8:50am Monday, 29th January
(Death's Pov)
I walked across the road, over to the school with my bag thrown over my shoulder "Death, wait up!" I rolled my eyes, continuing to walk as Leo ran over, catching up with me "How are you-" "What do you want Rohit?" I questioned him as we walked up the stairs through the front door of the school. "I just wanted to check up on you since you seemed pretty 'out-of-it' a couple days ago-" "Leo, I'm fine" I assured him "Monday was just a fluke" I told him as we turned the corner into another corridor "A fluke? Death, you looked like you were scared and confused" Leo 'reminded' me. I angrily signed as we ascended up a flight of stairs to the second floor of the building "Look, haven't talked or even seen the fallen since Monday" I looked Leo dead in the eyes "So drop it... until either of us figure out what fucking game emo is playing" I told him "Right, I'll keep an ear out for ya..." Leo said before we both walked into the classroom. "But seriously, Death... look less than a 'first-day grinch', you're bringing the mood down" Leo joked as he walked over to his desk while I rolled my eyes "You're one to talk, bloody hypocrite" I smirked as I sat down at my desk. Soon the last few people of our class walked into the classroom and took their seats followed by Erik, who walked into the classroom with a piece of paper and arms full of books. "Okay class 1A, welcome to your third year of Ego University and your third year into the ego course, as you can all see... we've got a lot of ground to cover this year" Erik started, picking up one pile of books and handing them out one by one to each student. "The first two years in this course is mostly the 'easiest' part, the third and forth on the other hand aren't" Erik explained as he placed a few books on my desk before moving onto the next kid. I looked down at the books, reading their titles... Demon and Angel Extended biology, Advanced Human Studies, Magical Rare Artefacts and Myths...and Curses? Why do we need to learn this stuff? We're going to be human egos not fight as weird intelligent soldiers.
"As you would've heard by now, once your human dies in the human realm, you are immediately summoned back to your celestial realm where you are given a choice to return to previous life before or you can choose to become an ego for another human" Erik explained "This means you all have to be ready for any decision you end up making now and in the near or far future" he told us before turning to the board behind the teacher's desk. Erik started writing down important dates and events for this year "Like the last two years, most things are still the same yet there are a few different things such as the up-coming 'School Open Day' " and of course by mentioning that, Erik had caught the entire class's attention. "This will be held on the nineteenth on February, the Monday of week five of this school term" the teacher stated as he continued to write out events and their dates on the board "The school is opened to the public and the school sponsers so they can have a close look at the school itself, the students and the students' studies... the school committee will be showing several of groups of these people around the school while the rest of you will either treat this day as a free day off or sign up to help out with several showings" yep, knew there was a boring bit to it. "Sir" Erik turned his head to Broody "Yes?" "Where is Iant- Miss Peace?" Broody asked while everyone silently agreed "Miss Peace is currently very busy with up-coming work and her responsibilities as Queen of Heaven, at the moment she is unable to teach this class" Erik answered Broody and everyone else's silent questions. "Therefore, me and Lucifer will rotate between classes in order to teach all of you and our own classes" Erik continued "So expect a very rough learning year" he warned before turning back to the board... there's got to be more to this then Erik's making out. I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket... I hesitantly took it out, somewhat hiding it under my desk as I looked at a text from... Isra? 'Meet me in the Building B den entrance during third period. Bring Angel' ...I looked up from my phone, over to Isra who sat in the near front of the classroom. She glanced at me for a second before looking back at Erik.... what the Hell is Isra up to?
Third Period, 12:21pm
(Gamer's Pov)
I wondered around the school corridors, looking for someone- "What the..." ...I just walked into someone while spaced out again. I looked up at notice that it was unfortunately an older ego student, one that I knew was Logan... some guy with brown hair, eyes hidden behind black glasses, mostly wore black and dark blue even though he's an angel... a smart angel who's hard to argue with depending on the situation you get yourself in with him. "Sorry Logan, I wasn't looking and-" "Obviously distracted" he interrupted before signing a bit "I assure you, Gamer... it's alright" Logan told me as I let out a breath in relief "Logan!" Janus over to us "I've been looking for you, you wouldn't believe what Patton and Roman- oh, hi Gamer... didn't see you there" Janus said as he turned to me. "Sorry for interrupting" "It's fine, I was just looking for-" wait... bad idea, but apparently going for it "Actually, can you two help me with something?" I asked as both Janus and Logan raised a brow.
Twenty Minutes Later
We walked into a storage room, closing the door behind ourselves before spreading out "You sure they'd be in here?" I asked, opening a box of old paperwork that had been poorly labelled "The unfortunate thing about the records of this school, they're never organised properly nor kept all together" Logan answered as he scanned the shelves "So what he's saying is that it's like finding a needle in a massive haystack" Janus chimed in. "What student are we looking for again?" Janus asked "A non-binary kid with a nickname 'Lie', look for someone who seems like an outcast with pale skin and black hair" I poorly answered, seeming unsure about the answer myself "Great, student records of a shadow walker teenager that might have never existed from about the 1940s" Logan rolled his eyes "Real helpful by the way". "Well... I have some sort of picture" I said, taking out a piece of journal paper with a rough sketch of the shadling, Li, holding it up to Logan and Janus "Alright, that's a start I guess" Janus signed, turning back to the shelves he was looking at. I stole the sketch from Death's old journal he drew in... I know that was wrong, but I thought 'just in case' I needed to compare it to photos and crap if I actually find something "Well... this is interesting and disturbing" Logan stated, holding up a picture frame under the dim light. "Did you find them?" I asked "No, something a little... worse" I raised a brow as me and Janus walked over to Logan, looking at the picture within the frame "Holy shit, is that-" "Indeed it is" Logan affirmed Janus "What are you looking at?" I asked the two older students. Janus pointed at this one man within the photo who was most likely the teacher of the the class he was standing with, the photo however was in black and white, no real way of telling any actual distinctive features or details "This is Grayson Direshade" Janus told me.
"He use to be EU's old pe teacher, taught many ego classes defence, combat, power and control..." Logan continued "Use to?" I questioned "Use to as in... Direshade killed a few ego students in the 1940s, this class was his last before he was put on death trail for provoking and corrupting a student... leading to her killing a few of her own classmates" Janus answered, taking the picture frame out of Logan's hands. "...Annadite?" "Yeah, and that is a truth no one is told about her" Janus told me as he looked closely at the photo "Rumor states that Direshade treated Annadite horribly, leading to the uncontrolled full demon transformation" Logan chimed in "If put through enough stress, demons and devils end up with an extreme nervous break down to leads up to an uncontrollable transformation" Logan added. I know about that fact already, I've seen it before, years ago in Hell.... it happened to Death, but it wasn't that bad since I was able to calm him down in time before he did anything... 'stupid'. "So... what happened to Direshade?" I asked "They killed him by the old willow on the side of the school-" "Wait a second" Janus interrupted Logan, holding the frame out to us as he pointed at a girl "So this is Annadite" Janus told us "And she killed these two classmates" Janus then pointed at a boy and a girl that was standing next to her. "Okay? And-" "Look at this student" Janus interrupted Logan again as he moved his finger to a pale boy with dark hair- wait "That's... Li?" I questioned as I took the picture out of Janus's hands "Yeah- Gamer... that photo was taken halfway through their last year of EU" Janus pointed out. "Which means this 'shadling' was an ego student about fifty-five years ago" Logan stated "It does state on the frame that it's class 1A, 1943 to 1946" he added "And there's a massive chance that 'Li' was Grayson Direshade's last victim" Janus said as I looked back to the photo.
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