The Sacred Six

The Keen

Valkyrie walked her sister to the next class after giggling like naughty little girls for that few minute walk, about the crush Pagan Had on her new potion brewing teacher.  She reached her next class, but the door was closed signalling she was late, so she knocked softly then Entered. “Your Late…” shouted the teacher looking at her sternly. “I’m Sorry sir. I’m new and I didn’t realize that I was running late. I know its not an excuse but forgive me, I wont be late again…” She responded bowing her head. “Its fine but be on time next time you come to my class!” The older Teacher said raising his grey furry eyebrows at her. She nods, bowing her head at him, like a child that has just been scorned. The whole class was looking at her as embarrassment took over.  “What is your name child?” He asked walking towards his desk, “Valkyrie Grove Sir…” She responded, His eyes lit up surprised, “Well I didn’t realize the ‘Great Professor Grove’ Child would be attending my class… It’s a shame you never lived up to your fathers reputation regarding his Punctuality. He was always so strict… By the way child how is your mother keeping?” Valkyrie lifted her head that had still been bowed confused as to how her being late had anything to do with her mother. He didn’t give her a chance to respond, and waved her away, “Find a seat, Sit on it, and keep quiet, I will get someone to hand you your casting stones!” He said brushing her off rudely.

She looked around the class seeing not much space left, but then a hand was raised waving for her to sit in the seat next to the waving hand. She walked through the tables sitting her backpack on the ground next to her desk. “Morning… You have been Quiet, haven’t heard from you since last week…” Xavier said smiling at her, “Yeah I had some family time with my siblings…” She responded, “Crowley’s been looking for you… he thought you ditched him.” He responded, but she didn’t have a chance to respond when suddenly a long hard ruler was slapped on her table, “Did I not just tell you to keep quiet Miss Grove?” The teacher smirked sadistically as Valkyrie jumped back not expecting the ruler to hit the desk. “I’m sorry sir…” she whimpered out submitting to this awful Mrs. Trunchbull copycat. He shook his head walking back to his desk. “He used to be in love with your mother…” Xavier whispered out. “What?”  “He is normally like this but, he is targeting you because your not his child…” Xavier Adds.

A bag with casting stones was passed over to Valkyrie landing on her empty tables. Valkyrie’s first class definitely wasn’t like this whatsoever. She did feel a bit targeted, He would shout at a few students but then be nice to them all of a sudden. Maybe it was because she was late to his class but it wasn’t necessary for him to slam his ruler onto her desk as though he wanted to in force corporal punishment on her. The hard smack on the table had a terrible anger against it.

A small note book was passed to her next along with a pen. “Please look on the black board I would like you to write down everything that you see. I do not want talking and chattering in my class, and when I’m sure all of you are complete then I will go through it with you.” He shouts looking in Valkyries direction more than he should have with a cold and ugly demeanor on his wrinkled face.

“You say he loved my mother?” She ask in  a whisper as she wrote the casting instructions in her note book. “Yeah… Everyone knew that… He doesn’t know your mother is here… He certainly wouldn’t act the way he is now. When he heard that your father passed he was in such a good mood that day…” Xavier responds also taking down the notes. “So his angry because my father is my father?” She asked,  and receives a nod back, “His angry because My mother didn’t pick him and now the bastard child is in his class and he can torture her? I’m In his class for almost the whole month…” She says remembering her schedule and, looking at the board writing the notes then looking at him who is actually glaring at her from his desk. “yeah That’s what I think… He acts this way with the other students though, but never on the first day like with you…” Xavier whispered back, “What’s this teachers name, I mean he is so rude he hadn’t even introduced himself…” “His name is Mr. Jerome Thanatos…” He responded. “Jeez not even five minutes in a class and I’m already making enemies…” She mumbles to herself.

