Chapter 1: A dream or a Premonition?
"What the hell is going here?" a girl with black shoulder length hair just muttered as she looked at the situation that is in front of her. At the middle of the arena, two men are holding their weapons; the maroon colored hair man with cat ears and a tail, standing on the left side of the arena, is holding a silver rapier sword with a gold guard, looking down on the other maroon colored hair man with cat ears and a tail as well, kneeling in front of the man standing while gripping on his weapon while breathing heavily and small splats of blood are dripping from his arm; a silver sword with gears that serves as the guard of the sword.
"Is that all you got, older brother, Xaphan?" the man said coldly to Xaphan, who is still kneeling on the ground and gripping his weapon.
"Of course not, Paimon." Xaphan replied and stood up slowly and glared at Paimon, standing firmly on his ground while maintaining a fighting position. Then Xaphan muttered some words silently and then black sharp lines starting to appear all over his body, and his eyes are glowing brighter red than before. His whole body is slowly being covered by a crimson colored aura and the blade of his weapon is turning flame orange, his wounds on his arm are healing.
"Tsk. So you are planning to get serious now, older brother?" Paimon said and closed his eyes then he also turned like Xaphan except that his marks are colored white and then from rapier turned into a sword but with blade is bright white. Both men focused all their magic onto their weapons, making the aura surrounding it became more intense and brighter.
"Those twins' sibling rivalry really went this far." A woman wearing a long black slit gown with her hair styled in a messy bun wearing a small tiara as well.
"I heard that it is because of a student." A man said, that looked like a servant of the woman beside him.
"A student? How amusing!" The woman just laughed loudly and haughtily while the man beside her stayed silent and watch his mistress laughed.
"Why aren't you laughing with me?" She questioned the man and this surprised him and he just chuckled and the woman continued laughing. Making the people around looked at them weirdly and they decided to just ignore the two.
"Tsk. I am not liking this one bit, Xaphan, Paimon. What the hell..." The girl with black shoulder length hair clicked her tongue and muttered to herself. But she is not alone when watching, standing beside her is a girl with a very long black hair that reached the floor, wearing a ribbon like headband with daisies, forget - me - not, carnation flowers, wearing a baby blue lolita styled dress with matching shoes and knee high socks; watching the fight with worried eyes. And there's another girl with white mid - back length hair, wearing a long silver v - neck styled dress with a high slit and with a matching silver high heels.
"Hey! Philomina! What are you doing?!" The girl beside her shouted as she was running toward the arena entrance.
"We have to stop her!" The other girl with white said and the other girl just nodded her head and both of them run following Philomina towards the arena entrance. Philomina, a girl with black shoulder length hair, wearing a gray turtle neck top and black cargo pants with matching black combat boots. She also has a mark on left shoulder, white tornado with small light blue snowflakes, while running to the arena entrance she stretched out her right hand and exclaimed,
"Broniac!" A magic circle appeared from Philomina's hand and then a long gold lance; from the tip, it looked like large pincers that are colored electric blue, then below the tip of the lance there is a round silver surrounding with gold and silver pikes and at the middle of the round is a electric blue colored diamond, then at the bottom part of the lance is a pointed pommel.
"You kept on hiding your true self to her! You don't deserve her at all! Xaphan!" Paimon exclaimed positioning himself to launch his attack.
"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Paimon you have no right to speak in that manner!" Xaphan exclaimed back and positioned himself as well. Paimon noticed that Xaphan's sclera is turning black, his eyes widen from his vision. By this time, Philomina arrived at the gate of the arena entrance and she shouted,
"Stop this nonsense right now!" Philomina rushed towards the two men but then Paimon teleported in front of Philomina with his back facing her and said,
"Shit! Get out of here now princess!"
"Why?! What you're doing right now is nonsense Paimon!" She exclaimed back to Paimon who is blocking her view of Xaphan.
"Ahhh~ Philomina~" Xaphan's voice sends chills to Philomina, it was not the warm voice that she was used to hearing from Xaphan. Then she looked at Xaphan, who is grinning widely and his eyes dilated, she cannot believe what she is seeing right now.
"Xaphan? Is that you?" She said slowly while looking at Xaphan with wary eyes.
