Rimholm University: Clandestine

Chapter 17

Freddy's point of view

"So, as a part of the elite class, let me orient the three of you. I know you got a tour on your first days but this is more exciting than that." Hailey said. She started touring us around and explained everything then we stopped at the dungeon-looking place.

"That's the training room, we often went there every last day of the school week to train but when the Lutheran games are coming, we train there not only a day but a whole week straight. Lutheran games is a game where all of the schools like Rimholm are participating. The hardest of all is Luther's pawns and our ace on that game are the five previous alumni of the school." She explained while the three of us are keeps on tailing her. We stopped at the garden, our last spot. "This is the Garden of Griffins, they're friendly so there's no reason to get worried."

After the tour, we go back to our classroom to catch up with the lesson.

"Mr. Douglas since you're pacing out on my class, what's the agreement that vampires and shifters made?" Mrs. Holloway asked me while holding her glasses down as she looked at me.

"Ma'am this is a---" I clamped my eyes shut when she slammed her palm on the table, "You're pacing out. Answer that." I stared at her eyes, it's the first time I noticed something in her eyes. She might be looking at me that sends death daggers but she seems like choking me on her head. However, let me tell you this, Salem's blank stare and Zachary's smile are a thousand times scarier than her.

"Simara----" Now, I got cut off by the school bells. Mrs. Holloway glared at me before leaving the room. I got saved by the bell before I got whooped.

Mira and her boyfriend leave the room then the others did the same. They seem like intentionally leaving the unpaired person in this room.

"Come here. Stand up." I stopped munching the food that I bought from our cafeteria this morning even though I eat breakfast with Mira and Mattheo. It's our vacant time so there's only me, Mattheo, Julius, and Salem left in this room. Due to my curiosity, I looked around, thinking that Salem might be pulling my leg but I almost got rooted in my seat after remembering that she's not talking to anyone unless it's her cousin or the teacher.

"I know that you wanted to know this. Please help me. I'll do what you want, please. I know you can hear me, please help me." I stood up and slowly marched towards the door. I scanned the hallways yet I found nothing and its silence makes me deaf. But the long as I looked at the hallways that changing their routes every time, the more something that urges me to obey.

After taking a step or two, the voice makes me curious about everything that revolves throughout the University, why they're still keeping the troublemakers, and what they're hiding behind their walls.

"Stupid elf." A smack on the back of my head wakes me up from the reverie but the voice gets louder like the distance between me and someone who's attracting me stretches only a hair strand. I faced the one who insulted me and smacked, upset because I'm hurt yet still thankful since I haven't been lured into trouble. Mattheo looked at me blankly when I tripped and fall over the cold and tiled pavement in surprise. We're now inside the abandoned garden. The brick wall is covered with mosses and slugs are sticking.

"Why we're here?" He gives me an 'it's you who comes here and you're asking me that now?' so I placed both of my hands on my waist and looked at the broken door.

"Should we open it?" I almost jump when Julius opened the door without a word, he leaned at the wooden frame and wait for the both of us to enter. He dragged both of us inside and immediately closed the door. Seeing the view inside leaves me flabbergasted. It's the most beautiful view that I've seen. Mountain ranges are covered with flowers. We're now standing on the almost peak of one of the mountains.

"This is the garden of familiars. This might appears to be mountain ranges for you but this is just part of Collie nan sithichean and Montagna di giganti. We need to wait for the others." Julius seated on the lawn and let the wind breeze.

"Your familiars are waiting for the two of you." He said, "Lady Selene told me that I should help you with this. It's supposed to be Salem but she's nowhere to find at the moment. I'm about to tell you that but you come here ahead of me."

"You're lying," Mattheo said causing Julius to chuckle.

Minutes later, a blue jay comes out from the door where we come from and it got followed by Mira and Zachary. The bird landed away from us before Salem appeared. She seated away from us while Mira and Zachary seated near me.

"She's pretty, right?" Julius asked Mattheo while looking at Salem. My friend just nodded. Yes, I agree with Julius too but after witnessing what she can do, I can describe it as lethal.

"Probably not suitable for you, 100-year-old man." Keiro laughs. He's jokingly carrying Erin in his arms like a child. We looked at him while the dwarf he's carrying just grinned, "Hush, I'm babysitting Erin."

"Sometimes familiars can be monsters but they can be spirits or demons," Julius said. The wind breeze makes me hug myself, it's a sunny day instead of a dry and humid breeze, it's cold like the rain might fall any second from now. The weather is promising that it'll be going to rain.

"Nature's spirits and the God of the Air's presence are getting strong here." Lady Selene said as she let the breeze swirl around her then went to Salem. After checking the whole class is now complete, she pulled out her notepad and her pen.

"Well, I'm going to pair the twelve of you. Zachary and Mira. Grimoire and Garnett. Aquarius and Megan. Julius and Mattheo. Erin, and Keiro. Freddy and Hailey."