She didn’t realize that Mr. Thanato’s was standing behind her and lifting his ruler, But suddenly she heard a loud clacking sound, with Xavier holding the ruler dead center of his hand, having caught it so that Mr. Thanato didn’t hit her back.  She jumped up, and saw this, looking between the teacher and Xavier, the Teachers expression was hard and daunting. “Are you f*****g Mad?!” She shouts out at him. “I never knew this school was a corporal punishment school!?” She yelled again. “You will sit on your place and Keep Quiet! I told you this! Your disrupting my class!!!” The teacher shouted anger lined in each word.  “ I will do no such thing! You can be jailed for just doing that you piece of s**t!” She shouted back at him, he moved closer to slap her face but was not given the opportunity. When the door flew open with Amethyst and Areson, with both contorted faces. “Morning Class…” Amethyst said gracefully walking in.

Suddenly that Horrid teacher changes his demeanor, “Amethyst…” He smiled looking at Valkyries mother, “I didn’t know you were here…” “Not many of the teachers do…” She said bluntly, “I see you’ve met one of the Sacred Six?” She adds Her voice only being one monotone and it sounded pissed. “I did, But Amy she was disrupting my class…” He stuttered out, She frowned at him, “Mr. Thanato… I only get called Amy by the people I am closely related to. Please refrain from addressing me as though we are friends, It is highly disrespectful…” She said, Sternly to him, Her grace still evident in her voice, “You can Address me as Professor Grove, or Dr. Grove… Now if I’m not Mistaken we had abolished Corporal punishment in school, or in witchery before the 1800 Mr. Thanato. I mean we have never raised a hand to any pupil of this school let alone witch, It has been brought to my attention that you are using this in your class…” She says calmly, “Yes but you must understand, its only to get them on the right track, I can not have disruptions…” “And you must understand that we have to remove you from this class… Unfortunately for you, I arrived just at the right time…” “But Amy-…” He said being cut off by her hand being held up in the air. “Things are changing in this school… It seemed like when my husband passed last week you thought that you can use your own systems to punish the students. Unfortunately this is coming to an end. Please remove yourself from the class room. I will be taking this class over until further notice….” “You do not have authority…” he said, “Oh But I do and you know this, So Please… Mr. Thanato, Remove yourself from my class room, follow Areson out, Before we remove you forcefully…” She says sternly.

It didn’t take him long to collect his things and leave. Valkyrie took her seat again looking over to Xavier who had sat down in his seat again, While Amethyst prepared the class as the Horrid teacher left with Areson. “Thank you…” Valkyrie smiled, “Its nothing…” He said returning her smile. She looked at his hand, still red from catching the hard ruler. “I owe you one…” Valkyrie said with a wink, he nodded back, glancing at Amethyst who continued with the class.

After the lesson they were all dismissed. Valkyrie walked up to her mom who was sitting at the teachers table, “You guys always seem to always have my back, or always seem to save me at the right time…” Valkyrie smiled, “You know until the moment you all received your powers back, I always saw my children as part of my coven… And in a sense all of your siblings acted as though they were part of one, even though you all had no powers and not knowing about all of this. Look I’m not going to lie… the first day I arrived I was filled in about Thanato’s misconduct, But it was a message from your friend Xavier that caused me and Areson to rush to this class as soon as possible. Don’t ask me how the message got through to us, Because the administration clerk in the office who is telepathic said it was a message passed through a messenger…”  “Okay well thanks anyway for coming up for me once again…” Valkyrie said receiving a nod in return from her mother.

She left the classroom preparing to leave for her third class of the day when she noticed Xavier standing outside waiting for her. He smiled at her and it drew her Closer to stand next to him. “I don’t know how you did it but thank you…” She started, He smiled at her, “I wasn’t going to let anyone hurt you…” He responded. Suddenly Crowley appears seeing them standing next to each other. She frowned feeling a bad inkling resonating off of him, but she felt as though she had mix emotions towards Crowley. He put his arm over her shoulder. “How’s my little Minx?”  He asked with a smirk, “I haven’t seen you in a long time girl, you disappeared on us…” He adds, “No… No I just have been spending some time with my coven…” She replied feeling a little uncomfortable. He looked at Xavier angrily for a moment, causing Valkyrie to frown. What was that about? She thought, but brushed it off as soon as she saw Rowan, giving her a ‘way out’ of this uncomfortable conversation. “I have to go, I need to chat to my brother Quick” She said, She looked up at Xavier, “Thank you again…” She added smiling, He nodded in return.

