Zac

School, how I hated that place. I had to see all these people I don't like. DO you want an example? Arthur Lawiest. I hated that guy. His sister was the funniest person I knew and he was walking dead. I hated most of my classmates but he was something else. If I could, I would kick him in the balls every time I see him. I would pin him against the wall with a knife to his throat. I would smash his head to rock. I would make him bleed like shit. I would beat the hell out of him. I would torture him until he doesn't beg for mercy. I would...

I stepped in class and all my violent thoughts were gone. Mr. Rowe was standing in class and was talking to Alex, her brother wasn't anywhere nearby. I was thankful for that, Mr. Rowe looked me dead in the eyes and walked to me.

"Mr. Costa. Would you mind coming with me?" he asked.

I wanted to say that I actually would mind but something in his voice was telling me that it wouldn't be a good idea.

"No sir." Alex smiled at me, she was cute. I didn't understand how they are identical twins, both are gingers with green eyes and loads of beautiful freckles. Well, Alex had beautiful freckles. He was an idiot.

I walked alongside Alex and Mr. Rowe, we were in a part of school where I never stepped a foot before, I didn't like it. Why would he take us here? I glanced at Alex, if anything would happen I had to protect her.

Mr. Rowe opened huge double doors. For some time, I didn't see anything because the light that came out of there was too much, it was as if I looked straight to the sun. I wanted to grab Alex's hand so I knew she was okay but I didn't.

When I was able to see I wished I didn't, that little motherfucker was there.

We were in the library, I didn't even know that was there. It didn't look like anything else in this place. It looked brighter, white walls with blue and gold ornaments, whole roof was made of glass. Shelves were made of dark wood but because of the light it didn't seem too dark.

Next person I saw was Lucia Rowe. I didn't like nor dislike her. Last year we had some classes together, she was very good at what she did. There was also Daniel Savile and Achlys. Don't ask me for her surname, I never had any class with her. I just know who she is because she is at the top of school, talking about the top of school we have the first three places here. Achlys, that motherfucker and Lucia. As the principal's kid she should be on top or at least I would thank her if she beat that ginger but she was in third place.

Achlys looked a lot different than I expected her to. People always say she is everywhere with a book and a grin on her face. I thought she woodlouse more like Lucia or number two, but she had long dark hair and something in her green eyes was saying she was way different from them. She was tall, taller than Alex. Alex's height was equal to my eyes level. Achlys was taller; she was at least as tall as me.

Daniel Savile, who was my classmate and probably closest friend from this school, was a blond dude with bright blue eyes.

Funny thing about Lucia was that she looked something between African and Arabic and had dark eyes but in light they looked more yellow than brown, little dark brown braids she got were in a bun.

"Hello there." Mr. Rowe said to all of us when we sat and he stood a few meter from us behind on of the seven chairs.

And I couldn't resist: "General Kenobi."

He looked confused and Lucia quickly explained: "It's from a movie."

Her dad nodded and continued: "So all of you are here for the same reason."

"Well probably not the same." Said Dan, I smirked at him.

Mr. Rowe pretended like he didn't hear anything and continued: "you all have dreams about ending words." We collectively nodded, except that little idiot. "It happened."

"But sir, if it happened then why are we here?" Asked Alex.

"Good question Ms Lawiest. It happened, a lot of years back in time." He sighed in frustration "please sit down, we will be there for some time."

We sat. I was next to Alex and Dan, next to Alex sat her brother, next to Dan Lucia and next to Arthur Achlys. Mr. Rowe sat next to his daughter and Achlys. there was seven of us but I was pretty sure he didn't have those dreams.

"Could you please retell your dreams once more?" he asked. I thought I would kill him, it was traumatizing enough the first time not to hear it six more times. But we again collectively nodded. "Good. Now Miss Raven, could you start?"

Achlys nodded and started: "It starts the same every time. Everything is on fire, then somebody appears. I am not sure if it's a woman or not, but she starts to fight with the women on the other side. And then I wake up."

It was the same. But I didn't see the warrior first, it was the woman who came first.

"Thank you" Mr. Rowe smiled "Mr. Lawless could you?"

"Everything is on fire and ashes. Should I use their names?" he looked up to Mr. Rowe. Wait, their names? How did he knew their names? I wasn't listening because his voice was so extremely annoying.

"Please don't." answered Mr. Rowe

He nodded and continued: "The warrior comes and starts to fight with women. I woke up when their weapons crossed."

"Why do we have to say it so many times?" asked Alex

Mr. Rowe looked at her with his teacher's gaze and explained: "because maybe something is different and if everyone tells their point of view maybe we will understand better."

"Fine so it's my turn right. So, word in fire, sun burning to dark I think it was eclipse and well woman appears and then warrior and when their weapons cross I woke up."

Mr. Rowe smiled: "see if you wouldn't tell your point of view we wouldn't know that it was an eclipse."

Alex shrugged with a smiled. I could see how her cheeks turned a little pink, I chose not to comment on it and said my part: "everything is on fire and then a woman comes and she fights with a warrior, or what we call it. And when their weapons cross the whole world shakes and well, something dark. It's like a wave of darkness or something, then a wave of light comes and I hate light so I woke up before it could hit my eyes."

Lucia shifted in her chair. It was weird.

"Could you tell us your point of view Mr. Savile?"

"Hmm, yes. As everyone said everything is on fire and then that woman appears from the sun and she attacks something. When I look at where she is looking I see the warrior but I swear I didn't see them before when I was looking there. And when their weapons crossed I woke up."

"I see. Lucia?"

