Chandra looked around, "Well this is certainly interesting. We ended up sharing a room, Zombie lover."
"We did, you useless Pyro," Lilianna sighed. She glanced out the window. Jace was leaving the boys dorm building and not doubt going to the library. Two days had passed since orientation. They had now officially started school. Lilianna sighed.
"You seem bored," Chandra glanced at her.
"Am I supposed to be excited?" Lilianna asked dryly.
"I don't know. That's up to you. I'm going out."
"Alright," Lilianna nodded. She watched the redhead slip out the door and then looked out the window. Chandra successfully got out of the building and up and over the wall that separated the grounds from the city. The wall wasn't high nor was it hard to climb. She however had no interest in finding out for herself how hard the wall was to climb. She moved everything in the room off to the sides and opened a drawer in her dresser. Inside she found the book she'd been looking for. Let's make life a little more interesting. It shouldn't be too hard. I've spent a lot of the past two days preparing for this. She opened the book to the marked page. She followed the instructions to the summoning spell exactly. If one mistake was made the caster was consumed by whatever force they summoned. The more powerful the force the more likely a poor outcome was. Lilianna however was a different kind of caster. The spell would be difficult but her abilities as a planeswalker, though they were dormant and useless on this world, would make it impossible for anything here to consume her. It was a convenient little loophole she was more than willing to exploit to make life more interesting.
"Who dares call me?"
"Xerxes," Lilianna smirked, "The son of the last emperor of Mikirra. Your sister was chosen as heir over you was she not?"
"That is in the past planeswalker!" Xerxes roared angrily.
"Well I have an offer to make. I have summoned you here and that would technically mean you'd have to do as I bid you correct?"
"I will follow no one's orders. I should consume you where you stand."
Lilianna leaned back leisurely, "Ah but you can't can you? Planeswalkers are foreign beings. The last planeswalker that this world gave spawn to was Kaious correct? The demigod?"
"What of it necromancer?"
"Well here's the thing. I don't want this coming back to bite me. With your consent of course I'm going to use my power to bring your physical form into this world and then I'm going to cut you loose. On the grounds that I am not your target. There's plenty of interesting people I'm sure you'll love to torment."
"Oh really? All to avoid being found out? But why would you care? The rules don't apply to you correct?"
"Correct but I have larger matters that I cannot attend to alone and I don't want a single crack in the relatively good reputation that I have spent way too much effort building up." Lilianna rolled her eyes. Idiot.
"And all you want in return for my ticket into the material world is for me to keep my lips sealed?"
"And to come to the school I'm going to at the moment," Lilianna nodded, "but otherwise that is it."
"Then you have a deal necromancer."
"Perfect." Lilianna smirked. Let's see who can and can't tangle with a demon. She brought his physical form into the world. He appeared to be around seventeen and was extremely handsome. Lilianna was suddenly very glad she had long since learned to ignore her feelings. He was very pretty but only had the goal of being the most powerful being in the realms that surrounded this world. She didn't doubt that he would use whoever he could to get there. "Well that's all. Have fun. But remember that if you slip up on your side of the deal I can and will tighten my hold over you," Lilianna warned.
"I thought you said you'd cut my chains," Xerxes smirked. His amber colored eyes studied her in amusement.
"It's the terms of our contract. If you break your side of the deal the hold will automatically tighten," Lilianna smirked, "I added that little detail in."
"Ah," Xerxes nodded. He turned and started to walk away, "I look forward to meeting that redheaded roommate of yours."
"You're welcome too her," Lilianna smirked. The door closed behind him. Lilianna shook her head, "If you think you can win that one over your in for a big surprise."
Chandra yawned and opened the bedroom door. Lilianna was lying on her side staring out the window, "Good morning. It took you long enough to get back."
"Meh," Chandra shrugged, "I slept at the hotel before coming back so it's not like I was awake all night." She flopped onto the bed, "We have to be in class in forty five minutes."
Lilianna nodded. She sat up and looked at Chandra, "Do you think something's wrong with Jace?"
"Me?" Chandra asked, "Well yeah."
"Then why haven't you done anything about it?" Lilianna snapped, "Since you seem to be oh so invested in all of us."
"What the hell does that mean?" Chandra snapped, "Just because I'm tired of you guys not working through your problems does not mean I'm-"
"But you are. You're micromanaging everybody. Do you really have the right to do that now that you're 15?" Lilianna asked.