She ran off to her brother leaving Xavier and Crowley alone. They were only standing a few meters away, trying to chat about complete nothing to her brother. Just to get out of the Awkwardness Crowley brought when he arrived. She glanced over to see a frustrated Crowley looking very Disappointed at Xavier, She saw them talk but, it was as though he was yelling in a way, Crowley Throwing his hands up in the air and contorting his face angrily. She wondered what it was about but didn’t question it. They were brothers, Siblings do fight, she knew this for a fact. She has Five other Siblings and they always have small Quarrels so she should Know. Rowan looked over at the two brothers Crowley and Xavier, then he looked back to Valkyrie giving her a knowing look. “So… You needed to get away?” He asked, She just nodded giving him a small smile, “I’m glad I could have helped, Now I think we should be getting to our next classes. Don’t worry about it Valk…” He said, his eyes moving towards the two brothers again, reassuring her… She didn’t say anything, clutching  the handles of her backpack she left to her next class.

Demetria

Demetria had two free hours to kill, the only one of the six that didn’t have a Class. So she decided to roam the school. She walked around for about an half an hour then finally stopped at the school Lake. She sat down on the soft ground watching the Water witches play with the water and cast spells. She was intrigued by the witches in the school she had learned that there were so many, Witches that only concentrate on Herbs, and potions, Witches that only focused on using s*x magic, witches that used nature at their only tool. There were different types of witches all having all different types witch craft. The Green Witch, Was the Naturalist, the Healer, the Herbalist, the Hedge witch was focused towards the earth, also similar to the Green witch but in itself, the witch Had different types of methods. Practicing in grounding themselves on the earth and using nature as a conductor in every spell they did. Dianic Witches were Demetria’s favorite, seeing women as Goddesses. She had nothing against the Male species but she felt that just having a few women together at once being their own coven without any male assistance made them as powerful as they sounded. Elemental witches were straight forward, using the elements to assist them in casting spells and creating potions.  Then there was the water witches, that motioned the waters with their hands, persuaded the water to lift from the lake and then fall back down into it’s original place. Their emotions and love towards the water made the water move with just their actions, and it intrigued her watching the witches act as though it was the most natural thing on earth.