"What's wrong Philomina? Its me! Xaphan! Your mentor! Hahaha!!!" He replied while his grin is getting wider.
"Xaphan is nothing like you! Who are you?!" Philomina denied and positioned herself for battle.
"Philomina..." Xaphan lost his grin and just stared at Philomina.
"Princess, what you're seeing right now is the REAL Xaphan." Paimon stated while glaring at his older brother.
"This is all your fault Paimon..." Xaphan tilted his head sideward while staring at the two people in front of him. The two girls who were with Philomina just arrived that the entrance of the arena as well, the girl with white hair said,
"What is going on with Xaphan? That's not him..." while looking at Xaphan in disbelief.
"Yen, I think this is what our mentors mentioned about before." The girl with said while looking at Xaphan as well.
"So this is the real Xaphan, Reine?" Yen said and Reine just nodded her head while looking at the situation at the middle of the arena.
"We should get Philomina out of there." Reine said but then Yen stopped her and said,
"I think we should not interrupt them. After all, both of them are..."
"Oh right. But if everything getting out hand, I will go there." Reine said with a determined expression.
"I will join you, Reine." Both girls nodded their heads and then they heard a loud voice,
"Paimon!" Xaphan shouted and he moved armed hand then a half - moon shaped sliced, like it cut through the air, is coming towards Paimon's direction but then,
"Obice!" Philomina trusted the rod of Broniac and a light blue veil appeared to be like a barrier protect them from Xaphan's attack.
"What are you doing, Philomina?" Xaphan growled in a low tone of voice sounding like he is going feral. The fur on his ear and tail became pointed from the action of Philomina.
"You left me with no choice, Xaphan." Philomina said and position herself and ready to attack, then Paimon did the same thing and said,
"Xaphan, after all of this mess, you have to tell her..."
"AHHHHH!!!!" Xaphan screamed and everyone in the arena protected themselves from the crimson aura that is slowly engulfing the arena, then everything went pitch black.
"Stop it!" A girl got up from her bed and opened her eyes. She looked at her surroundings and she noticed that she's in her room. Cold sweat is forming from her forehead going down to her neck, her hands are shaking, and she was breathing heavily.
"A dream..." She muttered to herself and stared at the ceiling of her room and then there was a knock on her door,
"Philomina? Are you awake?" A small soothing voice came from the door and Philomina knew the owner of that voice, she stood up from her position and opened her door, revealing a girl with bright red eyes and long wine red hair that reached her ankles, wearing nothing but a white long sleeve polo.
"Vian." She muttered while holding her head from the dream that she had.
"You look pale Philomina. Do you want to talk about it?" Vian said while placing both of her hands on Philomina's shoulders to show comfort.
"Its going to be a long story Vian."
"Don't worry I have time and I would like to help you out. I mean if you look at yourself right now in a mirror, you look like a ghost." Vian reassured and joked at the same time. Philomina invited Vian to her room and they both sat down on her bed and she started telling what she saw in her dream.
"Hmmm..." Vian hummed while thinking after hearing Philomina's dream. And Philomina is just twiddling her fingers together.
"It felt real but I don't those two men in my dream and yet it looked like I've known them for a very long time."
"Based from what you just told me, it could be a premonition." Vian stated while looking at Philomina.
"Premonition?"
"Yes, its just what I think it is because the fact that hear sounds like the voice of people in your dream, its clear and you remember it very well and lastly the feeling that you felt just now. We can leave like that for now but if you ever dreamt of those two again, you can come to me or Reine and Yen as well." Vian explained her conclusion and stood up from Philomina's bed.
"Thank you so much, Vian." Philomina said and she stood up from her bed as well and escorted Vian out of her room.
"I'll see you tomorrow in class." Vian walked back to her room.
"See you tomorrow as well." Philomina replied and closed her door and locked it. She went to the window of her room and stared at the vast sky and breathe in fresh air to clear her mind.
"A premonition..." She muttered to herself while looking at the sky filled with stars. After taking another breathe of air she closed her window and went back to her bed and closed her eyes. Relaxing her mind and not thinking of anything that would hinder her sleep.
Tomorrow would be another day. A day at the University of Magic and Dark Arts would be as unpredictable as you think of it.