89 Support group and aftermath?
****Seria's and Aengus's first day at school***
"She really did it! I can't believe it! She sent us to school! A school! For us!" Aengus continues to rage about our newest.... situation.
I pat on Aengus's back while I try to comfort him.
"And to think that she would even go as far as sending us to a boarding school!!" Aengus drops his head onto the desk.
"It will be okay big bro! We will endure and pull through! And when we are back at home, she will have forgotten her anger and take us back." I smile at him.
"Urgh! She will never forgive you that stunt you pulled on her! I would like to know why I have to suffer too! I did nothing wrong!" Aengus glares at me.
"I am sorry big bro! If there is anything I can do to make up for it, just tell me." -Me
Aengus just sighs and looks to the front of the classroom. It's our first class and there are about thirty students.
"I heard that the Andros quintuplets are going to this school too! Maybe we can meet them?" I am trying to cheer Aengus up. He has a crush on one of the Andros girls. But I fear that he has no hope of winning her over because she doesn't even consider him.
On top they know our parents from our stories. If Aengus wants a girlfriend..... he would have to finalize it before she meets mom and dad.
There are children of various ages inside the classroom. It's a little strange. Shouldn't we be separated by age?
That's the moment when a teacher enters the classroom and everything goes silent. It's a completely strange reaction for children of our age if you think about it.
But the teacher doesn't seem to be disturbed and simply starts his introductions.
"Hrm. Hello, all! I am Samarin. I will be in charge of this class. Curse your fate!" He takes a meaningful look at us, but nobody raises his voice.
"Well. I don't like too long introductions. So we will directly start with the work. First get the tables to the side and form a circle with your chairs."
The teacher's instructions are followed without big problems and less than five minutes later the whole class is assembled in a circle. Everyone looks with expectant eyes to the teacher.
"Well, first let me tell you that this is no normal school. Your teachers here are aware that you all are more than what you look. We know that it's hard to be treated like a child despite having all that common knowledge of your former lifes. Even if you don't remember everything of it." Samarin takes a look around the circle.
"I would be happy if you don't think about this as a class. Think about it more like a support group! We will talk about our issues and everyone will listen. Then we will try to find a solution together. This is the primary purpose of this school, despite of what your parents think. Of course you guys can still work on your abilities too and every teacher at this institute will help you." -Samarin
Samarin takes out a little notebook and a pen in order to take some notes about us. "So let's start with you little miss. Please tell everyone who you are and why you are here." Samarin points to a little girl right beside him. She can't be older than five and has troubles not to fall from her chair.
"Uuuhm..... I am Maria. My hobbies are painting and reading books! I got into trouble with my parents because they always treated me like a child! After a while I got so fed up with it that I started to behave like a real five year old. I showed them what it meant to leave dangerous equipment lying around and set the house aflame. They were unable to cope with it and so I landed here. Please take care of me." The little girl waves at the class.
The introductions continue until it's my and Aengus's turn.
"Hi, I am Seria and...." But I get interrupted by silent whispers around the classroom.
"So they belong to that family?" "They have that monster as a father?"
"Dad isn't like that! He just hit me once and I deserved it!" -Aengus
"I pity them..." "So the monster is hitting them!" "Better to not get too close to them." "Poor guys!"
"At least they have a nice mom!" "Yeah, the best and nicest mother...." ".....and beautiful!"
"..... mom isn't like that! She is actually torturing us!" -Me
"Yes! She is a demon! Don't fall for those rumours!" -Aengus
"Poor kids." "He already beat them so much …." ".... they started to believe it themselves."
"NOOO! Hear me out! I will tell you guys the whole story!" And so we start to tell them the story of our lifes so far. I tell them about Celes's whipping sessions. And Ireth's educational measures.
Aengus takes over from time to time to tell how Dad actually saved us from mom once. And various other stories of him being nice. Regularly teaching us magic and science. And various other useful skills like handling torture instruments and breaking peoples minds.
Five hours later we are done and everyone looks at us with pale faces and frightened expressions.
"Puh.... It was good to get that off of our minds and talk to someone about it. Right bro?" I look at Aengus with a relieved expression.
"Right, sis! I feel much better now. Especially to correct those rumours." Aengus nods to me.
"It's worse than i thought." "They are in hell." "Why are they still alive?" "They are monsters too?" "Better don't get too close to them!" "But we have to help them somehow."
Samarin looks up from his notebook, which was actually filled to the last page during our story. "You two... It seems like there is a lot of work before us.... your mother already informed us of you two to be notorious liars. But i never imagined that it would be that much work to help you."
"I want to go home!"
****Former factory planet of the Council****
I kick a crystal shard on the ground. "This is frustrating! A whole fucking planet of evidences and we can't find out where they took the Spheres!"
"We are as smart as before. But we got a few valuable informations about the production process of a Sphere." Chiffre looks up into the sky with a pained expression.
The Arcane Community's moon is clearly visible. It's surrounded by debris, creating an interesting view. It could take a few years until some of the parts will drift out of sight or fall down onto the planet.
After the battle and securing Elohim's body/remains, we decided to hold an emergency meeting.
"I hope you don't plan to play around with a Sphere!" I hate to play the motherly character, but those things are just flat out creepy.
"Of course not! But just looking at the factories gives us all the information that's needed. Like building processes and blueprints. We don't have to risk our souls by playing around with the real thing!" Chiffre answers with a flat voice.
"And by analysing the data we already found out that the Spheres are all linked together and controlled by a hierarchical command structure. There is a central controlling device somewhere. Our people are currently working on a method to tab into this network to find the enemies command centre." -Chiffre
"Wouldn't it be much easier to interrogate Elohim." Carne asks an obvious question.
"He isn't in a good condition at the moment. And I doubt that we would get any useful information out of him. He is most likely mind wiped like the others." Chiffre makes a dismissive gesture. It was the Arcane Community which captured Elohim after the fight. He was drifting in an orbit around their moon after the headbutt.
"That doesn't mean that he will get away lightly. To destroy my moon with a headbutt! Kukuku! I will take my time to dismantle him piece by piece. And after I am done with his body, I will work on his soul. There are quite a few experiments to be done. I always wanted to try to disassemble a soul. Kukuku. Looks like he ate the souls of a few of his followers to fuse with them. I will take my time to restore the natural order..... and maybe go a little further. Kkukukuku...." -Chiffre
"Ehm... Yeah, right. Do your thing." Carne looks a little pale.
"So we will ready the fleet and wait for your guys to finish the device Chiffre." I smile at the mad member of the Arcane Community. Hopefully for Carne the truth will never come out...
