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The first years were once again in for a scolding in Headmage Crowley’s office. It’s the same junk he spews out of his mouth every time they come in. In all honesty, Crowley’s voice sounded tired.
Yuu is just as tired of going to his office as well. They can’t count how many times they do it in a day, they might as well say they get dragged in there every five minutes for some stupid stunt Ace pulled or something hilariously dumb that fooled Grim.
Jack was nowhere to be seen, and Sebek’s naturally loud voice has died down into a regular volume in their ears. Epel’s head is hung low, obviously ashamed. Ace and Deuce were just sitting there, and Grim was just on Yuu’s lap, pretending to be innocent when he was 90% at fault for this.
It was just a normal day, a normal scolding.
That was until a loud thunk returned Yuu’s unfocused and bleary vision to a clear one with their headmage in the picture, but their focus snapped to the source of the sound:
A raven statue clutching onto Crowley’s windowsill.
…
Yuu’s head whipped back at Crowley, but he wasn’t looking at them. He was just as shocked as everyone in the room. They could feel Grim shifting on their lap, which caused their gaze to flick downward at the tiny creature. He stared at the raven statue, which was staring forward. Yuu pressed their lips into a thin line and turned their head back towards the strange statue that had appeared out of nowhere, the silence drawing on.
The statue looked as if it were ominously glowing violet, and it didn’t look like an ordinary raven. It was wearing a purple scarf around its neck.
Everyone was just about to recover from the shock, and Crowley was about to stand up to get rid of it, then, the raven’s head moved around with a few creaks, glancing around the room, which led to Grim screaming and jumping onto the closest thing, which happened to be Ace’s face. Said teen was also screaming, along with his classmate and dorm mate Deuce. Sebek nearly fell backwards, and Epel merely jumped in his seat. Crowley and Yuu however, just continued to stare at the raven inquisitively.
The raven tilted its head and then a voice came ringing from it.
”I extend my greatest greetings to thy.”
The Heartslabyul duo and Grim continued screaming as Epel and Sebek let out shocked gasps. But now, Yuu and Crowley were more interested, and both had curious smiles on their faces. Guess that’s what happens when you let Dire Crowley influence a child—they act more like him.
“Our Great Ruler, the Prinzessin of the Immenachtreich, has been invited to this foreign land.”
None of them could understand what it meant, it was talking like Rook Hunt does. Immenachtreich? Great Ruler? Invited to “this foreign land”? But as Yuu was about to ask about this enigmatic “Prinzessin,” the raven replied first, seeming to know what they were going to say.
”I am a mere messenger of Her Majesty, and this is what I was tasked to deliver. Should thou become curious of the Lady of Uttermost Darkness, then inquire to Sekretär Ozvaldo von Hrafnavins.”
And with that, the raven did a creaky bow, and disappeared in a flash of violet light and a flurry of shadowy feathers. It left Crowley’s office a mess of floating tiny, lavender stars in the air, a flash sometimes passing in between two of them, like a thin thread getting revealed by light. Feathers as dark as night but glowing like small lavender suns littered the office.
Yuu felt a soft tingle atop their head, and they reached up and felt a slight shock delivered to their hand, which made them flinch, but they didn’t let go of the object. They pulled it down to their face. It was one of the dark feathers, leaving lavender traces of lightning as it was pulled down. They curiously twirled it in between their fingers, feeling a slight spark. Yuu’s head tilted to the side in curiosity, smiling the same way they and Crowley did earlier.
Everyone sat there, in too much shock and thus frozen save for Yuu, the only one who didn’t act like the raven’s disappearance didn’t turn them into a frozen statue.
Once again, they were recovering from the shock, when the door to Crowley’s office burst open with a panicked student on the other side. Once again alarmed, the Headmage whipped to the student, but he interrupted before the crow man could say a thing.
”Headmage, the school is getting attacked by monsters!”