"Do you have the right to-"
Both of them jumped as the door was pounded on.
"Be quiet!"
Chandra gritted her teeth, "Make me O Great Student Council President!"
Lilianna snickered, "Go take a nap Claire. This doesn't have anything to do with you."
"Seriously? As Student-"
"Yeah, yeah," Chandra rolled her eyes, "We get it. You're deserving of respect and everything else but who cares?"
"You should," Clair snapped.
"Yeah? Well I don't. Sorry," Chandra flopped onto her bed.
"We have new students today! I heard that they're both boys and that one of them is seen around town pretty often!"
"Jenny," Chandra said. Her head was resting on the table in the only room on the bottom floor of the dorm, "I don't think anyone cares. Okay?"
"Oh. Okay." Jenny sighed and sat down. Suddenly she leaped to her feet causing everyone around her to jump in surprise. "Guess what?!"
"What?" Lilianna asked. She kept her tone neutral to seem like she was listening.
"Apparently Jace and Ral got into a fight last night! According to Onyx Jace divided the room in half and-"
"How the hell do you know this?" Chandra asked. She glanced at Jenny, "You haven't even left the girls' dorm building. How would you know?"
"Well I heard this from Erin."
"He did stop by with snacks," Lotus said. Her real name was Tina but it was difficult for Chandra to think of the now older girl as anything but the Black Lotus Assassin she was. Of course there wasn't much if any difference between Tina and Lotus.
"Hm," Chandra nodded, "Yeah I guess."
"The two of them apparently aren't going to be in class because they're in trouble," Jenny finished.
"That's not much of a punishment," Chandra paused before continuing, "for either of them."
"Ral will just play video games all day and Jace'll read," Lilianna shrugged.
Chandra sighed, "Or decide to go to class anyway just to spite them."
"I doubt it. He may have picked a few things up from you but he's too proud to pick up your stupidity," Lilianna snapped.
Chandra glared at her.
"No fighting in the dorm unless you want to be confined to a room."
"Thanks for the reminder President," Chandra muttered in sarcastic appreciation.
Claire gritted her teeth, "By the way red is not a color that is supported by the school. And nowhere in the dress code does it say that you can wear shorts that are visibly longer than your skirt."
"Go bitch to somebody else," Chandra fixed her Hispanic upperclassmen with a scathing look, "I'm not in the mood for you at the moment."
"Red is a much more interesting color than white or black and it's not like it's terribly visible. They're just gloves. Relax. Worry more about yourself," Lilianna said as she flipped up the back of Claire's skirt, "and the fact that pink is not in the dress code either, than what others are doing around you."
"That was uncalled for!" Claire whirled around to face her. Her eyes glittered with hateful rage, "It doesn't matter what color your underclothes are because they aren't supposed to be visible!"
"Oh sorry," Lilianna sneered, "It just seemed fair. You can barely see the Pyro Dumbass's shorts or her gloves and with how short your skirt is anyone that wanted to put a little effort in could see your underwear."
Claire hissed, "There was no need for that. And insulting another-"
"Lay off. The Bitch of Diamonds and I do this all the time," Chandra patted Claire on the shoulder as she walked past, "Try relaxing a little. It might get you somewhere sometime." She could feel the Student Council Presidents glare at her back as she walked out the door of the dorm building. There was ten minutes until classes started so she had the time to meander towards the main building. Jace would either be in his room or the library while Ral played video games in the room. Technology like the Playstation was not technically allowed into the dorms. Though apparently the rules didn't apply to any of them because Ral was not the first one to have a Playstation hidden in his room. Chandra sat in her first class and stared out the window. She sighed, "There's so much to do."
The teacher, Mrs. Hills, was writing on the whiteboard at the moment. Her first class was a first year math class. Chandra hated math. She wasn't very good at it and didn't see any point in it anyway. Her estimation capabilities amounted to "later" or "really far away" and that was as good as she got with math.
The general student body knew of the existence of "nonhuman entities" as they were called. Chandra just thought of them as monsters because it was easier that way. Speaking of nonhuman. I still haven't found any leads on any possible espers. I would think that's a good thing. It means that they more than likely don't exist but I can't be comfortable with just that. I need to know if they do exist or not. I could probably ask Jace for information on espers but he doesn't even know that his pieces existed.
