CXLII ||| The Top of the Sandwich

"Did you enjoy the market?" Father asked me when I sat on his left.

Nod, "Of course," then I summoned a slice of lemon pie with a little vodka bottle for him. "I'll give you a magnum after you're done."

That got a laugh out of him, "I knew you would love it. Thanks."

"You're welcome," I beamed.

"Thank you for earlier, darling. I mean, for standing up for me."

Aye, how could I not? "Any time. This is what family is for, no? Besides Russell is a preposterous a-grade arsehole. To act like that after how he abandoned mom. The only reason I'm not going to kill him, if for mom, because that's what I wanted."

"It meant a lot for me. I just wanted to thank you!"

Holding his hand, I smiled, "Aren't I amazing?"

Rolling his eyes, he pushed me away scoffing and took a bite of his lemon pie, "Did Violet threaten you?"

A nod, "But I threatened her back!"

He choked on his vodka, "You exceeds my expectations!"

Giggling, I turned to the maze arena, and when I did, my eyes met Oliver's who were staring straight at me, which made me gasp. He had gone up the walls of the maze and was standing above it, looking down at every single kid. "Is he waiting?"

Felix, who sat behind me, leaned closer to my shoulder, "Yes. He always does that. He let his team enjoy the hide and seek for a while, as he stays up there with the grace of a King. Then, after exactly ten minutes, he turns all the opposite players into dust, and face the team leader. Beat them up and take the Crown. Fucking vampire," he growled, all too annoyed, probably because he had been there many times.

"A display of power then," I clicked my tongue. We trained all together, but we didn't fight like this, especially because we trained without him using his disintegration and without me using my time magic against them, aside from freezing the arena.

Father nodded, "It's a good way to play, if you can handle doing what he does," his dark green eyes turned to me. "What is your plan?"

I grinned all too viciously, "Humiliating display of power."

Shiryu, who was sitting next to father, and with Yumi and Jack on his other side, leaned closer, "She'll let us play for seven minutes, them she'll freeze time, destroy the remaining players of the other team, and take the crown of the leader, all while they can't do shit."

"And dancing," Yumi winked.

That made father laugh, "Will you freeze everyone in the arena?"

"Yes. They are already on that. It'll only change for the final match, given the circumstances Mia came up with," I cracked my fingers.

"They will feel humiliated if you do it while dancing!"

But his mischievous grin told me he loved it. "That's the goal!"

"Thank goodness time will be only frozen inside the domed arena and we'll be able to watch everything," he mumble, eating his pie. "What will be the song?"

I tilted my head, watching Oliver look down upon everyone else, while Rio lost the ball when it teleported to the hands of his opponent of the other group, and he quickly faded behind him electrocuting him with his thunder magic and breaking his neck, which made the kid vanish to the med wing, then he took the ball again with a wide grin and ran.

"Cotton candy baby blue hair is as good as he is annoying," scoffing I turned to father. "The team leader of the team I'll be up against first is a incubus demon from a clan in Russia, his name is Aviv Kadyrov, he's 15 physically and from sophomore year. He bought a amethyst bow and arrow and a silenced poison pistol of long range, all for 16 million euros at total, quite the good deal. So, he's a long range fighter like Felix. And as he's from Russia, I chose a Russian song I like to dance while I beat his team up and steal his obsidian crown from his head."

He gave me a proud look, "That's my kid. Which one?"

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Irene used her mirror magic to conjure mirrors all around the fairy girl that was about to throw the ball at her, then she stole the ball, made her mirrors disappear and punched her with a fist covered in mirror, making her fall back, only then she threw the ball at her head. Enjoying herself, I see.

Agost and Nicolette found each other through the maze and were now both in their gold dragon form that I saw on the training, both flying and going after the fairies and seraphins of the opposite team, that were flying around, all while avoiding the balls thrown at them. Thankfully they learned how to shift with clothes all on, or it would be very compromising.

Dimitry got the ball next, fading, he used it to hit three kids, but he pushed them far away with his water magic when the ball teleported to the hands of the fourth kid that was right in front of him, right as the other three got up again. He kicked the other three and before he could get the ball again it teleported.

