"Hahaha!" Momonoki-sensei burst out laughing, as her students observed her in shock. "I must say, you've been a bigger challenge than I've anticipated. However, don't get cocky, student." She hissed those words with a sneer. "You are still just a student and won't be able to defeat me."
"That's where you are wrong sensei," Caim bravely stood up to the angry teacher. "I am not just a studnet, I am a member of the Abnormal Pack!" As his announcement echoed on the walls of the room, stunning everyone in it, a wall of ice burst before Caim, shielding him and the students behind him. "What are you waiting for?! Get going!" He turned around to snap at the first years who had stopped frozen in shock at the scene before them.
"Yes, Caim-sempai!" His kohai exclaimed, eyes sparkling with newly gained respect.
"It looks like we got here in time," Kerori exclaimed, before turning to gllare at the two kohai on her team. They shivered under the glare and straightened up in respect. At the beginning, they were roudy and unrespectful, but they got under control after Kerori... taught them a lesson. "Stay back and protect the students ooverloading the device! We need to defeat the S.O.S mission!"
"Yes, ma'am!" Both of them answered at the same time, saluting before doing as she ordered.
"Do you believe that simply because you are two you can defeat me?!" Momonoki-sensei yelled at them, throwing a powerful bolt of electricity towards the ice wall. However, it got sent back by a powerful kick. "W-what?"
"What about three?" IX landed beside her packmates, standing tall and proud.
"That kick! It can't be!" Momonoki-sensei exclaimed, turning to a proudly smiling Opera.
"It is not Opera-dono's kick, I don't believe I can achieve that yet... but soon," IX announced, reading herself to attack. "But I've trained under him during the summer and have learned so much from him, do you want to know?"
IX did not wait for an answer and threw herself at her teacher with a powerful punch. Normally, a student won't be able to match a teacher physically, but this was one trained under the strongest hand-to-hand combat fighter. It did help that Momonoki-sensei was a long distance specialized fighter. Kick after kick, punch after punch, Momonoki-sensei received the same damage she had inflicted on Caim and doubled. No matter what spell she threw at IX, it bended around her and even sometimes joined her in an attack against Momonoki-sensei.
"H-how is this possible?" Momonoki-sensei stuttered as she clunched her stomach, barely able to keep standing up.
"My blood skill doesn't only work with people," IX smiled wickedly at her teacher. The poise and grace she was showing off was not something she used to possess, this was the confidence of a warrior. "Leid and I decided that we wanted to surprise people, show them that if you use your bloodline magic with ingenuity anything is possible. Even bending others magic so it has the desire to please me. Incredible... don't you think sensei?"
Momonoki-sensei stared at her students in stunned silence, she was trembling and did not know if it was out of anger or... fear. Since when did our students become so vicious? How is it that they can be this intimidating as second years?! They should be only students!
... But they are not.
They are a pack.
That's what we did not take into account when building this test... and now we are paying for that.
"Sensei, I used to like you, your lessons were fun," Kerori started, with an icy gaze as she looked down on Momonoki-sensei- a look that had the teacher shivering.
"Used to?" Momonoki-sensei chuckled.
"Yes, used to," Kerori answered coldly. "Until the moment you decided to lay your hands on my packmate," Kerori smiled with cruelty. "But it does not matter now, after all my intended will take care of you."
"What?" Momonoki-sensei stared at her student in shock. Did she just threaten her? "Ku!" She coughed blood as a lance pierced through her body. "Im-impossible..."
"Did you not hear sensei?" Sabro asked her slyly from behind. "We love making the impossible real." He suddenly jumped away as Blushenko-sensei appeared from behind him. "It's been a while sensei!" Sabro smiled brightly at Blushenko-sensei, as he landed next to Kerori. As if he had not just run his sensei through with a lance. "How have you been? Missed me?"
"It seems that we have sorely miscalculated this," Blushenko-sensei said somberly, as he teleported Momonoki-sensei away. "You've gotten better," he praised sabro. "Made sure not to pierce any vital organ, but still made it as painful as possible. Why?"
"Why did we hurt her like that?" IX innquired, titling her head in an enticing way.
"Why are we angry?" Kerori continued, summoning her familiars.
"Why did we go so far?" Sabro smiled, crafting various shields behind the ice wall to protect every kohai.
"As I told Momonoki-sensei before," Caim finally spoke up, standing firm next to his packmates- even with all his injuries. "Because we are pack!"
Blushenko blinked in stunned silence. These students act more like pack than any other adult pack the teacher had ever seen. They protray the real and true characteristics of what being a pack truly is.
Blushenko-sensei gazed down with a smile and said: " I see..."
"Kerori!" Sabro called out.
"I've got it!" She replied summoning her ice and merging it with her intended's magic, creating a powerful shield that protected them all from Blushenko-sensei's magical explosion.
"Caim! IX! Protect the students!" Sabro called out, as he rushed forward into the fray.
"Got it!" Both of them replied at the same time.
