Magi and Djinn World Tour- Student of the Dark Arts
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Chapter 39: EAT
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Based on a vocaloid song. On with it!
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Raku went with following Amber only to get closer to the source of dismay. John would hate that he'd gone alone to school on his own; more so, he was a target by the newest threat.
The doors spread wide open as the flurry of magic stunned the kid. He put his head down as the committee for the auditorium was for a time, not in session. The classrooms were emptied as the new headmaster returned his eyes to the students within the main dining hall instead. It was still only two o'clock, so renovations must have been taking place.
Ignito had not shown head or hide of itself and Amber was regrettably clingy to the half djinn prince.
Raku stared at the wall clock as time, was halted upon its face. The doors from before had opened as he waited in his seat of the hall beside an anxious Amber.
Marcus little replacement was up to the side as a school prefect, his eyes away from the new headmaster.
His father.
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John scanned over the grounds to find them littered with staff and that trail if miasma that caked his lungs. Astarte stood watch as Ani also tried to test the levels. His blade was disposed of as it smokers to bits. Corrupted magic that could kill that which ad lived and was still alive.
"There is a powerful barrier here, Sara." Ani told his family this.
"We'll need more than enough entrance to see to those doors allowing us through." She nodded. "Constantine, the boy will not be harmed. There is work to be done. Tell me if you know of a second or third entrance that was built into the old layout of the academy."
"The catacombs will not be a fun pit stop, sorry. What I can say…" He thought. "Yes, we can try the hill. The one Jen and Raku ended up in that duel before."
"Amber's energy will not only be there, I'd assume no pets." Ani frowned. "Let alone Lothos. He has minions through the souls collected. How long will it be to test that of Constantine, Sara?"
"Not a while more, so we must be wide with our time." Sara told her pupil. "Johnathan. Be sure that you live your aid that boy, or he won't be human much longer. The demon wants a demise worse than turning. He wishes the rise if Roku again, as all claim he is a savior if their plane once his powers ripen to pluck petal by petal."
"He's human enough. You'll see."
John moved past the hedges as Astarte shook her head with a whisper. "You know nothing of what he can do to that trust. I fear…"
She knew of that power. Without limit, control. Even if it was for now, that was the target to the core of power all djinn existed to guide and be guided by.
Creation made Infinite to the holder.
Absolute, and Lothos would not take her family from her again.
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( IMPORTANT FOR TOKYO KNIGHTS EPILOGUE TIE – IN. RAKU HAD FAMILY OF DJINN BUT THEY VANISHED, CLAIMED TL HAVE BECOME GODS, GUARDIANS OR OTHER RELICS WHILE RAKU REMAINS UNDECIDED. FIND OUT!)
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The speaker was loud enough as he stood with his boots pointed at every class of witch and warlock. "Students, those of great prowess in our academy's ways. This comes at a great sorrow, yet your headmaster in charge prior to my telling, has passed on abd left you with a newly appointed advisor in charge if direction the state of our school'sake vital future. To my left, is Director Aldosi."
Raku squinted as he saw the tied back hair or red and eyes of crimson of the vampire known as Lothos.
Directory…..for….
A feast, Raku swallowed as a sadism culled in Amber. She gripped his arm like none of her earlier tried. He winced as Lothos smirked, feeling his pain through the transfer of control he had on the child's life.
The worst part was, he was tangible and walking.
"Also, Professor Grey has no longer decided to stay. He will be replaced before the feast is held in your honor this Friday night.
Friday…that was…
Wait….today??
No.
Raku checked the clock.
No. Clocks didn't fib….what was going on??
"By tonight, the committee ny four will prep, stock and store all meals in advance for the feast. Any items to wear must be provided at the thanks of for the theater department and the time given fir them to craft for you, outfits to this soiree of our student body."
Bodies.
Raku imagined the aftermath now that Lothos was free to contact them, more than a voice. More than a shadow of a mesmerizing set of crimson orbs that tugged you into your –
"Raku?" Amber poked the boy's cheek as he stopped and shook himself of his, delusional tangent of thoughts.
Chaos. He held his breath.
This room. Those men on the stage.
All were bringing right into these walls, an ever-encroaching chaos, as the boy had his head down. The noise of the speakers, and a chilling whisper of the telepathic link of Lothos now….
Fighting the scare, Raku needed to stay calm.
~ You will. What we have planned for you, little pet is much better than where we are now. Amber will not let go, and neither shall I. ~
~ John….no. I….I won't lose to you…~ The boy chattered in his own head back, lip wobbling as a child mind. Lothos cackled and pulled at invisible lead. The boy's head looked up, at him.
~ Prepare to awaken for me, my lord. We need you to bring about a fire meant fir curing flesh from bone…a dragon might only do so, and you were so good at it. Killing them all without a grin on your face!~
Raku felt his eyes water as he shook them out.
"The auditorium will be for the later dances; the dining hall shall be the after. Will everyone who is participating. Stand."
It was an order, as Amber yanked Raku along, along with the students who….
They were all….
Lothos's.
The children had the same eyes as those infected by the bite. Raku looked to see that Amber's eyes of an impish princess were showing sigils of evil within.
"Then, the feast of our school will commence, tonight. You may all return to class."
The boys and girls all went about as if nothing was wrong at all. Raku saw it, they were all under his spell. Whatever had happened a after John had taken him out of the odd cheers below the school, this was…
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Ani felt his breath go tightly in his chest as Sara looked over her shoulder. "It is magic that stops us, and we must abide."
