking in time to see the next attack.

They went at it for a while, the whole time Veles is easily defending himself from Coach's attacks. It's to the point were Veles can now guess his opponent's next moves, and finally he starts his counter attack. Cernunnos did not see this coming and in a few seconds the sword flies again and Veles points his blade to the antlered man's neck. "It's my win." Veles withdraws his sword and sheathes it back effortlessly. "My name is Veles Harvest. It's an honour to have a match with you."

Cernunnos gives Veles a pat on his shoulder. "Veles, it's been a while since I had a student as skilled as you. Have you former experience with a sword?" Veles shakes his head, none of his memories showing how he has the skills of a trained fighter. "You sure? You seem pretty well trained." Veles shakes his head again and they left it at that.

Coach assigns Veles to go with the advanced class and turns back to the last two. "Now, it's your turn." Both Flora and Jack feel uncertain, and swallow a lump that formed in their throats.


Classical Defense ends, somewhat smoothly. Flora and Jack got their butts handed to them ten-fold, so they got placed in the beginners. Their arms are sore from holding the sword and learning to slash properly, and basic stances made their bodies feel stiff. Veles, however, felt none of the pain they complained about. It surprised him that his body is able to move on its own, like he's been with a sword his whole life. The question of who he was grows stronger every time his hands grab hold of the hilt. But he soon forgot about it once his hands left the hilt and placed back into place.

Eros greets them after they got changed and they started to head over to their next block. Lunch time in the mess room.

Lunch, like any other school, is a jungle. The three seasons stood there not sure what to do. Eros left to talk to someone and says to go find a table and maybe try some food. Immortals didn't need to eat, and some did just so they can taste the food, they didn't need the nutrients in the food to survive. There were some students eating, but it was a little portion of food, while others either talked, studied or boasted about what they did in the past. They decided to find an empty table, and sees one in the middle of the room with only one girl sitting there with a tray full of food. It's easy to spot her since she's the only one with the same grey uniform they were given at the beginning and the light above her easily illuminated the shades of black and blue in her hair.

Kai sits alone in a small table that could easily seat five, but no one paid her any attention and she never showed any interest for the others around her. Earphones plugged in to the visible Brownie on the table, it was like she was in her own peaceful little world. That was until one of the stuck up students comes in with a sneer on his face, "Kai, you sure you don't need any help with you're SS exam? You could barley even lift the sword today." Seth sits down in front of her and she doesn't even move, nor looked up to see who was talking. The response annoyed Seth and he slammed the table with a big fist, "Hey I'm talking to you Halfling!" But Kai continued to eat her pasta as if nothing happened, but Seth wouldn't be ignored. He takes her tray and pushed it off the side, onto the floor with a loud crash. It got everyone in the room to shut up and turn to the middle table to watch what'll happen. "You shouldn't be too cocky you Halfling! I'm offering you help and yet you ignore me!"

Wilson comes in to try and calm the situation, "Seth, there's no point in talking to this person. She'll never pass it even with your help. She shouldn't even be here." He grabs Seth's shoulder to move him away.

But Seth exploded, "Don't touch me old man, stay out of situations that have nothing to do with you." And flames start to comes out of his hands. "You should get out of here while you still can." Wilson retaliates with snow covering the area he stood at.

Andrew comes in between the two sprites and pushed them back with his wind, "I thought we had an agreement to not start a fight unless it was in the gym? And if you two are blind, we are in the middle of the mess hall."

"I don't think it's a good idea for you to step in either." Spyro walks up to the three boys, his voice big for someone who's so small. "Just drop it and walk away."

"I'm not gonna listen to you, Spyro." Seth hissed and turned his attention back to Kai still sitting there, earphones still in as she tapped out the beat. "Besides, I have some unfinished business with this Halfling." He grabs her arm and pulls her up to her feet, raising a flamed fist towards her. "I want you to apologize to me."

Kai shows a bored expression on her face as she pulls out one earphone, "For what? You're the one that threw my lunch on the ground. And you should already know, but I do need to eat. Unlike you." Her voice came out strong and full of authority; she wasn't at all scared of the flame just inches from her face, ready to burn anything it touched. "There's no reason for this anyway. You just want something to burn."

Seth extinguished his hand and used both to grab the front of her shirt. "Know your place, you can't even cast a single spell, let alone hold a sword. You're just dead meat with the ability to live longer than normal mortals." Both hands were now engulfed in flames and burns the front of her shirt. She falls to the ground hard on a broken plate shard that goes through her shoulder while Seth already gets ready to attack, "No one's gonna help you out of this one." Seth nods to the other members nods and each take a step forward. "We're all sick of you being here, thinking you're all that. Don't worry, we'll make your death painless."

The three seasons look around to see no one else moving in to stop this. Without a second to lose, they moved to covered the small girl from the four guys. The bystanders gasped as the four fly back and the three stood upright in front of the fallen girl. "There's no need to gain up against one girl who's a pacifist." Jack had amusement in his voice, but his eyes shone with anger as he aimed his staff at the four on the ground.

"And really, hurting a girl? You have no shame do you?" Flora's necklace shone as the roots from the plants start to move in the direction of their enemies, while Veles stands there with the wind picking up and getting ready to act as backup.

Silence covered the mess hall as the four stood up and had a stare off with the three spirits. Of course no one knows that they're the season spirits, so the four trouble students were in for a big surprise.