Yuu and the rest of the first years figured Crowley wouldn’t lift a finger, so they shot up from their seats and quickly sped out of the office and back out the hallway…
Watching from the windows as students screamed as unrecorded creatures fought them a battle the students were losing.
(This part above was actually in the prequel fic called “Raven statue on the windowsill” but I added here just so no one has to go there to see this part :D)
Point of View: First Year Students (Location - Hallway from Headmage Crowley’s Office)
The first years sped out the Crowley’s office and pressed their faces against the closest glass window. Students were screaming for their lives, some were heavily injured from the fight against strange beasts. They appeared to be wolves, but merely left as bones with energy pulsing through them, and accented by either yellow or purple. Ace, Deuce, and Epel whipped out their magic pens and ran off to go downstairs, Sebek following but quickly parting ways with the other three, probably to go look for Malleus. They were soon followed by Yuu and Grim.
Yuu’s heels skidded across the floor as they made a sharp turn, following the other three. A loud crash sounded, followed by loud screams and yells, and Grim noticed a large shadow cast over him, and looked back, slowing down in fear even if it would kill him.
He whimpered a bit, enough for Yuu to hear, and they turned around almost immediately to be met by the wolf towering over their friend. The wolf’s gaze flicked towards them. A chilling snarl was heard from behind the hound’s sharp gray fangs. It howled and chased after them instead, its claws nearly striking the frozen Grim, missing by a hair. Yuu screamed, alerting Epel, Ace, and Deuce, whose eyes widened the moment they saw Yuu shrieking and fleeing from a giant bony hound.
Point of View: Riddle Rosehearts (Location - Courtyard)
Riddle took a faltering step back. He was a part of the students who tried to fight against the monsters, only to be pushed into the losing ground.
Riddle had tried all manners of spells, and only the elemental spells worked well enough. Even so, that barely made a dent on the wolves. And he had tried using them against these weird four floating things that appeared to be mages. But he couldn’t land a hit on them, they had shields. He couldn’t even use his unique magic on them.
Trey and Cater were with him, but Trey was injured at the moment and Cater was tiring out. Riddle was pushed back by the sudden spray of water from the middle left mage in blue. He dodged the oncoming hit from a sharp icicle courtesy of the pale blue mage in the rightmost area. The purple and red mages were taunting him, laying on their sides as the other two took turns shooting at him. Riddle didn’t have enough energy to last that long anymore. He tried to catch his breath, and from the corner of his eye, he could see Cater trying to avoid getting clawed by a wolf while blocking it from hitting Trey.
He was about to help him, at least in the tiniest bit when he felt something cold come in hard contact with his head. The next thing he felt was the cobblestone road of the courtyard and something wet dripping from his mouth. He could hear his shaky breathing and thumping heartbeat eerily loudly while everything else blurred away. He could hear someone, someone vaguely familiar, someone that was neither Cater nor Trey.
His heartbeat and breathing were slowly getting softer and everything around him was getting louder.
“…ddle!”
“HOUSEWARDEN RIDDLE!”
Riddle’s eyes snapped open and he turned to look at a worried Ace Trappola. He could hear Deuce yelling from Cater and Trey’s direction. And he could also hear Epel in the front direction. Where the mages were. Ace was muttering something. Riddle could feel the wind suddenly picking up pace.
He groaned as he sat up, looked around, and saw that the wolves and mages had noticed it too. Then lightning struck and set the ground aflame. Dark, purple clouds swirled and descended to the earth as a tornado. Lightning crashed. The mages, except for the one in purple, looked frightened. The wolves with purple accents growled, while the ones with yellow ones floated back a bit.
The tornado spun and spun and spun, as lights from above the tornado started glowing brighter and brighter until lavender light was all everyone could see.
Then the light died out, and then Riddle felt something sting his nose a bit. A dark violet feather. It slid off when he decided to get up. His vision was a bit bleary, but he could make out a figure clad in violet.