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Babirus... How interesting. I look forward to seeing what my time at this demon school will have to offer to me.
"Shall we go in, Lady Gremory?" Kija asks me, and I nodded, and the five of us started walking towards the building. As we're walking, I saw lots of students flying over us, meaning that they have just arrived as well. As the five of us finally make it to the entrance, I see that the student council is standing at the gateway, greeting all of the students as they passed under the entrance.
"You there!" I heard one of the student council members shout, so I turned to see what they were shouting about. It turned out that they were referring to one of the several students that were passing under the gateway, a boy. The boy was a little bit taller than me, and he had blue spiky hair with an ahoge. He also had blue eyes along with an innocent face. He was also wearing the standard male's uniform for Babirus Demon School.
"The auditorium is that way, so please make your way there." The student council member says as he pointed in a direction away from the group.
"R-Right! Sorry for that, I'll get going now!" The blue haired boy says before he ran in the direction that the student council member had pointed in. Then it was my group's turn to walk through the gateway, and once we had reached it, the student council group's eyes all widened considerably once they saw me, and they quickly kneeled down in respect.
"Your highness Gremory! Let us be the first ones to welcome you to Babirus Demon School! Feel free to wander the school grounds as you see fit until further notice!" All of the student council members said in unison. I nodded before the five of us started walking in a different direction that the blue haired boy from before did. After a few minutes and a little bit of walking, we had finally reached our destination. It was a quite spacious area, and it had crystal filled pillars scattered all throughout the entire area. There was a large spiral staircase in the middle of the spacious area, which was how we got into it in the first place.
We went down to the smoothed off spot that sat in the middle of the staircase, and I sat down on the smooth stone. I quite liked the smoothness of the stone, I always seemed to like smooth surfaces, no matter what the object that the surface belonged to.
Now, you might be wondering how I was able to find this place so easily despite the fact that I had seemingly never been on Babirus grounds before. Well, you're all quite wrong. I've walked on these grounds countless times when I was younger, and that is because I would always go with my father whenever he visited Babirus, and we would always wander the grounds together whenever we got there earlier than we expected, which is how I was able to memorize the entire layout of the school grounds.
I was brought out of my thoughts by footsteps, and they were approaching us. They eventually stopped, so I turned around to see who it was that had walked up to us. It turned out to be Azazel Ameri, who was a good friend of mine. Ameri had long red-orange hair and red eyes. She had two long orange tufts protruding from her hair that resembled horns, and her fingernails were short and red. For her outfit, she wore a white sheer undershirt that was connected to a black choker on her neck, which sat atop a black and white vest with a sweetheart neckline and an orange collar. She also wore an orange and white skirt, white thigh-high socks, and a pair of orange knee-high boots.
"I thought I'd find you down here, Gremory-chan. You always seemed to come down to this cavern whenever you had the chance." Ameri says to me. She was one of the few demons that were permitted to refer to me by that nickname, and everyone else who wasn't addressed me formally.
"Yeah, you know how fond I am of this spot and how pretty it looks, as well as all the smooth spots that are scattered around it." I said to her.
"Well, I came down here because I wanted to let you know that the ceremony would be wrapping up soon." She says before she made her way back up the spiral staircase and eventually left the cavern. I spent a few more minutes collecting my thoughts with my servants, but that was brought to an abrupt end by a loud rumble shaking up the entire cavern, even causing a couple of the smaller pillars to collapse.
"What was that? We need to go investigate it immediately." I said before we all spread our wings once again and flew up and out of the cavern. It only took the five of us to trace the source of the rumble to the schoolyard. As it turned out, the blue haired boy that we had seen at the entrance of the school and gotten into a duel with another student, one who I recognized as Asmodeus Alice. Asmodeus had fair skin and medium-length light-pink hair. He had pointed ears and his eyes were magenta with long eyelashes. Rather than wear Babirus' school uniform, he wore a formal set of his own, a black dress shirt under a white vest, and an elegant white overcoat with gold trim, white pants and a pair of knee high white boots that had gold trim as well.
"Holy crap! You know that this duel has to be crazy important if a member of the Gremory family is watching it!" One of the several duel spectators shouted, and I turned my attention back to Asmodeus and the blue haired boy, and Asmodeus looked quite angry with the blue haired boy.