Going to the giant boy's hand, who was facing Nevena off, and she was quick to fade away when he threw the ball at her because if that had hit her it would make damage, give how the ball weights according to who's holding it and a giant weight quite a lot. Annoyed, she went to get the ball to throw it back at him, but it teleported again.

This time going to Ivar's hand, he quickly embed his incubus magic all over the ball, and when he threw it at a dark witch from junior year who was previously heading towards him with murder in her eyes, she fell down blushing hard and let out a loud moan, then she began to straight-up undress herself, overwhelmed with the sexual hunger he hit her with.

"That was feral," I chuckled loudly.

"It's a good attack," Dorothy chuckled behind us. I mean, she can talk about it, since she's a succubus and can do that too.

"Not when you are hit with it," Savannah growled haunted. "That bastard always goes after me when we play against each other. Pervert!"

"If it was only you, babe," Priya mumble just as haunted.

After hitting the witch, the ball teleported to Oliver's hand, but he threw it to River who was right under him, and his brother faded with it. He had the giant boy Nevena was still fighting against as his target, but the ball had other ideas, as it teleported away to Rio's hand on the other side of the arena. But River didn't gave up, so, he made a visual realistic illusion of the ball hitting the giant boy and the kid fell down startled, but when he tried to get the ball for himself, there was nothing. So, River held Nevena by her arm and faded away.

With the ball in his hands, Rio went after the twin sirens who were fighting against Sabrina and Dora, he grinned at the girls, "I'll take one and you take the other," he threw the ball at the twin boy who fell in front of the girls, and held the twin girl by the sides of her head, only to snap her neck broken. "Enjoy while you can, babes," he winked at Sabrina and Dora and faded away.

Okay, I had no idea Rio would be the most aggressive of them. I'm surprised in a good way. "Who could have thought he had it in him."

"He is almost on pair with River in power, the difference is very slim," Shiryu pointed. "Oliver may be a lot stronger, but after him is his lil brother and Rio. He may joke around and pretended to be a scared cat, but he's actually very ruthless while fighting."

"And he likes breaking people's necks," Kalisha groaned haunted.

"Awesome," I grinned genuinely amused.

"River doesn't enjoy killing the others, but Rio do," Yumi pointed.

Mad respect. "I get it," I licked my lips.

As Igor and Dimitry found each other, they went to where my sister and my brother had corned two fairies and one high seraphim (only four wings). Igor and Dimitry made a joint attack, fusing Igor's sand magic with Dimitry's ice and pressuring it all on the three kids wings, immobilizing them and making them fall to the ground screaming. My siblings turned back to changeling form and as Agost got the ball, he threw it at them.

Going for the wings. That was a smart move, baldy and pretty fangs do make a good twin combo indeed. "Our wings are our most sensible part, it was a law and clever move. If you harm the wings, they are done for a while," I summoned one of the strawberry magnum palettes I kept for me and summoned the package out of it and inside my ring.

"Where's mine?" Father growled.

Rolling my eyes, I summoned a white chocolate with lemon cream for him. "Your favorite ice cream flavor."

"Aye, I raised you so well," he beamed.

The ball teleported to the wolf shifter that was facing off Henrihk who had partially shifter his hawk wings and had just kicked the wolf in the face, angering it even further. As Felix and Igor's boyfriend avoided the hit and held the ball for himself, the wolf shifter boy let out an annoyed howl, before getting hit by the ball right on his face, in such a hard hit that he went flying and hit his back on the maze wall of the no-end alley they were in.

As the ball teleported away, Henrihk grinned viciously and didn't back away, he made his wings disappear and went to the wolf that was half conscious, not caring if the kid is still physically 14, he broke his four paws and kicked him on the ribs. "That's for looking down on me, little fucker!" He hissed, partially shifted his wings again and flew away.

"Okay, now I know who's the top of your sandwich, Felix!"

He let out an embarrassed squeak, "Stop."

"You're not denying!" I mocked and he turned redder.

"You are infuriating," he groaned leaning back on his chair.

"So, sandy pretty fangs is a bottom," I provoked a bit more and he punched my shoulder annoyed, but didn't deny it. Adorable.