"Good morning my beautiful students. How are we today?" Mrs. Hills was jolly as ever as she started class. The woman's eternal optimism and perpetually happy and childlike attitude drove almost every crazy. But she was one of the student body's favorite teachers because of it. She was a descendant of a creature from the positive reflection of the world giving her an aura of positivity and happiness that was almost contagious.
"We're alright, Mrs." most of the students responded almost in unison.
"We have a new student today. His name is Caedrus. Everyone say hello Caedrus." Mrs. Hills turned to the door, "Hey. Come on in."
Chandra recognized Lotus' boyfriend, male best friend. Their relationship was complicated and she didn't really care for the specifics of it. He appeared to be either Hispanic or Indo-Aryan. Chandra couldn't tell nor did she care. His appearance made no difference to her. His dark hair was curly but cut short and his silvery grey eyes studied everyone in the room calmly.
"Hi Caedrus," everyone said.
Chandra remained silent and turned her attention back to the window. I'm so moody but I really don't feel like indulging Mrs. Hills at the moment. Chandra heard a lot about the other new kid whose name was apparently Xerxes. Apparently he was astonishingly handsome and officially had every girl in the school fawning over him.
"That's him!" A girl in her science class squealed as a young man went walking past the door of the room. Chandra looked him over carefully, "Oh." His blond hair was somewhat messy but looked like it was purposefully made to look that way. She couldn't see his face so she couldn't base any piece of her opinion of him on his expression. Everything about him seemed very regal and somehow untouchable. His uniform was very neat and tidy and he walked with an air of overconfidence. Chandra's eyes narrowed. I can feel his condescending superiority complex from here. Jeez.
"Isn't he cute?"
"Sure," Chandra shrugged, "I'm not the biggest fan of blondes but I guess he's alright. He's not top of my list though." Let's not set off fangril rage. I don't feel like getting into a fight.
"Who is at the top of your list?"
"A fictional character," Chandra lied. She didn't expect the girl to believe her since she was being sarcastic but the girl started berating her with questions. "Well-uh..." Chandra shrugged, "I was just kidding. I was being sarcastic."
"Oh. Who then?"
"I don't know. I don't like people."
"You don't? But you're always so approachable."
"I was kidding," Chandra was beginning to think this girl didn't know how to read body language or what sarcasm was in general.
"Oh."
"I don't have much of a list though," Chandra shrugged. I've never bothered making a list before. Why would I? It's not like I need anyone to rely on.
"Oh."
Chandra rolled her eyes. Finally the bell rang for lunch. She sighed, "School sucks. This is stupid. It's just getting in the way." I can't help but wonder what the others are doing while the four of us are at school. We don't even get the chance to go home after the school day.
"Hey Chandra!"
"Hey Michael. David," Chandra sighed. THESE TWO! She shoved Michael back into David. The two ended up falling down. She stood over them, "That's for annoying me." She held out her hands to help them up, "Anyway what did you guys want?"
"Well it appears that one of Jenny's friends invited the creepy new kid to sit with us," Michael shrugged.
"Great. Which of Jenny's friends? She's friends with everyone," Chandra cocked her head to the side. Meeting him would certainly be interesting. AND I'll be able to lash out at him without much in the way of resistance if I want to. Of course there's his fangirl following but that doesn't matter. "What's he like?"
"Well, he's definitely confident," Michael sounded uneasy.
"Uh-huh? And what's wrong with that?" Chandra asked.
"He's kind of a manipulative jerk," David said.
"Here manipulative is a warning flag that he's something a little worse than outward appearances," Chandra muttered. And I wouldn't be shocked if he were something entirely unpleasant. But there are normal humans that are confident, charismatic and completely self-centered. "Do you think he's human?"
"The problem is we don't know," Michael said, "If he's not human then someone had to have summoned him. But if he was summoned then the summoner is dead or never created a contract."
"And you guys are here without a contract aren't you?" Chandra pointed out sharply.
"Well yeah," David shook his head, "But for us it's different. We were sent to this world before a summoner was required to pass through the gates that divided this world from ours."
"Alright. So he wasn't here before now but there's no sign of a contract between the summoner that would have brought him and him."
David nodded, "Yes."
Chandra nodded, "Then I'll test him out."
"That may not be the best idea," Michael warned.
"I can handle it. Are Jace and Ral allowed out for lunch?"
"They should be," David nodded.
"Okay," Chandra nodded.