"My name is Asmodeus Alice. I was supposed to be the one to make the speech... Back then, you relied on the principal and stole my position! The spells must also have been prepared from the start by the principal. I feel... very disappointed! To prepare for today, I even put on a new uniform...!! My beautiful stage has been tainted by you. So can I confirm whether or not you are an excellent demon...?" He says.
"So this whole thing got started because he wasn't the one who got to do some speech? What kind of stupid idiot get mad over something so trivial as this?!" Kija asks, sounding very annoyed.
"I don't know, but there's no point in trying to stop this fight, because it has already escalated far past the point of return." Jae-ha says.
"So, are you ready...?" Asmodeus asked menacingly as he got into a position.
"Since when have so many people have come here?!" The blue haired boy asks in shock.
"It was me. I called them. Now... before everyone's eyes, prove that you are better than me. Show me what you got!" Asmodeus says as he began rapidly firing balls of fire at the blue haired boy, who somehow managed to dodge all of them. This launch and dodge barrage went on for a full twenty minutes. After that, both attacker and dodger fell to the ground in exhaustion. It was then that the blue haired boy tried to apologize, but one of the many spectators that were present made some sort of comment, which led to the blue haired boy making a comment of his own, which Asmodeus somehow interpreted as him being even less significant than a mere bug. This enraged Asmodeus, who then formed a sword out of fire and began charging towards the blue haired boy, who promptly dodged this as well. However, this didn't stop Asmodeus, and he was still charging, albeit it was me who he was heading towards now. This caused Kija, Shin-ah, and Jae-ha to charge after him as well, and the three of them quickly surrounded Asmodeus. Kija with his dragon arm enlarged and nearly gripping him, Shin-ah with his sword out and pointed at him, and Jae-ha in a position that allowed him to swiftly deliver a nice, hard kick to the gut.
(Like this, and the picture is from Black Clover episode 80)
This did manage to stop Asmodeus, however, the same could not be said for the sword of fire that he was wielding. The abrupt stop that Asmodeus had made had caused him to let go of the sword, and it was sent flying towards me. This prompted Zeno to immediately activate his ability, and his entire body was covered in bright yellow scales. He then jumped in between me and the sword of fire. The sword slammed into his back and exploded almost immediately, and Zeno took the full force of the explosion. Although I knew that he wouldn't sustain any injuries thanks to his ability, I couldn't help but worry about him. As expected, he survived the explosion with not a scratch on his body, however, the same could not be said about the back side of his clothing, which had basically disintegrated into nothing but ash. Thankfully, the necessary parts of his clothing remained intact.
"Bastard!! How dare you make an attempt to harm Lady Nero!!" Kija roared in anger.
"You know, something like this could end up costing you your life, boy. Just how do you think her parents, Lord and Lady Gremory will react when this news reaches their ears?" Jae-ha asks with an innocent, yet also very menacing smile on his face.
"That is enough, Kija! You and I both know that him launching his flaming sword at me was a complete accident because the three of you had made him come to an abrupt stop. I don't want to escalate this fight any further than it already has, so we will be returning home at once." I said, and he begrudgingly left Asmodeus along with Jae-ha and Shin-ah to return to my side, and the five of us spread our wings once again, and we took off to return home.
After a while of flying, we finally made it back to my home, where upon entering the building, I immediately went to my room and then to bed, without even eating dinner first.
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It was the next day, and I woke up to get ready for the day. If I recall correctly, today is the day where all of the new students summon their familiars to determine their ranks and such. I bathed myself before I changed into my outfit for the day, which was red with intricate black details at the bottom half, with a pair of black pants and some red boots.
(With the hood down)
I went downstairs and ate breakfast with my parents and the others, before my group and I flew off to school. We entered the school before being asked to report to a certain room, and upon arriving there, I find that the room is full of many of the new students, including Asmodeus and the blue haired boy, whose name I learned was Suzuki Iruma from reading the school newspapers, which had gone into great detail of the duel that had occured yesterday. We were all chatting amongst ourselves when the doors suddenly slammed open, and in walked a man whose scowl could possibly kill you if you stared at him for too long. He was tall, and he had short, deep purple, cropped hair with a long fringe and sideswept wing style. For attire, he wore a long purple cloak under a short purple shoulder capulet that had white trimming and a studded purple belt, pants, and a pair of boots.