She looked as if she was about to faint: "yes?"

"Can you tell what you saw in your dream?" I saw how much he wanted to put his hand around her shoulders.

"Yes, I can, I think." She took a deep breath. "Well yesterday I had one, and today. The one that I saw yesterday is the same as anyone else. But the one I had today." She took a break. "I saw where the warrior came from. I felt what that woman felt. I knew somehow why she fights.'' Another break, something was telling me that there would be a lot of them. "I was her. I didn't get some from the sun. I came from clouds, a castle on clouds or something like that. I was scared and really sad, it was as if I had a broken heart. When I descended." Another break, this one was longer. "I was feeling even worse than before. I saw the whole earth under ashes and fire. I wanted to cry but then I saw as the warrior came out of the woods and was flying towards me. The sword almost killed me. If I hadn't shield I would be dead. Warrior didn't stop attacking me and every time the warrior attacked me a wave of darkness came out. For some reason I sent a wave of light after it." Another break. "All the sadness was gone. And there was only rage left. I knew for sure that the rage was burning inside me, it was burning down something inside me but I don't know what."

Well, this was the most depressing one so far. For a moment I thought she was done but then she continued: "I wanted to kill a warrior. But I can't remember why. I don't like that, I couldn't wake up but then a warrior attacked me and I didn't have time to block it or dodge it. I felt down and then I woke up to my mom shaking me and crying."

She sighed. I thought her mom was dead because otherwise Mr. Rowe would marry her or say something about her.

Mr. Rowe took a deep breath and with a smile full of love looked at his daughter and then at all of us: "thank you for sharing. I will tell you what you have seen or felt. Hundreds of years ago there were two women Angela and Nyx. Not the Greek goddess of night but an elf. Both of them were elves. They built this school together and tried to help all beings. Yes that time even humans attended this school that is how we were born a half magical creatures half human. They stayed together for many years. It was proven that they were friends; some speculate they were lovers. But once Nyx left. Nobody knew why but when she came two years later she had a bad fight with Angela. Then she left for good. Angela felt something inside her and went to find her friend. She found her after a long, long time and many attempts but Nyx wasn't the same as before. Many books say that she was like a wild wolf or a wild dragon. She had something in her eyes, some kind of darkness and madness. Angela, of course, wanted to help her friend but it ended up in war. Angela was Light and Nyx was Darkness or shadow whatever you want to call it. Because light and darkness are primordial ones they had powers of other aspects of other elements. Nyx was mad, she set the whole earth on fire. Humans were scared that's why Angela made a barrier. So that they can be protected. She also tried to stop fire with her power in water, but she wasn't a fighter; she knew how to heal and defend but she never fully mastered attacks in water. It took her a lot of time and energy. She did save a lot of places but some burned to grow. She never stopped trying to stop her friend. Even when they were fighting she called her a friend. The part of all of you dreamed is the final part. It was a while before they died. Many books talk about how Angels descended from the heavens to save everyone. The waves you were talking about were real. They are the reason why some places are in endless darkness and others are nonstop under a light, we are in one right now. This place was hit by a light wave, here is never night. Angela and Nyx fought for a long time but then Angela won, nobody really knows how. She never came back to the academy, she was too sad to go to the place where she last saw her best friend before the madness. Nobody really knows why Nyx went mad, nobody really knows what happened with dragons back then. Before they were friendly and nice. But that is for some other time."

He ended it as if it was some story for good night. But it wasn't. Can he even tell us something like that?

"What does it have with us?" Alex asked. I wouldn't do that, I was scared even without knowing it.

"You had these dreams but I am not sure about the answer." He sighed and I knew what he was about to say would be extremely bad "what I am sure of is that it means one thing: it was predicted that Nyx will come back any time. No one really knew when. Until now, I think that Angela chose you. You are going to stop Nyx."

Yes, a bunch of kids from school was going to save the world. When do we start? Like hello we were something between 14 and 16. What were we supposed to do?

"Mr. Rowe I don't think that's what we are supposed to do." Said Dan "maybe we were there to just tell you that something bad is about to happen and that's where our job is done."

"No, it's not. Some legends are talking about a group of people that helped Angela." That little bitch really had to ruin it? We could just get out of it and he said the biggest shit he could. I wanted to smash his face against the table and then I wanted to smash his head against the wall.

"You are right Mr. Lawiest I think you are going to be heroes of modern day." He smiled at us as if he just didn't say that the world depends on a group of mentally unstable kids who can't use magic. No really we were supposed to get our partner in crime somewhere between this and the next two years. Then we would start to learn how to use magic. But even before that we were supposed to take three-part exams - I hated exams - And if the principal would make me do it now because of some stupid dream I was going to kick someone's ass.

"What are we supposed to do?" Lucia asked.

"We probably don't have much time. You are going to have classes together and will be separated from the rest of school."

"Wait." I snapped in. "how can you tell if it's really us?"

"We can't but if you had those dreams, maybe we can teach you. And you don't have to take exams. First, the dragons are going to judge you."

Amazing. Really Amazing. A big mad lizard is going to judge me.

"Sir, I thought that dragons won't show up till we are ready." Alex got a point. I never heard about someone under the age of 17 being judged by dragons.

"Yes, there is a little chance but maybe they will show up." Answered Mr. Rowe.

"And if not?" I could see how skeptical Achlys was. "You won't let us go to the forest to actually find them, right?"

Mr. Rowe shook his head in a very concerned way: "Sadly, if no one will answer to my request, you will have to go and find some by yourselves."

Nice, I was going to die before actually experiencing life.