"Now, wait." John turned with a sigh, back, "Raku is still inside! The student –
"They are…already collected. My magic tells of ones lining and dead. They control this field, Constantine." Ani frowned st the man as John's shoulders snagged a bit. "By tonight is a big feast and they must be very unlucky to have not known until then…they're on the menu."
"No, more so. A gateway, Johnathan. If my nephew loses his control again, the bodies will act as testimony of power from the wrong end. He will recover his hurt which will allow Lothos the opportunity to do again what he has done before. Stolen a god to corrupt it, and to kill. To live forever outside of our laws. The boy is a relic, well sought demon such as Lothos will do anything. Even –
"I know…what he did before to make Roku…happen." John bit his lip to say it. "He raped him, Raku told me. Treated him like a bloody slave because it was a fu thing to do. To take away hos hope, his future and to hand it to others raku only went along wlth it because he doesn't know whether family is family at all, and that." The man started to chant as the barrier tore all but a sliver. "Is why family isn't one sided. In my book. We die together, or someone lives on. He's trying to trust the good in you, his family. Lothos took a gamble and uses persuasion and tricks to make it so he can't ever forget that fact. That family him, never existed without trust."
"It is more than you will ever know. Constantine. That boy is of a calling GeForce gods and times he us the imagination personified. Do you know why A's existence in the Ethereal realm stays as it does? She guards the secrets if his people because she is a last Djinni before djinn. She creates from a place none can touch. Roku went to her to return, yet not knowing that he would seek his destiny through his son. Why in the world is your kind so clouded with ….humanity to not see it!? He has tried to be there, to go through a gate that I would be rejected even from entering. Only those of trust may enter, and by the gods I tell. The only reason he lives, is so that none may ever know the secrets if that divide. He has no ability of death or to die. Did you not realize that??"
"I don't very much care of that, for now." John told the growling goddess. "He's a lad or now, a relic of whatever vein of sympathy you have, for later."
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The ticking clock in his mind was fully alive. Raku stayed in his dorm room he'd been provided by the staff as the other boys acted strange.
Amber said that the school was going to choose a Lord of the Feast. And lady. Because Raku was non binary, either would occur as one boy from the main hls placed an envelope onto Raku's lap as he sat on his bed and stayed calm as he could.
A living sacrifice, it terrified him…
"Here, delivery." The boy left him and the door was shut quietly. Raku dragged his fingers over the seal. It was the committee, he read by his ability. They…
He shredded open the envelope as the note was read over.
"We have…."
His voice got too small.
Lady of the feast. They'd chosen him.
The lord however, was Michael.
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Raku went right to the headmaster as Michael was already there. He looked as id he'd taken a verbal beating from debating the exact same issue as Raku was let into the office.
By his arm, was Lothos or Aldosi. It sounded pretty similar as he looked at the child with a courteous appearance. "Very sorry. You must be here for the same letter!" He chuckled. "The students voted and Raku, you are a non binary part –
"I Did not vote myself to have ANYTHING to do with….father!"
"You will address me as your headmaster, Michael."
"Damn you, both! I know something is wrong….you're-
"Quiet this Instant or you will be encouraged to write "A thousand verses of silence" on the board in the next classroom that is emptied."
"I might miss Ella and her ball, then." Sneered the blonde. "Cancel it, have someone else hold his hand."
"There is a vote democratically. The students put their hearts into the idea. Amber herself came to see the prior professor. I'm only here until after the feast is done. I'm here to be sure that no shenanigans put us out this time." Cutely, it was mere mockery as Raku and Michael both hated Lothos speaking for the headmaster.
"What happened to the other headmaster? Is anyone looking into it?"
"Course not. This school is curse, by far with incompetent-
"Enough. That lesson will be your undoing of this., Director? Wpukd you find the classroom with the most walk spaceM I will let whomever know that this punishment fir back talk."
"But…but…" The boy shut down as Lpthos was near kicked before being taken out to the hallway. "I'm sorry you had to witness that. Hos mother, may she rest was not as I. This struck you as odd, but I'm sure you know our customs by the time spent?"
"No, not everything. The feast, yes. The vote, I did not."
"As the director told you, Amber decided to speak with the committee and we favored it. If you speak to your guardian before tonight, you might be able to reject the proposal, yet I'd bring caution to this. The students here are very prideful in their decisions. Almost patriotic." Huffed the headmaster. "If you should you should decide to this this rest –
"Do you know who he is, or about your own son? Sir? That, that is a vampire and a warlock if my-
"None if this. You're a good student, so please. Tall tales Dannie have you out of the limelight as you want."
"He us a monster! You've-
"HE IS." The man leaned across the desk and hissed back. "Here to stay until the night is through." Soon reverting to upright, the headmaster simply motioned to the exit. "Have your phone handy and try to call your family. If you have anything to tell me, why not now?"
"Fine." Raku fished out his cell from John and tapped at it to find the number. "I'm calling him, one moment…"
~ The person you have dialed Is –
Raku bit his lip, trying another number. Then two more.
~ The number you have-
Shit….
He looked up with a lost gaze at the headmaster. "Looks like, you've been decided for, once again."
With a wave, Raku was told to get out. It was obvious. Whatever was being planned, no outside noise to could ruin Lothos's big finish.
And the headmaster was sadly a part of what would be a bloodbath of life upon that dance floor….
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So….aha! Find out. I get a black butler feel from this I can't imagine. Big fan so, yup!