"I don't wish to spend too much time in here, so I'll make it quick. I am Naberius Kalego, and I will be your instructor for this summoning session, where you will be gaining a familiar and also where your rank will be determined." He said menacingly, before informing us on how to summon our familiars. We were to take a piece of paper with a summoning symbol and draw a circle of blood on it, and then take it to the flame to burn, and our familiars would supposedly rise and appear from the smoke. One by one, each of the students summoned their familiars. Eventually, it was Asmodeus's turn, and once he burned his summoning paper, the smoke immediately turned to flame before a giant white snake with horns, wings, and a flaming tail appeared from the flames and positioned itself behind Asmodeus.
A gorgon snake, huh? Those are pretty rare. Next, it was Kija's turn. He went into the summoning circle with his paper and burned it, and from the smoke appeared a beautiful creature. It had the general body and head shape of a canine animal, and it had avian legs and claws instead of canine legs and paws. It had the tail of an avian creature, and it had large feathers across its head and tail that matched the colors of a perfect sunset.
A Drokea (draw-kay-uh)? You never see those outside of zoos these days because of how rare they are. Finding one out in the wild is damn near impossible, even for the most dedicated of creature finders. Next was Shin-ah's turn. He went to the summoning circle and burned his paper, and from the smoke appear a tall creature that had green and white fur, and pointed horns on top of its head.
(The one on the left)
A Kniboros (knee-bore-ohs), huh? Those are fairly uncommon, around the same rarity level as a gorgon snake. They may look like they're not very powerful, but if you get headbutted by one of these things, then you'll be in the medical ward for months because of how badly your bones were shattered from being headbutted. Next up was Jae-ha, yada yada yada, go to circle, burn paper, up from the smoke rises his new familiar. It was a giant green bird whose wings and head were burning with bright, emerald green flames.
A Jade Skarma (literally karma with an s in the front), huh? You don't see those very often these days. They're more rare than a gorgon snake or kniboros, but they're less rare than a Drokea. They pack a crap ton of fire power, and if you get burned by this bird's fire, then you can forget about trying to soothe those burns, because they last for an insanely long time, and most people who get burned by them usually end up dying before they got rid of their burns, because the one and only way to cure the burn of a jade skarma is to make a special gel, and one of the most important ingredients of this special burn soothing gel is the tears of a jade skarma. So yeah, you're pretty much screwed of one of these things burns you. Up next was Zeno. You guys know the drill by now, circle, paper, smoke. What rose from the smoke of Zeno's burned paper amazed everyone. It was a large feline creature that had mostly yellow fur with black lightning bolt designs, which covered its head, arms and part of its legs. It also had black fur on its face and abdomen, and it had blue bolts for whiskers and a blue spike on its head, as well as a pair of beady, electric blue eyes.
A Zeraora?! Those were even rarer than a drokea! Only a handful of these have been found in the last seven centuries! They were powerful, aggressive, and a force to be reckoned with, especially with their complete control over thunder and lightning, which makes them a formidable foe. Now... it was my turn. The teacher tried to hand me one of his summoning papers, but I refused it.
"I apologize for being rude sir, but for this, I will be using one of the Gremory family summoning papers." I say as I reached into my pocket and pulled out the summoning paper that I was going to use. It had the symbol of the Gremory family on it, which was proof of its origins.
I bit my finger before I drew the circle of blood on it, and I went to the middle of the summoning circle, where the candle awaited me. I held my summoning paper above the candle flame, and the paper slowly caught on fire and burned, and the smoke began forming into a huge shape that filled up half of the entire room, and the room was pretty huge. Once my familiar finally appeared, everyone, including me, were shocked beyond belief, because standing before me was a sixty foot tall, four headed, white dragon that had orange, green, yellow, and blue markings on each of its chests, with eyes on each head to match the chest color. As if it wasn't terrifying enough, its four massive, gaping mouths added even more fear onto its appearance.
"Oh sweet mother of Derkila, please tell me that's not what I think it is." Teacher Kalego said with a mixed look of pure fear, terror, and horror on his face.
"That's exactly what you think it is, Sir Kalego. That right there is the Force Hydra, the very same one that slaughtered millions of demons over a thousand years ago. And little miss Nero Gremory over there has just summoned it as her familiar. The most powerful being in existence has now been made the servant of a being that is far, far, FAR weaker than it is. If she wasn't insanely powerful before, she has now become unstoppable." One of the several students says.
The Force Hydra, huh?
This is gonna be FUN.
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