Before anyone could even move, the doors open to let in the Ancients, a group of students who hold more power of the lesser gods and still decide to take lessons. A group of five immortals come in, each extremely beautiful creatures that gave off an extremely powerful aura falling to the beat of their heart. They stopped at the scene in front of them and saw the blood on the ground from the bloody wound on Kai's back. Eros was behind the other four and shoved his way past them, worry written all over his face, "What's going on here?" No one answered and he asks again, holding both anger and power in his tone when he spoke to the room. "What happened here." It wasn't a question, it was a command for the answer.

No one moved, too scarred to answer the young god. Kai and the other Ancients looked unaffected about his anger and the Ancients look calmly at Kai standing there, holding her wound to stop the bleeding in some way. Kai sighs as she reads the eyes of the other gods and starts to speak in a language that died a couple millenniums ago. (Good thing for you readers, you have a universal translator for every language, beside animal, so you can get the dialog. Italics are another language, and some characters won't be able to understand the speaker.) "Eros, calm down. It is just the usual. Leave them alone." Kai's words came out like a song, the words were smooth and sounded like no other spoken language before. Everyone, minus Kai and the Ancients, couldn't understand the alien tongue and people were shocked to see that Eros actually seemed to listen and understand the Halfling, giving her the respect the other students never gave her.

Eros took a couple seconds to calm himself before turning to Kai, "Fine, but are you alight?"

"Just a scratch. You know I had worst." Kai shrugs, resulting in more blood to gush out. Without a second thought, she walks off and out of the room, ignoring Eros and his pleas for her to come back.

The Ancients turned to the other students, "Ok, show's over. Get back to what you were doing." And without hesitation, the students listened and the room filled with chatter again. Soon both the group of trouble and Ancients went their separate ways, leaving the three season spirits and Eros in the same spot.

Eros lets out a heavy sigh and brushes some stray blonde hair out of his face. "What a mess. Are you guys ok?" The seasons nod their head, still speechless, "You must have a lot of questions. Why don't we go somewhere else so we can talk?"

They go out a pair of doors with leaves and flowers decorating the wood, and enter a courtyard covered in every inch a plant. There's different areas with different biomes, but if you quickly look around, it was practically a smaller Earth, with all things natural all in one area. Every plant known to man was in the courtyard growing, even some that were extinct or has yet to be discovered by scientists. There was even animals around, all in harmony and staying in their respected areas. Each staying as if they don't even see any other landscape.

It was quiet, well as quiet as it would be without a mortal or immortal in sight but them. Flora was a the first to break the silence as they all sat on the ground in the prairies. "First things first, why were they picking on Kai and calling her a Halfling?"

Eros let out a sigh, and brushes his bangs out of his eyes again. "It's not a secret to anyone that Kai is," he pause, looking for the right word, "special. She's immortal yes, but she has some aspects of mortals like the need to eat and the need to sleep. Right now, she's the only one and everyone calls her a Halfling since she's immortal and mortal. She's also able to be seen by mortals, so it's hard for her. The closes name I know for Halflings are Vampires, but Kai doesn't drink blood."

Veles takes out the next question. "What about that language? I've never heard anything like it. And I've been around the world a lot."

"It's an ancient language. There's not even a name in English for it; since it was never written, it will never be discovered." Eros now gets this distance look in his eyes as be counties to speak, "It's kind of my native tongue. And the Aesir know it to."

"I guess final question is, how does Kai know it?" Jack cut in, remembering the fact that not every student understands old languages.

Without even a hesitation Eros gives him an answer, "There're lessons on forgotten languages that are outside of the class schedule that anyone is allowed to join. Not many do since most of them are dead and there's no need for it, so there only a couple students actually willing to learn. If you still want to know more about her, I suggest that you talk to her when you have the time." The bell rang again and they all went to their next class, Alchemy 101.


The school day is now over and the students are sent free to what they want to do till it's time to go to their rooms at night. Veles, Flora and Jack wait at a table in the mess hall for Eros to come back, stating that he needs to go talk with some people. They decided to do the assigned homework from Alchemy 101 and Works in Translation class as well as get to know one another.

However, they were interrupted by three of the four people they never want to be around. Wilson, Andrew and Spyro surrounds their table and each holds a sinister smile. "You guys are the new kids, right? Obviously since we haven't seen you here before." Spyro starts, and he takes in every detail of Flora's body, "And I defiantly would have noticed you." Flora backs away and instinctually grabs Veles' hand to calm herself.

Veles stands up and looms over Spyro. "I don't want to be rude or anything, but it's not very nice to place women as if they are shows for entertainment. So I suggest you stop."

Wilson steps in before Spyro could talk. "We're not here to start anything. We actually want to ask for your help."

The air turns cold now as Jack takes hold of his staff. "What do you want help with?"

With that Wilson's face cracked a cold smile. "I'm so glad you ask my fellow winter sprite. Or should I say spirit." Flora, Jack and Veles instantly knew that they've been found out; and there was more that Wilson had planned.


Sorry this took a while. I got distracted and planned on posting yesterday, but things happen. Now I have something to say, for a trail period I decided to post this story on Monday since I noticed last time I gained a lot of viewers. It could just be a coincidence so I'm making a test. Leave a review on your take on me changing the release date. See you next Monday!