While IX and Caim protected the kohai and made sure to overload the device, stopping Sullivan from waking up, Sabro was battling Blushenko-sensei in a short-distance battle. Kerori stayed back and dragged Blushenko-sensei into a long-distance battle, while her familiars engaged in a mid-distance battle. Blushenko-sensei was fighting three battles in one, all of them with their own agenda but at the same time well coordinated with each other. Still what every student in that room forgot about is the fact that there might always be another teacher lurking around. They were victory-drunk after taking down Momonoki-sensei and forgot to always be attentive of their surroundings. So, they did not notice Robin-sensei perked on a tree right outside the room's window, ready to bring crashing down every one of their dreams.
Because that's what he loves the most. To wait for the right moment, for the last moment, the unexpected moment and have it all destroyed. The despair... so sweet!
But it seems that the teachers were the ones being too cocky this time around.
Robin-sensei forgot one peculiar point. No matter how rare archers are in the Netherworld, he was not the only one.
He forgot that in Babylis there's another archer.
"Shit!" Robin-sensei cursed, as he dodged a very accurate arrow from his big sister's pupil. "From that distance... and just like that my concentration was broken..." As the shock slowly left the teacher, as the celebration bells rang from successfully sealing off Sullivan, a wicked and excited smile slowly spread through Robin-sensei's face. "So nice! Let's see if you can dodge this!" Robin-sensei quickly drew another arrow and threw it towards Iruma's back, who stupidily had turned to thank both his kohai for aiding him, by creating a platform from which he was able to shoot his arrow. "W-what?!" Robin-sensei stuttered as Irum rapidly turned around and absorbed the arrow into him. "What the heack is that?!"
"It seems that we underestimated them quite a bit," Blushenko-sensei appeared next to Robin-sensei, as they both watched Iruma and his team escape. "The kohai easily forgot about the real test and relazed after sealing Sullivan-sama. But the Abnormal Pack did not... Crocell's ice and Sabnock's crafting combined makes quite a scary shield. I was able to break through it, of course, but by the time I did they were gone and no balloon was popped. I fear what that shield will become in a couple of years."
"No balloon has been popped since the test has begun," Robin-sensei murmured, stunned by the realization. "This is so much fun! They surely kicked our assess!"
"They did," Blushenko-sensei chuckled. "But now they are to face their worst nightmare... Babyls' Guard Dog and Gargoyle!"
However, Iruma was not minding much the announcement that his mother and godfather were entering the playfield.
No, he was angry.
So, very angry.
Because there's a waste of space and magic that calls himself a teacher, yet he was about to torture his own student for the sake of fucking simple test.
"Is it fun Marbas-sensei?" Iruma asked him slowly, face impassive, as he had his Torture Arts' teacher in a choke hold against the wall. "I mean you must really feel pathetic about yourself if bringing other down and torturing them is what makes you happy." Iruma smiled slowly, a creppy and cold smile that had Marbas-sensei fighting the hold of his student even more than before. Marbas-sennsei was panicking, it was clear that Iruma had lost completely control of himself. "Daring to touch my packmate is a sin that must be paid dearly, sensei. Will you pay it?"
"I-iruma," Jazz stuttered, regaining his strength slowly, using Chima to be able to stand up. "Leave him be, we have a test to pass."
Iruma blinked a few times, slowly regaining his control, turning his head to look at his packmate. He was injured, but he'll get better. He'll survive.
"You are right," Iruma sighed, turning back to Marbas-sensei. "This is a waste of time," Iruma looked coldly at his so called teacher and slowly and painfully absorbed the magic and energy of the torturer.
"Is he dead?" Chima asked, not minding the fact very much. She has been spending too much time with the Abnormal Pack for that, and seeing the sempai he likes as an older brother, the same one who never minds answering her questions about economy and bussiness, being tortured... well, she was pissed offf.
"No, but I absorbed his energy," Iruma sighed, finally releasing the limped body of his teacher. "He won't regain conscious for a while."
"What should we do now?" Jazz asked his alpha.
"We need to see if anoyone needs help," Iruma replied. "I know that Soi managed to hide his and Goemon's team from Balam-sensei, they are now hiding in the Royal One," Iruma chuckled. "Right in front of everyone's noses! Caim, IX, and Kerori, asked for my help before I found you, I sent my familiar there just in time for them to escape mother's wrath," everyone winced at the mention of a Master of the Valley and Kalego-sensei face off. "Leid managed to get just in time to blind both Balam-sensei and his familiar, his team and Picero's team are now hiding underground in a constant developing tunnel."
"How do you know all of this?" Chima asked him, eyes sparkling with admiration.
"We've been constantly communicating with each other," Iruma pointed to the small device in his ear. "Just like we did in the Harvest Festival. That's how I knew that there was something wrong with Jazz, his device had been destroyed after all."
"What about Sabro and Alice?" Jazz quickly changed the topic of conversation, not liking the reminder that he had been tortured... he had been so scared.
However, he knew that his alpha would get to him.
He always does.
"Alice is about to face off against mother and Sabro... SHIT!" Iruma cursed, making everyone stand up straight. "Atori-sensei made his move! He went after Sabro!"
"We need to do something!" Jazz exclaimed in equal parts worry and rage, his torture forgoten for now as he puts the safety of his packmate first.
"Balam-sensei is closer, he is rushing to his aid," Iruma informed them. "Alice just told mother about this and the test has been paused until further notice, we are meeting with them."
"What are we waiting for then?" Jazz exclaimed. "Let's get going!"