LXVI ||| The Cat Sìth

Train, eat, study, read the ancient books, sex all night.

I've been doing this for a week now, and Jack has been mocking me everyday about how I said I wasn't going to even kiss Oliver, and just minutes later after he came inside, we not only kissed as we did a whole lot more of unholy stuff. I mean, I get it, I've been mentally washing my mouth with soap after doing precisely what I said I wouldn't. Though, thankfully, Jack and I agreed that I'll leave him in my dorm with the girls while I'm with Oliver, since it would be weird for him to be there. He didn't objected it because he says he likes them.

He can talk to Oliver now, probably because of our mating bond.

Unconsciously, I confess I've been pushing away the search for a way to break our mating bond and hard as I can, as well as I've been avoiding thinking about it, but I did not changed my mind.

But after all he told me about what he went through, I didn't want to hurt him yet by bringing it up again. Especially not when we are spending an unhealthy amount of time together, and everyone knows were are with each other. Though only the thirty kids in our advanced classes knows we are mates, and they didn't blurt it out to anyone, probably scared of either me or Oliver.

And after Rio, that bloody wanker, made a post on Eclipse about a me and winged serpents, everyone learned what I am. Though it was time already, I got annoyed by the way he did. Ah, but it was delicious to see the Myths and Truths of the Supernatural World bastard of a professor Paolucci turning ashen pale when he learned about it. He's still avoiding me.

Still, Rio having been the one who delivered it, annoyed me.

"Never call a black winged serpent a snake, she'll get so offended that she'll throw you at the other wall by brute force, will strangle you, and threaten your life with her ruby fancy dagger. As if the black water bathes she gave me weren't enough. But hey, you better listen to me, because you don't want to meet this kind of Hel. Thank Crone she dates Oli, if not she might have actually tried to kill me. She doesn't joke on those shites, scary as the bloody Hel. Oli must like the nasty ones with fangs and wings."

And he said it all in a video that he must have taken right after I left Oliver's tower, given how there was still a mark of my fingers in his white neck. To make it even worse, he added subtitles to his stupid video, only to make sure everyone would get the hell jokes with my name on it. I got so annoyed when I saw it on the following morning, that I went to him on the communal cafeteria and threw a heavy wave of black water on him in front of everybody, saying that he didn't learn it enough.

The bastard just laughed, like everyone else around us. Though the others all laughed at him, which was very amazing. He deserved it.

I left the crypt in January 6th, arrived here in January 15th, and it's been exactly 18 days since then. It's February 2nd today. Lunar Starfall will happen in exactly a week from now, in seven days, on February 9th as Oliver told me when I took him to my cabin for the first time.

That means we'll be able to go to Everest in a week.

To my delightful surprise, Felix, who really turned out to be having a thing with both Igor and Henrihk, and is now hanging around the Circle and my roommates for association, asked me five days ago to teach him how to fight. Of course, I said yes, I need him to be sharp for combat for when we fight against Oliver's team in September. That's why I've been training him everyday at 5 am until 7 am, using my time magic to give us even more time.

It'll take sometime, but he's nowhere as bad at it as I first thought.

I'm still bickering with everyone, including Oliver who thinks he's the best and keeps acting condescendingly just to piss me off. In fact, the ones I end up bickering the most with are the annoying kids of the Circle and my roommates, who keep making me embarrassed and asking for a bunch of indecent details of what I do with Oliver. Add Felix to that, since he's always with them when they ask me that.

Felix and Oliver, of course, bicker a lot with one another, given the history they have of being rivals for 10 years, but they are dealing better with one another. I'm almost sure it's because of me, but it's good for them. It's good for Felix, who has his lair flooded with those annoying kids.

Now my half siblings have been disregarding my warnings and all the time they keep trying to talk to me, but I just do my best to ignore, and to shut them down and push them away. I have no desire of getting near them or of starting to care for them, especially when I know Philippa would use that against me. Which is another point me and Jack have been fighting about, because he thinks I should at least let them speak, and give them a chance to show me if they are or not like mom's murderers.

No, thank you. Even if Kalisha and Melvin keep telling me to give them a chance to prove that they aren't what I think, I can't bring myself to do that. Not yet. Not now. Maybe not ever. After all, I will be murdering their mother, and they will definitely hate me for it.

"…mina? Wilhelmina?" Professor Hugo Yves, a vampire that gives us classes of Advanced Mystery of Supernatural Beings, called me.

I blinked, "I'm sorry, Mr. Yves, my mind was elsewhere!" I like this professor though. He's always cool and I don't get annoyed when he calls me Wilhelmina, and he's the only one here who does it. I mean, damned Paolucci does it too, but it annoyed the hell out of me.

["Are you okay?"] Jack asked while laying on my feet.

I don't know. I have a bad feeling. An eerie one.

["Are you sure? I don't feel anything!"]

I gulped, still feeling a shiver on my spine. I do. It's not spiritual.