She felt a nudge realizing someone had sat beside her.  “When I saw you sitting here I was conflicted whether or not I should leave you in peace or sit with you and watch the water witches…. You look at peace… I hope I’m not disturbing, But I too want to feel that peaceful energy.” Demetria smiles, “I suppose this ‘peace’ isn’t only mine to claim so I’m sure I can share some with you…” “They really know what they are doing hey…” Calypso said pointing towards a witched that levitated the water above the lake,  “They do, they just look so natural doing it…” Demetria added, and received a nod back from Calypso, “Why are you not in Class?” Demetria asked, “well I teach… Certain classes… I’m no longer a student here…” “You’re a teacher?” Demetria asked surprise in her voice, she looked so young, but then realized her oldest sister was gracefully aging. “I have been here since birth, I’ve been to these classes about a hundred times over, well until I was twenty five, and when your dad came back to run what he build, well, he made me a teacher…” “How old are you?” Demetria asked, “I’m thirty…” Calypso Responded, “Do you have any siblings?” Demetria asked,  “Yes, I have a twin Brother…” She responded,  Demetria smiles, “Is he apart of your Coven?” “No… My Coven consists of only Women, and well, We couldn’t exactly, both be a Priest and a Priestess of the coven at the same time, there are a few laws against it…” She responded nonchalantly, “So you are a priestess? And your brothers a priest?” Demetria asked receiving a nod in return, “We were both powerful individuals and when he was nominated, I was too… So we knew that we had to go our separate ways… We have, similar powers so it would have been a problem if we both ran the same coven…” She said, “How did you get nominated?” “That would be from the Priest/ Priestess hood book… They have one in the main office. Your name is ascribed in there before you are born so… we don’t know how it got there but we do know that its never been wrong, So lessons were created for Priest/ Priestess hood, for the people nominated, and well, you attend the class and you learn how to become a Good Coven Priest…” Calypso said looking at Demetria with a smile. “You know you have a very beautiful smile” Calypso said suddenly. Making Demetria blush, “Can I take you on a date?” She adds, “You want to take me on a date?” “well yeah, I Probably will get into a lot of Trouble asking a Student, but I cant resist…” “You will get into trouble?” “Yeah we not allowed to have Relationships besides from student teacher relationships but since Adawulf is so close to Stone I don’t think anyone would suspect it…” “Are you willing to put your Job at risk?” Demetria asks, surprised, “I don’t call it a Job, I teach one class a day and its basically nothing… I teach it with My brother so… I’m not really putting my Job at risk…” Calypso responds, “Your brothers a teacher?” “Yes and you are avoiding the question Demi… Will you go on a date with me? Secretly?” She asks again, “When do you want to go and where?” “Leave that up to me… Now is it a yes or a no?” Demetria sits for a moment, thinking about the fact that Calypso is a teacher and how would it impact Calypso’s life if anyone would find out about it. “First, I need to ask you this… What will the school do to you if they find out about our date?” “They will probably just fire me… that’s it… and its not a big deal… I want to take a chance with you, I feel like we really have a connection, and I want to see where it goes…” Demetria nods, “Okay well then we just need to be discreet. I don’t want to put your job on the line and if they do find out I do not want to be the one that had caused you to lose your Job.” Calypso’s smile grew from ear to ear in the course of a second. “Wow you have really made me very happy…” she comments. “Now I’ve got to get going, My brother requires prep time an hour before the actual class…” She adds, then pecks Demetria softly on the cheek, “I said Discreet…” Demetria says biting her bottom lip trying to suppress a smile. “I cant help it…” She says jumping up her curly long locks bounce around as she does.  Demetria shakes her head watching her run away smiling.

A lot of things became clear to Demetria as she sat there in front of the Lake. One of them being that her oldest sister was to be the Priestess of their coven. Demetria Loved her sisters terribly and saw Phoenix as being the wisest out of all of the girls. They shared similar personalities, but in retrospect Demetria saw herself as the introvert. She was a Teacher, she loved working with her Kids but when it came to her personal life she was never as outgoing as the rest of her sister. If anything until the day that Valkyrie in her spell bound state insulted her sexuality she had shared the greatest bond with her, but in the Interim she felt that the position for coven priestess would never have been suited with anyone else besides Phoenix.

She looked back at the water witches, so carefree. Then she remembered Thalia her lover from home. She could never be carefree with Thalia because of their secret relationship. But isn’t this relationship the same? She thought, She would have to indefinitely hide the fact that she would be going on a date with Calypso. She actually did have a connection with Calypso but for once she didn’t want to jeopardize anything. That’s what she felt, that she Jeopardized things with her and Thalia’s secret love affair. She was being too hard on herself. She should have told everyone about it, before it got too far and complicated. It got complicated because of her feelings… She was going to tell Calypso that she wasn’t going to go on the date. She decided, she had no other way to feel comfortable. She wasn’t going to put a paying Job at risk because of a teacher dating a student. She was sad because she felt that connection that Calypso had but she wasn’t prepared to be a secret. She remembered her mom’s words which were so true… ‘If no one else is allowed to know then it should be happening…’, Yes you were allowed to have your own personal secrets but her mother meant that if any way the secret can influence multiple peoples lives then it should be happening. Which was true and Thalia had her secret, A secret wedding, and that effected Demetria’s life. This was something big for Demetria and she wasn’t going to keep her life a secret. She envied the people who could have open relationships and not be Judged or punished for it. So she thought, Maybe in a months’ time she will give it a chance, but not now. She was done having her secrets. She is a caring and Attractive, Never once did she think she was stupid, but she was gullible, and she wasn’t going to let her heart win this time. She has had so much pain with relationships in her past, she would be too naive to not learn from it.