He arched his eyebrows, and I felt everyone's glares on me, which is understandable, since I'm never lost in thoughts like this. "Are you okay, kid? You look paler."

"Just a bad feeling. Sorry for interrupting your class, Mr. Yves. I'll try to focus now," clenching my jaw, I felt my hands sweaty. My hands are never sweaty. "It's just a bad feeling," I told myself.

"What is it, beautiful?" Oliver whispered worried.

Given his height that is almost as tall as Oliver's, he bend down and took a better look at my face, "You're sensitive to the spiritual world, kid. With kids like you, a bad feeling is never just a bad feeling. What exactly do you feel, Wilhelmina?"

I met his baby pink eyes, "I don't know. I've been using my tattoo to block all spiritual interference, Mr. Yves. For some reason, I don't think this is something of the spiritual world. It's eerie, and it has a scent of…" I frowned, "a scent of darkness and death."

"Crone be damned," Rio and Felix gasped at my side and back.

"Are you sure, Wilhelmina?" Mr. Yves asked.

A nod, "Yes. I feel a shiver on my spine and my body's restless."

"You're sharp, winged serpent of nothingness!" Said a mainecoon-sized big black cat with a white spot on its chest resembling a eight-pointed star, with its ribs also marked in white on its back, as well as the tip of its enormously long black tale, having amethyst purple eyes, and an emerald with jade small earrings hanging from its left ear, and fangs longer than a normal cat should have. "She told me you would be able to feel me the second I approached you, as you did. I'm sorry for underestimating you, little black serpent. Our kinds have some healthy history, so, I appreciate if you do not attack me."

My eyes widened as I saw the creature the ancient books called a Black Sìth right in front of my eyes. "Black Sìth!" Both me, Oliver, and Mr. Yves gasped, trying to get away from it.

"A… talking cat?" Rio and Felix asked together.

"That is not a cat!" I hissed, clenching my jaw. "It's a powerful fey resembling a black cat. A stealthy protector of portals to and from Hell. They are loyal to the races of darkness, and are connected to cold, dark, and death. They can steal away the luck of mortals and travel through shadows. And it's also said that if a Cat Sìth comes into contact with the body of someone that has recently died, they will steal the person's soul away."

["Those ancient books are really educative."]

You have no idea. Mia is saving my arse. "I will not attack you. I have no wish to harm your kind which was one of the only one that stood by my kind side's when they needed the most."

The dark being grinned mischievously amused, "You're a smart serpent as she told me you would be. I do not bring any harm with me, Hel!"

How does it knows my name? "I thought you were all but a myth!"

It glared at Mr. Yves when he said that, "You will never learn, will you? What is a myth if not a story told by those who forgot of the actual truth in it?"

"Huh, didn't you say that on Paolucci's class when you freaked out with him calling gargoyles and winged-serpents a myth?" River leaned closer to me, behind Oliver.

I gulped, "I did."

"Of course, you did. They called you a myth," it mocked bitterly. "I would have acted the same way. But I did not came here to refute what those condescending races that call themselves the strongest think of my kin. It's a fact that I am not a myth, but those who matter know. Hel, I have a message to give you, little serpent!"

"Bloody hell, I knew my bad feeling wasn't just a feeling," I cursed. "What is your name, Black Sìth? Why are you here for me?"

"You can call me Nacht!" Night in German? "My liege sent me to you, because she wishes to make contact. She cannot interfere directly in the events that are unfolding, but she wishes to talk to you."

She can't interfere directly in the events? Why do I keep finding myself interlocked with the Goddesses? And when I looked at Oliver, the look he gave me told me he had caught on it too. Now, which one is it? The Maden who I thought was fucking me up? The Mother who does nothing? Or the Crone who's been helping in the shadows? "I understand. What is her name, when, and where do I find her?"

["I feel like it'll only get more chaotic from now one."]

Sigh, I couldn't agree more.

"On the next moon that matches the one of your birth, come to the place Shayanne Clementine Miralanthor, your mother, used to tell tales of to you. Where daylight doesn't shine and moonlight is all that is known. Come to the tallest and eeriest tree when the skies reach the time that matches the night hour of your birthday. Annabelle Bluebonnet will be waiting for you and your mate in there," then Nacht ran to the open window, but before jumping he turned one more time to meet my eyes. "Your beauty resembles your grandfather Umbra majestically, little black serpent!"

Then he vanished. And I mean, disappeared without a trace, leaving all of us dumbfounded and confused. But I only stayed like that for a second. I understand what he meant very well.

In eleven days, one of the Triple Goddess will be waiting for me in the Corse Woods of Death, located in phantom ghost island in the middle of the pacific ocean, by 5 pm, and I'm supposed to go there with Oliver. Oh, and he is old enough to have met my grandfather.

The only problem is that it's right when I was going to the Emerald Sky City with Oliver. Seems like we'll have two stops to make.

["This just got a lot more exciting!"]